Nov 08 2024 47 mins 2
Well, it's Friday, November 7, 2024.
I'm now five weeks late for my latest podcast, this episode with Joshua Gant, which was supposed to have appeared on October 1st.
Well, I got busy in October, actually in September as well, and I started a project that kept me pretty busy.
Not only was I building a set of cat shelves in the living room for the cats to play on this winter, I was building a dream project of mine.
I was born in 1960, and in 1966, the TV show Star Trek appeared, and by the time I was about 13 or 14, I was getting into woodworking, and I loved building the props from Star Trek. I used Lego and wood and tape and markers to make my own phaser and communicator, and kind of destroyed my brothers clock radio to get the parts I needed.
So, yeah, that was a different time.
I was not a birder way back then, but I was an obsessive compulsive, though I didn't know that at the time, and I decided at that point that I was going to make the ultimate prop from Star Trek, the command chair that Captain Kirk sat in.
Well, as a 13 year old with crappy tools from Canadian tire and a bunch of plywood and other scraps of wood that I found behind apartment buildings and things like that, I tried to make one.
I didn't get very far.
It fell apart before it even got started.
Well, fast forward to 2024 and as a woodworker, who builds a lot of my own furniture, I decided it was time to build my own chair.
So that's what I've been doing the last six weeks. debuted it on Halloween, and it was a success, and now it's in my recroom as my TV chair, so woo hoo for me, but as far as my podcast is concerned, yeah, I kind of dropped the ball on that.
So, the last few days, I've been working feverishly to finish the podcast, which I did yesterday, and the episode is finally ready.
Josh Gant is a birder from Tom's River, New Jersey, and he did an Ocean County Big Year in 2020.
So thank you for your patience and your continued support of my little show. I appreciate everything that people say to me when I meet them in the field.
It's always exciting to know that I put something out there that people enjoy - all three of you 😏 -
Thank you very much.
