softpaths.blog

I’ve been especially thankful for the holiday season over the last few years because it always brings the opportunity (excuse? imperative? requirement?) to get into making something. Regrettably, the tools I have in the workshop gather dust most of the year long, but around Christmas time the inner-Gepetto gets to come out and I get into making something I almost invariably end up breaking…partly out of the rush to get done an oft-ambitious offering, but also in part due to the rusty skills that have atrophied from a lack of use since last Christmas.

This year, Andrea’s mom dropped some hints over the Fall-time that she’d like a new bird feeder, as her last one was first vandalized and then burgled by a hungry black bear…this one may very well meet the same fate, but here’s to hoping it’ll host a bird or two in its brief tenure before it does.