New Coffee Table

Here's my most recent woodworking project - a coffee table made out of mahogany, walnut and zebrawood. The zebrawood is a veneer about 1/64" thick and is inlaid into the table top.  The walnut has some cool and unusual ribbon striping.  Now that it's all done, finished, and in the house, I just need to keep myself from freaking out every time one of the kids touches it!

Sampson falls

It had to come off, I couldn't take it any more. But I still think he's a handsome little devil!
The dots on his hands are a regular thing, he says he is iron man.

They're messing with me

Squirrels have been stealing our fruits and veggies again, including apples from my apple tree.  So I set up two traps and placed in each trap the uneaten portions of apples that the squirrels already got to.  Yesterday I checked the traps and found that a squirrel deftly removed the apple from one trap without triggering it, and placed the bait in the second trap, triggered the trap, and then escaped, leaving the second trap with two apples and NO SQUIRREL.  Those dirty, disease carrying, dirt eating, inbred, beady eyed, thieving, varmint loving, hole digging, rotten sons of rodents!!!  I swear they're just toying with me.  But mark my words - the last laugh will be mine.  Just this week the developer started tearing up the open field where they live in preparation for the next phase of the housing development.  Yes, we'll have more neighbors soon.  But those nasty critters will soon be out on the street.  Justice at last!!

Graduate

My little buddy graduated from preschool.  He is getting big, I can't believe it.  Then he gets bored and pesters me and I get excited for school in the fall.  He will be in a new transitional kindergarten program at our school.  I think he will like it.  I think I will like it too!  But I'm actually going to miss him.  Don't tell anyone.