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Oh to be this young again.....

One more from Nova Scotia's best band ever, Wintersleep ....

Are there any Wintersleep fans here?

Thank you Cliff. I look forward to chatting with you.

Thank you Gentlemen.

A couple of weeks back now when I shared the pictures of "Project 10," the Wine Bottle Stoppers a long time friend of mine shared the pictures with his wife who immediately loved the pink ones, not for her desire to have one but for another reason. She quickly called me and stated how much she loved the colour and asked if I could somehow modify her Umbrella to replace the handle with the pink acrylic, I said I'd be more than happy to try. So my friend brought me the Umbrella on Sunday and as I had feared it was an auto pop up with the mechanism built within the handle so a full handle replacement was out of the question....so onto plan B. The first thing to do was take apart the handle with a plan in mind ..... The plan was to add a "Butt Cap" style piece to the rear of the black rubber grip cut and finished at the required angle ..... But that idea due to perceived difficulties had me change my mind and I then decided to square up the rubber grip and go with a perpendicular mount .... And the acrylic turning begins .... Testing the dry fit .... Now that it was ready for gluing I had to make sure that the process did not allow the epoxy to run into the handle and seize the auto open/close mechanism, so a clamp was made to hold it upright (in the open position) while the glue set overnight .... And today it's all done, still working and ready to go back home with the hope that my friends wife will be pleased .... Thanks for looking.

Thank you Cliff. 🥰 I have something else straight out of left field that I hope to be able to share tomorrow.

Well the first batch of Wine Bottle Stoppers I made generated enough interest that I was motivated to go ahead and make 10 more. One of them is left over Moose Antler I'll be be gifting to the client who had his custom rod reel seat and butt cap made from it. Can you spot it?

Today's shop tunes as I finished "Project 10" 2.0 go way, way back.....

Smoke you say..... I recall very well the first time I heard Psycho Killer CM. Myself and three friends were heading to Keswick for my first ever Simcoe ice fishing adventure, an over night Smelt fishing adventure actually. It was 1977, I was 17 and my friend Rob who was driving slammed the 77 cassette into the tape player, I was immediately hooked on The Talking Heads and have been a fan ever since. FYI....the Smelt fishing was insane, buckets of some of the biggest Smelt I've ever seen and those days I believe sadly, are long gone.

Shop music today included much of TH while I put the finishing touches on the last pieces of "Project 10 2.0"

My daughter sent me this picture of my boy Gordie the same day that she grabbed the Hawk picture in the post "Death from Above."

Sad indeed. My condolences to his family and his many friends. A quick search in my photo archives found me this picture of Norm at one of the "Fishing for Tyler" events. R.I.P Mr Beans

Yesterday while saying good bye to my Daughter out on the front lawn a Hawk came swooping low over us from over the roof and landed across the street in the neighbours driveway. It did have something in it's talons and this morning I discovered just exactly what it was. The only thing left of the Pigeon in my backyard was it's feather's and wings. A few doors down the street is a Pigeon coop which does allow for both Cooper's and Sharpies to often be seen hunting them and I've seen them in action numerous times, both are incredibly agile predators on the wing and while I can't be 100% certain I do believe given its size that this one yesterday was a Cooper's Hawk. This is as close as I let my daughter get (cell phone picture) so as not to spook the bird off her meal. This is what she left behind in my backyard ......

Undoubtedly delicious, "free form recipes" often are.