A People Day

Sitting with my Mom on a started motorcycle on our way to work

This is Mark working with a Harley drawknife.  Why they call it a Harley drawknife is because it feels like you’re riding a Harley motorcycle when you use it.

This is a picture of the lantern – a lantern is like a cupola, which is a thing that goes on the top of a building, not always but most of the time. Leon is inside it.

This is Clement hewing.

This is a flying plate.

This is Adam – he is one of my best friends. I like him. Here he is standing next to a flying plate

This is Emma – she is holding a block plane.

This is Isaiah chiseling with a slick. A slick is a big chisel that you do not hammer on.  Most chisels you hammer on.

This is me standing on the frame.

This is the beginning of the roof structure going up.

A Day on the Jobsite

Today we hung out on the jobsite for most of the day. This is the first day I rode a grown up sized bike a mile.  This is Adam Z – he lives in Japan

This is Rachel hewing. Hewing is when you make a log flat using an axe.

This is Jim – he is tall – he is 6 foot 7 inches

This is Will. He is a friend of mine, he is also very tall.

This is Bob

This is Cailigh – me and Cailigh made plumb bobs together.

This is the log wall.

This is Bruce.

This is Mikkel.

This is Leon.

This is my Mom being goofy.

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.

A Fun Day

This is the cantilever  saw that was used in the pictures  that you saw.

This a root cellar in Skansen Village.  In the olden days people didn’t have freezers  or refridgerators so they kept stuff that needed to be kept cool in an earthen hut underground.

This is a family of goats at the Skansen Village.

This is a plumb bob that is made out of pewter. A plumb bob is something to show if something is plumb or not. Plumb is the same thing as vertical.

You make it by boiling down a bar of pewter, which is a metal, in a pot, and this is a mold that you pour the pewter in and then it hardens. I helped do it.

This is a farmer and his horse. They are coming back from harvesting hay to feed the horse.

The Salt Mines

We went to the salt mines.  We walked down 27 floors of stairs to start  our tour, and we took an elevator out.  This mine is no longer being mined, but they get a lot of money from tourists.  This is how far down it is.

This is a barrel of salt being lifted.

This is a Barrel of salt on a cart

This is a monument to the salt miners.

This is a carving of someone giving salt to a queen. It was carved out of salt by the salt miners.

This is what people call cauliflower salt – it tastes good.

This is a sculpture of a miner burning off methane gas because it is explosive.

This is a crank that 4 men would push and bring up barrels of salt.

These are some stairs the miners used to use to climb up and down in the mine. A lot of people of died from falling.

This is a big cavern with a lot of supports.

This is a place that barrels of salt would be put on  a sled with rollers and the horses brought it to where it would be pulled up  with the cranks. The horses never saw daylight.

This is David – he is fun to play with, and he just went home to Boston.