My fall and winter have been amazing so far! I ended summer on MV and spent two and a half gorgeous months at Yestermorrow Design/Build school up in Waitsfeild, Vermont. The eleven week woodworking course included aspects of design and drafting, wood selection and preparation, joinery, traditional hand skills, sharpening, power tool techniques, and finishing. Essentially a carpentry crash course with seven other novice woodworkers. The school was a super tight community between faculty and students. We shared the campus with one other course and over home cooked meals in such a small place, it became a sort of like a family. In our first week, we started out felling a couple large ash and hemlock trees from the campus woods. A small time local sawyer felled the trees for us and explained the milling process with his portable sawmill. The wood we processed was stored to be used by the next year's class. After the first week of hand tool work, we were familiarized with the shop and free to use it at our pleasure for the rest of the course. I grew in confidence working with most tools you'll find in any shop and practiced furniture making. Since completing the course, I've been doing more finish carpentry for South Mountain. While I'm definitely still learning through my mistakes I can claim some wall caps and two closets in Quansoo.