The southern states are already thinking about (and maybe experiencing the early signs of) spring. I realize my northern friends have a longer wait. This just means you will have more time to complete this project. The project is a newspaper pot plant starter, which will be a handy tool for the gardener in your family.

Well, I've been to the mountaintop. I went to a Master Class at Highland Woodworking in Atlanta with Mike Mahoney, world class bowl turner.

There were about ten of us in the class with a wide range of experience and ability and many hailing from far away. The result was some good bowls, some mediocre ones and some chunks of wood flying around the room. It looked to me as if everybody had a good time, but one young man about seventeen years old summed it up for all of us when he decided the big thing he got out of the class was, "I am not as good as I thought I was."