CHICAGO — “When I daydream,” Nick Offerman says, “it’s of having quiet moments with a cup of tea, sitting out by the birdfeeder and coming to know my neighborhood birds by name as they come to eat out of my hand.”

The fantasy, however, has yet to become a reality. “I’m moving too fast to do that right now.”

Offerman's newest book is out this week, called “Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop’s Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery,” which is an introduction to woodworking for kids. He co-stars in the upcoming Netflix miniseries “Death By Lightning” about the 1881 assassination of U.S. president James Garfield, playing his vice president-turned-successor Chester Arthur. He also has another series in the works, this one for Apple called “Margo’s Got Money Problems,” due out next year. Offerman was

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