koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
Canada • Age 61
Joined myLot 12 years ago
I am building an online woodworking business. Right now I have hair sticks available for sale. More wood products are on the way. Check us out.
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
3 Feb 23
Groundhog Day is kind of a fun sort of thing in this part of the world. Several different towns in Canada and the US have official Groundhogs for the occasion. Supposedly if the groundhog sees his shadow there will be six more...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
1 Jan 23
A fresh new year to make the most of. I start the year with a couple of issues to deal with. The car needs some work and the situation is kind of complicated. I'm due for hernia repair surgery about three weeks in. I've waited...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
27 Nov 22
Being homeless in Canada in the winter is a serious issue and over the past year, the issue has escalated a lot. I help build apartment buildings I could never afford to live in. Our city councilors have been warning that unless...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
23 Nov 22
We adopted a pair of kittens from my younger brother's family. Their genders were a little ambiguous and we were told one was male and the other was female. We named them Duke and Duchess. Turns out they're both female so Duke's...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
11 Nov 22
My Dad's formal education ended just before he finished the eighth grade because that day Nazi German troops poured across the Dutch border. Six days later the Netherlands surrendered and he and my Mom were now teenagers growing...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
6 Nov 22
This hasn't happened to me in a long time but I laughed and laughed.
My wife and I evidently were at some shopping mall somewhere. I hate shopping by the way. We got a little separated and I watch her disappear around a corner....
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
30 Oct 22
Cutting wood for winter and doing clean up on the mess Hurricane Fiona made this fall. I've got permissions for cutting on a bunch of properties in and around our hunt camp home. I only actually lost four trees on my own piece of...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
24 Oct 22
I was reminded of this on my way to work this morning when I narrowly evaded a herd of Whitetailed Deer crossing the road.
I was out inspecting hurricane damage to the hunt camps in our neighbourhood with my youngest son when I...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
19 Apr 20
We got issued these not so wonderful washable face masks at work. We're supposed to wash them out every evening. My wife who occasionally writes on myLot made me two other much nicer ones. They're more comfortable because she used...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
10 Apr 20
I have no idea what we'll be making but I'm sure it will be important. They only called some of the employees up for this so I really don't know what to expect when I get there.
We normally build kitchen cabinets with some other...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
2 Apr 20
We thought we would try our hand at tapping trees this spring. I started out by turning a couple of spiles (wooden tubes for sap to run through) on the wood lathe. I'll include a video of that at the end of this post. We tapped a...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
30 Mar 20
With not being allowed to go to work I do have time for stuff I don't otherwise get a chance to do. My youngest son and I took a video walk through the bush down by the river (the photo is just a local winter scene) where there...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
7 Sep 19
Hurricane Dorian is poised to make landfall in Nova Scotia and it is raining hard outside and the wind is whipping things about. Coming back from church today we counted two trees down. Nothing serious though. We've already had...
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koopharper
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
31 Aug 19
My son Wesley and I went for a walk with the video camera this morning through our "downtown". This was kind of inspired by someone who posted a discussion centered around a small cemetery. We visited the local cemetery and were...
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8 people