A Transition, of Sorts

It's about time.

I formally apologize for all the crummy mumblings for the last little while, perhaps years now. I've gotten rid of the worst offending blogs and will comb through the rest. Hopefully what's left is a pleasand archive of travel adventures and assorted interesting mumblings.

The trouble is I haven't been anywhere that has captured my imagination, or rather my imagination has been dull to the places I've been, or responded dully to dull places. We all go through flat spots in life, in which the landscape neither inspires us, nor can we inspire the landscape to be more than it deserves.

So from now on, I'll apply Mondaugen's Law to the woodworking I do, and the time I spend in my shop. This is certainly my now, though what kind of bandwidth I've attained I can't rightly say.

Whether you're just curious to see how furniture gets put together, or if you're thinking of learning the craft, I hope you'll find something in each post. If not, complain and I promise to be gracious about it. 

So, for an interim image, here's a plywood kayak I made a while back--the woodworking that travels.

Comments

[Alan]

I've just come back to your blog after you've apparently done a good bit of culling, so I bring 2 questions probably everyone but me knows: where are you and what are you doing?

There. That should get you started.

[Strother]

Hey Alan,

Nobody knows what I'm up to, so don't feel out of the loop: I keep it a carefully guarded secret to protect the lives of loved ones. Only with a deep cloak of secrecy can I save America from its foes.

I'm certainly in Bridgewater, except when I'm not. Then I'm in New Milford shopping, or perhaps not. In spite of intermittent far flung work habits, rumors and and political hatchet jobs at home, I really haven't left.

Currently I'm up to many things all at once, including this new direction into woodworking for the blog. Horizontal, not vertical, is my mantra. Next I will appear in the halftime show at the Superbowl. And I've got 364 days to figure that out.