I decided to put a pinned post up called introductions so we can get to know each other better. Drop your intro in the comments. I'm looking forward to meeting you.

Just thought I'd give an update. I'm still being held hostage by the weather here. Spring seems to be taking it's sweet time kicking in. Daytime temperatures are slowly getting warmer but we're still getting hit with regular freezing rain at night. All i can say is thank you so much for your patience. I'm sorry that I currently have no "indoor" diy stuff that is of any relevant value yet. I do have some projects planned, but those require the use of tools that I can't set up indoors, which again leaves everything at the whim of the weather. This late Spring has really tossed a wrench in content creation... 😞

Just a small update. Due to a road trip for some doctor's appointments, I will attempt to do a mobile AMA. In the event that this doesn't work, the room will be open for general chat until I get back to the computer, and the AMA will proceed as normal.

As some of you may know, I'm a medically retired person with disabilities, making ends meet on 2 different disability pensions. One is a provincial program, the other federal. Unfortunately, due to a significant amount of fraud that has been discovered, the provincially run one is undergoing a severe overhaul to weed out the fraudsters. As a result of said overhaul, all recipients are being reassessed for their qualifications. Those of us who do not meet the new provincial "requirements", will be put on a new pension program aimed at helping us return to work. Sadly, this new program comes with some significant reductions in benefits and a potential to disqualify some of us from the federal pension program as well. For the last two weeks I have reviewing and researching the new requirements, and they are VERY specific. These specifics basically disqualify many currently recognized disabilities. This basically means that when the new program is in full effect, those like myself who don't meet said requirements will be in a pickle. How is this going to affect The Skool Communities I run? Well, basically, I am going to have to retool and pick a different focus and direction. I will be shutting down my other community and focusing entirely on this community. I will be doing this because frankly, it will be easier to create content for The Pinchpenny DIYer while i am also working on income generating fabrication. On another note, March has been hitting us abnormally hard here with repeated snowstorms. This has severely impacted my ability to make the content that I had planned for you all, as it's all outdoor stuff. I currently have very little in the way of "indoor" content that I can shoot, but I am working on that as best I can, all things considered. I will be doing a further update early next week. For the weekend, I am taking some downtime to recover from the stress of the damage control I've been up to my ears in for the last couple of weeks.

due to extreme weather with lightning forcing a safety shut down of all our electronic devices, today's coffee hour is cancelled. they will resume next week