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06-08-2019 , 05:06 PM

#301

Zeno

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,356

A couple of posts in 2003, if I recall correctly.

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06-08-2019 , 11:18 PM

#302

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

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I've been telling people for years that Zeno is really Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, now he's finally admitting it.

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06-09-2019 , 12:46 PM

#303

Zeno

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06-09-2019 , 04:24 PM

#304

Ray Zee

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she was also ambassador to ghana and czechoslovakia.

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06-12-2019 , 04:10 PM

#305

Zeno

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I finished the Myrtlewood side table that I’ve been working on for awhile. The small myrtlewood slab is from a tree that I needed to hack down being too close to the home. I let the slab season for over two years before starting work on it. The legs are steel, called hairpin style. I left the bark on the side and unfinished to give a more rustic look to the table. The top is finished in semi-gloss polyurethane. That brings out and brightens up the grain more than a wax that I tried first but it was too subdued and I felt that more gloss and grain emphasis was needed.

Mr. Zee can come down and pick up it for a nominal fee.

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06-12-2019 , 04:14 PM

#306

Da_Nit

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Nice table, I’m a noob in relation to this and many things but to season for a table is it essentially the same as firewood?

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06-12-2019 , 05:15 PM

#307

Zeno

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Not really - many slabs of wood that you wish to make into a table should be seasoned for years - not just the one year (hard wood) or six months (soft wood) usually required for firewood.

You need the longer time to allow the slab to crack/warp or just dry naturally into its final form and shape. I've seen people season say black walnut or redwood for 3-5 years. It also depends on the thickness of the slab and your local humility/weather and how you store it etc. Obviously, large and thick table slabs required more time that a 1 or 1.5 inch thick smaller slab of wood.

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06-12-2019 , 08:43 PM

#308

Ray Zee

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really nice zeno you are a true craftsman for sure. and it was great the way you made it turn out to look like someones butt. even down to the crack.

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06-14-2019 , 05:53 PM

#309

Zeno

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Local place where I can get growlers filled:

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07-02-2019 , 08:40 PM

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Zeno

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Doe with twin fawns been hanging about my place. Cute little things. The cats thinking they are small enough to stalk.

One cat chased one of the fawns (hidden by foliage on far left of photo) into the tiny creek:

Last edited by Zeno; 07-02-2019 at 08:52 PM.

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07-02-2019 , 11:41 PM

#311

Ray Zee

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fun

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07-04-2019 , 12:31 AM

#312

Phat Mack

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Gazebo! 4th of July band concert!

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07-05-2019 , 12:14 AM

#313

Zeno

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The Gazebo is great, too bad it is on my neighbor's property. I've room to build my own but have other priorities at the moment.

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07-12-2019 , 02:17 PM

#314

Zeno

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Garden is doing great, will soon have fresh peas. No pics, it would make everyone too jealous.

Lots of boats at the mouth of the Rogue, trolling for those famous Rogue salmon.

Beautiful day on the coast; God is being kind.

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07-12-2019 , 05:07 PM

#315

Ray Zee

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been nice out no wind to speak of and lots of the little native blackberries this year.

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07-12-2019 , 07:30 PM

#316

BrianTheMick2

Long way to go and a short time to get there.

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Originally Posted by Ray Zee

been nice out no wind to speak of and lots of the little native blackberries this year.

I was just through eastern and central Montana recently. It is far too yellow for my tastes.

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07-12-2019 , 07:31 PM

#317

BrianTheMick2

Long way to go and a short time to get there.

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By "god," I presume that you mean "July and August"

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07-12-2019 , 08:40 PM

#318

Ray Zee

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eastern montana is desolate and boring. central near the mountains can be nice but still sparse.

what the heck is being too yellow??

they are definitely right wing if that is what you mean.

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07-12-2019 , 09:08 PM

#319

BrianTheMick2

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Originally Posted by Ray Zee

eastern montana is desolate and boring. central near the mountains can be nice but still sparse.

what the heck is being too yellow??

they are definitely right wing if that is what you mean.

I'm pretty sure the yellow was rapeseed/canola flowers in the grasslands.

I did like the mountains. They were mountain-shaped and not too yellow.

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07-13-2019 , 12:04 AM

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Ray Zee

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the canola is farmed in places that should still be grasslands or sage brush.

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07-15-2019 , 03:56 PM

#321

Oladipo

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It’s often said (amongst us from the western part of the state) that it would be nice if we could annex the eastern 2/3 of MT to the Dakotas

Obv biased but Northwestern MT is amongst the most beautiful places anywhere

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07-17-2019 , 02:27 PM

#322

Zeno

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The coast is being overrun by tourists; many from California, the sickest state in the Union.

In all my years about this place I've never seen so many tourist/vile traffic of every stripe from surfers/kite-boarders, to motorcyclist, to bicyclists it to the massive RV crowd. It's incredible.

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07-17-2019 , 09:03 PM

#323

Ray Zee

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they read your blog and figured a refined world traveler like you would only live in a wonderful uncongested spot so here they come brother.

buy a gas station.