Do you want it to break or not?
Sometimes you want it to break, sometimes you don’t…
It’s not a trivial decision.
Wait! Is that a ghost?
As fall comes upon us and Halloween gets closer, I thought I was seeing a ghost. Then I looked further…
Look just under the curved glare in the picture and you’ll see a black and white image.
That shouldn’t be there.
Finding a horse loose on the front lawn when you get back from work at 3am is not what a person wants at that time of night/morning…
You may think it's still summer…
You may think it's still summer.
When you live on a horse farm the critters give you a totally different perspective on the seasons…
Beautiful on the inside (or other side)
Maker Works to the rescue (project) again!
I didn't know what a planer/jointer was. But I knew I wanted to see what my 60 year old oak fence boards look like underneath the weathering.
Took the class. Used the SOP a few days later to take on the project.
Beautiful on the inside (or other side).
“There's a morel here “ as we used to say (pun intended)
Welcome to the “Dog Days” of Summer…Horses are doing fine
It took very careful integration of Junior into the Paints’ “gang of two” (the paints have been notorious bullies ever since they joined the farm in 2013), but we were successful.
(There’s a future blog post in there somewhere)
It’s the little things…
It’s the little things…
When your “metal muscle” goes down you become acutely aware of how much you haven’t gotten done.
“It’s about knowing the difference between close and right”…Cowboy Poetry
Sometimes “I can cobble with the best of them” works, sometimes not. This time not, hopefully the next version will remain intact.
Where was that pry bar?
Hard to underestimate what you can overlook…
Both Safety and Lean lessons in this one