Good morning, Whitewater.
Thursday in town will give way to sunshine and a high of twenty-eight. Sunrise is 7:05 and sunset 5:12 for 10h 06m 46s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 19.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today, not yesterday: Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM, and there will be a Zoning Code Update meeting at 7 PM.
We’ve featured custom built Star Wars woodworking projects before, but nothing like this masterpiece from Martin Creaney, who hand-built the iconic Millennium Falcon over a year using more than 3,000 individually carved pieces of wood.
He had previously built an R2D2, an AT-ST Walker, and an X-Wing Fighter, but wanted to go big on his next project. His initial thought was to build the project using medium-density fiberboard (MDF), an engineered wood project that looks flat, which would require paint. But that would have hidden the detailed woodwork so he decided to leave it natural and make the body from real timber.
On this day in 1863, the 1st Wisconsin sees action:
1863 – (Civil War) Skirmish at Batesville, Arkansas
The 1st Wisconsin Cavalry fought a skirmish at Batesville, Arkansas.
For today from JigZone, it’s a 48-piece Mockingbird puzzle: