Gary O'
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No, that was a few years ago.
Just captured some memories
My commercial fisherman son and family is up there right now
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Our Cabin Build and Off Grid Experience
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Just captured some memories
My commercial fisherman son and family is up there right now
Gary O'
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I've got to deviate a bit here
Wife wanted a bookcase (she's a bibliophile)
Built her a live edge one
Took her about five minutes to fill it.
The live edge is mostly heavy bark
Corners get tricky with live edge
I'm not unhappy with how it turned out
.. .... she wants/needs another one
Wife wanted a bookcase (she's a bibliophile)
Built her a live edge one
Took her about five minutes to fill it.
The live edge is mostly heavy bark
Corners get tricky with live edge
I'm not unhappy with how it turned out
.. .... she wants/needs another one
Gary O'
Well-known member
Back to notes when living at the cabin;
Got another foot of snow last night.
trees are getting shorter
'Nother foot on its way.
Gonna discover how high I can throw snow with a snow shovel.
Considering attaching the extension of my roof rake to it.
penned a few days ago;
I don't have cabin fever
w-a-a-a-a-a-y past cabin fever
it rained yesterday
ice, snow, mixed with rain make trekking somewhat entertaining
one more bird lands on my shoulder while I'm peeing I'm gonna tear its throat out with my channel locks
we got out a bit (had to)
The Jeep ride is rodeo like
helped a guy fetch his water
since we live among our native American brethren, I've been given to naming folks what I think fits their character
this fellow gets around with the help of a putter (back is out)
calling him Walks With Iron
didn't know what was involved with fetching water
if I had, I'da just slew Walks With Iron... with a large rock (mercy)
'where's the water?'
'oh, it's just up the trail a piece'
'a piece' is several hundred paces
'up the trail' is up (gravity fed don'tcha know)
turns out I'm in pretty good shape
I can twirl, tumble, scream and flail during fractured cartwheels several times in succession without losing a dogged trudge
He normally does this on his own, but his back is out
His little woman is a little woman
Does art, needle work n' things
that's her contribution
thought about slaying her too, but she has those needles
He did hand me a pair of snowshoes
never worn snowshoes
Of late, reglar shoes have been enough challenge
I'm a bit of a shuffler
One does not shuffle, mosey, amble nor stroll in snowshoes
One should stride as though slogging thru deep quicksand rife with alligators when in snowshoes
When turning in snowshoes, one should be aware of what can occur when stepping on the back of the adjacent snowshoe
Snow angels are overrated
When picking one's self outta four feet of snow, one should remove at least one snowshoe
Long brightly colored scarves could become essential to body discovery
Walks With Iron now has 77 gallons of water in his indoor tanks, 80 lbs of dog food in his feeder, and a big wheel cart load of blood stained wood on his porch
We have owed Walks With Iron much, for many moons
Feel better about that
Home now
Happier
Relieved
Our water is only a hundred paces away
On flat land
That is all for today
Waltzes In Snow
Got another foot of snow last night.
trees are getting shorter
'Nother foot on its way.
Gonna discover how high I can throw snow with a snow shovel.
Considering attaching the extension of my roof rake to it.
penned a few days ago;
I don't have cabin fever
w-a-a-a-a-a-y past cabin fever
it rained yesterday
ice, snow, mixed with rain make trekking somewhat entertaining
one more bird lands on my shoulder while I'm peeing I'm gonna tear its throat out with my channel locks
we got out a bit (had to)
The Jeep ride is rodeo like
helped a guy fetch his water
since we live among our native American brethren, I've been given to naming folks what I think fits their character
this fellow gets around with the help of a putter (back is out)
calling him Walks With Iron
didn't know what was involved with fetching water
if I had, I'da just slew Walks With Iron... with a large rock (mercy)
'where's the water?'
'oh, it's just up the trail a piece'
'a piece' is several hundred paces
'up the trail' is up (gravity fed don'tcha know)
turns out I'm in pretty good shape
I can twirl, tumble, scream and flail during fractured cartwheels several times in succession without losing a dogged trudge
He normally does this on his own, but his back is out
His little woman is a little woman
Does art, needle work n' things
that's her contribution
thought about slaying her too, but she has those needles
He did hand me a pair of snowshoes
never worn snowshoes
Of late, reglar shoes have been enough challenge
I'm a bit of a shuffler
One does not shuffle, mosey, amble nor stroll in snowshoes
One should stride as though slogging thru deep quicksand rife with alligators when in snowshoes
When turning in snowshoes, one should be aware of what can occur when stepping on the back of the adjacent snowshoe
Snow angels are overrated
When picking one's self outta four feet of snow, one should remove at least one snowshoe
Long brightly colored scarves could become essential to body discovery
Walks With Iron now has 77 gallons of water in his indoor tanks, 80 lbs of dog food in his feeder, and a big wheel cart load of blood stained wood on his porch
We have owed Walks With Iron much, for many moons
Feel better about that
Home now
Happier
Relieved
Our water is only a hundred paces away
On flat land
That is all for today
Waltzes In Snow
Drifting a little bit, I lived on a boat in my younger years, right after a divorce.
That too has its rewards, challenges and its characters. The little bars and restaurants, sun rises and sunsets. And in the summer lots of women, not wearing much. One similarity I noticed between boating and the cabin. When folks are on the boat or at the cabin there are a lot nicer, the same guy flipping you off on the freeway is inviting a stranger over for a beer on the boat. And everyone on our mountain is the same.
That too has its rewards, challenges and its characters. The little bars and restaurants, sun rises and sunsets. And in the summer lots of women, not wearing much. One similarity I noticed between boating and the cabin. When folks are on the boat or at the cabin there are a lot nicer, the same guy flipping you off on the freeway is inviting a stranger over for a beer on the boat. And everyone on our mountain is the same.
Gary O'
Well-known member
What kinda boat?
How big?
Theboat I lived on was a 1967 37' ChrisCraft Connie. Ive got pictures around here somewhere. It was the second wooden boat I restored.
The boat I have now is a 45' GulfStar trawler, that I'm getting ready to sell. Started the exterior maintenance last summer. Brightwork on the deck, and it has a hard enclosure around the rear deck with sliding windows instead of canvas, that needed some repair and repainted. I almost got that part done when I got the RONA. I was able to finish the paint work last fall, but still have the bright work to do. Work has been kicking my ass since the RONA so I can get back on it in another month or so. There are pictures of it in the boat section somewhere, as well as a 1947 ChrisCraft rocket that needs a new home. It was a fun chapter in my life, kids grew up got busy like me and it started sitting a lot. Now when I go out to the marina, its to clean it or some other maintenance.
Gary O'
Well-known member
Six deer hangin'?
It's run across my mind
'specially if they jump the fence
It'd be a special canning season
Could jus' drop one ever couple weeks
Gettin' a hankerin' for some backstrap
'Course the townies would be all upset
I think they're the town pets
You'd think they'd be fatter
Gary O'
Well-known member
I've got a few antlers around
Along with badger claws and bones of various critters
I have yet to figger something original (weird) for them
Friends tend to make knife handles from their antlers
I've traded antlers for things
Not really into trophies so much
Sticking with wood, mostly
Might make a necklace
Bear claws
Badger claws
Bear teeth
...my teeth
Might trade it for something with the local natives
Heh, when we first bought our cabin parcel, we attended some native get togethers
An ol' boy had this washtub container of 'floating rocks'
All about the size of a man's hand
Wife and I bought one
$2.50
Quite the prize we thought
Got back to our property
Everywhere you look, there's 'floating rocks'
Just chunks of pumice
A lad up the path from the cabin has a rough forge situation
Makes crude knives
I traded antlers for this railroad spike creation
Mounted it
Along with badger claws and bones of various critters
I have yet to figger something original (weird) for them
Friends tend to make knife handles from their antlers
I've traded antlers for things
Not really into trophies so much
Sticking with wood, mostly
Might make a necklace
Bear claws
Badger claws
Bear teeth
...my teeth
Might trade it for something with the local natives
Heh, when we first bought our cabin parcel, we attended some native get togethers
An ol' boy had this washtub container of 'floating rocks'
All about the size of a man's hand
Wife and I bought one
$2.50
Quite the prize we thought
Got back to our property
Everywhere you look, there's 'floating rocks'
Just chunks of pumice
A lad up the path from the cabin has a rough forge situation
Makes crude knives
I traded antlers for this railroad spike creation
Mounted it
Gary O'
Well-known member
So, this morning, as I'm sipping coffee, warming the shop, looking at this wood, looking at me
I'm thinking....Glad I knocked off when I did yesterday
I'd totally miscalculated how many fence boards I'd need for the hutch project.
aaaand, I need to trim the frame a bit.......got too much in a hurry yesterday
So, today is regroup, go slow, think, scratch my hind end, rethink
Then trim/fit boards
Gonna crank up some ZZ Top
I'm thinking....Glad I knocked off when I did yesterday
I'd totally miscalculated how many fence boards I'd need for the hutch project.
aaaand, I need to trim the frame a bit.......got too much in a hurry yesterday
So, today is regroup, go slow, think, scratch my hind end, rethink
Then trim/fit boards
Gonna crank up some ZZ Top
FrancSevin
Proudly Deplorable
My Green Grocer friend sold firewood all winter. Now he has a huge field full of the bark that fell off the firewood. So, instead of buying bags of the stuff, I'm scraping it up and into the pickup. Today is in the 60's. It'll be fun right?
echo
Well-known member
My Green Grocer friend sold firewood all winter. Now he has a huge field full of the bark that fell off the firewood. So, instead of buying bags of the stuff, I'm scraping it up and into the pickup. Today is in the 60's. It'll be fun right?
What do you use the bark for?
FrancSevin
Proudly Deplorable
Ground cover. It's like $4.00 a bag (two cubic feet per). My 8 foot pick bed is full.
Got a surprise. Buried in the bark mounds were regular pieces of split oak firewood. I showed the owner who said just take it. Got a stack of split oak four feet by 2 feet for free and I am barely started on the mulch pile. I am betting I get a full face chord for my efforts.
echo
Well-known member
Great idea, we call that bark dust.