<mumbles sleepily> Good morning everyone
Thanks for the coffee Dave. That second pot's going to be needed.
It's 44°F, cloudy, and starting to mist lightly in Rockville. The mist is a precursor to a day of wet weather according to the guessers, who tell me to expect rain from 0800 until 0200. They've hedged their bets about tomorrow, though, and appear to be promising a lower chance of rotten weather.
With the departure of my BIL yesterday afternoon it's back to All Quiet in the House of Fun at long last, after three straight weekends of activity, hustle, bustle, hurly-burly, and general hubbub, stir, and ado. We'll get a respite this coming weekend then we're on the road the following weekend, traveling to Danville IN in hopes of viewing the total eclipse at my cousin's place there.
Before that, it'll be back to the workshop and drawer fabrication. By changing to solid wood I've been able to produce a couple tolerable test results, one using a box joint and the other my first-ever dovetail (in this case, the "half-blind" variant where the joint doesn't go all the way through the drawer front, so it doesn't show from the front). Now I need to build up a couple wider boards, since two of the drawers will be deeper than the width of the wood I bought for the purpose. Naturally, on close inspection of said wood I'm finding it's flawed: some pieces are warped, others have twists, and nearly all are cupped. Geez Louise...
Stay safe and well everyone and tell your dear ones you love them.