{"id":167,"date":"2011-05-11T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T04:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzannecronin.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=167"},"modified":"2011-05-11T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T04:50:51","slug":"the-beauty-of-moonahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/2011\/05\/11\/the-beauty-of-moonahs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Moonahs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<span><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif';color: black;font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/05\/2011-05-10_3292_edited-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-169 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/05\/2011-05-10_3292_edited-1-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>On Tuesday my Moonah stumps were inspected by two representatives from the local \u201cMen\u2019s Shed\u201d and I don\u2019t know why but I was apprehensive they wouldn&#8217;t be suitable.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was suggested that, bark removed, the wood is stunning and perhaps I could turn the stump on its side and utilise\u00a0natural Moonah contours. Well, once that penny dropped I was beside myself with the endless possibilities. In fact I got so excited I\u2019m sure the gentlemen in my backyard were convinced that I really need to get a life! The base will be flattened and mounted onto a platform with wheels that will fit under a bench when not in use.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Kind of like my lib<span><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif';color: black;font-size: 10pt\"><span><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif';color: black;font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/05\/2011-05-10_3310_edited-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/05\/2011-05-10_3310_edited-1-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>rary catalogue draws which are brilliant.<span> I love them as tool drawers!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif';color: black;font-size: 10pt\"><span>I&#8217;m happy to report that I am actually working at the bench.\u00a0<span><span style=\"font-family: black\">I&#8217;m onto my second project\u00a0and feel like I&#8217;m finally getting unstuck (see\u00a0Stuck post). What I like about this workshop photo is that there are two cups of coffee and two pairs of glasses so I&#8217;m obviously getting down to the nitty-gritty!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif';color: black;font-size: 10pt\"><span>If anyone had said to me a few years ago that I&#8217;d be working on something that involved Moonahs I would have asked: &#8220;What are Moonahs?&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span style=\"font-family: black\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span><span><span style=\"font-family: black\"><span><span>The stumps came from Victoria Park: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X4HxdP20UGQ\">The Memory of Trees<\/a> and if you want to know more about the struggle to preserve these trees visit <span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/group.php?gid=110016749018229\">Moonahs Not Mulch<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0On Tuesday my Moonah stumps were inspected by two representatives from the local \u201cMen\u2019s Shed\u201d and I don\u2019t know why but I was apprehensive they wouldn&#8217;t be suitable.\u00a0 It was suggested that, bark removed, the wood is stunning and perhaps I could turn the stump on its side and utilise\u00a0natural Moonah contours. Well, once that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}