* Our phone line is back. The installer put a junction box right as the line comes to the house but before it goes to the company junction box. Not sure what the smaller black box does. Anyway, it works now ( Read more... )

Early this morning I won 16 new-to-me Magic Lantern Slides used to promote movies made between 1924 and 1927 ( Read more... )

The roof has nine panels installed on the visible north side (up from 3-4 yesterday). It looks like five panels are on the south side catty-corner from the other panels. So, at this rate this should take several more days...and they didn't need to use the crimping tool which goes back to-morrow ( Read more... )

Woke at 6:30 this morning fully refreshed and ready to do things at home ( Read more... )

Just keeping track ( Read more... )

For several years I have purchased photos of people and then conducted limited on-line research ( Read more... )

I have a sabbatical coming up next year, so need to think about what will occur in the eight weeks my company gives me to relax, invigorate, and do something that will motivate me in the years to come ( Read more... )

So far this year I have accumulated enough material to publish or expand 41 articles on Oregon history. I just did a count using photos obtained through Ebay (the usual starting point for my research ( Read more... )

This little tale is from a dream I had this morning ( Read more... )

My dream was the beginning of a story about a beginning writer as she attempts to get her novel published ( Read more... )