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[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Our garden suffered from a summer of fog..and now a deer attack. 
Fortunately, much of it is enclosed in aviary wire cages.
Welded up a bedframe stock rack for the PU and beginning to prep for the 
CBA Octoberfest..gonna try to forge some small pieces for that.

ries wrote:
> Same with me- Harvest time.
> Potatos, Tomatos, beans, corn, onions, cukes, apples, pears, plums,  
> raspberries, blueberries, and more have been overflowing this year- we  
> had the perfect year, in terms of weather, and every plant produced in  
> abundance.
> 
> Doing a bit of forging, though- just finished a forged Bird/Book for a  
> future project, where I will make 20 or so of em- in stainless.
> Making an extremely ridiculous stainless steel set of bull horns for a  
> hood ornament for the truck, and piddling around using up scrap.
> 
> ries
> 
> 
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
> 
>> long time. no mail.
> 
> If I didn't have mail from the NS Linux list, I'd be having withdrawal
> symptoms.  Twitch-twitch...  :-)
> 
> But this is the "Heaven" season here. So many outdoor things to do.
> Digging potatoes -- well, exhuming them from under the seaweed --
> collecting apples and pressing cider, getting the last of the winter's
> wood under cover, glazing and installing the new window sash to
> replace the 140 year old sash that literally disintegrated, nursing
> the tomato plants through the last days of summer for just one more
> peck of vine-ripened tomats, getting the micro-greenhouse organized to
> keep tomatoes and basil past the soon-to-appear killing frost, walking
> around with coffee cup in hand admiring the purple asters and
> goldenrod and dragonflies.
> 
> ObSmithing:
> 
> Working on the window sash, which appears to be mostly original to our
> 1860s/1880s house, I'm reminded that a house wasn't built in a day.
> There are wire nails, cut nails and hand-forged nails in the wood.  As
> well, there are cut nails that appear to have been hand-headed after
> they left the nail-making machine.  I'll have to put a few under the
> scope and see if I can spot any evidence of what kind of tooling was
> used.
> 
> This was a pretty nice house (for very rural Nova Scotia in the 1880s,
> anyhow) but probably not nice enough to order specialty nails.  So I
> haven't spotted any butterfly nails but quite a few "finish" nails
> made by putting a smallish-to-medium hand-forged nail on the anvil and
> just mashing the head cold from one side so that, in one direction,
> it's the same thickness as the shank.
> 
> 
> - Mike
>