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My latest acquisition, which will have to wait until the "Eden9" project is complete, is a 1979-vintage Trio (Kenwood) TS-180S.
It's in fine mechanical condition, but doesn't work!
The display just shows a row of dots, indicating that the PLL circuitry is u/s.
A quick check revealed some supply voltages to be not what they are supposed to be, but whether that is cause, effect or just a "red herring" has yet to be determined.
Update - July '11
Repairs have been progressing for the last few week - please see my blog for the gory details!
Aquatic Biology students taking fish samples from the Kickapoo Creek in Charleston, Illinois on May 14, 2012. (Jay Grabiec)
Found this chair in the bin, and I just could´t leave it.. (not sure what they are called in english).. In Norway we call it a "tripp trapp stol" Anyway, I love the design, so I thought to make it look nice again.. now it´s rusty, full of old paint, concrete and crappy wood..
Provenance:
I purchased this painting on Ebay in March 2022, in which the seller purchased from the estate of Joella Pickering Smith September 3-6, 2020 in Victoria, TX.
Here is the obituary for Joella Pickering Smith, which may explain how her grandmother, Shelly Jordan, may have acquired the painting in the 1920s:
"Born on January 27, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas and expired there on December 10, 2018. She was the daughter of Dr. John M. Smith, Jr. and Jane Jordan Smith, both of whom predeceased her. She is survived by her three brothers, Dr. J. Marvin Smith, III (wife Jill), Dr. Paxton Jordan Smith (wife Day) and Robert Burleson Smith (wife Janette). Additional survivors include six nieces, three nephews and nine great nieces and a great nephew. Joella was a graduate of Alamo Heights High School and attended Marjorie Webster College in Washington, DC and the University of Texas at Austin. In earlier years, she was an avid horseback rider and was a lifetime member of the San Antonio Livestock Exposition (San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo). She was proud of her heritage and was a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and Daughters of the American Revolution (DRT and DAR, respectively) following in the footsteps of her grandmother Shelly Jordan of Victoria who was a founding member of the Guadalupe Victoria Chapter of DAR. This sense of heritage was manifested by her participation in numerous educational events commemorating reenactment of the Texas frontier in the early 1800's. Joella served for a number of years in the Altar Guild at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio. Her life was celebrated by a family memorial service at St. Mark's Church where an inurnment will be held later. A resident of Victoria during the recent past, she attended Trinity Episcopal Church. Family would suggest donations in memory of Joella be forwarded to Trinity Church in Victoria, St. Mark's Church in San Antonio, or the Alzheimer's Association.
Both Ben and Florence Shelley Jordan were actively involved in numerous projects for Victoria's civic, historical, and cultural development. Ben T. Jordan was mayor of Victoria from 1933-1947. The list of Florence Jordan's memberships in local, state, and national organizations is impressive. Locally, she co-founded the Morning Study Club, was an active member of the Bronte Club, and founded The University Forum, which first met in 1941. She was a member of The La Salle Chapter of the Daughters of the American Colonists, the James W. Fannin Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the William P. Rogers Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Indianola Association, and founded, in 1934, the Guadalupe Victoria Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She served as chairman of the Victoria County Historical Survey Committee and was named a lifetime honorary president of the McNamara-O'Connor Historical and Fine Arts Museum Association and received numerous awards for distinguished service.
Florence Shelley Chilton Jordan Papers, Victoria Regional History Center, Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library"
Here is the information from the Ebay seller's page (John52276 of Sinton, Texas) when purchased in March 2022:
"Here is an oil painting by renowned Texas artist Dollie Nabinger, (1905-1988). It is a springtime woodland landscape showing beautiful trees and flowering bushes with a wooden picket fence in the background. It is oil on canvas board and the board itself measures 10 1/2" x 14". To the outside of the frame, it measures 13 1/2" x 17". The painting is in excellent condition. There is some craquelure especially in the sky areas. The frame looks to be from the period and it too is in good condition except for a small amount of old termite damage to one corner (only visible from the back). I think this is an early painting for her because she signed it "Dollie Spidle". She changed her name to Nabinger in the 1920's. She was raised in Victoria Texas, (which is where this painting was purchased from a collector's estate). She also attended the Art Student's League in New York and later studied in San Antonio under Jose Arpa and Harry Anthony De Young. She was one of Texas' favorite landscape artists.
I have recently come to realize that this painting has been lined (or perhaps the term is re-lined). At some point there was some restoration performed on it. The original painting was oil on canvas; and that canvas was on a regular stretcher. Somewhere along the line, someone has removed the canvas from that stretcher and applied it to this canvas board, which itself looks old and hand-made. I suspect the termite damage may have involved the stretcher as well as the frame, and this necessitated the restoration."
About: Dollie Elizabeth Spidle Nabinger (1905-1988)
Landscape artist Dollie Elizabeth Spidle Nabinger was born in Commerce, Texas in 1905 and reared in Victoria, Texas, when her family moved there in 1917. Even as a young girl, Dollie wanted to be an artist. Dollie credited her success as a female artist to her parents’ loving support from the very start. They enrolled her in a Catholic school due to public schools not teaching art at the time. Her father even stretched her first canvases.
When Dollie was 13, her talent was already evident. Dollie began taking lessons in Victoria from James Ferdinand McCan. McCan, was a well-known and popular Texas artist who immigrated to America from Ireland in 1887, and later arrived in Texas in 1895. McCan accepted Dollie as his apprentice and she remained his mentee and studied with him for seven years until his death in 1925. Dollie studied two years at the Art Students' League in New York and later began instructing lessons in San Antonio and spending a lot of time painting the Texas Hill Country, basing out of Kerrville, Texas. Dollie also studied with other well-known Texas artists such as Jose Arpa and Harry Anthony DeYoung.
Dollie was married to Jack E. Nabinger, on December 18th, 1924. Jack worked for the Southern Pacific Lines and he handmade and carved many of her frames. Two years later, the couple had their first of two daughters, Jean Elizabeth, was born November 14, 1926 (She married WWII veteran Jesse James King, Jr of Nacogdoches, TX on June 1, 1968).
The Victoria Advocate ran an article on January 28th, 1928 stating that the couple was moving to Skidmore, Texas the next week and the Bronte Club and Art Club of Victoria was giving a farewell reception. Then the newspaper ran another article on December 7th, 1928 that, “Mrs. Dollie Spidle Nabinger, understudy of the late J. Ferdinand McCan, distinguished, Victoria artist, and who is herself attaining fame as a painter” was exhibiting a collection of oil and pastel paintings for the Victoria Art League at the Chamber of Commerce Hall. The article referenced her as a “Victoria girl” at the age of 25. According to the Victoria Advocate, Dollie had another exhibition of her work in Cuero in early December 1929. The paper stated that “her work has been highly commended by art critics of national reputation” and that “her paintings are always in great demand because of their striking similarity to those of Mr. [James Ferdinand} McCan. Dollie and Jack had another daughter, Virginia E., on November 6, 1930 (She married Belton b. Muller).
When famed artist Robert William Wood moved to California in 1940 from Texas, George Allen of Allen Art Galleries in downtown Houston on the 4th floor of Stowers Furniture store was avidly seeking a landscape painter (after Wood left his gallery). Allen reviewed many artists before he selected Dollie Nabinger as Wood’s replacement. She exhibited at Allen Art Galleries with renowned artists, A.D. Greer, George Phippen, Frederic Remington, V.A. Richardson and Chauncey Ryder.
The Nabingers moved to East Texas and resided in Nacogdoches during the 1950S and had a summer cottage on Lone Star Lake near Daingerfield, where Dollie often painted piney woods landscapes. In 1955, she spent a summer at the Academie Julian in Paris, France.
The Nabingers retired and moved to Fredericksburg, Texas around 1962 where Dollie could continue to paint the Texas Hill Country and Jack could follow his hobbies of photography and woodcarving. Jack died in 1972. Dollie later moved to Carrollton and died in 1988. They are both interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Today she is best known for her Texas Hill Country, especially those with the state's signature bluebonnets, East Texas piney woods, and beach landscapes, but also some paintings from Colorado and other locales are known.
Dollie is listed in "Fredericksburg Texas, 150 Years of Paintings and Drawings" by Jack Maguire; "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West", 1998, University of Texas Press, Austin; "Artists of Texas, 1800-1945, Texas A&M Press, 1999; "Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists, a biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas before 1942, Woodmont Books, 2000.
This is going to be an ongoing project a bike restoration... Should be good looking when its finished...
The Pavilion is surrounded once again by scaffolding. Looks like some serious repairs are going on. A little disappointing for all the tourists visiting Brighton this summer though.
Ecological Restoration - ALL LANDS WATERSHED & FOREST HEALTH CATEGORY AWARD - goes to...California Climate Change Investments Grant Support Team, Jason Ko, Joe Sherlock, Ramiro Rojas & Jerry Bird, Pacific Southwest Regional Office
In areas where customers experienced outages due to flooding of our facilities, we will work to expedite restoration of power when the water recedes. We will be following the flood waters as they recede so we can assess actions for restoration of service to customer homes that sustained flooding. For updates, go to entergystormcenter.com
During Bobby Kennedy's 1966 visit to the troubled Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, residents challenged the senator to do something more substantial for them than simply show his face and make a couple of speeches. In response, he joined with Jacob Javitz, New York's senior senator at the time, in amending the Economic Opportunity Act to lay the legislative groundwork for community development corporations.
Kennedy returned to Bed-Stuy later in the year to announce the creation of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, a community organization focused on housing, education, economic development, and the arts. Restoration took over an abandoned milk-bottling factory as its headquarters, and has since converted the entire block into a plaza surrounded by cultural centers, classrooms, and businesses.
While that all sounds very nice, I must admit that I was rather dismayed to find, prominently featured here in the plaza — and adorned with the oversized heads of the politicians and local leaders who made this place possible, no less — the bland antithesis of spirited community development: my arch-nemesis, Applebee's!
In areas where customers experienced outages due to flooding of our facilities, we will work to expedite restoration of power when the water recedes. We will be following the flood waters as they recede so we can assess actions for restoration of service to customer homes that sustained flooding. For updates, go to entergystormcenter.com
Image from SDASM's Restoration Department
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My lovely old 1952 Jowett Javelin de-luxe saloon, captured here in 1980 awaiting restoration. Unfortunately the pleasure of caring for this lovely old car was short lived as I had to let her go to a new owner when I moved house and had nowhere to keep her. (sigh)
Camera: Olympus Pen F Half Frame SLR.
An example of a riparian area that was clearcut in the early 1960s. After 50-years the stream channel is partially buried, laden with sediment, and it does not support any fish. Second-growth forest surrounds the creek.
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May 03, 2011 - Albany: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a revised and expedited timetable for completing the New York State Capitol restoration project following a review by the new management team at the Office of General Services.
In January, Governor Cuomo began a review of the scope of the project to find efficiencies that would allow the work to be completed ahead of schedule and under budget. The construction project has been proceeding for an extended period at significant cost and has posed operational delays and aesthetic issues for the historic Capitol, which is traditionally a sightseeing and tourist destination.
While on our trip to Lexington, Kentucky, we stumbled upon a distillery that was off the beaten path, Castle and Key Distillery. This historic distillery is located in the community of Millville, south of Frankfurt on Glenns Creek. While there, we bought a bottle of their single barrel straight rye whiskey.
The following is the description printed on the bottle's labels:
Front side:
Castle & Key
Single Barrel
Hand Crafted Slowly
Restoration Rye
Made In Kentucky
Castle & Key
119.2 Proof
60% Alc./ Vol.
Cont Net 750 ML
Straight Rye Whiskey
Released In 2022
Backside:
Through The Courage Of Our Convictions...
The site of our distillery is rich with Kentucky history. Here on the medieval-style grounds dating back to 1887, whiskey was once made under the watchful eye of Colonel E.H. Taylor. Decades later, after his passing, the distillery itself fell into disrepair and sat abandoned for half a century. And that, we thought, would not do. When we started Castle & Key, our dream was to build on Colonel Taylor's fine foundation. Our single barrel rye is perhaps the purest fruit of that ambition each bottle derived from one barrel, never blended, the full breadth of a whiskey's journey from grain to glass enclosed in a singular product. Where Colonel Taylor around today, this is the dream we'd pour for him to let him know his Castle is in good hands.
Single Barrel Straight Rye Whiskey
Barrel No. 1550
Bottle No. 110
Years Aged 3
Cooper Speyside
Mashbill: Rye 63%, Corn 17%, Malted Barley 20%
Distilled & Bottled by Castle & Key Distillery 4445 McCracken Pike Frankfort, KY, USA 40601
Castleandkey.com
852657007334
Government Warning: (1) According to the surgeon general, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects. (2) Consumption of alcoholic beverages impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery, and may cause health problems.
6:23 PM CDT, June 16, 2022
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama.
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The eastern side of Winchcombe station has an extensive layout of sidings and a former goods yard, which now house engines and much rolling stock, both preserved and awaiting restoration. This sneaky peek shows three roads full of old coaches awaiting their fate, with the distant engine shed. This scene is at the 11.74 mile mark. Public access is not possible to this yard on the grounds of (groan) Health and Safety, but being an Explorer by nature I can't be bothered with all that Nanny State crap!
My original Matchbox car as found. It was loved as a child and it shows.
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