And the days go by.

Lack of commitment.  That’s what it is.  Well that,  and the nagging suspicion that whatever the heck it is I’m doing,  very few people have the slightest bit of interest in.

There was Easter.  There was food. 

 

There was yakking.  There were a few beverages.  There was a dog.

I think he was a tad bored,  so son-in-law took him outside from time to time.  And really,  other than trying to avoid his gaze from the back porch,  we wouldn’t have known Milo was there.  Personally,  I think he would have had more fun in a “doggy day care”,  but that’s something that a pooch has to be used to. 

He never uttered a peep.

And then over the last few days T.C. and I did manage to get out on the bikes.  First I figured I’d give hers a good cleaning, since it had been sitting in the shed all winter. 

 

Much easier to do with the bike up at chest height.  I took it out first for a little test run,  just to make sure there were no adjustments needed for the shifter cable.  That kind of thing was taken care of at its first “tune up”,  which was done way back in the Netherlands.  Both bikes have been fine ever since,  so I suppose all the cables are “broken in”?

Then there has been a little something I’ve been working on for Daughter Number Two.

First I thought it prudent to do a little practise run with the router.  It’s been a few years since I’ve had it out of its cubby hole. 

I’m not overly keen on this arrangement,  but it works.  By that,  I mean I’m not overly thrilled with the product,  but I’ve had this router for a lot of years,  and it only does the one thing.  Only half blind machine dovetails.

I look longingly at other dovetail templates,  but I seem to be able to make this work,  so I just keep using it.

 

 

 

Of course,  since the thing I’m putting together is heaps bigger than say, a kitchen drawer,  I had to improvise.

 

You can probably figure out the rest.  I’ll most likely take a picture of the finished cabinet whenever I get to it.

And that’s pretty much life around here.  It’s cool and rainy today,  but at least we’re not getting snow. 

No really,  they have snow in New Brunswick.  Crikey!

And here I just put fresh fuel in the mower.  Put in a fresh spark plug and it fired right up.  Not even half a pull.  I was kind of shocked,  but certainly not complaining.  Stupid grass has started to grow. Bah.

 

Keep those sticks on the ice.

 

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