The view from here is eminently peaceful. It seems to be Tedding Day for the hay-mowing guy; I can see him down the street.
Earlier today, I got about halfway through assembling that little benchtop CNC router I bought earlier this year - a CNC3-3018 Pro. Going mostly smoothly so far. Then I got out and did some weed-whacking (rather hard on my gradually-healing arm), and mowed most of the back lawn-ish areas.
Then I came back in, sat at the computer, and watched two guys go on a rocket ride to low Earth orbit courtesy of SpaceX and NASA. Yay! Remember when this was supposed to be routine, Real Soon Now? And the capsules and spacesuits were supposed to look just about like what we saw today?
Oop! Hay-mowing guy just came up the driveway; must be time for our field to get its second tedding. (I don't know much about hay, but apparently cows can digest the weird mixture of grasses, clover, and weeds that make up the field/lawn here.)
Anyway. There no longer being anything excitingly routine on the live feed, I suppose I might as well go back out to the garage and work on putting that router together.
Correction and update: The second pass wasn't tedding, it was raking into windrows - another operation involving a machine with rotating rakey-looking things. Now he's back with the baler.
Meanwhile, I got the router put together (modulo cable management), powered it up, and confirmed that the stepper motors go brrrrrr and the spindle goes whzzzzz, on command. This model didn't come with limit switches (though there are places on the controller to connect them), but it did come with a laser head (which I haven't tested yet). The "safety" glasses that came with it don't seem to have any specifications marked on them, and they don't look at all like the right color for protection against a 450nm laser; good thing I have a proper pair of safety glasses around here somewhere (have to dig them out before playing with the laser).
Also, two boxes of garage shelving and a laser printer showed up in the driveway. I don't think the third box of shelving is in the mailbox, but I suppose I should check the mailbox for mail.
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