Monday, 10 June 2013
Sometimes, this is what happens on a rainday—the sun comes out and mocks you as you do indoor work. Still, in this case, the indoor work was backlogged and now it isn’t.
To be fair, the rain didn’t totally stop until shortly after lunch.
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Bucrania—a new word for me I came across the other week…used in the context of the Neolithic Turkish settlement we call Çatalhöyük. The archaeologist I was reading defined it as cattle horns and skulls in a display context, interpreted as intended to impress, intimidate, and remind visitors how important their hosts were.
So, I drove up on this semi-load, and all these projecting arms were aligned and appeared as one, and thought: modern mechanical bucrania.
Saturday, 8 June 2013
Twice pizzas surfaced in my day.
The first was normal. We went to Pizza Antico for lunch. The internet said the place opened at 11:30. We found a line outdoors at 11:30, and a sign on the door that said noon. Thankfully, at 11:55, they came around with squares of hot margherita to thank us for waiting…. Just delightful, hot-hot from the oven. Flavors fantastic, nothing like the still tasty Savage or Mellow Mushroom pies.
Later, we communed through the hot afternoon in the AC with a few stray Jon’s and Colbert’s, and came across this…growing pizza graphic.
So, did you have a red or white sauce day?
Friday, 7 June 2013
Historic chain hand-pump for water, now infested by lichens.
Weather iffy morning, by prediction, became a fine working day. This is an important difference to those working out-of-doors.
The jinx came later, via cell call, as I was piloting homeward. My heart grieves for a suddenly-gone loved-one and those nearest and dearest.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Today we had one of those field days where you start out wondering when the rain’s going to roll in, and instead the sun comes out and the humidity from the previous night’s rain turns everything into pure sauna. But the soil is easier to read, nice and moist….
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
What does it mean when you’re headed for the hardware store for the second time in two days, and you see light like this above?
A) Time to buy a new mill bastard file?
B) That fresh-cut hardware cloth will poke holes in your finger?
C) The hardware people will remember you from yesterday?
D) Rain clouds will come late in the afternoon, but you won’t get rained on?
E) All of the above.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
I understand these come in sets of four: 10YR, 5YR, not entirely certain of the other two. Handles, um, tend to fail.
Google your own set soon….
For extra credit: what color is your coffee?
For Munsell details, start with WikiPee.
Monday, 3 June 2013
From the other day….
The Guru says the Texaco font is wrong. I never wouldda figured that out…. My faves are the triangular stacks of oil cans in the windows.
Sunday, 2 June 2013
My OOTF reports that this vehicle, first shown from the front the other day, is now identified!
It’s a Dodge M37. Began production in 1950 for the Korean War and continued until 1968. Nearly 111,000 were built and some are still running today. Top speed is 55 mph and they get about 9 mpg.
Nice to have vehicular mysteries solved. Thanks for the research, OOTF.
Saturday, 1 June 2013
I left for “work,” that is, the lovely M’s project in an un-named location, thinking these old shoes would be perfect for the partial three weeks I’ll be there…but, no, in several hours less than one four-day week, they blew out.
What is the next pair of “old shoes” that’ll volunteer for hard duty?
And, for the concerned out there, note that the US gov’t says: there are no mermaids.