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You know, actually what was giving you mental block wasn’t the time away but the the experiences between. I imagine a little head scratching probably calmed you down a bit and I suspect you sorted it all out in your head once you stopped being angry.

Woodshops are good at calming people down. I like to think it’s the smell of the sawdust but it’s probably the fumes from the glue.

Keep calm.

-- Alec (Friends call me Wolf, no idea why)

I was wondering where you were. Now I know…
I guess I can say that was a hell of summer.
I would titled the post “when love get in the way”. we ben forward and backward for our kids.

I say stay involved, maybe as an adviser. Just refer them some contractor when they ask and just look over to make sure the bid and work is correct.

Good luck. I am sure you are not done yet.

As to forgetting where I was with that project I started a couple weeks age? I just ruined one today. I was supposed to sand all laminates to size before gluing. I walked in look at it and just glued the whole thing.

Welcome back.

Abbas, Castro Valley, CA

Talk about a story…you hung in there WAY longer than I can imagine I would. I’m certainly happy to hear that you sent your SIL and daughter to reap what they sowed.

Oh and dry wall mud everything? Sounds like covering things up and ignore the problem.

-- paxorion

Sometimes just writing it down is therapeutic… so’s the woodworking :-)
Good father… caring… patient… and you understand tough love!

Ellen

You’re a good father for helping and for giving a kick in the pants when required. ;-)

Losing fingers since 1969

No doubt about, kids can be a challenge! As for the forgetting where you are on a project: for me that usually happens the next morning when I walk out to the shop to see where I left off yesterday!

"I long for the day when coke was a cola and a joint was a bad place to be" Merle Haggartd

Kids will be kids and the more you " kid" them, the more they will take advantage. I have three.
Thanks for the story. maybe we all can learn from this.

Tor and Odin are the greatest of gods.

I think I have the table back on track. The frame is assembled and the shelf is in. I hope to glue up the top today and start on the drawer. I was supposed to be out of town all week, but there is some kind of teacher conference going on in the small town I am working in so there were no hotel rooms available. That meant I got to come home last night.

I think my daughter is mad at me. I haven’t heard from her since Sunday. She’ll have to get over it…especially if she wants heat this winter.

Where are the band-aids?---Pro Libertate!