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Murrmurr said:
Do you build things outside or do you have a shop or garage?

I like to do wood projects. Small ones. Biggest thing I built lately was a sort of hut for my cat's litter box that keeps odor and mess to a minimum, looks nice, and is easy to clean. Earlier this year, my former foster son and I built a few birdhouses and several small homeless cat shelters.

I mostly do this stuff inside a room that a previous owner built around my house's original patio and brick barbecue; a party room, I guess. For me, it's a hobby room.

Anyway, it has big windows and a large door facing the backyard that I keep open while I putter around in there. So it's like working indoors and out at the same time.
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Sounds like you have a nice place to work!

I have a woodshop behind the garage, but it doesn't have a big door. I cut all the pieces for the pergola in the shop and then assembled it out on the patio in the spring before the hot weather set in. Now that it's starting to cool off a little, it's time to finish it. It measures 8'x10'. I think my shop is about 15'x20'.
 

hollydolly said:
well you've been grieving for your furbaby, so that would have caused a mild depression so not surprising you've not felt like going out, but now you have to shake a leg, because at our age, if we start staying home, we'll never go out again...

We lost 2 fur-babies almost a whole year ago, on the same day... ( can't believe it's been a year)... one had dementia the other was riddled with cancer, and they were a great loss ( my DD's dogs)... so I know exactly how you feel.. but don't let yourself get poorly from lack of exercise,,,

Would you consider another dog.. maybe a foster animal .. ?
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That's terrible you lost two dogs on the same day. :(

My dog had slowly gone blind over the years, but he never lost his enthusiasm for life. He could find his way around the yard from the smells where he marked his territory and could still play fetch to some extent. I'd yell "here we go!" He'd start running and I'd throw the ball in front of him. Then he'd swing his head back and forth until he found the ball, or I'd tell him "the other way!" and he'd turn around. He was a smart dog.

Then one evening after we played for a while, his leg swelled up and he couldn't walk because of the pain. He just sat there looking at me almost apologetically. I took him to the vet the next day and the doctor x-rayed his body and found cancer throughout his lungs and I guess down his leg. It never occurred to me when I took him in that he might not be coming back home with me.

We're thinking about getting another dog, but not for a while... maybe in a few months.
 
HermitHogan said:
Sounds like you have a nice place to work!

I have a woodshop behind the garage, but it doesn't have a big door. I cut all the pieces for the pergola in the shop and then assembled it out on the patio in the spring before the hot weather set in. Now that it's starting to cool off a little, it's time to finish it. It measures 8'x10'. I think my shop is about 15'x20'.
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I have a garage but it's tiny. Barely has room for my wife's 4-door hybrid. The house was built for working class families in the late 50s/early 60s.

My "shop" is nice, for sure, but it's kind of weird working next to a huge brick BBQ...which also has an oven (for pizza, I guess?). Minus all that brick, the work space is about 10'x14', I'd say, and it's got a pretty good sized work table right in the middle of it.

But I like it out there.
 

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I have one of those fob start cars. I posted a sticker in a rear window that warns that it is equipped with a tracking device that, if stolen, would communicate the location to the police. Don’t know if that would scare a thief, but in seven years never stolen.
 
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