| This blog is written by Dusty | 88 entries so far |
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Lumberjocks; the Community ,Creates an Memorial #6: Karson's Dove Inlay Frame Arrives...The mounting and assembly is completed before the final drawing.
Karson finished his frame and posted his blog detailing how he built this project. When ...
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Lumberjocks; the Community ,Creates an Memorial #5: Fractures, Glass and Bones; lead to new beginnings...
The irony of it all was; all I could concentrate on was my current situation. That was the fact t...
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Lumberjocks; the Community ,Creates an Memorial #4: The Final Project, Handing it off to Karson...
Totally exhausted the previous evening and before I headed to bed I had taken some pictures a...
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Lumberjocks; the Community ,Creates an Memorial #3: The Project;
Finally I was able to get down to the actual building of the stained glass piece. The drawing...
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Lumberjocks; the Community ,Creates an Memorial #2: Im Memory of Mark; The Drawing
“In Memory of Mark; The Drawing! Several of us Lumberjocks were still kicking around ideas...
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Lumberjocks; the Community ,Creates an Memorial #1: The Idea ... In Memory of Mark (Osconer)...
December 30, 2007 The idea was very simple and straight forward; create a memorial project...
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"This Old Mold House" #9: The first "surprise" arrives...Let the work began
After demolishing the basement and cleaning it out, I had a chance to assess the real conditi...
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Greene And Greene Inspired Projects #2: Greene Inspired bench .... "From an amazing wood find" ...the story behind the projects
Greene Inspired bench …Part two… “From an amazing wood find” ...the story...
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Greene And Greene Inspired Projects #1: Greene Inspired bench ... "from an amazeing wood find" ...the story behind the projects
Karson, created and posted the forum topic entitled “Your Most Amazing Wood find. Some how, ...
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If I was to do it over... I would...
I am a person of few regrets. I am very great full for the things I have been able to try or d...
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"This Old Mold House" #8: We have a deal !
My buddy knew the deal for the house was a good one and never hesitated when deciding to put ...
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"This Old Mold House" #7: Making a deal on a house full of mold…what’s up with that?
Most people I know who are contemplating a home purchase, hire a licensed inspector to analyz...
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"This Old Mold House" #6: Deal or no deal ?
Although I had spent a weekend doing an assessment, evaluation, preparing a bid and possible ...
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Some Day I am going to.... #1: Whats on your mind? ....Dreams, Desires, Wishes, Plans, Projects,
Fellow Lumberjocks…. I have been part of several projects and had some very unique exper...
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"This Old Mold House" #5: Hind sight is genius ! My crystal ball...
Of course, hindsight is genius. Duh. Let me take a minute to gloat. It was July 20 2...
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The customer experience nightmare or client from Hell.... #1: Night mares...from the chopped down ELM street tree
Miles a fellow lumberjock posted a comment on one of my projects. ”QUOTE “ Th...
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Woodworking, Carpentery, Remodeling, et all...Lessons learned... How not to... #1: Humbling lessons, Mistakes made...
Fellow Lumberjocks, I figured I have made about every mistake and several blunders that are po...
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"This Old Mold House" #4: Confession: I am the Idiot for which your village is looking!
If there is one thing that I have learned well about home remodeling it is that the initial p...
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"This Old Mold House" #3: Lets make a deal....on this "old Mold House", was her wish
Someone once said, ‘If you do what you love and is your passion you will never have to work a day...
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"This Old Mold House" #2: MIA UPDATE... Let the project begin..............
After 24 grueling days full of challenges “This Old Mold House is complete and closed F...
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"This Old Mold House" #1: Cheese anyone?
You would think I should know better by now. In truth I do. I admit it. ...
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Minneapolis, collapsed bridge #1: I am safe and ok, Thank you for asking
I have been touched by the number of people asking and sending me messages wondering if I am alr...
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'This Old Crack House' #48: The Final Chapter... You cant judge a blog by its cover...Is a picture worth a thousand words?
In the end, I feel very strong that we won’t, nor should be; remembered or judged for our words, ...
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'This Old Crack House' #47: The Addiition part two...Build it and I am moving........
Part Two…. The overall building experience of the addition was rather uneventful. C...
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'This Old Crack House' #46: The Addition part one ...
Selling our existing house was the only major hurtle that had to be overcome before building ...
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'This Old Crack House' #45: Are you sure your in the right class?
The only things that were keeping me from moving into “This Old Crack House” was $80,000, the...
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'This Old Crack House' #44: Build it and they will come...Show it off...in the show room house
All the time the house was rented, I felt that I should be living there. I had countless hour...
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'This Old Crack House' #43: Restless and unsettled....
The house was finished and rented out, although I still remained unsettled about the whol...
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Honorary Lumberjock Down Ms. D. #5: A simple request...is all Ms. D had wanted and looked so forward to...
Time flies. It passes us by like we are standing still on a freeway. Six weeks ago yesterd...
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'This Old Crack House' #42: The end was near...not just for the project
As each day went by, it became absolutely obvious to me that the chap to whom I had hoped to ...
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'This Old Crack House' #41: Stair way to heaven...Day by Day...One step at a time...some times one foreward and two back
As my friend, with whom I had entered the intent to purchase agreement, had indicated his unl...
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'This Old Crack House' #40: Sale or no Sale?
I have always prided myself in doing a first class job regardless of who I was working for or...
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Honorary Lumberjock Down Ms. D. #4: Decsion Day...The staff meeting....Does she get to go home or lose her home?
After the meeting at the nursing home with all the staff and interested parties in Ms. D’s ...
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'This Old Crack House' #39: Gentleman start your skill saws...Let the remodeling begin....
I went to work right away on the basement. The most logical place to start was the basement as I ...
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Honorary Lumberjock Down Ms. D. #3: On the brink of loseing everything she has...
I’ve make a point to call Ms. D. at least twice a day. and visit her in person at least three...
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'This Old Crack House' #38: This Old Crack House...The house had all the curb appeal of a tent city
The curb appearance of the house was terrible. The yard had never really been taken care o...
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Honorary Lumberjock Down Ms. D. #2: They both were pretty much in my way..... and that was just fine!
Two weeks ago today Ms. D my elderly neighbor lady and day care for my basset hounds and one of t...
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'This Old Crack House' #37: This was no stairway to heaven….
I knew that simply describing the upstairs to the house as needing a lot of work due to its very ...
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'This Old Crack House' #36: I needed to win the lottery … and see Dr Phil…
I discovered during the demo of the old kitchen that the sink had a slow leak that had been d...
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'This Old Crack House' #35: "This wasn’t Martha Stewart’s Kitchen"…
The plan was to gut out all the areas of the house that were inhabitable and where repairing woul...
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'This Old Crack House' #34: Call 911 my ego had been mortally wounded…Plumbing 101 for dummies...
I was overwhelmed and things felt pretty hopeless at that point. Although making some small progr...
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Honorary Lumberjock Down Ms. D. #1: Honorary LumberJock Down....Ms. D
I am hurting tonight. For those of you who have followed my blog you will remember my next...
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'This Old Crack House' #33: Any one can be a plumber... I thought
I called David’s wife every day to see how David was doing and if he came out of his coma. ...
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'This Old Crack House' #32: Let the credit card advances begin....
Obviously, all the plumbing had to be replaced. I had not planed to do this nor budgeted for it. ...
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Write it they will come... to read it
I have been touched. Moved. Inspired. I have been blessed to be able to share with y...
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Too do or not to is the question... whats the answer?
Many of you Lumberjocks have been following my feeble and wholly inadequate attempt at writing ab...
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'This Old Crack House' #31: "Houston we have a problem..."
Ok, the party is over. Seventy-five of our friends and neighbors had attended this Ugly house...
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'This Old Crack House' #30: I bought a piece of Hell...on my way to heaven
The purchase agreement stated that we would take possession of the house at nine o’clock, Saturda...
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'This Old Crack House' #29: The OTHER shoe drops...
Closing on the house couldn’t come soon enough. The closing date had been moved to the ...
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'This Old Crack House' #28: I mortgaged my soul and pawned my caddie…
I had 24 hours to come up with $9500.00 in order for the purchase agreement to be legally bin...
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'This Old Crack House' #27: They only liked me because of my money...
We had no more completed the tour and I was preparing to go home when her phone rang. It was ...
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'This Old Crack House' #26: The Plan was simple...
The plan was simple. I would buy the house and they would be gone forever. Now I just h...
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'This Old Crack House' #25: helecopters....TV crews and....
After the murder of her fiancée, the traffic from the drug dealing that had occurred across t...
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'This Old Crack House' #24: This Old Crack House…Murder She wrote,...said the note… that was left on my car windshield.
From day one, when she moved in across the street, I knew this was going to be an interesting...
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'This Old Crack House' #23: This Old Crack House…a short history lesson…her checkered past chapter
The previous occupants of The Old Crack House were only renters. According to Ms. D, they had...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge…Who were the Greene’s? …. A short history lesson on these men and the h
Many of the Lumberjocks are talking part in the Thorsen Side Table Challenge in partnership with ...
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'This Old Crack House' #22: I watched a three-way happen from her bedroom!.. Shots fired…
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths we will go, to make things so hard on ourselves. To s...
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'This Old Crack House' #21: How not to build and deliver a woodworking project…Life Lessons in woodworking…
Gaining too much self-confidence is the danger that results from having some success with one...
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Brief history of Mission/Arts and Crafts furnture...an answer to MsDebbieP question
MsDebbieP. With out igniting a huge debate that is better suited for a complete blog serie...
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'This Old Crack House' #20: To be a carpenter or not to be… Chapter 20
(Ms D doing her day care with the shop hounds) My options were limited. I could run an ad ...
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MIA...update.....
Fellow Lumberjocks… I have not been very active lately on Lumberjocks because I ...
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'This Old Crack House' #19: Help Wanted...Carpenter...Start Immediately...Jerks need not apply
It seemed as if we had things under control for the time being. I am always hesitant to make ...
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'This Old Crack House' #18: The Plumber "cracked" me up... calling us the odd couple
Stopping short of tearing down the house there weren’t a lot of options. Ms. D couldn’t stay ...
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'This Old Crack House' #17: Do you have a flash light?
I had no idea where to begin. I was still in a state of disbelief. I was trying not to judge,...
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'This Old Crack House' #16: The pluged sink
Over the summer I worked hard on getting Ms. D’s yard in order. I installed a sprinkler syst...
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'This Old Crack House' #15: The new shop
I thought a lot about what Ms. D. had to say. I was uncomfortable with trading out work in ex...
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'This Old Crack House' #14: He called me a cripple
A friend who I met on my bus route, a master plumber and electrician, was, according to him, ...
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'This Old Crack House' #13: She planted the seed
Ms.D decided to go ahead with building the shed. I warned her about the carpenter but she sai...
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'This Old Crack House' #12: There is movement next door
This was day six. No movement seen next door or any word from Ms. D. I was concerned. I decided i...
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'This Old Crack House' #11: What happened to Ms. D
I could hardly sleep that night, from what I can remember. In fact sleeping was the last thing on...
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'This Old Crack House' #10: Bad allergies
Friendships are like woodworking projects in a lot of ways. For example, you have to start wi...
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'This Old Crack House' #9: How I learned the woodworking basics
My real day job is driving a 40 foot city Transit bus. It’s a part time position. It’s a gove...
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'This Old Crack House' #8: She’s not an axe murderer
A major cleanup was one of the things that really needed to be done when we bought our first ...
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'This Old Crack House' #7: My bruised ego
Two out of three lumberjocks surveyed say, they would rather have a sliver under there finger...
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'This Old Crack House' #6: I’m the one wearing the stupid-shirt
We agreed he would start promptly at 7AM. After all, he is a professional carpenter and on...
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'This Old Crack House' #5: Mz D the lunch lady
We were warned by the seller when we bought our first house, across the street from this old ...
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'This Old Crack House' #4: The One handed Carpenter
Did I tell you I’m a one handed carpenter? Well, I have two hands but my left hand, althou...
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'This Old Crack House' #3: The cast of charaters
They say that time flies. I think that’s a fib. I don’t think it’s true when you live across ...
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'This Old Crack House' #2: The lot
I never did anything that I can recall – or put my finger on – that would explain...
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'This Old Crack House' #1: Introduction
She never liked me. I knew this. Somehow I needed to talk her into selling me her house...
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pic of leather desk top
Finally I think I got this to work… I had requests to show the top of this desk.. I ...
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new day..........
It sure felt good to take a couple days off from the shop and grind. Funny how it helps to ste...
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I quit........
I know that as long as I do woodworking or any type of work with my hands there will be those da...
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Hard and expensive lessons learned........
I am embarrassed now that I have been woodworking for a few years how many tools I have collected...
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perfection vs realistic.... the constant struggle in woodworking for me
When I first started woodworking –It was very hard for me to finish any projects because I was su...
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some days.....
Today was going to be the day I finished a project I have been working on and off project- for ov...
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I'm learning
After I posted the pictures of my Grand Fathers clock with the stained glass face and panels I ha...
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Ok ....now i am really out of my league. (That is, in attempting to write this blog. )
I really have did it this time. I have no clue what I am doing. I have often found this to be the...
