Thursday, January 23, 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Still Hard Ice!
Walking our driveway is still a challenge. They are calling for 31 tomorrow, so maybe we will melt a bit. A thaw is coming in Saturday. Maintain your verticality! Falls kill old people!
Annual Valentine Song Festival! Tea For Two, Marion Harris, 1925; Comedian Harmonists, 1934
Electrical recording and microphones were introduced in 1925, so Marion Harris is of the old school, where you had to project your voice to the back row, and sing loudly into a megaphone to be recorded via a mica diaphragm vibrating a needle into a wax disc. Big changes were ahead for performers. The dividing line was a century ago. It is hard to believe, because I still play my acoustic discs on the phonographs.
The Comedian Harmonists recorded Tea For Two in 1934, and you can tell that artists were adapting to the new technology.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Monday, January 20, 2025
Tuesday Torque: Shoot Fire! It's A Lanz Bulldog Pulling The Sled!
Lanz Bulldogs are a single cylinder 2-stroke engine; a big, heavy chainsaw type engine. Boy can they pull! Thank You, Merle!
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Keep Those Home Fires Burning!
Black oak is our favorite for cold weather. Fast growing, easy to split, dries fast, burns with blue flames. Dig ashes, add wood, repeat.
Back To The Old Grind!
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Annual Valentine Song Festival! Music From Cinema Paradiso
Beautiful music, but oh, so sad. I have read the plot and looked at many segments, but the story line is nearly as sad as Old Yeller, and I try not to watch movies that break your heart. But The Music Is Good! Here is Cormac Thompson performing the love theme, and that is where we became acquainted with this widely acclaimed movie
Lyrics translated to English:
If one day you could see
Through my eyes the beauty
And happiness I see in you.
When I see your eyes
The life I dream of can come true
Or is it just a dream?
Are you near?
If one day you could see
With my heart the yearning.
Then you would know just how I feel
When I feel your heart
And when I drink you in my arms
And breathe you with my soul
We are one
Remember.
If one day you could see
With my soul the future.
Time would stand still, then
Disappear.
This is all I ask
Just like a film that fades from view.
My paradise was you
So I dream
Remember
Weekend Steam: How Fast Could A Locomotive Go?
Merle picked a great topic for this weekend, and I am sure that many today doubt that these speeds could be reached and maintained. It is pretty well documented, though. These high speed engines had to be built especially well, because a locomotive running wide open is basically working to destroy itself. That is a lot of metal moving on these monsters. Thank You, Merle!
60 to 80 miles per hour was much more common than 100 plus. It is dizzying standing close to tracks when and 80 mph train speeds by. Hang onto your kids when train watching up close.
Friday, January 17, 2025
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