JEREMIAH 18:4

"but the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands, so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it to his liking." NIV


I found this old pallet in our back lot at work and recognized the uprights were cherry wood, a very beautiful wood to work with.

So I dismantled the pallet, ran the pieces thru a joiner, then cut them to equal lengths and glued them together.

After setting for 24 hours clamped very well, this is what I was left with. So I chucked it up in my lathe and...

...turned this beautiful goblet out of the "old pallet wood". What is "junk" in one's eye is a "treasure" in anothers...

"But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him". NIV

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

"Sometimes I laugh so hard the tears run down my leg!"

EATING & STUFF

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I needed to post something once, so I lined up all the
current projects I've turned out lately on the lathe. Here
are a dinner plate made from pine, a mahogany/birch/oak
tall vase, my "flopped" cedar candy dish, and a walnut with oak & mahogant base candlestick holder. I'm kinda shut
down right now due to 2! of my machines having motor
problems...my disk/belt sander and my table saw!











Dinner tonite...leftover baked chicken diced up
and stir-fried with bamboo shoots, carrots, onion,
cabbage, sugar snap peas, zucchini and mushrooms served on brown rice with a sweet-
hot sauce/soy sauce combo...












everybody in the pool! It was yummy, healthy,
and filling!

HERE'S WHAT CAN HAPPEN....

There I was, just a bookin' along, cuttin out the
inside of a nice candy dish for my folks, and I
decided to stop and check things out...good thing
I did!














The bowl had dried out overnite on the lathe,



and had developed several big cracks in it. Thats the
chance you take when turning green wood...and I
sincerely hope the 2 bowls I made prior to this don't
develop cracks. Oh well, it all part of the learning
process...

BOOKS I HAVE YET TO WRITE...

"I Don't Have Time for Percolater Coffee"
-a look at today's too-fast-a pace and the things/tastes we give up as sacrifice in the name
of expedience

"Life's Too Short to Drink Crappy Coffee"
-choices we make in the name of "self-sacrifice" that maybe shouldn't be made

"This is Something I Know"
-the dumb things people around us say to us as if we "didn't know that already" and "do people really think we are that stupid?"

"Boy I'm Glad You're Home, Somebody Pooped in the Hallway"
-a pictorial glimpse of the "life of riley" of a pair of pampered Welsh Corgis

"We Need to Get Together Sometime..."
-why is it that people lie to you and never invite you over after they make this promise...

"Man, You're as Ugly as Ever!"
-why some people, especially those that think they are your friends, have to greet you
with a derrogatory remark

MOVE OVER, HILLRICH & BRADSBURY!

Well, Louisville Slugger its not, but its homemade by mwah, and its all handcrafted on my lathe!

I laminated 2 pieces of oak to a piece of mahogany, then got busy with the lathe. Took me all afternoon last Saturday, wore me out, but it was fun to turn out something nice! I have it resting here next to my ole, reliable Worth, that got me team high "most base hits" several years running during the heydey of my "softball years"!

This is not what those brackets were designed/built for, but the gun can be stored in another place and my masterpiece can be on display. Don't know that I'd let it be used for hitting a softball, but it definately can me used as an heirloom and handed down (i guess i should have signed it too!)

BOY, I'M GLAD....

Boy, I'm glad your home...somebody pooped in the hallway!