SNOW!!!!!!!

Finally it snowed. We woke up and it was falling and it continued to fall all day. We got about 6 inches.


We all enjoyed sledding down the hill behind our house.

And then, there is the little brother that wants to be pulled up the hill.

Even Dad went down once.

One of our most enjoyable part of the snow was shaking the trees in the woods and letting the snow fall all over us.

Timbers!!!!!! (or snowers)

After these adventures we attacked the camera man with snowballs.

And the last thing still standing in our yard is Zac's snowman which he built.

Here are two hand forged knives that I made. This one is called a tanto.

This one is no particular kind but I use it to butcher my deer. I got this one sharp!!!!

My Forge

Here are two pictures of my forge. I have a friend who is a blacksmith and he taught me a little about blacksmithing. After trying to use an open fire for heating and treating my metal I decided that it was not doing the job. So I (with help from my brothers) loaded the jeep with cinder blocks from my landlords house and hauled them to my house. Building the forge was the easy part. After laying the blocks in a orderly fashion we filled in the cracks with clay/mud. One part of the forge that is not shown in these pictures is the bellows which I installed later. I made them out of a pieces of PVC pipe running under the forge and then pointing up. At the end of the PVC pipe I strapped an old hair dryer. The blow dryer blows air into the PVC pipe and up under my hot coals giving them great heat. I am having great fun with it and it is doing the job well.

A few pics from our Christmas

Zac and Jacob helping make Christmas cookies…

Bruce’s parents came down on Christmas day from Virginia to visit for a few days. When they arrived, they shared a few gifts with us, but first we had a feast…

The surprise of the gifts was a special present for Bruce … HAIR!

Just about everybody wanted to be pictured with me having hair… again :)

Zachary is getting his domino's ready

Zac was planning on his gradparents upcoming visit at Christmas when he knew he would be playing domino's against his Papa.