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1964: after high school life begins. Asked to consider not returning to OSU after the first year. 1966 drafted; grunt, door gunner, HU1 pilot. Out in Dec '70. 1972 married, joined fire dept and bought first house over a 6 month span. 1980 moved family (which now consisted of wife Teri, daughter Amy and son Ryan) to CO. 1990 moved all to bush Alaska to work for the dark side (the FAA). Started Blog to keep family and friends up on our whereabouts. Retired in March 2010. In Feb 2012 sold house in Alaska. By May had bought in Redmond and completed the move. Still nesting in Redmond and loving it!

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

More Wood

The Alaska Teagues are here and I took them and Emil out to visit a guy (Glen Burleigh) that salvages and saves Juniper from firewood harvests and fires in the local area.

He looks like he's been here forever and from the look of his shed, he has.

He strips the bark of newly dead trees to prevent a beetle investation.

Then he logs part of it and tries to extract the uniqueness of each tree.  And no two are the same.

We finally settled on two slabs from the same tree that have a lot of promise.

Here are some of the things that Glen found in the trees.


He has tons of resawn slabs that have great potential for musical instruments so Emil took some home to see if there were any ukeleles in there. You can see some of his work here.   roadtripukuleles.com

I have been hoping to fine new local woods for projects and I think this is going to be fun!

Supposed to rain tomorrow but I don't believe them.

Enjoy Spring!