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I just finished restoring this 160 Year old Steamer Chest. I think it came out pretty good. I used all the existing metal, wood, hinges, lock, latches etc but Had to buy some more cut nails. The entire thing was put together with about a thousand nails that were purposely to long and were...

That is gorgeous like a Supermodel fish. :D

Actually it is 13 months. :) Sponge I went into Petco today which I just found right next to a supermarket my wife shops in. I didn't even know they had salt water fish. They had a few anemic looking damsels and a triggerfish. If I needed such fish I would have bought them but I really went...

Yesterday I looked at my tank, I have been so busy that I rarely look at the thing unless I hear the crabs banging on the glass to get my attention. One "arm" on one of my SPS bleached. I figured I would test the water. The Alk was like 4 and the calcium was so low I couldn't make an Alka...

Today we went to Nikola Tesla's birthday party. Right near my house. No Really! they still have his workshop/laboratory and the pad where he had his huge Tesla coil that was supposed to give everyone in the world free electricity. Of course thats why they stopped funding him. Free is not a...

The inside of the chest smelled like "Old people.":confused: I sprayed it a few times with bleach and water, now it smells like Lotus Blossoms in the wind, with bleach. That belt sander is very old. It died last week and I had to re-condition it and solder a wire on to the brushes. I would...

The canvas and handles should get here in a few days. I will son varnish all the oak slats. It won't take more than a couple of days to finish it.

The girls had a great time on the boat and didn't want to come home. My wife had an accident though getting off the boat at the restaurant. We docked at the gas dock but it wasn't a floating dock so my wife had to step up about 2' from the boat to the dock. Her leg didn't make it and good...

WE got turkeys here like that. :D

Cool, what are those birds, Grouse? We have these here. There is no size reference but this thing is about as big as a school bus. :eek:

We don't have bear, moose or duck billed platypusses here which I am happy about. Bear especially. :cool:

I just got back from bike riding and have to say, the roads here in farm/sea/ wine country are loaded with wildlife. About a mile or less away we have a horse rescue farm that takes horses that were either abused or are sick or near the end of their life and allows them to live out their days...

I do. It has a photograph on the inside of the lid of a Lady from that time period. Unfortunately I can't save it as it is deteriorating . I have a few pictures of ladies that were on the Titanic and I will use one of those to replace it.

I acquired this Steamer trunk from the 1890s (about the same year I was born) ans I am restoring it. I completely took it apart and it has over 400 nails in it. The nails are to long and in these trunks they hammered in the nails with a steel weight on the other side so the nails would get...

My wife is always nagging me to trim my eyebrows. When you get to a certain age, I guess gravity prevents your hair from growing on the top of your head. It can't quite make it there so it grows out of your nose, ears and your eyebrows. So I have this thing that I use to buzz my hair (it...

We had a great Fourth. And I hope everyone else did also. We had a big party in our driveway and invited all the neighbors. :D I did my "fireworks" that I make every year myself out of steel wool. :D

I was looking for Patriotic songs to play today at our Fourth of July party with the neighbors in front of my house and I came across this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msYPbjFC50w It is not really a Fourth of July song but I keep watching it and I can't stop crying. Mostly Veterans will...

David, thank you, I appreciate that. This thread started in 2011 but I have been around since 1911. :eek: Many of my stories are in the thread, If not, just make something up, preferably something that includes me and Christie Brinkley. :D Sponge. (I love that name) Watching a fish in a...

This morning about 5:15 I took my bike out for a ride. I like to go before the sun rises so I can see all the deer, rabbits, frogs, and Muskrat Sally's. We have loads of them. Then I came home and made a nice batch of blueberry corn muffins from fresh blueberries that grow up the block and...

Thanks, you should see my hair combing skills. :cool: