Birthday Chair for the Wife

Decided to make a nice chair for my wife to enjoy her garden. I did a google search for Adirondack chairs and asked her to pick the one she liked best. Thankfully she chose one that was within my abilities.

The fine folks at Lowe’s have the plans on their site.

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Driver’s side grab handle

The Excursion didn’t have a grab handle on the drivers side. Pulling oneself up bu the steering wheel or door is a sure way to damage the truck over time. I’m usually good about grabbing the pillar, but when it’s rainy, that metal is slippery, and now I’m at risk for hurting myself.

A bit of eBay shopping and I found a pair of pillar covers and handles in the right color, with bolts & bolt covers.

Before and after
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Chainsaw Caddy

When the tree came down into our backyard last month, it took too many trips to get all the chainsaw bits to from the garage to the yard before I was able to start working. And even more, it seemed, to put everything away.

I also know that I need to take the chainsaw to the old house soon & don’t want to forget anything.

Whipped this up this morning without leaving the garage.

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The Cursed Swing Set

At the old house, we had an ancient wooden swing set for the kids to play on. I wasn’t going to move it to the new house. My wife convinced her father to buy one for the new house as a Christmas present to the little ones. All we had to do was to pick one out & he would break out the credit card.

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