[Woodcarver] Rain and a jump on Jan.....

[Vic & Cynthia Hamburger]

> Marcia Berkall <whitwood at fairpoint.net>

> 

> Wow...we're lucky here!  We had sun for a few hours yesterday.   Back in 

> the rain again today.  aaaaaaaaaaaargh!


Hey Mush (VERY applicable name about now!)

Been raining here for so long, I can't remember the last good sunny day, 
never mind a whole week! 3" of rain Saturday, and probably another 2-3" 
today.

Saturday, I finally got a chance to do some carving, so I'll get a jump 
on Jan and ask;

  Whatcha all carving????

I had a class at Paul Ward's shop with Tony Erickson, doing a bark 
carved house.  We only had one day, so there was lots of detail work to 
do after the class was over, but I am nearly done with hollowing out the 
back and the front is finished except for a little cleaning up of window 
edges and some spray Deft on it.

I got to the class and Tony told us to pick out a piece of bark to 
carve.  The first one out of the box really "spoke" to me about what 
waited inside the rough exterior.  The finished house isn't quite what I 
envisioned, but it is what was hiding in there, so I am happy.  This 
certainly won't be my last bark house now that I have done this one.

As always, a class at Pauls shop was fun and very helpful.  Paul is a 
great cook so lunch was more like a buffet with more food than you could 
possibly eat, although some of us tried hard!

Vic, soggy in Massachusetts