Old Goat
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Pine can be a real snot, but this was special. A few years ago my brother was cleaning out my dad's garage and found a sawhorse from our great-grandfather. Most of the wood had been rotted away or been chewed up by saws, but we remembered it from our days as kids and playing around behind his workshop (he was born in 1898, retired in the late 1950s, and passed in 1978). He saved a few pieces that he could and gave them to me to do something with so I ended up making six small bowls (one for each of my brother and my kids so the great-great-grandchildren) and a pen for each of us. Soaked the pen blanks in wood hardener several times, but finally got them done.