Bon jour, from South Louisiana

Greetings.

My name is just as my user name shows, from deep South Louisiana and I like to call myself a traditional ebeniste (traditional furniture builder). I don't get to build much furniture these days since I closed up shop two yrs ago and started a career with Louisiana State University. I work in a division of the Ag Dept at the Rural Life Museum as a historic building preservationist and instruct on preservation and early timber / wood trades. I am currently also moonlighting as a historic trades consultant and prop builder for the movie industry.

I grew up a home steader of sorts. I'm an avid gardener, we only have chickens and rabbits for animals these days however I am looking to move back out of the burbs and back onto some acerage as I am more acustomed to.

The forum looks interesting and I intend to poke around a bit though I may not be very active as my time is limited. I did feel obligated, based on previous forum experience, to introduce myself being my first post was a reply spurned by an email frim a member here.

Regards,

Jean Becnel
www.creoleproject.com

Welcome, Jean...it's great to have you here! I've enjoyed your very informative posts so far and look forward to more