She's decompressing after we adopted her. She's chihuahua mixed with who knows what.

Behold, after seven months, I have turned one Market Basket acorn squash into four.

So much sauce is going to be made

Harvested the super I use for honeycomb. 12 containers and an extra gallon of honey

3 gallons from one hive. My second hive swarmed, so not enough honey to harvest yet. The third hive I'm harvesting this week for honeycomb.

I'm going to be making so much pasta sauce

Had my yearly physical. I quit drinking almost two years ago, and I'm in perfect health for a 52 year old.

20 lbs lighter, cholesterol is great, liver enzymes are all normal...

I literally have nothing to work on, other than to keep doing what I'm doing.

I'm so thankful I finally managed to quit.

8.5" x 3.25" | 22 cm x 8.5 cm

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Same burl as the picture from the other day

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Oak burl bow - 6 inches by 3 inches (15 cm.x7.5 cm). Someone bought this at a show the first day it was available.

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Each snowflake is different. Solid green wood stain and boiled linseed oil and natural shellac finish.

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I think I've discovered a drawback to moving everything outside in the spring. Buying more plants doesn't matter when you don't need to worry where to put them... until fall.

Walnut, cherry and katalox. 5.5 inches by 2.5 inches (13.5 cm x 5.5 cm)

Finished with a polish of boiled linseed oil and shellac.

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Spalted maple with a rim of sycamore and walnut. 6 inches by 2.5 inches (15 cm x 7 cm)

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Just finished a maple Thanksgiving themed bowl - 10" x 4" (26 cm x 10 cm)

Painted with chalk paint and then aged with colored wax. Inside is finished with Tung oil.

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