The tree to the left wasn’t turned into the plank on the right. The left’s Birch and the right’s Cherry for starters. That Birch isn’t far from my house, where it grows still, and that Cherry grew on a farm in East Montpelier, just through the field and up the hill by the Highschool.
I don’t like cleaning my shop all that much. I don’t hate it, but I don’t enjoy it enough to do it nearly as much as I ought to. I aspire towards organization and cleanliness, I look at the shops of the tidy with green envy.
I’m too forgetful, to forgiving of dust and watching my step for planks, too easily tired to worry all that much.
Why do people that keep a truly fine shop do so? Is it because they get too upset being in one that isn’t tidy? Or is it because they love the process of cleaning? I figure it’s gotta be the latter.
I don’t like cleaning my shop all that much. I don’t hate it, but I don’t enjoy it enough to do it nearly as much as I ought to. I aspire towards organization and cleanliness, I look at the shops of the tidy with green envy.
I’m too forgetful, to forgiving of dust and watching my step for planks, too easily tired to worry all that much.
Why do people that keep a truly fine shop do so? Is it because they get too upset being in one that isn’t tidy? Or is it because they love the process of cleaning? I figure it’s gotta be the latter.
I cleaned the shop today, despite myself. I took an old cabinet from my kitchen and put it up on the wall. It’s full of glue and screws and paint now. The surfaces got brushed off, dried glue got scrapped, clamps got moved and more dust than is reasonable got swept up and dumped into the firepit in the pasture.
Has anyone ever had a shop they made, stopped, and said, yeah, that’s perfect? Maybe. The shop I learned in felt pretty well resolved but I think that might’ve been a product of my own ignorance at the time.
Now I know enough to know that my shop is a work in progress and it always will be.
I’ll be doing this or that and it’ll stay messy forever.
Has anyone ever had a shop they made, stopped, and said, yeah, that’s perfect? Maybe. The shop I learned in felt pretty well resolved but I think that might’ve been a product of my own ignorance at the time.
Now I know enough to know that my shop is a work in progress and it always will be.
I’ll be doing this or that and it’ll stay messy forever.
