Paul on a bike, except when I'm working on the new house...

 Well here is the chair upcycle, free chair, free pallet wood, and used screws left over from another project, so free as well. What I started with. And here it is to sit on, $10 I sell cheap. I cut the two side pieces on the table-saw and was left with those shims I used in the back.

 With there being a lull in the free stuff in the bin I've started making stuff out of pallet wood, last time was tool boxes, this time is crate boxes for your record albums.

 Weighing in at 3.5lbs this little beaut is a blacksmith's hammer, and I think it turned out great, used it to pound the pry bar so I could take apart a pallet after I welded it together.... The hole on the bottom is smaller than the one below which is the top. I had a lot to fill up with weld. Light weld on the bottom. Lot o' weld on the top, feels solid, and I think I got the hammer head to melt which since it's different steel than the spike. And here it is finished, wrapped with some rubber inner tube and some exterior grade electrical tape.

 Wednesday's stormy night I heard a crack, which would be a tree falling, or a big limb, didn't see it until this morning when I looked across the street and there she was, right next to the tree the eagles like landing on. And this is the downpour that happened about 30 minutes after I got back from my run... https://youtu.be/QeEnyWPhhzo

 Went Ninja this morning to check out the property across the street, the neighbor said he takes his dogs down there all the time, the sheep guy goes over there, an so does the lady who runs the goats, so since I was actually cleaning stuff up, me going over there should be fine. First up was what was left of the foundation of the house that used to be over there, tales of how it was set up like a sea ship might be true, but it was probably patterned after a single wide, nothing but bricks and tires left now, and a whole lot of ferrous metal, bits of old cans and wire. Then onto the pit, across the street is like a small peninsula with a small stream as a border. After I had done a circle of the peninsula I took a pic of this tree that stands on the retaining wall, sort of like you would see in New Orleans as you look up to see the boats go by. Turn to the left a little, and that mound is about the direction of my house, being about 100ft behind it. The green part is the high part ...

 Looked out my window and saw a herd of them, guess since the dogs are gone they aren't afraid to come by for an acorn or two....

  Okay lets try typing this again, google is evil, so the pic below is the back of the knob, since there isn't room for a whole door knob on the back, look at all them holes in the door. Locking mechanism, true it's upside down and backwards, but that's where it was, look at the pretty brass screws....look at the pretty. And this isn't the knob I wanted to use, but I don't have a shaft that will work with that knob, so this one will do. Door. Here's before I put the knob in. Look at all them cat tracks, they were some busy little vermin.... Gonna have to get a trap, and turn them over to the pound, might also catch that HUGE opossum I saw last night, he's a brute, like a NY rat, or Democrat politician....

 Finished the back corner of fence, so I'm pretty secure from critters and any morons who think they can just waltz on through.  Might have even snagged some fur from one such critter. This weekend I stacked up the old wood fence along the edge for it to finish rotting, goal was to have it look a little like an old stacked stone wall from long ago, and the rate things seem to rot back there, it will be there a while. Here's the part of fence I put in front of the tree, so I don't have to look out at the barbed wire wrapped around the tree. Here's the row along the old shed, back to the corner. This is the back corner, with the wood stacked up along the bottom, keep them critters away. Still needs some red flags. This is the outside view, plants should I hope fill in to make it look a little better. Right there is some FUR, so barbed wire doing it's job.

 The back fence is going to be in two parts, as I need to get that back corner post in before I can finish the back, and also work on the side. Finished cutting through the fallen stump so I can get the fence through there, it was a chore, cut a wedge with the rip saw, block by block use a free screwdriver as a chisel, and get down to where I finished off with the bow saw, just had to get down to the rotten part, which that tree has been on the ground for quite some time, and evidently the ants didn't like oak. Might have a baby pecan tree back in that corner, so I might try to do something with that at a later date. As you can see here's the bush being trained along the wire, goal is to have the bush become the fence, so when the bush is along there, if someone comes up, they won't want to try walking through a tree. See the little red flags, cut up a shirt that didn't fit, and added it to the wire. Not sure if you can see, but between the posts I ran wire from the top...

 The fencing went well, and then the ten minutes I thought the door would take took a couple of hours instead. It's not the  Chappa 'ai I used to have in my old bathroom, but it's good enough for free, and the gold paint seemed to turn out good. Here's the door before the two hours it took to get the hinges back into the door, as the holes needed some help, as in wood and gorilla glue to make the screws hold in the holes. Lock parts I need to put back together. and the hinges. Here's the first two rows of barbed wire, need to install the mesh stuff at the bottom, to keep the critters from bur-roughing under, cats from jumping through.  Here we go, keep it tight, and sharp. And so it's not just barbed wire, I'm trying to train the bush onto the barbed wire to keep it from being just some barbed wire. Here's the door with the hinges, still need to put the lock back together. Not sure which pic shows the copper best. Maybe it's this...