What Happened to Wood’n Bits?

It’s me [crazy old guy jumping up and down while waving here].  I thought it about time that I write something here, though I am wondering why.

At the beginning of the summer my wife and I decided to do some home renovations.  Wood’nBits has evolved into a hand tool blog so it didn’t seem appropriate for me to talk about my new “favorite tools”, my Sawz-All and drywall mudding trowels.  There didn’t seem a place to talk about ripping out walls, replacing walls, redoing floors and the installation of what seemed an endless number of feet of moldings.  And so I didn’t.

It wasn’t that there was no use of hand tools.   When faced with ugly metal and plastic thresholds for our newly installed wood floors, I used

cherry instead, creating a bunch of them using hand tools.  I cut the moldings with hand tools.  It was simply faster and safer than doing it with my table saw.  My Yankee spiral screwdriver is still my tool of choice for driving drywall screws and, of course squares, hammers, and a host of other hand tools found there way into the job.

Once we worked our way to exhaustion, and had the house moderately put back together (there are still some things that need doing) we decided to take a break from being boring adults and started enjoying the summer.  We went bird-watching.  We started doing some art.  I did some writing.  Mostly, we goofed off.  And again, there was nothing to share here.

When I did start feeling guilty about Wood’nBits, however, something occurred to me.  I had disappeared for several months.  And in that several months no ONE person asked what was going on.  Not even one of my “fellow” bloggers.  This seemed strange to me and I can’t help but question why the heck I put time and energy into taking photos and writing these posts.  I haven’t really come up with an answer.  Care to offer one?

 

Cheers — Larry