Nice!

The next chore for Glatt is to build/re-wire a small motor and sensor
to rotate a suet bird feeder so the bird is always visible from Classic's window.

(Somehow Classic didn't seem to be taken by my last suggestion)

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I must have missed it... ???

I broke an edge on a used pair of skis I picked up a while back. They look like someone left them behind a stove or over a fire place. I cut, steamed, glued, sanded, tared, flamed, and waxed. As I was corking in the new wax I found a bad crack in the unrepaired ski for next time.

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That's fantastic! Well done.

Thank you, brother handyman!

Impressive. From the looks of your forecast, you'll have a chance to try them out real soon.

Got on them for almost an hour earlier. It was so nice. :)

Well done, and the gods have bless you with something for next time, too. Luck of the Irish, it is. ;)

If I can get the pics to upload, I thought I'd share my first weaving project since before my diagnosis. I used to weave a fair bit. This is a simple shawl/throw to get me back into the swing of things. It's not my usual, I typically weave either fine, complicated stuff or nice cozy wool and silk blankets. But for a restart, this looked about right. The skein on the left is slubby natural cotton, and will be used as weft. The other materials are mercerized cotton in different colors, and a variegated textured yarn called 'Tempo'.

First thing - winding the warp. The warp consists of the lengthwise threads that are put on the loom under tension. It's measured on a warping board, which has pegs set at different distances so that a warp of a predetermined length can be wound. I'm winding a 3-yard warp. At one end is the 'weaver's cross', which allows me to keep the threads in order when putting the warp on the loom. The last photo shows the warp organized on the front of the loom, ready for 'sleying'. In weaver's terms, the next step is to 'sley the reed', or feed the yarn through a series of slots that hold threads at a given distance from each other. The reed for this project is 12 'dents' per inch. I will have 12 threads per inch of width in the warp.

Oops. Here's the pic of the warp ready for sleying.

After sleying the reed, each thread has to be pulled through a heddle, a wire guide that is attached to one of the eight frames (or harnesses) on my loom. Each frame can be raised or lowered individually. Threads attached to a given frame rise or fall with the frame, and patterns in the warp are created by varying the rise and fall of each thread.