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Ray Strand wrote >>Life goes on...this list has helped me see that...and it will get very "inconvenient" as time goes by. With that in mind, I have had to prioritize and reflect on what I want to do before doing is impossible. snip A benefit of all this activity is increased strength and some weight loss. I will dry the lumber and then build a geodesic dome extension to our house. This has been a dream of mine since my college days. << following our whims/dreams is living. accomplishing goals does get harder if too physical. my hobbying includes 'tool making'. most of the gadgets are to save effort in yard and garden chores. one added emjoyment came my way in regard to making an area around lawn sprinklers free of grass/weeds via digging out a small depression and fashioning a concrete donut or half donut with the top decorated using smoothed flattish stones pressed into the fresh concrete. this was a lot of exercise making small batches of concrete and finding stones to do a couple or three from each batch. several friends and neighbors commented favorably. you and i can do more today because doing keeps us going. mailto:[log in to unmask] this seems to indicate Morris MN -- do you know retired music Prof Clyde Johnson? that cottonwood will twist. good luck with your project. -- Ron Vetter 1936, '84 PD dz mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter