who said that?

OK, people...

I did not write the words

construction quiz

in the previous post.

I just happened to look up 

right before I hit publish

and there those words were...

I wrote Monday Morning

and someone else 

added Construction quiz.

I am not kidding...

this is creepy!

Someone is messing with my head

and it is not nice.

Today was very productive...

In case you are wondering

what Jim is doing,

he is building the framework

for the stone pillars

well, actually

they will be stone on the bottom

and the top part will be a tapered wooden thing.

We have to get the bottom part built

so that the stone mason can do his part.

I helped with this project.

I was allowed to learn how to use the chop saw.

There are no pictures of this 

because I take all the pictures around here

 and I felt that it would be hazardous to my health

to try and use the power chop saw and try to take pictures as well.

I'm kind of fond of my fingers like that.

I did try to cut a piece of scrap wood

and instead of chopping across the grain

I tried cutting with the grain...

and apparently that is a no-no

because both pieces went flying 

and the saw made a very unhappy sound.

Lucky for me, 

neither of the two pieces hit either the front door glass

or the dining room window 

and Jim was too busy to notice the bad sound

coming from his saw.

Thank you Lord.

It took me quite a long time

to accept the fact

that Jim was not going to be satisfied

with his boards being

1/16th of an inch off.

Why was I surprised by that?

And what made me think I could change it

by just keeping it up????

I did keep all the little scraps of wood

as I was chopping

so that I can at some time

in the future

make a craft project out of them.

It's an illness I have.

Wait till you see what I did while I was on break today!!!

ok, I'm going to hit publish and

let's see what mystery words pop up....