THanks to all the (6!) readers last night who identified this beutiful relic   as an”arreator”.. i cant tell you what a pkeasant shock it is to hear from folks out there who read this blog.. I know from stats that  folks do.. but its so cool to hear from folks when I ask  question.. .. like’what is this’..

 

i understand from Matt that

 

The first item is an old aerator for soil. It could be pulled or rolled over the soil by a tractor or beast of burden. You can still buy modern ones today and they are still used all around. (I am from Western Kentucky, we grow up seeing all kinds of implements such as these.) Thought I’d offer at least an answer to your curiosity, I know it would have pestered me until I found out what something unknown to me was if I didn’t find out myself. The curse of a curious mind I guess. Hope I helped.

 

Matt.. your answe arreated my whole evening.. Thanksso much..@@@

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Beutiful fall weather with a near frost last night .. woke up to crisp air.. we had to get outside.

Went for a three hour hike with the dogs up in Little River.. one of our favorites. We love seeign the

old cellar holes, walls and cemetarys up there. Today I paid particular attention to all the cool old junk that’s still up there..

Any idea what this was for ?

 

i think this was a kids chamber pot.

 

part of an old cook stove

 

lots of old glass bottles.

 

buckles and a hinge

 

uhhhhh ?

 

 

 

it was great being up thre.. we took a longer loop than usual.. not many other folks up there..

 

still mostly green.. but a few reds starting to show up

 

i grabbed a few apples from one of theancient trees.. yum !

 

All that junk up in the hills motivated me to come back and tend to our own junk.. I cleaned the garage.. and tidyied up my shop

 

If this is after it was cleaned.. you can guess how bad it was before !

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

much needed ‘day off’ today.. I stayed off of screens pretty much all day and did not do email. felt SO good.

My one venture out was to the  Champlain Maikerfaire.. and event I helped start about 4 years ago.. but had virtually nothing to do with this year.  I feel kinda wierd that i’ve had to drop 100% of my local stuff due tot eh demands of my new job… hmmm. gotta think abotu that some…

It was a beautiful day down at Shelbourne Farms. It seemed to ebbe a smaller crowd.. btu the  folks there were defintely having  a great time !

 

here are soem of the chmbot entries !

 

virtualreality baloonpopping robots of course !

 

my freind jim had his onderful optical piano roll reader.. a thing of beauty !

 

theseguys are tryig to genetically modify cats to change color when exposed to radioactivity

 

therewas lots of fabrics and crafts there today.. more than high tech.. kind of an interesting change

 

heres my freind jim from essex..

 

my pinbox carboard tech freinds were there

 

here’s doug the ring maser on a segway supplied by my freind Jeff… one of the guys that designed them

 

yummy food carts were there too !

nice to be there.. saw so many freinds…

if you didnt go there today.. chek it out tomorrow !

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

 

Longgggggg week.. finally heading home to Vermont. I’m sitting on the plane ready to take of to VT. I’m going to try and not turn on a screen until sunday… .,, will be a fun challenge. Need to get some head clearing time

 

hope everyone has a nice weekend !

 

nite all, nite sam

-me