For a change, I didn’t have anything I had to do yesterday evening. What I did have was two pairs of well-worn Gap Easy Fit blue jeans. Both had holes in the knees. The one with only one hole in a knee, and no paint splatters, had a big hole in a pocket, suitable for …
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Risers – check.
At the Koleinu rehearsal Wednesday evening (normally they’re Thursday, but Thursday evening was the start of Shavuot, so Hebrew College was closed. Because we have a concert in just over a week, we had to have a rehearsal, so it was a day early) Carol asked me if I could meet her at the concert …
Memorial Day Weekend – Monday
I finished putting together the table top. Up to today it was made of six (I think it’s six) boards put together side-to-side. Besides those, I wanted a narrow piece running crosswise at each end. Probably you’ve seen cutting boards or bread boards made that way. That extra structure helps hold all the pieces together, …
Memorial Day Weekend – Sunday
I did a lot of planing on the tabletop. Although the surfaces align perfectly with the biscuit joiner, I didn’t get the top really flat; there’s a slight cup to it (in woodworking, “bow”, as in “and arrow” means the piece of wood has a curve lengthwise; “cup” means that there’s a curve crosswise.) I …
Memorial Day Weekend – Saturday
Naturally we were in Maine for the long weekend. It was raining, sometimes drizzling, sometimes raining hard, Friday as we were getting set to go. I wanted to bring the old aluminum rowboat up this trip. Since I had left work early there was a little extra time before dark; maybe we’ll get some use …
Noted on Nahanton Street
While I was bicycling to work a couple of days ago (and I got to bicycle four times this week — good stuff! I’m getting into much better shape, too — I can tell because I’m not in such low gears going up the hills as I was the first couple of weeks of April) …
Garden Update
Seed packets often have a little drawing labeled “seedling identification” on the back, so you can tell that what’s coming up is what you planted, not a weed. Or rather, so you can sort out what you wanted from among the weeds that are also coming up. Here for your convenience are seedling identification pictures …
Mittens are closed on top
I finished, not without some trauma, kitchenering the top the second mitten. The first one went smoothly several weeks ago, but either I didn’t study the directions carefully enough this time, or I let myself get too distracted, but it took three times before I got the second one done. Here they are, ready for …
Dumpster Woodworking
On my way bicycling home this afternoon I spotted someone putting most of an old bed frame out for the trash (along with a school easel). I stopped and said something like, “You’re throwing it out? That’s real hardwood.” He said yes, it was broken and it was about time to get rid of it. …
NOS
That’s Newton Open Studios. Once a year a couple of hundred artists from all over Newton open their studios or homes to prospective customers or just people who want to see what they’re doing. Arlene was site exhibiting her monotypes this past weekend. The house was simultaneously cleaner than it’s been in years (there’s now …