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By Dave, February 3, 2006 3:27 pm

Rails missing; it’s hard to keep track… – Yahoo! News

Gotta wonder how long a theft like this would take? 3 miles of tracks…

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By Dave, January 31, 2006 12:26 pm

Farmer, Fannie Merritt. 1918. The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

Some good eatin!

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By Dave, January 28, 2006 9:20 pm

The Classic!

Abbott: Well Costello, I’m going to New York with you. The Yankee’s manager gave me a job as coach for as long as you’re on the team.
Costello: Look Abbott, if you’re the coach, you must know all the players.
Abbott: I certainly do.
Costello: Well you know I’ve never met the guys. So you’ll have to tell me their names, and then I’ll know who’s playing on the team.
Abbott: Oh, I’ll tell you their names, but you know it seems to me they give these ball players now-a-days very peculiar names.
Costello: You mean funny names?
Abbott: Strange names, pet names…like Dizzy Dean…
Costello: His brother Daffy
Abbott: Daffy Dean…
Costello: And their French cousin.
Abbott: French?
Costello: Goofe’
Abbott: Goofe’ Dean. Well, let’s see, we have on the bags, Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third…
Continue reading 'Who’s on first?!'»

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By Dave, January 10, 2006 10:48 am

Baking Biscuits in an Adirondack Wilderness Camp (Backcountry vacation cabin).

The scones are good too. 🙂

Update – Friend asked me what this post was about so guess at a quick glance it’s not making the much sense. So here’s an explaination. 😉

This is a link to a site with a good “from scratch” biscuit recipe. There is also a recipe for english butter scones which I have made and though the self-rising flour I subsituted was bad (and has been throuily spanked for being “that” bad), the scones turned out rather good, though somewhat flat. Will use good flour and more milk next time.

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By Dave, January 7, 2006 9:04 am

Days mixed together again. Been feeling rough for several days. Since new years I guess. Not getting much done either.

Did get the new test heater fired off this morning. Seems to do a great job. Wish I had built it inside and permeant now. Fired off for the first time the other day to start the drying. Then it rained a couple of times (i think) and I have been down so haven’t tried it again till today. Extended the firebox opening a bit with half a two hole 8 inch cement block, some brick and more mud. Makes feeding it easier and I think I am going to go with an extended firebox on the one I build in here too.

And again thought I had posted this. Sorry…

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By Dave, January 3, 2006 10:41 am

Got down to 24.8 here last night. Not sure what time. Was at 25.2 at 6:15 when I got the fire going and came up to look. Inside was 48.6. 9:06 and we are at 35.4 outside and 64.8 inside.

Heater works fine, just not the way I am used to one working. No instant heat. Takes a while for the firebrick to heat up. Have the top at 150 now. The temp in the stack of brick on top is over 160 at the front and haven’t tested around back. Need to see if herrington would loan or sell me the temp gun. If not need to just buy one.

Rethinking the heater bell a bit.

Thought I had already posted this. Sorry for the delay. Will continue the thought in a new post.

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By Dave, December 23, 2005 9:22 am

After having to get up 5 or 6 times a night to reload the Ashley and still having the wood burn up quicker than I reload it, I have started building another wood burning heater.

Got the load door and flue coupling from an old burned out Ashley room size stove that I was given as an alternative to taking it to the dump. Used a large well pump air bladder tank as the body. Cut the door and flue openings and then with hammers and heat flattened the areas to accept their respective pieces.

Broke one of the door hinges off the door trying to get the hinge pin out. Brazed it back on and it seems to be holding. If it gives more trouble I’ll see about getting some of the cast iron rods and arc welding it but looks good this morning after an all night burn.

Cut a mobile home tire rim in half and flattened the edges where the stove can sit on top of it when it’s sitting on the cut ends. Still got the other one to do. swinging a 10 pound sledge with one hand while holding the rim half with the other took a bit more out of me than I thought at the time but was able to do it which surprised the hell out of me.

Set the stove on the rims, the modified one sideways and the unmodified one length ways, put a couple of sections of flue on it and built a fire in it to burn the paint off. Took several hours to get a big enough bed of coals to get it hot enough but was able to shut it down about 9:30 pm. Was cold out there by then except around the stove. Sucker got to glowing nice and red over the top half and had flames going 3 to 4 feet above the flue. Closed the door and damper and this morning had a nice bed of charcoal in there. Nice and air tight!

Now to find parts to build the air intake, finish the stand/rim mods and weld them on, move it up here to the greenhouse, plumb the air intake to the outside, install the flue through the new roof, line the bottom half with firebrick and sand, reinstall the door and flue connector with furnace cement, and build a fire, and I’ll be through for the day… 😉

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By Dave, December 19, 2005 9:12 pm

Building our dwelling will open in a new window. This is a long series of 130+ pictures. Will be adding to them as time and energy allows.

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By Dave, December 15, 2005 10:43 am

Alabama County Map

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By Dave, October 20, 2005 8:13 pm

got the power run to and hooked up in to the 14×70 yesterday afternoon at about dark. No smoke and only kicked one breaker while trying to find the right wire for a light switch.

parlor stove in and working. can wall done and dry or almost so. building can be secured now so not as worried about leaving things in there.

built a saw buck to peel the pine logs on. got 3 peeled already using drawknives.

slowly, slowly eats the elephant…

got to get back on the addition here now. will try to get the section under the end of the mobile home started tomorrow. or not.

need to get the van packed and ready for the trip to Florence either saturday or sunday or both for the Alabama Renaissance Faire .

still going…

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By Dave, September 29, 2005 8:11 pm

Jeff Bezos’ open letter on used book sales

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An oldie but still goodie on the used book argument.

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By Dave, September 29, 2005 7:57 pm

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP – A&E: Study: Used books are $2 billion industry

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Glad to hear/read it. there are a lot of comments made by folks in the new biz here but they left us, the used book sellers, out.

We sell mostly out of print books and as such I don’t see where we hurt the publishers or the authors AT ALL. Where else is someone supposed to find out of print books?

http://www.bluespringsbazaar.com, our business is internet only. Not sure that we will stay that way but for now tis the only outlet we have. At present time we have somewhere over 17000 books with about 2700 online. Still got a LOT of shelves to build just to house current stock.

But in all of those we only have 200 to 300 used books that are on the shelves here that you would find on the shelves in a new book store. The rest are out of print. And the ones that are still in print don’t sell as well as the ones that aren’t.

So I just don’t see how the publishing houses can say that we are hurting them as badly as they are saying. Seems like a lot of FUD to me. But that’s just my personal opinion…

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By Dave, September 29, 2005 7:40 pm

Techdirt:File Sharing Leads To A Life Of Crime

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I don’t know where they got the facts and figures that they twisted on this poll but I doubt that there is much if any truth in the “study”.

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By Dave, September 28, 2005 11:19 pm

Harvey Danger Downloads

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This kind of thing is the RIAA’s worst nightmare.

Thanks Guys! Great music! And DRM FREE!

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By Dave, September 28, 2005 11:06 pm

Latest News and Financial Information | Reuters.com

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Buy-Buy Bubble Bye-Bye…

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By Dave, September 16, 2005 12:39 pm

another batch of it. Locked it down so you have to be registered and logged in to post. Sorry about that but for the sins of the few the many must suffer…

Guess I need to look around and see if there is a plugin to block an ip address as these seem to be coming from either 3 or 4 addresses. I think it is a googlebomber or a group of several that are doing this. The comments make no sense otherwise, just random noise. The only one I really resent is the batch from S C O. Those blood sucking bastards need to be eliminated.

Update –

the ip address is changing on every posting. Guess this is some kind of round robin system using compromised computers so that the ip address blocking won’t work. The slow rate they are coming in is almost like there are real people out there doing it but I guess it could be a botnet that is passing the info along.

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By Dave, September 16, 2005 9:01 am

Asshats hit this am. Just deleted the crop, I think. If I got anyones real comment, please resubmit. I turned moderation on for now, so if you’re a new poster (or an existing poster but forget your password/username) comments will not show up till I approve them.

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By Dave, September 15, 2005 6:50 pm

Free gin-and-tonics top Freddie’s Ashes rewards. 14/09/2005. ABC News Online
As dawn broke over London, Flintoff was sipping his umpteenth gin-and-tonic, puffing on a giant cigar and telling anyone who would listen just how much the Ashes triumph meant to him.

“What is most exciting about it is that I’ll be awarded the freedom of Preston [his home town in Lancashire, northern England],” he said.

“That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated.

“What more could you want?”

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What more needs to be said… 😉

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By Dave, August 31, 2005 7:59 pm

Gonna have to get a ladder and something to get me up in the air to get more of the can wall built. About 5 feet up in the air now on the one section by the door. Planning on starting under the end of the trailer most likely tomorrow (thursday) with the retaining wall.

Got the phone lines back up this afternoon. Attached them to the cable wire and then wrapped them with the floursencent safety straping so maybe tall trucks (herrington’s) will see them and not tear them down.

Helped Bill replace his clutch master cylinder.

Finished up a large wooden mallet too. Had already made the head and handle but wasn’t too impressed with it so took it apart and after cutting some rings off a drive shaft turned the head down a bit more on the ends and installed them on each end. Cut some 8p nails down to about an inch long and after drilling 3 holes around each ring nailed them to the head. Cleaned it up on the grinder and put the handle back in.

Long day done. The plastering is really wearing on my fore arms. Guess I will do what I can and then rest and do more when I can. Only got another few thousand cans to go… 😉

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By Dave, August 30, 2005 7:24 pm

Power lines went down this morning about 4 am. Pine tree took them out this time. Called around and got prices on a pole to move the service to the road. Went to get Bertha (ford f350 with a 8×12 steel bed) to unload to go to marvins to get a pole when Cat hollered at us that the power company was here.

They were, all 10 of them. They spliced the wire back together and rehung it. Took them between 1 and a half to 2 hours I guess.

Bill and I cut a bunch of limbs off and the guy in the bucket truck did the higher ones so the drive is much wider and taller now.

Phone lines are still on the ground. Got the stripped ends twisted to the line coming into the trailer so its working anyway. Will get them up and attached to the trailer tomorrow baring additional accidents and depending on how I feel.

Quite itchy right now. I think I got poison ivy on both arms while attaching the strap to the totally covered pine log this morning. 3 times. Then it was also all over the dead oak in front of the trailer that I cut while the lines were down.

Am somewhat exhausted and the way my arms are hurting may not be up to anything tomorrow.

For now gonna go wash a bit then use the cortisone spray and hope for another 3 hours of relief…