Downsizing

           Richard felt excited to make some toy rabbits to add to our planters plus items.  It is almost mid July and I wonder how many will purchase planters to start gardens that theoretically should have been started months ago.  But I am by no means a gardener.  What do I know?

          We do a farmers market on Wednesday and one on Saturday.  We usually get more business on Wednesday.  Take yesterday for example.  Richard had wanted to make a whole slew of bunnies. We have never introduced them and I told him that we should just stick with the four we had.  We didn’t know that right after we set up there would be two busloads of children, each with five dollars to spend.  We sold three bunnies and three painted stools within the matter of minutes. 

          There was one girl who wanted a robot planter (which I learned later on, works well as a doll chair) but they are 20 dollars.  When we returned home I suggested to Richard that he just make smaller robots out of the scraps of wood.  Why not.  I don’t know if we’ll continue after this month.  They may be more time consuming.  But I think it will be a hit with the children.

A Room for Each Hobby

  

          Richard has a BA in graphic arts.  He uses his office to design cards (here) and programs. 

          He fixes watches and has a desk in the back room along with an assortment of watches, watch parts, batteries and new toys to improve his hobby (here).

          At first he was just fixing them and donating them to the homeless shelter.  But when the homeless shelter seemed to have their fill of watches and more than people, a deal was made with an artisan in Ashland in which Richard would leave his watches and the owner would price them and split the proceeds.  Richard allowed for Jaime to collect for extra spending when she was in college.

          And now for the latest hobby.  Richard had wanted to purchase some planters for our yard – only he didn’t want to spend what it cost and wondered if he could make them cheaper.  He can.  And after he built six for our yard wondered if we couldn’t sell them.  He turned my shed into a workshop.  Oh boy.  Too small for what he is doing.  It’s going to get hot.