Laser commissioning / to do list
Mark Bronkalla With the laser in and basically running, there is still more to do to get it ready for “production”. I did the first pass beam alignment but did not check…
Laser Day(s)
After months of research, reviewing the Facebook laser groups and basically overthinking the decision, I purchased a CO2 laser cutter / engraver. I had analyzed the type of work to…
Hot Pepper Paste
Our bountiful harvest of ripe hot peppers continues. Some of the other folks in the Facebook Cured Meats : Charcuterie group have been making pepper paste to use for sausage…
More Fermented Hot Sauce
We have been making fermented hot sauce for a number of years. This has been what we refer to as “Cold Snap” hot sauce as it is made after the…
Recumbent Tike – Improvements II
If you let an engineer build something and use it, it will get tweaked over time. Now that the new seat is on the trike and I have been riding…
Plum Jam
We have some cherry plum trees that I have grafted larger varieties onto. The yield is highly variable, but this year we have a lot of the smaller plums. So…
Recumbent Trike – New Seat & Improvements
I have had the recumbent trike for a few years now. Returning from a ride and cranking up our steep driveway I heard a cracking noise and with each pedal…
Garage threshold fix
Our driveway had sunk down in front of the garage doors. In some spots, it was a 2″ rise. This was a trip / fall hazard and did not look…
Dining Table – Completion
Final assembly of the dining table was done in the dining area. It is too big and heavy for Teal and I to move on our own. Assembly “in situ”…
Dining Table – Frame and Slides
Some of you may be wondering why there was such a delay in getting to the end. Besides other projects getting in the way, the finishing takes a long time…