Been keeping busy since my hiatus of regulated work. So I guess I'm a sort of early/semi retired. But been busy that ever spending the majority in the shop building something. It has been strange not having to get up and go feed the machine, but mentally soothing and healthy. So along with making everything I can think out of bourbon barrels and trying to kick start this business venture forward. I did make a swivel rocker barrel chair. I didn't have enough leather for it , so I disassembled a shirt that had made a few years back ,but didn't wear much. It worked perfect all the way down to reusing the fringe. As a child of the 70's the westerns were the thing. So a full size cedar cowboy with some of my old horse riding day stuff, and a moving head and gun arm was one of my favorite things I've made lately. Trying to get things going online, but I'm an analog man in a digital world. We'll see all I know is I worked my ass off for 40yrs, being gone and stuck in some hotel somewhere, which paid well, but at what cost I often ask. All I know now is I couldn't be happier going to the shop and doing or making whatever this disturbed mind can conger up. So far it has been sparse, the don't call us starving artists for nothing. As I know my time is ticking away I find that content and happiness is the most fulfilling. Life is a trail of many forks, we'll just see where this one leads even converted my first dulcimer into a 5 string with gear tuners.
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