I was somewhat older than I am in this photo of my parents and me when my dad taught me something kind of amazing. It popped into my brain while I was trying to take a nap this afternoon. Go get a long piece of string or yarn. Wrap it around your thumb. Now double […]
Bikecamping to Robertsville State Park
I got away for my first overnight bike trip of the year. I biked from my home in Saint Charles south to Robertsville State Park, camped, and came back the next day. I rode 91 miles and climbed 5935 feet in total. David joined me at the Pacific Brew Haus for dinner and rode the […]
154 Miles Biking the Katy Trail
What do you do when you want to travel, want to avoid COVID-19, and have a bicycle? How about trying a four-day bike tour? Never mind that I had never done a bike tour. Never mind that I am 63 years old. Never mind that I had not camped much in decades. Never mind that […]
500 Miles on My Trek Verve+ 2
Lord I’m one, Lord I’m two, Lord I’m three, Lord I’m four,Lord I’m 500 miles from my home.500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 milesLord I’m five hundred miles from my home. Traditional On Sunday morning, I passed 500 miles on my new Trek Verve+ 2 bike. I guess that means it is no longer […]
Trek Verve+ 2 Electric Bicycle
I took the plunge and bought an electric bicycle a/k/a e-bike and holy cow am I delighted. I had forgotten how much I enjoy being outside on a bike. Having an electric motor to help me up the hills vanquishes all of the pain so all I have now is the fun and the aerobic […]
The Easy Way to Open a Brazil Nut
Opening a Brazil nut is easy. Here is Scarlet to show you how. https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/Scarlet-Macaw/i-Qhsnq5q/0/89718a80/640/PXL_20201022_162433229~3-640.mp4
Coffee Spice
Once upon a time, Rabbi James Stone Goodman introduced me to Turkish coffee in which he infused some cardamom. In today’s vernacular, OMG was that good! A few months later, I was listening to the Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack and wondered what coffee was like in eastern Europe and Russia back in the day. […]
I’m Blocked in Russia
I don’t know what I wrote to achieve this status but I’m proud of it. My blog is blocked in Russia. 🙂 Thanks to Mike Elgan for making me aware of this site.
Our Shared World in Six Words
It has been more than five years since I last published a six word story. The format appeals to the impatient child within me, the little guy who rolls his eyes and wishes the writer would get to the point already!
Kids and Parrots: More Fun than a Barrel of Monkeys
Here is Robin Hood, playing “catch” with our grandsons, Caedmon and Silas.
Shabbat Service with Nefesh Mountain
Who would have thought that you could blend bluegrass music and a Jewish soul to create an incredible Friday night sabbath service? Nefesh Mountain can, and did, at United Hebrew Congregation. Check out the video below.
Types of Screws
Image credit: XKCD
First Attempts at Metal Art
Having acquired a welder for working on my airplane, I got kind of distracted making some silly little projects. 🙂 Click on the pictures or, if you don’t see the slideshow below, jump to my Metal Art Projects photo gallery, where you can see larger versions of the photos.
I Made a Welding Table!
It’s done 🙂 I welded together a welding table using my flux welder. Here is the previous post, Welding a Welding Table, where you can see some of the in-process photos.
Welding a Welding Table
When I started cutting up steel for the back seat frame of my Bede BD-4C airplane, the chop saw threw off so many sparks that I singed the top of my wooden workbench. Being a bright boy, I thought that moving the saw to a metal table would be just a wee bit safer. 🙂 I went […]
Installing Lift Reserve
As you know, if you are a citizen of the universe, I am building a Bede BD-4C airplane and I have been writing about the process here on my blog for the last couple of years. Today I am going to write about something that few aviators, and even fewer homebuilders, write about. I am […]
True Love
Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes I know it’s true love. Who else but my beloved bride would let me keep the tail of my airplane in the kitchen???
Lucky
Few wives are as lucky as Candy. Not only does she have a freshly spray painted rudder push-pull tube drying in her dining room, but it is hanging from her chandelier! I’ll bet that none of her girlfriends have anything anywhere near this cool. Then again, maybe I’m lucky that she lets me build […]
$76 Media Center
Several years ago, we got a Sony PlayStation 3 as a home theater PC and it has been a fantastic way to watch Blu-ray discs, Netflix, etc. It has not been a good way to listen to music for two reasons. First, listening to music requires me to turn on the home theater projector, since we […]
Don’t Build Airplanes While Sleeping
I know that this keeps you awake at night, wondering whether or not you will be able to avoid building an airplane while asleep. Let me encourage you to persevere in your efforts. At all costs, strive to be awake when building your airplanes. Monday night, I built a set of ribs for the rudder […]
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