A couple of weeks ago, Ate Jenny and I worked on one of the side panels, finishing up what folks carved when last winter Kuya Lagitan taught us woodcarving during the day and healing sessions in the evening.

With the cool breeze in a summer day, Mindfully we filed away the splintery chips along the tari tari design, observing the cedar wood panel’s color change from light to dark and back to dark to light, as we filed from one end to the other and finally meeting in the middle
satisfied
At my end,
neatly scattered pieces of scrunched up and used up medium grade 150 sandpaper
Ate Jenny’s end
a worn-out sponge-file with each side of different types of grading from fine, medium to coarse
Supplies that Manong Alexis had left behind for us to use
while he celebrated his aunt’s 90th birthday party with family from all over the state.
Some came to visit the bangka, his nieces and nephew got a chance to stroke with a rasp and for once a Pomo~Bisayan clan gathered around the world bangka next to the ‘filipino’ t’iaat.
Kalinga
Bisayan
Pomo
Ate Jenny and i carpooled from Oakland, about an hour drive, to the bangkayard but later on we ended up at watching the sun~moon set at Miwok beach, singing and dancing about carving in Santa Rosa.
It was a great day indeed.
Mabuhay!