Yesterday

Time tunnelling, it is actually the 15th, but I am post dating to document the seat construction. The eye injuries from the end and beginning of the year are pretty much healed now. I cut two planks off of the chunk of trunk that had been left in a clump of bamboo right at the bottom of the dam wood yard as mentioned in yesterday's post. I didn't think it was worth trying to shift the thing to get a better work position, so I was basically scrabbling about on the ground as usual to manhandle the chainsaw through its course. Nailed on one batten up at the top end of the log and then sighted up from the other end to nail on the other batten. The two rails are then laid on those battens and the chainsaw guide runs on them. The underside of the log had a huge rotted branch in it, so I used one end of the remainder by cross cutting two diagonal slabs that will form the back rests of the chairs. Meanwhile sammy worked away at the woodpile to cut up logs for two truck loads of firewood. We left a few pieces from this log as the truck had worked pretty hard and we didn't want to break its back with a few straws more. Hopefully pick them up some day soon.