So what have you been doing?
bowlman
Ok WC friends, for the past 6 months, I have not posted as much as I would like.
March was a busy month with a huge show and a large wholesale order. April was spent getting inventory built up for May-October shows as well as filling that large wholesale order.
And May through October, every weekend was a sales venue, sometimes just Saturday, sometimes the whole weekend.
And the demo and hands on classed in Traverse City, Michigan with the North West Michigan turners. Add 2 days with Ron Campbell on the way back to Indiana. Then a day of decompressing.
This past Sunday (October 16) I began cleaning, re-arranging and reordering my shop. I mean a real cleaning ... move everything except the lathe and the built ins out onto the driveway. Go through everything and pitch all the trash. Sweep, dust, sweep and dust again. had to hire the college kid next door to help. (Damn, I'm getting too old to muscle my old General 260 around by myself).
Had to take time out to go with wife for a dental appointment (crown) and to the oral surgeon to put in a post in preparation for a dental implant.
Took a great deal of my wood stash and moved it to the shed in back and/or to the rental storage unit. Both are full now. Shop is still not where I want it to be in terms of not having projects in various stages of completion sitting around taking up space. I still have more stuff to get rid of. Today I made the executive decision that the shop was sufficiently tidied up to pass inspection. i did manage to reclaim a lot of floor space and counter top space. and you can even walk around in the shop with reduced likelihood of tripping over wood or shop vac hoses. Made Nancy happy!
Tomorrow I will be getting ready for a demo in South Eastern Indiana on Monday. Tuesday I start building inventory for 3 big holiday shows in November and December.
Need to find time to work with Alan Zenreich on remote demos and recording videos for YouTube, and to work on my entries for Spheres II (POP 2017) and Waves of Grain for the AAW 2017 Symposium in Kansas City.
So, that's what I have been up to ... and I promise I will do more posting once things slow down a bit!
And i thought i was busy before I retired ...
Time for some adult beverage(s) ...
