{"id":68,"date":"2015-05-15T20:56:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T20:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/garretthooker\/?p=68"},"modified":"2015-05-16T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T17:22:22","slug":"68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/garretthooker\/2015\/05\/15\/68\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodworking: universally awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I delivered another OB patient at around 9 am. \u00a0Luckily I didn’t have too many people in clinic, so it didn’t really disrupt my schedule. \u00a0Vance was back in surgery, so I just got the baby delivered, sewed up the lac, and let him know when everything was good to go. \u00a0Clinic ended pretty early, and I didn’t really have anything to do, so I decided to go back to Balfate and see if they had any little tiendas that sold trinkets or something I might want to bring back as a souvenir. \u00a0It was a bit more overcast, so the walk was quite a bit more enjoyable than the previous day. \u00a0I waited around at the hospital gate for a moto taxi, but I don’t think they come out this way very often unless they’re giving someone a ride from Balfate. \u00a0Here are a few pics from along the way:
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\"174\"<\/a>The one directly above is a picture of a neighborhood soccer field.<\/p>\n

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Once I arrived in Balfate, I ran into that machete guy from the day before. \u00a0He hollered “amigo!” from afar and then started following me around. \u00a0He rambled incoherently for a while then finally asked for some money. \u00a0Around this time, one of the hospital vans rolled up after picking the kids up from school. \u00a0I stopped to talk to them and said I didn’t really want to return to the hospital, but I might need a ride back if this guy didn’t leave me alone. \u00a0Luckily, as I was talking with them, another one of the hospital work trucks met us coming from the other way. \u00a0They were heading to Lis-Lis and I said I’d tag along with them for whatever they were doing. \u00a0My plans to do any souvenir shopping had basically been foiled at this point anyway. \u00a0So I hopped in the back of their truck and we headed west past Balfate until we arrived in Lis-Lis. \u00a0Along the way, I learned that we were going to pick up some lumber for a door. \u00a0When we arrived, I got a glimpse of a Honduran woodworking shop, which was pretty awesome. \u00a0I talked to the guy who owned it for quite a while. \u00a0He had a bunch of really exotic looking wood there, which I guess here is really more native than exotic. \u00a0They had a table saw, router, band saw, planer, jointer, all kinds of hand tools…basically anything you’d find in a self-respecting shop in the US, just a little older and definitely more dangerous. \u00a0Here are some pics:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a pic of us driving back once we got all the wood loaded up:<\/p>\n

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Once we got back to the hospital, we dropped everything off at the shop…which is an area of the complex I had not yet discovered. \u00a0I found Joe, the husband of one of the docs here, working on a table he was building. \u00a0He had a bunch of rough cut wood and was starting on the base. \u00a0There was another guy there who within just a few minutes not only caused the planer to bind up twice, but also the radial arm saw. \u00a0I cringed a little while watching. \u00a0Thankfully he still has all his fingers and the tools aren’t completely ruined. \u00a0I took a look around the shop and noticed they didn’t have any feather boards, which I figured Joe might be able to use to get his table top jointed…so I went ahead and made one. \u00a0Turning a crappy old piece of fence into something useful was a\u00a0pretty good way to spend some time. \u00a0As far as getting those boards jointed, I would probably get them the correct dimensions, stick them side by side, and then rip them right where they meet. \u00a0That should form probably about as good of a joint as you could get considering the equipment available. \u00a0Also, this is the radial arm saw they use, which I believe is the exact same model my Grandpa had in his shop:<\/p>\n

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I capped the day off by heading down to the Children’s Center to see what was going on, and got smoked in soccer by a bunch of 6 and 7 year old kids.\"184\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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