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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...

I think I might add some old worn out beach towel.

rating?
10 out of 10...

Why not a perfect score? What does it cost me to offer that?

Agree! 10/10

Now the important question, what horn have you got there?

Ooh: two 10/10s. Yet another line item to add to the ol' resume.

It's a Boosey & Hawkes 15" bell compensating E-flat.

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.

Unfortunately, I just dip the valves in this:

I wouldn't put that much weight on the 3rd valve slide, but otherwise it looks nice. Until it snows.

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:45 pm I wouldn't put that much weight on the 3rd valve slide, but otherwise it looks nice. Until it snows.

Braced like a tank, otherwise I wouldn't.

edit: it's also just the outer tubing, no slide in there.

They are going nuts this year (literally)!

Wild turkeys were roosting in the tree above the coop earlier this fall. I haven't seen 'em since.

I'd love to get a tank setup for the yard, or run a hot water line out here.

>>? https://www.homedepot.com/p/CAMPLUX-ENJ ... uHobUYcRlU

We need to organize a GoFundMe for Blake...

https://www.bestotsbus.shop/products/to ... per-bagger



bear grease: needs to be rancid, in order to work
baer grease: $180

arpthark wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:09 pm

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:45 pm I wouldn't put that much weight on the 3rd valve slide, but otherwise it looks nice. Until it snows.

Braced like a tank, otherwise I wouldn't.

Note to self -- bracing helps with snow.

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 3:50 pm

arpthark wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:09 pm

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 1:45 pm I wouldn't put that much weight on the 3rd valve slide, but otherwise it looks nice. Until it snows.

Braced like a tank, otherwise I wouldn't.

Note to self -- bracing helps with snow.

Gotta brace yourself for the cold!

bloke wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:54 pm baer grease: $180

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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.

That stuff all sounds really neat and interesting, but I'm still not lowering my rating.

arpthark wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:21 am two-seater outhouse(!)

Pilot/copilot