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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass was back live for the first time since 2019. It was good to be there and so far I don't think I have covid. Saturday: Ismay (granddaughter of HSB founder Warren Hellman) Meklit (unrelated) Waxahatchee and Jay Som, not pictured Elvis Costello Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew performing Remain In Light (highlight!) Sunday: Alison Brown Quartet (not pictured) Charlie Hunter and DaShawn Hickman (not pictured) Brothers Comatose Lucius, with Marcus Mumford as guest for a song (another highlight!) Bela Fleck (not pictured) The Whitmore Sisters Emmylou Harris, while we made our way out of the festival (not pictured)

It's great that Doug is getting his due adulation as a designer, joiner, and woodworker. Not that it has been absent, but he doesn't share as broadly as some of us attention whores. His work is amazing and unique. I had the honor of helping him a bit with the first kitchen cabinet that was completed, and candle light or not, it was assembled and glued up between 1:00am and 3:00am eastern. One of the most frightening experiences of my life, but it ended well. That was the dry fit the night before the final assembly. Then tweaking and such. Doug can add the finished version, but these are incredibly intricate cabinets that look fantastic and could support a tank rolling over them. The new tile topped media cabinet is another level up.

Choo Choo! I'm listening to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Playlist on Spotify to figure out some people to see this weekend.

You could make wall art/decor

I looked up La Gomera and your ride should be gorgeous and challenging. ¡Buena suerte!

That's not cool. RIP to the legend.

Have a good one Wayne! Cheers!

I like the GOT books for the most part. The weird timeline split he was forced into when the third? or fourth? book was too long was really annoying. Discussing events in such great detail and then going backwards in the next book with parallel timelines was dumb.

Naaman doesn't believe these tulips are organic...😡

Compression and hand(rail) release! A Frank Lloyd Wright principle in action!

Hope it was a great one! Cheers!

Another Detroit style pizza, this time with Wisconsin brick Cheese, pepperoni, white onion, black garlic and kalamata olives. Mmmm

I know you didn't like reading the novel but I really loved those two on the TV show.

Yeah, I had that backwards in my head. Very similar design but I was thinking Grizzly was the better version. And as for the mantle, I meant to say that I am leaving it the way it is for now and will let it age and grow on us.

Listen to Doug, he actually looked at more than the name.

The Grizzly for $450 would seem like a good deal if you need a jointer. I wouldn't worry about helical heads if it works OK. Get a better one when you want to upgrade.

Well, it seems one person is anxious for this report on the simple mantle. The original idea was to make a mirror to cover a niche over the fireplace that had been occupied by a Madonna and Child sculpture for many years at Claire's family place in Michigan. The other idea was to incorporate decorative tiles made by a local artist that Claire's mom had collected. I built the mirror up here using vintage mirror glass that was in a basic frame and had Sat in the attic for decades. I milled some curly walnut from a chunky board I bought locally and also some nicely figured walnut from a chunk that was in the shop here for many years. Here is the mirror, with one place holder for a tile we have to add later: I didn't like how high the mirror Sat in order to cover most of the niche. Doug was here visiting for a few days so we decided to make some kind of mantle to add to the fireplace. I was thinking about walnut like the mirror but ultimately felt it did not match the simple room or the paneling that is pine, fir, or cedar or something in the soft wood family. The winning idea was to match the paneling to blend it in. In the shop, Doug immediately pointed out a 2 x 12 that was 6.5' long. I never would have thought about it but we used that to make the mantle. It was *just* wide enough and long enough to make a 6" deep top and the tapered legs. We drew out the legs on opposite ends of the remainder and used a jigsaw to separate them before using a tapering jig screwed to a long board to run it through the table saw. I also managed to get Doug to use the Kreg pocket jig and pocket screws to attach the top to the legs and the mantle to the wall. I still felt the mirror was too high. Claire and Doug separately suggested flipping the paneling boards above and below the niche so that the longer bottom boards were on the top and the pierced boards were on the bottom. Hard to explain without a before photo but here is the niche after I flipped them and made a new middle board from the former ledge shelf. I also really like the metal low profile French cleat I got for the mirror. So here's the mirror and the mantle as it is now. We are debating a little stain for the mantle versus waiting until it ages a bit, and secondly whether to chamfer the mantle edges or perhaps make a miter cut across the front to give the simple mantle a little visual interest.

I checked out The Wooden Boats of Lake Leelanau show.

According to Doug's tutorial on I-bonds, you could just set up a bunch of LLCs for $50 in filling fees each and pay for much of your equipment costs without all the other hassles.

We speak your name! Have a great one! Cheers

Cheers Tracy! Duck the Fodgers!

Have a good one! Cheers

My guess is the purple is purple cayenne, the thin red ones are arbol, and the chubby red ones are fresno.

Amazing job Team Nate! I love that you had a couple of recipients of KB's efforts in your team photo.

I am going to listen to the new album tonight but it will be a little bittersweet. I have sfjazz tickets to see these guys on Sept. 23 but we're not going to be back from our summer trip by then (for good reason and to see some HC people in Chicago). The tix are great and not cheap but if you want to buy them, let me know. I can return them and will do so soon, but I'd love to have you see them and tell me all about it later.