Latest cutting, it’s fowl
Latest cutting…

10×13

Latest cutting…

10×13

Cut this up for a friend…


I was asked to cut this train for a friend of the gentleman who did some work on the ceiling of my living room… I made a few changes to the original pattern I had made and on the copy I made for him I included the name “Paul” in a simple font type…
Latest cutting… I took this to work to show one person how I use a saw, and another person asked to buy it off me with in a minute.

I’ve attempted this before but without much success…
Either I didn’t use enough oil or I had my over too hot. I’ll try this style later this week, thanks Adam!

Made a wine run out to Eastern Missouri this last weekend and of course we were able to locate a couple of geocaches while we were out and about. 
We went to the Pickle Springs Natural area… this is a 2 mile trail that transverses everything from bluffs to bottom meadows. There are keyhole rock formations and domed rocks, springs and hollows. A great walk.
We met up with a person who had inadvertently found a hidden geocache container and had returned to replace it after finding out what it was she had found…
(wow, 3 “had”s in that line…)
This area is made up with a lot of sandstone, that had washed out holes in the rocks and made for some very unique formations. Slots carved out of the stone and caves abound in the area.
There were also 2 or 3 springs in the area, talk about scenic!
Some of the outcroppings
were just amazing…
Well another back road mini-adventure on the last day of September. Found 4 and placed 1.

Weather was excellent and we located a nice cache container that we hadn’t seen before… actually we found 2 of this same container type while searching. I didn’t want to place a picture of it because I didn’t wish to give away the caches hiding spot.
There was also a sneaky frog watching the site.

See ya on the trail.
Second cutting done on the Hawk RBI. These were completed on Christmas Day and some tissue paper was used for the background on this one.
I’m not sure if I like the color or not… the black background gives contrast seems to make the wood stand out, at least to me.
Many of the places we get to are a bit hard to get to…

This is one of those caches that we had to log as a “DNF” or a (Did Not Find)
It was located up a long wooded hill with one side being a bluff with a creek at it’s bottom. Horses and bike riders use this area also (it’s a Missouri Conservation Area) and seemed to be well kept until the cemetery area that was left for the families to tend. The DNF came about because the coords lead to one of the headstones, for “Mary” then your suppose ta go 100′ east….
. There were a few dating to the civil war area.
Well this is one of the great reasons to do this hobby.
With fall showing itself in the trees and brush, finding some of these little known spots, that makes one realize where they come from and eventually where one may end up.
Besides just getting out and about, you go to locations in your local area that you would never of visited. This little cemetery was called haunted in it’s description, but if it was, the only spooks we found were friendly ones.
This location was very well kept and new stones were being placed for some of the older ones that were falling down… 