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Week of February 24, 2025
My birthday was this week! I wrote a birthday post and later that night we went to Bridgeview Tavern in Tarrytown, one of our favorite places for a burger. They also are one of the few places around there that always has Hill Farmstead on tap, which I think is the best brewery in the…
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Thirty-five
Right after I woke up this morning, Charlie came in with a card that he and Amanda made for me, and he was really excited to give it to me and wish me a happy birthday. So sweet. I think I’ll remember this as the year I got back into making things after a couple…
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Week of February 17, 2025
I spent M-F this week in Southport, NC, at a team meetup for work. We stayed in the beautiful Cape Fear House on the Cape Fear River. Unfortunately, it was unseasonably cold and we canceled our planned outing of taking a ferry to explore a local island. We did check out two local museums and…
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Week of February 10, 2025
I make all of my chicken-based soups with ground chicken + stock now. It is much faster and doesn’t dry out. Tonight’s edition is chicken and wild rice, my take on the Panera one. More snow! More sleet! More ice! We’ve had more precipitation this winter than the last five we’ve been in Peekskill. Ready…
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Week of February 3, 2025
Long week. Charlie was home 3/5 days of the work week (sick, then doctor, then snow storm), and work was very busy with a lot of people out sick or with kids home with school closed. I feel like all I’ve been doing at work this week is reacting and adapting to unplanned things. Multiple…
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Oak Platters
I turned two oak platters recently, both from the same slab, in two different styles. One has a foot, a curved profile, and shallow cavity, the other has a flat bottom, steep edges, and a deeper cavity. A couple years ago, my aunt and uncle in north Georgia had a big Post Oak (in the…
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Week of January 27, 2025
We have ice on the Hudson again, which is refreshing after having no ice last winter. Today the eagles were out hunting on the ice. I’ve enjoyed seeing photos of the Hudson River Ice Yachts. I’d love to try one some time! We are going through a phase where dinnertime has been a struggle most…
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Blog Question Challenge 2025
I saw this going around and it looked fun. Thanks for the idea, James. Why Did You Start Blogging in the First Place? I wanted a place to share my photography and cool things I read and watched. That was 2007. What Platform Are You Using to Manage Your Blog, and Why Do You Use…
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Week of January 20, 2025
We woke up to a total of ~7 inches of snow on Monday and a couple hour school delay, so Charlie and I suited up and went out to shovel, clean off the car, and play. The past two weeks have been in the teens and single digits (fahrenheit). It finally broke freezing this afternoon.…
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Week of January 13, 2025
Snow is coming down heavily as I write this. We have about 4″ now, and it is supposed to continue until around 4am. We picked up a snow shovel that is “just my size” for Charlie, so after dinner he wanted to go out and shovel, even though it was still coming down. I’ll never…
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Live edge fly tying vise base
I had a Griffin Odyssey Spider that clamped to the table, but I found that kind of limiting. It was shorter than was comfortable, and I found myself hunching. I wanted something taller that I could move around, so I decided to build a base for it. I kept my eye out for the right…
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Project Mise en Place
One of the challenging things about being a parent who works full time is the very limited free time for hobbies. The exhaustion fog started lifting around the two year old mark, and we started feeling more rested and interested in our hobbies again, but the free time hasn’t changed much. Now at the three…
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Cherry darning ball
My friend Erin at Red Cottage Fiber Studio sent me some photos of a well used (and slightly misused) darning ball for mending fabric that she found at a yard sale. Looks like it was made from a piece of oak. I had a chunk of cherry from their property sitting in my shop, so…
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Cherry kitchen mallet
Last week we got invited to a last-minute birthday party the night before. I wanted to turn something on the late that night anyway, so I decided to make a kitchen mallet for a gift. Sometime to crush ice, make cutlets, smash cucumbers, crack peppercorns, etc. I turned it out of a cherry limb that…
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Oak feather cup
In an effort to post more, here is an oak cup I turned recently and mentioned briefly in a weekly post that I think deserves its own post. I’ve had this piece of oak in the workshop for a couple years. I roughed it round at some point and abandoned whatever I had in mind…
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Week of January 6, 2025
Would these posts be better if I didn’t try to write them on Sunday nights, when I’m usually exhausted from the weekend? Probably, but I’m not sure there is a better time to write them. So it goes. Speaking of, I’m tired tonight. Long week with Charlie home sick half of it and a busy,…