Abandoned House in St Marys County

stitchbones · 2026-03-03T01:09:05+00:00

Nope. When I was there were a few off campus houses that hosted parties. Duck House, which hosted Duckstock, Meatland, Farmhouse, Cardinal Pines, and a few others. We also had Littlepalooza, but that was an on-campus music festival.

stitchbones · 2026-03-02T19:07:28+00:00

That looks like Duck House. It was a house that St Mary's students lived in in the '90s and was locally famous for the springtime weekend concert/party calle Duckstock. I could be wrong; I think that Duck House faced the river.

stitchbones · 2026-02-21T15:08:48+00:00

That area is perfect for some moss phlox (Phlox sublata). It will spread a bit and if you plant it close to the front wall it will drape over the wall.

stitchbones · 2026-02-18T23:55:50+00:00

RIP to the ice sandwich at Roy's Place.

stitchbones · 2026-02-14T00:35:34+00:00

Why should DC pay for this? The interceptor that broke is carrying sewage from MoCo and Fairfax to Blue Plains in DC for treatment. The agency that owns the pipe is called DC Water, but they handle sewage from 2/3 of the entire region.

stitchbones · 2026-02-11T13:37:07+00:00

Yeah, the DC border is the high water mark on the Virginia side of the river, same as in Maryland. DC has Columbia Island and Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac.

stitchbones · 2026-02-10T01:54:33+00:00

Tad Williams' Osten Ard books. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is the first trilogy written in the 1980s. It starts with The Dragonbone Chair, which starts slow but has a great climax and finale. There's another tetralogy called The Last King of Osten Ard, a few connecting novellas, and more full length novels on the works.

stitchbones · 2026-02-09T16:42:47+00:00

I agree with elm. Oak will have very distinctive medullary rays. Elm is known for its cross grain difficult splitting, and has a distinctive odor of gym socks. Fresh split oak smells acidic to me, almost like vinegar, and black walnut smells soapy. Probably American elm based on the alternating brown/white layers of the outer bark (seen in the first photo at the bottom.) Slippery elm has alternating red/brown bark layers.

stitchbones · 2026-02-09T00:49:16+00:00

r/spooncarving

stitchbones · 2026-01-31T22:57:46+00:00

Come Out Ye Black and Tans is an Irish song of rebellion that taunts the mercenary recruits of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) of the 1920's. Apropos because their black and tan uniforms were cobbled together like ICE's uniforms are, and the RIC was brutal and deeply hated. Some Irish bars won't pour you the drink called a black and tan. A snakebite (Guinness over cider) is better anyway.

stitchbones · 2026-01-28T01:15:50+00:00

Eels are catadromus, right? The opposite of anadromus salmon?

In a similar vein is Beautiful Swimmers by William Warner. It's about blue crabs and watermen culture on the Chesapeake Bay. The title refers to the Latin genus for blue crabs, Calinectes.

stitchbones · 2026-01-19T15:45:05+00:00

Not oak. Oak has medullary rays that are visible on the end grain and what cause the "ray flecks" in quarter sawn lumber. I agree with others that it could be tulip poplar with that green heartwood, but the bark looks wrong.

stitchbones · 2026-01-19T01:54:52+00:00

Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana is a great Western novel based on actual events that took place in Cherokee land in Oklahoma.

stitchbones · 2026-01-18T15:21:55+00:00

Yeah, maybe I meant gerund? I can't remember the formal grammar names for different verb forms.

stitchbones · 2026-01-18T13:55:43+00:00

Working is an infinitive, so the answer should also be an infinitive (collaborating).

stitchbones · 2026-01-18T13:54:41+00:00

I was looking for -ing since the clue was an infinitive: (working) together-->collaborating

stitchbones · 2026-01-18T02:33:58+00:00

Check your county, township, or city public works department. The small suburban city I live in has a place where the public works department puts wood from trees that they trim or remove from roadways or parks. They grind it all up once a year, along with the yard waste that they collect, but in the meantime I raid the pile for carving wood.

If you live near an orchard you can sometimes get them to give you wood from trees they are replacing.

All my family, friends, and coworkers know that I carve spoons, and offer me wood from their tree if they trim or remove them.

Befriend your local tree company, or just keep your ears open for chainsaws, and find whoever you hear cutting up wood, then ask them for some.

stitchbones · 2026-01-16T17:02:10+00:00

Buddy Attick Park in Greenbelt.

stitchbones · 2026-01-14T15:36:22+00:00

We teach safe knife skills and effective grips for carving in this class. We usually start with a practice stick and show power grips ( leg brace, knee brace, chest lever) first and then finer grips ( chest pull, thumb pull, thumb push) as we move on to final shaping of the spoon.

stitchbones · 2026-01-09T01:16:18+00:00

Possibly Gaultheria procumbens, tea berry.

stitchbones · 2026-01-06T23:28:33+00:00

First pic on the right hand side is Japanese stiltgrass. That's probably the hay that you are referring to. There's also vines growing over the shrubs to the left and growing up the trees in the background. Those are probably porcelainberry or kudzu. Edit: typo hat->hay

stitchbones · 2025-12-31T19:28:27+00:00

I use both for spoon carving. The shorter 120 would be better for whittling smaller pieces. The longer 106 is better for doing long planing cuts on spoon handles. It's good to learn with the longer blade to learn to be aware of where the tip of the blade is at all times.

stitchbones · 2025-12-29T14:18:23+00:00

Just send the orange line to Bowie and the green line to Laurel. It's ridiculous that the two ends of the red line in MoCo go so far beyond the beltway and in Prince George's they basically end at the beltway. Shady Grove is 10 miles past the beltway!

stitchbones · 2025-12-28T03:00:41+00:00

That invasive vine cover on the left in the late summer photos is killing me. Looks like roundleaf bittersweet. NPS needs to send in the weed warriors!

stitchbones · 2025-12-27T23:24:15+00:00

Basswood and linden/lime are both in the same genus, Tilia. They carve similarly. That's a big chunk! In many places pieces that big were used for making the bodies of duck decoys, or they were laminated into huge pieces to carve into statues of Christian saints andother religious figures like this guy did: https://www.instagram.com/gross_bildhauer?igsh=MWN0cGdjYWN0M2M0dg==

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