Grandma Eileen (Willigman) Baun lived with us here in Texas for the last three and one half years of her life. She was born a coal miner’s daughter in Amsterdam, Ohio in 1922. She and her first husband Bill Willigman and only child Gloria, moved to Youngstown, Ohio when Gloria was in grade school. I met her daughter Gloria when we were both seniors in high school, we fell in love and I have been...
Continue reading...THMS Web Site Problems?
I received a report that the THMS (The hobbyist’s Machine Shop) web site seemed to be down. I did some reorganization last weekend and moved all of my sites into more properly organized sub domains of tedatum.com. The correct link is http://thms.tedatum.com. Please make changes or bookmark this URL link. This has always been the “correct” link but some folks may have an old link to a sub directory under …\tedatum\thms\ Update: Http://TheHobbyistMachineShop.com also works!...
Continue reading...A New Sideline
I received the printed photo album a few days ago. It has turned out amazingly well. As good as expected. I think this is a viable way of saving space and enabling the preservation of old treasured photographs. I do not know the archival life of the photo books but they are made with “acid free” paper. It is not the books that I am counting on for the preservation. It is the digitalization of...
Continue reading...50 Years Later
Now here is a real hoot. Take a look at this picture and the “cowpokes” in the previous post. Yep, they are the same folks. Because they spent most of their play time in those western outfits, they are to this day still called “Beaver and Dude”. Beaver is “Lil’ Beaver” as in Red Ryder’s sidekick. Dude is obvious as a cowgirl. Dude is actually my wife, Gloria and Beaver is her cousin uh… Beaver...
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