Chair caning, 1

So on a rainy Saturday afternoon (we left the Bridgton art show in decent weather, did a little shopping at the farmers’ market and Reny’s, then stopped at the new big Hancock Lumber yard across route 302 from Hannafords, got a pound of 4 penny finishing nails to make a triangle frame loom, then stopped at the True Value hardware store further down 302 and found some japanese beetle traps. It started to rain fairly hard as we left the True Value) as I was saying, so on a rainy Saturday afternoon there wasn’t much chance to do things outdoors. Arlene suggested getting started on my chair caning project. I took lots of step-by-step pictures that I haven’t got ready for the web yet, but here’s one she took of me with some progress already made:

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male born 1944 mathematician by training, software engineer by profession; retired since Labor Day 2013 birder, cyclist, unicyclist, eraser carver, knitter when possible