My hubby had an idea in his head for a couple of months and he followed through on it a few weeks ago. He spotted a clock in an art gallery in Cambridge and was fascinated by the way it was made. I saw he was wearing his "I could make that" smile and tucked the idea into his memory bank for a rainy day shop project. Of course, the clock mechanism is a kit from the craft store but the rest of the materials are from his shop: redwood reclaimed from Mick and Donna's old deck and brake tubing that hangs in loops on a peg in the shop. He's always using that brake tubing for something - although I can't remember him using it for brakes. Notice the sine wave pattern? - I didn't either until it was pointed out to me. The entire clock balances on a little more than a square inch of redwood. The clock resides in his cubical at work, ticking off the seconds until retirement.
The Glacial Drumlin Trail runs parallel to PVR and leads west to its origin in Cottage Grove and travels east to Waukesha. An easy destination is Deerfield, where I can stop by at the library and then BP for another bottle of water or the local bar for a beer and a chicken sandwich. It's a wonderful bike ride or walk in the summer and the snowmobilers use it in the winter. Right now its in its thaw cycle and not fit for man (or coyote or deer) altho their tracks reveal they really don't mind.
