Bill Guyton Jr. says his neighbors always ask him what he’ll do next in the yard of his Stevens Avenue home.

He has a mannequin he bought at a yard sale for $2 that he likes to move around the corner lot in various poses. She’s played golf, been the unfortunate victim of a magician’s saw and has even lounged about reading a book and enjoying a glass of wine.

“She doesn’t have arms, so I had to fashion some out of PVC pipes,” Guyton said. “She’s in the basement right now and I’m patching up dents and holes in her.”

Guyton, who moved to Maine four years ago with his wife, Carol, has always been a creator and collector. He learned wood sculpting, antiquing and furniture repair from his father in Long Island, N.Y.

His latest project is a dead tree at the end of his driveway that he is slowly carving into a kind of totem pole, with creatures being added when the fancy strikes him.

“I’m retired,” Guyton said, laughing. “I don’t do anything anymore. I worked two jobs most of my adult life, and now I don’t have to do that.”

He waits to see which animals pop out of the wood at him, and then he sets to carving for an hour or two — or however long he feels like being outside with his dog, Mutley.

“It’s a great way to relax and think,” he said.

As Guyton chipped away with a hammer and chisel, an ostrich was forming in the soft wood.

His wife approves of his current hobby but told him absolutely not to touch the other trees.

“Why not? He’s having a ball,” she said.

And it keeps him occupied so she can knit.