Mrs. Hobbit was gracious enough to give me most of the day Sunday (Mass was Saturday night) to work on a pet project of mine. I love making wooden pens and I have all of the tools necessary in the garage to make them. Unfortunately, I’ve not had enough time recently to do any work at all. About 4 weeks before Debbie returned, I ordered some Olive wood from Jerusalem so that I could make a couple of gifts before I left for Texas. I wound up making 5 pens and 1 pencil (One was a pen/pencil set made out of Purple Heart wood, it is beautiful). Debbie wanted one as a gift for a friend back in Pakistan (I forgot to take a picture of it), I gave one to the Principal at our school and I plan to donate the others to the church/school auction which happens in May.

Then, Monday night (really it was Tuesday morning) it started snowing hard enough here that all of the schools in the local area shut down. Since I work (ahem) at a school, I didn’t have to go to work so I decided to make some gifts for my best good friends. They haven’t seen them yet so I’m not going to post any pictures today (which is also a snow day). I’ll take some though so that after I’ve delivered them, I can post pictures on another boring post about making pens.

As a side note, if there are any men reading this post; spending the entirety of a snow day in the garage making wooden objects for friends, without stopping to clean up the house, shovel the driveway (I’m from South Louisiana, we don’t understand snow), or make the kids pick up their cold, wet clothes from the landing by the front door will land you squarely in the smallest corner of the biggest doghouse you have ever seen. Just a little tip from your uncle Hobbit 8-[