Howard & His Chisels

In a highly unusual development, this is the second "Old and Ridiculous" post in one day: An unparalleled feat as far as the author can recall. The purpose of this post is for the father of a good friend of mine. Miss Maggie Mae (of Rolla, Missouri fame) has plans to bring her "Maw & Paw" down for a cabin visit next month. Maggie's Maw gave her Paw a very nice set of brand new Marple wood chisels for Christmas and he's dying to set himself to work with them. The cabin will be a good place for Howard to do some long overdue chisel work. My life long friend is a woodman extraordinaire and one of the few folks I know who's ever worn out a Stihl AND Husqvarna chain saw...in the same day! (Ok, that's a little bit of an exaggeration to say in the same day, but he did wear the snot out of those darn high quality saws and he did it in just a couple of years or so.)

Although Howard doesn't make his living in the wood industry (not technically), he does have a fine appreciation for wood, whether he's sitting in it, sawing, splitting, burning, carving or just looking at it. For the record, his hot little wife, Kerri (of Dixon Missouri fame) is also an admirer of that fine renewable resource. She's perfectly content, however, allowing her adoring husband to do the woodworking while she curls up in front of the wood stove with a good book and appropriate beverage.

With all that in mind, my plan is to have the barn ready for Howard and his chisels when he and his girls visit County Barry next month. As legend has it, when Howard goes to work with his chisels, it's best to "...just git outta the way and let 'im finish!".

Thanks for tuning in and I'll try to keep you posted....

Sunsetting Barn

At the risk of you thinking I have some kind of weird thing about my barn, here's another picture of it. I took this shot a few weeks ago at sunset. Timing is a factor in nearly everything and taking a decent barn picture is no different. Don't wait up for this picture to show up in a future barn book or an actual world class barn blog: it's not of that quality. Regarding how it might stack up against one of "Almost Uncle Tom's" pictures of his personal barn, I have no idea. So far I haven't run across of picture of his. But once I hit the "post" button on my Mac-top, I'm guessing it won't be long before Aunt Dee finds one and forwards it on her phone. If she does, I'll post it on a future blog. In the meantime, you'll have to make due with this one.
I'll keep you posted on other personal barn related advancements...