Another year of the twenty first century. Boy they do keep flying by ehh? Tonight at 11:55 seven years ago, the year the computers were supposed to CRASH, Bic and I lit a final cigarette. That had been the last puff of tabacco that I have had. Bic had a little cheat while I was working in England that winter, I think she had one or two and then came to her senses. Quiting cigs was tough, and still to this day there are times when my brain tells me, ohh a cigarette would taste so good right now. I know someone who had quit for 14 years, and still that piece of the brain would taunt her. I still have spent most of my years smoking. OK THIS IS BORING.
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR

Good Morning.
Hope all is well.
Hope that you slept well.
Hope you all have a great day,
With plenty of good food to eat.
Hope you have a warm sunny day,
With the company of good family or friends.
By all means have a great evening,
And a very .........Good Night !
Mic'nBic

Yesterdays..."Fun On The Hill"

These narly brush piles are hard to keep going. I lost my Bic to overworked, who could blame her? And company coming this weekend, she really wants to do that..."inside thing"......................................
I haven't swung a splitting mall since 1995 , it did feel kinda good, for a very short time.

Easy Fire......

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Clik Da Flag

We worked hard yesterday!!!!!!!

How I ended my day. I Love Fire!

More of this today.....Yippee

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Amersterdam....blow me up a Palm Tree..


This photo sent in by my brother, who hopefully is gonna have a very happy birthday today !!

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A not slumped glass lamp.

A Good Guy..... Goes Down.

Keep On Smiling Lu...

Make sure you click on this one!!!!!

Mother Goose...Safety Rhymes,........C.M.Bartrug

Tryed to fix

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Ribs Anyone?

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Slumped Glass... Purty Ain't It ?

I Ate To Much........

Sinopsis
What it is: Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.
Why you do it: Because you were weaned improperly as an infant.
Your punishment in Hell will be: You'll be force-fed rats, toads, and snakes.
Associated symbols & suchlike: Gluttony is linked with the pig and the color orange

No Fire Permit...

So on friday afternoon I call for a fire permit [thats all I got to do is call in] so I can have a jolly "Christmass Flame" burning all weekend. [they issue weekend permits] Well figurin it was the friday before Christmass [NOT Christmass Eve] they all left early and did not answer the phone. So being the law abiding citizen I am, No Christmass Brush Burning For Me !!!


I call this pile....The Popular Pyro Place Poplar Pile.
It's all young poplar....Burn it baby...burn it.

I call these two....The Close Ones

I call this one ...The Pucker Pile

There's a mass of thorns, all around sharp dangerous spikes, and just brambly all stuck together vines, this one really sucked!!!

I call these ....The Down Unders

Not sure if you can tell but theres two piles on the left and one right in front to the right, which is another of those pucker %uckers. [sorry]

It's a battle,... I Will Win!

Just need some time and a bunch of fire permits.

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I love this painting..... I will visit someday

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The start of a design project by Bic....Yea!!!!!

To all, hope everyone got what they were wishing for. For Bic and I this year, it's just the two of us. It's all either one of us needs, to have a special day, well Luca too, and a coupla presents all helps make a wonderful day. We truly are blessed with all the friends and family around the world, to each and every one we look forward to our next encounter. Love to all.

Wishing Merry Good Cheer...
And A Happiness Filled Year...
To All !!!!

Attic Work

Attic Stuff

Mr. + Mrs. Jenks...July 1892

Chocolate-----Blue

No theme today

Starting bid of eighty five nine hundred dollars.

Starting bid of thirteen nine hundred dollars.

There just doesn't seem to be anything in my mind today in regards to posting a blog. I was planning on getting the outside trim to a good stopping point before the real winter weather comes, then break out the new chainsaw and go to town downing trees and burning for a couple of weeks. Two weeks would put a big dent in that project. The temps are so mild, some of the trees are showing buds, and the daffodils are breaking ground. Bic had another idea which we really should get at, get a dumpster parked out back so we can get all the old 3/8 sheetrock out of the upstairs and the rest of the crap we got lying around. The only drawback to that is, I don't want to pull out any old insulation, this time of year. I priced new windows for the upstairs,
$3400,00 . I'd rather wait till the other side of the roof and dormers are done before I get to remodeling upstairs. The kinda plan is a large suite with bath, one small bedroom, and a large game room. Any way, I'm off to go shopping, my most funest thing to do in all the whole wide world. Yeh Thats Right, You Heard It From Me, Micky McShop.

Portico Update....

A little sharp at the ends, don't you think ?

The next step!

What's the glass to be......???

Mother Goose...Safety Rhymes,........C.M.Bartrug

Well folks, I spent some time trying to get this darn picture turned right side up, and while working at that, along popped up this pencil and a brush, so I did some scribblin, hope you don't mind.
Give me some time ,I'll figure the sideways thing out!!!

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Ten Mile, Tennessee

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Bic made this for the Cape house kitchen over head light, we couldn't leave it!

What a Peach !

Before the peach blight of the late 1920's, our little old 8 acres was part of a 375 acre peach orchard along the Clinch River. The blight and then the deppression, put a big hurt on this region.

Mother Goose...Safety Rhymes,........C.M.Bartrug

Sorry about ^ that.

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In 1988 when I purchased "Caprifol" she had a homemade one of these on board. Have no clue where that ended up.

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My BrothersTrike

I may go on the ocean in small ships, he goes up in the sky in a very small ship.

Old mail plane restored at Kimball's. I only made two pieces that went on that plane. where the crossed wires of the wings intersect, theres these pieces of wood that tie all the wires together and keeps them from vibrating. Bullet shaped.

Mother Goose...Safety Rhymes,........C.M.Bartrug

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Nothing like it the world when your in the southern lattitudes on a midnight watch by yourself,no moon and are totally in awe of the stars so bright, that come right up from the horizon, and then, Whap! right up the side of the head by one of these buggers. Nothing like it in the world, you had to be there!

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Mother Goose...Safety Rhymes,........C.M.Bartrug

The four seasons of our Cape Cod house.

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That pic on top was the first day of cleaning her up. We had about six weeks to get her ready to head south. We did make it to the Florida Keys, but only with the help of a very good friend.
"Freelance" She was hard on us for maintainence, but we were real compfy living on her. Check out the fold down clamshell sink in our forward cabin.

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Our every year Christmass tree, by Bic.

Luca's Buddy's and Toys

Everybody Up

Be sure to click

Bear, Dino, Duck, and Yellow Cow.

She Knows Them All

pink thing, hamburger, red bone, rope, and a pretty beat up, rubber thing.

Favorites

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Plenty to do around here this Christmass Season!

Think thats where the water was coming in to the cellar, Duh!!

All Better!

Ready....

Set...

Smash.....

Ignore The Lime Green Chair In The Blue Room

The Big One ...Goes In Today!!!

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When Polly's In Trouble, I Am Not Slow, It's , Hip....Hip....Hip....And Away I Go

Simon Bar Sinister, You Better Beware, Sweet Polly Purebred, Is Now Under My Care

Theres No Need To Fear........Underdog Is Here

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Primal Boat !!

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Better Picture To Follow!!!!
Need more sunlight.

Is That A Happy ..Devil Dog?

Cleaned Up Version

Off to a new paying job today. But I won't build a set of stairs with an 8 inch rise! The house is wayyyyy to nice to screw up the master staircase.

The Place...New Hampshire....Picture The Scene


In that back yard thru the trees, many years ago stood a young man in a white tuxedo with a blue ruffled shirt. A weary traveling man was also there in a blue tuxedo. The bride was so beautiful in her wedding gown, that was made by her mother. Children growing up!!

Arn't We Just,..... To Cute?

What Is It ?

Before electronics, a ship used this 24/7

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Reading Rags in Mics Boom-Boom Room.

I guess this would be the one on the cusp of,.. to resubscribe or not. It used to be an almost all racer type mag, and state of the art sailing, but since Latts+Atts came out, theres been more for the cruiser.

This is my favorite [remember Sunny,..it's my favorite!] mag since I first read it. West coast biker guy, 300 lbs, goes world cruising for ten years and comes back to southern California and starts this mag. Huge success. Gets down to the nitty-gritty of living onboard, and cruising, or sitting at the dock. No fluffed up articles, just real stories from real sailors.

Nothing but wood. Been getting this pretty much from the beginning too. The rebirth of so many vessels, every one built with the hands of man. A wooden boat is truly a piece of art. Go inside one, and look closely!

A shame it only comes 6 times a year.

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She's back at it! All ground to fit, ready for copper foil.

Adventure Plus

If a guy or a gal wanted to really know how man deals with the sea.....ahh bla bla bla ....PLAIN AND SIMPLE... GREAT BOOK



First time I read this book, [ 3 or4 and if I had it in my hand I'd read it again]
I paused at the last page thinking, not enough! I'd been reading it since the late morning, and it was now almost sleepy time. I went to page one and read the first few chapters again. GREAT BOOK

Close Enough For Now

Shiny Transmission....ya, now what?

Stanley, the tranny man from Harryman can.... for about a day and a half of what I can make, you go Stanley, call me when it's done!

Christmas Cactus + Dwarf Pigmy Date Palm

This is about half of what we'll do for decorations this year!

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House Ornaments

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Bic's glass!....Waiting

Done Ducking!

No pics today, to tired. I had to hussle to get on drip edge, ice sheild, and felt. Winter is coming tomorrow in the form of rain or snow, blustery and just dang cold . The Big Thing Tomorrow.......If you noticed my scafolding from past pics, we been ducking a lot, no more ducking tomorrow.
Bic went for a real job interview today, went well.

Gettin there...

We Call'm Our Jingle Berries

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These bad boys go fast,fast, really fast on the winter glass!

Future Glass Post.....Oval....could be months!!!!

East Tennessee Mountains...Late 1800's

In this valley, they liked to cantilever their barns so the cattle could have shelter while feeding. I guess the figuring was two men, go on out, and fill'em a wagon 'a hay and bring it on in that middle hole, and that would let the two men pitch out, that wagon of hay into the lofts, and hurry on out to get that wagon full again. After all,....it was a "Hay Day"


This little cantilevered thing is a corn- crib, and all I know about that, is they put corn in it !!!

Wooden Hinge On That Crib Door

That corn eventually makes it to the grist mill and gets mashed into something that them hard working son'sabitches could eat!!!

Early settlers had to have , a blacksmith.

Great Grand Papa Bic....we thinks in Canada.

Sunday...Gonna Go Play Today...

Said goodbye to the last 9 days this morning.

Heading to the distant mountains.

Lest anyone NOT KNOW, click on the pic, then click on the expando-box in the lower right corner of the bigger pic, that will put you in the pic.

They Call It......Cades Cove......Smokey Mtn. Nat. Park

A beautiful flat valley in the midst of the southern Appalachian Mtns.

Pre 1800.... the Cherokee just passed thru. Hunter, gatherers, you know!

During 1800's... White man settled in with no problems from the Cherokee.

After 1830 ish, white man just kicked em all out of the whole south east. No Problem!!

Them white folk, were pretty clever ehh?

It would be to much text for me right now
to explain the usefulness of this design, we'll do that later.

Today On the Hill....Mick Built...Bic Burned !!

See why all these trees ...WILL... go away?

Gettin Closer To The Drip Edge....

Should I get The BALL For You ?...How Bout A Stick ?

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Varnished Hull.....we truly know how much effort that is to maintain! But look how beautiful !

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Can you find it?