I am amazed! When I started tying brooms, I thought “OK, so I’ll make a broom here and a broom there… big deal. I mean, there’s only, y’know, just so many kinds… right?”
WRONG!
I’m at 27 varieties of brooms and counting!
The latest include a string tied fantail and a flipped-wing (you’ll see what I mean). I’ve [...]
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All tied up!
August 24, 2008
Taking the Tom Sawyer route
June 17, 2008
Wanna whitewash this here fence?
Folks’ll come up to me when I’m workin’ on the foot lathe… the Spring Pole Lathe and I’ll always greet ‘em. “How ya’ll doin’?”
Naturally, they say “Fine. And you?”
That’s their first mistake!
“I’m tired,” Says I. “Been treadlin’ this here foot lathe all day long and I’m just bout worn out. Who [...]
Ever heard the story of sweeping beauty?
May 19, 2008
I’ve asked several kids that over the past couple weeks.
Of course, none of them had… they corrected me quickly. “It’s SLEEPING beauty!”
“No,” I’d say. “It’s definitely sweeping beauty. And she was using a hearth broom like that one or that one (imagine me pointing to the brooms hanging on the wall) to sweep out the [...]
Welcome Folks
April 13, 2008
This is the new blog of the Ozark Folk Center. We combine a unique mix of Ozark Folk Music, traditional Ozark Mountain Crafts, a fantastic organic Heritage Herb Garden,good old fashioned southern cooking at the Skillet Restaurant, a comfortable place to rest at the Dry Creek Lodge. gorgeous trails to hike, birds to [...]
