Silar's Dog & Trolley Show
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Dogs. Trolleys & Trains. Occasional Cats & Flowers. And other moments from my life that I find interesting.
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My DailyMe moblog - 365 pictures of the many moods and faces of me.
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Dreams
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Cameras:
**Motorola ic902 - Probably the best of the (poor) choices with Nextel for a camera phone.
**Canon Powershot A430 - Oh, how I love thee, let me count the ways....Primary camera - if it a good photo, this took it.
**Petri V6 manual SLR circa 1968+/- - in repair, hopefully will be appearing soon.
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My life has a soundtrack:
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"No one has to know that I’m just a paper tiger
Living in a condo built on bullshit and sand..."
-- Chris Orbach - I Outdid You
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."
-- Katherine Hepburn
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So, who has fallen victim to the lure?
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Animal Crossing: City Folk is pretty cool. Not as markedly different
from Wild World as I think a lot of folks had hoped for but still,
pretty cool stuff. Anyone on my flist here have it and want to
exchange codes? One neat thing you can do with it is take screen
shots in game and save them to an SD card, which opens up the
possibility for moblogging within the game!
from Wild World as I think a lot of folks had hoped for but still,
pretty cool stuff. Anyone on my flist here have it and want to
exchange codes? One neat thing you can do with it is take screen
shots in game and save them to an SD card, which opens up the
possibility for moblogging within the game!
30th Dec 2008, 23:44
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Ice Storm 2008, the ugly part
The ice storm won. Getting woken up at 3 AM by a huge tree coming
down in your backyard and hitting your house, I really don't
recommend it. The damage (pics not necessarily in this order)
The old oak tree next door, fallen (we think it might not have been
healthy, see the lack of root structure).
The garage, where it landed, crushed.
All 3 windows in the back of the house, along with all of the siding,
mangled by the top of the oak tree - and yes we realize if it had
been a little taller we'd have REALLY been screwed.
Some roof damage, also caused by the top of the oak tree (no photo).
Don's ham radio antennas, destroyed, see also top of that oak tree
(no photo).
Various other parts of trees down all over the property - and the
entire region (see the V-split tree in front of the barn? We've got
it braced now - the smaller half was bent way over and we feared it
would fail and hit the neighbors house. Hopefully it will recover).
Lots of Don's tools are permanently entombed in the mud under the
garage (no photo).
7 days with no power, 4 of which we had my parents and their Gracie
the Golden Retriever here - they then went to stay with a friend who
lives within driving distance of Dad's job. We just today finally
have our cable and tv and phone back, and the storm was on the 11th.
House insurance is going to cover a great deal of what needs to be
repaired/replaced, thank God. We are even going to get new carpet
for the back bedroom (remember the hideous orange carpet?) where the
boarded up window shattered and send glass everywhere. Seems old
glass of that sort is known to shatter in such a way as to be
impossible to get out of the carpets, and it's a health hazard. So
that will be paid for. And a new garage and windows and siding and
roof repairs, perhaps a new roof.
And we got off light compared to a lot of folks.
down in your backyard and hitting your house, I really don't
recommend it. The damage (pics not necessarily in this order)
The old oak tree next door, fallen (we think it might not have been
healthy, see the lack of root structure).
The garage, where it landed, crushed.
All 3 windows in the back of the house, along with all of the siding,
mangled by the top of the oak tree - and yes we realize if it had
been a little taller we'd have REALLY been screwed.
Some roof damage, also caused by the top of the oak tree (no photo).
Don's ham radio antennas, destroyed, see also top of that oak tree
(no photo).
Various other parts of trees down all over the property - and the
entire region (see the V-split tree in front of the barn? We've got
it braced now - the smaller half was bent way over and we feared it
would fail and hit the neighbors house. Hopefully it will recover).
Lots of Don's tools are permanently entombed in the mud under the
garage (no photo).
7 days with no power, 4 of which we had my parents and their Gracie
the Golden Retriever here - they then went to stay with a friend who
lives within driving distance of Dad's job. We just today finally
have our cable and tv and phone back, and the storm was on the 11th.
House insurance is going to cover a great deal of what needs to be
repaired/replaced, thank God. We are even going to get new carpet
for the back bedroom (remember the hideous orange carpet?) where the
boarded up window shattered and send glass everywhere. Seems old
glass of that sort is known to shatter in such a way as to be
impossible to get out of the carpets, and it's a health hazard. So
that will be paid for. And a new garage and windows and siding and
roof repairs, perhaps a new roof.
And we got off light compared to a lot of folks.
30th Dec 2008, 00:06
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I'm baaaack....
Here is round 1 of photos from the Great Ice Storm of 2008. It was
supposed to be a "minor icing event" acording to the National Weather
Service. Can you say "dropped the ball" boys and girls?
4 inches of ice, looks pretty doesn't it? Wait for the next round of
photos.
supposed to be a "minor icing event" acording to the National Weather
Service. Can you say "dropped the ball" boys and girls?
4 inches of ice, looks pretty doesn't it? Wait for the next round of
photos.
29th Dec 2008, 23:31
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Our Xmas present...
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...From us to us, a shiney new diesel generator. It's yellow, amazingly quiet, and has the stones to power us for weeks if need be. Father winter can sod right off.
23rd Dec 2008, 01:36
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He ain't that dumb!
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Major winter storm number 2 is upon us. This time we are having a disgusting amount of snow. Bandit is being the sensible one here. Given that they are predicting this to continue right through tomorow, I may just join him! Latest estimate for us to get cable, and therefore internet and phone back is December 29. Good thing we have the cell phones! Good thing also that the power is still back, it's still being pretty hinky for a lot of people.
20th Dec 2008, 21:38
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Re:bright light
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Hope this goes ...
Whoever invented the tripod flashlight was clever. Don't know if it made the international news but we have had a massive ice storm here in New England. We are on day 4 now with no electric but we have water and heat thanks to the generator. My parents are staying here as it may be a week or more before they have utilities. we had a massive tree fall here and crush our garage, it also damaged the house but not severely. we've got hundreds of photos of the damage and i will moblog some when we have internet back, but that may not be until a few weeks out.
Whoever invented the tripod flashlight was clever. Don't know if it made the international news but we have had a massive ice storm here in New England. We are on day 4 now with no electric but we have water and heat thanks to the generator. My parents are staying here as it may be a week or more before they have utilities. we had a massive tree fall here and crush our garage, it also damaged the house but not severely. we've got hundreds of photos of the damage and i will moblog some when we have internet back, but that may not be until a few weeks out.
15th Dec 2008, 15:53
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How geeks do housework
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AKA Yes, we really do hate vacuuming that much. We were tempted to
get the floor cleaner too and if the price at the going-out-of-
business place drops enough we may just have to do it. ;)
get the floor cleaner too and if the price at the going-out-of-
business place drops enough we may just have to do it. ;)
23rd Nov 2008, 21:26
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Lathe
There is an elderly couple who go to the church I work for who have
been members there for 60 + years. The lady has had to go into a
nursing home and the old gentleman is having trouble caring for
himself so he too is going into an assisted living apartment near his
wife so he can visit her every day. His family is cleaning his old
house out as it is in very bad condition and so will be torn down to
sell the land. He came to me last week and asked me to put a little
article in our church newsletter for a lathe he had that he didn't
want money for but wanted someone to have who could use it. I
thought of Don right off, and we went to look at it that night. We
were picturing a smallish hobbyist lathe.
Yeah.
Not exactly. Try 100+ year old six foot long industrial machinists
lathe. I bet it weighs, with the motor and weight on it, 900 lbs.
NO way was this going in the back of our little Chevy. Don arranged
the borrowing of various moving equipment from his work and the loan
of the strong back, big truck, and trailer of our friend Brian, and
tonight we moved it the 25 miles from the owner's home to our home.
The gentleman was just happy to have it going to a good home and
still wouldn't take money for it. I forsee a rather sizeable
donation going to the church in their names this holiday season.
And yes, there is absolutely no safety equipment at all on the
thing. Don plans to remedy that. :)
been members there for 60 + years. The lady has had to go into a
nursing home and the old gentleman is having trouble caring for
himself so he too is going into an assisted living apartment near his
wife so he can visit her every day. His family is cleaning his old
house out as it is in very bad condition and so will be torn down to
sell the land. He came to me last week and asked me to put a little
article in our church newsletter for a lathe he had that he didn't
want money for but wanted someone to have who could use it. I
thought of Don right off, and we went to look at it that night. We
were picturing a smallish hobbyist lathe.
Yeah.
Not exactly. Try 100+ year old six foot long industrial machinists
lathe. I bet it weighs, with the motor and weight on it, 900 lbs.
NO way was this going in the back of our little Chevy. Don arranged
the borrowing of various moving equipment from his work and the loan
of the strong back, big truck, and trailer of our friend Brian, and
tonight we moved it the 25 miles from the owner's home to our home.
The gentleman was just happy to have it going to a good home and
still wouldn't take money for it. I forsee a rather sizeable
donation going to the church in their names this holiday season.
And yes, there is absolutely no safety equipment at all on the
thing. Don plans to remedy that. :)
19th Nov 2008, 03:46
comments (4)