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Hey partner the star is in progress I still have to do the large points. What do you think of the fabrics so far?
altering a dictionary with my photographs.I am thinking of making a dictionary for self talk.
bin dabei, ein Wörterbuch mit Fotos von mir umzuarbeiten. Soll ein Wörterbuch für Selbstgespräche werden.
Someone gifted me the vintage collage dolls. They're too heavy for collage and so I thought I'd make cards with them. Lovely images but not something I'd want to use again, due to their thickness.
Made a little progress on my Gloria living room repaint. I filled gaps with white glue, let it dry (took 2 applications = 2 days), spray painted it, and applied 2 coats of dark gray chalk paint to the upholstery area. Still more to do, but at least I got a little crafting in the past few days. Plan to lighten up the upholstery with a thin application of chalk paint (winter white? Light gray?) and shabby up the other part with something. Creme wax tinted white? Tinted gray? Brown wax? Don't know, yet.
We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less; we have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, yet less time; we have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems; we have more gadgets but less satisfaction; more medicine, yet less wellness; we take more vitamins but see fewer results. We drink too much; smoke too much; spend too recklessly; laugh too little; drive too fast, get too angry quickly; stay up too late; get up too tired; read too seldom; watch TV too much and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values; we fly in faster planes to arrive there quicker, to do less and return sooner; we sign more contracts only to realize fewer profits; we talk too much; love too seldom, and lie too often. We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life, not life to years.
Philip Yancey
The Human is working her way through the exams. I made progress. I got to nap on them today and negotiated my butt off them for half a pouch of catnip treats.
For the few folks that have asked about progress on the model railway, here's a little movie that frankly flatters to deceive regards how much has really been done over the last year.
Progress has indeed been slow but things are at least moving along. The initial first few weeks were absorbed by building a 2.5 x 1.0 metre table on which the layout sits. A couple of mirror-image baseboards were added with rounded corners - a reasonable radius at the back to allow for a backdrop to be wrapped around the corner, and a smaller one at the front to avoid nasty scratches on the torso - partly for myself, but also because grandkids would be mooching around occasionally.
All the track is now laid and wired, and the main running area has been ballasted and painted / toned. The base layer around the Shed area has been painted and at some point I'll likely fill that with a mixture of ballast and coal powder. Four sections of retaining wall have been built, and I've used low-relief Bachmann Scenecraft terrace houses at the back. I'm also in the process of building a factory from a Scale Model Scenery laser-cut kit. A North Light style shed has been built using a 3 to 2 road modified resin kit from TownStreet Models - it needed a bit of filing / fitting here and there but the result is just superb. A coaling stage has also been built from a laser-cut kit.
The two platforms were both cut from solid pieces of pine using a template crafted from sellotaped computer paper which was then marked up and cut using an electric jigsaw. 1mm card was laid on top of that and painted grey with a white edge. The edges of the platform were covered in brick-paper. A barrow-crossing was also made from 1mm card, scored for 6" planks and painted. Decorating the platform with people, fences, and all the other accoutrements is yet to be done, but there are station buildings out of sight on both platforms.
There's no greenery or 'fine finishing' on the layout yet - that, and the roadway down to the cattle dock are future projects. I have a sunken turntable kit yet to be built, but the plastic well has been installed, painted oily black at the base and lined with brick paper. Completion is another project for the future, and will require me reacquainting myself with soldering skills!
The three units of traction currently gracing the layout are a Johnson 3F 0-6-0 tender (43615), a Fairburn 2-6-4Tank (42140), and a 2-car Met Camm DMU - all supplied by Grimy Times Model Railways in Warrington. Around 90% of the rolling stock is secondhand, with wagons etc often sourced from eBay. I'm waiting on the pre-ordered Sutton Locomotive Works class 24/1 which, hopefully, will arrive in the next few months. The line is very much Midland Railway, and the likely station name is Edenbridge depicting somewhere perhaps near Carlisle - however, the jury is still out on that one.
I'm no expert on video files, so hopefully it will download easily enough for viewing. All a bit of a learning experience - so not much different to the model railway then.
iPhone13 Mini video, processed in iMovie.
29th January 2024
The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer with borrowed UP power approaches Blue Mountain Road. In the background you can see the progress on the new housing development. Do I think it's terrible that the signature shots near Tunnel 1 will be forever changed? Yes. Would I buy one of those trackside properties if I won the lotto? Also yes.
Die Geschichte des Fort de Bellegarde beginnt mit dem Königreich Mallorca. Im Jahre 1285, als dieses Königreich noch keine zehn Jahre Bestand hatte stellte Pierre III d'Aragon eine starke Bedrohung für den König von Mallorca Jacques II de Majorque dar, insbesondere dieser im Besitz der Grafschaft Perpignan war und auch dort residierte.Als im vierzehnten Jahrhundert der König von Aragon seinen Nachbarn militärisch übernahm, wurde der Turm aus königlicher Sicht aufgegeben, er wurde nur vom Herrn der Region benutzt, um Reisende zur Zahlung eines Zolls zu zwingen. Mit dem Pyrenäenvertrag 1659 wurde die Grenze zwischen Frankreich und Spanien gerade am Col des Panissars gezogen. Diese Lage machte den Turm zu einem strategischen Hochplatz, der von den Franzosen besetzt wurde.Aber der eigentliche Bau von Bellegarde stammt von Vauban, der 1668 beschloss, anstelle des Turms eine echte Zitadelle zu bauen. Während die Arbeiten im Gange waren, eroberten die spanischen Truppen 1674 das Fort und beschlossen dann, es selbst zu modifizieren. Danach wird das Fort bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg, wenn eine schmerzhafte Episode gespielt wird, keine wichtige Rolle mehr in der Geschichte spielen.
The history of the Fort de Bellegarde begins with the Kingdom of Mallorca. In 1285, when this kingdom had not yet existed for ten years, Pierre III d'Aragon posed a strong threat to the King of Mallorca Jacques II de Majorque, in particular the latter was in possession of the county of Perpignan and also resided there. When, in the fourteenth century, the King of Aragon took over his neighbour militarily, the tower was abandoned from a royal point of view, being used only by the lord of the region to force travellers to pay a duty. With the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, the border between France and Spain was drawn just at the Col des Panissars. This location made the tower a strategic high ground occupied by the French.But the actual construction of Bellegarde came from Vauban, who decided in 1668 to build a real citadel instead of the tower. While the work was in progress, Spanish troops captured the fort in 1674 and then decided to modify it themselves. After that, the fort will no longer play an important role in history until the Second World War, when a painful episode is played out.
125 Pictures in 2025 #79 Progress
This is the current state of a jigsaw puzzle we have been working on for a long time. Probably the most difficult one we have ever tried to do.
66796 "The green progressor" heads the 4Y19 Mountfield to Southampton Western docks through Basingstoke.
I'm lamenting the frenzied activity of 2022 where this service would produce a 69 for haulage and the desire to get a decent shot of every loco as it worked this service....hopefully later in the year when they are fully back in service I can resume.
Tuesday 3 May 2023
I tried a different joint system this time. Can’t say yet if I have a favorite or not. Still getting used to working with clay.
In order to check that the two boards and all the associated wiring would stand up to being parted, moved around and rejoined, I relocated the layout. During the disassembly, some careful tidying of the mass of sub-baseboard wiring was undertaken.
The layout was reassembled and thankfully, all was well. The new location enabled a longer view to be taken, and it's shown here compared with a similar shot when the baseboards had just been built.
January 28, 2017
The bones of an old and twisted tree washed ashore some time ago, and are in the process of being whipped by wind-driven sand. The turbulent sea has stripped the wood smooth, and only remnants of bark remain. Now, pushed high against the dunes, the sun, wind and sand continue sculpting this ever-changing landscape.
I was privileged to have some beautiful early morning sun on a beautiful untouched beach.
My submission to "Your Best Shot 2017"
I chose this photo from very early in the year. It was not an easy day for shooting because the wind was howling and temperatures were very low. I loved the light, and the sand whipping by the driftwood, catching the light in motion, makes me keep coming back to this photo as my choice for this year's submission.
Race Point Beach
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Cape Cod National Seashore - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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Shot with a Canon 7D.
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