Reviving POTPOURRI

[Gene Howe]

Annie, Oakley and their nearly faceless doll.
Rained all day yesterday and most of the night. They're a bit muddy from their morning walk. [ATTACH]24226[/ATTACH]

[dusty]

Annie, Oakley and their nearly faceless doll.
Rained all day yesterday and most of the night. They're a bit muddy from their morning walk. [ATTACH]24226[/ATTACH]

Now that is really neat. Not everyone has caring dogs to take them for a walk every day.

[idcook]

Annie, Oakley and their nearly faceless doll.
Rained all day yesterday and most of the night. They're a bit muddy from their morning walk. [ATTACH]24226[/ATTACH]

Cute pups. Look like they got wise souls behind them eyes.

[Gene Howe]

Dusty, I am indeed lucky. Without them I might not be able to find my way back home.

ID, wise? Not so much. Mischievous is more like it.

[idcook]

ID, wise? Not so much. Mischievous is more like it.

Yeah&#8230]sly[/I] might be an option, but chose to go with wise.

Cute nonetheless. :-)

[BuckeyeDennis]

... but this time, the real-live human network worked even better.

My neighbor-buddy's brother's friend is moving to Florida. He's a woodworker, and had amassed a few large stacks of hardwood lumber over the years. He moved about half of it to Florida, and decided that the rest needed to be sold. And it needed to be out of his garage PDQ for the upcoming house showings. So he was willing to make a deal.

So my neighbor and I went to take a look. There was about 1000 bd-ft of 4/4 lumber. Some cherry, some maple, some oak, some elm. Also several pieces of maybe 12/4 elm and cherry. Someone else had already scarfed up all the walnut. But about 70% of the wood was a weathered gray "mystery wood". The seller was amenable to a buck a board-foot for the clean cherry, and $0.50 per board foot for the mystery wood.

We decided to offer $500 for the whole lot.

Offer accepted.

Well, after taking a few cuts with a hand plane, and then loading the lumber onto a trailer in a light rain, we learned that mystery wood was actually all cherry! We felt so bad that we gave the guy $600 instead.

Anyone care to guess what kind of wood I will be paneling my daughter's "secret room" with? The boring part of that project is already done .. have finished the structural work, drawn up plans, and pulled a building permit.

The really fun part will be designing and building a secret bookcase door.

[BuckeyeDennis]

The following has absolutely nothing to do with woodworking ... but it does have pics!

Early this morning while I was sipping my coffee, my teenage daughter let out a big "Awww..." and summoned me to the window. Sure enough, there was a doe with the tiniest fawn that I've ever seen. I grabbed my wife's camera and took the first couple of pics through the window.

The fawn could barely walk ... it must have been only a day or two old. But nonetheless Mom was encouraging him to jump across the stream!

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Then my daughter had to go out to her car and leave for school, which alarmed Momma deer. She retreated, and the fawn stumbled back and forth along the trail, trying to find a way to get across the stream to Mom.

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Then the fawn disappeared in the vegetation beside the stream. I assumed that it had bedded down in the weeds to await Mom's return. So I decided to go outside (still in my bathrobe) and see if I could get a good shot with the telephoto lens, without getting too close.

As you can see, I found that the fawn had toppled into the stream, and then bedded down.

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The stream banks are about 4 feet high, and nearly vertical .. no way that fawn could get out by itself.

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I'm pretty sure that does can't pick up up their fawns like a cat does kittens. And the deer are ridiculously tame around here, so I didn't figure that Mom would reject the baby if I touched it. So I clambered down into the stream to rescue the little critter. Once I got within a couple feet of it it bolted to the best of its ability, but I was a fair amount faster. When I scooped it up by it's chest, baby absolutely squawked at me, and then was still. I set it up on the bank on Momma's side of the stream. It walked a couple of feet away, and then flopped onto the ground.

When I checked on him about an hour later, he was still where I had left him.

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But by the time I got home from work this evening, Momma had come back and fetched her baby.

[moose]

AT LAST! Something decent and heart warming in the 'community' section.
Thanks for the beautiful presentation BD.

[terrydowning]

Great story and photos.

[swampgator]

Thank you for a heartwarming story and wonderful pictures. It is good to see something positive and you, my friend, are a friend of nature. I grew up on a farm and loved the animals.