Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Summer Solstice


Here I am sharpening amd cleaning the planes. When you sharpen and clean the planes, you use a chemical called WD-40.  It is a lubricant.










Right here I am chiseling to make the end of the beam flush.


We went on a tour of Skansen Village. This is an old mill. It used to grind up flour so people could buy the flower and make it into bread. The mill is powered by water.

This is a bell that some people rescued form a church because during the nazi’s terror they turned all church bells into weapons for their soldiers. It was hidden under the floorboards of a cottage, but after WWII the town was destroyed and the cottage was gone. So, an old man who lived in the village before it was destroyed, came back to it and said I know there is a bell here because we buried it, so they went searching for it, and they found it.

Now I am going to switch over to a party we went to for solstice. This is a parasail which is just about to take off, but it didn’t.
This is what it looks like when it is crumpled in a heap.

This is a wind sock for when he takes off of the hills in his parasail, he sees which way the wind is blowing



This is me driving a tractor.


This is the bonfire we had when it is dying down.

This is people roasting kielbasa on the bonfire.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Elijah, this is a fine and unusual look at the Poland project. Especially liked the bell story and the tractor. I hope to publish this, in whole or in part, in Scantlings. Did you learn any Polish?

    Thanks, Susan Witter (Scantlings editor)

    ReplyDelete