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Willie’s got a way with wood

Posted in woodworking, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville High School/Middle School Athletic Director Willie Smith handcrafted this beauty. (Photo courtesy Smith)

He’s got skills.

Coupeville High School/Middle School Athletic Director Willie Smith is staying busy even while schools across the state are shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to doing all his sports stuff, he’s also found time to craft the kitchen island seen in the photo above.

Made from madrona wood, with a maple top, it’s a Willie original.

“All lumbered by me and finished in my garage with my own two hands!”

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Carmageddon approaches!!

Posted in Change is in the air, tagged , , , on July 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »

My new yard sign for the next six months or so. (David Svien photos)

My new yard sign for the next six months or so. (David Svien photos)

Sherman

Signs. Signs. Everywhere a sign. The deer will continue to ignore them all.

It begins.

The long-anticipated Madrona Way Project is lurching to life, as my front yard officially became marked as a detour point late Monday afternoon.

The world HQ for Coupeville Sports sits on the corner of Sherman and Madrona, which will now be the turn a trillion people make over the next six months or so.

When construction work, in all its many forms, kicks into gear in the next couple of days, cars coming towards Coupeville on Madrona will be kicked to the right and shot up Sherman, then dropped on to Black and run down to Broadway.

Come from town, and you’ll do the route in reverse — shot down Broadway, up Black, then a screaming drop to the water on Sherman before you can get back on Madrona.

Madrona itself will be shut down to through traffic from Broadway to Vine, with Vine a no-man’s land.

The project is a two million dollar affair and involves several phases.

So, it’ll probably still be going in 2016…

New water and sewer mains are being installed, and then you get road reconstruction. Adding a storm drain system, bioswales and a pedestrian path are also planned.

I welcome my new construction overlords.

Cause it’s not like I have a choice, do I?

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Woody? Oh, poor, poor Woody…

Posted in Cars Gone Wild, tagged , , , , on June 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Bowed, but unbroken, "Woody," the telephone pole at the corner of Sherman and Madrona, leans strong. (David Svien photos)

Bowed, but unbroken, “Woody,” the telephone pole at the corner of Sherman and Madrona, leans strong. (David Svien photos)

"Oh me? I'm fine. I'm ... ow, ow, ow, ow, owie ow ow..."

“Oh me? I’m fine. I’m … ow, ow, ow, ow, owie ow ow…”

Welcome to ... Jurassic Park. Watch out for the rampaging carasaurs.

Welcome to … Jurassic Park. Watch out for the rampaging carasaurs.

They tried to kill my telephone pole.

But he (or she) doesn’t go down that easy.

For everyone who is asking, the telephone pole that sits (uneasily now) at the corner of the property at which Coupeville Sports headquarters resides (where N. Sherman drops down and and meets Madrona), was assaulted Saturday.

A truck plowed into Woody, then bounced off and ended up deep in the underbrush on the side of Sherman before coming to a stop having (narrowly) missed a second telephone pole on that side of the road.

After 247 police, fire and ambulance crews arrived on the scene — and yes, if I had been on top of things, I would have been there to shoot that part of the event… — the driver was OK and the truck was later removed.

Frontier came out later in the day and assessed the pole, but have yet to do anything about it. While it’s leaning pretty good, all the lines stayed connected.

So now you now. Telephone poles, we grow ’em hardy out here on the prairie.

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