{"id":379,"date":"2010-10-31T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/10\/31\/saturday-night-jonesville-free-library\/"},"modified":"2010-10-31T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T04:24:00","slug":"saturday-night-jonesville-free-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/10\/31\/saturday-night-jonesville-free-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – Jonesville Free Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ahhhhhh.. I took the day off.. and really needed to..\u00a0\u00a0 I slept late (7 AM).
puttered around the house for a it (Diane was out helping friend Maureen move)..
I the wandered out and cleaned my lab.. It had gotten into an amazingly bad state over the past 3 weeks. I have the tesla coil build going, some stuff for the Haunted Forest pumpkin and a huge mess for various Halloween costumes. Cleaning the lab is like uncluttering my mind.. putting back all the components, tools and instruments back into their places is strangely soothing.. <\/div>\n

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The clean workbench inspired me to finally debug our broken invisible fence.. We’d noticed the dogs getting dangerously close to the road.. I started by checking the wire continuity with an AM radio.. it’s a neat trick.. you can actually ‘hear’ the fence underground as you move the radio over it.. No breaks… hmmmm… I checked the loop with an ohmeter and confirmed it was connected.. so.. I took the whole unit apart..\u00a0 After a bit of snooping, I found the culprit.. a 50 cent high voltage suppressor had blown and shorted.. I popped it out and the unit started right up.. (need to order a replacement) .. Very strange.. the only thing I can figure that might have done that was a lightening strike to the house.. our lightning rod ground goes right next to one of the lead wires to the fence loop..\u00a0\u00a0 pretty cool.. no ? <\/p>\n

I managed to get in some more goofing around.. some meditating, a nap and a run..\u00a0 I felt rejuvenated.. which I really need because I have such a busy week coming up.<\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon, Diane and I walked over to visit neighbors Bob and Amanda.. You can always recognize Bob as he drives his orange truck.. I was tickled to see he’d decorated it with a pumpkin face. <\/div>\n

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Bob had been cleaning out his old house and his mothers old house.. so he had some cool stuff to show us.. like this old sign they used t to advertise all night barn dances in their barn. It’s on the ack of a very old map of Vermont. <\/div>\n

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He’d found an old teachers desk that he figures must have been from our house at some point. <\/div>\n

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He also had found a bunch of old books.. including a nice<\/p>\n

collection of urns poems.. all form the ‘Jonesville Free Library’.. which we<\/p>\n

just learned today was in the room we now use as a mudroom. How cool is that<\/p>\n

?!?! How often do you learn a new fact about the house you’ve owned for nearly<\/p>\n

30 years ?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was great visiting with Bob and Amanda.. and checking out their new house.. They’re trying to sell Bob’s mom’s house right next store.. it’s a nice old place if anyone is interested in a real Vermont farmhouse.\u00a0 Here’s a mid-late 19th century map of our neighborhood..\u00a0 Bob’s mom hous is labeled ‘S. Coly’\u00a0 We’re the ‘Jonesville Academy’<\/div>\n

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Now.. just sitting around trying to figure out if we feel like going out for a Halloween party. .. or just staying here.. both sound fun..<\/p>\n

Mmmm.. diane just pulled some cupcakes out of the oven.. one even looks liek a ghost.. maybe that means we should go to the party ? <\/div>\n

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OK.. that’s all for now..\u00a0 more tomorrow..
Happy all hallow’s eve-eve<\/p>\n

nite all, nite sam
-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ahhhhhh.. I took the day off.. and really needed to..\u00a0\u00a0 I slept late (7 AM). puttered around the house for a it (Diane was out helping friend Maureen move).. I the wandered out and cleaned my lab.. It had gotten into an amazingly bad state over the past 3 weeks. I have the tesla coil … Continue reading Saturday night – Jonesville Free Library<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}