Posted on 04/20/2007 11:50:28 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
I've never posted a straight Vanity before.
But I am sick and tired of this good conservative, generally religious site being overrun by people posting "I'd hit it", whenever a picture of a good-looking girl is displayed.
It's demeaning, it's immoral, and I guess I'm just a prude but announcing to the world that you'd like to have sex with a woman based on her picture, like she was some object, hardly seems like the appropriate attitude on a conservative political site.
But rather than post in response to any particular person, I figured I'd just vent here where everybody could see and make fun of me.
So go ahead. I thank you for whatever indulgence you have given me in this rant.
Back to your regularly scheduled oggling and hitting.
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But I still hve to deal with grass farms. *\:^(
I can understand that. I have a love/hate relationship with them. So we moved to a house on 80 acres.
Nice. Well, we’re in the hills now, away from the grass farms.
I'd like to have an eighty-acre house. I'd have room for all my books.
I thought so too. Then I realised that I needed bookcases.
A hammer and nails, and some clamps will help. A power saw can be substituted for the router, depending on what you're willing to accept in the quality of the craftmanship.
Well. If I'm doing it, even a level wouldn't help. :-D
Good night, everyone. Maybe I’ll be around tomorrow. Bill still has more painting to do, so the room will be dismantled again.
I'm just amazed I've gotten this far throughOregon without losing signl.
You don't need it.
You will want to make the upright portions the same length, and the grooves for the shelves at evenly spaced positions on them. This only requires that you put them side-by-side and mark them.
What may be of benefit is a carpenter's square, although a small version is adequate. Even this can be done away with by careful measurement.
Mostly carpentry is geometry, and the rules for one apply to the other. Mark your boards in parallel, and assemble them square by measuring the diagonals as equal. Fasten a backing sheet of plywood when they are square. It will remain square when you stand it up.
Aced it!
Yep. Fifteen.
AAlmost to Grants Pass now.
I started laughing when I got to this. I wanted to build stuff even though I was a girl. Grandpa tried to teach me. And tried. And tried.
Without a backing board, a bookshelf will “rack”. That means it will lean over.
You can see this in old farm buildings. They may have been assembled with vertical uprights and horizontal sideboards.
Then age happens. Boards shrink. Snow loads. The formally vertical supports lean over. Why not?
That’s why bridges are built with triangle shapes. Some old shed doors are made with diagonal bracing. You can see it in ThomasThomas’’ss back-yard shed.
The backing board, being made of thin plywood, gives diagonal bracing. You can build your bookcase crookedly if you want to, but it’s probably easier to build it straight.
Wish that I still had some of the things that I built. I'd show you how "easy" it is. Grandpa tried not to smile. He even let me paint the "toy box". Good waste of paint. Some people can, then there is the rest of us.
You know that I would not let you do it without explaining, in tortuous detail, what was going on.
I find that I can remember things best, if I understand them.
Wood, I understand. (Lest you misunderstand, and think that I am saying that wood is simple, prosaic, and uncomplex, that is not what I am saying!)
Wood is magical, like many wondrous things in this magical world. Wood is a special kind of sugar, spun from rain and sunlight and air. How could it be anything less than magical?
I used to watch Mike Holmes on Holmes on Homes. He’s a carpenter and talks about going with the grain of the wood etc. He gets it. It just looks like a board to me.
It’s hard to see wood-grain on a TV show. Usually it only appears after the stain is applied.
In real life, with real boards, the grain is obvious. Boards are stronger in the direction of the grain. But they expand and contract more in the perpendicular direction.
Good carpenters keep this in mind in assembling joints. Too much “cross-grain” movement will ruin a piece. Panel doors, for example, shouldn’t be painted. The paint seals them in position, and prevents their natural movement. Then they “break out of the joint”.
Working with wood is satisfying in a philosophical sense. It’s like playing golf. If you do things badly, you have only yourself to blame.
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