PARTLY CLOUDY, AFTERNOON SHOWERS

It's 5:18 a.m., dark and Junior is off at Friends' and Patrick is still in bed.

The string on my teabag came off, so the bag is free-floating in my morning cup of Green Tea Coffee. I wonder if Starbucks has anything like that?

Speaking of strings, did you know that the only word in the English language that has a string of six consonants in a row is 'LATCHSTRING'--but maybe you have to live in a log house to know what that is...

Speaking of Log houses, do you know the difference between a log house and a log cabin? A cabin has the logs in their original round state, a house has its logs squared off with a draw knife.

Speaking of drawknives, I have one that I got at auction for a few bucks. The Eirie Department Store had them for thirty bucks. They tore the Erie down, but it was an old wooden floored (patched with tin can metal over the knot holes) hardware store in town. You could find stuff there you couldn't find anywhere else-- old timey stuff like drawknives--they even had the hinges for shutters--now that's OLD!

Speaking of shutters, actually they're not. The shutters with louvers are more correctly called Blinds. Shutters were solid wood.

Speaking of shutters, I constructed a crude pair for one of the garage windows. But I used regular hinges, that I dug up in the yard with the metal detector.

Speaking of windows and doors, Junior brought home a new entry lockset and deadbolt for the front door. It had a price tag of 130 bucks but it was marked down to forty! It's a direct replacement for what we have now that is broken, has a handle on the outside, not a knob, with a thumb push down deal--that's the part that broke. So for a few days now we've had to lock the door to keep it shut while we're out in the yard, sort of a hassel, and you don't want cats and flies wandering into the house, anyway today we'll install it.

Ho hum, that ought to take care of today's Random thoughts! As always:

STOP THE BABY KILLING!
SEAL THE BORDERS!!
STOP SPURRIER!!

-TR-