Ryan's "Sock"

Sorry for last week's lack of posting. I was mourning the loss of my camera.

This is what socks do to my ankles:



Perhaps next week I will do better. I've decided that my camera is not broken... it just lacks duct tape. Hopefully that will get me through the upcoming trip to New Mexico.

/rl

Cory's Sock

Los Alamos has its own little tiny airport, complete with one runway and a little shack that serves as the terminal. I hear it is very exciting to fly out of - it is built right on the edge of a mesa, so if you were to just drive off the end of the runway you would already be several hundred feet in the air. Here's the sock they use there to keep the wind's foot warm. It looks like he wasn't using it when I took this picture.

Mike's "Sock"

This is our "sock transporter".  If you put an even number of socks and run it on low heat for sixty minutes,  one of your socks will be transported to a parallel universe and a new one will appear.
Sometimes, by pure chance, you might get one of your own socks back.

"Sock" is due tomorrow

Next week: "Hand".

/rl

Mike's "Stable"

I love taking pictures of horses. It literally rained all weekend until the hour before I went to set up for the open mic. I should have taken a picture of my stable of players there!
So I found a stable of horses inside the house. I need to start getting my pictures done before the weekend.

Cory's Stable

The next mesa over from me houses Los Alamos's stables, where horses, donkeys, and a few goats live. Maddy likes taking drives through them to see the horses, and the horses are probably perfectly happy to see her too. She let me come along for the trip this time so I could take a picture of a horse and its stable.

Next week: "Sock"

"Stable" is due tomorrow.

/rl

Oops...

Sorry - I just got around to putting up the poll.

On another note, it may just be Mike and Cory for a while. My camera caught a bad case of gravity poisoning, and will need to take a trip to the Nikon spa to recuperate.

/rl

Cory's Shutter

It turns out it is hard to take a picture of your camera's shutter. And thus, I present you with my house's shutter. If it weren't screwed to the house, this one might act in a similar way as the camera one, just a lot slower.

Ryan's "Shutter"

Putting on glasses while juggling a torch is a bit of a pain. Glasses with darker flip-down shutters prove useful.



A friend used this torch to blow the inner bearing races off my car's hub today. It's a good size torch for cutting railroad track - a bit overkill for Volkswagen parts.

/rl

Mike's "Shutter"

I will do my best Andy Rooney here.  Why do they call them "door openers"?  I'll bet the last time any of these were used were to shut a door.  They should be called "door shutters".
I know for a fact that when I replaced this Genie with a Chamberland, the door was indeed shut.  Now I know why my wife calls them clickers.

Next week: "Stable"

"Shutter" is due tomorrow.

/rl

Ryan's "Pin"

A pin is a piece of wire with a sharpened end and a balled end. A fish hook is a pin with a bend in it, and a loop instead of a ball.



Yeah, it's a stretch. I was busy over the weekend!

/rl

Mike's "Pin"

Things you would pin on your body are glued to this art car at the 2011 Art Car Exhibit.
On the various cars I saw campaign buttons and broaches.  One car was entirely decorated with dental related items including false teeth and teeth.  I put some pictures on FaceBook too.  The coffin you see in the distance has a propane grill in it.

Cory's Pin

A while back I got myself a big wall map, some map pins, and some foam board so I could keep track of where I've traveled. It's kind of like the Google map of all of the airports I've been through, only more physical and less crowded. Here we see two pins, marking when Lis and I went to Australia after getting married. The close one marks Sydney, while the back one marks Katoomba. I see that another adventure snuck its way into this picture too - the map is right next to a window that got left open when we fled the house earlier this summer, and the pins still have a little dusting of the ash that blew in while we were gone.

We are still finding little bits of it around the house.

Next week: "Shutter"

"Pin" is due Monday in consideration of the holiday weekend.

/rl