Brr, cold! It was just below 60 degrees Fahrenheit all day here, and it’s been dropping down to the 30s at night.
Looks like you’re getting proper cold, which we rarely get here.
Stay warm!
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Why that’s a balmy Canadian summer!
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Yep. I was outside with no coat today, not even a light jacket. Whenever I’m here in Atlanta over the holidays, it’s always like this… Except for Christmas 2010 when it actually snowed!
2C (36F) is about right for this time of year most places I’ve lived.
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Acording to google it’s 4 outside with a high of 7 and a low of 1
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Wander’s day at work:
Most of my worksites consist of small corridors of forest surrounded by the houses of wealthy people, often with water on one side. The average house price in this suburb is two million dollars; a waterfront location like this raises that price considerably.
Tree-poisoning to improve views (and further raise property values) is a constant problem. So is private encroachment into public land, weed dumping, rubbish dumping, etc. etc.
Much of my job essentially consists of maintaining pleasure gardens for the rich while they try to destroy my work.
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Ugh. Rich people suck.
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You’ve reminded me of an incident we had about 10 years ago, in which a developer of a new townhouse project in north Kenwood/south Bronzeville hired people to chop down something like 100 trees on city property in the middle of the night because they blocked the homes’ view of the lake. We’re talking full-sized trees, many over 50 and even 100 years old.
I do not know, but it sure seems suspicious that a few years later the Chicago Park District decided to plant over 400 trees in a long strip of land across the train tracks from that very spot (and thus closer to the lake, and right alongside a major road that is always lit and full of traffic, so illegal behavior is harder to get away with). Those trees, as they grow, are in an even better position to block the view from those townhomes. Oops!
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Oh, yes, I remember that! But while that was horrible, technically the trees were all on his own property, so he wasn’t breaking the law (they’ve since changed the law there).
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Very nice. What kind of wood is that?
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Some sort of acacia.
Nice soft wood, easy to work.
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Messing about with the lathe again…
Au naturale…
Ready to go
Initial roughing half done
I’ll let y’all know what I’m making once I figure it out myself.
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It’s the Holy Grail!
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