Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Yes, I know. I've been there.

If i ever want to get under my wifes skin, i just say stanton. Lol. Works every time.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 51F @ 7:45AM. 0% Precip. / 0.00 in. Partly Cloudy. High 61F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph.

So much sadness in the world today. Makes me wanna just pull the covers up over my head and go back to sleep, awaking again to find out it was all just a bad dream. But the burglar alarm is beeping every four hours to remind me to replace a motion detector battery, and there are still a couple of things that need done before the rain, so it's off to the kitchen to fix some oatmeal and get the day started.

While I was running errands in town yesterday I got an instant message from the mechanic saying he was working on the van. I finished my errands and stopped by to find out he'd already changed plans, instead spending the afternoon removing parts from a junker that was to be towed away that evening. It dawned on me that the junker was more important to him than finishing work he's already been paid for, and the litany of excuses i've seen over the last two months is just more of the same. Someone's offered to buy out my interest in the motor he's building for me, and I've learned about a shop making SMOG legal turbo Diesel conversions down in Sacramento. I need more information about it, but I really like the idea of having another Diesel in the house, especially since it makes about 30% more horsepower and gets better mileage than the Subaru. Seems like good rainy day research.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[PJSprog]

I have heard giant pipe organs in European cathedrals that literally made me shiver.
You don't even have to be into classical music, much less understanding Latin or Italian, when those huge pipe organs start singing
in enormous rooms with tall ceilings and lots of stone and glass. My pc has a nice Klipsch sound system hooked to it, with a little sub, and
once in awhile I'll search pipe organ. PJ, what model Wicks did you want to take home?

I had the fortune to play some really magnificent American organs while I was at Wicks. Some were played while they were in our shop. They had a 40' tall section of the erecting room where organs with 32' pipes could be fully assembled and tested. That room sounded great. Some were played in the churches and cathedrals where they were installed. The Cathedral of St. Helena in Helena, MT is a truly magnificent space for organ music, I can tell you. I also enjoyed playing the instrument at Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Church in Foxfield, CO. It's an unusually designed interior space, but sounds fantastic. The all-marble interior of St. Bartholomew's in Scotch Plains, NJ was memorable as well.

I've been a pipe organ nut since I was a kid. I'd always dreamed of how cool it would be having one, but never really knew how possible it was until I worked for an organ company. Many of the old instruments get reincorporated into new or rebuilt instruments. Some, however, get sold or even just thrown in a dumpster. It's sad how many grand instruments end up in land fills. When I found out there were smaller instruments frequently available, I started looking, and had half of the organ industry sending potential info to me. The first one I was going to buy from a church in the Pittsburgh area burned up in a fire the day before the deal was done. The one I eventually bought (in the picture posted earlier) came from a small church near Perryville, MO. It was originally built in 1935 for a small church in Texas, and had since survived both a tornado and a flood. I got it for $400.

If I were to get another Wicks organ, it would either be a small Fuga model 3-rank, similar to my old 2-rank Sonatina, but with more pipes, or a 5-rank unit organ (a "unit" organ has more stops, but they borrow from a limited number of pipes). Honestly, I'd really rather just build my own 5-rank instrument. Once you've done it for a few years, it's not really that hard. There are organ supply businesses that sell everything you would need. However, that's not likely to happen in the house we live in now, and we're not likely to move to a bigger place, ... so ... in the end, I'll probably end up putting together or just buying a digital organ, which takes up a lot less space.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and no rain

Saw 2 very interesting, very diverse properties yesterday with our cottage tenants.

First was a rental they were looking at for a friend looking to relocate from FL. Something of an open structure in a community of shelters including old school buses and ramshackle buildings. $500/mon as the prospective tenant was willing to make improvements. If you closed your eyes, pretending not to be there and just listened to the owners description you might have thought you were in paradise.

2nd property was a home under construction using same building material we did. Very well laid out plan, attention to detail both in planning and execution. Not a large house but unique and will be extremely livable. Almost half the area under roof will be open air kitchen and living area. They are about a week or two work from roofing. Was fun trading notes and explaining my approach to areas in his future. Construction is insulated concrete SIPs (Pro-Tec). His panels are 10ft x 3ft wide. He also has a nice orange Kubota to help ground work.

Hair cut this morning.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[newbury]

View attachment 527062PJ, my wifes organ, not nearly as fancy as yours. Pardon the stuff in front of it.

Gad, what has this forum come to?? Showing each others organs!!

Locals pronounce it stanton, not staunton. Lol

And a local from Staunton probably wouldn't think there is a difference in pronunciation.

SWMBO pronounces pen the same as pin. She had me buying souvenir pens in the airports when I was on trips but she actually wanted pins. Took a while for her to tell me and we ended up with a lot of writing instruments instead of stuff to pin on her clothing.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Gad, what has this forum come to?? Showing each others organs!!.

Thankfully we aren't playing the organs.

 

[PJSprog]

Locals pronounce it stanton, not staunton. Lol

There is a Staunton IL not too far from me, and there is also a Stanton MO, which is home to the infamous Meramec Caverns. Both pronounced different.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Gad, what has this forum come to?? Showing each others organs!!


And a local from Staunton probably wouldn't think there is a difference in pronunciation.

SWMBO pronounces pen the same as pin. She had me buying souvenir pens in the airports when I was on trips but she actually wanted pins. Took a while for her to tell me and we ended up with a lot of writing instruments instead of stuff to pin on her clothing.

PJ yes it was Taylor and Boody, yea I likely spelled it wrong.

Locals would know that you are not from here or you are putting on airs. I live about 5 miles from there and have lived near there for over 25 years. Ed

 

[Ed of all trades]

A warm morning and beginning of two warm days, 78 today and 80 tomorrow.
Bad leg cramps last night from overdoing it yesterday put me into the hot tub at 1:30am and
when the cramps went away I was able to enjoy a beautiful night. Bright full moon, mid 50's out, smelling
mildly like bromine I came in and went right to sleep.

Today is paint day. Going to get the little Massey painting finished, but first....put my small phd on late yesterday so this morning I am drilling holes for shrubs and trees. I can get into a bunch of small places I couldn't before with the small tractor and phd, and no way I'm manually digging in solid tree roots. The phd patiently just chews its way through. I run it just above idle to save shear pins; sandy soil easy to drill once the roots are passed. One thing drilling holes with a phd does is give you an instant water retention ring, so I always use a size larger bit.

It's sad but I couldn't help remembering the awful feeling of reaching over for my wife in the morning and the bed was empty. No warm arm or hand to hold. That natural gesture we use to hold and treasure what we love so much. Randy is having a very tough time this morning I'm sure. Am hoping lots of his family is in to help him.

I remember those days too. I was only 21 and we had been married only 2 1/2 years. Car wreck.

Randy We can only know a little of what you feel but we do care and many of us are remembering you during our days. Ed

 

[daugen]

dug about a dozen holes in places I never could have gotten the larger tractor into.
Running at 1000 rpm, stalled the tractor four times on big roots,
rather do that than fuss with the shear pin replacement.

My collards and broccoli are getting chomped by some bug. Pretty color though.
Tomatoes are useless, falling off the plant before ripening.
I probably should pick them all and make fried green tomatoes.