We have three outdoor hoses 'round back, one attached to an old chicken coop that is now used as storage (seen in the right of the photo). But it's private enough that I usually set up a plastic table and hose tubas out out here and apply tarnish remover and polish stuff while the weather is warm enough. Just don't mind the deer, squirrels, chipmunks, foxes, and bobcats that occasionally go by...
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Dents Be Gone! (Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:36 pm) • Ace (Mon Nov 06, 2023 11:06 pm)
arpthark wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 10:34 am
Ooh: two 10/10s. Yet another line item to add to the ol' resume.
It's a Boosey & Hawkes 15" bell compensating E-flat.
OMG. Now that you've told us what type of instrument, I'm going to have to change my score to a two. What a horrible thing to do to that particular make and model, unless... unless ... you are using Zulalacretorian Sneakstatic Valveomatic Oil.
Our property is pretty interesting. Basically all of Connecticut was farmland pre-1900s, and it is now one of the most forested states in the country (#14). So all this used to be part of a farm, delineated by the stone fences, and the forest is all second-growth. Our house was a part of a larger property and was the "inlaw house"; the neighbors' house (which is larger and fancier) was the main farmhouse. Ours was built ca. 1885 and the neighbors' was built in 1879 or thereabouts. We have an outbuilding on stone foundation that I've turned into my workshop, but it has two rooms -- an original (ca. 1885) shed with a two-seater outhouse(!), and a much larger addition that was added probably around 1900 with a wood stove. The original shed has big chestnut planks on the floor, wide beams, etc. I'd love to excavate the outhouse at some point and see what folks were throwing away. Every year after the frost heaves, in the back of the property, we get old medicine bottles, broken china, plates, and other odds and ends that were thrown away in the back of the yard appear from the ground.
