Well sometimes a girl just needs a place to kick it......:)
I am getting a new Grand Daughter.
She will be here next week.
Uncharacteristically, the bed is going to get delivered this weekend.
Usually delivery of a baby's bed happens on the first week baby is among us, the extra pressure bearing down.
The first week or so is usually spent in dresser drawer.
This time, I have been through a broken finger and ear infection and a horror show of an attack of once-in-every-7-year mites....... Screaming off into the night with a trillion fiery bites alight. ...............(I, no kidding, took a bath in Sargents Flea and Tick soap one night, and shot my own favorite ball cap with Raid, on purpose.)
But the first coat of genuine Paddy O'deen, lemon flavor shellac, (kept cool in the dark all this time, and mixed just yesterday), is on. O'Deen in an old friend who helped relaunch the popularity of shellac, about 1 1/2 decades ago)
Don't worry about the age of well-cared-for shellac.
I could hardly get it off the brush it wanted to set up so fast. And this on a cloudy day, still moist air, from yesterdays rain.
A cross between Santa's sleigh, Captain Kid's ride, and a Stanley Excelsior pattern #9 1/2 block plane was the inspiration.
Its all local black oak and sugar pine. The pine has just a little "blue" here and there. I love the blue stain this gets sometimes. Some people consider it a defect and dispose of it, but I consider it rare and beautiful.
Kali's place.
yours Scott
