My workshop

Obviously I've been neglecting this blog.  It's been THREE YEARS since the last entry.  I'll try to make more entries, but don't expect me to do anything to catch up with all the stuff that's happened since my last entry.

When the previous entries were made, my garage was my workshop, and I was doing a lot of my woodworking at AB Tech (Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College).  That gave me access to lots of wonderful power tools, but it meant a 60 mile round trip to the college, and I could only work on their schedule, usually certain evenings.

I've wanted to have a "real" workshop for years.  I built a small workshop under the back porch when we lived in Glen Burnie, MD, in the late 70's, early 80's.  But then I got posted to England for five years, then here to Western North Carolina.  Other things, such as the death of my wife, and my subsequent remarriage, and two more moves got in the way of building a shop.

Finally, Linda and I decided that I should build a shop.  I figured out how to shoe-horn a 16 X 20 two-story building into a corner of our hilly lot, and cleared the spot.  Then it sat for several years waiting for me to put up the building.

The building was erected in the winter of 2010-2011, but it's not finished yet.  It's got air conditioning and insulation, but I haven't finished the inside walls.  A lot of stuff has been moved in, and I am occasionally doing work in there, but not the way I want to.  It seems that life continues to get in the way.