A Walk To The Farmers Market

One of my favorite things to do in the summer is to walk to the South Shore Farmers Market here in Bay View.  I sometimes stop to take pictures as we walk to South Shore Park where the farmer's market takes place on Saturday mornings. Here are a few pictures that I took last week on our walk.

What are they thinking?

I always wonder what animals are thinking and what they might say if they were able.

It seems pretty obvious what thoughts are going on here and whether he would say anything at all.

I constantly imagine what Zoe is thinking when she gets in boxes.

Front Carry For Me

We realized recently that Eliza does not like to be carried 'cradle style' any longer, but prefers to face out. Here she is in her sun hat on a recent summer walk in our neighborhood of Bay View and at home with her 'papa Joe'.

Finally Finished

I have finally finished a project that I started somewhere around 1989 or 1990! I had designed some knife blades to be cut from a retired circular saw blade while I was in junior high. I somehow talked my metal shop teacher into letting me work on them before or after school if I didn't tell other students that I was making knives in school. Well.... I put most of the blades aside until recently, when I had my father look for them in their storage shed in Wyoming and bring them out to me in Milwaukee. I liked only a couple of the original designs and decided to clean up one of the rough blades and turned it into a camping / bushcraft knife.

The knife is ground with an edge that is about as flat as I could get, which still ends up being somewhat convex. The handle is polyurethane finished walnut that is attached with epoxy and hollow brass tubing for pins.

I have a new 'bushcraft' sheath from JRE that this knife will be carried in along with a firesteel for fire starting. I actually purchased this set-up from Ben's Backwoods a Michigan bussiness that sells camping and bushcraft supplies.

Summertime Stenciling

After watching a Martha Stewart show that featured stencil making a month or so back, I have wanted to make my own stencils for shirts. Thus far, I have made stencils that feature the profile of some noted trees (giant sequoia and bonsai juniper) as well as an abstract bicycle chain ring and chain detail and a nightlatch key. 

To make the stencils, I have used a Sharpie to draw on some
polyethylene stencil making sheet and used a sharp knife or razor to cut out the design. My stencils are to be used on shirts, so I used Tulip brand spray fabric paint in 'asphalt' black color.