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[Mrs Glockrunner]

[janice6]

3 hours ago, Mrs Glockrunner said:

And my wife's favorite:  "Maybe Tomorrow".

 

 

 

[Mrs Glockrunner]

It's funny how every time I tell a story about something that happened.  It always happens 'the other day'.  I don't care if it was 2 days ago, or 2 weeks ago.  I guess it is just a way of saying it was in the past.  

[janice6]

5 hours ago, Mrs Glockrunner said:

It's funny how every time I tell a story about something that happened.  It always happens 'the other day'.  I don't care if it was 2 days ago, or 2 weeks ago.  I guess it is just a way of saying it was in the past.  

Time is relative.  I have that on good authority!

[Historian]

1 hour ago, janice6 said:

Time is relative.  I have that on good authority!

You have no idea.  There was not a single clock in my home that was accurate.   It drove me nuts.  The wife's clocks were always off by 5 minutes to give her extra time.  The batteries in some would die and slow down.

But time matters.  And i fixed this problem.

I now have a Trimble Thunderbolt GPS disciplined clock.

https://www.trimble.com/Timing/thunderbolt-e.aspx

So at this desk where I sit....i know the exact time, at least within 1.16 x 10 - ¹² (one day average).

 

[janice6]

1 hour ago, Historian said:

You have no idea.  There was not a single clock in my home that was accurate.   It drove me nuts.  The wife's clocks were always off by 5 minutes to give her extra time.  The batteries in some would die and slow down.

But time matters.  And i fixed this problem.

I now have a Trimble Thunderbolt GPS disciplined clock.

https://www.trimble.com/Timing/thunderbolt-e.aspx

So at this desk where I sit....i know the exact time, at least within 1.16 x 10 - ¹² (one day average).

 

My son had a desk set with 5 clocks in it.  I asked him why five?  He said one is the time in the living room, one is the time in the bed room, one is the time in the den, etc.

I love my son, he has a great sense of humor.

My wife has a thing for clocks so I have made her some,  and purchased some, some antiques from the 40's and some from today.  I made her three clocks that sit over the living room bay window,  One is the hour, one is the minutes, and the last on is the seconds.  One hand each.  Kitchen is a "school clock" I made.  I have one that I made that is  built into the living room wall The numbers are on the wall.  The dial is almost three feet across.  I made one clock for my daughter.  The board stock was curly Cherry 1" x 5" x 7 feet. that board was so unusual it cost $100 by itself.  

I have an Elvira clock, A Peanuts clock and a mantle clock in the computer room.

I spend my time changing batteries, winding them up and changing them, come daylight savings change.

Edited July 14, 2020 by janice6

[railfancwb]

You DID say Elvira, right?

https://youtu.be/Wgm9gZs1hYw
 

[janice6]

I just ran across this from long ago.  I had to laugh again when I re-read it:

MY FIRST PAY CHECK
  Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond
 
 formed between a little  5-year-old girl and some construction workers

 that makes you believe that we CAN make a difference

 when we give a child the gift of our time...



 A young family moved into a house, next door to a  vacant lot. One day a

 construction crew turned up to start building a  house on the empty lot.



 The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally  took an interest in all

 the activity going on next door and spent much of each day observing the workers.



 Eventually the construction crew, all of them  gems-in-the-rough, more or

 less adopted her as a kind of project mascot.   They chatted with her, let

 her sit with them while they had coffee and  lunch breaks, and gave her

 little jobs to do here and there to make her  feel important.

 At the end of the first week they even presented

 her with a pay envelope containing a couple of dollars. The little girl

 took this home to her  mother who said all the appropriate words of

 admiration and suggested   that they take the two dollar "pay" she had

 received to the bank the  next day to start a savings account.



 When they got to the bank, the teller was  equally impressed and asked

 the little girl how she had come by her very own  pay check at such a young age.


 The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last  week with the crew

 building the house next door to us."

 My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and  will you be working on the

 house again this week, too?"



 The little girl replied, "I will if those  *******s at Home Depot ever

 deliver the f---ing sheet rock..."


 

[janice6]

5 minutes ago, railfancwb said:

You DID say Elvira, right?

https://youtu.be/Wgm9gZs1hYw
 

I like that Elvira too!!!!!!

[Mrs Glockrunner]

Hey Janice6!

How about some pictures of the clocks you made?  I like clocks.

[janice6]

4 hours ago, Mrs Glockrunner said:

Hey Janice6!

How about some pictures of the clocks you made?  I like clocks.

These are all I can find for now:

Sorry for the size.

 

 

 

I can't find the finished photo, but this is like the Quarter Sawn Oak clock above:

 

I can't find anymore Pictures. Once I finish with a project I move one.........

 

 

 

[janice6]

 

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  4 hours ago, Mrs Glockrunner said:

Hey Janice6!

How about some pictures of the clocks you made?  I like clocks.

These are all I can find for now:

Sorry for the size.

 

 

My School Clock picture won't load for some reason.

I can't find the finished photo, but this is like the Quarter Sawn Oak clock above:

 

I can't find anymore Pictures. Once I finish with a project I move on.........

 

Edited July 14, 2020 by janice6

[Mrs Glockrunner]

All very nice.  Thanks for sharing.  

I like novelty clocks.  I have one I got in Saudi Arabia, the number are Arabic.  

 

 

[Paul53]

It's a "Trigger-fish." All I can think of is if you wait till last call you can't be picky!