If, as philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote, you feel your life is one of “quiet desperation”, you’ll get something from this video. It’s the story of my son Robert, and his quest to forge a life for himself beyond the usual, and beyond the quiet desperation that seems to be the default experience of many.
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Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, discusses the decline of people entering trade jobs in Canada.
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Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, reflects on his choice to create a self sustaining life away from urban cities and the road from then to now.
Threaded steel pipe is useful for all kinds of things and we use it fairly often here at our place at the end of Bailey Line Road. Watch my son Robert and I as we cut threads by hand on…