This Week

This week I have been reorganizing the basement of our apartment, with the goal of making it so I can actually work in my workshop. It is nearly done and the last two days I have been finishing up some bowls that I started on last summer. I also made a lamp out of a section of an oak tree for a bedside lamp. I will try to post some pictures soon. While reorganizing the house so we can put all our stuff away we found out there is no good place to put our snowboards so I did a little research and designed wooden snowboard hangers that allowed me to hang my board over the stairwell, a effective and pretty solution.
While I have been woodworking Bergen is learning about web design and has a practice site up at BergenHowlett.com. She bought EvanHowlett.com as well and hopefully after I have some more items finished up I will be able to sell them online.


On another note.

I have been dreaming about going for a multi day camping trip for a month, but it has been in the low 20s at night here and would be in the mid to low teens up in the mountains where I would like to go. So camping is postponed a while. When we do go I will be bringing the camera and will post photos and such when we get back. What I really like to do is go motorcycle camping out near our cabin by Davis WV. I have been figuring out how to carry all that we need to camp. While doing this I have been thinking about how nice it would be to own an adventure touring bike like a BMW f650gs which would be perfect for the type of riding we would like to do. But that is a fair way in the future. Our current bike, a 1982 cb450sc a dandy little bike by any standard, though it is small for two people let alone both of us and camping gear. It has been a wonderful first bike. It cost only 500 dollars with 2900 mile on the clock and no rust other than some small pitting of the exhaust. so far the odometer is up to a little over 4000 and it is just about broken in. I couldn't be happier with it for beginner bike.