Re: Happy Thanksgiving

[ABLE1 <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/26/2020 5:50 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 11/25/2020 3:34 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 11/25/2020 1:13 PM, alar...@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>> Haven't heard from anyone lately so I thought I'd break the ice and
>>> wish every one a Happy Thanksgiving.
>>>
>>> I guess aside from still being alive in todays "climate" we can all
>>> be thankful for the mundane things that we all took for granted from
>>> birth till now.
>>>
>>> Have a peaceful holiday. Hope you are all just taking it easy and try
>>> to reflect on all the good things around you.
>>>
>>>
>>> Peace
>>> Jim
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Jim,
>>
>> For here we will be most likely be eating leftovers out of the fridge.
>> Not a big deal, it will be peaceful.
>>
>> I have a phone systems that need set up a functional for install.
>> As well as Conference Room Phone for a customer.
>> Between that and yard work I should get through the day.
>>
>> As for "today's climate".................. we will have to take it
>> one day at a time.  No easy way to fix it, and running scared won't
>> work either.
>>
>> I have decided to more anti social.  It seems to work best at the time.
>>
>> Have a peaceful holiday and be safe.
>>
>> As for the others here, the above applies as well.  :-)
>>
>> Be good all!!!
>>
>> Les
>
>
>
> I'm thankful for you guys.  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.  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.  (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.  Living in the desert
> big old chuncks of tree trunk for anvil stumps aren't laying around
> everywhere.  We cut and planed the 2x12s that were laying out back of my
> shop.  The ones I rejected when I put the ceiling/upper floor on my
> office.  Now I have a giant glue/lam a little less than 2 feet long.  My
> son and I spent a large part of the morning and bif of the afternoon
> flattening boards and gluing them back into a tree trunk.  Probably an
> inadequate one for a real anvil, but the 70lb Russian anvil will work
> fine on it... when we finish it.  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.
>

{with modification} :-)

Bob,

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

Thanks!!

May all your days be as special!!

Les