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Sometimes you have a vague idea that just dogs you around for years and it never comes into exact focus. Kind of like "Close Encouters". Locks and keys are like that for us. We been collecting them from all over the world for decades. Now, like making mountains out of mashed potatoes, we are feeling compelled to make keys. Our muse leads us down some odd paths.
Key leveling block is used to block #1 and #88 keys to proper height. Then a straight edge is used to level the others.
Key West, a U.S. island city, is part of the Florida Keys archipelago. It's also Florida's southernmost point, lying roughly 90 miles north of Cuba. Famed for its pastel-hued, conch-style houses, it’s a cruise-ship stop also accessible from the mainland via the Overseas Highway. It’s known more for its coral reefs – destinations for diving and snorkeling – than for its beaches.
This is a guy that we hung out with at the wedding. He's an actor (he was in American Wedding) and is good friends with my buddy Gabe.
The number was : 71 ...
Kevan, Linda, & I spent the weekend roaming the Keys.
On Saturday when the weather and light weren't in our favor, we decided to count
how many Florida Key Deer we were seeing... We saw a total of 71 Key Deer.
This is a sampling of some of the deer that we saw scattered across a couple of Keys.
Our Florida Key Deer is a protected and an endangered species of deer, and it resides in a small area of a couple of the islands/keys within the Florida Keys. They are a small species with the adult males being less than 3-feet tall.
We saw / found them along the roads, in the mangroves, lounging in people's yards, and in small wooded areas... basically anywhere they wanted to be.
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.( SShhhh... Kevan didn't want me to tell you that we actually drove around the block 395 times to count the same 3 deer... and still only managed to come up with a count of 71 ! lol )
Key Kreepers are very adventurous.
They love traveling so much, they're more than happy to help keep up with your keys and bags for you.
Key Kreepers are approximately 2 and a half inches tall (not counting the ribbon/keyring).
Their faces are hand painted with artist quality acrylic paints and sealed with a matte varnish.
Key West, a U.S. island city, is part of the Florida Keys archipelago. It's also Florida's southernmost point, lying roughly 90 miles north of Cuba. Famed for its pastel-hued, conch-style houses, it’s a cruise-ship stop also accessible from the mainland via the Overseas Highway. It’s known more for its coral reefs – destinations for diving and snorkeling – than for its beaches.
Key Making Vending Machine FastKey by Griffin in Walmart Foyer Picture by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube. Automatic Key Maker
My student had a milestone day today - first walk home alone! To celebrate, her mother got her a house key with Betty Boop on it, and a pink 'I Heart Jesus' lanyard. It is an odd combination. Odder still when I remembered the family are moderately Buddhist.
I love it when my kids leap feet first into Western culture. They're bound not to 'get' all of it, but that's part of the fun!
Alicia keys in a concert in manila, Philippines. I was only able to take a few photos, cuz i tried hiding the camera before security chased me. enjoy.
Held by the Govenor Lieutenant-General Sir James Dutton at Casemates Square Gibraltar on the Queen's Birthday bash 11 June 2015
I stopped at the Container Store today after another errand. It was my first time and I was apprehensive. I wandered the aisles for awhile, looking for useful things and trying to think about our storage needs. I was afraid it was going to be ridiculously expensive, but all together everything was only forty bucks.
Last week Andy got two brand new, identical monitors for his desk, and he gave me his widescreen. So now I use that as my main monitor, and my old, regular-sized one as the second. To fit the two monitors, I had to get rid of an IKEA dokument. I spent some time going through all the paper that had collected in two of the trays, using expandable folders leftover from my teaching days. I used one of them to collecting the growing pile of paperwork associated with all of the business stuff. That folder is now on the top right shelf for easy access/drop-in. The top level of the tray collected an assortment of trinkets and things, and some of them I put away and some of it I still don't have a home for. Nor do I have a home for the letter tray itself. It can go in my giveaway pile.
Today I bought a few clear plastic shoeboxes for storage in our bathroom/hall closet, because it is a mess, and the smaller bins I have in there are overflowing. I put one together tonight--all our medicine/pharmacy-type things--but there is SO much more work to do in there. Mostly getting rid of old makeup-type crap.
I also wanted some storage options for my desk, and I ended up with two medium stacking bins plus a slim paper file. Previously I had upright things just leaning, and an assortment of crap holding the vertical stuff up. Which meant things were in a jumble and constantly falling over. So going vertical with the smaller stuff storage was important. However, pretty much all of the storage pieces were large and flat, or large and tall and wide--and I need smallish and vertical. So the bottom one holds random stuff like pens, earphones, etc, while the top holds the stapler, tape dispenser, notepads, and the tiny bowl which has work keys and binder clips. The top left shelf used to have a precariously balanced full pencil bin, and now it's two pen cups, kleenex, and envelopes.
Overall it looks and feels SO much clearer and cleaner! I love that feeling. Except that then I look around at all the other places that need this kind of attention and I feel depressed, because it's everywhere. Oh well, baby steps. This is really good progress for me, and it'll be good motivation to keep going, in small bits.
Oh, and if you need some inspiration, flip through Unfuck Your Habitat. Seeing that occasionally has gotten the declutter/cleanup bug seeped into my head here and there.
Key leveling block is used to block #1 and #88 keys to proper height. Then a straight edge is used to level the others.
Key West, a U.S. island city, is part of the Florida Keys archipelago. It's also Florida's southernmost point, lying roughly 90 miles north of Cuba. Famed for its pastel-hued, conch-style houses, it’s a cruise-ship stop also accessible from the mainland via the Overseas Highway. It’s known more for its coral reefs – destinations for diving and snorkeling – than for its beaches.
This automation has been installed by our representative company in Pardubice. In this site you can see a sliding gear motor 230Vac, 900SC-51CS, with gradual departure and slowdown in closure. A control board CT-101 has been used. As accessories you can notice 900LASA-230, flashing light with antenna and photocells FT-30.
St Peter, Smallburgh, Norfolk
Here we are on the edge of the Broads to the south of North Walsham, and St Peter is perhaps one of the area's lesser-known churches, though full of interest nonetheless. Like many East Anglian towers, the one here was in a state of disrepair by the late 17th Century. Flint is a fairly high maintenance material, and lavishing money upon the buildings had been frowned upon for many years. And so, it collapsed, taking the western half of the nave with it, to be patched up with the mean-looking tower that Bloomfield saw in the early 19th century.
It was not until 1902 that Walter Tapper came along and revamped the west end. Pevsner thought it ugly, but surely this is unfair. It is certainly austere, and perhaps more typical of churches in urban settings. But if not wholly in keeping it is seemly, and imparts a certain amount of gravitas not typical of the period. And the crossed keys below the bells leave us in no doubt as to who the patron saint is here.
More curious in any case are the windows to south and north of the nave. No aisles here, no clerestory. The walls were heightened, presumably in one campaign, but the windows are a mixture of Perpendicular and Decorated. There is a symmetry to them, the earlier style in the middle flanked by two of the later on both sides of the church. I wondered if the Decorated windows were actually a Victorian conceit, although they appear to be genuine, unlike the tracery of the great east window, which is beautiful, but entirely Victorian.
Entering the church, there is a spartan austerity which the west front has prepared us for. This contrasts greatly with the splendidly vivid beams of the nave roof, also Tapper's, but which were painted in the 1920s under the direction of the rector's wife. In the style of a traditional Norfolk hammerbeam roof, even down to the hammer emds sticking out into the air, aching to have angels set on them. Were they ever intended? The beams are painted with floral designs and with texts rather than images - the Te Deum Laudamus to south and north, and Psalm 150 forming a canopy of honour at the east end.perhaps this showed that the Rector's wife had an understanding of medieval liturgical dynamics, because the angel roofs of medieval churches were not mere decoration, but a hymn of praise reflecting the devotional activities in the space below.
Despite all this early 20th Century rebuilding and redecoration, there are some interesting medieval survivals here. The rood screen dado is painted with eight saints, in poor condition now but enough survives to make identification of some of them possible. On the north side are St Anthony with his little pig, a King (possibly Henry VI), St Benedict and what must have been a fine St George. On the south side, in rather better condition, are St Giles with a leaping hart, St Lawrence with his grid iron and two figures that are almost entirely lost, except that they appear to be the ghosts of bishops.
Intriguingly, there are three more panels reset on the east wall. The panels themselves are of different sizes, but they may have come from either the rood loft or from the doors in the screen. One of the figures holds a key and might be thought to be St Peter, but the figure is dressed in royal robes and wears a crown and so I think is likely to be St Genevieve. The other two are Bishops, and it has been conjectured that these two, along with the two faded figures on the screen, might make up the four Latin Doctors: Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose and Gregory, a popular foursome on late medieval Norfolk screens. However, it must be said that one of the figures appears to have the word 'Martinus' lettered at the bottom and so is most likely St Martin.
A number of memorials tell the story of significant families and changing fashions over the years from the middle of the 18th Century to the middle of the 19th. The That to Richard Oram, dying in 1762, is still Baroque in style, under a wreath with crossed trumps, flanked by scrolls and fronds and supported by a cherub. The inscription tells us that he was content to have been obscurely good, which contrasts somewhat with his memorial. The most elegant memorial is to the two year old Jane Daubeny, a rector's daughter dying in 1815, and wholly classical in style under a simple draped urn. Thy sweet resemblance of a flower just blown, to what blest region is thy spirit flown! it wonders.
Perhaps most interesting of all, although by no means the most attractive, is the 1855 memorial to John Postle of Smallburgh House, who was Chairman at the Board of Guardians of the Hundreds of Tunstead and Happing for eighteen years, that is to say responsible for overseeing the workhouse and parish poor relief. We are told that he had sound judgement, unvarying politeness to his coadjutors and kind consideration for the poor, and that at his funeral his fellow guardians followed his remains in sorrow to the tomb. His memorial is of that heavy Gothic design being popularised at the time by the ecclesiological movement, a sharp contrast to that of little Jane Daubeny of forty years earlier.
A delightful little memorial of 1931 is hand-lettered on vellum and framed in the south side of the nave. It remembers William Ugge, rector of the church during the turmoil of the 1540s and 1550s. His will desired that he should be buried without the porch door in the edge of the alley so that my gravestone may be a settle for the people to sett on. As the inscription drily notes at the bottom, the tomb has long since collapsed and may not legally be replaced, but the youths of the village (mindful of the testator) still assemble on the levelled slab.
There is no coloured glass, and on a dull day the church can seem rather gloomy inside, a feeling exacerbated by the barn-like feel of the nave. And yet it has an atmosphere all of its own, quite unlike any other church in the area. St Peter is perhaps not an easy building for the casual visitor to love, but it is full of interest.