The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Mobile King Tut's begging bowls

Below are two begging bowls TWW is going to donate to the family cabin. Please feel free to place your candy or cookie etc' in them to share when you are at the cabin and be sure to visit King Tut's where we proudly serve whatever you bring. 


Monday, February 23, 2015

Advice for parents

(Thanks to my cousin for the image)

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Making and eating and storing a 'hot dish'

 Since the cold weather has frozen out so many life enrichment venues TWW decided to make some hot dish so he and Mrs. TWW could reminisce about the cold, good old days in Minnesota where they have hot dishes. He heated up some hamburger and dumped in some junk from the garden and the store and was on this way. To limit CO2 emissions he used heat from the masonry stove generated from renewable energy sources. 




Finally done after about seven hours

Checking to be sure USDA would approve

The hot dish in all its splendor. 

Part of the hot dish dumped into a frying pan to complete by adding cheese (after all it is a Wisconsin dish). 

To be sophisticated the TWWs are going to eat Bulgar pilaf with the hot dish. 

Future meals ready to put on the porch and freeze


Now you may wonder how this could be a hot dish.  Every time TWW cooks this up Mrs.TWW  is sure to complain that he made it too hot and spicy again and this creation was no different. Next time TWW will read the labels better of what he dumped into the pot. 

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

have a gun nut relative you don't really like?

Here is a great present:


"Leibe believes strongly in the Second Amendment and open carry, but he also believes in staying safe.  
"Don't put your hand on the shirt on the gun," he said.
Which is why he includes a strong warning message with every shirt."

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Latest headline

"The U.S. government is poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol"




TWW predicts: the millennial generation will now eat more from Mc Donalds but still live long enough to hear the government say the same thing about CO2 but of course this will mean all the liberals will say he is anti-science.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Relatives coming to freeze this weekend

TODAY
Mostly Sunny
Mostly
Sunny
High: 8 °F
TONIGHT
Chance Snow Chance for Measurable Precipitation 40%
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Snow
Low: -1 °F
FRIDAY
Chance Snow Chance for Measurable Precipitation 30%
Chance
Snow
High: 1 °F
FRIDAY
NIGHT
Mostly Cloudy
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Cloudy
Low: -35 °F
SATURDAY
Cold
Cold
High: -1 °F
SATURDAY
NIGHT
Partly Cloudy
Partly
Cloudy
Low: -56 °F

SUNDAY
Partly Sunny
Partly
Sunny
High: 1 °F
SUNDAY
NIGHT
Slight Chance Snow
Slight Chc
Snow
Low: -31 °F
WASHINGTON'S
BIRTHDAY
Slight Chance Snow
Slight Chc
Snow
High: 3 °F

Saturday, February 07, 2015

THEY are out there


TWW went to file his taxes today with the H & Block computer prepaper contraption and needed to use his charge card for WI taxes. He then remembered he no longer had a Mastercharge card since the new one was being sent from Florida to replace the old one. The last new one he got on Wednesday was being replaced the day he got it.  When he called Mastercharge on Wednesday to activate that card he forgot his secret code so got transferred to their fraud people. He thought he was in lots of trouble but it turned out the wrong kind of trouble. That very day someone out in California (does this sound familiar since it happened with a VISA card in December inb California too?) and also in Italy were charging things on his new card before he even got it. The Mastercharge people have been great on getting him the new card by the way. (they get kudos for customer service). But the big thing here is THEY are out there and you cannot see them and they want your tax return so file soon. Stay safe.

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Prepper/Survivalist popper goes live

Gattling gun popper before loaded

Getting ready to load (since it takes two hands to load and
 one to operate the camera no pictures of loading available)

Loaded with popcorn shells 


Turn the handle to make the popping noise until out of ammo



Dump the spent shell casings out


Test results of small white (left) and larger yellow (right) ammo
If you want one of these 'sorry. Due to worsening world conditions TWW got the last one. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O8U4770/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Garbin Moraine Foundation First Ever Best Instruction Manual Award

The award goes to the Casey-pOp people for their popper manual. 



Their manual says: "Cleaning UP.  The popper will inevitably become coated with oil residue and this is very difficult to completely remove. The best approach we have found is to get over it...."

The popper itself passed its first test and will be used live on Friday night so this blog will have some pictures of the action Saturday morning. 

Saturday, January 24, 2015

need to get a part for the stove

Since the files for the pictures were too large to attach to an e-mail from out in the country and not wait for 30 minutes for it to be sent TWW is setting himself up to public humiliation for messing up his stove.  He needs to order a replacement part even though the stove works as well as ever. 



Part removed from stove



Part back in stove and one can hardly tell there is a problem. 



Thursday, January 22, 2015

Bowls in finishing stages ready for customers

Here are some quick pics of the latest order for bowls. These bowls have been aged to perfection since 2005 and now are ready to be shipped. The currently are still wet from their first covering with walnut oil.  





Believe it or not time

"The results of all this are now in. An independent study by the British Journal of Criminology found that since total decriminalization, addiction has fallen, and injecting drug use is down by 50 percent. I'll repeat that: injecting drug use is down by 50 percent. Decriminalization has been such a manifest success that very few people in Portugal want to go back to the old system. The main campaigner against the decriminalization back in 2000 was Joao Figueira, the country's top drug cop. He offered all the dire warnings that we would expect from the Daily Mail or Fox News. But when we sat together in Lisbon, he told me that everything he predicted had not come to pass -- and he now hopes the whole world will follow Portugal's example."

see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html


Wednesday, January 21, 2015

not much going on to report on

Springbrook WI

7 Day Forecast

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TODAY
Wintry Mix Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20%
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High: 30 °F
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Low: 12 °F
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High: 29 °F
THURSDAY
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Low: 20 °F
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High: 35 °F
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Mostly Cloudy
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Low: 26 °F
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High: 33 °F
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High: 29 °F

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