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Well Saturday turned out to be a great day to catch up on my sleep. I decided to forgo running chkdsk on my workstation and ran Spinrite instead...20 hours later it told me nothing was wrong with my hard drive. I just ran it for maintenance purposes not that anything is wrong. After a nice long nap I fired up my laptop.

Today was a day for tinkerin in the yard.

Spent the entire day building a 4' fence panel and sinking a post for it. A while back I had canablized one of my 8 foot panels and had spare parts. I was just missing a top board and two side boards. Now these boards also have grooves down the entire length that are about 3/4" wide and 1/2" deep.

So I fired up the table saw and ripped down a couple of boards I had to make the pieces. For the groove, my plan was to put a dado blade on the saw so it could cut out the groove in one pass. It turned out that the arbor for the blade was too short so that wasn't an option. I ended up just making several passes through the boards and chiseled out the stuff the blade didn't cut out. Lots of extra time.

Since I don't have a staple gun, It makes it also hard to assemble. But between the two of us and my handy dandy screw gun we were able to accomplish the impossible.

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Now I'm ready to start laying out the gazebo (aka hot tub hut). We can actually look out the back door now and not see the alley. The panel on the right is at a 45 degree angle to the panel I just put up but is actually level across the top.

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I don't know if/when I'm going to have the time to do "yard work." My weekends are generally spent entertaining children. ;)Of course, yard work is not something I particularly enjoy, aside from mowing my lawn. The wife isn't big on it, either.
— PhoneBoy
I'm not big on lawn mowing and don't really have one yet. I enjoy working with my hands once in a while. Since my kids are on autopilot now, I have more free time.
— TechZilla
We have quite a bit more lawn now than we did. Mowing the lawn is a production now, but it's also good exercise. Feels nice to be out there walking around on a sunny day.
— PhoneBoy
I have a self-propelled Toro mower that does fairly well since the yard isn't that big. Beats pushing the thing but still is somewhat of a struggle.
My first mower was a 4-bladed push mower I found in a field all rusted up. I tore it appart and fixed it up and made a bit of money mowing lawns with it as a kid.
One thing about a sit down mower is you never have a shortage of people wanting to drive it...unless of course the people in the line fail to get out of the way LOL
— TechZilla
My mower is motor-assisted. We've had it since we lived in Spokane and it's getting up there in age now. Still works. No riding mower for me, I don't have that much yard.
— PhoneBoy
I still have a steady hand, I can get by with a weed wacker and it looks ok. Of course the glasses are old and everything is fuzzy. That makes everything look good but I don't care as much about perfection as i used to. So it all works out. Last time I fired up the mower it was hard to start.
— TechZilla