tinker’s wagon

[ A red Milwaukee circular saw, sitting on a table along with a steel ruler, a green pen, & random boards. ] Innit purty? Also means I can DO things, so Wednesday I went outside & Did things.

[ A small label printer, about 4x4x6″, sits in an open drawer, with 4×6 labels stacked behind it. There’s a small space between the front of the printer, where the labels come out, & the front of the drawer. ] (This was written on Monday but scheduled for Wednesday; who knows what’ll happen between now

[ Tyrava’s front door frame, which is painted purple; a length of unpainted wood maybe an inch wide & half an inch deep runs along the inside of the frame, right where the door will stop when it’s closed properly. ] Last Saturday & today I got a bunch done on Tyrava, including the door

Last time I got the mail I carried back three boards, so I knew I had enough to finish the back wall today. I put nothing else on my schedule for today, nothing to distract me from getting it all done. & it worked! Above, the right side, done to the bottom of the arch,

Painted the other long edge of the front door. This is the kind of texture I’m talking about — gotta get all those lil holes filled. The rest of today I worked on the back wall, in between rain showers. The monsoon is finally here — I hope?

What with one thing & another I am … slightly behind on posting. But my new phone has an excellent camera & a sturdy case so I went outside & took some pictures of what I’ve been working on the last couple weeks.

There’s a big fire in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona, & what that has to do with progress on Tyrava might seem non-obvious but the prevailing winds are bringing a LOT of smoke this way, so I’ve been staying inside as much as I can. But I’ve slipped outside a couple times to get

The latches finally showed up, & they worked even better than I’d hoped. LOOK at that. & it holds the shutter closed without the slightest wiggle. I am VERY pleased.

I mean. There’s Stuff going on, & it’s Distracting, focus is … not entirely a thing. But I am getting things done! Above: shelves, for a set of shelves that will, once they’re done, hold all my soap backstock. Given that currently that’s sort of shoved in a corner in my workroom, this is a