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Capt Kirk's Blog
April 22, 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:17 am Been working on my hobby when I have a chance. I love working with wood and decided to finally use the model ship plans of the HMS Victory that I have had since the 1970's. The hull is solid wood, and it is scratch built. No bought parts on it, yet! Here is a picture of it. This is about 8 months worth of work! The hull is solid pine and have planked the decks with thin oak strips. Since the pic was taked I have stained the decks with a light oak stain. The masts are hand made also and are a conbination of walnut and oak. She will be painted in the traditional colors. This blog entry has been viewed 85 times
19 April, 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:17 pm Spring is finally here to stay I think! Been busy the past two weeks. Cleaning up the yard and mowing the grass a couple of times. Done some work in the garden, I have onions up and the radishes are just starting to come up. I don't plant a lot of veggies, I have what I call a "salad garden". In about 2 weeks I will be planting some tomato's. Can't wait until I can start eating home grown ones. We are also getting ready to remodel our master bath room. The old tub and shower is coming out and being replaced with just a shower. It will be of cultured marble. A new toilet and vanity and medecine cabinet also. The sink in the vanity will be of cultured marble also to match the shower. Also a new shower door. The 1/2 bath will get a new toilet. Both will get new flooring and new vent fans. They were supposed to start on it a week from today, but had to set the date back to May 1st as the job they are on now had some depays. I do have everything here so it's just a matter of getting the people here. Will try to take some picks to post in here. This blog entry has been viewed 100 times
9 April 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 8:12 pm Beautiful day today. Mid 50's and bright sun and not a cloud in the sky! I mowed the grass for the first time this season. There were tufts of grass sticking up all over, but not consistent. I use a mulching set of blades on the tractor so it chopped up the winter trash, a few leaves and twigs etc. The yard looks really nice now since it's all nice and clean. This blog entry has been viewed 84 times
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7 April 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:18 pm Well some of the flowers are up, daffodils and hyacinths. I was looking at the hyacinths this afternoon and thought I saw them moving, but there was no wind. Stooped down to get a closer look and they were covered with honey bees. My lilly's are up about 3 inchs and it looks like there will be a lot of them again this year. But along with spring comes the stormy weather. We had storms move through this afternoon and had a tornado watch up for about 4 hours. But now that is mostly over with. This blog entry has been viewed 103 times
April 3, 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:15 pm Well Spring is well underway here and along with it is the up and down weather. At noon it was 57F and now it is only 47F. Lots of wind and I could barely stand up in it. Last night we had severe weather warnings out and the possinility of tornados. But none materialized and the storms actually calmed down before getting to us. Got about 1/10th of an inch of rain. This blog entry has been viewed 92 times
March 22, 2006 Spring?
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:17 pm It seems like spring is here one day and then it's gone for several days. All of the spring bulbs are up in the beds. The deer are beginning to roam and browse what they can find. This blog entry has been viewed 92 times
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Long time not here!
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:46 am With everything going on, it's been over a month since I was in here. I had surgery on Feb. 7th to get my pacemaker replaced with a combination pace maker/ defibrilator. The big difference is that the pacer only worked on the right side of the heart. The combo unit works on both sides of the heart in tandem. This causes the heart to pump more blood out than it was. The result is that I have more energy and don't get as tired as I used to so quickly. Today being the last day of winter I was able to work in the yard for 3 hrs. I picked up all of the dead sticks that had come down this winter. Then I hooked the yard roller onto the tractor and got most of the yard rolled. I still have about an hours worth yet to do. The yard looks a lot nicer with all the frost heaves pushed back down where they belong! This blog entry has been viewed 92 times
18 Feb. 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:02 pm It's been a while since I made an entry in here. There really hasn't been anything going on to write about. I did go into the hospital on 7 Feb. to have my old pacemaker removed and a new combo pacer/defibrilator put in. I am glad that I did. The old pacer only paced one side of the heart and kept it from beating too slow. The new one paces bith lower chambers and has improved the heart beat. I have more energy and feel a lot better. Now I just have to wait for spring weather to get here to enjoy the added energy. We had a cold front come through last night. There is no snow on the ground but the ground is frozen, hard as a rock. It is 13 deg. F outside now. I went out to fill the bird feeder and it about took my breath away! I came in and threw another log on the fire! This blog entry has been viewed 104 times
Mon. 23 Jan. 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:10 am Well here it is, another week gone by. We are still haveing unusually warm weather. We have had some rain but it has still been up in the high 40's and 50's F. Not bad when you consider that a normal Jan. temp. for us is about 30 F. Allof my spring bulbs are up which is about 2 months early. I thouroghly enjoy this warm weather, but in the back of my mind I still believe that we will pay for it in either Feb. or March. Today we had bright sun and 56 deg F. I had a small fire in the wood burner this morning but let it go out about 9 am. At 3 pm it was up to 77 deg. in the living room. The sun coming in through the front window was actually hot! A bit of a cool down tonight with a chance of snow flurries in the morning. This blog entry has been viewed 85 times
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Monday Jan. 23, 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 7:07 pm Went for a walk on some of my 3 acres of property today. It is warm, 45 deg. F and the sun was out. We have had a really warm winter since the first of the year, but it's been mostly cloudy and rainy. So I had to get out of the house for a while before I went bonkers. Took a couple of pics. This first one is of the stream that runs through the front of my property. This is another shot of it farther downstream. If you look close you can see some of the wild grasses starting to come up, if they ever died off. It is really early for this to happen. It's normally the end of March or early April before they start growing. I also noticed that the wild raspberries had buds on them too. Jan weather is usually a high of low 30's F and a low in the teens or twenties. And we have been in the 40's and 50's all month. I really enjoyed my walk. This blog entry has been viewed 107 times
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