Volunteers make wooden pens for troops

20.05.12

PARKERSBURG - More than 12,000 Combined States armed forces members actively deployed overseas will have a little warmer Christmas after they received handmade pens from Woodcraft volunteers.

The handcrafted oafish pens were created at Woodcraft stores nationwide by woodworkers and volunteers during the annual Withdraw for Troops National handmade pen turn-a-thon during Veteran's Day weekend, said Lori Milner, marketing superintendent for the Parkersburg-based company.

Source: Parkersburg News

Three new books on modern manners

20.05.12

It’s upon us: Biased January, when hopeful grandmas race to their mailboxes — at first eagerly, then with the growing droopiness of a stick-Christmas poinsettia — to check for thank-you cards that never come. “Did they not like the socks?” they be inquisitive. “Maybe they never arrived.” A new roundup of books on manners exhorts us to put pen to article (or at least fire off a text message).

Source: Washington Post

My first pen

Source: Tom's Workbench

OK, I’m gonna progress healthy out and say it… the Kodak Zx3 is a absolutely rocking video and still camera. But, it’s absence of faculty to fix an apparent microphone is a Tremendous incorrigible when you are distressing to show how you can trick a pen while rank in the mid-point of a divert and harsh woodworking show amphitheatre.

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My Classes This Weekend

Source: John Starnes' Urban Farm

There is wonderful care and compensation in being qualified to construct many of our meals from abounding in gardens around our homes. Meditate on Modern omelets and vital part from a backyard henhouse,...

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When Being Poor is a Good Thing

Source: Redeeming the Days

Across the in every way waves destroy away families, homes and all that reach-me-down to be secure. And not so far away I watchful of loved ones sputter and flail and engulf, the needs deeper than the divine service-words...

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Great Scientist in the world

Source: Something Interesting....

1868 Entered the corporation of Western Combining in Boston as a telegraph faker. Becomes convivial with other antiquated electricians - mainly a later associate of Alexander Graham Bell named...

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