And, truth be told, my workbench really could use some better lighting. While I’m at it, it would make sense to straighten up my tool chest, and put away the odds and ends that have accumulated from various home repair tasks. My workbench is currently covered with ski waxing equipment and bike parts that I need to install by the time the snow melts. Before I do, I will need to spend some time cleaning up my workspace. Like I said, I’d like to get back to doing some more woodworking in my free time. That way, I can grab them with one hand while trying to keep whatever part I’m working on from falling over with the other. My hex wrenches are in the same drawer, but rather than being sorted from smallest to largest, the ones I use the most are on top. For example, my large crescent wrench goes in the drawer with my bike tools, because I always use it with my cassette removal tool. Besides, it gives me something to absorb the drips when I change the oil in my car or try to add tubeless sealant to my bike tires.Īs for organizing your tools like they just came out of the package, I suppose you could do that, but I’ve always organized them by use. I might need to contain my sawdust and wood shavings to the garage, but it certainly doesn’t bother me to have a pile or two giving the space some character. There’s almost 30 years of scrapes and gouges across the surface.Īnd speaking of clean, what’s a workshop without at least a few wood shavings in the corner? One of my uncles, who spent some time working as a luthier and carpenter, said in his dream house, he would have one room that he lived in, and every other room would be covered in wood shavings and sawdust. Seriously? Maybe there’s people like that out there, but in my experience, the only way to have a workshop that looks like that is not to use it.įor starters, even when my workbench is perfectly clean, you can tell it’s been used. The lighting is perfect, there isn’t a speck of sawdust to be found, and every tool is perfectly aligned in some kind of rack, except for the one item on the workbench, displayed at just the right angle to imply that it was recently used. And quite frankly, I think some of those photos are more fake than anything else you can find on the internet.įirst off, many of the photos look like something from a showroom. It’s still not done – I went back to work, and woodworking went back to the backburner – but I have set a goal of doing more of it this year.Īnyway, at some point, I clicked on someone’s photo of their home workshop, and the algorithms now make sure that I see every home workshop photo ever posted. The closest I came was the spring of 2020, when I was “safer at home” and was able to dedicate some uninterrupted time to working on the cedar-strip canoe (that I’ve been working on for 20 years). I dabble in woodworking, though it’s been a while since I made it a free time priority. ![]() ![]() No, what’s been giving me angst has been photos of people’s home workshops. ![]() It’s not even the folks with the picture-perfect vacation photos, or the guy who only seems to catch the biggest fish, or even the concerts or sporting events some people seem to always be at. ![]() And as far as bucket list destinations go, we happen to live in one. “We’re definitely watching that area, as well.OK, I might be a little envious of their gear, but I’ve put a lot of sweat equity into my own bicycles. “We could get snow on the 14, particularly in Acton,” Comeaux said, noting the freeway running on the east side of Santa Clarita had already seen snow in the last week. Wednesday’s storm could mean even more snow for those hard-hit areas. In one update, the district shared a photo of the conditions its snow plows were encountering in local mountain passes: Mounds of snow buried one route until disappeared completely. In the San Bernardino Mountains, Caltrans crews were also still at work digging out towns like Running Springs, Big Bear Lake and Angelus Oaks.Ī worker who answered the phone at the Old Country Coffee Shop in Running Springs said the roads out of town were still closed.Ĭaltrans District 8, which covers the San Bernardino Mountains, said crews were working to clear highways but closures remained in place for the 18, 138, 189, 173, 330 and 38 highways. Atmospheric river storm brings headaches, traffic jams and wet weather, but Bay Area escapes severe damageĬaltrans crews were also working to clear a landslide on the 39 north of Azusa, he said.
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