Cooking, Working on things and writing about it
People that know me, know I love to camp. We mostly camp at State Parks and hope to camp more in the future. Retirement is a short 16 months away. My wife Linda, our son and I have been camping since 2002 when we purchased our first camper. I seen the camper for sale in Continue reading "Camping in comfort!"
A while back my Brother and sister-in-law had a large oak tree blow down at their home in Ball Ground, Ga a result of high winds during a thunder storm. I heard about it, seen some photos of the damage to their camper shed and thought we need to mill some of that tree! By Continue reading "Milling timber in Georgia"
Last Saturday I had the opportunity to work with a group of folks making homemade fresh sausage. My 87 year old mom regularly volunteers at an old Hungarian church called Hungarian Reformed Church of Lorain, Ohio. Chatting with mom a month ago, she mentioned the sausage fund raiser was coming up soon and they needed Continue reading "Fresh Sausage!"
If you follow my postings, you know I make an ornament focusing on an event or a past experience that year. I started in 2006 and have continued every year, gifting them to my son Chuck. 2021 Celebrated the birth of my grandson Charles William Grimmett. We affectionately call him Charlie. 2021 Baby bird house
For whatever reason, COVID or just life catching up, I haven t been blogging for the past several years. I have a lot of catching up to do. I apologize to my followers! I will work on getting caught up. 🙂
I ran across this old workbench top that was discarded beside a dumpster. This top was removed from a school wood shop. The top was lying face down in the grass. As you can see in the first photo the surface was already drawing moisture into the maple boards. I have a metal rolling workbench Continue reading "Restoring an old work bench top"
I picked up this anvil a couple of years back thinking I would get it home and restore it the same week. Well that didn t happen! At Christmas my son was home for a visit, we ran across it in the shop and decided to make a base for it. We found a piece of Continue reading "Restoring an old anvil"
Making your own soup broth is very easy. Requires no fancy recipe, yields a great product with very basic ingredients. Having a large family, we usually prepare two Thanksgiving turkeys averaging around twenty pounds each. After carving and de-boning each bird, I freeze the carcasses for soup. Taking advantage of this past long weekend, I Continue reading "Soup broth!"
I was helping my mom the other day re-arranging some stuff in her attic. Mom is 83, a very active 83, but I still get nervous for her to pull the garage attic ladder down and navigate the stairs. As she was digging around some boxes, she asked if I wanted my grandmothers dutch oven? Continue reading "Giving new life to an old dutch oven"
Having the right size hose clamp on hand or needing a large clamp usually means a trip to the big box store. Worse yet, not having a clamp that fits in your emergency bag while on a trip. Here s an easy project to make your own wire clamp tool. There are a bunch of designs Continue reading "Making a wire clamping tool"