JWilsonphoto wrote:
Amidst the non stop bop of last week we had a deal on Wednesday night where the goal was to pack 25,000 meals designated for Africa. We got it done in record time, great thing to be involved in, but especially for kids these days. Halle was in charge of beans...................
Jim
What a wonderful illustration of shaping young lives into a lifetime of eternal values. And the positions of the girls heads, esp the hairnet, is heartwarming.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Guess that's better than Massachusetts, where you can have a firearm in your home but it has to be disassembled, and if someone breaks in, you have the right to retreat to the farthest location and then, once there, I guess you can legally throw the parts at them..................?
Well, we're not quite that bad. Guns must be stored in a locked container or equipped with a trigger lock at home. But they don't have to be disassembled, or even unloaded. I don't mind this, given how many kids end up shooting one another. Happened in my small town just a few years ago. An attempt to regulate stupidity (i.e. leaving loaded weapons where the kids can get them).
You can even transport a loaded or unloaded handgun in your motor vehicle, in your direct control. If you leave it, then it has to be locked up.
The challenge is getting the license to begin with. Rifles/shotguns require a safety training course to get the license - not difficult. Handgun licenses to carry are issued at the discretion of the local police chief, and some are more likely to deny than others. It may take a judicial appeal to get a hand gun license.
Anyway, as far as bird seed goes, your other option is safflower. That's all I feed (plus niger for the finches). Squirrels won't touch it. Most of the interesting birds like it, and you don't have to deal with the millet and other somewhat useless fillers that you are paying for in some of the mixes.
Mark
Edit for TOPP. Some serious horsepower on the warm up.
Thanks for the clarification Mark, and I agree with you, not unreasonable at all. Safety is always a bit of a compromise, it's just the way it is, a locked gun in most home invasion scenarios is about as useful as a big rock by your bed unfortunately. Even the cases that recognize your fingerprints and open immediately use up valuable seconds in a crisis but I'd rather take one for the team vs any little one being hurt, obviously.
Re: the Cub tug, TowBot designed the first version on RC aircraft tugs, the first one I ever saw was moving a B25 in Oklahoma City. They thought it up, but their customer service is really poor. Three people in our hangar complex have TowBots $25,000 versions, and you can find the pilots swearing at them each time they pull their aircraft out. Each of them had to spent additional dollars having custom brackets made for their particular aircraft because the manufacturers was uninterested and unresponsive.
The AC Technology folks are a little company with outstanding customer service. The product is much improved over the same model less than a year ago, just little aesthetic details. Each unit is handmade at this point so there can be a little bit of a wait, but it's worth it.
Chandler will be the only one authorized to move the plane via the RC tug, he's very good with it and extremely cautious. I'm pretty sure he won't want anything to do with moving the Cirrus because of it's value, he'll stick with the Cub. All in all the tugs will save a lot of sore muscles and they really reduce the chances on dinging an aircraft because you can walk around and see where everything is. A friend with a Citation Mustang watched me put the Cub away yesterday and promptly asked if I could get him one for his jet.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Re: the Cub tug, TowBot designed the first version on RC aircraft tugs, the first one I ever saw was moving a B25 in Oklahoma City. They thought it up, but their customer service is really poor. Three people in our hangar complex have TowBots $25,000 versions, and you can find the pilots swearing at them each time they pull their aircraft out. Each of them had to spent additional dollars having custom brackets made for their particular aircraft because the manufacturers was uninterested and unresponsive.
The AC Technology folks are a little company with outstanding customer service. The product is much improved over the same model less than a year ago, just little aesthetic details. Each unit is handmade at this point so there can be a little bit of a wait, but it's worth it.
Chandler will be the only one authorized to move the plane via the RC tug, he's very good with it and extremely cautious. I'm pretty sure he won't want anything to do with moving the Cirrus because of it's value, he'll stick with the Cub. All in all the tugs will save a lot of sore muscles and they really reduce the chances on dinging an aircraft because you can walk around and see where everything is. A friend with a Citation Mustang watched me put the Cub away yesterday and promptly asked if I could get him one for his jet. ...Show more →
Jim,
Years ago Earl Nightingale observed that Rolls Royce didn't invent the car, they perfected it.
The AC Technology folk illustrate that approach to the American Dream --- recognize a need, build it better, serve the customer well --- and Shazzaaam!
Just about ready for prime time! I even modified a fluid head for it Sunday afternoon, it will work well with the Sony Z150, probably not with the Sony FS/7 though.
Wow Bill! That's spectacular! I can just imagine that spot at sunset/sunrise with the right sky, just beautiful. Your on the edge of the penalty box being at that site without your full gear you know.........
I'm post processing a dozen projects this morning and I'm having a "light bulb" experience. There's a number of craftsmen working a couple of rooms away on our remodel project (and they are true craftsmen!! Not a drywaller yesterday and a trim carpenter today!) This is such a foreign experience for me, someone else doing the heavy lifting while I work away at what I do. I could get very accustomed to this...........if I could afford it as a steady diet
I haven't paid a lot of attention to it lately, but have you noticed that we're not too far away from 7 million views and 10,000 posts? Kind of amazing isn't it? You all are wonderful, it's a privilege just to be able to hang out with you here.
This remodel is an interesting experiment, photographically. Most of my builders began migrating to LED lighting about five years ago, largely because I encouraged them to do so based upon the quality of the lighting and color accuracy that they would see in my imagery. Things have come a long way since the early days of LED, my first all LED model cost the client $20,000 for the upgrade. The difference was astonishing and they have done every model in LED since then.
There are still some challenges because designers are incorporating the "Edison" type bulbs in higher end chandeliers and hanging fixtures, which introduces tungsten "warmth" to the scene, which requires kind of color correcting for a middle ground of pleasing light rather than color consistency throughout.
Our master suite and master bath had traditional 90 watt floods in ceiling cans and eyebrow fixtures, and I never really thought much about them over the years, now it's driving me crazy. LED lighting has improved considerably just in the past year or so. The "environmentally friendly" mercury filled hazmat corkscrew bulbs were never an option for me, ugly looking, putrid warm green color temps, yuk! Then came the 40 buck flood look alikes which really had the same corkscrew bulb hidden inside. The quality of the light from these was slightly better due to the fact that the yuk was housed in a color correcting plastic housing, but still nothing to write home about. Now you can choose actual LED floods and spots and they are available in several color temperature ranges from 2700K to 4,000K. The 2700K/3000K mimic old tungsten floods, albeit a bit cleaner light quality, the 4000K verges on a little too "real" and a bit cold.
So, fast forward to today, which finds me with a half dozen different LED retrofit products lined up as I try to determine which ones produce the most pleasing light and almost more importantly, which will blend harmoniously with LED bulbs in lamps and sconces so the lighting is not only attractive, but consistent. Funny what you notice when you begin to pay attention to this stuff. I walked into the master bath today and was shocked by how yellow/warm a flood can that's been there for 21 years looked, couldn't stand it. This is going to take some time and trial and error for sure. All of this discussion centers around aesthetics, but the energy savings is pretty astonishing. The average 85W flood costs $8 a year to run, there are about 70 of them in our home right now. The equivalent LED costs $1.08 and has an average life of 20.5 years, that's substantial, of course about the time we've all switched over some knucklehead will release a report that LED lighting causes something catastrophic. Until then, we can enjoy a better quality of light, and....we all know......."it's all abut the light!"
Just about ready for prime time! I even modified a fluid head for it Sunday afternoon, it will work well with the Sony Z150, probably not with the Sony FS/7 though.
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