Dec 31, 2017
One of the Errol Heights flock, sitting down in a front yard on a chilly, but sunny, Sunday afternoon.
—orc Sun Dec 31 17:30:22 2017
Dec 30, 2017
Buckeley pins me to the bed and snarls at me
—orc Sat Dec 30 22:45:52 2017
Dec 29, 2017
Wash, then drain, one Mite.
—orc Fri Dec 29 23:11:41 2017
Dec 24, 2017
A (briefly) White Weaponized Winter Holiday
—orc Sun Dec 24 23:12:17 2017
Dec 22, 2017
Bringing back the yule log (with attached foliage)
—orc Fri Dec 22 19:18:15 2017
Dec 19, 2017
The gravel®©™ frame is being built up with lugged dropouts, so I’m sticking them onto the chainstays & fork legs before I braze them into their corresponding components (this way I can cheat and use the dropouts as levers to help hold the stays/legs in the correct position when I clamp them into their jig of the evening. And while I was at it I decided this would be a good time to glue the steertube into the fork crown (so I can drill out the brake bolt hole & vents/wiring holes before sticking the legs in and having to work around them in the drill press), so that means all three of the subsystems are now sitting in the bathtube to soak off the remaining flux.
—orc Tue Dec 19 17:20:46 2017
Dec 18, 2017
Fruitcake ingredients: candied citron, one of the mandarines, and possibly most of this mango. And then to chop it into small chunks and go breveting (because my children won’t eat it and I will.)
—orc Mon Dec 18 23:39:23 2017
Dec 15, 2017
Checking out some frame bits before I drag them out to the garage and pour hot glue (brass) into the joints.
—orc Fri Dec 15 23:48:30 2017
Dec 14, 2017
We ran out of heating oil approximately 30 minutes after I called in an order for more, so I had to get some oil myself to fill in the 5-day delay (the joy of mergers; as the oil delivery business in Portland collapses down to two vendors it’s no longer quite so important to them to deliver the oil in finite time) before the delivery arrives.
If I could find a 10 gallon tank (that I could build into a tank car) I’d be tempted to start picking up all the heating oil by myself – buying it at the gas station is, even with road taxes, cheaper than having it delivered.
—orc Thu Dec 14 22:36:40 2017
Dec 12, 2017
The reddish magenta on the front end of this frame is very sensitive to the light it’s photographed in. Under sunlight, it’s almost pink but here, under LED light, it’s a much deeper and purer red.
—orc Tue Dec 12 21:53:56 2017
Dec 09, 2017
The becoming traditional photo of one of Portland’s steam locomotives & one of my bicycles (the bicycle is out of focus because I was using one of my Pentax 110 lenses; f2.4 does not work well when one of the subjects of the photo is 20 meters closer than the other :-)
—orc Sat Dec 9 16:40:31 2017
Dec 08, 2017
Getting ready to do some finishing work.
—orc Fri Dec 8 23:37:01 2017
Dec 03, 2017
A late night trip to the Big Big Store to stock up on pasta & pasta sauce (50% sale on already inexpensive stuff) – about 65 pounds of groceries, I think, and it would have been more except that I cleaned out their stock of linguine.
—orc Sun Dec 3 20:31:38 2017
Before going out to get bagels this afternoon.
—orc Sun Dec 3 16:48:59 2017
Dec 02, 2017
Buckeley, dozing in a cave of baby blankets and fuzzy coats.
—orc Sat Dec 2 13:43:54 2017
Dec 01, 2017
Inspecting the clearances of a fork designed for 650x52b tires.
—orc Fri Dec 1 23:19:45 2017
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