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My strips and templates for the Single Girl Quilt Along.
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Went to the Otter Bookbinding class this last weekend at the Southern Bookbinders workshop at Winchester and made this single section book.
Will it be good enough for a Level 1 City and Guilds?
ODC Knot
Single in January 09 2014 (still a day ahead! go me!)
This is the tie I wore today, thought it would work for the challenge. It's one of my favorites.
9/365
Single crystal specimen of the “hidden order” superconductor URu2Si2 taken using a Nomarski polarized light filter.
Photo credit: Ryan Baumbach/National MagLab
Photo : Lão Trư
Model : Đùi Gà Bé Nhỏ
Makeup : Minh Trang
Location : Phim trường Maze of Space
LH: 0904498944
Salty wooden stumps come and go across the still waters of a spring fed lake in a remote corner of Death Valley National Park, far away from any current example of civilization.
Today was sunny and cold. So I ventured outside to see what I could find in rust. I was surprised to find more things than I expected. I don’t mind the cold when the sun shines, because the sun makes it feel warmer. I would like winter, if every day could be like this. Hopefully we’ll have more sunny days so that I can get pictures of the other rust things I found.
ODC 34 - Shoot a single color
365 Days in Color, rust and/or black No. 3
279/365
115 Pictures in 2015 - Theme No. 62 - Camouflaged
Due to the Stafford engineering blockade over the festive period all services were diverted via Stoke-on-Trent. Freightliner Class 66/5 No. 66593 approaches the level crossing at Oakhanger on the single track section between Crewe North Staffs Jnc. and Barthomley Jnc. with 4L96, a Crewe Basford Hall – Ipswich intermodal working on 27th December 2014.
With these I was just messing around with colors and effects to see what i could do with it. Prints available here soon.
Model: Susan
'Cause if you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Don’t be mad once you see that he want it
If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
'Cause if you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Don’t be mad once you see that he want it
If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Typeface: Neutraface Display
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'...'to the Lighthouse.'..at the Fire Island National Seashore.
One hand for the tiller ; one for the camera.
Another going away shot, this time showing the bulky rear end of a Darlington Roe bodied Daimler Fleetline single decker. NHN 258K displays the characteristic soiling two thirds the way across the back panels associated with the type's propensity to fling oil particles from the exposed fluid flywheel. The passengers on the rear seat are perhaps enjoying their elevated position and the pleasant sound effects being emitted from the 10.45 litre Gardner 6LX they're sitting over the top of.
I'm sure that 'Lady Wulfrun' and 'DH73' will find the street lighting of interest, and maybe 'Crispy' the bus shelters.
This Woodville single pedestal table measures 66" round and was made with a 1 1/4" Thick top with waterfall edge.
Walnut wood/Onyx Stain
Shown with it are 6 "Brookfield" side chairs with an upholstered seat. NW # 539003 "Palatino"
Shown in Cherry wood/Onyx Stain
The single lane bridge, in an oilfield, runs from Cormier Road, on the west bank of Cow Bayou to an island, just south of the FM 105 bridge. For a few years now, the bridge has always looked like a fairly uninteresting wooden stringer bridge on Google satellite view, and, like an idiot, I'd always put off getting around to it. Planning to visit the site more recently, though, I could see on satellite view the shadows of a truss, so it moved higher on my list of priorities.
What I was not expecting to find, though, was that the bridge is (or was) a swing bridge.
It is rapidly decaying and I'd be surprised if it survived the next tropical storm tide, though folks have probably been saying that for years.
I now believe that the bridge once crossed the full width of Cow Bayou. The island was created in the 1960s when a 100 ft wide and 13 ft deep channel was dug to ease navigation, avoiding the many bends in the bayou's natural channel. This channeling created the islands and oxbows that now exist and made the bridge useless, if it was not already abandoned.
Look what arrived in my mailbox today?! Yes, that's right, the gorgeous single girl pillow that Angela made! And! It's made from vintage sheets that I sent Angela in December in a swap! How cool is that?
On top of that, one of her beautiful crochet stars!
Thank you dear, I seriously love it! And can you believe 2 out of the 3 pillow-forms I have are 24"? Match made in heaven!
My first day out- Muskingum River Marietta, Ohio.
This is my beautiful German shell, ELISHA, built in the late '40s or early 1950s. It was rebuilt in Philadelphia in the early 1970s with new stainless steel riggers, oarlocks, decks, foot stretchers, added rib supports and a Stampfli seat. The oars shown here are Stampfli 296s.
I purchased this boat from Ralph Lindamood, longtime coach of Marietta College, in the late 1970s. Ralph's son Norm used this quite a bit and won several medals in it. When Norm 'outgrew' the boat Ralph was lending it to college lightweights but was afraid that it would get damaged and offered it to me.
Big Sky Montana, Summit Hotel
In 1968 Chet Huntley floated the idea that he would build a resort in his home state Montana. Huntley's NBC news partner David Brinkley said Huntley had an almost mystical love for his native Montana. That year Chet Huntley and his wife Tippy, vacationed at Jim and Patty Goodrich's 320 Guest Ranch near Lone Mountain. Lone Mountain made a big impression. Huntley asked the Goodriches to keep an eye out for some land he could buy. Huntley's earliest plan was to build a dude ranch which could be used as a tax shelter for investors. The Goodriches sent Huntley a flyer on Sam Smeding's Lone Mountain Dude Ranch. Huntley's investor friend was Ed Homer, an executive with Chrysler Realty, a wholly owned subsidiary of the number 3 auto maker Chrysler Corp. Chrysler Realty Corp. was founded in 1967 as an off shoot from owning so many warehouses office buildings, and dealer buildings. Homer bought in to the idea but with bigger plans - he hired a ski consultant to study the idea of a ski resort. The ski area consultant was Kingsbury Pitcher, from Santa Fe, NM. Pitcher was a former ski insturctor, rancher and a graduate of Stanford Univery in economics. Pitcher was an advisor for the developers of Snowmass at Aspen, Sun Valley, Idaho and Jay Peak, VT. He developed the Sierra Blanca ski resort near Ruidoso for Robert O. Anderson. A one day consultant in 1970 was three-time Olympic gold medalist Jean-Claude Killy who heli-skied in perfect powder on the run now known as Ambush. Killy told Huntley and Pitcher conditions were "magnifique". A feasibility study was made by David J. Flood of Manduco Corp. The consultants recommendation was to build two villages - one at the base of Lone Mountain, the other in an open meadow three miles from U.S. 191. Huntley and Homer moved quickly.
Lone Mountain Ranch consisted of the Emmett Crail Cattle Ranch and later the B-K Ranch which was owned by Jack M. Hume in the 50's and 60's. Hume was the early owner and manufacturer of Sun Rite products. Sam S. Smeding bought the cattle ranch from Hume in 1962. He sold the 1,880 acres in the Gallatin River Canyon for $350,000 to Chrysler Realty. Smeding's Lone Mountain ranch land was primarily used for the Arnold Palmer and Francis Duane designed golf course. Palmer was age 41 when he designed the $500,000 golf course. Palmer teamed with Francis Duane and they also designed the Bay Course at Kapalua, Hawaii in 1974.
The land for Mountain Village would be secured from Burlington Northern in a land swap. The term "Big Sky" was used by the state of Montana as a marketing adjective for the entire state. Chet Huntley made a visit to Helena to ask the Governor Forest Anderson of Montana for permission to use "Big Sky" for the resort's name which was enthusiastically granted. The $1.1 million 9-mile road from US 191 was funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity and Gallatin and Madison Counties.
In 1969 Chrysler hired Gustav "Gus" Raaum, who helped develop Teton Village in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to be president and chief executive of Big Sky - calling it an opportunity to start from scratch. Raaum, during his younger days, was a Norwegian Ski Jumping champion.
Chet Huntley's title was Chairman of the Board of Big Sky but also the celebrity fronting for the five corporations that owned the resort - Chrysler Realty Corp., Continental Oil (Conoco), Burlington Northern Railroad, Montana Power Co. and Northwest Orient Airlines pooled about $20 million to build the world class resort from scratch. Chet Huntley would own about 1% of the stock but as chairman of the board he had enormous influence. Huntley incurred the rath of environmental groups and many Montanans fought the development tooth and nail. Big Sky managed to open a year behind schedule in March 1974.
Huntley died of lung cancer at age 62 three days before the grand opening ceremonies. Tippy Huntley took over Chet’s marketing role. Owner Chrysler Realty decided to divest its real estate development assets and sold to Boyne USA Resorts in 1976 for $7.5 million the 204-room Huntley Lodge, 4 lifts, a shopping and convention center, and a golf course located on 2,500 acres. Everett Kircher said he had a romance with Lone Mountain after skiing it. He stated Big Sky with its 2,700 skiable vertical drop is the finest ski terrain in the country. Kircher, the sole owner of Boyne Mountain in Michigan, was well known for adapting new methods of ski instruction, and innovations in artificial snow and grooming equipment.
Gustav Raaum said the deal split Big Sky ownership in two, with Boyne Mountain/Kircher taking over the former Big Sky of Montana Inc. and a new company named Big Sky of Montana Realty Inc., who kept ownership of remaining acres and unsold condominiums. On Aug 13, 1977 Big Sky of Montana Realty auctioned off 149 condominiums raising $4.1 million to which paid off the $2.3 million in construction loans owed to First National Bank of Bozeman and Security Trust Bank of Billings. Nationally recognized Kennedy, Kenison and Wison were the auctioneers. Montana Governor Thomas Judge bought a condo for $21,000. Raaum departed Big Sky in 1977 to start an investment company in Seattle known as Hill-Raaum-Pietromonaco.
By 1999 Big Sky was averaging 300,000 skier days per year and by 2018 skier days were 500,000.
In 1999 the 10-story Summit Hotel opened, it was the largest single development undertaken in Big Sky since the resort's inception in 1974. The $45 million luxury condominium hotel has 106 units with capability of locking off to 222 hotel rooms. Some said you could ski right out your hotel window. Stephen Kircher, the project coordinator and vice president of Boyne USA said within 300 feet of the hotel's entrance are 3 high capacity lifts. The Summit included 8 two story, $1.5 million penthouses. Condo prices started at $290,000 or $337 per square foot for an 857-square-foot condo. In August 2009 the Summit hosted President Obama and family.
The Kircher family continues to operate Big Sky. Many of the college-age folks who served as bellman and bartenders in the late 70s and early 80s now serve in leadership roles at Big Sky Resort. They’ve seen Big Sky Resort grow and evolve and have played an integral part in making it happen. Now there are a combination of 21 different hotels and outside condo options. Named after Everett Kircher, the founder of Boyne USA is Everett 8800, a restaurant located at the top of Andesite Mountain (elevation 8,800 ft) and accessable only by the Ramcharger chair lift.
In 2016 Big Sky Resort' parent company, family owned Boyne Resorts, unveiled Big Sky 2025, a plan to invest $150-million dollars in mostly on-mountain improvements over the next 10 years, but the plan is already underway. This summer, the resort installed two brand new chairlifts – one of them state-of-the art. Powder Seeker, the high-speed, six-seat chairlift with heated seats, head rests and blue bubble covers, is not only the most technologically-advanced chairlift installed this year in the country, but it’s also the highest bubble chairlift in North America with the top terminal sitting at 9,812 feet.
The plan also calls for 12 upgraded or new chairlifts, including a 10-person gondola, new on-mountain restaurants, a high-alpine zip line, a new hotel, new restaurants and retail shops, a new gondola and night skiing. Also renovations of the Summit Hotel and Huntley Lodge is planned.
compiled by Dick Johnson
October 2019
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