Jerry's Blog

2012-02-12T15:04:00.000-05:00

We had a Woodcarving show at Indian River Woodcarvers, yesterday. It was a really nice show and had a good turn out.

2011-09-11T17:22:00.000-04:00

2011-09-11T17:13:00.001-04:00

2011-07-10T12:08:00.001-04:00

Here is a Bobwhite Quail, that I just finished.
It is the second attempt of painting the breast and belly areas. It still is not correct, but will have to do. Maybe the next one I'll try to do it different.

2011-04-23T09:55:00.001-04:00

Lynn Doughty suggested using a Sand O Flex to put a finial finish on your woodcarvings. What a great tool.
I'm doing a Quail carving and after I got it roughed out I cleaned it up with the Sand O Flex now I'm ready to start carving feathers.

2011-04-21T14:07:00.000-04:00

I'm a member of Indian River Woodcarvers.
I took my walking stick to the woodcarving club, this morning.
We meet on Thursday morning from 8:30 to 12:00 noon.

Most everyone brings a woodcarving project in to work on.
I enjoy carving wood. I takes my mind off everything else.

2011-04-15T20:34:00.000-04:00

My new walking stick

2011-04-11T20:49:00.006-04:00

My horse carving.

To view more carvings, please go to http://woodcarversworkshop.weebly.com/

2009-07-29T19:42:00.000-04:00

I've been updating our genealogy. It is about finished and I'll post it when its updated.
I didn't realize its been so long since I've worked on it and it was really out of date.

2008-11-04T20:16:00.000-05:00

I've updated our Carolyn & Jerry wed site. I lost my woodwork page and there is no way to retrieve it so I had to recreate it. I don't think it is the way it was before but I can't remember what it looked like before. Oh well its not really of any use.

2008-09-22T12:22:00.000-04:00

You know! Google is an amazing weapon. Just the other day I received the following email from a distant cousin (I didn't know I had, but glad to hear from).

"We share the same name and the same love of bluegrass music (although I do not play, even poorly). I live in Jackson Mississippi. My Whitt line went from Va to Kentucky to Missouri (where I was born) to Texas. I have lived and worked in Arkansas, Illinois, Tennessee, and now Mississippi. I've been retired about a dozen years. I think most of the Whitt's descended from a John Whitt who came to America in the 1660's. He had 4 sons, 2 spedded their name Witt and 2 Whitt. I have taken a DNA test and found out I descended from Weward Whitt who was born 1685 in Virginia. Have you done an genealogy research on your line?"

I answered him back and ask how he happened to come across me. He returned with this email.
"Well, you were easy to find--I just googled Jerry Whitt and I think you were the second item on the google. It was strange because the first item in the google was an article I co-authored 35 years ago. I wonder why that is still around. Anyway, I guess we are cousins a few times removed. I believe there are a lot of Whitts in Ohio and Southwest Virginia. My particular line went to Lexington, Kentucky and then on to Northwest Missouri in the 1840's. My parents moved to Texas in 1950 and, as I indicated, my career has taken me around but always in the central time zone. My great-great Grandfather, Elijah Whitt, was the one who moved to Missouri and he had 25 kids so when I was a kid there were a lot of Whitts in Gallatin Missouri. I understand that there are not many left there now. Good to visit with you. Cousin Jerry Whitt"

Now! I've been playing around, for awhile, with a web page on "PbWiki.com" (which can be viewed under links). I never took it serious and was just having some fun with it. I had no idea that it was posted on Google, but there it is for all to see. Oh well I guess not many people would Google in a search for jerry whitt.

2008-03-03T08:40:00.000-05:00

Still nothing new to report.

2008-02-06T21:30:00.000-05:00

Well I guess I have an exciting life. I never have anything new to post.

2007-06-25T13:35:00.000-04:00

This is a fancy martin house. It was designed and built by Landscape Architect Fletcher Steele.
I hope to build one some day. (hope the neighborhood punks don't steal this one).

2007-06-11T12:19:00.000-04:00

I have been working on our web site. Click on the PBwiki icon to have a look see.

2006-09-19T13:19:00.000-04:00

Nothing new to report, in my so called life, living here in paradise. I though of becoming a freelance writer but I don't have anything to write about. My stories would be like reading a project manual, but it would be a good remedy for insomnia.

Well I'll publish more when I think of something (else) exciting to say.

2006-07-11T08:08:00.000-04:00

Well I sold the "General". He was a good ole truck but there were things that still need to be done. I really didn't feel like working on it, or putting more money into it.

I found you can't get your money back, so it is not an investment at all. It's just a hobby.

I still have pictures listed at http://community.webshots.com/user/51gmc if you would like to see him one more time. I call it a him except when I had trouble with him, like it wouldn't start or something, then I called it a women's name.

2005-10-16T18:52:00.000-04:00

" The General"
1951 GMC

2005-10-16T18:35:00.000-04:00

Steve Brown
He's a pickin

2005-09-28T22:58:00.000-04:00

The Grandkids Looking like clothing models.

2005-09-28T16:34:00.000-04:00

My Gourd Banjo

That I built

Click on link to hear this banjo

http://www.nowhereradio.com/jerry/singles