Recent content by pigwot

Frank Gehry, Architect at 96

Anesthesia is usually worse than the surgical intervention. Friend's 94 year old Dad had hip replacement post-fall a month ago and he is just now starting to get his mental clarity back.

Five very dry, dead ash trees dropped for a friend (older fellow). Every tree had to be rigged to pull them over. I could tell he wasn’t up to winching the last one over as it had a good bit of back lean and took some work to get it over center. My bar just started binding in the back cut, so...

WeatherUnderground is by far the best I’ve seen and used.

‘53 Willy’s you could sit on one side of the engine and pass wrenches over to your buddy on the other side. Burnham, was yours a Deluxe 685?

Dick Cheney at 84

We’ve had about 60 so far - from young enough they needed help up and down the front steps to some we know are 16/17 - “as long as they have a costume on they get candy” is our rule. A few years ago the doorbell rang late, and there stood four college-aged students without costumes. But one...

I’ve made chili with it, too. We eat it over buttery mashed potatoes by the fireplace for a cold winter day treat!

One of Karen’s holiday gifts arrived. A music box I commissioned from a fellow woodturner. Link to a video: Music box

Been heading downstate once a month to help a friend closing in on 80 years old, who needs both knees replaced. He has access to a site where local arbs dump. We haul out logs and trailer them to his place and mill them. Yesterday we milled up maple, and hauled two loads of walnut back to his...

Diane Keaton

Taking care of our 4yr old grandchild is exhausting! Here for twelve days.

Helped Nick get set up for hollowing on his lathe so he could finish an urn for Jamie, and take it to Maine in time.

He uses it to find goats and sheep that ‘wander off’

Rick Davies of Supertramp