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		<title>Road Thrill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good friend Logan Porter is currently on a bike touring trip from Des Moines to Seattle. He is documenting the whole experience on his blog called Road Thrill. Definitely worth checking out and following along. (He also might head down to Portland after Seattle, so he might need a backyard to camp for a night.)]]></description>
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		<title>Balanced Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After thousands of years of erosion the petrified sand dunes in Arches NP have left some of the most amazing rock formations. So as in this digital world Descending Ashtray still stands. There is no wind and water in this world to erode the pictures or writing. Everything looks exactly as it did a year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murals at the Basilica of St. John</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick Van Oel and I have been doing some restoration work at the Basilica. It involves gold leafing the dome above the alter and repainting several murals and stencil patterns. This is after I have reworked most of the face. The hands still need some work.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.descendingashtray.com/archives/713</link>
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		<title>A Hammer for Eli</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My little boy Eli has entered a &#8220;banging&#8221; phase in his toy usage, and my wife Sarah suggested I make him a hammer for Christmas. Here it is (he doesn&#8217;t read this blog, so no surprises will be spoiled). The head is a scrap bit of Oregon black walnut, and the handle is a turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Pinewood Derby Trophies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m co-organizing an &#8220;adult Pinewood Derby&#8221; for the Portland Advertising Federation with a few friends. For those of you who weren&#8217;t in the cub scouts, it&#8217;s a chance for boys (and usually their fathers) to take a simple block of wood, and turn it into a car that gets raced against other boys&#8217; cars on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.descendingashtray.com/archives/706</link>
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		<title>Recycled Fir Built-In Desk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey there, blog. Been awhile. Sorry about that. I have been working sporadically away on the attic, trying to wrap up some details like painting trim (apparently the only problem with pre-primed trim is that it looks almost done), and trying not to think of the tile job that lies behind my custom door. Tonight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.descendingashtray.com/archives/695</link>
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		<title>There, I fixed it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am no stranger to &#8220;temporary&#8221; fixes. In fact, just yesterday I bungeed the battery into my 1970 F250&#8242;s rusted out battery holder, replacing the zip ties some other Jerry rigged. Once, in college, I delayed moving day so long that all the cardboard boxes in town had been snapped up by the well-prepared. Being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.descendingashtray.com/archives/691</link>
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		<title>An Urn For Grandpa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Fathers day, Dave! It is good to be a Dad but it is also important to remember our Dad&#8217;s and Grandpa&#8217;s too. My Mom&#8217;s Dad just passed away recently and today we are going to have a memorial for him. I worked with my brother Eli and we made this urn to put his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.descendingashtray.com/archives/687</link>
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		<title>Attic Progress: Floors, Paint and Trim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I updated on the attic progress, and it&#8217;s certainly come a long way since the drywall and paint of a few months ago. I made a big push to get all the trim in place, as the electrician couldn&#8217;t get back in there without the baseboards in. We&#8217;d elected to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.descendingashtray.com/archives/677</link>
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		<title>Disc Golf Cart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a disc golf cart that I have been working on for a while and I finally got around to finishing it. It is designed so that I can take Ethan out on the course!]]></description>
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