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Posted on 03/08/2007 2:40:27 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Packing and moving is a pain in the rear, but getting to the new place will be great! Sounds like your timetable is pretty good, and you won’t have to do any all nighters to get things done.
Do you have any potting soil left over? I need just enough for one small pot.
Can’t remember...if I have any, it’ll be in my little lean-to thingie. I’m heading out the door now, and I’ll check. If I have any, I’ll set it just outside the side gate.
Hopefully you do. I have a geranium in my front barrel that is getting overtaken by Petunias. It’ll never keep up.
It all started on Friday when they unearthed the 57 Belvedere buried outside the courthouse fifty years ago. Joshua was the only one that got to see it actually lifted out of the ground, because he literally stood on my hip while I held him around the legs so he could see over the crowd.
Then we saw it hauled down the street, still covered up in the canvas cover it was buried in.
But it was heartbreaking. You could tell that the car had been submerged repeatedly over the last fifty years. When they took the concrete slab off, it was half submerged at the time. Some parts of it was completely rusted away. So sad. People from 50 years ago were there as special guests...the children at the time...were so optimistic it would be ok, but it wasn't.
A time capsule that had also been placed in the vault came out rusty but sound. It was in a type of steel tank. They cut it open and when they took the top off you could see that all had survived.
Anyways, Saturday, we went to the convention center to see the old Belvedere and also to check out a massive car show they had going on. It was hot and fun and exhausting.
Then on Sunday we went back to Tulsarama and Joshua worked the Oklahoma Route 66 Association booth. Then we went home and worked on the Beetle till about 9pm. It seemed like I'd been running full speed up until then!
Here is what the car looked like at the unearthing...see that construction in the background? That's our new arena. It's shaped like a tornado.
Here it is at the convention center after the unveiling.
This is what it should've looked like.
Some artifacts from the trunk...some Schlitz and gasoline.
The lid of the tank that they cut off...with a bumper sticker from the time stuck in there. Talks about a tom-tom which is a powwow. (I saw on TV when they cut this lid off. When I saw that bumper sticker, so bright and clear...I knew the contents would be in good condition. I let out a whoop!)
Joshua looking at the plans for the new Oklahoma Route 66 Association museum with the chairman of the Tulsa Route 66 Association and the chairman of Tulsarama. The museum will be in the same location as our current buried car...a purple Plymouth Prowler.
Joshua manning the information booth.
Oh dear... Well, if they really wanted to preserve it, I think burying it was not a good idea.
Fascinating. Shame that the vault ended up not being watertight. Quite an adventure anyway!
Mornin’ folkses... lucky me... get to head back to the airport to do it again this week. Yay.
[sip]
They buried it in a concrete vault sprayed with gunite (like a swimming pool, I guess?) and actually encased in a bag, which at the time was the most state of the art material available.
Sadly, the bag had completely disintegrated.
But this seriously drew people from all over the world. The guys standing next to me as they pulled it out of the ground were from Australia!
Our current buried car is encased in an aluminum and plastic box with argon gas. There are gauges that monitor the argon and humidity and such in the vault.
You know...it was an adventure! And really neat to see so many people, from all over the world, take such an interest.
It was on all three of the network news programs on Friday.
You guys have lots of buried cars?
Quirky...
That's curious.
Someday thousands of years in the future, archeologists will doubtlessly think it is some kind of temple to the twister gods.
LOL!!!
I think about things like that sometimes too...
Heh heh...only one, now. A few years back for Tulsa’s Centennial, we buried another one.
It’s going to be unearthed in 2048.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070616_1_A8_hOffi67475
And thegirl looks right at home on that paso (a gaited Arab, who'd have thunk it?).
I set it by my side gate. On the outside. Figured even though it’s been sitting in the shed for a month, if I set it out in the open like that, it might prove too much of a temptation for Cisco.
I’ve already had at least one episode of coming home to find potting soil everywhere and a happy dog spreading the remains of the bag hither and yon...
From the movies and stuff of the time, I wonder if they weren’t more worried about protecting it from nuclear war than from a little thing like water...oops!
Still, sounds like a fun shindig. Er...tom-tom. Or whateveryacallit.
Our dogs dug up my small bed of bulbs by the door a while back. Bad dogs. Mostly they just dig holes in the back to try to get at burrowing critters.
I stupidly used bone meal fertilizer around some of mine last fall. They didn’t stay buried, as you might imagine.
Luckily he mostly has two or three specific spots where he tends to dig. Trying to get those spots to stay filled in and getting grass to grow over ‘em is an exercise in futility. I’ve just accepted them, mostly.
I got it... thanks!
Hopefully it isn’t tooooo soggy. Prolly should have had it in the house.
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