Pulmonic Stenosis is a congenital obstruction in the right heart that restricts the flow of non-oxygenated blood out of the heart, into the pulmonary artery and on to the lungs for oxygenation. The condition leads to an enlarged heart (“hypertrophy”) and eventually failure and sudden death. The degree of obstruction is determined by measuring...
Our house has a nook at the back of the kitchen. We didn’t have a use for it, so stuff started piling up on a folding table we set up last Christmas. I built a cabinet to replace the folding table. The plan was to tile the counter-top to match the existing counter-top (as...
Hey Man. I’m a little sore that my comment to your Germs post didn’t make it through moderation. Sure it was rambling and not entirely relevant, but I thought the link to Dan Graham’s documentary Rock My Religion was mostly on target since it examines, among other things, the same era (although it does...
The headboard I made recently. Here’s the top after a coat of varnish (Tried and True with a couple of tablespoons of old recipe Marine Spar Varnish (now banned in California)). That’s Plyboo with a strip of cherry at the bottom. This part is 58 inches wide and 25 inches high. The base it...
Yesterday I took Doughty out back for her morning constitutional, as usual. It was dark and foggy and chilly. There was a tinge of smoke in the air and I assumed one of the neighbors had stoked the fireplace the evening before to celebrate the arrival of the Fall chill. Doughty did her thing,...
