Monthly Archives: May 2011

Memorial Day – Remembering the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial

From the window of the airplane I could see the whole east coast buried under a blanket of new snow. An early December storm in 1982 had turn the world white and this California boy hoped that he had packed … Continue reading

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21 Guns – A Poem for Memorial Day

Twenty-one Guns   The tour bus rumbles past the quiet monuments to the fallen. Shutters click as the tour guide speaks the litany of the shrine, that once was the Lee estate. Now it is that hallowed ground where solders … Continue reading

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From The Workshop – Table Saw Stand

I built my table saw stand over the weekend.  It wasn’t a difficult build – except for the part where one middle-aged man had to wrestle with a 4×8 sheet of plywood in a very small space.  My shop space … Continue reading

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Into the Workshop – Table Saw Stand

Today it is time to get into the wood shop and create some saw dust.  Hopefully one or two useful projects will come out too. One of the first will be this table saw stand for my DeWalt 744.  It … Continue reading

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