Today brings the first day of Autumn, for those who are counting, or for those for whom this kind of thing counts. A change of seasons, and a change of doing is in order around here. It looks like I need to worry about the watering setup on the hose, and get it taken down and the water on the frost free shut off before it freezes and breaks! Yes, it has been freezing the last few nights, even though it is still summer! Well, that’s Idaho for you!
I have been ordering and adding a few hand tools to my workshop, so I can do some woodworking. Specifically, I am able to make some of the simpler things Missus uses for her fiber spinning and weaving. That’s good to be a sort of part of that! I also am tooling up so I can build some furniture. I have a few things in mind, including a pie safe, although I am considering replicating one but making it a replacement for the Convenience cabinet I put in the kitchen, which holds things like rolled paper and foil and sandwich bags and the like. I’d like to get my start on this furniture making odyssey by replicating a few of the older pieces; a pie safe being one of them, and possibly a Coolgardie safe. Then there are chairs and tables and the like! Right now I am working on building a drawer that will probably be incorporated into the space where the oven occupies the wall of the kitchen. It is in a slot that has also got the microwave, but as we are replacing the oven, the metal trim will no longer work in there, so I will be rebuilding, and want to use the excess space that will be created as a drawer or cabinet or something to store the hot mitts for use with the oven and microwave. I made the drawer out of fence pickets, and will put a front on that matches the frame of the oven when I am ready.
When I started this blog back in 2006, I was cycling a bit in England. Now I am changing the focus, I think, to woodworking in Idaho, for as long as we are in Idaho, anyway! We’d like to move, but to do that, we have to sell the land we have across the street to pay for the repairs that need doing on this house, and then the actual move, and a down at the destination. There is a lot to moving a farm! Especially when you want to take several large animals with you! Anyway, the land has not drawn any offers, and the realtor who suggested the listing price to begin with has suggested we lower it. I did not realize this was just a fishing expedition. Either it sells, or we have to finance some major repairs ourselves, and we don’t move till our equity returns to a better state. I’d like to get out of here, though. It is time for a change.