Very nice!

Nice pics of a lovely day. You look so thrilled! One suggestion: should you post others to the forum, please consider compressing them first. Each of the ones you posted came in at 4 megabytes of space. Some poor viewers with a dialup-connection will find it takes forever to load such images; even on my DSL setup the page took a while to load. The forum instructions suggest an uploaded image should not exceed about 60 kilobytes. Almost any photo editing application, including freeware ones, will allow you to compress photos, and common compression algorithims such as .jpeg allow you to post photos that don't appear to have suffered from compression when viewed on a monitor. Of course, compress a copy, not your original. You'll want your uncompressed photos for printing at high resolution.

Here's a multi drawer chest my dad made. He was practicing dovetailing joints. I'd say he got plenty of practice! He also turned those bowls on top. It's very interesting how that's done.....I watched a video and was amazed how much wood it takes to make one little bowl. And you can be almost finished and it'll split....then you have kindling. LOL Working with wood is tricky but I love to see what he's making next.

Roarah, I haven't read all of the comments that show distaste for the wedding, but yours caught my eye. I have been fascinated by the Travellers and Roma cultures and want to have a better understanding of their lives vs. what is presented on TV. I have had this book on my shelf for a long time and have only read some of it: I need to finish it. When I've watched the TLC shows, I try to see (even though we all know that reality TV is pure fantasy) what they like about their culture through their eyes. In other words, what works? Why do they have certain traditions? When I first saw the enormous dresses and such, they floored me-- but I figured that everyone has different opinions of beauty. I am certain they would find my wedding dress with nary a sequin to be dull and uninspired. As for the girls who are married at the age of 14-- it is hard to think about that, for sure. I think it is wrong and hope there are activists who are helping them see this and end it. I wonder if it is a case of a culture that has remained very isolated and therefore a throwback to a time where people just didn't live as long . . .so things like marriage and family were done at a much younger age. We see rape and they see tradition. I think it is hard, in general, too, when we are introduced to only certain aspects of a culture or religion that greatly conflict with our own values and traditions. It is difficult to find a balance of respecting others while finding some of what they do to be immoral. What I do is to remind myself of how much I don't know . . .to understand that I am only seeing one tiny piece (and it's from an ethnocentric perspective anyway). But it can still be a challenge!