tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post4612938132170666052..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: If You Build It, They Will Come. Or They Won'tSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-68701789510781757622013-03-10T13:45:00.884-04:002013-03-10T13:45:00.884-04:00Dimitrios has to say: I am a woodcarver, and say i...<i>Dimitrios has to say: I am a woodcarver, and say it before he is a woodcarver, or he'll never become one.</i><br /><br />The wonder of it all is that you can substitute just about any word in the world for "woodcarver", and it still works.shoreacreshttp://shoreacres.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-26533250717540147982013-03-08T22:01:47.325-05:002013-03-08T22:01:47.325-05:00As a new widower, my father took a correspondence ...As a new widower, my father took a correspondence course in piano tuning, hoping to be hired by anyone with a piano. 10 years later, he had his own workshop refinishing pianos, guitars and other musical instruments. Another ten years after that, he was restringing Steinways and there was a waiting list for people to have him tune their pianos. Now approaching 80, he's still at it. His entire house is a workshop.Jewelhttp://madamescherzo.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-28760117729312224362013-03-08T20:08:37.816-05:002013-03-08T20:08:37.816-05:00Casey- You look good in taffeta.
Hi Sam- Nice to...Casey- You look good in taffeta. <br /><br />Hi Sam- Nice to see you on the bus, too.<br /><br />Gerard has a good eye for good places. That's a glorious room to work in. Any kind of work. <br /><br />Gerard's actually been inside my subterranean homesick treefort hellhole dungeon lair bolthole smash and grab peatbog frozen hobo midden workshop, so he knows what bad working conditions look like, too.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-2248331309347865742013-03-08T13:41:02.025-05:002013-03-08T13:41:02.025-05:00I have vast and unquenchable workshop envy now. Th...I have vast and unquenchable workshop envy now. Thanks a bunch.vanderleunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-43537928731411492682013-03-08T12:18:45.489-05:002013-03-08T12:18:45.489-05:00Life is hard. And then it gets weird. I'm gl...Life is hard. And then it gets weird. I'm glad Mr. Sippi is comfortable there.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-78357510938084809732013-03-08T11:57:53.475-05:002013-03-08T11:57:53.475-05:00I'm wearing my prom dress on the bus, today. ...I'm wearing my prom dress on the bus, today. Thanks for noticing. Not me, especially. Just that we all wear that dress, and for the way you explained it.<br /><br />It is a keeper. The prose, that is.<br /><br />God bless Dimitrios, and all makers.<br /><br />Casey Klahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020906666248399435noreply@blogger.com