Hailing in East Nashville

It was a nice afternoon to plant some trees. Parts of this field were planted last year. This year’s big planting won’t happen for a few more weeks, but I went ahead and installed the catalpa saplings that I started from seed last spring.

I froze a few cups of wild blackberries that I harvested from the tree farm this summer. Tonight I made a pie.

Since it’s not going to get above 40 degrees for the next few days, I’m going to go ahead and smoke the bacon that has been curing for the last couple of weeks. This will get 36 hours of cold smoke, followed by a hot smoke to firm them up. Each of those 3 bellies is a little over 12 pounds.

A pair of little cherry cups. I don’t often make small pieces, but I had a spindle blank and an evening in the workshop. These are around 60mm in diameter, end grain, and finished with beeswax. #woodturning #woodworking #bskywoodturners

I dabble; mostly woodturning. Here are a couple of little cherry cups.

Mezzanine build in the barn out at tree farm.

This was a fun project. I found this PA annunciator falling off of the wall in one of my schools. I liberated it (it hadn’t been used in decades), pulled the guts out, and converted it to a battery-powered Bluetooth speaker.

I dabble; mostly woodturning.

I do a little woodturning

A little walnut platter I turned the other day.

Hank keeping an eye on the seedlings.