I just made a whistle

Here is the working whistle I printed out at home. I downloaded the file from here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1046 and 24 minutes later I whistled away. Pretty fun.

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Great Christmas present…

Who could not want this?

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3d printer up and running

I finally have worked out most of the bugs of my Makerbot. See the 1/4″ scale staircase I made:

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Prepping for halloween

 

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I trained my dog to jump out the kitchen window

So we have finally completed our dog run. We started it in 2007, with grabbing aluminum fencing that our neighbor was throwing away.

We just wanted to double up the uprights so that the dogs wouldn’t be able to see out(and bark at the neighbors when they walk by). In order to do that I had pull uprights off of other fence pieces. IN that process I chopped up the pieces, Which reminded me of the old TV show Space:1999.

So now they dog run is complete by the side of the house. We built some steps from the dog run up to the window sill in the kitchen. Right now it is a totally closed off area, so the dogs get in and out thru the kitchen window. So in the morning the Mazie wants to go outside so we go downstairs and I open the kitchen window and she jumps out. Cloda needs a little help.

I’ll get some pictures up soon. I thought it was a crazy idea at first, but it kinda works.

Life Masks and collaborating

I am working with my brother Matt on The Nativity Scene he is sculpting for the church of San Ambrogio in Florence. My main contribution has been life masks of Ann and I to be Mary and Joseph. Here is a taste of what Matt is doing

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ETC Videos from the summer

ETC is about singing songs, making music and theatre. One notable part of that is when we perfrom our children’s show over at Camp Dost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doMwyD_gLYc

 here is a strange but beloved part of ETC- Unwinding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJepTdUMEk

 Although it is a summer theatre school there is our school song traditionally called our ‘camp song’ even though we are not a camp. But of course it is not a traditional song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_hKTSX1pgc

Oh My God There Are Things In The Trees by Larry Simon  
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There are Things in the Trees.mp3 (3471 KB)

More to come later…

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EVerything you need to know… Can be found in Star Wars

Star Wars Anti-Smoking PSA

Deer caught in the headlights

Found Via theHuffington Post-

McCain mentioned “Joe the Plumber” almost constantly throughout the final debate — even tying him into an attack on Obama’s health care plan. But the move led to a “deer in the headlights” moment for the Republican.

See it here:

Spring time is here

I finally put up some pictures of spring, it has been here for weeks but I’ve been swamped.

We drew on the sidewalks, and tidied up the yard as well.

All the pictures are Here.