Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Too much rain...so we had a landslide behind our house...it broke a water pipe, nothing life threatening.
now without water. Life in the tropics.... sigh
Will take a couple of hours of shoveling tomorrow before the plumber can fix it.
Minor inconveeenience...

[astrid]

Jill of all trades, master of none, lol.

Have had many various trades, i get bored after i master one, and have to move on to a new one.

I have been renovating houses, restoring furniture and lighting for some time.
Just finished and sold a house, so its break time from that for a little while now.

Lighting still has my interest, thankfully as i have a house full of lighting related projects.
I'm moving towards making my own fittings from scratch, which means i will need to learn to weld next.
Im conflicted though, people want what i do, i never have any issues selling my work, what ever it is im doing,
but to me its all just "stuff" and we already have WAY TOO much stuff on the planet.

I make alot of things out of junk, things that get thrown out, so that's something i guess,
but still its all just stuff at the end of the day.

I balance it all out with my healing work, so that kind of helps me to get my head around it a bit more.

My ultimate aim is to make stunning lighting that is self powered.
I have a few ideas of how to do this,
but for now i'm just going to clear the decks of all these promised projects.

Wiring today is being tricky, some of fitting is well clogged with a hundred years of old wiring.
So far i'm cleaning it out with increasing thicknesses of bendy wire, but its proving stubborn,
good thing i'm very patient when it comes to very fiddly work.

[Marianne]

It's just coming dawn here in the deep south. It rained last night, so no starry goodness... but plants and wildlife are loving the rain, so it's all good.

Mark, your staff is incredible! Beautiful craftsmanship. And Astrid, your work sounds really satisfying... glad you are on a roll. I understand what you say about learning something and then feeling bored so you move on... you collect up a lot of skills that way. I've done similiar in other areas. Your idea of using 'found' materials to make functional stuff is great -- I've done some found crafts. Requires a different kind of creativity from following a pattern. I think it's good for the heart and soul to work that way.

Ulli, hope your plumber has things set right soon.

I've decided to stay home from work today... a sort of mental health day. Have some important work to do here, for a dear friend.

I'll be making chicken soup later, just the thing to simmer on the stove. Lots of lovely veggies in it. Please stop by, you beautiful people, and have some with me!

Lots of love,
Junebug

[markoid]

Thanks Marianne.. for the compliment and the soup offer... I'm in .....Have a lovely day off work.
We had our first sunny day in a while today, it has been nice to get some spring rain to keep the water table topped before what is usually a very hot summer here in the sub tropics. Sat out and soaked up some vitamin D3 too ... niiiice

[ulli]

Posted by astrid (here)
Jill of all trades, master of none, lol.

Have had many various trades, i get bored after i master one, and have to move on to a new one.

I have been renovating houses, restoring furniture and lighting for some time.
Just finished and sold a house, so its break time from that for a little while now.

Lighting still has my interest, thankfully as i have a house full of lighting related projects.
I'm moving towards making my own fittings from scratch, which means i will need to learn to weld next.
Im conflicted though, people want what i do, i never have any issues selling my work, what ever it is im doing,
but to me its all just "stuff" and we already have WAY TOO much stuff on the planet.

I make alot of things out of junk, things that get thrown out, so that's something i guess,
but still its all just stuff at the end of the day.

I balance it all out with my healing work, so that kind of helps me to get my head around it a bit more.

My ultimate aim is to make stunning lighting that is self powered.
I have a few ideas of how to do this,
but for now i'm just going to clear the decks of all these promised projects.

Wiring today is being tricky, some of fitting is well clogged with a hundred years of old wiring.
So far i'm cleaning it out with increasing thicknesses of bendy wire, but its proving stubborn,
good thing i'm very patient when it comes to very fiddly work.

I'm forever fixing lamps, and could use your services right now. I had an antiques shop in Barbados and when I left there twenty years ago all the stuff that I could not sell got packed into the container and shipped to Costa Rica, where there is no market nor culture for my antiques.
The picture on my album on my profile page shows Kittie sitting next to a lamp which came from Afghanistan and was made by tribes people out of the dried bladder of a camel. It has a lightbulb in both top and bottom parts and I recently had to rewire that.
Another leftover from my antique shop past is a reading lamp made of brass, and the shade and stand were covered with ostrich skin. It even has a dimmer switch, which I can only get to work now if I insert a wall plug, as the original brass knob got lost during the last move.

I'm impressed by the high skilled Oz presence on this thread...
Markoid's cane is a master piece.

[ulli]

Let me rephrase that, Markoid,
your staff is a magic wand!
Will you allow the village to share it?
One more question: are we nearly eighteen yet?

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astrid Spot On! Too much stuff that's my mantra and all the same somehow i've managed to end up with it myself.... hope my upcoming retrograde Saturn conjoining my Moon will mean "clean out old stuff from my mother and myself" and not only feeling lonely, depressed and having problems with women Saturn also representing "building walls"...excuse me from derailing into astrology, just part of my everyday life...

[Heyoka_11]

Posted by Junebug (here)
I've decided to stay home from work today... a sort of mental health day.

Hi Toots,
I assume you are referring to the mental health of your co-workers

[Marianne]

Posted by Heyoka_11 (here)

Posted by Junebug (here)
I've decided to stay home from work today... a sort of mental health day.

Hi Toots,
I assume you are referring to the mental health of your co-workers

Tony, I don't remember telling you it was time to come away from the corner.
Heyoka=0 Junebug=1

[PurpleLama]

Now, now. Marianne and Tony, play nice!

[ulli]

Posted by ulli (here)
Let me rephrase that, Markoid,
your staff is a magic wand!
Will you allow the village to share it?
One more question: are we nearly eighteen yet?

The above post needs clarification. Ulli being too cryptic here....
By eighteen I was referring to atticus idea of forming a group of eighteen, except in his case it happened in a forced way, while with this thread it seems to be happening naturally...
There was no plan... (I swear)

[Marianne]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Now, now. Marianne and Tony, play nice!

'k -- I will if he will.

[ulli]

It's 7:31 am, ulli still in bed with her iPad and strolling through the village, watching the children play.
Hubby taking a shower after fixing the plumbing himself. Only the gardener showed up with the shovel, so hubby fixed the broken pipe. He is quite good at that, being a doctor of human pipes means being a plumber is a piece of cake for him. Wow, did I just say "cake"? Anyway, what most people don't realize is that doctors have to deal with worse smells than plumbers, on a daily basis.

[Heyoka_11]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
Now, now. Marianne and Tony, play nice!

But Sir........ Shestarted it!

[ulli]

Heyoka_11 has been given a three year vacation.

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Hi Paul, did I do it right?
Thanks for dropping by just when my moderation skills were being tested....

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Posted by astrid (here)
Jill of all trades, master of none, lol.

Have had many various trades, i get bored after i master one, and have to move on to a new one.

I have been renovating houses, restoring furniture and lighting for some time.
Just finished and sold a house, so its break time from that for a little while now.

Lighting still has my interest, thankfully as i have a house full of lighting related projects.
I'm moving towards making my own fittings from scratch, which means i will need to learn to weld next.
Im conflicted though, people want what i do, i never have any issues selling my work, what ever it is im doing,
but to me its all just "stuff" and we already have WAY TOO much stuff on the planet.

I make alot of things out of junk, things that get thrown out, so that's something i guess,
but still its all just stuff at the end of the day.

I balance it all out with my healing work, so that kind of helps me to get my head around it a bit more.

My ultimate aim is to make stunning lighting that is self powered.
I have a few ideas of how to do this,
but for now i'm just going to clear the decks of all these promised projects.

Wiring today is being tricky, some of fitting is well clogged with a hundred years of old wiring.
So far i'm cleaning it out with increasing thicknesses of bendy wire, but its proving stubborn,
good thing i'm very patient when it comes to very fiddly work.

Hi astrid

I was referring to this post in my last post but i don't know how to pick out just one part of a post..can someone help me?

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[Lisab]

Junebug we're having chicken soup tomorrow! I roasted a chicken yesterday, currying the leftovers tonight and boiling the rest up for soup tomorrow. Yep Im really getting mileage out of that chicken-sign of the times for us lol. And being in Wales there will be leeks in mine. This thread must be chicken soup for the soul.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by ulli (here)
Heyoka_11 has been given a three year vacation.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Hi Paul, did I do it right?
Thanks for dropping by just when my moderation skills were being tested....

Waaaht?! And not a day for Junebug?

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HEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!

NOBOD'S LISTENING..Suppose Saturn already srarted building these walls

[ulli]

Posted by Paul (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Heyoka_11 has been given a three year vacation.

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Hi Paul, did I do it right?
Thanks for dropping by just when my moderation skills were being tested....

Waaaht?! And not a day for Junebug?

Can't afford to lose the women around here. They make the cakes.
The men....they only take the cake.