Adirondack Chairs

 As you can see I have been busy building Adirondack Chairs . They are a lot of fun to build and are fairly inexpensive too. I have decided to build a few and see if I can sell them I will let you know .

 Only time will tell if I can make any money . Right now I have them priced for $60.00 Each I don't know if any will sell at that price but if I sell them any Cheaper then I'm working for nothing.

They are one of the most comfortable out door chairs I have ever sat in.......................

head board

I haven't done anything worth mentioning for most of the winter. I've been real busy doing things that are not wood related. I 'm not happy about it but a guys gotta do what a guy's gotta do I will start doing some projects in the new future but not exactly sure when. I do have a couple of projects for the house that I will feature for you all . The pics you see are from my last project in the late fall. I built a foot board for a single bed to match the white one. My Daughter picked it up at a second hand store

Can't seem to get any pics down loaded I've been working on this for about a week and can't get my computor to do a thing. I have a project all finished and would like to share it but thats the way it goes. If anyone has any idea of what is wrong please make a comment and give me you're idaes so I can start down loading pictures again. Thank You...........................Rick

Better go buy a heart

           I bet you all thought I had died or something. Whats it a month or so I haven't in all honesty been doing much of anything. For the past 5 weeks or so I've been sick a lot and have been staying in the house sleeping and watching the tube. I know I shouldn't have just dissappered like that but to be quite honest I really didn't give a S---. I'm sure there are some of you that know how I felt and I appreciate you simpathy, for those of you that don't know how I felt Better go buy yourself a heart .....................Just kidding thought I'd start out my return with a bang. Will start posting again in a few days. Thanks.........Rick

Happy Thanksgiving

              I hope every one had as good a Thanksgiving as I did. I know things are a lot tuffer this year for some and maybe you didn't do Thanksgiving this year. You still have a lot of things to be thankful for I"m sure. I haven't done anything in my wood shop for about a month and a half now but I think I can start up again soon . Haven't got a clue yet what I'm going to do I've been thinking about it for a few days now I'll come up with something.......................Rick

My Father 1923 - 2012

Last week I laid my Father to rest. He was 89 years old and had a very good life I suppose you could say. He was self employed the last 50 years of his life he owned an auto salvage /tow truck business  up untill he semi retired in the late 70's but then he did scrapping and used car sales untill he started to lose his sight in the early 2000's . Than we all watched as he slowly shrunk into a tiny little representation of his former self. It wasn't an easy show to watch  . My Mother and his wife of 68 years tried her best to care for him but she has a weak heart and just could not do everthing she needed to do so 'about a year ago we put him in assited living.And as many of you may have witnessed once a person goes into assited living it usually speeds up the dieing process . My father and I had a stormy first 30 years together I personally think he hated me and I dredded to see him coming. Altho we had some good times during that period I can't put a finger on any one thing. I was in a nutshell everything He did not want in a Son . I played music in a rock band starting the summer between the 6th. grade and my middle school debut .That was about 1965 he hated the thought of having a long haired hippy in his family and went out of his way to make sure I knew it. Me of course being of the same blood responded the way you would expect .It was not pretty to watch. I really thought things would get better when I married and left home but I was wrong . I did not know it then but it was the fact we where both in the same town . That marrage only lasted 6 years but I did give him a Grand Daughter. In 1980 I married my wife and the one person in the world I would die for After 4 years marrage we gave him onother Grand Daughter .None of this seemed to Improve our relationship. In 1986 I was offered a job in Las Vegas Nv. so I took it he wouldn't even say good by the day I left .I really didn't care to be honest I hated the thought of moving down to such a big city I had never known any thing else and was scared to death. To be quite honest if it had not been for my Wife I probly would not have stayed. But instead we spent 18 years there and still miss it today. Some time during our time in Vegas my Father decided He liked me I really didn't do anything to change things We started spending time on the phone and they (Dad & Mom) Would come for visits as often as they could and we would like wise try to make a trip up north atleast once a year.By I think 2005 we started our plans to move to Roseburg Oregon By then his health had already started to fail and he only got to come and visit us here twice and both times he was kinda like a lost puppy. He really did'nt function well out side his own home. I understand I don't either.Dispite everthing that transpired between him and I over the years I loved him very much and will miss him. Words cann't express how I feel as I write this it's hard to cover 89 years in a few lines and I know his life would probly fill a book But at this time all I can say GOODBY DAD ....     Jim L Goff  1923-2012

WINTERIZING

Have been really busy the past couple of weeks getting my house and out doors ready for winter.Not that its that cold yet but I didn't want to wait till the last minute and then have to do it all in the rain. I think I ve got it all done and now I can move back into my shop and start cleaning again. Still have the Router outfeed table to finish and the dust extraction for the both of them. I hope to get started this weekend I'm getting a little cranky because I'm not getting to work in my shop.. I really do get cranky and hard to be around when I don't get to work wood. I really don't know what causes it, I would call it selfishness. I like the solitude of just me in the shop its like I don't have to communicate with anyone and the wood never talks back. Sometimes I can almost forget about the outside world and thats a nice break. Any way hope to have some pictures by the end of the day....................