These are some more bird baths and a demo wooden sink out of poplar, we will finish it with boat spar.

We have been working on bird baths lately out of diorite from the La Sals and Basalt from Torrey.

We completed our solar kiln. It is basically a large greenhouse fro drying wood. It uses passive solar heat and solar electricity to drive the fan to circulate air. Most commercial wood drying useslarge amounts of electricity to remove moisture from wood. We have also started and finished a few projects.

Wednesday we milled two large chinese elm trees for finish shelves for a new house. The tree came from the cisco motel when it was moved.

We started growing mushrooms on our logs. We inoculated several species of trees with four species of mushrooms, shitake, maitake, chicken of the woods, and hen of the woods. We are experimenting with a few different things and how to start producing large quantities of edible and medicinal mushroom in the future. We want to use sawdust as well a logs for the growing medium and hope to be able to offer mushroom compost as a byproduct.

We finally got the Moulder machine up and running. Here are some videos to give you an idea of how it works. It has four heads, each with it's own motor and in the video it's set up to plane all four sides of a the 2" x 2" piece of douglas fir. We are very excited to make some tongue and groove, maybe one day we'll actually have finished floors in all the rooms of our house!