I turn 81 in April, not sure how that happened...We raised 4 kids, Three girls and a boy. All 4 of them became grandparents. New years eve of 2021 we lost our youngest daughter to covid. It's not supposed to work like that...
About mid November of 2021 I started becoming quite ill. The local Docs were tightly booked for 3 or 4 weeks out, mostly covid cases. When I could finally get in to the Doc the diagnoses was quick. It was a UTI... I didn't even know men got UTI's...
It turns out that we do especially when we get old and it seems that we generally are not very good at it. It is usually far worse in men than the UTI's that women get fairly often. If you are an older guy and have never had one you should Google it and read up a little on it so you can recognise it.Enough doom and gloom... I could sit here and whine all night but I won't.
My basement woodshop is a mess of clutter and of stuff that got carried in there that does not belong there or is unneeded. I've recently gotten a decent start on the de-clutter and I am installing a lot of 4' LED shop lights. I only have the window in the outside walk door and its light is kind of limited. My main bench sits just inside of it and the opposite wall is 40 feet away. I need better lighting than I have now. I put one new light by that far wall today, made a big difference. The number 1spot in the shop is where my Ridgid table saw sits and I just changed out a smaller LED light with one that is rated 10,000 lumens. Huge difference. I'm still in love with that saw. I can't recall how many years I've owned it but it has an amazing fence system on it. I was disappointed a year later when I looked at one and they had done away with the good fence and put on one that I considered to be crap. I haven't looked at one recently, just not in the market.
In spite of my age I am still sawing and splitting firewood steadily and we still have 5 horses of our own and keeping about 16 client horses. It keeps me out of trouble...
