The library held a mosaics class one morning last month. While everybody else worked on wooden planks the teacher provided, I decided to do another table. Specifically this one:<\/p>\n
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The table itself is another “foundling,” of course (aren’t they all?). I chopped it out of overgrown bushes at the last old house I lived in. Its bare wood was warped and its wrought iron rusty and crusty, but you can see it had potential. Yes, it has chicken feet on the bottom and leaves at the top; don’t ask me why.<\/p>\n It’s been following me around for five years (must be those chicken feet!) and I haven’t had any idea what do to with it. I sanded it last summer and sprayed it with Rustoleum in hammered copper color. Didn’t know how to work over that warped wood though.<\/p>\n Turns out mosaic is very forgiving of the uneven surface.<\/p>\n In the three-hour class I had time only to do the top, not the lower shelf or the edges. Also, since we had a scant hour between placing tiles and grouting, the freshly glued tiles moved around a bit. But turned out not bad, even with that. Must finish the rest later.<\/p>\n I still have yet another wrought-iron table I cut out of those bushes. Guess that’s for next year.<\/p>\n Things not important enough for an NYT front-page editorial<\/strong><\/p>\n Jonah Goldberg has a telling list of a few things<\/a> the New York Times<\/i> didn’t think were important enough to editorialize about on its front page<\/a> over the last 95 years.<\/p>\n The Peace of Versailles, Buck v. Bell, the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Ukrainian famine, the internment of Japanese-Americans, the Tuskegee experiments, the Holocaust, McCarthyism, the Marshall Plan, Jim Crow, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy Assassination, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Kent State, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Watergate, withdrawal from Vietnam, the Killing Fields, the Iran hostage crisis, the Contras, AIDS, gay marriage, the Iran nuclear deal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But the non-existent “epidemic”<\/a>* of guns? Which even the WaPost<\/i> admits is a phony? That<\/i> they clear the front page for.<\/p>\n Goldberg also points out something I suspect a lot of people have noticed but didn’t necessarily comment on: The Times’<\/i> front-and-center whine isn’t even well-written. It’s just the standard old emotional crap (albeit with the further step of wanting ugly guns not only outlawed but taken away — “give[en] up for the sake of their fellow citizens”). For the first time in 95 years, they cleared page one for an editorial, then somebody hashed the thing together out of recycled speeches to ladies groups or somesuch.<\/p>\n Desperate, they are. Losing, they are. Clueless, they are, about the state of the nation and the realities of firearms and we who own them. Flustered, they are, that We the Peasants no longer heed them. But still arrogant as all get out.<\/p>\n Now if they want to start worrying about “assault clothing” …<\/strong><\/p>\n They may have to start conducting raids on Home Depot. When even your friendly neighborhood hardware-garden-supply-and-lumber conglomerate sells items like this<\/a>, you know the times they are a’ changin’.**<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n * H\/T JB We’re expecting five storms in rapid sequence over the next week. Some of them hard and windy. So should I go offline at any time, don’t worry. It’s not the ATF, FBI, CIA, or NSA. Just Ma Nature. This will be a good test of how well my tape job did on fixing Old Blue’s leaks. So far so good after a week of normal wet conditions. Few drops of water in the trunk, but no lakes, rivers, or waterfalls in the passenger compartment. Another table The library held a mosaics class one morning last month. While everybody else worked<\/p>\n![\"MosaicTable_1115\"](\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MosaicTable_1115-450x600.jpg\")
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