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Daily Archives: July 24th, 2008

From Grandma’s House: A wheel

24-Jul-08

One of the items my grandmother left to me was a spinning wheel. It’s a “great wheel” (or walking wheel), slightly more than 3 feet across, and it has the wheel and a gear, but nothing else. The other day, I was able to bring it home in the Jeep– we have absolutely no idea [...]

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Weathering Thunderstorms and Tornadoes

24-Jul-08

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Yesterday at about 4:30 in the afternoon, the skies around our RV suddenly seemed very, very dark. The rain was coming down in droves, and thunder and lightning was flashing and booming.
After stowing the internet satellite dish (we don’t want to know what happens to a $14,000 piece of equipment when it gets struck by [...]

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