Just a few shots from all the holiday orders we have been processing. My gosh! Everyone is getting Windhaven Fiber tools for Christmas, apparently! Sorry for the lack of posts, it’s just been busy busy busy!
Which is a good thing, for sure, but I do miss blogging. I will attempt to get caught back up!
Our little post office lady sure does like to see us! We have really been working on orders like crazy! Tis the season!
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In the early fall, we cleaned out Maggie’s workshop and also collected metal trash and clutter from around the farm. It is absolutely amazing to me how much clutter you can find on a couple acres of land! Oh sure, some of it was ours, like the old BBQ grill that we got off Craigslist and turned out to be rusted out and didn’t work. And other things we dragged home thinking they would be awesome for some project or another. Thankfully, we have curtailed that behavior and are now very careful about what we bring home.
So we loaded up the truck with whatever we could find. And buddy, we found a lot! Unbelievable! We are still cleaning out some old trash pits from the previous owners and such. It was a whole heavy truck load. Once done, we headed out to the recycling place. 
I could not believe all the stuff that was there. Oh my gosh. Just things and things and things. Piles everywhere of sorted out things. It was unbelievable. And slightly overwhelming.
We added our truckload including this nasty blue table saw that wanted to kill us. We had gotten it off Craigslist when we first moved out to the homestead and it served well, but it was rough to begin with and it got rougher. Finally, the motor quit and it was time to leave.
In the end, we really thought it would not really amount to much. Metal prices have been pretty low lately. We all laughed and guessed $5 and $10 at the max. Boy, we were surprised when we got a whole whopping $35! I guess it does add up! We split the windfall with all the helpers and got lunch!
And a cleaner homestead, for sure!
Along with her shop cleanup, we bought the materials to make her a really nice workbench! She could probably use another one, but right now, this one is working great and is sure nice. We found the directions online. I will try and find them again and post them here if you’d like. It made a very sturdy nice workbench and ours was under $30!
Of course, we needed supervisors… Duke and Toto came to check it all out…
I love the way this is going together! I wish we had known this way to build when we were working on bunny cages! Sure sturdy and nice. Easy to put together, not too many cuts!
Maggie knows what she is doing in the shop! She’s getting very good at building things!
We had a couple countertops from the Sauder furniture outlet shop. They were $4 each, so it was a great deal. And they look really nice!
All done and super cool!!! Here is the link for the plans. We altered ours a little bit because we wanted it long and thinner. The great thing is you can make it just about any size, just keep the corners the same! Enjoy!
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-a-sturdy-workbench-inexpensively/
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