Is it possible to be combulated? And if so, could one undergo combobulation? Or recombobulation?


From instructions for Form 1041: “The IRS can’t accept a single check (including a cashier’s check) for amounts of $100,000,000 ($100 million) or more.” Helpful hint for those of you who had a very good year last year. Or a very bad one.


The dog now has his own pill organizer, thanks to a persistent ear infection and the effects of allergies, but to him it means mainly a twice daily ritual of getting the cream cheese we use to make the pills go down… a ritual that will be hard to shake when all this clears up.


Got a new bench together.


Little known fact: March 9 is International Monochrome Lunch Day.



Spotted on a walk today through Haw River State Park, this tree that would not give up.


Hildy, chilling on her third birthday.


A few tools from the engineering side of making chairs.


Fake inlay Penrose tiles on one of my first bits of woodworking, many years ago. Two rhombi that together can tile a plane, but in a non regular manner that never exactly repeats itself.