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but I 've been real interested in some of those cute country , country kind of things .
Uh , I see stuff in craft galleries for 500 dollars .
and I say , oh no
and , and I go
and I make it .
Yeah .
That 's how I started jewelry making .
I , I love to cook .
Oh , that 's great .
And I saw a silver necklace that had these little teeny weeny silver spatulas and , and , and knife and , and a fork and all kinds of stuff
and I went
and I signed up for class because then again , you get , you know , get someone to guide you
and you get the tools you do n't feel like buying .
Exactly .
And I made a necklace that I saw in a gallery for 320 dollars .
It took me a lot of time
but it did n't ,
Oh , yeah .
but if it cost me 20 dollars , you know ,
and then I ,
And your time ,
then you 're that much farther ahead
Yeah .
Then I saw a , one of these country looking wood watermelons .
It was a solid watermelon with a wedge cut out of it .
Right .
I 've seen them
and then the watermelon , the red with the , with the seeds painted in
and ,
Oh , yeah .
Uh - huh .
That 's neat .
I went there ,
we have Home Depot out here .
I do n't know if you 've heard of it .
I went
and I got 2 6 foot inch thick boards turned into a watermelon .
Yes .
We have one .
I had to cut into slabs and build up this big square and turn it on the lath
and cutting that wedge out was no joke
Huh .
Oh , I 'm , I 'm sure .
We did it on a , I had a , uh , I did it through Adult Ed again .
A band saw ?
What ?
I did it through Adult Ed again .
Uh - huh .
And the teacher was one of these negative people ,
oh that 's dangerous ,
we ca n't do that ,
we just ca n't do that .
And I 'm going well how about this way ?
I , I want to do that ,
that was the plan here
Right .
So we did get the wedge cut out by building some kind of a cradle for it .
A cradle for it .
Yeah ,
so you can steady it
and then , you used a handsaw or a backsaw ?
Well , it , the instructions in the book I had said use a coping saw
but there 's no coping saw big enough to , for a 14 inch wide watermelon < laughter > that
Right ,
right .
and he wanted me to do it by hand with a regular saw .
I said I 'm not that steady ,
it 's not going to happen .
Yeah .
So we built a cradle for it
and we got once it was turned , we got one one cut out on the table saw , on the radial saw ,
by getting the other one out without the slice now flying in your face was something you had to think about
Right .
So ,
Now did you cut a quarter wedge in this ?
Uh , I 'd say it 's about an eighth .
You know
Well , I , I 'm envisioning , uh , uh , a a watermelon like a log
and then , uh , what I 've seen of this kind before is you have the , uh , the , uh ,
it 's , uh ,
if you 're looking at adding on you have ,
Up here in Rochester , uh , we 're the second cleanest metropolitan city as far as air pollution .
I think Grand Rapids was number 1 .
Uh , we really do n't have too much of a problem as far as , uh , industry since we 're pretty technologically based as far as our industry in the city here .
But we do have the same problem a lot of other areas up here in the northeast have
and that is the effects of acid rain .
coming basically from coal plants in Ohio and Illinois and Indiana .
Right .
Actually down here we do n't have a big problem with , uh , with air pollution .
Mainly because we do n't have anybody to to either side of us .
Uh , which helps out a lot as far as that goes .
I would n't even necessarily thought of that except when I lived up in Boston and up in , uh , you know ,
debates would come up up there in Massachusetts and , you know , in that area over , uh , air pollution
and their attitude 's , basically , well , prevailing ins , winds are to the east
so why should we have to worry .
Yeah .
I 've , I 've , uh , was in Los Angeles once
and that was quite a difference as far as pollution goes .
I mean you could n't really see that much
Every once in a while we have these air inversions , the weather inversions