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An extremely overstuffed black and silver standing toolchest.

Drawers labelled Drill Baby Drill and Grabby McGrabface in red punchtape.

I have a lot of my tools somewhat organized in a normal toolbox with Extremely Useful Labels but most of the ones my dad gave me are in five gallon buckets :-/

I’ve actually gotten good at ripping with a circular saw but its so much easier with a table saw.

If i do i’ll let you know! This project is building a wall-mounted tool case so i can get an actual inventory of what i have before downsizing.

Table saws are much fun!

I’d be better off donating 50% of the duplicate hand tools i have in this garage but what if i someday need a screwdriver with a busted tip?

Have and can use but its not set up at the moment :-/

Current project is the next step in getting it ready for use.

Oak!

No, the squirrels always get them before they’re ripe, but they do always set a buttload of fruit.

Good idea! :)

That it does! But there’s also a bunch of dust so its pretty sneezy work.

One of my dad’s friends introduced himself to me as a Doctor of Woodology, i wonder if he read that book 😂😂😂

If there was slightly more room in my garage so i didn’t have to carry most of the wood halfway across my backyard it would be much more fun :-/

Working on several projects that i want to make out of oak, so there’s a certain logic logic at play.

Wooden shelves absolutely packed with more wood.

Tonight’s not at all irritating task: sort all of the wood in this several ton stack into oak and not-oak. 😡

White and pink flowers on a still leafless almond tree.

Orange and pale yellow “Sunny Girlfriend” daffodils growing next to a short rock wall.

Small bright yellow clouds of flowers on a leafless Cornelian cherry tree.

Hot pink and white camellias.

Spring around my yard today. 🌱

Monkey puzzle trees! Though you can apparently eat them too.

Large orange and brown seeds in a plastic bag.

Auracaria seeds are surprisingly large!

YouTube video by The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Topic Zen And The Art Of Breaking Everything In This Room

Wait, i need to change my answer because its also the best song title ever:

Zen and the Art of Breaking Everything In This Room by World/Inferno Friendship Society

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YouTube video by Don Giovanni Bad Moves - Local Radio (Official Audio)

Bad Moves, Local Radio

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Damn meat monopolies stifling innovation!

Was it while they were playing Jug in an Elevator?

A rectangular hamburger with cheese lettuce and tomato wrapped in white paper.

All hamburgers could be rectangular but most restaurants are cowards.

They raised it from $10 to $13 a day and that’s when i pulled the trigger.

When i did this math i didn’t even factor in gas because limiting to just parking fees had my ebike payoff at just five months. Best transportation mode ever.

Erfut Latrine Celebration 2026!

A partial rainbow shining through the sticks of a winter-dormant tree.

Its only a little rainbow but i’ll take it!

Anyone else just hear a bang followed by a minor brownout? That was weird.

It is so incredibly sad to me that so many of us are so desperate for meaning, connection, conversation, friends, and god knows what else, that we’re poisoning our collective well-being with the mad ramblings of a lossy photocopier.

A clump of lovely purple crocuses in front of a grey stone wall.

Crocuses!

I think its just about picking the right cultivars and being willing to progressively stress them long enough that they’ll survive our winters?