What are you working on this week

I'm out in a BOL with the family and I got a fever so I'm in deep trying to make a safe portable network for this little cottage and learning stuff about IT security. Building a network I guess one would say.

 

Brought home an antique professional drafting table for my son the architect in training, ( college). It will get sanded down, and refinished to suit him.

 

I would use one for projects, but don't have the room in my shop.

 

I picked up a little over thirty dozen quart canning jars from a friend today for $2.50 a dozen! There's some pretty sweet older jars in the batch as well. There's some Atlas, Drey, Mason (with the star), Presto and a few others I can't remember. There's also some Ball Bicentennial jars.

There's mostly Ball and Kerr jars, but there's about seventy five plain unmarked jars as well. Apparently they used them for canning, but I think I'll just use them for dry storage.

Now I have to stock up on lids and liners. The nice thing is that I should be able to accumulate them over a few months and not be out the cash all at once.

 

Got a grasshopper mower given to me as scrap metal, upon a closer inspection it turned out to have a good 20 horse power kohler engine.
I decided to invest a few $100.00 bucks if needed to get this machine back to like new. The only reason I could find to have junked it was the deck was badly rusted (extremely)
so in my spare time I will be welding/fabricating a new deck from the dimensions of the factory deck shell. All said and done I should have a nice mower come spring to keep the orchards cut

 

Completed the high vent on the septic system. This included a carbon filter at the top of the stack with an extractor and bird preventer.

Last week it was a set of one way breathers for the inside of the house. These allow us to have a smooth roof and no chance of a wind blown emergency with rain in the home.

 

installing roof solar , installed 1.5" con- pull wires 16 pair 2morrow .
roof work is the last . just need NO RAIN!

 

Just got done going through several boxes of vacuum tubes. Just not enough coffee to do that often

 

Well I was working on packing the freezers full. One store had uncut, cryovac NY Strip on sale for $3.98 a pound, another had chicken quarters in 10 pound bags for .39 cents a pound. Sweet peppers were on sale 3 for $1 instead of the usual .99-$1.59 each. I got 70 pounds of chicken quarters brined, then rinsed, sealed and frozen, plus 20 NY Strips, and about 10 pounds of sliced peppers done before the Foodsaver gave up the ghost. Still have 10 pounds of chicken in the fridge and had planned to go get 3-4 more bags before the sale was over.

So tomorrow will probably turn into Clean Chicken Coop Day.

 

My plan for the coming week is to can my butt off

 

I need to get ready for our winter months, get the yard cleaned up, some game in the freezer and then it's spend time with my wife through the winter. Here is to great family winter moments and fire place memories.
Hope everyone has them.

 

angola prison rodeo today ...
And the best and cheepest rocking chairs on eartth!!

 

Got the pull of 10-gauge 16 pair pulled & up . MY ARMS are longer . That was one rotten in the attic job , when the BIG solar attic comes I'll be real cranky . Picking up more batterys next few weeks also , holy clothes again

Sloth

 

You're not suppose to Hug the Batteries.

 

Working on finding stable employment ...meanwhile I am also putting together a nice lil metal lathe package ... 11" swing 37" between centers.pics forthcoming ....