the best xmas gift ever..

[FarmerChad]

Morning all, hope everyone is enjoying Christmas. For those who celebrate anyways.   Anyhow, I now have a buch of gift cards in my possession. The greatest ever if you ask me. Well, except for lumber, but who wants to wrap a sheet of cdx anyways?

[peg_688]

Merry Christmas back at you all . Home depot gonna be seeing a lot of me , with some red hot gift cards as well.  Ya never have enought , or the right tools , fer every job  ,,



Gonna be doing a bit O reading as well:

 

  Santa was nice , guess I was good this year

  Take er cool!

[southernsis]

Happy Holidays to all. Woke up this morning and it was snowing. Not normal for here. It is beautiful falling, huge flakes. Getting our plans was a great present. We did buy ourselves a compound miter saw for a present. Wishing everyone a great New Year and happy building

[desdawg]

Gift cards are good gifts. Easy to wrap and you won't be giving someone something they don't need but don't dare throw away.
Looks like you guys made out like bandits. PEG, I envy your cabinet making ability. I received one gift card for Harbor Freight. I'm almost positive they have something there that I need.

[MountainDon]

Gonna be doing a bit O reading as well:

James Krenov has some cool stuff!! Wish I was half as good (quarter as???....)

I got and gave some Home Depot gift cards so sorta came out even.  Hmmm. Got lots of stuff to do.

[Erin]

The first Christmas in several that my DH hasn't given me power tools...  He actually gave me jewelry.   :-?
Now don't get me wrong, I love jewelry, but my router has been a favorite toy since I unwrapped it.  My Dremel is *wonderful*.  What can't you do with a jigsaw?  And so on...
A necklace and earrings?  



Well, they're awfully pretty, anyway.    

[Amanda_931]

An anvil, a collection of hammers, and an assortment of silver wire and beads would have gone over better?

The only time anyone ever gave me an anvil (and the only use I would have put it to at the time was jewelry making) it was a good sized one--40 or so pounds worth--he'd carried on his motorcycle, and up the driveway that motocyclists who came up regularly had to tune their bikes to get low end power to get up.

[glenn-k]

Wow - Amanda--- I never knew you were a biker chick too.

[Amanda_931]

The bike in question might have been a Honda Dream 150.  But there were a few cafe racers among our friends, not to mention a Tiger Cub and a Francis Barnett.  

Looking for a picture--Yahoo wants me to find Honda Dream 150 in their auto trader.  Ha!

(this site also has a picture of a Honda S-90, roughly the same vintage.  I really enjoyed that one, I think I had it on some kind of long-term loan.  In Hawaii it was freeway legal   )



http://www.jwoodandcompany.com/2001/motorcycles1.htm

[jraabe]

Where were all these tool orientated women when I was single?  :-/

Maybe I didn't want anyone to show me up with their handy-person skills.  

[jraabe]

I had a Honda 50 scooter when I lived in Hawaii. I don't think it could have carried both me and an anvil.

I wasn't a very impressive biker.  :-?

[Amanda_931]

The 50 Cubs were what I mostly rode.  There's one (ca 1959) that ran for at least 30 years.  I learned on it in original trim, later enjoyed the, ahem, extra power, when it got a 60cc engine.  And a clutch.  It's name was "Old Reliable" and everybody had it on long-term loan if the alleged owner--not at all sure there was ever a title on it--didn't have any other wheels.

I can remember taking some really steep hills with my father as a passenger, with very little problem.  At the time I lived in Manoa Valley on the side of Round Top.  Two near vertical blocks off of the main road.

So, yeah, no problem at all, if there was a (somewhat skinny) passenger to carry the anvil, or we could figure out how to tie it on.

[MountainDon]

I remember when the Hondas first hit the market. I was into British bikes at the time. We used to look down our noses at them rice burners. Of course that was until we noticed they just seemed to run and run and run.... whuile we dealt with the inticacies and unreliability of Lucas electrics.....  Went through a lot of old English stuff that nobody knows about anymore... Matchless, Royal Enfield, Velocette. Another memorable thing was that those little Hondas had headlights that really worked well; much brighter than the british iron. Always was jealous of that.

[Chutz]

"but who wants to wrap a sheet of cdx anyways?"

Well, hubby got exactly that from daughter...fully wrapped in a combination of contact paper, wallpaper, Christmas wrap and a full roll of duct tape!  When our structure is done he's claiming the back 1/2 for his trains.

CHutz

[Dimitri]

Where were all these tool orientated women when I was single?  :-/

Maybe I didn't want anyone to show me up with their handy-person skills.  

John Raabe,

They only seem to appear after you after not single anymore from what I've realized.  

I'm still single though. Still no girls I know are into tools.

I got something alittle better then a gift card a nice older dial indicator from a friend (a retired machinist) and it works like a charm!

Dimitri