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Taking care of business

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Tool`s maintenance that is... Long overdue, it`s the bane of any tool hoarder,  err I meant tool aficionado :-) The more you have, the more you are gonna have to clean, restore, sharpen tune up and etc. It never really end, cause rust don't sleep... Recently, I do not have much shop time.  Jean is re-re-arranging the living room, so that gives raise to many small projects and, YES, trips to the stores :-) We just recently mounted the TV to the wall and rearranged the room around it, but the piece under  has already been replaced and I just now realized it :-) Gone under is the small table replaced by the desk which used to be at the entrance, meaning another has moved to replace it and, and... That pic is off the air with my outside antenna BTW During my last project, mounting the TV on the wall, I had to resort to hand brace and hand drills to install it, my power cordless driver and drills being at my daughter place with a few more tools... While using them, I noticed t...
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Post snowpocalyspe...

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Well, many of my friends living elsewhere got it pretty bad, but here sheltered in the Annapolis valley, we got off easy peasy, yet again... The Bay of Fundy and the north mountain often act as a dividing wedge in our storms passing by, the worst splitting north toward New Brunswick shores. It looked pretty bad on the satellites and radar pictures, but we were kinda in the eye. Some snow accumulations, not much, followed by a rapid raising in temp, turned into icy rain, then rain, melted all the snow we had. Inside my garage workshop it went from minus 10 Celsius (about the lowest so far) to plus 6 Celsius within hours... Strong winds at time, more broken branches around my property, and that's about it!! After a small dusting of fresh snow on top, this is what we were left with... Never seen such a big pond in my front yard. Hopefully it will quickly freeze and make a great skating surface for the kids. We had a small pond left over from the last similar storm bust,  that we were ...
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Making a small personal drum

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Today Jean and I went to a drum making workshop, taught by Mi'kmaq elder Carolyn Landry in Kentville NS. We each made our own personal drum.  This is how the day went. We were wondering how we would be able to pull this off in our given 1 and 1/2 hour workshop. The secret?  That wood ring is pre made and the soaking deer hide already cut to size and punched.  We are essentially putting together a kit.  It is then a very do-able project under our instructor supervision.  The hide and the stringing lanyards are both deer hide.  The lanyards are cut in a circle to make really long strings. The hardest part is centering, and keeping it centered, our hide. Mine is up front, Jean to my right. I got a strip cut (a tad short, yikes) and strung around my hide. NO tape measure, we just guesstimated the length with our eyeballs :-) Once tied loosely around, making sure the hide is still centered. The remainder of the long lanyard is tied to the strip that was weaved a...
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