Keeping busy

Keeping busy in the woodshop is part of my physical therapy from having had a stroke on December 1, 2024. 

I work for a while and then go back to sit and rest... Then go back to work until I feel tired. 

The white oak was harvested here on our small wood lot  and stored in my barn to dry. I had to cut it down to 14 3/4 in. to pass through the planer, then shaped it, routed the edges and sanded to 120 grit.

Next come legs, aprons, mortise and tenon joints and a drawer. It is all slightly larger than the hall table I made last week and will fit nicely in an office or home. The wood is particularly lovely. Wide, free of defects and lovely.

There are those who do not experience the creative joy that making entails. Surely we can have the machine and imported labor do things for us, and be diminished by it.

Or we can make other choices.

Make, fix and create...