Treebeau

Hi all, As most of you know, I have been making the things I give out for Christmas for a few years. Sometimes these have been “1 per famil...

If you have followed my blog for a long time you may remember “poison ivory”…that’s Poison Ivy to you and me, but pronounced by my less than...

When CDs were first being developed, it was a design requirement that they be able to play at least 72 minutes of music. Why? Because some...

Well, I went to see “Hansel and Gretel” last night. It was enjoyable, but I will not be in a hurry to see it again, so I rank it a “so-so”....

Last Friday was taken as a vacation day. The plan was to go spend the 3 day weekend in Raleigh, taking in an opera on Friday night and seei...

It was a good weekend, despite the rain. On Friday Susan and I drove up to Roanoke Va. We had a few things on the list for Saturday. Howe...

So I decided it was time to upgrade my computer. A long time ago this was a straightforward process…way before Windows. Now, Windows reall...

After weeks of working overtime and having my wired mouse get hooked once again on the pull out keyboard drawer, I just got a cordless mouse...

Our company has gotten to a period called "Annual Enrollment". We handle the enrollment process for employee benefits for a numbe...

In a previous post I mentioned that I had started working on this year’s Christmas gifts. I don’t want to say WHAT they are because recipie...

Very near completion now. I had my son over the weekend, and putting 1 of the chairs together was on our list. We started by assembling the...

Here are all the chair parts drying after 2 coats of Thompson's Water Seal has been applied to all sides. Note the clever stacking of t...

If you are an avid reader of my blog, you may remember (several months ago) that I had the idea for, and was working on, a program that wou...

Starting to enter the home stretch. We're at the sanding and finishing stage now. Every piece will be sanded to at least 150 grit on bo...

Continuing on. The 18 parts that were rough cut before were then planed. My son helped me. Here they are, still oversize, but ready to sha...

To start off this project, of 2 cedar Adirondack chairs, I rough cut 5 boards (each) for the back pieces, 2 boards (each) for the arms, and ...

Ahhhhhhh, cedar! Is there any nicer smelling wood than cedar? One of the things that has been on my To Do list for a few weeks is to make a...

The 6 oval boxes are well underway. Over the weekend I shaped the strips (bands) for the lower and upper box parts. These were soaked in h...

This past Christmas I made and gave Shaker oval boxes. For 2 dear friends I installed a music box movement. A few of the boxes had minor p...

Last weekend was such a treat. It started Friday night with a fun little opera called “il mondo della luna” or “The World on the Moon.” I ...