Strength doesn’t come from the traditional powerplay, a masterful strategy, one battle’s fight. Strength comes from ten thousand mistakes rectified and often expensive experiments weathered. It emerges as the quality carrying you to the end of the war. Over the decades, every new tool, new design, or new employee slowed production initially. I never figured …
Every tree has stories to tell. Surprises reveal themselves when we open a log at the sawmill and again when we shape parts close to their final form. We have found nails, barbed wire, even a buried walnut swallowed up by the tree’s growth. A bullet lodged in this particular tree remained concealed until the …
The cooler temperatures of autumn remind you to put your outdoor wooden furniture spaces for bed. Time to weed the garden one last time, pulling dead plants and burning them in the fire pit. Exchange your garden tools for snow shovels. And store your outdoor furniture. Store In Place Here in North Carolina, even in …
