Rules, Regulations, and simple how-to instructions for a longlasting, natual looking horseshoe pit.

Springing the Blues Festival

in Jacksonville, Florida

Free Blues concert with great talent on the beach in Jacksonville, Florida.  You don't have to tell me twice.  We went and loved it.

We had fun if you couldn't tell.

Lineup & festival pictures from 2007.

During out last visit to Argentina, we went to Puerto Iguazu in northern (the hottest part) Argentina.  I can't describe it...just check out the pix & videos.

Not the most permanent solution but unique, fitting and pretty.  Very easy.

Click the picture or the title above for some simple instructions for making your own.

Aripuca Park

in Northern Argentina.

Miriam & I went to amazing places in Argentina and this is of them.  A wood preservation park that "rescues" discarded trees cut by the overzealous lumber industry and turns the wood into useful and beautiful products and artistic expressions.  A relaxing and beautiful escape.

Renovating part of a very

very very old barn to be a shop.

The picture on the right is after we poured the floor (months into the project). This is my cement crew.  Good looking bunch, huh?  Good workers too. 

Click to view photos from thee entire process:  from removing the old foundation to wiring for the woodworking machinery that's coming. In progress.  New pictures added frequently.

Added January 3, 2007

The Frowning Clown

from the Center of Town

Daniel's ode to a sad clown

Added March 28, 2006

Click here to find out what happens to the Frowning Clown from the Center of Town.

picture by Sawtooth Center Art Camp student. 

Some pictures and a few videos from fall 2006 on the farm. 

Added November 10, 2006

Updated January 23, 2006

Our Crazy Louisiana

Swamp Tour

Gators that eat marshmallows, snakes slithering side us, deadly lightning spiking, metal boats burning out, exotic pheasants preening....

Check it out for yourself.  Our simple day excursion during the New Orleans Jazzfest  three day break gets dangerous. 

Wild deer tries to make friends video. 

Added October 5, 2006

A poem dedicated to

my Grandma Effie Baird.

Added March 22, 2006

Excerpt:

Today is a new day,

A new beginning...

Not  an end.

A chance to strengthen ties,

renew lost contacts,

send the Love 

we sometimes forget to send...

This poem continues.  Click to read more

The Easiest Stone

Walkway Plans Ever.

No See-ment, No leveling...

just dig hole, insert rock,

repeat.  Shampoo style directions.

But for more details on

this project click picture.

Added October 20, 2006

Button cap and stool of toad

Lace the dewy wooded road.

Stem of life or chair of death

Feed the soul or steal the breath

Puffball box of devil's snuff

Hiding in the meadow rough,

Still awaits a tramping foot

To let fly its pregnant soot.

The festival was August 10, 11 & 12th.  Once again the best blues festival we attended this year.  One of the best lineups, the best venue and some damn fun people.

Added September 11, 2006

King Dot of Dotville

outlaws music!

Daniel's story of what happens when music is banned in a little kingdom called Dotville.

Excerpt

They burned all the tapes, cd's -
and the racks.
Nothing was safe...
not even 8-tracks!

Soon, when this started,
in fact...the very same day,
a few unscrupulous businessmen
began to plan a new way...

click to read the poem

Simple, beautiful, inexpensive & very effective door design.

We have ones on our farm that must be 150 years old or older.  Who can argue with that kind of success?

Posted August 31, 2006

Photos of our best friend

in progress

Added March 20, 2006

Updated July 17, 2006.  Be sure to check out the pond jumping video titled Freedom Flies In!

Elizabeth (my sister), Peggy (her mother-in law), Frances (my mom) & Heather (my niece) make quality handmade  jewelry.

Visit their site to see their incredible selection.

Daniel's Top 10 Tips for Inventors

click here to read tips

push play (on right) to watch demo

video of my newest product.

Some tips I've put together from my last 9 year hobby of inventing and new product development/sales. 

push play to watch demo

video of one of my product ideas

Click here to get to Tips on Inventing.

Some videos and pictures of ways we  haul, cut, store & dry lumber.  First added July 18, 2006.

In Progress.  I will be adding to this as we start making wood flooring and getting even further into that kind of stuff. 

Our old flowerboxes looked like a train wreck.  Miriam had been asking for new ones for a while. So...one weekend recently I got some cedar boards we had laying around and made new ones. 

The process turned out to be so simple,  I thought I should share it with others.

Added June 20, 2006

Below is taken from email dad sent when he emailed the poem to my sister and me.

A beautiful poem written by my dad to my mom. 

Posted September 10, 2006

Frances (mom)

We love to go cycling there. 

Over 7 miles of bike paths.

A recreational feast. 

Fishing, boating, biking, walking, enjoying!

Also, check out the pictures of the lake in the fall...

Added June 20, 2006

We went for 5 days and lived in a modern log cabin with Jim Berkemier (a rebel with a cause).  He teaches landowners how to produce and install mixed species flooring as well as forest conservation and a host of other things.

An amazing time.  We learned so much.

Such a beautiful trip. 

Added June 21, 2006

Blues & BBQ in the

Beautiful Blue Ridge.

Miriam and I went to Roanoke, Virginia for the Blues.  Made some new friends, danced, saw Tinsley Ellis for the first time.  Mel Melton and the Wicked Mojos showed up too.  Even the Big Hurl of Fat Daddy (pictured to right) - made an appearance! 

Added Aug 22, 2006.

While we were in Wisconsin, this was a little night project that I would work on after the day of learning about flooring production was over. 

Have a super swing in no time. 

Needed:  A board,  rope, tree, ladder or good climber.

What are you waiting for?

Click here for how-to photos and more.

Learn how to tie a Cow Hitch Variant Knot.

Added April 10, 2006

Riverwalk Blues

Festival February 2006

Partying to the Blues in Fort

 Lauderdale Florida. 

Added March 4, 2006

Build a sawhorse

for less than $8.

Daniel's free, easy plans!

Added March 4, 2006

Before & After of our cabin

Added March 5, 2006

Added March 28, 2006

...He speaks with great skill

like the most practiced bard.

His words ease their worry

and "yes oh yes" he says...

"we take Visa & Mastercard."

click to read more

In Progress  Updated June 15, 2006

Added March 15, 2006

Easy to build

 beautiful & practical wood gift.

Added March 25, 2006

Added April 6, 2006

I've studied advertising and worked in marketing for the last 2 decades.  Whew..feeling old bout now. 

Added June 2, 2006