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Daily writing promptWhat have you been putting off doing? Why?View all responses Procrastination is such a dirty word. I prefer delay. It's the late summer phenomenon of too much to do in a garden gone wild, and frost coming on. I should make haste, and not slowly. But while my orphaned garden cries out for …
The Sevens? We called the group crash house "The Folkie Palace". It was a third-floor one-bedroom apartment on Boston's Grove Street. In those days, it was a sort of working-class neighborhood. There were workers from the nearby hospitals, refugees from the urban renewal in Boston's West End, and folkies. Folkies like me and my friends. …
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Three cords of wood are all stacked and waiting for winter. Two more are due in. Those last two are semi-dry. It's a bit cheaper, and I'll stack them in the back to finish curing. They'll be my March, April, and early May wood. When they come in I'll be carefully watching the contents. The …
Continue reading "Stream of consciousness Saturday-Wandering about wood on a Saturday morning."
Carving is a dance with a partner, and partners always deserve respect.
Daily writing promptIf you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?View all responses Over the years I've had a fantasy. I'd open a shop in some touristy coastal town. The shop would have a big picture window, and I'd have a bench right there and people could watch me carve. They'd …
At one time in New England history, to be on the map as a community meant being incorporated into the region's rail network.
Daily writing promptWhich activities make you lose track of time?View all responses I've been a shop recluse recently. The sound of the fan running, the scroll saw, and the mallet hitting the back of the gouge handle are all you hear. Recently, it's been like the days before the pandemic—several projects in process, a few …
I entered my shop this morning to smell linseed oil, varnish, and wood shavings.
Not All Jumbles are Equal- stream of consciousness -6/21/2025 This spring was a jumble in the garden. At the befining of May I picked up some kind of bug that kicked my butt for about four days. I could sit at the computer, so I was able to continue posting to the blog, but my …
Daily writing promptWho is your favorite historical figure?View all responses I guess I must be on a Richard Henry Dana kick this week. When I read the prompt, I began thinking about my post from yesterday of Dana's Seaman's Friend.* Dana is widely known to the world of literature as the author of Two Years …
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