2011.12.22 07:00 - Yewl

The Guardian for this meeting was Storm Nordwind. The comments are by Storm Nordwind. The title - Yewl - is a play on words: we were talking about carving and woods, including the yew tree, and this session was for me the first after the longest night (in the northern hemishpere), regarded in pagan northern Europe (where I come from) as the start of Yule.

I had thought I was going to be delayed by a heavy downfall of RL snow, and Lucinda had kindly agreed to cover for me. As it happened, we arrived at the same time.

Storm Nordwind: Hi Lucinda!
Lucinda Lavender: Hello Storm!
Storm Nordwind: Thank you for setting the alarm. I made it anyway!
Lucinda Lavender: How is the weather?
Lucinda Lavender: very good...
Storm Nordwind: One to two inches of snow ... falling every hour! :)
Lucinda Lavender: nodding...have not seen that sort of thing this year...
Storm Nordwind: So there's a lot of it on the ground. But driving was OK.
Lucinda Lavender: that is good...
Storm Nordwind: We have a Subaru all wheel drive - very old but very stable
Lucinda Lavender: :) Subarus do the job! We have one too:)
Storm Nordwind smiles
Storm Nordwind: Here's a couple of photos I took on the way back into my condo...
Storm Nordwind: http://i.imgur.com/P01BQ.jpg
Storm Nordwind: http://i.imgur.com/mANeT.jpg
Storm Nordwind: That second one is my footprint!
Storm Nordwind: Hi Ewan
Ewan Bonham: Hi folks...:)
Lucinda Lavender: Amazing!
Lucinda Lavender: HI Ewan!
Ewan Bonham: Can not see anyone yet..
Lucinda Lavender: ah
Storm Nordwind: I'm dressed as my normal dowdy self Ewan, and Luci is looking glorious as usual :)
Lucinda Lavender: :) I seem to be in a formal stage..
Ewan Bonham: Yes, now I can see...:)
Ewan Bonham: How are you all in this Holiday Season?
Storm Nordwind is keeping warm, thank you :)
Lucinda Lavender: Luci is getting ready for her daughter to come home:)
Ewan Bonham: Nice..
Ewan Bonham: I am here in warm weather..

Carving... and trying to find the right URL.

Lucinda Lavender: I will send you the link she sent me this morning...it is part of the show she worked on at the museum...https://mail.google.com/mai...4661e7737421bf
--BELL--
Ewan Bonham: thank you..
Lucinda Lavender: the show is about Duncan Phyfe furniture...I am excited to hear about her work this fall.
Lucinda Lavender: nice to hear about how carving is done...
Storm Nordwind: Sorry that link does not work for me. (Seems to be to one of your emails.)
Lucinda Lavender: Sorry:(...how do I do it then?
Storm Nordwind: Is it a webpage?
Storm Nordwind: If so, go to it yourself in a browser and copy the link from the address bar
Lucinda Lavender: Youtube..-Low Relief Carving
Lucinda Lavender: slow here...
Ewan Bonham: Thank you Lucinda

Bigfoot.

Alfred Kelberry: hi, bigfoot :)
Storm Nordwind: Hi there Boxy!
Alfred Kelberry: folks :)
Ewan Bonham: Hello Alfred..
Lucinda Lavender: https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&...4661e7737421bf
Storm Nordwind: For a guy my height, my feet are actually quite small. that's just a lot of snow!
Alfred Kelberry: that link won't work, luci
Lucinda Lavender: wierd...still shows as mail address
Storm Nordwind: That's to your private email account Luci
Alfred Kelberry: storm :)
Lucinda Lavender: sorry...Luci looked it up and found it on google...but it is still from email?
Alfred Kelberry: google: trust no one
Storm Nordwind chuckles

Christmasizing.

Alfred Kelberry: oh, have you guys seen the para's plot?
Ewan Bonham: Well, thank you for the thought..:)
Ewan Bonham: What does your da. do Lucinda?
Storm Nordwind: "the para's plot"?
Alfred Kelberry: she christmasized it so well
Lucinda Lavender: does research for curators at the MEt Museum for a year
Ewan Bonham: Wow...really interesting..
Lucinda Lavender: american wing
Lucinda Lavender: very yes
Lucinda Lavender: I would like to see Para's plot:)
Lucinda Lavender: soon I hope
Alfred Kelberry: put up an ice pond with a little rink, a cozy cottage, christmas trees with decorations, etc :)
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Alfred Kelberry: we'd been shopping the other day :)

Fountain.

Alfred Kelberry: hmm, the fountain looks different
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Lucinda Lavender: slowly icing over?
Storm Nordwind: It's a double fountain today :)
Storm Nordwind: I put the Cafe fountain there too, to change colors
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: kind of distracting. let's see how fast i'll adapt :)
Storm Nordwind: I'll take it away when I go
Ewan Bonham: Nice form of mindful focus..
Alfred Kelberry: could be a nice tradition for you to change something once a week at your session
Lucinda Lavender: http://www.google.com/search?source=...0.2.9.3.2l17l0
Lucinda Lavender: sorry for the length...success perhaps this time

The easy link URL is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ayMP7UbEM

Lucinda Lavender: for sometime...
--BELL--
Alfred Kelberry: awesome

Yew.

Storm Nordwind: Reminds me of when I learnt to carve. Though I tended to use yew rather than mahogany.
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Alfred Kelberry: explain yourself, storm :)
Storm Nordwind: Eh? Er... I once learnt to carve. My favorite wood to carve was yew. Er... what else needs explaining?
Alfred Kelberry: er...
Alfred Kelberry: yew, ok
Ewan Bonham: Ido like the effect and I do like the idea of a changing tradition..
Lucinda Lavender: yew a hardwood?
Alfred Kelberry: could you carve that thing like in the clip?
Storm Nordwind: Yew is a very longlived and durable softwood - often referred to as a hard softwood.
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Storm Nordwind: I don't have any carving tools here Boxy
Alfred Kelberry: but skill-wise, can you do that? what level of mastery this is?
Storm Nordwind prefers not to comment of his lack of ability :)
Lucinda Lavender: I like how the fellow talked about the break and the gas being on at the same time:)
Alfred Kelberry: :)

Poison.

Storm Nordwind: I used to like yew - because it's very hard, the trees are the oldest in the UK... and it's poisonous :)
Lucinda Lavender: !
Lucinda Lavender: interesting...even the wood?
Alfred Kelberry: can't eat them?
Storm Nordwind: You can get a rash from the wood. And the arils are toxic [** Not true. See below]. Sleeping underneath one is not recommended!
Lucinda Lavender: maybe they are protected by their poisionousness
Alfred Kelberry: hmm
Alfred Kelberry: so what is it being used for?
Storm Nordwind: They're very often found in churchyards!
Alfred Kelberry: hmm
Lucinda Lavender: churchyards...hmmm
Lucinda Lavender: a symbol then
Storm Nordwind nods
Alfred Kelberry: please welcome...
Alfred Kelberry: ...
Storm Nordwind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus_baccata#Religion
Ewan Bonham: I love symbols..
Alfred Kelberry: ...
Alfred Kelberry: le gilles!
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Lucinda Lavender: very interesting...I had not seen one that I remembered...coming from the northwest most of my life...
Storm Nordwind: Bonjour Gilles
Alfred Kelberry: fine landing into the pond
Gilles Kuhn: hello all
Lucinda Lavender: what an amazing trunk
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Giles
Alfred Kelberry: i think mick could say a few words on wood :)

**Storm Nordwind apologizes for calling the arils toxic. That's the least toxic part.

Lucinda Lavender: does he work with wood?
Alfred Kelberry: yep
Storm Nordwind nods
--BELL--
Storm Nordwind has also shot a yew bow - another reason it was his favorite wood :)
Lucinda Lavender: Giles have you seen a Yew tree?

If.

Gilles Kuhn: well i lived in a central european wood for more than 20 years so yes but i am not certain of which tree is a yew will look the french translation
Ewan Bonham: They had them in AZ as well
Ewan Bonham: Very hard wood
Storm Nordwind: L’If commun ou If
Gilles Kuhn: its an if in french so yes
Lucinda Lavender: Luci thinks about Yew/You
Lucinda Lavender: Luci thinks about meeting a wolf in the wood!!
Ewan Bonham: Chewing on Yew branches
Lucinda Lavender: and about getting a red hood and a basket of goodies...
Gilles Kuhn: put a lot of meat in the basket thats prudent ;-)
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Storm Nordwind: Better to get the wolf to chew on the wood ;)
Gilles Kuhn: not so easy
Gilles Kuhn: i'm not a beaver
Gilles Kuhn: mmmh just one second

Gilles disappears as a wolf...

Ewan Bonham: And the wood is tuff..
Lucinda Lavender: Will have to go shopping for a cape of some sort and basket...
Storm Nordwind: We'll create a special wood here for you Luci!
Lucinda Lavender: :)))
Lucinda Lavender: I will be found skipping merrily along on the way to Grandmothers house
Storm Nordwind: "Oh what a lot you have to drop Grandma!"
Ewan Bonham: Smile..
Lucinda Lavender: going looking for link
--BELL--
Ewan Bonham: Thank you all!
Storm Nordwind waves
Alfred Kelberry: gah, got busy in rl

...and reappears as a beaver.

Storm Nordwind: A beaver arrives!
Gilles Kuhn: so about wood to chew....
Alfred Kelberry: oh wow, the beaver!
Alfred Kelberry: almost as cute and cuddly as a penguin
Lucinda Lavender: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z20VJ...eature=related
Gilles Kuhn: why a penguin?
Alfred Kelberry: cause they're cute and suddly
Lucinda Lavender: I was looking to share a song..."All the Way to Grandmothers House...". From the musical In to the Woods
Lucinda Lavender: Ah! a beaver has joined...
Gilles Kuhn: i need to go an sl obligation enjoy and bye
Storm Nordwind: Oh gnaw!! ;-)
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Lucinda Lavender: IN to the woods...
Storm Nordwind: Bye Gilles - thank you for the avatar
Lucinda Lavender: ah...I should go too...
Storm Nordwind: Thanks for the cover Luci :))
Alfred Kelberry: stormy has obligations too, i think
Lucinda Lavender: :)sure...I think I had the heads up in a dream...
Storm Nordwind: Thank you all!
Alfred Kelberry: thanks, bigfoot
Lucinda Lavender: thanks ---great day to you both:)
Storm Nordwind: Bye for now!