I remember my younger days in my hometown back in the Philippines when I was still in elementary. Our house is about half a kilometer away from the school and I used to walk that distance with my friends. Walking to school was never a tiresome task as adventure of some sort is always waiting along the way. Fruits are in abundance such as guava, cashew, duhat, camachile, siniguelas whatever is in season and the owner would not mind you taking some as long as you ask for permission first. Of course sometimes we don't ask permission and we would scamper as fast as we can when the owner comes out shouting invectives at us.
On our way home in the afternoon, my friends and I would stop by the town plaza and catch grasshoppers in the grassy area of the plaza or play at the monument of Rizal or Bonifacio. Come to think of it, all plazas I have been to always have a Rizal and Bonifacio monument.
Even the weather fails to dampen our spirit. During rainy days, we would play at the puddles that formed on the road splashing water at each other with our feet. Other times we would play with the tadpoles. There are lots of them in puddles during the rainy season. They look like a moving solid black mass when the puddles are drying up. Meron pa kayang butete sa mga probinsiya?
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I went to work overnight on November 19 and during lunch we had chicken, coleslaw, mashed potato, pasta and apple pie for dessert courtesy of the store. Not so much shoppers came in during the Black Friday sale unlike the previous years where there is along line of shoppers who are really aggressive in getting the items they want. Maybe people do get tired of TVs and laptops and it's not every year you buy them anyway.
One thing I cay say is, the food this year is really good.
Happy Thanksgiving and keep safe. Don't drink too much.
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The latest request from my grandson is to make him a Kylo Ren wood figure. Being a doting grandfather that I am, I grabbed my whittling knife and a piece of basswood and went to work. And here's the result.
My grandson enjoyed playing with Kylo Ren. I had a lot of fun making it.
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I've often seen this primitive fish hook in blogs and in YouTube but I never got to making it. One day when I was walking in the park I saw a tree with a lot of thorns. I don't know what kind of tree it was but I thought I can use the thorns to make a primitive fish hook. So I picked up a dead twig lying on the ground and brought it home.
I used the inner strands of 550 cord to tie the thorn down on the wood stem. The knot itself is easy to make once you learn how to do it.
Will it catch a fish? Maybe or maybe not, who knows, but I've some fun making it.
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I thought it was easy to carve a pumpkin just like our local kalabasa. But the skin was so thick and hard my Schrade knife almost closed on my fingers while trying to carve a Jack-O-Lantern. The solution was to use the locking blade of my SAK Trekker to make a cut on the skin and finish it off with the saw blade.
I cleaned the inside of the pumpkin with a spoon and left it on a newspaper to dry.
My grandson is fascinated with it and volunteered to light the candle.
P.S. Happy Halloween!
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After carving my grandson a few battle tanks, he requested me to make him a wooden airplane. I should have made him a fighter plane like the F15 but for somehow I made a commercial plane instead.
The plane ready to for painting.
Maybe it's just me but this photo gives me the creeps. First, I painted the airplane black when it should have been white or silver. Second, it looks like a downed airplane. There's a third reason but I wouldn't mention it.
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