This is a photograph taken from my wood shop across the deck to the clean studio.
It really does not look this good, but it was so wonderful I have to keep looking!
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Friday, July 1, 2016
NW Corner
This is a corner of the new shop.
The white refrigerator does not stay. It is tight, but it will work. I may build a couple of bath vanities, but no big jobs, so I can make it work.
It has taken a LONG time to get to this stage.
shop moving
I once had a wood shop that was about 800 square feet. Now I have a shop of less than 200. It is going to be tight real tight.
I sold the shop a few years ago, but the new owner really did not need it so i housed all sorts of stuff there while I was taking care of Miriam, then when I returned to Idaho and married Shar.
Last month, the new owner of the shop (neighbor Terry) told me he is retiring at the end of June, and he would like to have the shop by mid July.
The machinery is one thing, but it is movable. But, wow, do I have a lot of wood. Nice wood: Black Walnut; Birch; Black Locust; Mahogany, Maple and so on. Now I am moving the wood shed.
Soon, I'll have everything under cover, and then I can start making it look better.
And, yes it takes time, lots of it.
I sold the shop a few years ago, but the new owner really did not need it so i housed all sorts of stuff there while I was taking care of Miriam, then when I returned to Idaho and married Shar.
Last month, the new owner of the shop (neighbor Terry) told me he is retiring at the end of June, and he would like to have the shop by mid July.
The machinery is one thing, but it is movable. But, wow, do I have a lot of wood. Nice wood: Black Walnut; Birch; Black Locust; Mahogany, Maple and so on. Now I am moving the wood shed.
Soon, I'll have everything under cover, and then I can start making it look better.
And, yes it takes time, lots of it.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Eslinger reunion
We just returned from a tri-annual family reunion.
It was Shar’s mother’s family and there are a bunch of them.
I was the official photographer. It has been a long time since I was a real photographer, but the task felt quite natural. I took my Canon and it’s single prime lens along with a card reader, a MacBook Air and a 1T backup drive. I might have had a Canon (though I preferred Leica’s!) in the old days, but this was a different deal. I took about 600 pictures during the three day time. One of the Cousins was also shooting and I downloaded her card onto my MacBook. I asked someone to take pictures at an event I could not attend and the pictures were emailed to me!
Wow.
Somehow it came back for me to stick my camera in someone’s face and say “I am the photographer, and I am going to take your picture.” Usually by then I had 2 or 3 frames all in the can as we used to say. If someone objected and said: “No you won’t.” I would counter with: “Yes I will” and by then I probably had a good photograph of him/her. I would say that I am sneaky enough to get the picture with or without their cooperation, but that I would get better results if they cooperated.
Shar has a lot of cousins, and I think she knows them all, and I am getting to know them better, and a few of them by name.
It was good. In the past Shar has been one of those people who make it all happen. It was good for her to sit back and see someone else take the responsibility and the heat!
It was good.
It was Shar’s mother’s family and there are a bunch of them.
I was the official photographer. It has been a long time since I was a real photographer, but the task felt quite natural. I took my Canon and it’s single prime lens along with a card reader, a MacBook Air and a 1T backup drive. I might have had a Canon (though I preferred Leica’s!) in the old days, but this was a different deal. I took about 600 pictures during the three day time. One of the Cousins was also shooting and I downloaded her card onto my MacBook. I asked someone to take pictures at an event I could not attend and the pictures were emailed to me!
Wow.
Somehow it came back for me to stick my camera in someone’s face and say “I am the photographer, and I am going to take your picture.” Usually by then I had 2 or 3 frames all in the can as we used to say. If someone objected and said: “No you won’t.” I would counter with: “Yes I will” and by then I probably had a good photograph of him/her. I would say that I am sneaky enough to get the picture with or without their cooperation, but that I would get better results if they cooperated.
Shar has a lot of cousins, and I think she knows them all, and I am getting to know them better, and a few of them by name.
It was good. In the past Shar has been one of those people who make it all happen. It was good for her to sit back and see someone else take the responsibility and the heat!
It was good.
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