so, 2024 is here!
time to reflect a little.
except for a few health issues like a burst appendix for Sam,
who was out for 9 weeks, and a broken collar bone for Luke,
it was a pretty good year !
my carpentry job ended december 31st 1979,
and as of today, i am starting my 45th year of custom furniture making.
i delivered my second piece of commissioned custom 
furniture, a 'shaker style' desk in november of 1979 ...
native white pine with yellow milk paint
with a leather insert on the fall flap, and two small drawers
and, in november we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary
1973 above and 1971 below ...
we have been living together for 52 years, but
and that was 50 years ago
we first built only the 4 window part on the left in 1974,
the addition on the right came along in the 80s
and in 1997, we built the shop we are working in now
as a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house, designed in a way that it would
be our shop when we sold our Arlington house.
the move to dorset, gave the boys a choice of two excellent schools.
sam graduated form long trail in 2000, and will chose the target
program at BBA, where he was recently inducted into
the BBA hall of fame for the arts ... so, it was a good move ...
wood shop in the middle, office on the right, and
the building on the left is sam's metal shop which
and, november marked 16 years of writing this blog ...
i wrote the first post in october of 2007
955 posts and as of today 2,174,895 page views ...
i leave you with one further thought
all the best for 2024 to my clients and readers ...
y'all have a good one ...
dan