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A lot of woodworkers that use corncobs for making pen blanks will toss them in a pressure cooker with polyethelene or varnish.Then use a hand vacuum pump for brakelines and remove the air.The resulting vacuumsucks the varnish into the pores.After leaving the vacuum under pressure for an hour the...

The same friend and I were heading up Johnson strait another time,when we hit a cross swell about three feet high.Basically this is a speedbump on water.He was steering the boat and I was leaning on the wheelhouse talking to him when we hit the swell.I ended up being tossed about twenty feet...

It was not my intention to put any one down in particular.We are products of our environment.Advertising surrounds us many times on a daily basis.We do have the choice to live better lives even with limited options.When I was a young lad I lived in Germany on a Canadian air force base for four...

I lived on Vancouver Island logging and commercial fishing for 24 years.The last time I jumped in the ocean was in the winter when a friend was drowning to pull him out.It was dark and so cold I thought I was going to die.That is when I became a beach person.

I have worked in a number of diverse jobs in my life and found one main thing to be true.We are like sheep.We follow trends and try to keep up with the Jones's.We expect to have a lifestyle that is comfortable with all the toys and we spend like it will never end.When there is a recession we...