Coffee's ready...

[Sissy]

spent over an hour trying to find you all
in the coffee shop . so a very good morning .

 

[Sissy]

spent over an hour trying to find you all
in the coffee shop . so a very good morning .

 

[Sissy]

Opps this new road is really rocky LOL

 

[oesdog]

Oh sissy you are soooo HERE!!!!!!! BIG HUGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would sure do coffee with you and a big old bun!!!!!!!!

Oesdog - glad your home!!!!!

 

[quercus21]

Afternoon people,
Hey there Sissy, I am glad you found us again. Being that it is the afternoon for me, it's tea time....... 4 loaves of bread fresh out of the over, home made jam (cherry today) and butter.......

I hope everyone made it out of yesterday's snow storm. Just about 3" here. They are calling what seems like spring weather next week. I know with the morning temps less the 8, the birds are just sticking their heads out of their coops. The young'ens have to think long and hard about getting their scratch.

Have a good day and enjoy
Kaj

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers,
Don't remember the last time I had a cold last so long.Just when I was feeling better bam it has me down again.
i stayed home all weekend and took care of the animals.Hope they appreciate it.I gave the cows a bigg bale of corn stalks"with full ears on them to eat,Iswear they stood there and ate until half the bale was gone.Hope all you guys in the south are safe from the big storm front moving through there!I see on the headlines some states had tornadoes last night.
Sissy good to hear from you again.
Same to all you chicken wranglers also !
God Bless!

 

[Gargoyle]

...had a nice cup of coffee last week. I took some neat photos of a chicken coop I saw, I'll put them together for the coop and run design forum soon...

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[ParadiseFoundFarm]

Gargoyle, How do you make the mantle? Can a layperson like myself do one for my own house?

 

[Gargoyle]

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Gargoyle, How do you make the mantle? Can a layperson like myself do one for my own house?

It's hand carved, chisels and blocks of limestone. The stone itself is readily available (depending on where you are located) While some basic tools are available through sculpture supply companies and masonry supply houses, the tools I prefer are hand forged by blacksmiths to my specifications. Technical skills are traditionally learned through a long apprenticeship; I've only seen a couple of books on the subject that were any good, and they were published overseas. Pretty sure they are out of print. I haven't seen an schools or training programs in the U.S. that do more than the very basics (there are one or two programs that sound good, but I haven't visited them, and there are some programs in other countries that are pretty good).

I've seen a few people who have done a good job figuring it all out on their own, but that's really a case of trying to reinvent the wheel. I learned from carvers who came from families that had been doing this for generations.

 

[oesdog]

Yes I think you would find more training courses in that kind of thing probably in UK - here mostly in England and contact the National Trust direct. They would be able to point you in the direction of that spacific kind of masonry. Othrwise you could end up doing a course on grave stones !!!! and I don;t think that is what you are needing. It is a spacific course and I think giuld of master stone masons is the way to go.

The gargoils are lovely but more medevil / tudor eara and so that is why I mentioned national trust because they own a deal of those old biuldings and have links with master masons for the restoration work.

Oesdog -