Little whittling and a good find

 Started with five small pieces of birch.

Wound up with  two possible stiles.

I tried an even smaller portion of the branch to see if I could get the pith out but only succeeded in splitting the thing in half.  I have Saturday off so I plan on giving it another go. I have the two wooden stiles as well as one more metal one.

My mother came across and article yesterday that says that the sweetener xylitol originally was extracted from birch trees. Anyone who has eaten any quantity of this sweetener will soon be on the lookout for a washroom! So will this limit the amount of birch syrup one will consume.....stay tuned on that one.

While helping to unload the produce pallet at work yesterday, my eyes lit up when I saw the different bag that the fifty pounds of turnip came in!
I came home with about a half dozen of these(yes I know I will need more) and the brain has set to work on planning out an earthbag greenhouse! I think that will be the perfect little project to get the hang of  earthbag building.