Mount support design.

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Envious. We can't even grow ferns inside the house.

[bil]

Originally Posted by Helene

You are so handy and creative😃👌🏻
Thanks for sharing😎

I bought a soldering iron today (a cheap one&#128540, been having fun making holes in small plastic cups for seedlings. Dont have small plastic pots here, and besides- if they had, they would have needed more holes.

And yeah- while poking holes I was thinking "ah, Bil should have seen this- I'm learning to make things myself"😂☺️

Love this, I love all your DIY project- so keep sharing😃

Thank you. You jest, but that's how it works. You see what someone else does, and then you start doing things yourself.

Tools are fun. My father always had the philosophy that when he needed a job done, he would find out how to do it, and buy the tools. It worked out the same as getting someone in, and when it was done, he still had the tools. (Don't forget, that was pre 1950, and things were simpler then.)
He died before I was 9, as did most of the men in my family, so I had no one to tell me that I couldn't do stuff, or a particular job couldn't be done that way. It meant that I developed an attitude that nothing was impossible, and there weren't limits.

[Helene]

Originally Posted by bil

It meant that I developed an attitude that nothing was impossible, and there weren't limits.

Sorry for your loss
So sad to hear that.


But for the attitude: me like😃👍🏻 When someone says to me "the sky is the limit", (lol, cause I am always doing some projects) I just answer "nah, there is no limit" 😎

Its just about making the impossible things possible😉 And well, when you are handy and smart- then there is nothing that can stop you☺️

[bil]

Originally Posted by Helene

Sorry for your loss
So sad to hear that.


But for the attitude: me like😃👍🏻 When someone says to me "the sky is the limit", (lol, cause I am always doing some projects) I just answer "nah, there is no limit" 😎

Its just about making the impossible things possible😉 And well, when you are handy and smart- then there is nothing that can stop you☺️

Yeah. Far too many people when faced with a problem, just give up.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Orchid Whisperer

HA! I've got you beat by at least a bazillion miles in the untidy department.

You haven't seen my basement!

Do you have any idea of what 20+ years of repackaging potting media, fertilizer, etc. can do???

I think my attitude about this goes way back. When I was working on my thesis dissertation, I had a desk in the middle of a 15' x 20' room, with nothing else in it. That was pre-PC days, so I had little typed snippets that I would keep for later use. I knew just where each one was, on the floor (for the most part). After a while the entire room was about 6" deep in bits of paper. I stopped doing that when I caught my cat using it as a giant littler box.

[No-Pro-mwa]

I'm not going to talk about messy, I have dogs strewn all around me at the moment.

But that little orchid sure does look cute on the mount, very nice indeed.

[bil]

Originally Posted by No-Pro-mwa

I'm not going to talk about messy, I have dogs strewn all around me at the moment.

But that little orchid sure does look cute on the mount, very nice indeed.

Thank you. Hopefully the orange wood will be a long time before it rots thru, but if it does, I can at a pinch break off all the rotten bits and fit on a straight bit to hang it from.