Welcome to Jim's Place! 

Here is a picture of me as a boy, ridding my neighborhood of perpetrators!

Here I am about 5 years ago, showing off my big tool!  This is my Delta Unisaw, which I had just assembled and alligned.  It replaced a Craftsman tablesaw.  The old saw used to scoot across the room when I was pushing plywood through it, but this baby doesn't budge!  I think it weighs about 450 pounds, not including the wheels - I added the Delta mobile base, so I could move it around as needed. 

I lost about 70 pounds since then on Weightwatchers, but put about 20 pounds back on this past year and a half.  As part of my 2007 resolutions, I am getting back on WW - just as soon as all this fudge runs out - I swear!!!

My workshop has shrunk down from about 1/2 the basement to about 1/5th, and is an odd shape, sort of an elongated T.  You can see the rest of the basement below, showing the walls I put up to finish the basement.

Click here to check out the Basement pics!   Basement

Click here to check out more Basement pics, updated May 2007!   More Basement

 

I'm currently running electrical wiring and soon will finish the bathroom.  Then it's drywall, carpet (???) and a BIG TV for Daddy!

Aside from DVDs and Sawdust, I collect Toy Trains!  So far, it's all Lionel.  (You can see our dvd collection behind the layout table in most of these pictures - my wife and I are movie nuts!).

Click here to check out the 2007 layout (so far)!   2007

Click here to check out the Halloween 2006 train pics!   Halloween2

Or here to check out the FINAL Halloween 2005 version!   Halloween1v2

Click here to check out the Halloween 2005 train (version 1) pics!   Halloween1

Click here to check out my Lionel Hobo collection pics!   Hobo-ton

A year ago, the family put our heads together and bought a puppy - Chewy.  She is half Lahso and half Shihtzu.  Here is a picture of our doggie after a bad day (she chewed up two tubes of graphite I had on the counter):

Chewy is a GOOD DOG!!!