2026-11-01
We found these nail tools years ago…
We got some glass nail files and cuticle pushers from the sauerkraut festival a few years ago. They’ve turned out to be really nice. I think they look cool too and I was messing around taking pictures of them. I recently found the vendor on Facebook and ordered a few more. :)
Trying something different.
We got some Ohio State Buckeye hockey tickets to see what a college game is like. We get to see them vs. Michigan!
2026-10-31
Luckily I can phone a friend…
I called Andy to get his opinion. A defective breaker valve. Luckily, we found a replacement hose bib at Lowe’s that we could take apart. I used the spare parts to fix this leaking one at my mom’s. 
A boy and his dog
Zoe is always down for whatever advernture awaits. Water, trails, sand, it doesnt matter. Hahaha.
Buzzard takes flight
I guess we interrupted these guys soaking up some rays. I like catching their wings during liftoff.
Caesar’s creek calm
Last week I was hiking the trails there and enjoyed the fall colors starting to show :)
2026-10-30
Zoe thinks she’s tied to her rug…
If I put her harness and leash on while she’s in her rug, this is the furthest she strays from it. I guess it feels like she’s at the end of her rope? 🤣
My Jeep has a built in Kendama holder!
On the way home from Andy’s I realized that the coin pocket and cup holder would nestle it perfectly. Hahahaha
Andy’s pipe threader process
Here’s the process of having his Rigid threading die head all taken apart, lubed, working, and testing. He even let me cut a set of threads!
You can call that a success for sure!
Andy managed to get one of his threading heads taken apart, oiled, adjusted, and back together in working order! The lower right of the lower right pic shows his battery-powered threader tool that normally threads up to 2” pipe. This new one is shown in the lower right pic including the orange adapter I found him at the antique mall. It can thread up to SIX inch diameter pipe! The lower left pic shows the threader, adapter, and cutting die head all joined together. You can use it in three different configurations (the lower pics shows two of them). In one, the pipe spins, in the other the cutting head spins while the battery driver orbits the cutting head. Upper right shows the piece of 3” pipe that Andy successfully threaded. For size reference the pipe is 16” long. The upper left pic shows the big, cool cutting chip that Andy saved for me since he knew I’d want it for my collection of cool stuff we’ve done! It makes such huge chips relative to anything else I’ve ever seen. Pretty awesome setup and fun to have helped him piece it together and see it all working. With a little elbow grease he’s successfully scrounging up some good deals and tools along the way.
These things are monsters!
Andy ended up with two of these threaders! The thing weighs 93 pounds! EACH! One has some broken parts and the other is all locked/frozen up from sitting around… He’s going to have some work to do to get one good one outta the deal, but I think he’s up to the task…
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