A selection of my woodcarvings, from some of my earliest to some of my latest. Proof of work certainly pays dividends as I improve slowly and steadily.

Woodcarving of a little fella I like to call "Dr FeelGood", Really pleased with how his facial expression came out and his giant smile! Let me know what u think, and any ideas of what to carve next!

Little schnauzer dog I carved from basswood is now finished and painted.....how did I do?

1/n Bitcoin - short story. The Collapse and the Chain It started with the flare. On June 17, 2041, a solar storm unlike any in recorded history erupted from the sun—a coronal mass ejection so massive it dwarfed the Carrington Event of 1859. Earth’s magnetic shield buckled. Satellites fried, power grids collapsed, and digital banking systems—already fragile from decades of reckless money printing—went dark. Within hours, the world’s financial arteries clogged. ATMs spat useless error codes, credit cards became plastic relics, and cash, where it still existed, lost meaning as supply chains seized. Billions watched their savings vanish into a void of ones and zeros. Mira Torres was in São Paulo when it hit. The city’s neon skyline blinked out, plunging 20 million people into chaos. She’d been a data analyst, crunching numbers for a crumbling central bank, but that job evaporated with the grid. Looters torched markets, governments declared martial law, and hyperinflation—already a specter—exploded. The Brazilian real, like every fiat currency, became kindling overnight. Mira bartered her last protein bars for a solar charger and a battered handheld radio, clinging to rumors of a solution. Want to read more?