North Point State Park, near Baltimore, yesterday morning. If you look closely, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is in the far distance. Interesting place with remains of an amusement park from the early 1900s.
The bevel kabob. What a clever idea for drilling straight angled cuts: blog.lostartpress.com/2025/11/2…
I’ve listened to Fela Kuti for several decades in total ignorance of his story. Highly recommend this podcast series, I learned so much: Fela Kuti: Fear No Man 🎵
We noticed this bee on some woodland sage in our yard. It hadn’t moved in over a day, so we poked at it. Nothing. So we assumed it died and brought it inside for a flower display of sorts. The next day, we discovered … not dead. It began to move in slow motion. So we gave it some sugar water and put it back outside. I suppose you could say we’re easily entertained?
Final wood box with removable bottom drawer. Mistakes were made, but made it work. I planned to dovetail the sides, but grain directions were wrong. So I went with mortise/tenons, but they were shallow so I worried about strength. So I did something I rarely do: use hardware. I reinforced the corners with screws. Not my best work, but it will do the job! I’m happy with the curved corners, mostly (made with bow saw and my prized Auriou rasps from France).
I decided to add a pullout bottom to the firewood box so it’s easy to clean. When it’s closed up, you don’t notice it’s there (unless you’re looking closely). It’s pretty much done, except for the hours of card scraping and finishing.
Sad to see, seemed there was always a copy of this lying around when I was younger. www.farmersalmanac.com/fond-fare…
Moonrise over Frederick, Maryland.
The firewood box is starting to come together. I thought this project was going to be quick and easy but you know how that goes…
