I got a FROE!!

For the porch roof I want to put wood shingles on it. In my Foxfire books http://www.foxfire.org/ there is a story on how to make wood shingles. So today I ordered the tool that's used to make them.

It's called a froe and mine is new old stock. I kind of lucked into this one. I've been watching some on ebay and I pulled up the search a few days ago I noticed somebody had posted a new one. It had a sticker on it for "THE AXE HOLE" so i googled it up and it took me to their website. http://www.theaxehole.com/ I talked to Doc and he was so nice. He said his dad purchased a bunch of these when a logging co went out of business in the 50s but its never been used!

YEAH! i can't wait to get it

Some more during pictures.

More vids.

The dairy shed that we tore down up near Detroit,Tx.

jacob is destructive!!

this is a small video of Jacob Littlejohn tearing down the last wall of the house in blue ridge. it was so much fun to watch!!

jelly

here is some of my jelly from the year. i made yellow wild plum, red wild plum and rose jelly. i mad way more than 6 jars. i think 8 or 9 batches. . .