Boston Baked Beans, Sunsets & Snow - Shasta Daisy's Spinning Pad

I made some wonderful, wonderful Boston Baked Beans with a mess of maple syrup I bought from a friend of mine!!! They cooked all day long this past Saturday and the smell wafted through our entire home!! It was splendiferous waiting to have them for supper (heck, I could eat them for dessert!) with brats boiled in beer during the end of the Green Bay Packers kicking Seattle's butt!!! It was sweet watching them beat the Seahawks and oh, the snow coming down.

These are pics of the sunset the night before our second snowstorm! I'm always amazed at how winter sunsets and sunrises are much more beautiful than in the summer. But, then again, I am a winter person. My seasonal preferences are winter, autumn, spring, and summer. I don't really care much for warm temps as they completely mess my body up. Anyway, the next pictures are of the following morning's sunrise and the snow that came with it:

Sometimes, my darling husband brings home some wonderful, scrap wood for me!! I know that most of it is supposed to end up in the fire pit, but I commandeer a good portion of it for my mad, mad, mad, art projects and inventions. Sometimes, I make stuff to see how the wood runs up on the drill press, before I start making a more permanent project. Here is one of those 'tests': This is a wee variation of the traditional 'marble game'. I used a 5/16" bit for the peg holes. My son cut 32 pegs, each measuring 1-1/2" long. He filed and sanded the edges. The 4 corner holes were bored out using a 1 inch spade bit. This wood is fairly interesting as it's comprised of a hardwood 'sandwich' with approximately 22 layers that are about 3/32 of an inch thick. After experimenting with various hardwood speeds on my drill press, I found it cuts like butter at 1720 rpms. Not a bad piece for being scrap wood!!!

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Boston Baked Beans, Sunsets, Sunrises & Snow!!!