You're right Mark - seems the bloke who hit me was in a rush for a KFC meal.Wow, Lyn’s shocking news still has me reeling... Crazy world anymore, everyone is in a rush to go someplace, but no where important.
I still need to add the “log” project, final update.
Today, pouring down cold rain, sleet, some snow. More snow with accumulation as the day continues. For some odd reason I decided that I needed to make a wooden mallet. So, that has me occupied this morning. Nothing fancy and I’m winging the very fluid plan as I go. Material is Willow Oak that we trimmed last Summer from our own trees. It’s either make a mallet, or burn it next fire.
Ok, you wonder why a wooden mallet?
- Willow Oak - Quercus phellos, the willow oak, is a North American species of a deciduous tree in the red oak group of oaks. It is native to the eastern and central United States from Long Island Sound south to northern Florida, and west to southernmost Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and eastern Texas. It is most commonly found growing on lowland floodplains, often along streams, but rarely also in uplands with poor drainage, up to 400 meters (1,300 ft) altitude.
- Wooden mallets are usually used in carpentry to knock wooden pieces together, or to drive dowels or chisels. A wooden mallet will not deform the striking end of a metal tool, as most metal hammers would. It is also used to reduce the force driving the cutting edge of a chisel, giving better control.
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