October 23, Thor's day

[coachdoc]

Once again it is no longer yesterday.

[jdd2]

Not too bad for late October:

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[Kramster]

Hey

They say 94 today

[Doug]

I'z here

[Bassman]

Morning

[brucemacneill]

Had coffee out on the back porch, kind of cool and breezy but livable for October. My ex-co-workers should arrive this afternoon and I still have no idea what to do with them other than play golf with the one guy tomorrow. At least I'll get to ask them what made them want to come down here. I got away from it all when I retired, including away from what most people find entertaining. I suppose we can sit around and catch up on what we've been doing these past 8 years. That should take an hour or so. Well, I have one more bathroom to clean. Might as well get to it.

Have a good day.

[mnhermit]

G'mornin' -

Oct 23, 2014 0:22:04 GMT -5 coachdoc said:

Once again it is no longer yesterday.

and thankfully not yet tomorrow.

[drlj]

18 trillion leaves came down overnight. Ugh.
Looks like a nice day shaping up other than that.
Enjoy.

[fauxmaha]

Up.

[Deleted]

Morning

Light duties today, still no lifting anything over 10 lbs. I have a few guitars that I can work on without too much stress.

[Marshall]

Oct 23, 2014 7:41:01 GMT -5 Marty said:

Morning

Light duties today, still no lifting anything over 10 lbs. I have a few guitars that I can work on without too much stress.

How about the power tools?

[Cornflake]

It'll be Thursday with a chance of Friday later, particularly in the eastern time zones. Busy day in store.

[TKennedy]

Got my gutters blown out without falling off the roof. That's a good thing. Today I assemble my roof rake and wait for snow.

[Deleted]

Good morning. Nice and sunny for a stretch. As we're well into an even numbered year, I'll be changing guitar strings today.

[dradtke]

Morning, all.

[millring]

Oct 23, 2014 7:09:24 GMT -5 drlj said:

18 trillion leaves came down overnight. Ugh.
Looks like a nice day shaping up other than that.
Enjoy.

I'm looking at a yard totally covered in leaves with most of them still on the trees and I'm remembering the best leaf removal system I ever saw.

My friend, Dave, has a very strange, very niche business. He cuts dates in gravestones on site.

You know how couples buy stones and then one goes on before and there's another date yet to be put on the stone? That's what Dave does. It's not possible to move a 2 ton stone back to the monument company to have the final date sand blasted on it, so Dave takes the sand blaster to the cemetery.

And that's how I saw this awesome way of clearing leaves.

Dave's sand blaster is powered by a compressor that is in turn powered by a V8 engine, all on a trailer Dave tows behind his truck. One Autumn morning Dave pulled into my drive and said, "Wanna see something cool?"

So I followed Dave out into my leaf-covered front yard. Dave fired up the V8 engine and uncoiled about 75 feet of flexible high pressure hose to which he'd attached a five foot wand he'd fashioned out of metal tubing -- bent with sort of a light angle in the middle and flattened on the end. He also made sure to attach some good grips on the thing because it actually takes some effort to hold the thing in place. But once the air is moving through that system, there isn't a leaf within 25 feet that can stay stuck to the ground. As fast as he cleared my front yard, I'm guessing it would take about fifteen minutes per acre to entirely clear a yard. Even 3-4 foot piles moved easily under that much air pressure.

[godotwaits]

Saw an odd thing last night.

Open Mike. A pretty good one, btw. I really should be attending these things more often...but anyway... A playing partner (fellow singer/songwriter) had the guest slot for 30 mins. All others, 3 tunes each. My buddy was his usual good.

But later a guy gets up and he's got an older Martin that is a 7 string. I think I did a quick double take... it had the usual 3 tuning machines on the top half of the head stock and then 4 tuning machines (perfectly equally spaced) on the bottom half of the head stock. Upon closer examination he had a like twelve string double in the G string. The bridge pin was just set slightly back on the bridge from the G string pin. Some kind of mutant Martin..?! Was this like a cat with six toes or something.

The Martin, btw, sounded just great, like many older Martins do. The player was real fine and enormously entertaining otherwise. I didn't get the opportunity to speak to the guy. I guess he was just into G strings. Which might be a whole other story but we're not going to go there.

Anyone seen one of these things? Or should I get out a little more often?

[theevan]

Will be meeting future in-laws tonight when they come over for dinner. Big-time gourmands. I need to re-read the Intimidation thread

[millring]

Oct 23, 2014 8:51:58 GMT -5 godotwaits said:

Saw an odd thing last night.

Open Mike. A pretty good one, btw. I really should be attending these things more often...but anyway... A playing partner (fellow singer/songwriter) had the guest slot for 30 mins. All others, 3 tunes each. My buddy was his usual good.

But later a guy gets up and he's got an older Martin that is a 7 string. I think I did a quick double take... it had the usual 3 tuning machines on the top half of the head stock and then 4 tuning machines (perfectly equally spaced) on the bottom half of the head stock. Upon closer examination he had a like twelve string double in the G string. The bridge pin was just set slightly back on the bridge from the G string pin. Some kind of mutant Martin..?! Was this like a cat with six toes or something.

The Martin, btw, sounded just great, like many older Martins do. The player was real fine and enormously entertaining otherwise. I didn't get the opportunity to speak to the guy. I guess he was just into G strings. Which might be a whole other story but we're not going to go there.

Anyone seen one of these things? Or should I get out a little more often?

Roger McGuinn signature Martin

[drlj]

Oct 23, 2014 8:45:40 GMT -5 millring said:

Oct 23, 2014 7:09:24 GMT -5 drlj said:

18 trillion leaves came down overnight. Ugh.
Looks like a nice day shaping up other than that.
Enjoy.

I'm looking at a yard totally covered in leaves with most of them still on the trees and I'm remembering the best leaf removal system I ever saw.

My friend, Dave, has a very strange, very niche business. He cuts dates in gravestones on site.

You know how couples buy stones and then one goes on before and there's another date yet to be put on the stone? That's what Dave does. It's not possible to move a 2 ton stone back to the monument company to have the final date sand blasted on it, so Dave takes the sand blaster to the cemetery.

And that's how I saw this awesome way of clearing leaves.

Dave's sand blaster is powered by a compressor that is in turn powered by a V8 engine, all on a trailer Dave tows behind his truck. One Autumn morning Dave pulled into my drive and said, "Wanna see something cool?"

So I followed Dave out into my leaf-covered front yard. Dave fired up the V8 engine and uncoiled about 75 feet of flexible high pressure hose to which he'd attached a five foot wand he'd fashioned out of metal tubing -- bent with sort of a light angle in the middle and flattened on the end. He also made sure to attach some good grips on the thing because it actually takes some effort to hold the thing in place. But once the air is moving through that system, there isn't a leaf within 25 feet that can stay stuck to the ground. As fast as he cleared my front yard, I'm guessing it would take about fifteen minutes per acre to entirely clear a yard. Even 3-4 foot piles moved easily under that much air pressure.

Send him over. I need help. I just can not do them with my ankle problem at the stage it is. Not sure what I am going to do this year.