The bench I am working on now is super complicated...a big garden bench with arms and back... I am making it out of weathered fence planks so it has that ancient look about it...I am hoping to have all the cut edges facing down so you only see the silvered barn wood surface....maybe I will splurge and buy a cushion for this one so we can sit and have our lemonade under the shade of the trees and be comfy. Oh....I see a foot stool in my future.... back to my sketch pad the moment I am off the computer.
It is kind of a curse to have all these ideas and plans and neither the money, the place or the time to do it all.... Robt is very supportive but then he just sees dollar signs...one of his first comments after I made the first bench was how much would it sell for... But I am very anal about the stuff I make...I mean, I like it but what if no one else does...that's why I haven't sold any paintings either... I don't want to be disappointed when no one buys them, so I won't even contemplate going there..... nope...I'll have stacks and stacks of canvases leaned against the wall and will never have sold a damn thing... benches up the wazoo and never sell a one...hahahahaha sales, isn't really why I build them, it is the challenge...to prove that I can do it...I like seeing the finished thing, as good as you could buy in any store, and know that I made that... it's empowering.
So for this big bench I had Robt bring me some old planks from the trash pile...but the challenging part is every one of them is a different thickness and width...so I have to constantly measure and change the saw settings...and do a lot of planning ahead to know where to cut so that the new wood edge won't show when I assemble it. This bench, in the plans is made of 1" wood, but I felt that it was too flimsy...for two heavy weights to sit on so mine is made from unplained or rough 2 x 6 planks. mega strong...and the wind won't blow it off the deck. I'll show you when it's done.
Got a call from my Rheumatologist last Friday....good news/ bad news scenario... good news is nothing showed up on the MRI I had....the bad news is NOTHING SHOWED UP ON THE MRI I had.... all that trauma, ironically I feel like it was a waste of time and resources... hey I never said I made sense...
I have an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon next week about my broken ankle from last year...it took just over a year to get this appointment....and I don't want to go....I feel like it would be a waste of time for both us and the doctor but my family doc, says to go...so I will go...reluctantly...I know it will not solve anything. it's not bad enough to need surgery but not 100 % to walk on either. She'll recommend a brace, that I can't wear and physio I won't go to... and if I could drop a shit load of weight that would only be a good thing. Like I don't know that already...
and then later in the month I have to go for a bone density and mammogram and then an appointment with a neurologist about my numb hands....I suspect they will want to do carpal tunnel surgery again...and I won't want it... and then that is it....I AM OFFICIALLY DONE GOING TO SPECIALISTS...they can't figure out what the problem is...I am tired of going...so I'll just suck it up, quit complaining so much and get on with it....
thus my wood therapy.... if I keep really busy...there's no time to think about how much my arms hurt or my ankle hurts...etc.... the only fly in the ointment of this genius plan will be when something nasty happens, like another stroke in my eye or anywhere else for that matter, a nasty allergic reaction or
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