What Are You Doing Right Now? (non OT version)

GrateEggspectations

Can someone please tell me, is this an HOA violation?

ColtsFan

Absolutely nothing. 

Sheldon_Nigel

GrateEggspectations said:

Can someone please tell me, is this an HOA violation?

Yes, for professionally written HOA rules, this is a clear violation.  The garage door must be able to close.  That door stops at the truck bed and foam board is used to replicate the look of a door.  The concept is humorous and well executed, but the neighbors are still well within their right to call the HOA, sheriff, city police, and town constables.  Perhaps the National Guard, FBI, or even CIA if the owner is a foreign national.

saluki2007

ColtsFan said:

Absolutely nothing. 

Grew up watching College Game Day, now prefer Big Noon Kickoff on FOX. 

FarmingPhD

nolaegghead said:

FarmingPhD said:

Nothing leaves a finish like a good smoother.  Kinda like a good shave I guess.....

Poplar?  Nice shop.  Would love to see more pics of it.  I have that same dewalt planer.  Home-made bench dogs?

I got a humble shop, but make use of my space.  I’ll eventually rework the layout to get more efficiency out of it eventually.  It is a catch all location in the house because it’s also the mechanical room and storage.

Correct on the wood, making a hand tool cabinet and polar is cheap and easy to work with.  Good eye on the bench dogs, I turned them on my southbend metal lathe before I sold it.

That planer has done some work. I put a shelix head in it after I’d had it a few years.  If I had it to do over I would just spend more and buy a 15” grizzly with a spiral head, cost a little more but way better planer in the long run.  I have a 5hp clear view in the back corner for dust “management.”  It moves a little air.....

Botch

My hand tool cabinet is poplar, also (plywood in the load-bearing door faces):
 

Sheldon_Nigel

Botch said:

My hand tool cabinet is poplar, also (plywood in the load-bearing door faces):
 

Wow!  Just wow.

SciAggie

Botch said:

My hand tool cabinet is poplar, also (plywood in the load-bearing door faces):
 

That looks like an ad photo for the old Garret Wade catalog. Magnificent tool cabinet. 

FarmingPhD

Botch said:

My hand tool cabinet is poplar, also (plywood in the load-bearing door faces):
 

Very nice @Botch - mine won’t be anywhere near that nice.  I’m using Baltic birch for the door faces and back as well.  I have a functional collection of hand tools that I get frustrated not having proper storage.  I hope to finish it by January, I need to get started on a nightstand for my daughter for Christmas later today.  

FarmingPhD

@Botch : sweet potato creme brûlée, I loosely followed this recipe:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/robert-irvine/sweet-potato-creme-brulee-recipe-1939819

I did this in a larger crock rather than ramikans which made it more difficult.  I cut the cream to a pint because it was going to make way too much liquid in my opinion (volume I made was more than the sweet potatoes) and substituted vanilla for the vanilla beans.  I put the crock in a pan and filled with boiling water and then into the oven for 40 minutes.  I decided to temp the creme/egg mixture and it was only to 120F, so I covered it with foil to keep from drying it out and think it spent close to another hour in the oven with me temping it every 15 min.  I went until the liquid hit 160 which is recommended minimum custard temp as I didn’t want it to be full on runny.  When cooled and eating, the creme had a perfect custard/pudding like texture.  I brûlée’d the top with sugar under the broiler and then with a propane torch to finish, topped with candied pecans.  I served it like a side, but was definitely a dessert. I had this as a side at a restaurant in florida a few years ago and was definitely a different style than this, but I would make again for sure and might do it this week just because I have Monday/Tuesday off.

HeavyG

Cussing...a lot of cussing.

Don't you just hate it when you spend an hour ordering stuff, picking and choosing individual items and bundles and when you are finished and start the checkout and half the items in your cart disappear? Then you think, "no biggie, just one of those glitches" and then you go back and spend another few minutes trying to find the items that vanished but slowly (I'm dense) it finally dawns on you that they must have just updated their website with current inventory just before you went to checkout.

($(@*#!

ColtsFan

Making a pumpkin roll because I haven’t quite eaten enough junk yet 😂

Acn

Wrapping presents.  Also, hoping that having something under the tree will keeps the cats from going crazy on the tree skirt and knocking the whole thing down.

Cornholio

Having a mug at my local brewery after hanging the Christmas lights. 

At least one staple per light, many have two. I’ll post a picture of them on later, perfectly straight for my OCD. The previous owner had hooks up for Christmas lights, handy while hanging them but I can’t stand sloppy drooping lights. Those hooks are coming off when we repaint soon.  

pgprescott

Cornholio said:

Having a mug at my local brewery after hanging the Christmas lights. 

At least one staple per light, many have two. I’ll post a picture of them on later, perfectly straight for my OCD. The previous owner had hooks up for Christmas lights, handy while hanging them but I can’t stand sloppy drooping lights. Those hooks are coming off when we repaint soon.  

Oh my! 😳

lousubcap

Acn said:

Wrapping presents.  Also, hoping that having something under the tree will keeps the cats from going crazy on the tree skirt and knocking the whole thing down.

@Acn - nothing personal here but I'm rooting for the cats for the opening salvo! 

nolaegghead

Just straightened this shed for my neighbor.  Tree landed on it a few years ago and they want to finish out the inside

Cornholio

pgprescott said:

Cornholio said:

Having a mug at my local brewery after hanging the Christmas lights. 

At least one staple per light, many have two. I’ll post a picture of them on later, perfectly straight for my OCD. The previous owner had hooks up for Christmas lights, handy while hanging them but I can’t stand sloppy drooping lights. Those hooks are coming off when we repaint soon.  

Oh my! 😳

A little extra time is worth it.

brentm

nolaegghead said:

Just straightened this shed for my neighbor.  Tree landed on it a few years ago and they want to finish out the inside

What a good neighbor.  

I'm in the market for a come along.

brentm

Taking pictures of Fiona 

dbCooper

Reading some news articles while waiting for some beef plate ribs to come off the Egg.  Nice Thanksgiving story linked below, couple families from Ukraine back together after many years of separation.  Lincoln, NE will likely benefit from this for many years in the future...

https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/lincoln-welcomes-first-refugees-of-new-fiscal-year-expects-numbers-to-grow/article_4d89901e-e857-585d-adb9-d4a919487f07.html

GATraveller

Gave Japanese Milk Bread a go. Pretty tasty. 

Battleborn

Starting to decorate the tree. 

Kayak

You could have gone so much larger...

Botch

nolaegghead said:

Just straightened this shed for my neighbor.  Tree landed on it a few years ago and they want to finish out the inside

My 90-y.o. neighbor to the North is the Come-Along King.  Long before our freak wind shear storm this last summer had subsided, he was wrapping log chains around damaged cottonwoods on the railroad property behind ours, and trying to pull them down away from our fences.  
Three days later when Rocky Mountain Power was fixing our power lines, he was trying to pull out a 3'-dia stump, with the chain anchored around RMP's 1' power pole; they grabbed his arm and said, "No."    
He's the guy who still climbs up on his roof to winterize his swamp cooler.  At 2/3rds his age, I don't have the energy he does... 

nolaegghead

Made some turkey soup with the leg quarters and the stock.   Deee-lish

Foghorn

Had some of @The Cen-Tex Smoker's Thai Chicken sausage.  Outstanding.  Goes well with cranberry sauce and a good Syrah.  Whooda thunk?

Battleborn

Kayak said:

You could have gone so much larger...

Only 10 foot. COVID has had an impact on the Christmas tree industry. 

JohnInCarolina

First experience using SlidesLive, a Microsoft product.   Not a fan.  

nolaegghead

Battleborn said:

Kayak said:

You could have gone so much larger...

Only 10 foot. COVID has had an impact on the Christmas tree industry. 

I always suspected pine's could get covid....