Pencils and national building codes...

Little known facts:

1.              1.        George Lumley, aged 104, married Mary Dunning, aged 10, in Nortallerton, England on August 25, 1783. She was the great-great granddaughter of the woman who'd broken her engagement to Lumley, eighty years before.

2.    In Elizabethan England, the spoon was so novel and prized that people carried their own folding spoons to banquets.

3.    It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

How many pencils and pens does one man need? I have a square glass container. It is about 4” square and it is jammed with wooden pencils and ball point bens. Of course the felt tip markers both large and small. When a pen starts skipping I seem to want to give it another chance and put it back. 

 

I replaced the fillers for years, now there are so many sizes it is most impossible to have a good replacement handy.  Now I DO throw pens away, but I have to be in the right mood. HA!

I bought a ‘real pencil sharpener’ awhile back. That sucker sharpens a pencil to a dangerous point, it actually has a pen point which usually breaks with the first use. LOL

Stella gave me ‘My own round eraser.’  The erasers on the pencils are so old they are hardened. My little area beside my monitor where the pencil holder sits, looks like a disaster area, Imma fix it!

(There is a loft like this at both ends of the little house.)

I worked today installing some railings at the storage building over at grandson Josh’s place, that son Mark built. He did a fantastic job.

  There is an open loft at both ends and it is 9’ high. The plans show no railing. The inspector did not come Friday and as I busied myself Imma thinking, “He is going to call me on the open lofts.  There is a national building code that requires a three foot railing on any surface with more than a 30” drop.  Although there is no way up to the lofts (other than a ladder) I doubt if he will pass it and I do not need another delay.  So I invested in a few boards to make railings.

They are not pretty or classy, but they are sturdy!

 (It is a pretty little house. They are calling it the Art and music Room)

I am just meandering thru this entry. I B tired.  LOL

I was also late, I forgot to take a phone, and Sherry was worried since I was so late. Sherry and Grandson Luke had started to look for me and fortunately saw me when we passed and they turned back. At least I am glad of that.  I am still in the dog house. No tucking in tonight. ;-(.

Nite Shipslog

 I missed this old truck today. This was a work horse. I can't remember but I think it was a '50 Chevy.

A small tree fell on it  when a hurricane visited. Of course it did not hurt it. 
What I really missed today was a phone, but that is too late. (OUCH)