A couple days ago mia_mcdavid suggested that we skip colgaffneyis show in Mankato this weekend. I agreed. As she wrote, we have been both busy and sick lately. While parts were really fun, last weekend overall was very hard for me. So here we are in Roseville. I had scheduled two vacation days for Mankato and decided to use them anyway, just to relax, recover, and putter here. We slept in until 9 AM this morning. Down in Mankato it was show time–the first busloads of school kids would be arriving in camp at that time, but colgaffneyis has enough people on site to handle them.

So I have done a little woodwork this morning–adding some finishing touches to a stool I made from scrap wood this weekend. I rounded the legs with a spokeshave, so their origin in an ordinary Home Depot 2×2 is less obvious. The seat was made from an old and weathered 2×8. I have forgotten where it came from. The legs were tapered at one end to fit through 1 1/4″ holes in the seat. I drilled the holes with a bit brace. The legs are splayed out to achieve better balance. This is something I have been wanting to practice–working with non-90^o angles. It is simple for Norm Abrams, but the old-timers did it by hand. The result is OK. The angles do not perfectly match, but the stool is stable enough to sit on, and that is what counts.

I also put away some of our reenactment gear–swords, dirks, my half-pike, and one of the targes. The other is around here somewhere; it did come home from White Bear Lake.