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Another mod to my 1954 Elna Grasshopper

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I turned my electric Elna Grasshopper into a treadle table sewing machine. Well, I didn’t use it very much until we moved into our new home and found out quickly that leaving the flywheel brake on the machine was silly.  So I removed it.  Here are some photos – mostly incase I ever decide to put it back on the machine!

First, I disconnected the machine from the table top and turned it over.

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Remove the engine casing (engine is already gone).

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Notice that the knee-brake rod maintains its tension against the flywheel through the spring held to the rod via an inset screw and against the machine through a hole.

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Notice, specifically, the turns of the spring and the location of the spring screws in case I want to put it back on someday.

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Loosen the spring screw on the knee-brake rod, remove rod from the other side of the machine. Neglect to photograph any of that.

Screw machine back to the table top. Resume sewing.

Sharing poster for Riverbend Hospital

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While Robin stayed at SacredHeart Hospital at Riverbend, I found a source of comfort along the hallways: posters made by families showing how their kids grew and developed. So I made one of Robin for other families!

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Memoirs of a Sony Walkman

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I continue to sort, organize, and dispose of things. I came across my old Sony Walkman and I felt a well of emotions about it, but no interest in using it ever again. It had been in a box for over 25 years and I have finally come to feel at ease donating it to a second hand store.  But I decided to record something about it here.

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It was likely a gift from my parents.  I used it in high school, listening to music as I fell asleep and
waking to music with the alarm function.  I could program so many radio stations and it got really good reception, so I had several to choose from! It would play cassettes on a constant loop, switching from A side to B side and back again, so only battery life limited the constant music.

 

 

2014-01-11 22.00.43Looking at the stop/play/FF/RW buttons still elicits a tactile response in my finger tips.

College found me using it again at night, but often I’d listen to a radio station that had just the right white noise.  Mixed tapes were my studying companions at the library as delivered by this handy friend.

Super cheesy now, but I had a waist pack just for this with a pocket for extra batteries and space for two other tapes.

Strange how important this was to me and the nostalgia and friendly gratitude I feel for my old Walkman.  It still worked when I put it in the box for donations. Now that I write this, I regret getting rid of it, but I know that tomorrow (and the next decade) I won’t think about it again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kid photo update

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Still pretty overwhelmed by the chaos.  I don’t get very much done during the day, so any progress is slow and I don’t think to post about it.  Here are a few recent photos. I can’t believe Duncan is already so big!

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{this moment}

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WOW – I’m really behind with thoughtful photos! But, rather than flood the blog, here are a few recent photos from Christmas:

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{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama

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{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama

Finishing up in Corvallis

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Here’s a bunch of photos just about how CLEAN we got the Corvallis house before we left and the native plant garden I left.  I guess, mostly for my memory, but its not so interesting that I want to make a scrapbook page about it.

Here are some pre-weeding pictures:

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And here are the post weeding pictures:

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The native plant garden

 

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Fairy Lantern

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Sword Fern

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Fox Glove, Oxalis, and Wild Ginger

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Deer Fern

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Maiden Fern

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False Solomon’s Seal

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Lady Fern

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Solomon’s Seal (hard to see, above the ginger)

Such a pretty house!!

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{this moment}

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{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama

{this moment}

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{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama

{this moment}

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{this moment} – A [Sunday] ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. As inspired by Collecting the Moments … One by One and SouleMama