Left side

Well, the left one is done, insofar as all of the carving work. Some light sanding, about 6 or 8 coats  of oil, and it'll be good to go. I'll be working on the right panel later this week.

Grips

Well, they're roughed out now...

New Project

Well, I have something to do with my hands- and spare time- for the next few weeks. I'm going to make a new set of 1911 grips. I've had a piece of red oak floating around for about 2 years now, and I saw these conchos at the Hobby Lobby, and.... well... might as well, right? You can see the old set of grips from my Springfield that I keep around as a pattern, and I've traced the outline on the red oak. I'll keep ya'll posted.

Golfing

Just spent the morning building a wooden putting set with my son.

He likes it!

Leather

I don't get to practice 18th century crafts as much as I'd like anymore, but I got to this weekend. Between helping my brother clean out a shed, making a few trips to pick up the last of our stuff from our old house, cleaning and unpacking some of the last few boxes, I managed to get 2 hours to make a knife sheath.

Mike sent my wife a great fixed blade 18th century-style butcher knife. He left the sheath making to me, and I finally got around to it this weekend.

I love leather.

Legos

My son is a huge Lego fan. Recently (in the last 6 months) he became interested in the Lego City sets. The depict (somewhat) real life type jobs. There are firemen sets, astronaut sets, police sets, etc. His favorite are the police (daddy and pawpaw are 'police'), and the astronauts (what boy DIDN'T want to be an astronaut?). We have collected several of the police sets, and Nana got him the police station for Christmas.

We have been building like crazy. This set is very awesome. The bad guys have escape tools in their mattress, there's coffee pots and water coolers, and the photo wall has height measurements in 'Lego blocks'. Of course, i find it interesting that none of the police have guns or night sticks... but it's cool, none the less.

We went to the store yesterday, so he could buy another set with his allowance money (50¢ for each day he cleans his room without being told). He had over $70! He picked out the astronaut set with the big rocket and launch pad, which was $70. I figured I'd help him out with the taxes. It rang up as $37! Apparently it went on sale, but was not marked, yet. He went back and picked up another small police set, too.

Getting to play with Legos with your son is definately one of those things that make parenting worth all the hard work. My son and I have had a blast putting it all together.