Posts tagged as “Vine Maple Studio”

"My great grandfather, Gottlieb Waschke, like most men from the turn of the century, smoked cigars, but he was not good at driving automobiles."

"By the time I was old enough to notice it, the drag saw was covered with bright green algae and its wooden rails were beginning to rot."

"It looks like one of the big pots cartoon cannibals used to cook pith helmeted explorers."

"... he once saw a faller threaten to punch a swamper in the face when he started to sharpen the faller’s ax with a file."

"The soil underneath the tangle left behind by the loggers was good, but preparing the land for farming was a struggle."

Remembering Christmas on the Waschke homestead when grandma baked Springerle cookies and her variant of Lebkuchen.

"According to Dad, horses, unlike tractors, do not follow orders well."