I wanted some weathered wood to make frames and crosses for my Etsy shop, so I called fence companies until I found a really nice man that gave me an old fence he tore down.  The others wanted me to pay for them…like 70 cents a picket!!  He even delivered them!  He brought me 70 feet of old, beat up fence panels.  I am in heaven!

Mister has helped me, a little at a time, remove all the pickets and get all the nails out of them.   AND — he bought a table saw so we can make the frames and crosses!

So, last weekend we were doing a little project at his house that involved sawing some boards for a cabinet.  The weather was cold and we were hoping it would warm up so we could get the saw out and cut the boards.   The saw is sitting in his dining room, so one night I said, “Why can’t we just cut them in the dining room?  What’s the worst that can happen?  We’ll get sawdust on the floor, but you have a Shop-Vac.”  His eyes lit up and we gleefully set about cutting the boards.

It was so much fun because he had ordered a miter guide and a little thingy called a Wixey, and we got to play with them.

We were both amazed that we had found another person who thought it was more fun to play with the saw, even if it was too cold outside, than to worry about the mess.

For posterity I took this picture of the sawdust on the floor before we cleaned it up.  I considered keeping a little of it for my journal.

How lucky am I?

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