koopharper

@koopharper (7398)

Canada • Age 60

Joined myLot 11 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.

www.etsy.com/ca/shop/MyFamilyCountryProd

Discussions (256)

koopharper's Discussions

Fred is Dead

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 3 Feb

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...

fred

groundhog

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I've Got Plans How About You?

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 1 Jan

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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Homeless Man Embarrasses Our Provincial Government Into Action

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 27 Nov

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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Kitten Footsies

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 23 Nov

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...

cats

kittens

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What Remembrance Day Means To Me

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 11 Nov

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...

remembrance day

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Ever Wake Up From a Dream Laughing?

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 6 Nov

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....

dream

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Hard At Work Today

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 30 Oct

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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Nobody Shoots the Albino!

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 24 Oct

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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Went Right Over His Head

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • 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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Going Back To Work Monday

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • 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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Mad Scientist in Me Comes Out Once Again

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • 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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Taking a Long Walk in the Woods Away From People

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • 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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We're Going To Have A Power Failure

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • 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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A Town That Has Almost Disappeared

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • 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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Word of Mouth Working

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 25 Aug 19

I completed a special order gavel set during the week. The friend who ordered it received it today and was absolutely delighted. A mutual friend was with her at the time and now I have another order for another gavel set. I hadn't...

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Time For a Quick Visit

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 21 Jul 19

I just checked and my last discussion was posted back in January. I do come by and lurk now and then but I don't recall the last time I made a comment. So what have I been up to? Trust me busy always. I currently work for a...

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Not How I Wanted to Start the Year

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 1 Jan 19

Seems the ground frost is running deeper this year than in the past. Got under our camp and froze the water line coming in. That's a minor disaster for us. This line would freeze when we first got it running but after insulating...

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Wow Two Whole Responses

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 30 Dec 18

Been really busy working, harvesting firewood and trying to build my woodworking business. On my Youtube channel MFCP Woodworking, I decided to run a hair stick giveaway and it hasn't garnered a whole lot of attention. I'm going...

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Clearing the Road

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 18 Nov 18

Started my day off fixing my chainsaw so that I could deal with the problem in the photo. This one wasn't interfering with the power lines so I could happily take care of it myself. It wasn't actually blocking the road yet. Most...

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The Reason We Were Offline

koopharper @koopharper (7398) • Canada 8 Nov 18

Windstorm Saturday night took this Jackpine and hung it up in the power lines. This caused a short circuit which blew the breaker on the end of our road. No electricity, no phone, and no Internet until someone could come and fix...

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