Wildman and I ride out to Watsonville and Jackel: Alder $2-4/bf, red oak 4-5/bf, cherry same, acacia 10/bf.  This foray a speculation on my part.  I wanted to have some ballpark figures on a range of woods should the Factors at the Naval Postgraduate School commit to having me build them a display case for […]

The job interview was at 0900, 200 miles away in Sacramento. Rise and drive at 0400 to allow plenty of time for unplanned delays? Or motor over there the preceding day? Which would you choose. It wasn’t so much the getting up for the opening of fishing season, it was that I knew I’d wake […]

BESTDAY – In a long time. Began with a lucid dream, and you know what that means to a man.  Hubba-hubba. Down to The Shop to work the Lovely Kelly’s Christmas present – a box. Learning: don’t undercut the insie and outsie for the nestled lid-base; 2 rabbit the top of the top so that […]