On Being and Being Home part 2

One day I would like to write a treatise on the value of property ownership and the greater value both physically and spiritually of making a home with your own hands. My current days are overwhelmed with work and with efforts to obtain the degree by which I might further my career and thereby by effect on the greater world around me. This work, however, takes great energy and leaves little time for the joys in life; friends, family, conversation, writing and my newest love- woodworking.

There is light at the end of the tunnel and this challenge will fall at my feet. Until then some dinners will be missed, some conversations unhad and some projects undone. The progress of these pictures are old the cabinet was done months ago and the smaller cabinet was worked on weeks ago. However, audience has asked for an update and this is what I can manage at this time.

The Need for a Man Room

So, I have a really great wife. Many guys would say that and they would be paying lip service. They are saying what they are supposed to say and hoping to "earn points" with such a statement. I, however, really do have a great wife. The reason being this: she likes guys, and I am an unapologetic guy. She knows my style.

That is just one shot of my man room. A place where I can go to write such posts and do all the necessary things a man does. You can't see it, that is the "band of brothers" speech from Henry V by Shakespeare. It is next to a classic clock with the liquor cabinet near by. I have my cigar box, a set of comic book cabinets in once corner, my bookcase with my favorite books on one wall and a classic re-finished vintage desk for my computer in the last corner. What can I say? She knows me.