#Fandango&039;s Friday Flashback

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Fandnago's Flashback Friday - Kittens!!

Last year at this point the kittens Marcus and Sabrina were new to our house. The family was learning about them, and they were learning about us. A year after this post was published, lots has changed…and not much of certain things have changed. If you are owned by a cat ( or cats) you know what I mean. So here is the Flashback post for November 29th 2023. Sabrina: Shut up and pretend to be…

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Artwork for Fandango's Friday Flashback

Artwork for Fandango’s Friday Flashback

Two years ago today, I posted three pieces of my artwork and I’m sharing them again now for Fandango’s Friday Flashback. I’m already getting inspired just looking at my old work…

I realized that one of the topics I haven’t covered here on my blog is my love of art. Gasp! How could I forget to mention that?

To that end, today I’m posting three of my recent artworks. These are all done with mixed…

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PREPARE TO REPEL BRIDGE - FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON SATURDAY

PREPARE TO REPEL BRIDGE – FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON SATURDAY

SURIVING BRIDGES IN A VERY SMALL BOAT Gwaihir, our 16-foot Soling was a doughty sloop. Built of fiberglass, aluminum and a bit of teak for deck, rails  and hatch, she lived in my basement through the off-season. I lovingly painted her hull and lavished layers of varnish on her bright work. I co-owned the little boat with a moody guy who lived on a shallow canal on the south shore. A Soling is…

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Flashback Friday- from 11/22/21 - Brew

For coffee, the search for perfection is the enemy of the good. So let’s start with the basics. My brewer is a cheap $29.00 basket brewer from Cuisinart. With this bit of piece of 10-year-old plastic and metal, I can consistently brew great coffee. To my tastes anyway – of course, my preferences go back to the pot in my dad’s workshop, the Navy, and the Capn’s little pot on board his ketch…

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Flashback Friday - November 15, 2021 - Go To School

For Fandango’s Flashback Friday Challenge You can find out what grit of sandpaper you need to use on the internet. But learning what that thin whisker of a wire edge really feels like on a just sharpened gouge or chisel may be more challenging. And while Youtube videos can walk you through many processes learning how to glide a gouge with the right amount of force through teak might not be one…

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Flashback Friday - Problems

Fandango’s Flashback Friday Challenge from November 8, 2021 Saturday I got to spend an entire day in my shop. The planets aligned, and only the fallen leaves in my backyard protested my ignoring them. Now, it may be strange that while my commute to the shop is less than a minute, I have to struggle to get to it. But, I still have a day job, family commitments, a blog, a garden to prepare for…

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Pizza

Flashback Friday – Originally published on November 1, 2020 When I reentered the marine marketplace in 1992, after about 15 years of absence, I thought my business would be eagles, quarterboards, and transom banners. To some extent, I was correct. I’ve done many transoms, quarter boards, some eagles, and a smattering of other carving projects. But fully one-third of all my sales came from small…

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Flashback Friday from October 2020 - REO Tractor

So, as sailors like to say, this is a true story; I was there. Well, that’s not so true. However, while writing the story in 2020, I borrowed heavily from boatyards that I knew intimately. And yes there is a 1920 REO tractor in a yard I know of, and I think it may be in service to this date – just as described. REO Spinney was going to see his new accountant for his tax review. Last year, on…

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Flashback Friday - from October 11, 2o21 - Like a River

Creativity is a strange beast. It’s river-like in that it’s dynamic and can change channels, bringing life to one and allowing others to dry up. You are a fortunate person to have more than one viable channel.This observation came to me when I unearthed sketches and paintings from the very late 1960s. No, they aren’t lost, DaVinci’s, and that’s OK. However, it was refreshing to see that once I…

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Really? - Flashback Friday from August 16, 2021

Physicians, lawyers, and advice columnists are always suspicious of those seemingly acting as conduits for others,” my friend has this itch.” It’s a sure sign that the speaker has an issue, but they can’t come out and admit that it’s there. As an anthropologist, woodcarver and videographer, I had always assumed that I had nothing to offer in advice on life itself. People just don’t run up and…

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Flash Back Friday : originally posted on June 21, 2020

Suggestions The suggestion was that I learn the more popular songs and add some rock to my gig. Then I’d be like everyone else I suggested back. Yes, she said. That would be a great idea. As you are, she suggested… it’s out of step with the world. Bend a bit, stop all this talk about history. Is it Sociology? It’s Anthropology, I replied. She assured me it would be best if I were a business…

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Dinner Time At the Show

A Flashback Friday presentation from May 3, 2021 Boat show attendees rarely get a glimpse into the after-hours life of people who staff the booths selling their products. Not being twenty-year-olds, there do not seem to be too many wild parties at these. You set up one day, then run a booth for eight to ten hours for several days. Following this you break down for the drive home.One aspect of…

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Flashback Friday - The Great Race

We did not hop trains; it was much too dangerous. The railroads took the concept of private property to extreme levels, and the cars themselves were unsafe. Bill’s choice of travel techniques might have seemed a sort of road bum purity of method, but it was all carefully planned. It was the weekend of the Great Race. Four teams of hitchhikers set out from the Harvard Gardens’ barroom at the foot…

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Flashback Friday - Gundecking

Just out of Boot Camp and knowing almost nothing about how the Navy worked, I sat by as sailors and petty officers senior to me decided how to explain their idleness on a log sheet. My impression of the workday was that it had been full of BS, coffee, and some very random work. It was also my introduction to Gundecking. The term Gundecking Derives from the Royal Navy. Midshipmen, officers in…

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Flashback Friday: Pilot Biscuits

Call it what you will: hardtack, sea biscuit, pilot bread, pilot biscuit. It was once was a staple of a sailor’s life. Improvements in refrigeration and seagoing kitchens made soft tack ( leavened bread) available to seamen for longer than the time it took for the land to sink below the horizon. Probably a good thing also. My father, uncle, and other seamen I knew reliably always tapped their…

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Flashback Friday- songs your mother never taught you

originally posted – February 9, 2021 I had moved to Portland to get away from Boston. In those days, the late 1960’s, Portland was a hike from Boston and was in an entirely different cultural world.Portland came well equipped with a small church-run coffeehouse that I could habituate when not working. The Gate Coffeehouse became the center of my social life. After work in the afternoon, I’d go…