Wood Planning

My family and I are looking at the end of a very long journey with some real excitement. At the end of this month we close on our new home in LaCrosse. We have basically been "homeless" for several months as we have been searching for the right place at the right price. My parents have been generous and patient and let us live with them while we worked this problem out. Its been a long few months.

We found a nice, three bedroom house on a double lot in an older part of town. Enough room for our family of five to all fit and thrive. As far as Im concerned the best thing of all . . . the two and a half car garage in the back yard.

Im moving shop again. You would think Im getting exceedingly good at it by now.

Ive been hitting the graph paper hard in the last few days. Figuring out different configurations of tools, deciding where I want my wood storage to go, and wondering why my wife is insisting that she be able to park her car in "her" half of it. The truth is this is all dreaming and playing around and until I start pushing my workbench through the doors, I wont know for sure where everything will go.

This will be the fifth different studio space Ive worked in since I started writing this blog. First was the basement shop in Northern Maine. (1) Then we moved back home to Wisconsin and I basically ended up in a 5x9 closet at the bottom of our duplex stairs. (2) From there my father offered a significant section of the steel shed in his back yard (3). A space Im still working out of right now. In between, I moved a small amount of the shop into the dining room of our old apartment for a winter. (4)

This will be the more permanent shop home Ive been looking for for a long time and that is an exciting prospect indeed. Something Ive been looking for since we left Maine in our rearview to come back home. Almost feels like Im getting ready to stand on two feet again.

Ratione et Passionis
Oldwolf