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Project: Bedroom Furniture

This is quite an old project of mine, going back to the earliest days of me woodworking. There were quite a few mistakes and issues, but each one made my later projects better. The first image is of two low dressers, a divider box and…

Project: Bookshelf

After making the Desk I decided I need something for my book collection and decided to follow the pattern of the desk I made. I thought I should add "something" to make it not look so bland, so I decided to add a 1 1/2"…

Project: Desk

I built this corner desk when we moved into our house quite a few years ago. The left drawer was home to a scanner {until it died}. Also, the left bottom drawer is a filling cabinet style. The drawer slides are Blum 230 3/4 extension…

Dirtside II: World War 2

I have always been meaning to get back into 1/285 World War 2 table top miniature games. Having bought the excellent rules Dirtside II by Ground Zero Games a number of years ago and played only a few times. I found an excellent article to…

The A&E 2020 Summer Trips (Part 10)

We think that this may be our last trip of the season, as the COVID numbers are going up and it is quickly cooling down weather-wise. We west to Western Manitoba in the Riding Mountain area, where we missed a few on a previous trip…

Frostgrave: Worm Hunt

Its time for another game of Frostgrave. Norm pulled the Worm Hunt scenario out of the hat. Today we were playing with Alan, Norm, John and myself. Each of us has a few games under their belt so the usual situations in combat flew by.