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B: so I'm in the process of telling my wife we got to go shopping for clothes again.
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A: <Laughter> That's neat,
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A: that's neat
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B: And, uh, I, I don't know,
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B: now I, I know eastern,
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B: now the other thing we do here, of course, is a single, not quite a single climate.
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B: We have, uh, we do have some snow in the wintertime
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B: and it can be quite warm in the summertime.
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: Not hot like, uh,
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B: I lived in the midwest for a while.
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A: Oh.
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B: And I know that, uh, you know, it can be freezing cold in the wintertime, and hot and, uh, sticky in the summertime.
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A: Uh-huh.
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B: We don't have that much.
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B: It's, uh, it's a very mild climate.
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A: Oh, well that's nice.
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A: That's good for the clothes budget, I would imagine.
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B: Yes,
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B: it is.
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A: Because here, gosh, we had, uh,
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A: the winter hasn't been bad this winter.
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A: It's, it it's only snowed maybe once or twice
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A: but it's been cold.
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A: Low twenties, let's say,
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A: and then the summer gets up to eighties, nineties
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A: so,
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A: You interested in woodworking?
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B: Yeah.
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B: Actually, I, uh, I guess I am
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B: Um, it just seems kind of funny that this is a topic of discussion.
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B: Uh, I do, uh, some, uh, woodworking myself
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B: Uh, in fact, I'm in the middle of a project right now making a bed for my son.
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A: Um. What kind of
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B: It's, uh, It's, uh, it's, uh, plywood, uh, face, I guess.
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A: pine?
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B: But I cut it out in the shape of a crayon box
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B: and then I painted, uh, about eight different, uh, colors, uh, you know,
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B: the crayons that are sticking up, it will be the headboard
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A: Uh-huh.
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A: I guess he's young.
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B: and then,
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B: yes
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B: He's about five and a half years old.
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A: Oh, he'll be delighted.
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B: Oh, yeah.
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B: Uh-huh.
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B: Now I just have to finish it though.
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B: I got, uh, it got delayed for a little bit and, uh, because of work
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B: and now, uh, I've got to jump back in and finish the,
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B: because I've got it all cut out,
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B: it's all, uh,
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B: I've done most of the coloring
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B: but I've got to go a second layer with the yellow.
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A: Did you do it with a jigsaw
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A: or do you have powered, you know, a,
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B: Uh, yeah.
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B: Uh, I did, uh, jigsaw, uh, and the, uh, regular straight saw for some of it.
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A: Um.
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B: So yeah.
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B: to do the, uh, the turn cut.
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B: Uh, how about yourself?
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A: Well I'm, I am interested in woodworking.
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A: I don't have lots of tools.
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A: Our local schools have adult education in the evening
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B: Oh.
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A: uh, and I use their tools and, some of their guidance.
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A: I'm an artist.
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B: Oh, okay.
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A: And I'm very handy
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A: and, you know, if I touch it, it turns into something <laughter> us-, usually.
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B: That's great.
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B: What, what type of art do you focus on?
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A: I have a Master's degree
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A: and, and my projects had to do with acrylic painting,
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A: but I'm really interested in the crafts.
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B: Huh.
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A: I make stain glass.
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A: I've done some silver jewelry making
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A: and I kind of,
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A: once I get you know, really pretty good at something, I want to try something else
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B: Yeah.
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B: Kind of jack of all trades, master of none.
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A: Yeah,
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A: well no,
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A: actually, I get good enough to sell it or have people say oh wow,
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A: you didn't buy it,
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A: you made it.
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B: That's great!
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A: And then I, it's like well the thrill is gone
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A: so let's do something else.
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B: Right.
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B: You want to, uh, explore a new field
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B: or, or,
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A: Well, yeah,
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A: I, I'm signed up for a class in pottery making because I've never tried that yet
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B: Huh. So you have a M F A in, in what division of art?
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A: but,
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A: Well, I, I actually have a Masters of art
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A: and it's in art education.
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