R.I.P. Larry Himmel - The day he came to our house.

One of the things that makes San Diego

"America's Finest City" is it's people.

And Larry Himmel was one of it's finest.

His wit, great smile, and never ending energy

will always mean something special, to not only the 

whole city, but to Deinna and I personally.

We'll never forget the day we met him.

In the early months of 2012, Deinna and I had just completed 

remodeling our patio. Just in time to enter that years "This

Old House" magazine's Outdoor Project contest.  They gave us a Moxie award. 

We were just happy to get our project's picture in the leading 

remodeling magazine, which helped make our labor worthwhile. 

Little did we know, the best was soon to come. The magazines news release 

got the attention of Larry at our local CBS station, channel eight! 

He was coming to do a story about US!

How great could this be, the best loved TV personality in 

San Diego was going to be here, in person, to film 

a piece for his "Larry Himmel's Neighborhood". 

 Here is a link to Larrys' Visit:

http://www.cbs8.com/story/18761334/the-golden-arches 

 As his videographer set up his close up, Larry happily chatted with us.

His easy manner and warm personality was revealed to be,

 "what you see, is what you get."  And more than that,

he was truly a nice person.  He had the unique ability to

meet someone for the first time and make them feel so comfortable, so

completely relaxed, that they felt like they were old friends.

This quality was apparent time and time again

with every story he ever did for his neighbohood.

                                         Rest in Peace, Larry.
                                               1946-2014

Please leave your memory of Larry in the comments section below.

Video Lighting Kit

Since adding new videos to You Tube, I needed to improve the quality of the quality of the photographic lighting. Up until now all the videos were lit with available light only. I hoped to improve this with the purchase of a Photographic Lighting Kit that was not going to be very expensive, after researching,  I ordered a Continuous Lighting Kit.
Meaning it had high-output daylight balanced compact fluorescent bulbs. 5500 Kelvin temperature 50 watt bulbs.  Meaning it had high-output daylight balanced compact fluorescent bulbs. 5500 Kelvin temperature 50 watt bulbs.

Kitchen window seat completed

Here is the link to the 3rd video that will show all 3 videos.

Kitchen Window seat Part 1

More work progress on the kitchen upgrade. This the back rest of the window seat. Deinna ordered fabric for the cushion and we had it made by a local store. We wanted a back rest or more important, some thing to prevent anybody from leaning back on the window. This is part one of the construction. More to follow. If you like this video and wish to see more of the things we make. Please subscribe to our channel, leave a comment and give us a thumbs up. Thanks

Fort Pitt Tunnel, Pittsburg PA

For all of you who need a Pittsburg Fix

July 2014

Kitchen knife rack

Here is my latest woodworking project. It's a knife rack with a craved image.

Here is a link to the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8aKnxQY_eI

Chris Schwarz Cincinnati radio interview

Cincinnati’s Lost Art Press describes itself like this: “Lost Art Press has no employees, no customer service department and no corporate headquarters. We are just two woodworkers with laptops who run this publishing company from our homes.” Lee Hay talks with one of the two woodworkers, Christopher Schwarz, about this unique artistic venture.

http://wvxu.org/post/unique-story-woodworkers-who-are-now-book-publishers