Entries from September 1, 2007 - October 1, 2007
Let's step outside the Avant Garden for a moment ...
and do the right thing: 
To hell with Barry Bonds. Cast your vote to brand an asterisk on his 756th homerun ball before sending it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Henry Aaron is still Major League Baseball's homerun champion.
Dave
We did it!
The results are in:
It's going to Cooperstown with an asterisk.
Option A (no asterisk) - 34%
Option B (with asterisk)- 47%
Option C (to outer space)- 19%
Woohoo! Thanks to all who voted.
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My Avant fingers are an absolute mess of ...
blisters, scratches, pinpricks, glueburns (I have a glue gun now), splinters and broken nails. I must be living right. Speaking of living, 3-2-1Arches is back among us: 
That's harder than it looks ...
Rob and I have done 3-2-1Arches several times, but it never seems to last long. This time, I had it all fixed up and was admiring the arch on the left, which has been the one to fall every time, when I noticed it had one of the support rocks I used during construction still inside the arch, hard at work: 
Dodged a bullet there, I did.
It had to come out. So I pulled it out and that arch and the one on top both shifted, but they didn't fall. It's a sturdy one, with birdpoop already on it.
Right beside it, in the spot where the DivinoStack: 
once stood, I did a new three-level arch with some help from my cousin Jon: 
Three arches, two rocks on the ground.
Just this morning, I went out to Bent Creek to check on the Gang and met some nice folks and repaired a few things, and I recalled an e-mail I'd once rec'd about a guy who holds the Guinness World record for balancing a big rock on a small one, i.e., his ratio of big-on-top-of-small is recorded as being biggest known. I don't recall what it is, but I decided to give it a shot:
Probably not a record-breaker, but I like it.
Further upstream, I found these two gorgeous stumps in the Creek -- one covered with a deep green Moss and the other with a bright white lichen. I arched the channels just to add to the coolness:
The stumps are the attraction.
This has been a bad year for Tentworms . Another of the things I have put a good bit of time into lately is the Tentworms-with-a-Twist: 
No one else has one.
It's dollar-a-yard material stretched over a frame of dowels and hose with a string of ropelights wrapped around the driftwood. It took two weeks (more procrastination than production), but I finished it today while the Falcons were losing embarrassingly to the Vikings 24-3.
Rob made a movie of the latest rendition of Rob's Arch and it promptly fell:
We'll embark on Rob's Arch #21 soon.