Hi Guys
Well its almost 7:00 am and so far my roof is very nearly perfectly dry.
Big storm rolling in. Supposed to be 6 inches of water in 3 days.
My roof leaked in the last storm. At least 3 places it leaked a little.
So I was up at 5 when the rain started this time. It hit hard a few times since then and I keep waiting for the telltale darkening of wood (before it drips). But so far nothing.
There may be a microscopic ooze in one of the old spots, not enough to make a drip,
but that's it. I have tarps and a tar bucket handy and the ladder is already set up.
I step up onto the roof like it was my living room.
When I finally get a roof on this building, I will have to look for a new job. This one has been steady.
I was sad to hear about Bob. We are going to miss him around here. Bob was a voice we all knew a long time. He was here as long as he could be. We even got a few messages when he couldn't send messages anymore. One of our own.
So nothing much has been doing in my life. Smallest things. Its slow and easy for the most part. Working on an old car or two and taking care of a small property takes up most of my time.
I am becoming a pretty lousy housewife. But not entirely inexperienced anymore. Its a dirty house to a picky girl, but not dangerous in any way. I am looking to get it down to manageable. feather dusters rock
I was called a museum several times yesterday.
Not much is new at my place, that any of us come here to care about. Hardly a new "old tool" in weeks, has passed though my door. Its usually always something. Some trinkets or small tools or something.
Oh well I got a couple pair of scissors, if that helps. Good ones. Showed up outta nowhere but then, I got a lot of good scissors here. I have become the home for wayward shears. Nobody wants them, and they float around the fringes of society. The last frontier of unwanted, but cool, tools. Scissors.
Good rare scissors can still be had in primo condition for a song. You just have to start looking and they will find you. believe me. I got early Fiskars and modern, but surprisingly high grade, Klaus kitchen shears.
I honestly don't care from new or old scissors so much. I care from quality. Somebody makes a hot new shear and it really is good? Hey I'm game.
Mostly nothing new can compare to the old though.
The very best of the old shears??
Yeah I'm down for that every day of the week.
But I can't have 200 pair. Honestly. I never counted, (and I have them stashed in every corner of my life. everywhere.) but hell there can't be an honest 200, so how many is that really? heehehehehe
Everyone's early production, is usually where the hot stuff was made. "Back when the factory first opened"... Heinisch, Wiss the rest of the great names. Ya gotta love a good shear.
Shears are magic. Magic that everyone relies on so much, that they forgot to see the magic long long ago. Barely memorable. Disposable in many cases. But magic they rely on almost everyday, in some small way.
OK on to the topic of this
I did get a Plomb 1/2" pebble ratchet off ebay. It "fell though the cracks" meaning it was so cheap anyone would jump on it.
A guy put it up on "buy it now" dirt cheap and then instantly negotiated the postage, and altogether is was just too good to pass.
You all know what they look like. They are not rare tools.
The thing is, all of these I ever had before were dogs. I have at least one around, and looked at a couple more. They were the bones of a great ratchet, but that was it.
I never had one in my hands the way it left the Plomb plant in LA. Whoa
Guys these were rockin tools. Oh man this was hot and flashy and streamlined. Tiny drop of oil, this thing works like butter. Soft and free and unbelievably substantial. I bet it knocked the ratchet world on its ass when it was introduced to the market. Its freaky cool.
If you are reading this and I know you are, you got to get one of these!
I don't care from Swiss watch, this is a nice machine. Psychotically substantial in your hand.
Sometimes the meat n potatoes collectibles, the ones people overlook because they are too common? Yeah they were common for a reason. They made so many and they made them so damn good that there are still a lot around.
yours Scott
