Three straight days in the shop! Well, except for church Sunday morning. What more could a man ask for?

Please do pause for a moment this weekend and give a thought to the celebration of the birth of the greatest nation the earth has ever seen.  Those men signing the Declaration of Independence risked everything they owned, including their very lives, to this bold experiment in republican government.  Many today would like to discount that document, along with the Constitution, as mere historical documents.  On the contrary, they lay out a vision that is so bold, daring, and utterly unique that to ignore them is to discard the very core of what has made us what we are, a nation like no other.  Remember, the Statue of Liberty (created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Declaration) is not standing with her torch raised to guide the “wretched refuse” to this country (that poem appears nowhere on the statue).  Instead, she is striding forward, taking the light of liberty and freedom to an oppressed world!

Proud to be an American.  And a woodworker!