On the surface it may appear that working on puzzles is just an old fashioned waste of time. Much to my surprise I’ve found it to be an extremely relaxing and thought provoking experience. Living a life surrounded by technology and computers, I find myself longing for the low tech. This has helped fuel…
Follow-up to yucca cordage video…
I just posted the product review of the Leatherman Wave up on YouTube.
I posted the first in a series of Suburban Bushcrafting videos- Making Yucca Cordage, on YouTube today. Here’s the link… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OKDqEwr8S8&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00] update- 20100110- updated post tags
Having just returned from a vacation in a mountainside cabin in Sevierville Tennessee where the hillsides were filled with birds and other wildlife, I realized how we have yet to see a single squirrel or chipmunk since moving to our new house this past May. We have several rabbits and toads, but no squirrels and…
I posted a new video today. I still have some work to do on the video quality when it gets to YT, but I’m glad to have it posted… More to come. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WaT9zPYwjk&hl=en&fs=1&]
This morning I posted my first YouTube video. It’s a gear review of DartMaster’s Solo series dart case. Short video that was created primarily as a proof of concept (POC) for some other video ideas I have. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgsqleAzSk&hl=en&fs=1&]
Example of the racks I made- spisblog_lograck_plans.pdf To help familiarize myself with the recently installed Inkscape Vector Graphics Program (on my Linux box), I created a simple plan for the log racks I built last fall. This was my first use of this application, so the drawing is not to scale and can use a…
One of the tasks that’s been on my home project list for while is the installation of some heat control window film. All of the windows in the house have Pella’s build-in solar blinds except the transom windows in our great room, the half-round in the loft and the basement daylight windows. On sunny days…
Our new house has nearly two dozen can lights filled with 65w incandescent spot bulbs. While they are nice and bright, they seem to be an energy hog. The test plan will be the replacement of the five incandescent bulbs in the kitchen- (5 @ 65w= 325wph replaced with 5 @ 14= 70wph). That will…