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Happy New Year!!

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Last quarter's thread was:

https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=6489

after spending literally all day doing it. It isn't woodworking, or even working on my old convertibles. It is cleaning and organizing my workspace (shop, barn, shed, whatever you want to call it.)

But I must say the woodworking is gaining in priorities in my life because the focus today was moving the 1969 Fiat 124 Spider, that is about 98% original and has been undercover in the barn for the past 7 years, in anticipation of putting it outside under cover and effectively doubling my shop size for my woodworking stuff.

Of course, now I have to devise a simple carport/cover for the car before I can roll it out and start building lumber racks for all the roughsaw walnut and cherry that was stacked around it. Then there is reorganizing the tons of old/spare parts for the cars, the aquarium stuff, the handyman/around-the-house stuff and deciding on a layout for the bigger pieces of equipment.

The good news is that where the car was happens to be the most level part of the barn floor so that is destined to have the SS as its centerpiece.

At least it was warm enough to work out in the uninsulated tin barn today.

We woke up to FIVE degrees this morning, and the forecast for Thursday morning is somewhere between ZERO and FOUR with a 5-10 MPH wind!! I know some of you Yankees think this is no big deal, but I live SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line and it aint supposed to get this dang cold!! In fact, watching the national TV shows and weather channel this morning showed that almost anywhere in the contiguous 48 states was WARMER! We were only marginally warmer than Denver.

We hit a high of 25 today, and right now it is 12 degrees.

Shop activity has come to nearly a screeching halt. It's really hard to do decent work with two pairs of gloves and several layers of clothing on. However, I did finish up my wood racks and get the last of the rough-sawn walnut and cherry up off the concrete floor. The only thing I can say about my UNinsulated tin barn is that it does keep most of the wind out.

The whole shop is undergoing a MAJOR reorganizing, but that is another thread.

fiatben wrote:We woke up to FIVE degrees this morning, and the forecast for Thursday morning is somewhere between ZERO and FOUR with a 5-10 MPH wind!! I know some of you Yankees think this is no big deal, but I live SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line and it aint supposed to get this dang cold!! In fact, watching the national TV shows and weather channel this morning showed that almost anywhere in the contiguous 48 states was WARMER! We were only marginally warmer than Denver.

We hit a high of 25 today, and right now it is 12 degrees.

Shop activity has come to nearly a screeching halt. It's really hard to do decent work with two pairs of gloves and several layers of clothing on. However, I did finish up my wood racks and get the last of the rough-sawn walnut and cherry up off the concrete floor. The only thing I can say about my UNinsulated tin barn is that it does keep most of the wind out.

The whole shop is undergoing a MAJOR reorganizing, but that is another thread.

So much for global warming LOL.

No more global warming!!! It is now climate change!!! Covers all the bases wherever it goes
Bill V

wa2crk wrote:No more global warming!!! It is now climate change!!! Covers all the bases wherever it goes
Bill V

'It's' going? Problem is, we do not know where. The globe is 'warming'(ice pack/glacier shrinking) but local conditions get colder, and different patterns are occuring. White Christmas in ATLANTA!(Inches of it). NEW YORK stymied by snow.

I would move to key west, but all that ice melted will probably 'put it under sea level'.

No more global warming!!! It is now climate change!!! Covers all the bases wherever it goes

Isn't that convenient?

Maybe the experts back in the sixties were right. It was not global warming then it was about a new ice age. Feels like it this week. We have had hard freezes in Mobile.

cv3 wrote:Maybe the experts back in the sixties were right. It was not global warming then it was about a new ice age. Feels like it this week. We have had hard freezes in Mobile.

Back in the sixties smog/air pollution was the culprit that was creating the conditions for a 'new ice age'.

Sure am glad we cleaned up our act so that global warming has begun!

It is time to return to basic science(observe and deduce) rather than hypothesize and 'statisize'! Leave statistics and their 'predictability/probability' alone.

It is not 'nice' to second guess Mother Nature. . . . nor make her task more difficult.

Today's fortune cookie:
"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth..."
Now I ask you, isn't that about woodworking or not?

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