60+ year old thread.

Afternoon all! Well, the wife changed her mind about cleaning up the frozen stuff, and that's OK, because I put 7 bags out for trash, and they won't always take it all. There are more Saturdays in the week before Saturday.
So, I putz around with the pump and plumbing repair. Drilled some holes, ran new wire, basically got it ready for the pumps. Speaking of which, I got the new ones, but I still have the originals. They were spewing water everywhere after the freeze, which means they "worked", but would they "pump"? It looks like the top had popped off. Got one in the vice, and discovered - threads!!


Got it carefully unscrewed, and it looked like it might still be good.


I have lots of teflon tape to seal them up.


And connected it to my bench power, and primed it up, and


So, the originals will go back in and I have spares. One will be in the shed, with a little heater run off the solar batteries, the other inside the greenhouse, where it won't freeze.

 

Welp I turned in my STAR stamp and my D stamp today. Cleaned my desk out. Getting so so close.

 

This had me all day Harry, took forever to find it, but for a different reason - somehow appropriate to the day. I hear them all the time, then I have to spot them, can you see them?



Here's my crop



I live about 20 miles from the airport where most of these are based. They frequently have friends over to fly and play over Lockhart. I stand in the back yard and wave like a damn fool every time, and get rewarded with personal flyovers and formations.
Here's a FB link: Pearl Harbor day is on every calendar in the house - I checked with all the conversations here on the thread. My son knows all about December 7. Dad was in the Army in Europe, towards the end, and came up through Italy to Berlin. He refused to say he was part of the invasion, and the only story he would ever tell was about the Italian Fire Chief that his unit "captured". And running around Berlin looking for stolen art. I tried to look up to see if Pearl Harbor was taught in Texas schools - trying to explain that would get me banned for politics! But currently, yes it is. In some fashion.

Seems, though, every generation will have a "day we will never forget". One doesn't take away from the other.

 

I found these videos called "The Salvage of Pearl Harbor" to be real "perspective builders":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB-V9cCSC8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlLCe1WNaIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eibt2gYuFD4

We who were not there cannot imagine what those sailors went through that day - and every day for the next four years.

(Greenbird56: your Mr. Barnes may well be in these films somewhere!)

I once had a friend who I met through ham radio who was about 40 years older than me. On the morning of December 7, 1941, he was seated in front of a microphone at a radio station on the Big Island of Hawaii when he was notified that the Japanese were attacking Pearl Harbor. He had to "interrupt their regularly scheduled programming" to announce the attack to the radio listeners. He was in his early 20's and he immediately tried to enlist - but they rejected him because (ironically!) of his radio engineering background and the fact that he was essential to the operation of that radio station. Besides being a part-time DJ he was also the station's chief engineer! Since war had been declared, civilian radio stations were - for a time at least - considered "vital infrastructure" for their role in keeping the public informed in case of another attack or what have you.

He told me his story one night on the air and all I could think was "holy Ned..." Eventually he was able to enlist and some time after the war wound up on Palmyra Island - he might have been doing some kind of support work for the early atomic tests in the Pacific - the details are fuzzy in my memory and he passed on many years ago so sadly I cannot ask him for clarification any more! But while he was on Palmyra, he had his ham radio with him, and he was the ONLY ham active on Palmyra at the time, and every time he got on the air he generated a "pileup" - about a hundred hams from all over the world trying to talk to him all at once! (Hams like to collect "QSL cards" - postcards that verify a contact with another ham radio station - and the more rare and remote the location the better!)

He finished his career at radio station WWV in Fort Collins, CO, the station that broadcasts the time signals from the official atomic clock 45 miles away in Boulder. I met him on the air one night in the late 1990's and became good friends with him. We hams refer to a fellow ham who has passed on as a "Silent Key". Rest easy Bill Dirks, W0LZR...

 

Good morning, everyone!! Lynn always said that whatever rank I held in the Army, she was one rank higher at home. I don't have to salute her...but I do call her ma'am.

Enjoy the day!!!

 

No doubt about who's the boss.around her. But i usually get my way. I've seen the bosses job , and I don't want it.

 

This is my coffee cup. Lynn let's me use it.

 

Morning all:
We had a postmaster here in town who was at Hickam Field when they attacked Pearl Harbor, he was wounded there and ended up losing about 3/4 of his one arm.

 

MINE

 

Being "grumpy" has its advantages I think - much less stressful than biting your tongue all the time. My wif says I'm getting steadily more intolerant because of the "grumpy-ness"!!! Personally, I feel that it has improved my quality of life.....

This morning they have reported the loss of Chuck Yeager, fighter pilot extraordinaire - Pop recognized him as we had breakfast one morning at a cafe in Lander, Wyoming. He and some other visitors were in town for the annual "one shot antelope hunt" - and he just looked like another hunter to me...... So, I had to be "informed" by my family WWII aircraft aficionado.

 

Actually, I yielded The Boss to Lynn. This is my new norm now that I'm retired.

 

I'm entitled to a small, plain, white one Mark!

And, yes, Mike, you do seem to be nailing it!

Good Morning everybody. Beautiful day here in the BBQ Capital! Think I'm going erranding and putzing!

 

You are lucky Mark, my wife won’t let me me use her Boss coffee mug.

 

Well, staring at this awhile forced me to go clean my monitor screen!
Had to get a couple coffee spots off it.
Thanks for the crop shot or I'd still be cleaning my glasses or something!
My place is very close to the airport where for a few weeks every year there is a large gathering of glider planes.
Well of course you can't hear them but the tow planes are very loud. Looks like a cool hobby!

 

Love it lol

 

Mark:

I like your socks.

Kurt:

Spatchcocking a chicken today on the Weber Kettle.

 

Leftover lasagna I made tonight. But it's one of my better batches. Got some more apple chips for the smoker, because the wife bought a turkey breast for me to smoke, because she didn't get enough Thanksgiving, and didn't want to wait! Be cleaning the smoker out for a Thursday cook!

 

Put the chicken on at 2:30

 

Tom,
Throw another tater on...
I'll be on the way over in a few minutes!