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 Year 20, Week 24, Day One (week 1068) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 07-04-20 Saturday Temps in the 90s, afternoon showers, nice breeze picks up as the showers approach. This weather report is brought to you by The City Of Pompano Beach Department of Tourism. There have been some changes since my last post. My health problems faded out but time is still tight.  I’ve been working on Christmas Ornaments the past few months. In January, I tried to make a few boats but did not like what I had. I decided to try it again, correcting all the mistakes I made at first. I made two kinds of ships. Galleys and simple sail ships.  First off, In the New Year attempts, I had the angle of the ship going from the water line to the deck of the ship. They are not made that way. This time I had half the hull straight side and half the hull on an angle. I decided to have flat bottoms so they can sit straight on the shelf for display.  I also decided that th...

 Year 20, Week 15, Day One (week 1060) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 05-04-20 Saturday Blue sky, light breeze loads of sun. warm but not humid, which was nice. If it stayed like this all year long, I might think of myself in heaven, though we would need some nighttime rain to water everything.... I set up out back and decided to work on two projects at the same time. I really wanted to turn something but had no idea what. With one project, I grabbed some wood I got at work last year and cut it to size, mounted it on the lathe and started turning what is supposed to be a natural edged bowl. I shaped the outside and then started hollowing. I have a lot more to do, but the results so far have been good. I chipped up the edge at a few spots and that will require clean up, but not until I am finished with the hollowing. The outside needs cleanup but I might do that off the lathe with a sander.  My other project was to take some two by twos and shape them ...

 Year 20, Week 15, Day One (week 1059) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 05-02-20 Saturday 80s, blue skies, light breeze, a perfect day to do something outside. I was indoors most of the day. This winter is the wettest I have ever seen down here. For most of the winter, we were getting rain every weekend. It is hard to do wood working in the rain, especially with electrical equipment. We are in what is more normal for us, a dry period that might last a week or so. Our normal winter is where in April, they start talking about water rationing. It is usually dry and sunny with only a random front passing through from month to month. Water rationing is not even in their vocabulary this year. In June is when our wet period starts and July is when the humidity really amps up.  It has been a while since I have been able to write. A changed schedule eliminated my writing time. I also am still exploring some interesting health situations.  I had a friend’s b...

 You can find my some of my previous posts at http://3creativepeople.blogspot.com/ Year 20, Week 01, Day One (week 1043) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 01-18-20 Saturday This week is the celebration of my starting wood working back in January 17, 2000. This year it is on Friday, while in 2000, it was on Saturday.  Before the year of 2000, I was writing stories and building scale houses for a model railroad layout. Dad kept asking me to take up carving, and I had no interest at the time. One day I decided to try it. I borrowed one of his knives and a piece of wood and carved a man with his arms down his side. The brim of the hat was supposed to go all the way around, but kept breaking. It ended up looking like Charles De Gaulle, a famous French leader near that time. Dad had gone through a period in learning to carve where you could see the shape of the block of wood he started with, as he was doing more like relief carving on all surfaces rather than shap...