New tools and landscaping

We bought ourselves a bandsaw, very necessary in order to turn the wood pile into turnable wood for Richard. The two of us managed to get it in the door and set up. We bought an extension block for it so that we can cut taller pieces of wood (or logs.) This is before we put on the extension block. We had to buy two big honkin' wrenches to do the job.



Since the inside of the shop is so nice, we decided to bite the bullet and have some landscaping done in the backyard. This is the beginning of a dry stream bed which will actually have water running in it when it rains. The yard will have a place for the BBQ and the small fire bowl. We're going to need that. Between us we create a lot of stuff to burn.








This is the view from the back lane. One of my jobs tomorrow is to call some fencing companies and get quotes on a chain link fence for the back and up to the side of the garage. Chain link may not be the most beautiful fence but it is what the police recommend for safety and it doesn't require maintenance which is a bit plus for us. So that's what's new with us. I guess as a blogger I pretty much suck. I've been having way way too much fun playing in the shop.

Much progress since the last blog

This is what the shop looks like from the house wall side.


It took these guys about a day and a half to lay the maple floor. We had it finished with oil rather than varathane so it wouldn't crack when we roll heavy machinery over it, and, when we drop tools we can sand and re-oil. It's not that we go about trying to drop tools, it just happens.

Here it is with the hardwood floor finished and the morning sun coming in through the window and door.


This gives a better sense of the baltic birch on the walls.