The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

[300winmag]

I still use my grandad’s and my dad’s tools.

My dad's tools are older versions of the Craftsman tools I have. I'd always buy tools when Sears had them on sale.

My grandfather's tools are "BC" (Before Chrome). Sorta weird seeing tools with just a dull steel color on them. He had a lot of odd "money wrenches", since this was also "BR" (Before Ratchets).

[300winmag]

“money” = “monkey”

[g'nad]

howzit?... looked interestin’... we ain’t gots cable...

[g'nad]

eeeeexcellent...

so... when are yuh gonna buy Jr. an IPhone?...

[Corin Stormhands]

there will be no IPhone

[g'nad]

I love old tools... specially gun, farmin’ and livestock tools...

I dunno how many time I look at some specialized piece of steel and said, “what the hell izzat fer?”... always loved findin’ out...

[g'nad]

awwww c’mon... yuh softie...

[SuziQ]

SirKit has some old tools from his PawPaw, and from his Dad. He loves those things.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

As I said on the Company thread to a similar question:

‘Is it worth it?’

Just how many movies about the heroic anti-communist struggles of that period with the right goodguys and badguys have you seen lately? Good acting and directing too!

[300winmag]

I love old tools... specially gun, farmin’ and livestock tools...

On the left, my grandfather's Lufkin micrometer Model 1911, made in Saginaw, MI. On the right, my dad's "everyday" micrometer, a "odometer" type Mitotoyu. It can read to four decimal places by using the vernier scale on the barrel. He has an older American model, and a newer Japanese digital mike, but I haven't come across them recently.

My grandfather's micrometer is in great shape, but the wooden box was a total mess. It was used over the years to store small screws, pencils, and frap, and falling apart. It also had oil and paint dumped on it. The box itself represents a major restoration effort on my part. It turned out pretty good, except for the red and green stains, mostly inside the box

[osagebowman]

Morning - My dad’s craftsman ratchet doesn’t have the push button or lever release. Pull the socket and bar out and stick ‘em in the other side, then it reverses. The sockets were bought one at a time and kept in an old black enameled Singer box. Never saw the need to replace ‘em. They work fine. Several of the old open end and off-set box wrenches are marked Ford. Saws, hammers, levels, brace and bit, planes. Yup good old tools, one and all.

[LSAggie]

If’n you mow tonight, be sure and use bug spray to keep the mosquitoes from getting you! There has already been at least one reported case of West Nile virus and today we found a dead Blue Jay in the bird bath (sigh). OB buried it before he went to work :(

[2Jedismom]

Yep, same thing here as far as the temperature.

I heard on the news that some inmates at a prison in NC got transfered because the AC broke and it got up to 85 degrees inside.

I keep my house at 83 degrees voluntarily!

[Overtaxed]

I’m kinda rethinking this whole mowing thing. It’s supposed to be only 95 on Thursday...

Maybe if I walk fast I’ll outrun the skeeters.

[2Jedismom]

Today is my friend’s son’s funeral. I was planning on attending, but it’s going to be 3 hours long and although he could handle it, it would be hard on Joshua. Besides, the ladies in my support group are meeting and we’re going to be part of “street-lining”...standing on the side of the street waving flags as the family goes by, you know.

I’m taking bottled water and a canopy tarp. S’posed to be 103 today.

[Corin Stormhands]

That will be a wonderful tribute 2J. And meaningful to the family. It’s more likely they’ll see the group of you on the side of the road than they would at a service.

[LSAggie]

Good idea on re-thinking mowing tonight. The grass isn’t going to grow much in this heat. And with the high humidity, one doesn’t “walk” as much as “wade” through the atmosphere....

[2Jedismom]

I think you’re right. We’re planning the details in the egroup as I type.

I’ve got bottles of water freezing and put those mist bottles with the fans on them (that the boys used to use as AC in the van before Steve fixed it) in the fridge to get cold.

[Overtaxed]

I’ve got a nice crop of crab grass around the beds I’ve been watering. But then Miss Cat likes chewing crabgrass.

[LSAggie]

So does Miss Annie on those rare occasions I let her out.
Then she comes in and hacks it up.