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By Jim, on December 24th, 2011 Christmas Eve at Hatchtown Farm –
…and to all, a "Good night!"
Our cable internet has been half-frazzled for more than a week. Time Warner says, “Not our problem!”. Luckily for us we have enough bandwidth to keep the email coming and going along with some v.e.r.y S..L..O..W browsing of the W W W.
My best advice for the holidays is to sit [....read more]
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By Jim, on November 22nd, 2011 Small Business Saturday is a GOOD IDEA. That the day after Black Friday is designated makes a lot of sense. People, that is just about ALL of us, and especially the news media, are talking and thinking shopping. [....read more]
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By Jim, on November 13th, 2011 I thought fiber folks might be interested in seeing pictures of a couple of rare “One of Two-of-a-Kind” Hatchtown tools:
a square-shafted low whorl spindle and nøstepinde-sort-of-thingy that is both a Wraps Per Inch gauge AND a 6″ ruler.
The spindle and the thingy date back to the mid-90′s. In both cases I had been commissioned by a customer to turn something unique — a [....read more]
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By Jim, on November 12th, 2011 If all goes well this will be the first post (yes, this is really a blog, but we’re not calling it that cuz it might scare folks) in the brandy new Hatchtown Farm “words from the woodshop” page on the website.
Testing …Testing Can you hear me now.
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Saturday -- Head Shepherd's off with "the girls" and it's COLD
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