I’m with Meecrafty.
Men are meant to rule the roost.
My x wife couldn’t stand to see me enjoying myself (playing my guitar, surfing, board building etc) There were things to be done around the house! And I was expected to do them.
We discussed things, went to councillors tried everything and nothing worked. For 17years she made my life a misery! She just could not understand my reluctance to spend every spare minute doing renovations especially when there was swell and off shore winds.
Things are different now, my new partner surfs and lets me shape in the spare room god bless her!!
Life has a way of working its self out.
Marc
Enjoy the glide.
Ah yes- the Yuengling Lager alone kinda gives me the idea that you’re a pro at this. Let alone the Black and Tan.
doc…
Hmmm. Ice box in the tree house. I like it. I already have the Patron in the car port. Yeah!! Mike
let me start with the fact that yuengling is the best beer in america without a doubt, but a man like you from pennsylvania has to know about the premium, its way better then the lager. the porter is very good to.
this summer i rode tripped it up to pottsville from ocean city to see the factory. and it was very cool
i am fortuante enough to have my very own beer fride though, completely stocked with my assortment. but i am afraid that mine is way cooler then yours. mine is covered on all four sides with about 2,000 beer caps. it only took three years and a handfull of my best friends to do it.
on the shaping frontier it looks like there could be progress, but it doenst look like its going to happen real soon. we talked last night about it and not much was resolved. its just really frusterating the women i love the most wont let me do the thing i love to do the most. well it all goes back to that old saying " women. you cant live with'em, and you cant shoot em.'
I went a little crazy on my kids’ treehouse…
The wondows are double-glassed, from a junkyard for $30 each. The side you can’t see has another door & a fireman’s pole. No electricity yet, but that’s comin’…and then the fridge & tv and its mine all mine! Bwah ha ha ha 
Turbo…
I think you might be a lost cause my friend. I’m coming over to buy your planer and whatever blanks you have left lying around. I’ll trade you a really nice, pretty lamp from Crate and Barrel for them. I hear the women like shit from Crate and Barrel.
Drew
As somewhat of a beer refridgerator afficianado I must ask (ala chipfish)… Where’s the picture?
My favorite is a Sticker covered, hasp locked, stacked top to bottom with Corona and Pacifico down in Mexico.
My neighbors and I share another mounted on four wheels referred to as the “Community Fridge” filled with “donations”.
Here is one in an apartment in Souzoh, China outside of Shanghai, full of my favorite flavor…COLD!
Surfboards designed whilst drinking beer…(parameter fullfilled) Cheers, Gil
Benny,
That doesn’t count cuz it isn’t in your tree. Nice little house/beer tavern, though. Do the kids jump on the trampoline under the house? ouch! Pretty little redwood you have there.
Grunion,
Your the Man! Locked and loaded, indeed. Mike
Yeah, but its among the trees
I couldn’t bring myself to attach anything to my oak (plus, its over the dog run which is usually full of uh land mines) and you know about redwood bark…this was the next best thing.
The trampoline storage is to keep 'em out of the rain. Nothing worse than your kids landing on rusty trampoline springs!
post pictures of her and we’ll advise. Right Chip?
Blue tongue is the best beer in Aus if you’re ever down this way. I have exactly the same problem. You have to get the important nest building stuff done first. Fix annoying things first, dripping taps etc - then do stuff that make things look a lot different - don’t do stuff that takes forever and all the work isn’t apparant - like painting the roof. Once you’ve got a few runs on the scoreboard then re-visit the issue. Tell her men have to have hobbies and there are others you have considered if you can’t shape - like gambling or drinking. If does she let you shape one. use EPS and epoxy - no odor and dust is less irratating. Use a barrel planer - a lot quiter. Plan to shape when she’s out enjoying herself. When you are done then do another house job.
doesn’t your girlfriend have any girlfriends she can
1] shop for 6 months with
2] go on a 2 year round the world trip with
3] play sports / hobbies with , preferably forever ?
boards not broads
ben
relationships are complicated llittle beasties. it is difficult when you are with someone whom you wish to make happy, when that person’s happiness is not based on making you happy. it is not give and take, then. it is give, give, give. take, take, take.
now in my 2nd long term relationship, i find that unromantic, pragmatic mutual decisions are the cement that allow us to be loyal and loving partners, as well as to allow us to develop ourselves as the individuals we are. it also helps that we are both addicted to surfing.
what are those mutual decisions? his/hers/ours bank accounts and incomes. who pays the mortgage? who pays the utilities? who takes care of the child when one has to be out of town? whose turn is it to cook? some decisions are by skill or default. one of us can build surfboards. one of us knows computers and related technology. and so on.
if you own the house and are minimally skilled with a saw, hammer and nails, and have reasonably tolerant neighbors, then you can knock up a shaping shed over the course of a weekend or two…or ten. i put a shed roof from my garage over to the fence. so 3 walls are the side of the garage, and the south fence and the west fence. north side is the door (tarp).
so just go and do it. build the shed. then build the board(s). what is she going to do? send you to your room without supper? if she can’t support you in things which define you, then where are you two going?
one day it will be 6 foot, hot and glassy. and you and she will be in the mall at the doll show!
well leave one job to be done like just a nail needs to be put in get all your stuff one day while she is out start. nail that nail and begin shaping before she gets home.
"if she can’t support you in things which define you, then where are you two going?
one day it will be 6 foot, hot and glassy. and you and she will be in the mall at the doll show! "
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yep.
THEN you will know you’ve REALLY been screwed .
( but not in the way we prefer .)
ben
Got a great Chtistmas gift you could give her???Herb
so just go and do it. build the shed. then build the board(s). what is she going to do? send you to your room without supper?
HA! i was waiting for some else to give that advice…thats always been my strategy (in an 18 year relationship) and if she complains, implying how imperfect a husband i am, this quote always works to calm her down: “at least i aint screwin other girls behind your back like half the husbands i know”…perspective perspective…amazing how effective that line is
Here’s a cool tip: rent the classic movie THE SHINNING and watch it with her…she can pretend youre Jack…frustrated backyard shaper…miserable beyond belief…
all work and no play makes jack a dull boy…HERE’S JOHNNY!!!
so just go and do it. build the shed. then build the board(s). what is she going to do? send you to your room without supper?
HA! i was waiting for some else to give that advice…thats always been my strategy (in an 18 year relationship) and if she complains, implying how imperfect a husband i am, this quote always works to calm her down: “at least i aint screwin other girls behind your back like half the husbands i know”…perspective perspective…amazing how effective that line is
and once you’re happily ensconced in your shed 24 / 7 , at least she will know you’re not doing the above …while she is in the house with the milkman / postman / handiman …
uh oh …double standards …
good point there ben…
thankfully, i didnt marry a slut so no worries there mate…cant speak for our fellow member’s girls tho…
and besides if you “take care of business” she be too wore out to even think about it…
24/7 is bit much dont you think?
doesnt she go places with her girlfriends?
when my lady leaves the house thats garage time…and if youre really talented she wont even know what youre up to…
theres a solution in there somewhere