... that I could make a little weather box. I could then buy or make some weather monitors, depending on how technical that would be. The reason this came to mins is that it is freezing here right now but I would love to know exactly how cold it is. A tv weather report mentioned -9c but the website I look at shows only -5c.
Either way the snow has been on the ground for two days now and there is a six inch icicle hanging off my coal shed. 2 years ago

Yesterday my brother put up a set of shelves in my new house, which was very kind of him, and something that I had intended to do myself. Onl when he had finished did I realise that if I had done it myself I could have marked this goal as done. Damn.
My contribution to the process was to make a few pencil marks, hold the shelves while he made calculations and adjustments, and to pull out a few rawl plugs where the previous owners had put in a shelf previously.
By no stretch of the imagination could I say that I had made any meaningful contribution.
Still, having watched him do all the work, I now have sufficient knowledge to do it myself next time. Baby steps… 2 years ago

Having moved into a new house I realise that I have oodles of opportunities to complete this goal. I need, among other things, an idiosyncratically shaped kitchen table, three separate sets of bookshelves and two garden benches.
I guess I should start with a garden bench as the scope for getting it horribly wrong but still having something vaguely useable is highest with one of these.
If it ends up looking like a tortured explosion of random tree splinters (I’m thinking of Homer Simpson’s spice rack here) then I can just claim that I was going for a rustic look.
I should probably try to sign up for a woodwork class somewhere, but I have a feeling I’m going to go freestyle on this. 2 years ago

Haven’t done this but I am currently involved in a long term project of stripping the ten layers of centuries old paint of the door jambs and window frames in my kitchen, filling the scars that I make with woodfiller and repainting them. It is a huge job because all the frames are grooved. About half way through and when it’s done I may feel proud enough to mark this goal as done. 4 years ago

Before my gardening experiment the bottom of our yard was a distant and dangerous looking place. I didnt really know what was down there. There were weeds and overgrown bushes, and gatherings of earth, rubble and assorted rubbish. It was a land ruled by an ragtag squad of feral cats and i knew better than to interfere.
But now….oh its lovely now. Cleared of junk and wayward plant life, the yard has opened up. I have weeded, de-stoned and bordered the beds. I have swept the paths, hacked out the rough mortar and cemented the holes and cracks. I have brought peace and tranquility to bandit country. And….i have found my wooden-thing-making purpose.
At the very back of the yard, in the corner, where the piles of rotten wood and drifted rocky earth used to be, there is a hole in the wall where a gate once stood. Its long gone now, replaced by natures debris and some haphazard arrangements put in place by my nieghbour, Kay.
I shall build me a new one!
Interestinglymy new job is at a fine old Dublin institution called….The Gate. Who would a thunk it. 5 years ago

I know it doesn’t count but i made a mexican style chest of drawers today. It was such a pain in the arse that i had to tell somebody. I’m looking at it now. Its huge. 6 years ago

I cant think what that thing might be so i asked a friend. He suggested a tree. That threw me. How the hell do you make a tree. He suggested growing an apple seed. I like that i have friends who think like that. 6 years ago