happyjillin

The caption on this foto was "home schooling the kids"

Just trying to be helpful with style names is all. As to price here vs. NOB,the furnishings available through specialty dealers at HUGELY obscene mark ups. We are so lucky to be at or near the source.

And a lot of it beautifully handcrafted for what I consider ridiculous low prices. I was going to make all our furniture when we got here but was so impressed with some of the maestros,that I ended up only making a few things myself.

Nor is everything about you but the OP wants what they called ranchito and as a retired picker of antiques and folk art furniture maker which is quite similar to the 2 Mexican traditional styles I mentioned,I merely tried to help them including with pictures of the 2 styles all of which I bought unpainted and then did that myself. If you wash any of it with water you would totally destroy it. For that matter, unless the finish on anything wood is Urethane, you would destroy that too. I use an expensive imported wax over my paint work and have clearly told my maid to NEVER even use a damp cloth on any of it which also goes for the 200+ year old antiques in original or restored finish, which we have in the house. I was inspired to make this storage bench by a foto of a spanish, colonial revival, long bench.

The heavily carved pieces are colonial revival and rustico is not. In any event ,our maid has no trouble giving the carved pieces a whack with her feather duster. Any other parade you wish to rain on?

What a wonderful post!

There are no words..............!!!!!!!!!

If hardware stores carry Truper mauls they would probably also carry axes and hatchets which are used more frequently then mauls.

More accurate to call the furniture rustico and colonial revival. We use equipale seating on our patio it's quite comfortable if it's well stuffed and so are love seats, couches and chairs made here so don't let anybody talk you out of what you want. we used the same loveseat for 13 years to watch TV on. You will have fun searching out what you want unless you're into instant gratification. A few fotos of what we have/had.

I have split a lot of firewood over the years using a maul. It's the best way to do it. They are carried here by truper outlets.

I had people here wondering why I had an electric chord coming out of my truck grill.

You people that have such little self control over what you do or not do need a computer block device to compensate for your failings???-SNORK!

Am I the only one that see's johanson is joking around.

We hardly ever go to restaurants, in any event. Easy to make it zero.

Thankfully for a lot of us smokers most restaurants have an outdoor area. I enjoy a purro and my wife cigaros .

It's wise to pay attention to things in this country so that you won't be surprised by such a simple thing that happens every year. Nothing was behind for the vast majority of us.

I used Spencer McMullen to do it all just to be safe.

Au contraire. I have had none of the problems that you have mentioned in any way shape or form at my Intercam bank. Opened an account with them when I had constant hassles at the Scotia ATM. Great dealing with actual humans too!

I am in Lourdes and my Telmex hardly ever goes down and when it does it doesn't last long enough to be a bother. We watch an Amazon movie most nights and have Vonage VOIP no problema.

And why some of us never wanna go back. This is April[spring-jaja?] 2006

The Edmonton Journal has done a splendid job reporting on what is going on with the Edmonton Oilers. Interviews with executives and even players. Want an update?

Some of us read about more than one thing from many sources and then don't post it on here to suit one's agenda instead of as news and changing it to opinion obliterating the actual facts.