I haven’t been able to adjust to the hot Texas weather this year. I am not sure why but it just seems excessively excessive this summer. It really wasn’t a record temperature setter but the humidity must be up. It’s not like Houston and I am thankful of that. I don’t know how those folks down there stand the humidity from the Gulf. It could be my age but we don’t like to think about...
Continue reading...Scratch Building
Scratch building is a term that is dear to my heart. When I was a preteen kid, my folks would buy my brother and me plastic model kits to assemble. The typical kits of the day were cars, navy ships with lots of guns, model war planes and army equipment. This was a decade after WWII in the Eisenhower era so that explains the subject models. The big question was whether to paint the plastic...
Continue reading...Blogging is like shaving
…If you don’t do it every day you are a bum. The family business had an old sign in the office that said the same thing about selling. Dad put it up when I was a kid. It had a line drawing sketch of the sad clown Emmett Kelly, right in the middle like a wanted poster. Sometimes my memory of that sign drives my need to post on my blogs. This is a grey scale sketch...
Continue reading...Just Keep’n On
I just finished some postings over in my “Ramblin’ Dan’s Workshop” website. It just felt so comfortable working in that personal site that I wanted to say something here. I spread myself and my posts over several websites so it is hard even for me to keep track of where I have posted and perhaps some area I have ignored for some time. To me they are all separate websites (or blogs) but I try to...
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