Perhaps we should all join in on Summer of Reading.
You have a specific responsibility to existence, to God if you like, to taste, touch and smell what there is to experience. You have to do everything. If given the option between doing something and not doing it, you have to do it, because you’ve already done the “not do it” part.
— Sam Sheridan – A Fighter’s Heart
Happy Syttende Mai to my Norwegian friends and family! Gratulerer med dagen!
Been doing some outdoor yard work and cleanup on all the properties this week. Here’s three of the four…
This is your regular reminder that polls are propaganda.
Good morning.
The lights last night…
The Three Legged Horses
I had a tabletop a that I wanted to use for extra work surface in our office loft but I needed some legs for it. I didn’t want anything permanent just yet, mainly something quick and dirty to try it on for size. I knew that sawhorses would be the best solution for that but , due to the size of the worktop, would leave no room in front to pull up my chair and have my legs under. Then, thanks to the YouTube algorithmic overlords, a solution presented itself to me…
Make sawhorses with three legs. With about $20 of construction grade 2x4s, a mitre saw, impact driver, course thread screws, and an hour and a half of time the problem was solved.
Beyond the advantage of leaving room for my chair and legs underneath, a three legged sawhorse (or stool, or any built thing really) is that it will always find its own center of gravity on uneven surfaces. Get the measurements slightly off on a four legged horse and it will be wobbly. A three legged horse does not have that issue (though, I did measure twice, cut once, and use a level throughout so that fact is irrelevant here).