Good tidings and joy!
Today begins the Twelve Days of Tooltide and a new song for all woodworkers.
This song will lift you from post-holiday doldrums and carry you, all bright and shining, into the first week of the new year. As with the making of dovetails, dowels for a stick chair or deciding which finish to apply to a table, the singing of this song requires commitment. Remember to reward yourself with a full glass of your choice of good cheer.
You can also read a woodworking take on the original bird in the pear tree here.
–Suzanne Ellison
p.s. Thanks to the person who brought a handmade hummingbird to Handworks and gave it to Megan to pass along to me. The little bird is lovely!
p.p.s Thank you for the very kind comments to my story “The Long Night” published on Thursday. I was up to my elbows in flour all day trying to finish holiday baking and couldn’t break away to respond.
Merry Christmas! (I don’t want to give Chris the vapors on Christmas but that would actually make a very nice poster.)
And on goes the debate of why you reaaalllyyy need 8 smothers.
Good morning all and Merry Christmas, loved the 12 days of tool tide. Pretty cool, now the song is stuck in my head, lol. Hope you all have a wonderful day with your families and animals.
The SaucyIndexer must be a whiz on Photoshop/GIMP or functional equivalent! I particularly appreciate the use of language-appropriate honorifics in the credits, and second the poster or print-your-own idea.
Happy winter celebration of choice, mine is the Nativity.
May your dimensions be right,
your layout be tight,
your hole be round,
the chuck key be found,
may the DRO tell the truth,
and your work be without a goof.
Merry Christmas