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A Visit To The Harbor

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

There was a train show today at the restored CNJ terminal at Liberty State Park in Jersey City.  Bob, his daughters, and I drove up.  While the show was quite small and not really worthy of mention, the terminal has been beautifully restored and is worth seeing on its own.  They now have ferries running from the park to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty and, since it was a rare lovely warm October day, we took the ferry.  The salt air was wonderful and the scenery is spectacular.  I'll be posting lots of photos of the CNJ terminal, the park, the NYC skyline, NY harbor, Ellis Island, and the Statue of Liberty on the new Liberty page in the Pets/Misc section of my Roses web site.  Meanwhile, as a teaser, here's the CNJ terminal (taken from the ferry) and the Statue of Liberty.

CNJ Terminal

Statue of Liberty

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Hutch (no Starsky)

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

I have a number of cabinets that contain my collection of VHS tapes.  For DVDs, well, they've just tended to pile up on top of those cases.  On Friday, I wanted to watch one that was toward the bottom of the pile and triggered an avalanche.  After getting them piled up again, I thought about it and went downstairs to see what kind of wood I had available.  Turned out to be plywood left over from building the layout, so I cut some to size and created a hutch using very quick dado joinery.  However, it left a lot to be desired — bare plywood edges, tendency to splinter along the edges, etc., but it did get the job done and proved the concept.  On Saturday, I visited Lowes and got a length of 1×6 red oak.  I then built a permanent hutch in the same manner that I build my display cases — mitered corners, biskit joinery, etc.  After two coats of poly and a final rub down, it's in the living room holding many of my DVDs, clearing up the mess and looking very nice.  A nice project for a very rainy day — one hutch, no Starsky. Wink And, no commentary, please, on my taste in DVDs! Laughing

hutch

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