The cat warming shelf

When we bought this house in Clarksburg there was one room that was in particularly bad condition. Under six layers of wallpaper the original plaster was badly cracked and in some places was slowly dissolving into its constituent ingredients. Making this room usable was our first major task, after we ripped out the wall-to-wall carpets [...]

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Artifacts — The Bookcase

The 8th grade wood shop project was larger than the 7th grade project, probably because we were a year larger and were supposed to have learned something about woodworking during the previous year. The project was a small bookcase, not fancy, just three shelves, two sides, and a back, about three feet tall. We started [...]

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Artifacts — The Book Rack

When I was in junior high school (7th and 8th grades) all the boys were assigned to shop class half the year while the girls were assigned to home economics; the other half of the year we were all together in art class (we all took typing half the year, too — I’m not sure [...]

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