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The first and third shots are from last week as June gloom transitions into No-Sky July. Here in early July, the sun tries unsuccessfully to break through the persistent summer fog layer on California’s central coast dunes. Contrast with the … Continue reading
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The “Bosque”, which means forest in Spanish, is a riparian zone that runs pretty much the length of the Rio Grande river as it snakes it’s way through New Mexico. I spent the afternoon in the Bosque near my house … Continue reading
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At the end of 2023, I embarked on a major remodeling project removing an old “zero clearance” fireplace (very inefficient) and replacing it with a new high efficiency wood burning stove. This required some pretty substantial demolition and reconstruction and … Continue reading
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In my quest for the perfect tomato sauce and in furtherance of my goal to never eat commercially produced red junk in a jar, disasters sometimes happen. I ran out of frozen garden tomatoes and my frozen homemade tomato sauce. … Continue reading
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Recently, I read a Steinbeck quote – “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” Sometimes the absence of something is required to identify the nature of that “something”. … Continue reading
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Picking bones can have various connotations. “Picking a bone with someone” evolved from the idea of fighting over an issue or a bone of contention. Fighting over a bone, I guess. I always imagine two scavengers (human or animal) finding … Continue reading
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One of my first projects that utilized the air dried lumber (Hickory in this case) from the portable sawmill was this table. After the initial assembly, it stayed in Mississippi for a few years, migrated to Mexico City for a … Continue reading
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The bane of any serious woodworking shop is the dust generated while operating the machines we use as modern woodworkers . While a simple face mask is always the best defense, the large amounts of sawdust that the shop produces … Continue reading
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A while back I wrote a blog post about flying in and out of a sporty, little, gravel and grass strip in SW New Mexico called “Me Own”. Knowing that hunters would soon converge on the area, we decided to … Continue reading
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This is a short story about a question that had been vexing me for several months. Over the course of those months, I’ve found myself wandering around in the north eastern Sandia range in New Mexico covering hundreds of miles … Continue reading
