The good feeling of building something

Building with wood.

I'd done a little building with wood over the last four years, doing & re-doing the inside of my vans. That was good.

I started out with the floor in the Ford van

A borrowed tablesaw at a borrowed work space

This is doing the 4th rebuild (Ford) as I search for a better way

2nd build in the mini-van

Then last week I built some stairs & a landing for the new home, I really enjoyed to whole thing!
I had forgotten how good it felt to build something like that.

The stairs

That left me with a real different feeling about building things!  The difference was as much in my head as anything else.

The lumber

Doing or re-doing a van in someone's yard and/or the parking lot of a big box home store is 'different'. It's a task, a job and it's different from working on and at your own home.  It's a good feeling, a better feeling.


It was a feeling that had been forgotten, it was nice when I realized I was smiling at what I'd done.

The hand rail

I have to admit that buying a miter saw & having a place to keep it was a BIG part of the feeling! When I down sized from the house to an RV I sold my tools & it seems I really missed them.

Getting the RV/home displaced the planned travels to Arizona but now that the basic things are done here it's time to go traveling!
It's still winter, time to go to Florida!