I suppose I should do something to submerge

the previous entry a bit, before work tomorrow.

Today, after church, I made the supports for our new tent. It's a Monster Wedge tent. I think it's that one right there. We set it up and let the kids run through it a couple times, but since we don't want it to mildew before we use it, we took it down and brought it into the air-conditioned house.

My wife just sent me on a search for a forge for her father, who used to be a blacksmith and wants to take it up again in retirement. I found a modern one for under $350, but I don't think I'm qualified to evaluate them. I helped our metals-shop teacher pour molten aluminum, but that's about the limit of my knowledge. Except for my project, of course - I had to make a form to pour into. Considering what they are, it's amazing that they work at all. You basically take your pattern, pack it in moist dirt, take the pattern out and pour metal in. When it cools, you take it out, sand it and paint it, or whatever.

There was a family get-together yesterday. I got to endure a bunch of government workers spewing socialism. That was fun. I just held my baby and cooed at her. It's funny how "liberals" think that nobody is capable of doing what they do. [Of course, nobody IS capable of doing what they're trying to do.] But I mean things like making an honest living, getting an education, deferring various kinds of gratification until the harvest of investment is ripe... These are rich "liberals" I'm talking about. They have a very clear view of the mote in their brother's eye, and no inkling of the board in their own.

Well, I've got to study The Book of Buckskinning to prepare for my vacation activities this summer.