We have not had broadcast TV in our house for about 15 years. We live under a hill and don’t get a TV signal, but up until 15 years ago we had cable. Then, for some reason having to do with raising a teenager, we got rid of the cable. We would watch movies...
Evelyn and I were at a local hardwood lumber dealer’s, looking at some two-inch cherry for a dining table I was making. Contrary to what they told me on the phone, they did not have hundreds of board feet of it, but only a hundred fifty board feet or so – not much...
For a good while there has been a Latin quote on my workshop wall. I’ve completely forgotten how it got there, but I do know what it means. It says ars longa, vita nostra brevis est, literally “art is long but our life is short.” I know that because I took Latin in...
I was working on a design for a trestle table last month, trying to improve the base structurally, when before my eyes a perfectly utilitarian base changed into a pair of clown feet. I stopped working on the design, assuming that I had gone off the deep end in some...