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 Year 21, Week 02, Day one (week 1096)   (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 01-23-21 Saturday Temps starting with a 56 low and rising to  77 high. 66 when I went outside to work. Mostly blue skies with some clouds. It was sunny all day long. This weather report is brought to you by The City Of Pompano Beach Department Of Tourism.  I am making hearts for Valentine’s Day and needed to do some hand painting on them. I painted a white heart in the middle of the red painted hearts. I found that the gloss spray paint I painted them with last weekend did not let the acrylic paint I was using to stick easily. I had lots of touch up where the almost dried paint would touch something and leave a hole. Also, my paint was not the best and the white heart has ridges and blobs. I did figure out that if you have streaks on the first coat, brush across the streaks to cover. There tends to be light ridges that will scrape the paint off into the streaked area. ...

    (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 01-16-21 Saturday Temps starting with a 59 low and rising to  71 high. The sky filled with high feathers with pulled cotton. Periodic sun felt good. This weather report is brought to you by The City Of Pompano Beach Department Of Tourism.  Before the year of 2000, I was writing stories and building scale houses for a model railroad layout. Over about a year, Dad kept asking me to take up carving. At the time, I had no interest at the time. Finally one day I decided to try it. I borrowed one of his knives and a piece of wood (likely shaped to make shingles for some bird houses he was making) and carved a man with his arms down his side. The brim of the hat was supposed to go all the way around, but the brim kept breaking. It ended up looking like Charles De Gaulle, a famous French leader near that time. My second and third carvings were from boards so I could not really get full movement in the form. My fourth carvi...

  Year 20, Week 52, Day one (week 1094) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 01-10-21 Saturday 53 lows, 64 as the high, fair all day. It was kind of fun to scrape the frost off my windshield since it was below our 56 degree frost temperature. It is supposed to get into the 40s tonight.  This weather report is brought to you by The City Of Pompano Beach department Of tourism.  I went to Lowes early and picked up a couple sheets (two by two) of thin plywood. I had a project and was not sure how I was going to address it. I wanted to unload the box the lathe is in, and wanted to put a drawer below it. I was thinking I might have to make it.  I got out back and set up both tables, and then started unloading the box. With the box empty, I looked at what it would take to put a drawer under it. I saw that the wood I added to the bottom of the box hung out at a few spots. I took out a grinding burr on the Dremel and ground the edges flush. I then saw that...

  Year 20, Week 50, Day one (week 1093) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 01-01-21 Friday New Year's Day 75 degrees morning 80 degrees as the high. Between overcast and partly cloudy all day. This weather report is brought to you by The City Of Pompano Beach department Of tourism.  We battled 2020 all year with great effort. Now we have to admit that 2021.... I started very slowly. It was about 10 before I got to Mom’s house. I accomplished little next than nothing and mainly spent my day sleeping. It was not a day to go to the stores or anything so I stayed at moms until it was time to go home. During the week, I stopped at the dollar store twice. I was looking for something that would work for making a flower display that looks like a puppy. I bought a few flowers and some foam. The second time I looked closer and found out they had another kind of white flower, and I got a pack of googly eyes. I doubt I will use them.  I will see if I accomplish ...

   Year 20, Week 49, Day one (week 1092) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 12-24-20 Thursday 76 degrees low, 82 high, early morning clouds tinkled, then mostly cloudy the rest of the day. This weekend is predicted to be an arctic blast where the temps will get well below the South Florida 56 degree frost temperatures. This weather report is brought to you by The City Of Pompano Beach Department Of Tourism. I had stopped at Jo-Anne’s Cloth World and went through all the craft sections of the stores. I find that the fabric section is pretty but I am avoiding learning how to sew. It could be a future hobby but not now, not even close. I got a whole bunch of ideas while wandering through the store. I guess I need to retire to be able to get involved in some of those ideas. Of course, I learned from my dad, that there is never enough time for all your projects. He spend most of his time, from dawn to dusk, carving or working clay. He still did not have enough tim...