Wedding Bells
4/21/06 5:30 am.
46º F, Clear, S wind 4 mph.
Good morning,
Every morning I open up the webcam on the Enschede website ( http://www.enschede.nl/SPY/CamPage.htm ) to see what is happening in Margriet’s home town. Check the weather and like that. This morning I had a surprise. The camera fronts the city square and the city government building. There was a wedding this morning complete with an antique carriage, pulled by a three horse hitch (three horses abreast). Of course when the carriage left, my attention was elsewhere and I didn’t see them leave. It was a pretty good sized wedding judging my the number of folks and vehicles around. Normally vehicles are not allowed in the square. Weddings happen most often on Friday’s there (So was ours wedding.) and are more a civil action than a religious one. It was really cool!
Yesterday I really didn’t accomplish very much. Played with this machine too much. Getting the new printer has led to some other activities. Like cleaning up the desk and re-finding some projects started but not finished. One is transferring many, many files from floppy disks to flash drives so I still have them in years to come. Some of the files I have to open, just to remember other times and events, not all good.
I also have been going through my Grandmother’s Bible, which has many pictures and papers stuck into it. I have been sharing the contents with cousins and other across the country. It has started (really continued) a dialog which is also very interesting. Learning something of my history in the process. The process is also creating questions without ready answers. Also some fun.
One item in Grandma’s Bible is a negative of a picture. I think it is from about 1921. The picture shows a very old (today’s standards) touring car (with canvas top) with a wall tent pitched next to it. There is also one individual in the picture who I think is my Uncle Carl, but not too sure. I have tried to print the negative using my scanner, but with varying results. The scanner is only capable of copying 35 mm slides, but I am cheating some. The negative is 4"x6" and by taking off the mask of the scanner, I can scan a part of the negative at a time, about the size of two slides without frames. It only scans a little less than a of the negative at a time. From what I can make out on the photo, I think the car may be an overland, judging by what I remember of the "hood emblem" from other pictures. It is not that clear, so am going my shapes of black and white areas. The license plate is also from Wisconsin and I think shows a date of 1921 on it. There also is a movable spot light on the side of the windshield, much like old time police cars had! I will have to work on a way to be able to scan the entire negative at one time. I also have a lot of other negatives (somewhere) I would like to print out too, some on glass plates.
When my Dad was young, college age, he and his brothers would pack some camping gear into a car and head off on a cross-country trip of some kind. I remember hearing Dad talk of one trip to Mammoth Cave they took. I think it was the reason we went there when I was a kid and a background reason Margriet and I stopped there on the way south a couple of years ago. I am not sure where this particular picture was taken, but am pretty sure it was on one of these trips. I have no idea who took the picture either. I know Dad and his brother Adolf were doing a lot of photography and developing their own film too. Would be interesting to hear the real story behind the picture.
The harbor in Kewaunee has very few boats docked in the slips yet. Only three I think. Seems to be a lot fewer than normal. I wonder if the price of fuel has something to do with it. There also are a lot of boats on shore with "For Sale" signs on them. Also fuel cost related I think. I wonder how the charter captains are going to do this year. Fuel prices are very high, very early in the season this year. The area chambers of commerce are really starting some aggressive advertising to target folks within a "gas-tank" trip distance to come here for vacation. Could be a successful campaign, but one thing sure, I don’t think folks will be traveling as much as other years. I know we will not be doing much traveling very far.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
46º F, Clear, S wind 4 mph.
Good morning,
Every morning I open up the webcam on the Enschede website ( http://www.enschede.nl/SPY/CamPage.htm ) to see what is happening in Margriet’s home town. Check the weather and like that. This morning I had a surprise. The camera fronts the city square and the city government building. There was a wedding this morning complete with an antique carriage, pulled by a three horse hitch (three horses abreast). Of course when the carriage left, my attention was elsewhere and I didn’t see them leave. It was a pretty good sized wedding judging my the number of folks and vehicles around. Normally vehicles are not allowed in the square. Weddings happen most often on Friday’s there (So was ours wedding.) and are more a civil action than a religious one. It was really cool!
Yesterday I really didn’t accomplish very much. Played with this machine too much. Getting the new printer has led to some other activities. Like cleaning up the desk and re-finding some projects started but not finished. One is transferring many, many files from floppy disks to flash drives so I still have them in years to come. Some of the files I have to open, just to remember other times and events, not all good.
I also have been going through my Grandmother’s Bible, which has many pictures and papers stuck into it. I have been sharing the contents with cousins and other across the country. It has started (really continued) a dialog which is also very interesting. Learning something of my history in the process. The process is also creating questions without ready answers. Also some fun.
One item in Grandma’s Bible is a negative of a picture. I think it is from about 1921. The picture shows a very old (today’s standards) touring car (with canvas top) with a wall tent pitched next to it. There is also one individual in the picture who I think is my Uncle Carl, but not too sure. I have tried to print the negative using my scanner, but with varying results. The scanner is only capable of copying 35 mm slides, but I am cheating some. The negative is 4"x6" and by taking off the mask of the scanner, I can scan a part of the negative at a time, about the size of two slides without frames. It only scans a little less than a of the negative at a time. From what I can make out on the photo, I think the car may be an overland, judging by what I remember of the "hood emblem" from other pictures. It is not that clear, so am going my shapes of black and white areas. The license plate is also from Wisconsin and I think shows a date of 1921 on it. There also is a movable spot light on the side of the windshield, much like old time police cars had! I will have to work on a way to be able to scan the entire negative at one time. I also have a lot of other negatives (somewhere) I would like to print out too, some on glass plates.
When my Dad was young, college age, he and his brothers would pack some camping gear into a car and head off on a cross-country trip of some kind. I remember hearing Dad talk of one trip to Mammoth Cave they took. I think it was the reason we went there when I was a kid and a background reason Margriet and I stopped there on the way south a couple of years ago. I am not sure where this particular picture was taken, but am pretty sure it was on one of these trips. I have no idea who took the picture either. I know Dad and his brother Adolf were doing a lot of photography and developing their own film too. Would be interesting to hear the real story behind the picture.
The harbor in Kewaunee has very few boats docked in the slips yet. Only three I think. Seems to be a lot fewer than normal. I wonder if the price of fuel has something to do with it. There also are a lot of boats on shore with "For Sale" signs on them. Also fuel cost related I think. I wonder how the charter captains are going to do this year. Fuel prices are very high, very early in the season this year. The area chambers of commerce are really starting some aggressive advertising to target folks within a "gas-tank" trip distance to come here for vacation. Could be a successful campaign, but one thing sure, I don’t think folks will be traveling as much as other years. I know we will not be doing much traveling very far.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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