Home Depot Spree

I went on a $240 binge at Home Depot today . I bought a Porter Cable router, two bits, a roll of screen, and a few more clamps. My Dad, who I dragged along with me bought me the lights in the picture as well.

I was going to borrow a router. A buddy of mine had recently been given a router, but he has been working and living in New York most of the time, and he was also so particular about how I had to take such special care of it, as if I was going to leave it outside, or try to cut marble with it, that it seemed easier to buy my own router.

Well that's a partial lie. I wanted to own yet another power tool.

The roll of screen is for the garage windows, all of which currently do not have screens. I sanded quite a few dead bugs out of the epoxy on the first batch of strakes, so I figured it was time to make some screens.

I already had some C clamps of varying sizes and a bunch of those small $1 spring clamps with the green handle. So I bought some of the big spring clamps to add to the collection. I think I will be buying a couple clamps every time I go to the Depot. I didn't want to buy $70 in clamps all at once, because I figured my clamping needs would evolve with the project and I am not sure what combination of clamps I will need in the end.

A lighting solution was another thing I had been looking for at the Depot. I am doing most of the work on this project in the evening, and the single bulb in the garage wasn't cutting it. By the time I got to the lighting aisle, my walet was sheeding tears over the other stuff, so Dear Old Dad offered to buy the lights. I am a little disappointed that the tripod doesn't have another foot or two of height, but they seem to work pretty well for my purposes. I point them at the wall and use the reflected light.

I got more sanding and epoxy work done on the strakes this evening. It would all go so much faster if I had twice the table space.