Equipment and Television - Pretty Much My Sunday - LOL

We actually had a really nice Sunday. The weather was perfect - slight breeze, not super hot temps. We sat on our chairs on the patio and soaked in the warmth, then looked at our various plants, I pulled some weeds, and then we sat and soaked again. It was a semi-lazy day. 

My Fletcher 2000 mat cutting machine is a lot 
more expensive these days than when I purchased it 
many years ago. It's a great piece of equipment, and 
works like a dream. I need to give it a good cleaning 
and pop in a new blade and I'll be good to go. 

DH got my table set up in the den, and put my mat cutter on it, so I'm one step closer to being able to mat and frame our artwork. We're also thinking about taking the glass cutter from the store basement room where it's been mounted to the wall for 20+ years, and mounting it on our back porch wall at home instead. I'd love that in a lot of aspects. It would make things a lot easier for me when I'm framing prints and other items that need glazing. But it will deposit a very fine collection of glass shards below it, and that might be a problem since we're accessing our cars through that room several times each day. I don't want glass shards traveling into my home if I can avoid it. We're also not 100% sure we'll have enough access there. But, it's actually a good place for it. 

My Fletcher 3000 vertical cutter is used for glass as well 
as mats, backing boards, and other items. It has a blade, 
but also a glass cutting wheel. It's finicky - getting it mounted 
and adjusted to be a true 90 degrees is the challenge with 
this equipment. But once it's set, it's pretty much ready to 
go for anything I toss at it. 

DH said his secondary location would be in the garage, where he currently stocks his lumber. He'd put a lot of the lumber into the eaves, and that's fine, but it's not super convenient for him when he needs access for a project or something that needs a fix. So, plusses and minuses. But, it's looking like I'll be able to work on framing at home, and that pulls our artwork out of "immediate" and into "a bit more time" on our calendar. It means that I don't have to have everything framed before we leave. We're bringing one of our print drawer sets home (it was always our intention to do this), and we can keep unframed art that needs framing in that and then sell them at auction when they're framed. 

I have two sets of 12 drawers each of these - they're 
usually called "print drawers" and they're used in 
industrial applications for blueprints, as well as in artistic 
applications for storing artwork flat. We'll take one of 
the sets home. We've always planned on putting them 
in the sub-basement. It'll be a struggle getting them 
into the location, but they'll fit really well once it's there. 

I haven't checked out auction numbers for the current batch which we shipped to Santa Fe. I know DH was complaining about one item, but I pointed out that anything we got was better than having it sit in a case or on our shelving, unsold at all. Point taken! LOL

"Patience" is a new series this season, for our PBS 
station. DH and I have really been enjoying it. 
There are plenty of synopsis out in the web for it, 
so check them out for a description of the series and 
the characters. But it's really well done and it's very 
quickly made its' way onto our MUST SEE list. 

Finally, last night was a delightful TV night with "Patience" and "Grantchester" following. I've loved "Grantchester" for years. It's fun to have a new season with new challenges. "Patience" is new for us - she's almost like a female "Professor T" in many aspects. I like the character, and I'm enjoying the interactions between her and the police people she's been assisting. Each side is broadening their understanding one step at a time and it's ringing true. 

So, I'm out of here. We'll have the 4th of July off, of course, to celebrate Independence Day, and I might even let myself sleep in that day. Who knows. All I know is I get a mid-week day off this week, and I'm already celebrating - LOL. Have an excellent Monday and I'll be back tomorrow. Slava Ukraini.