With the Thanksgiving weekend over, we are on the final run till Christmas, then New Year’s, and the long drag through winter. In January the seed catalogues will begin to…
Author: The Lord of The Manor
I have not been turning as much lately, not because I don’t still love it. I absolutely do! Especially as I have been learning to control the tools, especially the…
Weather Reporting Fault
The Weather Station is working just fine, but the computer that transfers the data from the station to the Internet reported a fault. There were clusters going bad on the…
Where Have I Been The Past Few Days?
Over the last couple of days I have been focused on making sure of the girls in their home schooling, and generally either hiding from the rain on rainy days,…
Firewood To Furniture
Today I split firewood for about an hour, then decided I would be having a lot more fun if I were to take a piece of poplar I split into…
Good Morning Wednesday
This week I have been bopping about on the place, doing different things, but never journaling any of them. So here’s a quick recap! One of the best parts of…
It’s Going To Rain, And Other Musings
We live sort of center of this map above, and that big blob of rain is headed right for us. It is 43 out right now, so there is no…
Today’s Turn
Today I hardly saw the lathe till evening. I spent the morning with out oldest loading firewood at the dump, then we came home, unloaded it, and split it all…
Today A Whistle
This afternoon I turned and made a noisy whistle. Some people won’t be thanking me at Christmas.
Today In The Shop
I turned today. I tried a bobbin lace bobbin, but I don’t have quite fine enough tools to do something as small as those need to be. Afterwards I tried…