Recent content by Obob

Your overall point about "your hometown" (which is my hometown, too) is pretty accurate, though the place is not totally dead-They still have Christmas parades that run long enough that you start thinking "ok, that's enough, lets get to Santa!" , still at night, and, believe or not recently have...

A Few More "It might choke Artie, but it ain't gonna choke Stymie!" "Well, when you gotta, you gotta!" "Sic him, Pete!!!" Obob

Cost Question In general, so that I'm not prying into anyone's business too much, how much does getting something like this, done? Obob

Oh Yeah! "If you had some money, I think I could excite you!" "I'm bug huntin'!" "My heart is filled with joy. I want to rip my pants!" Obob

Keep Em' Comin'! Thanks folks; this is all really useful. The business about shrinkage; I was planning to have a local millshop cut the flooring; I'd better make sure they've got means to dry the wood, or else this is gonna be a much longer term venture (not that it isn't already; we've been...

Great Response! Thanks Straighteight, that's just the kind of response I'm hoping to get here. Lemme ask you this: What grit of sandpaper do you use when you sand the poly/varnish type coatings? I've known this is a good thing to do, but when I've refinished floors before, I've always been...

Has anyone here ever installed or helped install a tongue and groove hardwood floor? I'm planning to do one in an attic room in my mom's house; I want to do it the more old-fashioned way, where you have to use a nailer, and then you stain and varnish, and wax (love that Johnson's Wax shine!)...

A Little Song Ohhhhh, we baked you a birthday cake, birthday cake, birthday cake! But if you get a tummy ache, you have to know, we told you soooooooo! Now, that's from a 3 Stooges comedy, the name I can't recall. :o Happy Birthday to all having one either yesterday, today, or...

Oh Yeah! Oh yeah! Except that my mom's actually less inclined to get rid of stuff than am I. I once and awhile get on a kick that some decluttering needs to be done; it falls on deaf ears! Since I've been hanging around message boards like this one, and I've seen that there are other...

Smart Move During the redo of my mom's downstairs bath, we had a similar mirror. I thought it should be replaced, because it wasn't "retro" enough. My mom thought otherwise, and we did it her way. The bath is what I'd call a 30's/40's style, kinda "modern" for the era. One of the websites...

Here's One August 11, 1934 - Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, received federal prisoners for the first time. Bring back "The Rock"... Obob

Just 12 Hmmm...just 12...yeah, that is gonna be an issue (I guess it's not really as simple as picking a dozen vintage Chevy's). As for the playing card, deal me in! Edward, I guess you'll be the real "queen" in the deck...;) Obob

Re: Darhling as Bianca L'Amour Ya know, if someone here, who knew what they were doing, wanted to take some of these Fedora Lounge ladies and create a pin-up calendar, I believe I'd buy a copy! Maybe more...;) Ladies Of The Lounge-2009? Obob

More Canning Recollections Oh yeah, my mom, when she did substantial canning, used a pretty good sized, heavy duty pressure canner. Now, my paternal grandmother...heh. She'd can green beans using a washtub over an open fire; you could can a lot of produce that way, but it really is rather...

A Remake I just watched for the first time, A Star Is Born, from 1954, with Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford and Tommy Noonan. Frankly, I liked the '37 version considerably better. It was much more succinct in it's storytelling. Whatever the first version could...