What comes next?

There aren’t that many items that we need for the house right now, furniture wise. The girls will need one desk each, but not for several years at least. I figure it’ll be at least three years before my oldest will need a desk to be able to work privately in their own room, and three more years beyond that for the youngest to require one. So no use starting either of those projects yet. Too many unanswerable questions. Will they be working primarily on a laptop computer by then, on work sheets & paper with pen and pencil. Do they need room for text books and reference materials, or will all of that be digital by then? Will they paint, draw, or craft at their desks? How many drawers do they need? Does the top surface need to tilt upwards for things like drafting/painting? Do they need integrated power, or tool holders for brushes, paints and rulers etc…? Maybe when we’re a year out I can sit down with my oldest to get a sense of what they’d like to get out of their desk functionality wise. We can doodle on paper to get a sense of size, and utility features needed. Our home, and thus the bedrooms too are small. So no chance of making a bold statement piece like the resolute desk, or some such 8x4ft monstrosity. You’d have to knock down a wall to get it in or out of the house. Not to mention the poor kid would have to sleep on it at that size! Ha.

The youngest is still feral at this point. We are just now picking up speed with the reading. Which is fantastic. I love to sit and listen to them read to me. My wife and I love to read, and have a substantial book collection. Not so bad now that my wife rents books through a kindle/app. We used to go to this used bookstore in NewMarket, the starlight or something like that, and come out with ten books each, on a monthly basis, at least before we had kids anyway. My wife’s reading far outpaces my own. Here I am trying to read 12 books in a calendar year, and she’ll do that in two months. Where was I, oh yeah – desks. So, youngest – feral. Mostly. I have no inclination of what that one will want out of a work station by the time the need arises. Maybe they will both want a sit/stand work station, with over head cabinets, and a pegboard/French cleat system to customize storage and utility? Hard to tell what the trend will be by then. Then there are the choices in lighting. Strip lights, stationary lamp, adjustable long necked artists desk lamp, power bars, directly wired sockets, cord management… the list goes on, and can feel endless. Hard woods, plywood, a mixtures of the two, edge banding, joinery, or built to be modified with very little glue? I just don’t know, I guess we will see when the time comes.

I believe today is Saturday. Not certain what today has in store for us. The weather (for now) is dry and unseasonably warm & sunny. I had to wear shorts. Shorts! In early April, can you believe it! I’m no teenager anymore. This wasn’t “Oh it’s eight degrees outside and the snow is receding, so I can wear shorts again!”, this was “God damn it’s 31°C outside, I’m sweating through my pants, best put on shorts or else I’ll get dehydrated”. Crazy. Not going to lie though. While the bugs haven’t yet come out i enjoyed the outdoors a great deal this week, during my off periods, and inbetween reviews of current projects. Enjoyed a bug free sunset on the back porch. Just lovely. The last two weeks were a bit off due to the Easter long weekend creating two short weeks. Things always feel a tad discombobulated when that happens. Plus i sorted out the garage for a while, and set the resin kit down once i finished building the internal structure. That needs a good wash in warm soapy water, and one layer of primer before i consider what else to do with it. If i go whole hog, it’ll be months of work before i finish it. And I’d like to enjoy the wood shop while the weather is good. So i aim for washing & priming, and can pick it back up in November(ish) when stuff slows down again. Now I’m just rambling. Oh! Oh! I’m going to hit 500 days in about two weeks time (roughly). So, stay tuned to watch me roll over that milestone and totally forget about it. That’s always good for a chuckle. Ciao Bella!