Woodworking
I started out making everything out of oak. I grew tired of the oak grain and as luck would have it, my son married the daughter of Denny Fritz. He gave me a dowry of all the wood I could haul home from Brookville Indiana. I loaded the pickup with over 1,000 lbs. of maple. So, all the items I have built in recent years is with this maple wood.
I designed this piece using the plans for the bookcase shown to the right.
This was made from plans.
I made this from plans found on the Internet and I had It professionally finished. Probably the only person on the planet with an Adirondack chair in the living room.
I sawed 1" boards in half to get the narrow wood.
Made of Maple
Metalwork
For retrieving ice at Burning Man
I have one of these in the garage and one in the shop
For our Burning Man shade structure
I have two hobby forges - one fueled by blacksmith coal and the other by propane.
Yes, that is a hair dryer used as a bellows.
Works quite well. A lot cleaner than blacksmith coal.
Landscaping
By my good friend, John Stadelman
Covered this with 1/2" thick faux brick
Other Hobbies
I have over 50 unique corkscrews in my collection.
We now have 4,200 square feet under tarp.
Emma picking the garden
Available for $42.00 - includes shipping
Singing
Medford Food Project
Sharon and I are Neighborhood Coordinators for the Medford Food Project. Every other month, on the second Saturday, we go around to our almost 30 donors in our neighborhood and collect green bags filled with non-perishable food items. We leave an empty bag for the next pickup. We then transport the bags to a collection point where scores of volunteers sort and distribute the items to 16 agencies that supply food for the needy. The Food Project has collected over 1,000,000 lbs of food since it's inception.