The concrete truck showed up today to place concrete for the foundation of my lean-to. It was exciting day all around. Not only were the boys excited about the concrete truck (me included), but I was excited to make a major step toward realizing the workshop vision. This is what the area looked like pre-pour. I just took some concrete pavers that I had laying around and used them to support the re-bar grid. It's been a LONG time since I studied this stuff in college, but

So, part of my vision for the workshop that I keep talking about includes a dust collection system. This is necessary for a woodworking shop if you don't want to be dragging a shop-vac all over the place to collect sawdust. Plus, shop-vacs are small and have to be emptied a lot for this kind of work and they just don't have the power necessary for full-sized equipment. Dust collectors are large and noisy and dusty. Go figure. So, I decided that I'm going to install the du