What Manly Things Did You Do Today?

"GO GET 'EM MUFFIN!!!""

 

Restored a Plumb 24oz ball peen hammer with a vintage handle.


The hole was a little big for the handle so added oak then reshaped it.

 

Playing the good son/husband -- took my wife and Mom to the quilt store.
It does give me time to peruse the Den and make posts such as this as they wander the shoppe.

 

The ye olde one?

 

Actually, close: Olde City Quilts in the historic section of Burlington, NJ.
Benny F had a print shop along this street back in the day.

 

Designed & made a quilt to be donated to a children’s hospital. (I consider my sewing machines to be power tools, so it counts.) Didn’t use any instructions.

 

Once you said "donated to a children’s hospital" ....... it counts!

 

Designed and built something - check
Donated it to kids - check
Power tools - check
Didn't use directions - double check

Yup, very manly!

 

All it needed was some duct tape! If only I had some that fit the color scheme.

 

1. Deposited my first pension check! It's real now!
2. I started volunteering with CASA to fill some of my time
3. Put new pedals on 2 of my 4 bicycles

 

Congrats @Troy M !! Enjoy your life as a retiree!

What is CASA?

 

Thanks @Sara-s !
CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates for children. We focus specifically in advocating for children in custody cases - not for parents or guardian or fosters or other adults, not DHS, but specifically the best interests of the child - the organization has been active since about 1996 and is in all states and most court districts.

 

Congratulations on retirement!

 

FTFY.

 

Congrats @Troy M !! Enjoy your retirement!

 

Congrats Troy!
And good on ya for your work with CASA

 

About directions-I'll ask for directions so as to avoid driving around, not knowing where I'm going, and wasting gas in the process.

 

Asking for road directions is very manly. Stubbornly refusing to ask for help when you need it is not. But in the case of the quilt I made, I designed it & therefore didn't need directions from someone else.

 

Asking for directions ruins *all* the fun of being lost! It'd be like buying a plastic model airplane kit and having someone else assemble it! Where's the fun in that?!?!?! The adventure of going the wrong way is the "adventure," after all!
;-)
- "Wrongway" Bax

 

Congrats. I still have 3-4 yrs to go, before I pull the pin.

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