GrantMcM

It’s been a minute since I last carved a spoon. My daughter gave me the design idea. It’s carved in black walnut, and finished with food safe Osmo Oil.

Yes, I went outside to see if I could see anything because I thought it was an explosion or maybe an accident.

I heard it and thought it might have been an explosion and so I went outside to look.

I remember learning from a friend’s dad who was a tool and die maker that his whole career was designing cardboard boxes. It blew my mind at the time because I thought a box was just a square 😃

Sculpting a torso in English Boxwood. Some of the hardest wood I have ever carved!

I really thought today’s game was the best game I have ever seen. I think the 2026 team wins of the 4 you mentioned.

Up early to cheer on Team Canada 🇨🇦 in the 2026 Olympics men’s hockey gold medal game. Hope USA wins silver 😁

Happy birthday to Amy! 🎂🎉

Team Canada women’s hockey team is being carried by Sara Nurse in the third period. What a force! Go Canada! 🇨🇦 Olympics 2026

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Tough year for the Canucks, but Go Canucks! 😁

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Ever read or listen to Tim Wu? He has some excellent stuff on this topic.

I will be at the Abbotsford Canucks game tonight with the Central Fraser Valley Wood Carvers Club displaying our work. Stop by and say hi.

The range of responses from academics towards AI is striking. On the one side a liberal arts faculty member at my university said there is no future for university education. On the other, the President of Mt Allison U says AI means liberal arts are more valuable. I’m on the side of hope.

Yesterday, Wordle annoyed me. Today was a different story. It’s toying with me, I think. Wordle 1,663 3/6

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First pancakes of 2026.

Yes I did own a pair! Thanks for the blast from the past.

NHL rookie to watch: The making of Matthew Schaefer After being selected first overall in the 2025 NHL draft, Canada’s Matthew Schaefer is having an extraordinary rookie season, but getting here wasn’t always easy. In an interview, he tells CBC News ch...

This is the kind of hockey player that we need more of. Thanks for the great story, Adrienne Arsenault. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Yes I am a university Registrar. Yes I am a stereotypical woodworker. I enjoy both! It’s not often I get to bring those two worlds together but this week I did when I restored TWU’s Board Room table (just the edges).

Cambium Blue DescriptionSet in the British Columbia Interior, the novel Cambium Blue is an homage to resource towns, independent women and local newspapers. In 1994, at the outset of the bark beetle epidemic that ...

I quite enjoyed reading this novel harbourpublishing.com/products/978...

The Vancouver Canucks are a decent team that can’t score! 😒

Ray Ferraro is very funny! You can hear the smirk in his voice as he says, while describing a cross-checking penalty against the Redwings: “Not sure if it was the second or the third one that got called…” 🤣

The Vancouver Canucks season is going according to plan… tanking with the best of them! Bring on the draft!

Yes! They might be surprised 😃

One of my favourite lines from Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It is “My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.”

Tough times!

So excited! How can we get tickets to the WC Final?

Grant McMillan Wood Carvings Wood carvings by Grant McMillan

I have finished carving the Coat of Arms which took me a year to complete. Here’s the story: grantmcmillan.wordpress.com

The coat of arms is finally carved and here it is with the first coat of finish applied. Now you can see the elements of the shield that tell the family stories, like the lion rampant, the stone castle, the Viking ship, and the hand with nine stirrups around it. #gvmstudio