Wood

I’m finally beginning the “inside” project for which last summer’s garage renovation was executed.** Lacking a table saw or a radial arm saw, I’m using an inexpensive miter box I brought home from my late dad’s Michigan home to make better cuts than I might with just a cross-cut saw. (I don’t really have the space for a power saw set-up.)

This past summer as I was watching the garage extension going up and I was bringing home boxes-and-boxes of books and papers and taking them upstairs to my home office, I thought about the strength of wood. I thought about all the paper we have stored on second-floor shelves, in second-floor filing cabinets and boxed in second-floor boxes. Now add all the furniture, all the clothing and fill the bathtub with water and that’s a lot of weight on just a bunch of 2×4’s. Of course there are really a lot of 2×4’s, but it’s still a wood *frame* house. Pretty amazing, I think…

Oh, and thanks for the miter box, Dad! I’m using the slots for all of the angles: 22½°, 45° and 90° (π/8, π/4 and π/2 for us math-nerds)!

[Interesting fact about 2014’s garage project. We had called a contractor to first discuss this project in 2001. I had my little hospital stay with a perforated appendix and the project got shelved, but that was years before I began rowing. An interesting question is whether a project executed in 2001 would have resulted in a garage deep enough to store rowing shells and oars…]

1 year ago (“Probably peak color weekend”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-11-02
2 years ago (“Nothing spoken”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-11-02
3 years ago (“New grille”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-11-02

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** The garage project 2014:
http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-08-25 : “‘We’re gonna need a bigger garage.’ …”
http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-08-28 : “The pad is poured!”
http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-08-30 : “A River Runs Through It”
http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-09-03 : “A wall!”
http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-09-04 : “[Almost] A roof!”
http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-09-09 : “Garage project update: Almost ‘inside’”
http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-09-14 : “Done outside!”

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[Myrna O'Hara]

Sometimes the old ways are better than today's methods.

[Rick Schies]

Yes, a very durable material. Good luck with the project

[Danette Thompson]

Have fun with your project. Glad your dad could continue to be of help.