Updates

In no particular order here are a few updates that may be of interest to you.

1.   During one of their interminable Updates to “improve” their platform WordPress changed the protocols for both the Contact and Comment functions.  Webmeister Tim tracked down those changes (they were not self-evident), and I know at least now the Contact function works.  I am less certain about the Comments utility.
2. I’ve been told that the first shipment of the back ordered Woodfinishing DVD is being shipped this week.  Cross your fingers.  Oh, the travails of using fulfillment service providers in Florida, a/k/a Hurricane Alley.  Whenever the DVDs arrive I will immediately package and ship them to those three dozen of you who have waited so patiently and graciously for your order.
3. I’m keeping an eye on a batch of Mel’s Wax I made and packaged several months ago and will open the jars next month.  If they are okay it will probably be back in the Don’s Barn Store around Christmas.  The formulation is purposefully designed for archival properties rather than shelf life, so it’s always a knife’s-edge proposition.  I could add stabilizers and preservatives and such, but then it would not be Mel’s Wax.
4. Finally, Webmeister Tim and I are in the planning and implementation stages for a YooToob channel featuring less formal “at the bench” type short videos (3-5 minutes) about projects and techniques.  Right now, we need to settle on a cheap (free?) meat-and-potatoes editing application that is simple and easy enough for me to use but can still integrate two video feeds with the sound feed.  At one time I had a long menu of formal videos I wanted to make, but since I cannot even finish editing the Gragg Chair video I am exploring this new path.
5. Stay tuned.  For at least another week the weather is expected to be beautiful in Shangri-la so the outside/homestead work will take precedence over the in-shop time.  Today I hope to finish up removing the detritus from the shack up on the hill, a project that was so rudely interrupted several years ago when the wheelbarrow broke my hip.