He could learn how to convert logs to century structures. He would learn to
score with a felling axe, finish with a braodaxe and run a bandsaw with a
45' track. We're still up in the air about which method is more efficient.
We'll be cutting up and raising two frames this summer. He would also learn
repair practices on historic timbers during the reconstruction of the
Christian (our family name) Church. An 1815 white pine church from Oxford
New York, soon to be the oldest building in Wayne County Ohio. Think I can
get a tax break?

The sky used to be a lot more spectacular before they put in the oulet mall
up at the expressway exit, bu lots of corn, cows, soybeans, wild turkeys,
German bank barns and no traffic jambs.

Rudy Christian
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Subject: A summer job for my 17 year old Jack London?


My son-and-heir wants a "working class" job this summer.  Ideal job:
deckhand
on a Great Lakes ore carrier, the job I got in 1971.  (I've told him he'll
never see a more beautiful night sky than that over Lake Superior.)  Last
summer he worked for a contractor in Martha's Vineyard, where all the
carpenter's have PhD's and the roofers publish poetry.

He's working on the Great Lakes deal, but...any other ideas?  Not wanted:
service job, office job, retail job.  Fresh air important, will travel.