WTD Howl

Pinhead Be With You

Pinhead the last only cicken abides:

I have colonized close to two hundred naturally occuring....foreign invasive if you want to put it that way...pear trees on these four or five acres and that is too many to control, but I am doing a few more this year, and here is one that took well last year. You can see what is left of the wax I used to seal the wedge in split graft. I like the natural bastard trees too, every tree an individual, all descended from French Jesuit Priests, so to speak.

That Snow Spring Chicken

A good time to be a feathered biped.

Bull Roarer Experiments

i experimented with two different sizes of bull roarers that I have recently made. What is a "Bull Roarer?" you ask. It is an ancient instrument that creates a sound, much of which is below the human range of hearing...more down there with whales...but which can affect our brains without a conscious level of hearing. BullRoarers have been used to for long distance signaling, for scaring the bejezess out of superstiious people, for altering your brain waves, or, of course, for rounding up whales. You should try this at home. Might be useful for decapitating dandilions when gathering them for making dandilion wine. But watch out for your brain.

Polarding the Willow

This Willow by the chicken house pond was once just a little whip I cut and brought from the Ithaca City Cemetery, but now it is getting all out of scale with the pond and all, so I took out the bigger shooting branches since the last cut, using my Dewalt ak47 demolition saw, and if that doesn't sufice, I will cut it clear across at the top of the stump as with a proper polarding, and I mean business.

setting free the island