If you build it, they will come.

The famous line from the movie Field of Dreams applies at the Mississippi Crafts Center, where there’s now a spacious facility that can be used for teaching classes. The problem for executive director Nancy Perkins, however, was a lack of funding to purchase tools to teach woodworking skills to kids.

Then a former Mississippi Craftsmen’s Guild board member – who wished to remain anonymous – pledged $3,000 and asked fellow Guild supporters to match the donation. It was only a matter of days, once a funding page was set up, before the goal was met. Even better, donations continue to stream in, and the surplus will go toward scholarships.

“In the first day we already had people stepping up, and we appreciate everyone’s efforts,” Perkins said. “A huge part of our mission is to pass these (woodworking) skills along. We plan to have camps and scholarship money for economically-challenged students. If you put a tool in their hands, they love it. It’s a great time to teach them the joy of creating something themselves, with their own hands.”

Sammy Long of Brandon, a retiree who spends an average of 30 hours a week on wood turning and carving, began in 1999 when his father-in-law gave him an old wood lathe he no longer needed. Long, who turns bowls, hollow vessels and ornaments, was taught by instructors at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Cookeville, Tennessee. His work is displayed there as well as in Ridgeland, where he teaches both wood turning and wood carving.

“I’ve taught two adult classes and one youth class,” Long said. “I see the students overwhelmed when they see what I have planned for them for the week. As the class moves along and each project is completed, the joy and happiness and feel of success is all over their faces and can be described as pure joy.

“That is when I feel like I have given back what was shown to me in all of the classes I have taken. Being able to teach the young and old to make something with their hands is very pleasing to me and them as well.”

Ken McLemore, a past-president of the Guild and a resident of Port Gibson, comes from a long line of craftspeople and began woodworking during his childhood. In addition to making bowls and spoons over the years, he attended lectures and workshops and launched a historic property restoration service.

“Later in my career I developed an affinity for teaching,” McLemore said. “I found passing on my knowledge of the craft to be most fulfilling. It also made me hone my hand-tool skills even more. I can’t imagine passing through this life and not creating anything, and I tell my students just that.

“God gave us hands, opposable thumbs, and a logical brain to control those thumbs – use them to make the world a little better place by creating. Many youth today, in spite of labels otherwise, are keenly interesting in becoming makers, to improve our world.”

Perkins said that many of her Guild members took shop, art classes, and home economics – which aren’t always offered in schools today.

“We have craftsmen who want to step up and teach all ages,” she said. “We want to have the tools and be teaching year-round. We have classes most of the time, and camp in the summer. Sampler camps are for kids 5-8. For woodworking, the parents need to tell us the child has an aptitude for woodworking if under age 13.”

“You’ll get some kids around 15 years old who are looking for something (fun to do), but the really young kids, 10-11 years old, are the ones you want to reach, that really want to learn,” said Steve Windham, owner of Windham’s Woodworks in Brandon and a Guild member since 2006. “My dad taught me everything I knew about woodworking except wood turning, which I taught myself (through) trial and error.

“Now, with the internet, you can become a really good wood turner within two years. You must have the equipment to be able to teach people to do this – a lathe, table saw, band saw – and their parents (be able to) afford it.”

The desire to teach, from McLemore and many other Guild members, is definitely there, and now the funding to purchase tools and pass along the skills – and the joys of woodworking – will be a reality at the Crafts Center.

“This is a chance for junior high kids that haven’t found their thing yet,” Perkins said. “If they found they had an ability to work with their hands, I think it will give them a whole new self-confidence that would carry over into other subjects.

“This is also a great thing for people when they retire. They might become good enough to become craftsmen themselves. (I’m envisioning) fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters doing this together.”

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When sleep eludes, many turn to sound to bring on a good night’s rest — the gurgling brooks, ocean waves and white noise of a sound machine, the whir of an electric fan or maybe a dose of Coldplay or Ed Sheeran. But woodworking videos? Not so common.

“I did — I started watching woodworking YouTube videos at night to fall asleep; it was kind of like a pacifier,” grinned Jason Barlow in his workshop at home in eastern Lowndes County. “I couldn’t get enough of them.”

By day, Barlow is often whipping through the sky in a T-6 Texan II aircraft as an Active Guard Reserve instructor pilot at Columbus Air Force Base. It’s an intense and demanding career. When a request from his wife for a farm table unearthed an itch to make things with his hands a few years ago, Barlow discovered a whole new passion on the ground.   

The Madison native had never taken a shop class, never owned anything more complex than a cordless drill. But immersed in how-to videos, he was determined to have a go at the farm table. A good friend, Patrick Singley, shared power tools and time to assist. The project was a success.

“That was the moment I gained an appreciation and passion for woodworking and all things handcrafted,” Barlow said. Before long, he was begging his wife, April, for half the garage.

“When she saw how motivated and enthusiastic I was, she said why don’t you take the whole thing, and without blinking an eye, I took her up on it,” said Barlow. “She may have some regrets on some really cold, rainy days, but not too many I hope.”  

In the two-plus years since, the Air Force Academy graduate has turned that garage into a respectable shop, with a lathe, grinding jig, diamond grinding wheel dresser, saws, routers, sanders and his work bench, “Bessie.”

“Jason’s kind of that person,” April said. “When he puts his mind to it, he does it.”

Art of the craft

With unflagging curiosity, Barlow developed his skills. He soaked up mentoring from fellow woodworkers and online videos — including those by Shawn Stone of New Hope.  

“The woodworking community is a fantastic group of makers that not only share their craft but also share their time and resources,” Barlow said. “It’s a very giving community, to say the least.”

Woodturning is currently the pilot’s focus: A lathe holds and rotates a material like wood so that it can be quickly shaped with tools. His craftsmanship is evidenced in beautifully-grained bowls, distinctive writing pens, handmade duck calls, handsome bottle stoppers and bottle openers sporting NCAA emblems.  

“I use anything I can find or is given to me,” Barlow said. That includes East Indian rosewood, persimmon, cypress, walnut, hickory, cocobolo, olive wood and bocote. Even storm-damaged trees are inspiring raw material. Not long ago, Barlow made a dozen crosses from a tree that fell by his church, for April to give to leaders in the women’s ministry she directs at Mount Vernon Church.  

For some of his pens, Barlow uses man-made acrylic pen blanks that polish to a dazzling finish, with color mixtures that swirl and intertwine like a captured sunset or marine landscape. He makes pens from wood as well. Two of the most special to date have been crafted from Palestinian oak a friend brought back from Mount Carmel in Israel.

“I like a piece with a story,” Barlow said. “I would love to take a downed tree or even a piece of furniture that somebody has had in their family, that maybe belonged to their grandfather, and make a pen or a bowl … ”

Something from nothing

The father of two finds deep satisfaction in creating something out of nothing, “to take something that someone would burn up in a fireplace and make it into something beautiful, to make that and see how it brings joy.”

Workshop time isn’t necessarily easy to come by. In addition to being full time active duty, husband and father, Barlow coaches soccer at Columbus Christian Academy, currently serves as The Father’s Child Ministry board president, is active in church and follows his daughters who play basketball, volleyball and also cheer.  

What he does find time to make, he often offers on his website, jbsworkshop.net, Instagram and Etsy. He has hopes of expanding his hobby in future and being able to consider more custom requests than he can now. But Barlow has plenty going for him, including family support.

April sees his hobby as a healthy way to clear the mind. “This is a house full of girls — even our pets are girls!” she laughed. “He has a stressful job. I think for him this is a great way to get away and get out there and make something with his hands and still be a part of the family. And he actually gets to see the fruits of his labors.”

Nothing beats the feeling of creating something, said the man who describes himself as an “aspiring tamer of wood.” “It’s a happy niche. I can get on that lathe, and I can put in headphones and tune out the world. It’s a way to recharge and go quiet for a little while. Who doesn’t want that, right?”

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The ancient art of woodturning is returning to Warwick.

Stephen Schumacher will be bringing his unique demonstration to town tomorrow, appearing at his third Jumpers and Jazz.

“I didn’t make it last year, but I was here for the previous two festivals,” Mr Schumacher said.

“It is such a great time here, and I love having a look around.

“I enjoy seeing people get into the spirit, as well as the whole community getting behind the event.”

Mr Schumacher said he would bring along a number of items which will be available to purchase.

“I’m not a commercial turner, and as an artisan I like to display my work,” he said.

“If people want to buy it, that’s great.”

The demonstration is available to everyone, and Mr Schumacher said it was great to connect with crowds.

“The demonstration takes place in an intimate setting,” he said.

“That allows me to go through the basics, and talk to the crowd about the processes that I’m completing.

“It happened last year when a young man took a keen interest.

“I was able to show him the process from start to finish, and I was able to make a pen in front of his eyes, which he later purchased.”

With entry just a gold coin donation, Mr Schumacher urged people to witness it for themselves.

“People can expect to see me at the lathe carrying out the processes,” he said.

“They can see items being transformed from a rough piece of wood, and being turned into something special.”

 

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Turnabout – Women at the Lathe is a blended invitational and juried exhibition, celebrating both known and new voices in the woodturning field. The exhibition is being co-curated by Dixie Biggs, Sharon Doughtie and Tib Shaw. Juried selections will be made by Dixie Biggs and Sharon Doughtie. The online application period for Turnabout runs October 1 to November 15, 2017. The application fee is $25 for up to three submissions. Deadline: November 15, 2017. The exhibition will commence at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, Tennessee, from January 15, 2018 to March 12, 2018, and will then travel to the AAW Gallery in St. Paul from June 3 to July 29, 2018. If you have questions, please email Dixie, dixie@dixiebiggs.com; Sharon, leaf@hawaii.rr.com; or Tib, tibshaw@gmail.com. For more information or sign up to be reminded when the application period opens.

 

Not completely sure how he would accomplish it, Tom Guelcher took on the job of recreating a 23-foot- high column and transporting it to its new location outside Kelly Hall at Pillsbury College in Owatonna. Guelcher, owner of The Turning Point Woodworks, a small woodworking company in St. Paul, specializes in woodturning as well as architectural replication and repair.

Kelly Hall originally had four fluted columns on the building facade, but one had to be removed because of deterioration and rot. Guelcher had never reconstructed a column of this size, but after he inspected the remaining columns in July 2016, he decided he was up to the challenge. He began researching how to create a column that not only looked like the others, but lasted as long as they did.

Guelcher was unsure he would be able to find a lathe—a machine used for shaping wood—that would be large enough to complete the job. However, upon a closer look at the images he took of the other columns, he discovered that the width of the groove was the same from top to bottom, which meant that it was constructed without the use of a lathe. Instead, the columns were constructed by beveling so each column’s diameter was decreased at the top. At the bottom, each column was 3½ inches, while the top was 3 inches.

Each column was constructed with different sizes of lumber that were staggered at different intervals. Luckily, Guelcher was able to get the No.1 Cedar that was essential to completing the task from a lumber company that usually only sold to other lumber yards. Any other kind of wood would have been too heavy and would have required the use of a crane to put it back into place at Kelly Hall. After completing the main column—fluting the wood, beveling, and creating the boards and inner support circles—he constructed the Roman Ionic Capital, which required intricate carving to replicate the scrolls on either side.

When the column and capital were finished, Guelcher and his nephew transported his reproduction to Owatonna, where it was erected using a boom lift. With a new coat of paint, it was indistinguishable from the rest of the columns. “It was a huge endeavor from start to finish and probably one I would not be too keen on doing again,” Guelcher says. But if a similar challenge should arise, he says, “I’m going to insist I have one to copy in the shop with me.”

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Las Vegas isn’t exactly the kind of place that Newberg High School students Todd Halleman and Roehben Sarkisian would normally like to visit in the height of summer.

Their attitudes changed, however, when they were invited to attend the Association of Woodworkers & Furnishings Suppliers Fair because their entries had been accepted as finalists in student woodworking competitions that will be showcased there July 19-22.
SETH GORDON – ANewberg High School and Anvil Academy student Roehben Sarkisian attaches a chain to his quarter-scale model stagecoach which was named a finalist in the Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers Fresh Wood student woodworking contest.

Sarkisian, who has been learning under the tutelage of Rob Lewis at Anvil Academy in Newberg for the past 19 months, created a quarter-scale version of a historical stagecoach, which was selected as a finalist in the open category of the Fresh Wood student woodworking competition.

Halleman, who picked up woodturning after watching a viral video and bought his first lathe in August 2015, had two of his burl wood bowls selected for the functional category of the American Association of Woodturners’ Turning to the Future Competition.

The pair knew each other growing up, as both showed livestock through 4-H at the Yamhill County Fair, but they didn’t learn until recently that they had both gravitated toward woodworking and were up for national recognition.

“He’s got some gorgeous bowls that he does,” Sarkisian said. “I didn’t know he was going, too. It’s a separate type of thing but at the same place. He does really cool stuff.”

Lewis, for one, is a big admirer of Sarkisian’s work, both overall and specifically with his contest entry, which replicates a type of stagecoach known as a mud wagon, which were used for long journeys over difficult terrain, like mountain passes.

The specific wagon Sarkisian has modeled was built in the 1850s and was first used to make the mail run between The Dalles and Canyon City. After it was replaced for that job by a motorized vehicle, it stayed in use for stagecoach races and has remained in continual use annually as a part of the parade at the Pendleton Roundup.

“For him to get accepted is this huge thing,” Lewis said. “For me, I never dreamed of having a kid that good. I think there is a really good chance he could take it.”

What has really impressed Lewis is how Sarkisian has tackled all the challenges of building the wagon from the original design, as the actual coach has been modified and repaired almost to no end. And because he’s working on a much smaller scale, many of the tools Sarkisian needs to fashion parts just don’t exist, so he’s had to fashion his own, like he did to create the wheel hubs.

“The kid’s a prodigy,” Lewis said. “He’s a wiz. The coach is a jaw dropper. All the joinery in it is just incredible.”

Sarkisian entered the wagon in the Wild West Art Show at the St. Paul Rodeo, taking second place.

“The lady there told me she could have sold it 1,000 times,” Sarkisian said. “But it got second place to a knife.”

Halleman said woodturning did not come naturally to him, but that changed when Oregon Association of Woodturners president Terry Gerros, who lives in Salem, decided to take him under his wing.

“He kind of got me started learning what to do and then gave me good information,” Halleman said. “With his help, I’ve been able to get to where I am.”

Halleman funds his woodturning hobby with the money he earns showing goats at the county fair because he does not sell his pieces. Instead, he donates them to Bowls for Good, a St. Petersburg, Fla., charity. He’s already donated more than 50 bowls to date and has been told each donation provides about 140 meals for the homeless.

Winning would mostly be a big affirmation for Halleman because he does woodworking just for fun, but he and Sarkisian will also be exposed to numerous classes and demonstrations at the AWFS Fair, which is a large industry conference.

“I’ll be talking to people, learning as much as I can,” Halleman said. “I looked at the weather forecast and it’s going to be like 110 degrees, so I’m going to try to stay in the air conditioning as much as possible.”

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Over since he was a teenager, Lexington native Ryan Hairgrove has been interested in fine woodworking and furniture design. This year, however, marked the beginning of Ruggedwoods – Hairgrove’s wood turning business.

Since graduating college in 1999 with a degree in engineering and drawing from Davidson County Community College and degrees in fine woodworking and furniture design and manufacturing from Rockingham County Community College, Hairgrove, 41, has done wood turning contract work for multiple companies.

“I just started [Ruggedwoods] actually this year because I do so much contract work through a couple companies that have showrooms in High Point, Atlanta, New York and Las Vegas,” Hairgrove said. “I make some of their displays and prototypes for them. So, I’ve done a lot of that contract work and now I’m just getting into more of the art stuff. I’ve sold stuff at different galleries throughout North Carolina.”

Hairgrove, whose art can be found at Missions Pottery and More, sells wooden benches, tables, serving boards, bowls and custom furniture.

“I’ve made thousands of different pieces,” Hairgrove said. “It’s just whatever the customer wants. I don’t do kitchen cabinets and stuff like that, but I do custom furniture. If somebody wants something built, we can meet and come up with a design.”

Hairgrove first became interested in woodworking in high school.

“Well, basically it was just a home hobby messing around my house,” Hairgrove said. “My dad had a small lathe when I was a teenager and I just started messing with it then.”

When he is not working at his job at a rubber manufacturing facility in High Point, Hairgrove spends his time wood turning during the evenings and weekends.

According to Hairgrove, the wood turning process is long and extensive.

“Everything starts off as a green wood, like a freshly cut tree or log, and I rough turn it to whatever the maximum size that the piece will yield, as big as I can make it given the piece of wood, and I’ll rough turn it down to an inch or an inch and a half thick and then dry it slowly over a year or two,” Hairgrove said. “And then I can go back once the wood is dry. I go back and finish turning it, and then I’m able to sand it. You just really can’t sand green wood to a good finish. The wood has to be dry before it’ll sand, and that’ll take a good coat of oil.”

Hairgrove said he does not begin a piece with a pre-conceived notion of what it will be.

“Once you start turning the wood, it’ll kind of tell you what it’s going to be,” Hairgrove said. “There will be natural defects in the wood or things you have to avoid or you want to include in there. So each one of them is totally different. There’s not a set pattern I go by.”

All of the wood Hairgrove uses is locally harvested and repurposed, mostly from Davidson County and Forsyth County. Hairgrove said he gets a large amount of wood from his father’s saw mill, Hairgrove Diversified Services, which sells natural edge slabs, custom lumber and rough sawn lumber.

“It’s all out of what would be reclaimed wood or figured wood,” Hairgrove said. “I do not go cut down trees just to make turnings out of them. It’s all leftovers from my dad’s saw mill, and we have tree companies that bring us trees and some of those I turn. The stuff would have ended up as firewood or just laying on the ground rotting.”

Moving forward, Hairgrove plans to complete some work for Goose and the Monkey Brew House, which is to be located in Lexington’s Depot District and set to open in spring of 2018.

“I’m getting ready to do some stuff for them such as tables and implementing some old steel and iron fixtures that were in the building that they’re renovating,” Hairgrove said. “It’s going to be a mixed media thing with metal and wood.”

Hairgrove’s work can be viewed on ruggedwoods.net and on Facebook and Instagram at ruggedwoods. Hairgrove can be contacted at ruggedwoods@gmail.com.

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Brookfield Craft Center and the Nutmeg Woodturners League teamed up to make bowls for the Beads of Courage charity.

Beads of Courage is an arts-in-medicine supportive care program for children coping with serious illness, their families and the health care providers who care for them.

This month, volunteers from the Nutmeg Woodturners went to the BCC’s woodturning studio for a Learn to Turn event where they produced bowls to be donated and used for the children’s beads.

The beads serve as symbols of courage and hope for the children along their treatment journey.

President Ken Rist of the Woodturners League said, “We are pleased so many of our members turned out for this event and we were able to turn out so many bowls.

We are grateful to be able to utilize the facilities of the craft center and to contribute our skills to this worthy cause.”

The Nutmeg Woodturners League is a local chapter of the American Association of Woodturners.

They promote woodturning as a craft and art form.

The primary goal of the league is to educate members and provide a meeting place for local woodturners where they can share ideas and techniques.

They meet at the BCC on the second Monday of every other month, January through November.

All are welcome to join.

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Belfast Zoo has channeled the success of reality series Love Island by playing matchmaker to its flock of 41 Chilean flamingos.

The animals have lived at the Cave Hill site since 2010 but they have never laid eggs despite the zoo’s attempt to encourage breeding behaviour.

This included installing large mirrors in their enclosure in order to trick the birds into thinking there was a much larger flock to stimulate courtship behaviour such as marching, head turning, calling and preening.

Unfortunately this tactic was unsuccessful, so the zoo team tried planting ‘dummy eggs’ to stimulate the flamingos’ natural breeding behaviours.

Senior keeper, Allan Galway, explained: “We decided to build some nests for the flock and I approached a local wood turner to produce some ‘dummy’ eggs.

“Flamingo nests are basically mounds of mud that measure between 30 to 60 centimetres in height. This height protects the egg from flooding and ground heat.

“Almost immediately the flamingos started to pair up and within minutes there were courtship behaviours and displays taking place at the lake.

“In the subsequent days, the pairs started to build the nests higher and within weeks the first egg was laid.  There are now a total of five eggs and we expect that the flock will continue to lay over the next few weeks. We were delighted to witness the success of the matchmaking exercise.”

However, the team at Belfast Zoo have decided to artificially incubate the eggs as the birds were leaving the nests for slightly longer than would be preferred.

Allan continued: “We do not know, at this stage, if the eggs are fertile and our vet will be carrying out tests to determine whether there are chicks developing inside. We have fingers crossed that the latest ‘craic’ at Belfast Zoo will be when the eggs hatch and hopefully produce our first fluffy flamingo chicks.

The flamingos have since laid five eggs and the zoo is eagerly awaiting tests to check if these are fertilised.

“A decision will then be made based on monitoring of the adults’ behaviours to determine whether the chicks will return to the flock immediately or whether they will need to be hand-reared initially.

“If it turns out that the eggs are not fertilised, we are still delighted that the birds are now demonstrating these natural behaviours and it is a great sign of things to come.”

Zoo Manager, Alyn Cairns, added: “Flamingos are iconic birds and with their long legs, long neck and beautiful pink plumage they are instantly recognisable and a firm favourite with zoo visitors.

“While the Chilean flamingo is not an endangered species, populations have fallen from 500,000 to approximately 200,000 in the last 40 years, predominantly due to the impact of man through habitat loss, egg-harvesting and hunting.

“It is fantastic that the efforts of the team and even a local wood turner have had such excellent and instant results. We are excited to see the future for our Chilean flamingo flock.”

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Tucked in a piney neighborhood of Truckee is a large wooden house with an expansive two-story workshop adjacent to it. With its garage doors open and an earthy smell exuding from it, one can see various saws, sanders, tools and planks.

Inside, Rick Krasensky is working on a cabinet project for a local client. Although he loves making wooden bowls, it’s his cabinetry work that pays the bills. Krasensky is so good at interior furnishings that he has a lot of repeat customers — but it’s not easy.

Krasensky got into woodwork because his father was into it. He went into his school’s woodshop on weekends to help his shop teacher with projects. At one time, he thought about becoming a teacher himself, but realized that he would rather build than instruct.

In 1979, a friend in Truckee took on a construction job and asked Krasensky for help. Right before Christmas, Krasensky got on a Greyhound bus from Long Island, N.Y., for Truckee and arrived on New Year’s Eve. He helped his friend with the Tahoe Donner house development and never left.

“Wood is creative and with bowls I can make whatever I want. I don’t even know what it will look like until it’s done.” -Rick Krasensky

After becoming licensed as a general contractor in 1983, Krasensky continued to build houses in the Truckee area and did everything from the foundations to the interiors with his specialty being in cabinetry work.

Krasensky says the he enjoys working with wood but it was getting hard to build houses in the winter, so in 2008 he started designing bowls and giving them to friends and family on special occasions. Gradually using his workshop to create more bowls — he has made 833 to date — he started selling them at special events.

“Wood is creative and with bowls I can make whatever I want. I don’t even know what it will look like until it’s done,” he says.

He uses hardwood sourced from all over the world that he purchases from a place in Sparks, Nev. Krasensky says he likes working with walnut the best because it’s not too hard, not too soft, has a nice grain and is rich in color. He has used at least eight kinds of wood to make his bowls.

It takes anywhere from 10 to 20 hours to create a bowl, depending on its size. Krasensky usually works on 10 at a time. First, he makes wooden rings by cutting angled pieces and then glues them together. Sometimes he’ll stagger them to create a different look. Then he binds all of the rings together. Krasensky uses a lathe turning tool and the thickness of the rings of the bowl allows him to make different shapes using a rounded cutter.

“Once I get it turned and sanded, I put on a solid bowl finish that’s food safe. Some people use it as art, some people eat out of it,” he says.

Bowls made of walnut, yellow heart and myrtle wood glisten in the sun outside of his workshop. All of the wood pieces have to be perfect because it makes it easier to turn. He points out a bowl that has a different design on the inside than on the exterior — even though it’s made out of the same block of wood.

“I’m having a lot of fun with this one,” he says.

Krasensky brings out a 37-inch-tall wooden vase that’s 8.5 inches in diameter and made of bubinga, walnut and maple woods. It took him 35 hours to make. He points out other one-of-a-kind furniture pieces including his dining room table, chairs, trim work, sleigh bed frame, armoire and dresser. Everything wooden in his house is handmade, dated and stamped by him. When people learn that he primarily makes these specialized pieces for his loved ones, they ask to be a part of his family.

“I never buy Christmas presents,” Krasensky says.

Traveling to various events in his free time to promote his wooden bowls has given him some exposure, but a lot of people usually buy one or two bowls and then come back for more.

“A day goes by pretty fast when I’m turning,” he says. “I’m kind of spoiled being my own boss and living here.”

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