BillyBones

Twistedwillow, that is too cool. Love it.

When i got the car me and my dad ripped into it. Rebuilt the engine and tranny, rear end etc. It was built to go real fast for 1/4 mile in a straight line. No there were no heat shields. The headers had a set of Cherry bombs attached and nothing behind them. Open exhaust basically. The cam made it lope at red lights and if i laid into it, it vibrated windows and walls. One of those cars you could feel the power in your chest when it launched just being near it. That was my first car. I got it when i was 13 and me and my dad spent the next 3 years building it. That was also a time when car alarms started getting popular and i would cruise through school popping the gas every once in a while setting off everyone's alarm. Anyway gotta get out to the shop and put brakes on my truck today...

Chrysler had a phonograph in some of their cars back in the late 50's i think it was. I hated those little pop out windows they put in trucks. Remember those pull knobs to open the vents in a car? Open them and the wings it would be like a wind tunnel in the car. I had a '70 Nova when i was in high school, the motor breath was so bad that the vents had to be opened even in the winter or your pant legs would almost catch on fire.

8 track tape players. Gotta have the 8 track hi-fi stereo.

I think i would go backwards with the plate tectonic thing (or billions of years forward maybe) and make a Pangea kind of globe thing. I had a room mate who was a geologist and i remember once she showed me an underwater map that had elevations and stuff. She was pointing out how you could see "gouges" in the sea floor from where the land mass of India skidded into what is now the Himalayas. She kind of described it like a car wreck, real fast on a geological scale.

Yes. I am dating myself here but the Holiday Health spa we used to have had a statue of atlas holding a globe like you describe on top of the building. If you do am image search of wire globes you will get many, many examples of what you are talking about to get ideas from. You could even purchase a pre-made sphere and just attach the land masses. Would make a pretty cool lamp also.

When i get into poison ivy i get a few little itchy spots but usually pretty mild, my dad is one of those who can waller around in it and be ok, my mom can not look at it with out getting covered. One winter day when it got into the 40's or so i set out pulling weeds and the like from around the house. I ended up like Das said, eyes swelled shut and just in misery. I had to go see a doctor. The doctor told me that the reaction was so much more severe becuase the oils that cuase it are much more concentrated in the winter than summer.

I like beer. Not my shop, i guess it was someone else's i saw something odd, or at least the first time. As i was on my way home from work i passed a electric company truck with a guy working the lines. He had his hard hat on but around the brim was a row of LED lights. They looked as if they were not in his eyes but made light in a 360* circle around him. Also it was a quarter to 2 in the AM and you would have to be blind to have missed him. Now how can i use something like that in the shop...

Thanks for the input. I posted basically what i had found. Not a whole lot of info about it, but then again not much about the Picts in general.

Thought some of ya'll might like this bit of history. Back in 2018 an anvil was discovered in Scotland. The anvil is stone and belonged to a Pictish coppersmith. What is intriguing about it is that it has the hand and knee prints of the smith who was using it. The smithy was in a cairn that they say the entrance had a bend to block light so that the smith was better able to judge the color of his work. Anyway just thought i would share an interesting find that we can relate to.

Guess i should have said 5 planes in service.

We did a lot of camping at WPAFB when i was a scout. My scout troop was part of the honor guard that was there when they piggy backed the space shuttle there back in the 80's. There was actually a small jamboree at WPAFB one year. I remember it now becuase one of my troop busted the bottom out of the cast iron skillet using it for a hammer to drive tent stakes. But living in Fairborn we just ran home and got another one. With the upcoming quad state anyone that is attending and has sometime needs to go to the museum at WPAFB. Pretty cool place full of aviation history. They have a kite festival also that i used to think was lame then i went and was blown away at the kites. Some were mind boggling as to how they fly. Fun fact about WPAFB, there are only 5 planes on that base. One more, there is no hanger 18.

That is what made Doc Brown's train travel through time. It replaced the flux capacitor.

Well, one of them may have taken a fancy to ya and is just flirting. I had a chicken once, it tasted like cat. Really good with a little cheeze whiz.

Had a squad leader blown of the top of a shower we built once. We put a barrel on top of it, filled the barrel with water and put an immersion heater in it. These ran of diesel fuel. You started a drip and collected a little in a small cup, pull the cup out and light it. The drip keeps a fire going and you get nice hot water, and i do mean hot. If you let the drip go with the fuel running it would build up fumes indie of it and some times explode.

My grandmother used to tell me that you need a space in the yard that is allowed to grow wild so fairies have a place to live. If not they would cuase mischief and pull pranks on you. I figure since most people dont do that i will give them my whole yard, or at least a good portion. So far i can honestly say i am have not been troubled by fairies, them danged gnomes though...

The only thing i have seen on SOFA's site is they want people to register early. Then it says if you dont you have to register at the gate. Kind of confusing. But now that message is gone. They do not seem the best at updating their website.

My son in law is a fan of that college from that state up north. I am just glad THE Ohio State University has beaten them every season i have known him.

I was in the house one day and heard a noise outside. My neighbors son was out in my driveway with a snow blower. He did the entire driveway with out even asking if i wanted him to do it. He flat refused a $20 i tried to give him and i had to go and give it to his mother. He did not only mine but all 4 houses on the street and the sidewalks all the way up the block. Good kid, he even taught my granddaughter to ride a bike...now if he would just notice my grass.

Doing a quick search i found 13 camp grounds/RV parks with in 25 miles. I was trying to think of a couple and came up with 3 i knew of. There is a KOA just north of Dayton, Enon beach in Enon and i think John Bryon has electricity now but not quite sure. Of the 3 John Bryon would be my choice, a little further away from quad state but is in Yellow Springs where the wool gathering is. And it is a state park so it is more wooded and not just a big parking lot. But with the wool gathering the spots may go quick. Nice place. When i lived in Yellow Springs we used to go there to camp on weekends. Local, so if i forgot something the house was a 5 minute drive. If i had the space i'd tell ya'll to park them here, but i may be able to fit 1 small RV so first to come gets it. I do have a big barn if you dont mind the cats.

Fortunately it was the push mower. I have a huge stump with giant roots that i have hit and not hurt it. Hit a piece of 2" galvinised pipe that was laying in the yard and did not hurt it. Broke the cast iron leg of of my out door table 2x with it. Not to mention the rocks, bricks and bottles. (bottles are from the drunks driving by at night) But this one little stump of an old bush next to the front porch and she was done. I got the mower for free a few years back, same with most of my power tools like that after people left them full of gas over the winter. Remember when we were having all the problems with gas deposits building up? I learnt early on that they were actually really easy to get running again but most people would just rather buy new. When i was working in the tranny shop every spring it was my job to get the shops lawn and garden equipment running, except the snow blower that was in the fall. I would give anything not to have grass. I loathe mowing.

Broke my lawn mower. Hit a big stump knocked the blade sideways and now has no compression. Broke it good.

George, you can buy this powder stuff that will change the color of the flames in a fire. They sell it at my Kroger in the BBQ dept. Also about any hardware, farm, etc. store. I remember as a kid when we would drive through Ashland and all the refineries were burning. The stacks all had different colored flames coming out of them. It was pretty cool.

Another Buckeye. Welcome. Avon Lake, that is up near Akron right? Need to get to quad state. Smiths from all over the country, and world, come to sell their wares and demonstrate. Good times, good folks. If you want, look up Southern Ohio Forge and Anvil (SOFA) you can see pics from previous gathering and get an idea of what all goes on.

We hit 93* yesterday with humidity around 500%. Nasty day for anything other than sitting in the shade with a cold beverage.