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There's a difference between vocational working and having a job. One is an occupational calling to live a certain working lifestyle regardless of anything else, whilst the other is to 'do' a job that makes money to live, but carries with it scant reward of fulfilment.

Be still and know!

Be still and know!

As a new sun rises beyond the hills and river beyond my bedroom, the green tips of the maples dot the dark reaches below like sparkling yellow jewels waiting for the full sun. The rats of concern scurry in the dark reaches and I pluck them one by one and

More texture in the RWC

More texture in the RWC

Today was varied with a range of tasks completed. The new vises came in from Veritas and so Tom and Gary were able to get on with two days of fitting vises. The outside of the workshop continues with siding and trim and of course we still have to tie

Creative workspace—cupboards

Creative workspace—cupboards

Outside the siding is going on, painting too. Hung cedar shakes transform the insulated innards to visual texture and colour in keeping with a counter-facility to the factorial production facilities so common today.We reach into the future with an alternative reality as we establish both a furniture making workshop

Texture

Texture

Texture—grain, life Is it just me or is there something wrong with this picture? In Lowes, the big US construction lumber and hardware supplier, they are selling pine grown in New Zealand that looks, feels and weighs-in identically to the Eastern white pine growing here in the woods around

Another day in the life of NL

Another day in the life of NL

It was busy all day the way through until around 11pm. Electrical work and plumbing, some flooring and siding whilst on the non-construction side we finally had the last of the benches in the hand tool workshop and freed up the machine shop. With only vises left to fit and

More on creative workspace

More on creative workspace

Today I am stopping in at The Home Depot, my least favourite place to go buy lumber in general, but I am doing it for you, to buy wood for my tool cupboard and storage cabinet. Later on I will be visiting a lumber sawmill here in the woods. That