The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[ChloeTzang]

Morning all, welcome to Toesday. You know you want to play with them. Some of us are finding it harder and harder to reach them every day.

Fresh coffee is available, so come and get it before I drink it all.

I need the coffee. Been writing for three hours straight. The Great Chupacabras Hunt is about to begin.....

.... and my readers are asking for more Chinese Takeout. I'm going to have to deliver.... no excuses!

 

[Handley_Page]

Ah - a decent coffee; just the job, thanks.

 

[Blind_Justice]

I ran a secondhand bookshop for ten years. It kept me out of her way, out of the house, kept me amused and provided a service to the community.

It didn't make any money. Even the taxman accepted that. But it was fun.

... until you ran into a short man who looked, despite what he might have actually on him, like wearing an old mackintosh? Did he make you step into a magic circle carefully chalked on the floor boards?

I knew it. You're actually Aziraphale

 

[Handley_Page]

... until you ran into a short man who looked, despite what he might have actually on him, like wearing an old mackintosh? Did he make you step into a magic circle carefully chalked on the floor boards?

I knew it. You're actually Aziraphale

Good one!
Watch out for the motor cycles. . .

And now, Coffee, while I study hairless dogs. . . .

 

[TxRad]

Good one!
Watch out for the motor cycles. . .

And now, Coffee, while I study hairless dogs. . . .

Uh, have you been shaving your dogs again? The SPCA is gonna get ya.

Fresh coffee is now available. Happy Hump Day. With the SPCA nosing around, maybe I should say that no camels were harmed in the making of this day. Hump, hump, humping away.

 

[Casiyessie]

I could really use some coffee today. I brought a large box of
Homemade muffins in exchange for the delicious black stuff! Coffee that is

 

[TxRad]

I could really use some coffee today. I brought a large box of
Homemade muffins in exchange for the delicious black stuff! Coffee that is

One cuppa coming up. Welcome to the coffee shop. As you can see, we discuss everything under the sun including writing from time to time. Good group of people.

Homemade muffins are always welcome. Homemade anything is usually welcome.

Prop up your feet and relax, we're not very formal around here.

 

[Casiyessie]

Thank you! Don’t mind me I’m already getting comfortable on this amazing bean bag! I might need help getting up later.

 

[Handley_Page]

Thank you! Don’t mind me I’m already getting comfortable on this amazing bean bag! I might need help getting up later.

Pinch the last doughnut and you'll be left in that bean bag.

I feel the need for a decent cup of coffee (white, with sugar).

 

[TxRad]

Pinch the last doughnut and you'll be left in that bean bag.

I feel the need for a decent cup of coffee (white, with sugar).

White with sugar isn't coffee. It's creamer with coffee flavoring.

Uh, when did we get a beanbag chair? Maybe it's left over from MP's blanket fort.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Afternoon, gentlefolk. Black please, hold the sunshine 'cause it's finally sunny here! And next week it's supposed to hit 60F - up a full 80 degrees from last month! Happy dance, happy dance! TP happy!

 

[Casiyessie]

Pinch the last doughnut and you'll be left in that bean bag.

I feel the need for a decent cup of coffee (white, with sugar).

Ha! I’ll try and remember that next time or a stick to help myself up.

 

[TxRad]

Afternoon, gentlefolk. Black please, hold the sunshine 'cause it's finally sunny here! And next week it's supposed to hit 60F - up a full 80 degrees from last month! Happy dance, happy dance! TP happy!

One cuppa coming up.

Been sunny here today but only in the mid 60's. 75 expected by the weekend. I'm ready for it.

Ha! I’ll try and remember that next time or a stick to help myself up.

Oh, you'll always get a helping hand or at least the offer of one. It might not be to help you up but.... There is always a butt.

 

[Handley_Page]

Large e-black, please and thanks, good sir.

NowWise - so sorry to hear of your situation. I would agree that finding a refuge (be it in or out of your house) is critical. For two people who have grown used to seeing each other for six or eight hours a day (sleep doesn't count), all of a sudden having that bumped to 14 - 16 is going to be a shock, no matter how well they get along. Anyway, fingers crossed this works out for you.

I'd recommend you have a 'shed'. You can treat it as a workshop, rest home or even a Bar. It helps if you have a few basic tools, too [never know when you'll need them].

White with sugar isn't coffee. It's creamer with coffee flavoring.

Uh, when did we get a beanbag chair? Maybe it's left over from MP's blanket fort.

In that case, I'll have the coffee and get my own [real] cream & sugar, if you've a mind.

Casiyessie brought the beanbag, I think.. At least, that was my impression.

As it is near my bedtime, I'll have a cup of tea please.

 

[oggbashan]

I'd recommend you have a 'shed'. You can treat it as a workshop, rest home or even a Bar. It helps if you have a few basic tools, too [never know when you'll need them].

...

I have a garage. It has power, strip lighting, heating, double-glazed windows, a carpeted floor, bookshelves, a fridge...

There's no room in there for a car. If I cleared the central area I could drive my Volvo estate in and still have six feet clear before the bench.

I also have a shed but that's full of garden equipment.

 

[NotWise]

I have a garage. It has power, strip lighting, heating, double-glazed windows, a carpeted floor, bookshelves, a fridge...

There's no room in there for a car. If I cleared the central area I could drive my Volvo estate in and still have six feet clear before the bench.

I also have a shed but that's full of garden equipment.

I have a garage, too. There hasn't been a car in the garage in more than fifteen years. About half of the floor space is taken up by power tools, but writing has cut into my woodworking time.

I actually need to get (or make) a shed so I can move the gardening supplies to it. That would probably give me room for a planer. I don't know how I've gone so long without a planer.

 

[TxRad]

One cuppa tea for HP.

Ogg, my garage is full of boats.

A planer? Owning a planer tells people you do serious woodwork. I'll stick with building boats. A good belt sander fixes most defects with the wood and my workmanship.

 

[NotWise]

One cuppa tea for HP.

Ogg, my garage is full of boats.

A planer? Owning a planer tells people you do serious woodwork. I'll stick with building boats. A good belt sander fixes most defects with the wood and my workmanship.

My wife's brother has a 2000 square-foot metal frame building as his workshop. He has commercial-scale tools and an adjacent lean-to for lumber storage. He filled the lean-to by buying out the entire hardwood stock of a lumberyard in Kansas that was shutting down.

His last project that I heard of was to build all new pews for the Catholic chapel closest to their ranch. It's like 40 miles away, but it serves a far-flung community. He has a couple of the old pews--with hand carved details--sitting in the entry of the ranch house.

 

[TxRad]

My wife's brother has a 2000 square-foot metal frame building as his workshop. He has commercial-scale tools and an adjacent lean-to for lumber storage. He filled the lean-to by buying out the entire hardwood stock of a lumberyard in Kansas that was shutting down.

His last project that I heard of was to build all new pews for the Catholic chapel closest to their ranch. It's like 40 miles away, but it serves a far-flung community. He has a couple of the old pews--with hand carved details--sitting in the entry of the ranch house.

He sounds like a serious woodworker.

I was always a metal worker, as in welding, metal repair, metal fabrication, so on and so forth. My woodworking skills were always hit or miss. Then I started remodeling my house. That seemed to jump start something and my wood skills grew. Building boats has farther improved it.

I'm still not cabinet maker grade but the mistakes are more and more minor as I go along. I guess old dogs can learn new tricks. I need a few more tools and probably better replacements for some that I have. Other than a table saw in a home built table, everything else I use is a hand tool. About the only other thing I really need is a router.

I make do with what I have until I have to replace it. I always have.

 

[NotWise]

He sounds like a serious woodworker.

He is, but it surprised me a little. He always did very small, detailed pieces. He made my wife's favorite sewing box, with moving parts and intricate details. He went upscale when the built the ranch house. He made all of the cabinetry.

Furniture-making has always been my goal, and I'm getting better project by project. There haven't been many project lately, so my bent-wood skills haven't been put to much use.

 

[NotWise]

Ha! I’ll try and remember that next time or a stick to help myself up.

Casiyessie, if you want to talk about writing, then you might have to start that conversation yourself. We have those conversations, but we don't talk about it all the time. There are some accomplished writers here, so ask your questions or make your comments.

 

[TxRad]

He is, but it surprised me a little. He always did very small, detailed pieces. He made my wife's favorite sewing box, with moving parts and intricate details. He went upscale when the built the ranch house. He made all of the cabinetry.

Furniture-making has always been my goal, and I'm getting better project by project. There haven't been many project lately, so my bent-wood skills haven't been put to much use.

I was asked by one of my boat customers if i could make him a boat shaped bookcase for his lake house. Furniture making was never my aim. It took me three tries to get it right enough for me to even show it to him. I ended up using tongue in groove flooring ans the sides and bottom. Plastic bag steaming was something I had too learn the hard way.

The bookcase came out pretty damned good for an amateur. Just because, I went on line to see what such bookcases sold for and nearly dropped my teeth. We're talking 800 to 1500 dollars. I sold that one for three hundred so i lost money compared to on line prices but I learned so much about wood bending (Steaming) that it was worth it.

I built a second one and the lady was happy at eight hundred dollars.

 

[NotWise]

I built a second one and the lady was happy at eight hundred dollars.

It sounds like you don't need to make many of those to justify the effort.

The wood bending I've been working on isn't steaming. It's glued laminae bent into a form before the glue sets. There's a lot of overhead on the work because you have to make the form, but then that's a lot of the fun, too.

 

[TxRad]

It sounds like you don't need to make many of those to justify the effort.

The wood bending I've been working on isn't steaming. It's glued laminae bent into a form before the glue sets. There's a lot of overhead on the work because you have to make the form, but then that's a lot of the fun, too.

I've seen that done on bows using exotic woods. A friend out at the local Indian Reservation is quite good at it. Never tried it myself.

 

[NotWise]

I've seen that done on bows using exotic woods. A friend out at the local Indian Reservation is quite good at it. Never tried it myself.

It's an established furniture-making method. I think it's used in Amish furniture. The video I mostly used to learn it was about making a curved base for a large dining table. I got into it to make a deco-style cabinet that would serve as a charging station for my wife's many gizmos.