On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:00:11 -0500, Dr. Deb wrote:



Anyone who shoots Bill will be excused on the basis of "justifiable
homicide." :-)

Deb


I'll donate a quarter toward the ammunition ... I deserve to be shot.

In fact, I should be shot dead. Twice.

(GRIN!)

I have also been given a small pear tree (about 14" at the base and 12"
at the three foot mark) and a box-elder tree (both still standing) from a
soon-to-be construction site. I had to wait for Woodcraft to get me some
green wood sealer, though. Aint no way I'm going to drop that pear tree
without the sealer right there. I rethought my order and bumped it up to 2
gallons today. I'll get started on those trees this weekend. What I have
in mind is to drop them and cut them up for bowls right where they fall
ala Bill Grumbine. Then seal them immediately and take only the 'keeper
wood' home.

Last fall I scored a pile of ancient maple that is so highly figured
there's no way to make lumber out of it and so big around that I'm not
even thinking about cutting into it until I get a bigger lathe. Oh, and a
cherry stump about 3' tall and 4' diameter. I took it out in 6' thick
slabs (that being the biggest I could wrestle into the back of my pickup
truck.) I think at least one slice of the cherry is going to get neandered
into a one-piece table with drawers cut into the solid (if I can ever
figure out how to do that.

But, nice as it is, that's not the biggest / nicest thing to happen
lately. Honestly.

My eldest son dropped out of high school. After flipping burgers for a
while he decided to go get his GED. While there, he was told of a program
to send folks to trade school (Minnesota). Leaving trade school, he went
down to Florida and found work doing tech support for a smallish CAD-CAM
company and eventually got married. So far, so good ... but it gets better.

Over the course of about 5 years, the company moved him up to their head
tech support position but my son, looking around, realized that he needs
to get a degree to move any further. So he started putting himself through
college in a local school. So far, he's done well for the past two
semesters.

So well, in fact, that he's been selected for their "Honors College".

Proud of him? YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE I AM!!!!!!!!!

Bill