On 11/26/2020 5:51 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
I'm thankful for you guys.Â* I am self taught for a lot of things, but
the help of colleagues is always useful.

I'm thankful for people who make me smile about little things.Â* The
other day I posted a picture of a tool & cutter grinder I picked up
recently and a small forge my son and I were playing with to pound out
our first blacksmith project.Â* (We beat perfectly good round bar into a
trinket of questionable value.)Â* I was pretty happy spending the day
taking turns with the hammer with my son, but a comment from a fellow
tackle maker in the Makers & Builders group really made me smile. He
said, "If I was in you shop I'd be running around like Smeggle saying
:Oh my precious to every machine in there."Â* It really made me
appreciate every tool I have.

Today we made a stump for my little 70lb anvil.Â* Living in the desert
big old chunks of tree trunk for anvil stumps aren't laying around
everywhere.Â* We cut and planed the 2x12s that were laying out back of my
shop.Â* The ones I rejected when I put the ceiling/upper floor on my
office.Â* Now I have a giant glue/lam a little less than 2 feet long.Â* My
son and I spent a large part of the morning and a bit of the afternoon
flattening boards and gluing them back into a tree trunk.Â* Probably an
inadequate one for a real anvil, but the 70lb Russian anvil will work
fine on it... when we finish it.Â* We ran out of glue.

Days like today I am really thankful for every little thing, and it
doesn't really matter that its Thanksgiving day.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.


Bob,

Let me be the first to say; Good job tell a great story, Bob!!!

Thanks!!

May all your days be as special!!

Les