$3.51 for a gallon of gas, that’s the highest gas has ever been at this time in March. A .33cent increase in the last two weeks. That means for most of us it’s $50.00 bucks to fill the tank(at minimum). 😦 $4.00 When? It appears just a matter of time that gas will reach the… Continue reading National Gas Price now $3.51
Category: equipment
Inflation
Inflation is not only coming, it’s here. Look at these price increases over the last 6 months. Staggering Cotton = +125.7% Sugar = +82.6% Corn = +59.0% Coffee = +41.4% Rice = +40.5% Oats = +36.6% Copper = +36.1% Lumber = +33.8% Oil = +25.1% It looks like the price of decks is going to… Continue reading Inflation
Where We Work
There I was the other day sitting between my desk/table contemplating my work, that’s when it hit me. My office space doesn’t work. I’m not happy. I spend/spent too much time bent over, especially when I was working on details . . . which is a lot of the time. It’s in those details and… Continue reading Where We Work
Cast Iron Pots; Another Thought
I just want to clarify the size of those 3 pots that I had written about in the previous 2 posts. Two Previous Post The 1st post dealt with my finding these pots and a list of ideas on how they might even be used. The 2nd post was a synopsis of the 1st and… Continue reading Cast Iron Pots; Another Thought
Cast Iron Pots; Revisited
Last week I posted about these iron pots that I had picked up at the local auction. [The pots in question. ] In the comment’s section Jonathan asked about the sizes of these pots this was my reply: I’d say they’re somewhere between 30″-36″ in diameter and a good 18″ deep. They are some good… Continue reading Cast Iron Pots; Revisited
An Appreciation of Axes (1)
Usually I have some sort of an Appreciation of Stone, or this, or this . . . on the weekends, but today I am feeling appreciative of one of my favorite tools . . . My Fiskar’s ax. Over the years I have used several axes and different types of wood splitting tools and the… Continue reading An Appreciation of Axes (1)
New York Times-Wrong Again
This is so ridiculous a statement I don’t know whether to be mad or cry, or have a stiff drink-I think I’ll have a stiff drink: Landscape professionals rely on computer programs “100 percent,” most often choosing Rhinoceros or Maya, according to Mark Thomann, design director at Balmori Associates, a Manhattan-based landscape architecture firm. The… Continue reading New York Times-Wrong Again
It’s a . . . “Walden”?
It’s a tool shed, it’s a firewood storage compartment, it’s a barbecue, no wait it’s a garden shed, uh no . . . it’s a loft! That’s it, a loft . . . or a tool shed, or a storage cabinet, how about a Walden? . . . uh, never mind-you decide . . .… Continue reading It’s a . . . “Walden”?
That’s some pretty high grass.
[courtesy of the Fudgefactory]
The Whispering Crane Institute 