Monday, March 23, 2015

If I give you my heart, will you promise not to break it?


I think I lost it, let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it, no memory can erase it
and I know I'm never gonna find another one to compare

Gimme some love to fill me up
Gimme some time, gimme some stuff
Gimme a sign, gimme some kind of reason
Are you heavy enough to make me stay?
I feel like I might blow away
I thought I was in Heaven, but I was only dreaming




I think I lost it, let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it, no memory can erase it
and I know I'm never gonna find another one to compare

I just wanna live the life I please
I don't want no enemies
I don't want nothin if i have to fake it
Never take nothin don't belong to me
Everything's paid for, nothin's free
If I give my heart, will you promise not to break it?



I think I lost it, let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it, no memory can erase it
and I know I'm never gonna find another one to compare

Money can't replace it, no memory can erase it
and I know I'm never gonna find another one to compare

Lucinda Williams


Saturday, November 22, 2014

Float


Down in the narrows where the shade is cool
Water has made its way
Sandstone rock turns to gravel and sand
Wind makes pockets
Signs of violent floods
Large boulders were pushed and carried along



Each turn has its own surprises
Sunshine makes it to the canyon floor
Sky opens up warm



The river flows with the good grace of the BLM
Where is that water going? California
18 Days in a raft through time
They said it was a guides trip
4 rafts, 12 people, lots of gear
35 cases of beer, some are day beers
We watch them drift slowly away down river



Thursday, November 13, 2014

Poem by Phil: A woodworkers dream


I dreamed a piece of furniture made me
It used a couple of chunky walnut boards
that were aged 50 years
they had some nice grain and were solid 
along with some handsome knots



I was sawed and planed and run over the machines
until I got cut just right.
The grain matched well
and the joints were tight
a few well placed details was all I needed,
just a curve under my arm
and a smile on my face.
Some oil to make me be warm and glow
and now I'm ready for someone's favorite place.


Poem by Shel Silverstein

Bang Klang

I'm big Barney Zang of the railroad gang
My partner is Charlie o Flynn
And I hold the nails
for the big steel rails
And Charlie, he hammers 'em in




And most of the time
He does just fine
But now and again he fails
Maybe tomorrow I'll hammer 'em in
and let Charlie hold the nails.



poem by Shel Silverstein

Point of View

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless
Christmass dinner's dark and blue
When you stop and try to see it
from the turkey's point of view


Sunday dinner isn't sunny
easter feasts are just bad luck
when you see it from the viewpoint
of a chicken or a duck


Oh how I once loved tuna salad
pork and lobsters, lamb chops too
till I stopped and looked at dinner
from the dinner's poit of view




Parts of the process

Mortises, they are fun, smokey, plungy, square cut holes



Two little tables

 These little guys are based on a design of a table my mom has. The oak is a sweet little number, the juniper with burnt base is a tribute to the fire we had in Oak Creek Canyon this past summer, I made two of these for a resort up in the canyon.





Monday, October 20, 2014

Clapton finishing

There is nothing that is wrong
in wanting you to stay here with me
I know you've got somewhere to go,
But wont you make yourself at home and stay with me?
And don't you ever leave.


Lay down Sally, and rest you in my arms.
Don't you think you want someone to talk to?
Lay down Sally, no need to leave so soon, 
I've been trying all night long just to talk to you.



The sun ain't nearly on the rise
and we still got the moon and stars above
underneath the velvet skies,
love is all that matters. Wont you stay with me?
And don't you ever leave.


Zeppelin wedge



If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. 
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me. 
Kind woman, I give you my all, Kind woman, nothing more. 



Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, tears of loves lost in the days gone by. 
My love is strong, with you there is no wrong, 
together we shall go until we die. My, my, my. 
An inspiration is what you are to me, inspiration, look... see. 





And so today, my world it smiles, your hand in mine, we walk the miles, 
Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one. 
Happiness, no more be sad, happiness....I'm glad. 
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. 
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me







Friday, October 17, 2014

Hendrix Table?



If the sun refused to shine
I don't mind, I don't mind

If the mountains ah, fell in the sea
Let it be, it ain't me.


Got my own world to live through and uh, ha !
And I ain't gonna copy you.




Now if uh, six uh, huh, turned out to be nine
Oh I don't mind, I don't mind 
If all the hippies cut off all their hair
Oh I don't care, oh I don't care.


'Cause I've got my own world to live through and uh
And I ain't gonna copy you.





White collar conservative flashin' down the street

Pointin' their plastic finger at me, ha !
They're hopin' soon my kind will drop and die but uh
I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high !


Fall mountains, just don't fall on me
Go ahead on mister business man, you can't dress like me






Don't nobody know what I'm talkin' about
I've got my own life to live
I'm the one that's gonna die when it's time for me to die
So let me live my life the way I want to
Yeah, sing on brother, play on drummer.

Hendrix