A warmer day out in the shop this month, so made a few pens. Mostly with deer antler and .308 brass shells. This one is a bit different, with some box elder, dyed blue, stabilized, and turned. Added to that the chrome bass emblazoned clip, gives a look I like that fits our area. Bass…
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Cold weather has followed the heavy rain fall of the week between Christmas and New Years. Mostly when it gets cold like this we just stay indoors and relax. It won’t stay that way for a long time. Online weather app indicates the temp for the area. Thermometer on deck shows it too. Frosty …
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The apple trees were about 18″ tall when we planted them. Six were originally planted, with the idea of making an espalier apple tree fence. Of the six, three have survived and grown pretty well. Since they were unattended most of their first years, the trees had a rough start without regular watering and of…
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From our workshop, the January 2016 Pen of the Month. Features Elk Antler with Antique Brass hardware in a .30 Caliber Bullet style. Twist pen, Rifle site clip. Order from our online store at GSForce.com. Views: 118
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Here it is, January all ready. Finally getting moved in and mostly settled, we decided it is time to start directing our attention to getting the garden started. While our goal here is raised wicking style garden beds, getting started as quickly as possible leads us to going with more traditional rows in the ground.…
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From our workshop, the December 2015 Pen of the Month. Features stabilized, green dyed box elder wood with gold hardware. Faith, Hope, Love on the center band. Views: 78
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After much anticipation, fiber internet is finally here. Once the fiber was put into the orange pipe and tested, they determined the fiber was defective, so had to pull it all out and blow new fiber cable in. This time the signal was satisfactory, but the line from the box by the road and our…
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Our Uncle has a number of pear trees behind his house. The production this year more than he could use himself, so gave a lot of pears to us. What to do with them was the question. More than we would eat while they were fresh, so decided to put them to better use. Some…
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For our goals, we decided on downsizing from the monster 4 bedroom, two story, two car garage home we had before. We wanted something smaller, less to keep clean, less to heat in the winter and less to cool in the summer. So we purchased a modular home of 1320 square feet, about half of…
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