forge it into a heart shaped candle holder. The ole bat loves candle holders. I might be able to find a laundress but can not replace the pastrys and cakes. Maybe she will

knock some sense into us and we will get around to getting some work done and make a

...semblance of a living instead of wasting our time on things that don't put food on the table. Anyway, as I was saying, I had decided to build a fire when...

...stone the crows! the local Ranger arrives with an infringement notice for disturbing the peace on a Sunday. For goodness sake I tell him...

Aah, Mate have you been trying to play with my mind? With a squint of his eye he said....

this could be providential because

I've been planning on moving things around so that I can expand the shop and add a microbrewry for mead and

a new powerhammer. The only problem let is that...

we never seem to get around to lighting the fire and doing some work ,so the mead might get us into the mood to get started on the

manure spreader and getting the shop fixed where the branch fell on it and telling my mother in law

that her pastries and cakes werent that good anyway and everyone is about tired of talking about her all the time because we have a lot of work to do and the list keeps growing
Now that the shop is repaired we will tackle the next item on the list which is ----

January's project of turning a perfectly good 20' chunk of round 1/4" stock into a perfectly good something else like a,,,,,,,

basket weave seat for the park bench that I've been working on for.......

the town which shouldnt take very long to do , it will just take forever to get paid because

the Mayor is my mother-in-laws' cousins stepson from his third marriage to his second cousin on his fathers side of the family over in the brush country down Uvalde way. And we know how THEY do bidness. That is neither here nor there if I don't get this fire lit! Now where did Jacko put..

my matches. They have been afraid to let me play with matches after my accident with the dynamite. All I did was...

forget to calculate the blast radius when I was helping to break up that hillside. I nearly...

brought the grid down, when the shock wave hit the Hoover dam,and they had to lower the water to look the wall over,still thats in the past,and i did get all the point dressing during the shut down whilst the damage was repared, to this day they still think it was

it was the matches fault , but in reality it was

...old man McGraff tending his moonshine still up on the hill side just above where I set off the charge. Boy he was mad. That still roled all the way down the hill and...

and right into the side of the the revenuer's '32 Ford!!!!

He had the old Ford loaded up and was fixing to make a run down to Morehouse parish. The impact really messed up the steering, so I told him to drag it down to my shop and I would fix it. Well, he drug that old Ford full of shine down to the shop and...

By the time we got her lined out again we had a terrible thirst. Boy was the wife proud. she's still .......

...a little tipsy and keeps wanting a ride. So old man McGraff and I put her in the middle, grabbed a jug and headed for the delivery. All of a sudden she gets all giggly and starts.....

going on and on about us never getting any work done in the shop because we cant seem to stop tending to everyone elses problems and I explain that it cant be helped because when your the village smith you are expected to -