have ideas... not mediums

Ok, anyone who knows me, watch for the following that I can get for free.


Stones, or rocks, at least 2.5 to 4 inches thick (or otherwise reasonable to pick up), can`t use a 2 ton rock. Ideally 1 square foot or so diam.., and manageable thickness. Want smooth stones, nothing that crumbles when looked at, it`s gotta stand up to being worked.

I am looking for wood of all sorts. I`ll buy wood, but this is about odd stuff I`d like to get for free to try some new stuff with. I`m looking for some thick branches of trees, and some smaller logs from trunks as well. I know I don`t want to spread those Beatles so make sure that the wood is legal to move. I`d hate for Paul or anyone make a comeback because of me.


I`m not interested in damaging landscape in any way so please, I am only talking of receiving, removing or accepting what would otherwise be waste...

I am also looking for old benches that were the craze for last 5 or so years, I`m sure all that cheap crap fell apart, or your falling thru it as I speak. I`ll take that please, don`t send it to the dump, I may even buy it.


If your in saskatoon or area and have ANYTHING you think I could use.... can`t hurt to email me. I could haul your junk away or make a deal or whateva, .,.... email me.

Pauny@shaw.ca

Off topic

This is off my usual topic for this blog but I gotta say something. It`s soooooo freakin hot and other things going on in my life that my brain is locked and I`m not working on any projects at the moment how ever I want to start another car portrait but I`m havin troubles gettin the picture I need to start with...


Anyway, here`s my off topic beef. I was watching a new show called "one in one hundred", ya ANOTHER reality game show, but this one is one of the best yet. They don`t drag out every part like in the other recent game shows.... This woman was on the show as a contestant, she has to answer a question correct and hope that the "mob" gets it wrong and so on.
She is so annoying that I had to mute the tv everytime they announced she got a answer right, now thats saying alot because Bob Saget is the host, and I crowned him most annoying back when he did America "funniest" videos.
So her question was, "How many six packs of beer would you have to buy to have the 99 beers on the wall like in the song." the answers she had to choose from were
a) more than 15
b) less than 15
c) exactly 15


Well She hmmmmmmsssss and haws, first thing she says is " Well I don`t drink beer" and then she says she had better get help from someone who knows something about beer. She picks two people from the mob, The first one says "I don`t drink beer, I drink wine" and she gives the wrong answer, the second one, a guy (and she choose this guy because he looked like he drank beer heavily) he gives the right answer but everyone is confused by his answer but I got how he got there, he used the MOST obvious solution.

COME ON! Who cares about it being beer, it`s grade 4 math!
ok 99 divided by six isn`t a math problem I could do in 3 seconds in my head, paper ya but... Thing is, you didn`t need to know the actual math answer, your working with 6 time 15 6x15="90)" so more than 15 cases!

and just as fast I thought 6 times 5 is an even number so C exactly 15 was automatically wrong.

I hate this part

Delivered the car tonight (ok so it was picked up) Hated to see it go....




















Oh well. Can`t keep em all........ so then NEXT!


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Thanks for this one Shane.

I love and admire storms. This one was of interest because my brother used to live in this town about 11 years ago. I know he`s mad he moved lol. Just kidding.

Turns out small world, friend of a or family of a friend got pictures...



















Never want them to cause anyone any pain, but I get so excited in a storm. Been caught in 2 tornadoes so far, hoping for many more. This pic is in Elie Manitoba from summer 07.

This pic is taken on the light box, and on such an angle so that the light coming thru the cuts would not ruin the picture, however it tricks the eye into thinking I turned a Firebird into a Cutlass.




















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Should be final post about the damn bench.

This is while I was patterning the bench.

I drew the pattern onto the wood with pencil.
















And then I burned the pattern.

Can`t seem to enter a title for this one....


Anywho, I finished the bench today. Learned alot, would love to do this again, keeping eyes out for discarded benches. I didn`t reuse the original wood because it was sooooo weak. These things are built so cheap... anyway, I wanted to beef it up a lot. Well it`s strong, but I had a hard time with the thickness of my choice and were it had to mate with the cast iron (now i`m in serious doubt that its iron, prolly some real cheap steel made to look cast)
Then about half way thru the thing I realized I could have saved myself a tone of work if I HAD used the original wood, it would have been alot stronger because I changed the width of the bench, (shorter planks are strong than that long original span)

And somehow I changed the darkness of this text and I don`t seem to be able to stop it now LOL
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And I got that paid project done. I didn`t want to post anymore because I hate to spoil it for the one thats gonna own it. This is the car cut and backlit on the light box. It still has the original pattern glued to the fron and so you cannot see anything wood.


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I Like how this turned out. Will deliver early next week.
Now this thing is underlineing everything, think I`m gonna sign out...

Storm chasin...sorta