No, I didn’t watch the Oscars yesterday. Not because of any bias toward this film or that, I just didn’t see any film nominated that I really rooted for. I mean … no Oscars for Deadpool & Wolverine? No Oscars for Babygirl? Come on, Nicole Kidman fake-orgasming had to earn SOMETHING… Nah, I just spent…
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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of February 10, 2025
No, I didn’t watch the Super Bowl yesterday. I have no desire to watch Kansas City. And I have even less desire to watch Philadelphia. And even with all that, I have absolutely ZERO desire to see that orange turd soak up all the attention at the game. Could I watch the game for the…
Read MoreThe Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of January 22, 2025
As you may have heard, I’m in the middle of making another latch hook rug. Last fall, I took a photo of the Woodstock, Vermont Middle Covered Bridge, and converted it into a latch hook rug pattern with the help of the online leftsource.com site. And this time, instead of purchasing the yarns bit by…
Read MoreThe Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of January 1, 2025
Yep. I made plenty of progress on this latch hook rug project, this one composed from a covered bridge photo I took last October in Vermont. This blog post recaps where I started for this project. Honestly – the reason I’m even working on this project (and hoping I can complete it in time for…
Read MoreI swore I wasn’t going to do this again. And here I am, doing it again.
I’ve built several adult-level latch hook rugs in the past few years, and after completing them, I’ve entered them in competitions and sold them at charity auctions. And after the last one I built – a gigantic sunflower – I believed I was complete. Done. Finito. I donated my leftover yarn to an arts collective…
Read MoreHow I restored a drive-in speaker and sold it at the BUILT charity auction
As I wind down my last few drive-in speaker restoration projects (apparently the neighbors were complaining about the smell of the caustic strippers I used to remove the old paint), I still have a couple of videos that needed finishing. And one of those includes this rare Simplex “Mabte” miniature speaker that I actually acquired,…
Read MoreBidding just began for 2024’s Historic Albany Foundation BUILT charitable auction.
For the past thirteen years, I’ve entered some of my photos and constructed artworks into Historic Albany Foundation’s BUILT charitable auction. The proceeds from the auction helps preserve and restore historic buildings and structures in Albany, many of whom are in dire need of repair and rescue. Too many of them have fallen to neglect…
Read MoreMy next-to-last drive-in speaker restoration … for now.
Here’s the thing with me. I’ll get involved in projects, I’ll go full-tilt on those projects, I’ll have fun with those projects … and then, for whatever reason, I’ll just stop. Full stop. Put all the uncompleted projects and their tools away and not look at them or think about them for a very long…
Read MoreThe Big E double-dip trip, 2024
Saturday morning. I’ve gotten this trip down to a science. Load the car up in the morning, fill the tank, then get on the highway at about, oh, say, 6:00 a.m. That gets me to Springfield, Massachusetts by about 8:00 a.m., and completely beats the glut of traffic into the Eastern States Exposition’s “Big E”…
Read MoreThis drive-in speaker was rescued from a fire
I have another drive-in speaker restoration project premiering today on YouTube. And in this one, the drive-in speaker looks reasonably decent at first appearance – but when I opened it up, the speaker was burned to bits, the internals were full of ash and cinders, and some of the screws were essentially fused into their…
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