Calling it good for today

My sweet Abby had to help me pick up branches in the cart, Ernie is not too sure:

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Went ahead and started a green chili stew, low and slow:

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Love the smell of fresh ripped lumber for the window frames:

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Ann rescued a stick bug from the puppies, big insect for sure:

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Pooped from cutting and laying up the stone. We realize this is not the typical house, just right for us though:

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Ann bought a new embroidery/sewing machine yesterday. Said hers was 30 years old - my how time flies.

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She is already at it:

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Doesn't get much better than this. Many wife's are in front of the television right now. I have it good - very good. Life is excellent. Thanks for looking. :)

Looking great Randy. It's a great feeling to be able to say I built this and to live with it daily. I have a small home I build for Linda and I down the bayou. The outside walls are board and batten cedar. We loved that house, it is where we raised our 6 children. We moved to Houma to care of our aging folks and now that they are gone I could easily move back. We still own it and my son lives in it. All we need is for them to complete the levee system down there so we can have some dry ground.

The stitch work reminds me of Linda. For years she made all my work shirts and matching hats, I was a welder. During the leisure suit craze, she even made me a bunch of them. She made christening dresses for all the new babies in the family and for sale. She also made receiving blankets. Time has taken it's tole on her though, and now she can only sit at the machine for a little while where once she could sit and sew all day long. All she does now is a few alterations for the grand kids and for the first time in a long long time she made some receiving blankets for our first great great to be born around Nov. first.

Next time we're in your neck of the woods we'll have to go do a look see. I love seeing the handiwork of others.
"gene"

Love the look of the stonework Randy....your doing a good job. My wife has been using the same sewing machine and also a serger for years but she is on her third embroidery machine. She does a lot of embroidery work for the public.

I helped Grandmaw with chicken feed and flower sacks making our shirts and Quilts. A friend of mine told me one time that they were Fabric Artist. The new Machines Ladies work with now are so compicated but do such good work !!!! We know she is happy!

I sure do get hungry looking at your pictures.......everything looks nice and very professionally done......quality craftsmanship for sure....

Good pups right there. Good work on the room. Nice sewing machine. Okay, enough compliments, now send me some of that stew.

Danny, when you and Mae made that trip to New Mexico not long ago, gave me the craving bad. Serious green chili stew over there.

Thanks fellas on my stonework, tedious for sure, but thoroughly enjoy it doing such things.

I failed to mention this about utilizing a table saw. I am sure some have noticed that I don't use a blade guard. I do not recommend this practice to anyone without thorough experience.

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I am very conscientiousness (that's a ten dollar word with only 50 cents of education :)) about what I do. I have jigs, etc. to make special cuts and have been doing this for a very long time. Ya'll be safe, shouldn't have posted that picture.

Hey Randy what are you doing for the game?? Cooking at home or watching with friends, maybe?? My friend that invited us to go with them had to have some emergency work done on his foot this morning so we are not sure if he will be able to walk well enough by Thursday so I may be watching from home. I had originally planned to do that anyway so no big deal.
Hope none of the A&Mers get arrested during the Yell Out on our State House Steps. :Rofl

Randy....I run mine without the blade guard also.....actually I feel safer with out it.....the guard can get you in trouble some times by causing binding and then the resultant kick back. And it has to be removed to use the dado blade also.....most experienced woodworkers leave their guards off.