Thread: Green Sea Turtle Two

I've enjoyed living in big cities like Melbourne and Vancouver. Smaller places like Saskatoon and Prince George.
While I'm not bucking a trend, I think that older people don't have the same ecological niche requirements that the 30+ seem to have. Therein comes great diversity.
My mountain village is 475 (on weekends). 100 would move away if they could afford the gas.
My wants, my needs, are reasonably satisfied. When I need to buy clothes, I can come to the city.
I could hunt every day of the 10 week grouse season if I felt like it. Nice to shoot some clays with a 7,000' backstop berm, huh?
I hang out with woodworkers and ranchers. I rent space in 2 stores to sell my kitchen sticks.
I sell new grape vines in the farmers markets in the summer. Maybe wine vinegar next summer.
Harvest time, I did the U-Pick grapes thing. Only 1/4 of the crop (65lbs/vine), we shall see what 2014 brings.

In the meantime, our winter is my wood carving season. I try to get a lot of the rough bashing done in the summer for the real carving in the winter. Many hours per day if life lets me.
The GST is important. Tonight, I got in a couple of productive hours on the Raven dishes.
Maybe tomorrow, I have another go at the frog platter, like some girls I know = nice legs.

Nice going RV, very detailed WIP, it's looking good, what finish will you go for, a wet look like it's just come from the water or a duller finish?

Originally Posted by springwater

I would've thought dust would give you bother where you are, just thought dust came with dryness stirred up by Willy Willy's or such like.

RV this is what we would call some Fair Dinkum Aussie Lingo, a "willy willy" is what you might call a dust devil over there.

I have enjoyed your WIP so far and look forward to seeing the rest when you get back to it.

Cheers, Ian

The first (little) GST got 4 coats of MinWax Tung Oil Finish, each about a week apart.
It's as wet-looking/glossy as I could ever want.
Unless something comes along in the meantime, this beast will get carved slate stone eyes (black)
and the same TOF. The legs & head will be glued in with pairs of 3/8 wood dowel plugs.

I remember seeing willy-willy in the outback. Just 4 years and I didn't get as far afield as I would have liked.
I wanted to walk around on the Nullarbor and vist Launceston/Hobart/Tassie. Not yet.
Dust devils are far more common in really hot WX, further east of the Rockies on the great plains.
The stone dust just blows off the peaks all the time.
Kinda sorta fell in love with the Ovens Valley and the Bogong High Plains in the winter. I went up there lots of times
with my winter hiking buddies ( a German and an Italian, grad students like myself).
The pub in Porepunkah. . . . ah yes, we knew it well. Another high grade product was an instant coffee that we called Bushell's Instant Bulldust.