How did you spend your Labor Day?

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Just to see how everyone spent there day.

I started by doing some book work. Wife said she wanted to go into Sam's Club. HEY! I have a 25% off coupon for Harbor Freight. We went into town and I got a new rolling stand set. I had been looking at this for a while now.

Came home to find someone needed to have some rims sandblasted. Shot 200 pounds of sand at them. Did them while I was cooking the sauce for Lasagna. Finished the rims and sauce and put the pans (layers) together and right now, just waiting for them to bake.

After supper, I am going to watch a movie and go to bed.

What did you do?
 
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Getting ready to go to the store. Then going to come home and work on "The Dreaded Skew WAR". I think I may be winning, but it is hard to tell.:biggrin:
 
Just got home from work. Wasted an hour running a system backup prior to running an update. Keep forgetting that this vendor is always telling you to backup prior to updating and then the update forces one anyway. Got a little shop time before the wife gets home with corn and rib eyes...
 
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This! Just got home, wife's bathing kids and I'm giving the baby a bottle.
 
My wife and I were at her parent's house helping with needed chores, they are 90 and 91.

Installed 5 light blocking window blinds, and weeded the front of the house where some grape vines were starting to grow up to the second story. I needed full-body covering in 92 degree temp as the Grape vines were intermingled with poison ivy... (Poison Ivy and I are not a good match; too many rounds of Prednisone). Nancy did a bunch of cooking and sorting out medications, side affects, and getting the next two weeks sorted into pill containers.

Tomorrow, (back home) taking my Mom to her Cardiologist for a regular appointment (she's 86), then filling her prescriptions and getting her fitted for new glasses

Hopefully some shop time on Wednesday!
 
Over the weekend, we were doing yard work, terminated some yellow jackets after Wifey got stung. ( EppiPen ready but not needed!) Vacuumed cars, caught up on laundry, etc.
Today, we all went to the range. Wifey and our daughter(23) had not been in about a year. Our daughter decided it was time to get aquainted with my 9mm!
She did good! We all had fun!
After an appointment this evening, we caught dinner out.

Good family weekend!
 
Charlie_W said:
Over the weekend, we were doing yard work, terminated some yellow jackets after Wifey got stung. ( EppiPen ready but not needed!) Vacuumed cars, caught up on laundry, etc.
Today, we all went to the range. Wifey and our daughter(23) had not been in about a year. Our daughter decided it was time to get aquainted with my 9mm!
She did good! We all had fun!
After an appointment this evening, we caught dinner out.

Good family weekend!
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Glad you didn't need the Eppi pen. I heard they have gotten so expensive, many can't afford them anymore.
 
I layed in bed and watched the US Nationals on tv. I then drove to dialysis and watched 4 hours of 9- 11 stuff on tv. It's been fairly relaxing except that I somehow sunburned my lips on Saturday. That has been pure pain and agony!!
 
My wife & I did our normal grocery run on Saturday.
Sunday was the work like a rented mule day.

Went to BJ's Club for our (every 3 months) stock up run.
We got so much stuff, it barely fit in her Dodge Caliber even with the
back seats folded down. I blew out both of my knees carrying stuff back & forth, up & down stairs for over an hour after we got home with all of it.
I hurt my back again from carrying 50 lb. sacks of dog food.

I swear, those bags get heavier each trip we make for them.
We splurged & got some nice Porterhouse steaks on Saturday, but I was so beat by the end of Sunday, I couldn't grill them.
So, I did them yesterday.

I tinkered with our new snowblower a bit, getting used to how it works & all. I never had a snowblower before, so it's a small task to understand how to operate it. Oh yeah, it came on Friday.
I was surprized to see it here so early. When I ordered it last Tuesday
(8/30/16) I was told it'd be delivered between Sept. 17 & 26.
We got it 3 days later.

Then of course, there was the dogs we had to take care of.
They get a chewable pill for heartworm prevention and some liquid stuff for ticks, fleas, etc.

I pretty much wore myself out this weekend.
So much for a restful, relaxing weekend.
 
Saturday set up the new Trimline canopy then watch the OSU v BG football game. Sunday & Monday, Holiday at Home craft show in Kettering (Ohio).
 
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I went and picked this up. Its not a big saw but I think I did good for 80$.
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That looks exactly like my little table saw, except mine is gray where yours is black... even down to the little red plate next to the blade -- (the mind went blank on what that's called ) ... mine has been a jim-dandy little saw over the years.


Our weekend was a little uneventful...
Saturday was Farmer's Market day, LOML got to go with me and try out her new scooter...
Sunday mowed the lawn and did a little clean up around outside
Yesterday, slept in until almost 9:30, then after breakfast, scrubbed the kitchen floor for LOML and then worked in the shop until I discovered that the motor pulley on my lathe had wallowed out so badly that it jammed on the shaft, so took that off and ordered a new set of motor pulleys...
 
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Returned late last night from 4 days at our pecan farm - lots of pre-harvest work, but a great change of pace & wonderful country air and nice, starry-night skies.

Downside: wasn't able to use my 25% off HF coupon

Highlight: UH 33 - OU 23
 
Turned 4 seam rippers and 3 pens. The seam rippers were acrylics. The pens were a Gatsby in Bethlehem Olive Wood, a Metro fountain pen in angle cut Zebra Wood, and helped my 12 year old finish his Skeleton Key pen for his friends Birthday. After spending 30 minutes trying to smooth out the nib in the Metro kit, I gave up and swapped it with a #5 JOWO nib and feeder. Fit perfectly. At least the Chinese copied the dimensions if not the quality.

Football watching my LSU Tigers give one away with turnovers and my Alabama team put a whipping on the USC Trojans. One can like more than one SEC Team, I know it's rare and it's extremely complicated.

Cheers,

Danny
 
Replaced a noisy Idler pulley and belt on my truck, built a stoop for the cave, opened the door and looked at the mess, closed the door, and went to the front of the house, found my rocker, and watched my neighbors mow their grass. Wore me out!! :wink:
 

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Heard the wife say she needed my help for a QUICK trip to Sams club. I knew it was a lie, her and a Quick trip to the store just do not happen.

Then the oh Angelina needs a pair of nonmarking sneakers for gym, and the we are all hungry let's go to lunch (Olive Garden). So the 40 minute drive one way and 30 minute supposed shopping turned into 6 hours.
 
Beyond lots of getting-ready-for-school stuff, miscellaneous family Labor Day activities (picnic at the lake, BBQ with friends), and flying a simple rubber band powered balsa plane at the schoolyard with my daughters, in the shop I assembled my first slimline pencil for my 6th grader and started turning my first "beyond slimline" pen: a zebrawood euro.

--Rob
 
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Heard the wife say she needed my help for a QUICK trip to Sams club. I knew it was a lie, her and a Quick trip to the store just do not happen.

Then the oh Angelina needs a pair of nonmarking sneakers for gym, and the we are all hungry let's go to lunch (Olive Garden). So the 40 minute drive one way and 30 minute supposed shopping turned into 6 hours.
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Yup! Quality family time Ed! A very worthy way to spend the day!

Give your ladies a big hug and kiss and thank them for for a wonderful time!

(Your wife will wonder what is up!)
 
My wife, son and I were sick this weekend. We finally felt a little better and went for a short bike ride Saturday morning. We got my son a new bike, it's called a Catrike. low slung recumbent three wheeler. Easy to ride and stable.
 
I enjoyed a wonderful brunch with my two lovely daughters on Sat then played in my barebones shop. I did a little more shop work on Sun then spent the evening with friends at the cigar shop. Monday I made an easy Vertex fountain pen then was lazy, in preparation for a very busy day at work today. I'm glad I took it easy, I needed the rest to get through today.
 
Drove to Lead, South Dakota. Enjoyed three days of site seeing a R&R. Left Tuesday morning for home. 2535 miles round trip.
 
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