Thursday 9/28/2024 Seeing The Sights (Daily Diary)
On the weekends, New Hampshire and Maine are invaded by people from New York and New Jersey! The traffic on Friday and Sunday nights is impressive—almost like LA!
By 9:30 am, Mary was ready for breakfast, and I leapt into the shower and threw on my clothes while she ordered breakfast for us. I had no idea I liked 1/2 piece of burnt bacon and a glass of buttermilk.
Mary, ordering for herself, had a "simple" omelet (Dubbed the "Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata," which includes 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, an entire lobster, six fresh eggs, cream, chives, and lobster sauce. It's served over a bed of Yukon gold potatoes), caviar, Wagyu beef bacon, truffles with white saffron, and foie gras with matsutake mushrooms.
On the bright side, I was allowed one sip of yesterday's orange juice, which they retrieved from the porch after the cat had finished with it.
We are off to the museum to finish our visit from yesterday!
The latest addition to the museum.
A Pontiac!
These guys are 150 years old!
(I was referring to the carriages only)
We could use that today!
Coffee was stored in tins in the 1850s
The ball on the lightning rods would explode if it was struck by lightning.
There is quite a science to lightning rods.
They used to chop tobacco into pieces using this machine!
This is an oldie! It was also electric! No crank!
A real bear skin coat used when driving a sled in the snow!
Many kinds of sheds adorned the upstairs.
Washing machines and vacuums.
A corn shredder.
Watch out for the ringers!
Behind Mary is a portable shower!
Modern vacuum machines!
(Note to self: Get Mary one for Christmas)
An original corn sheller.
From the early 1800s into the 1950s saws like this one were used to "harvest" blocks of ice from rivers, lakes and ponds. A horse-drawn plow cut lines in the frozen surface, then workers used breaker bars and five-foot hand saws to finish cutting the blocks.
Ice saws used to cut blocks of ice so they cold be stored during the summer!
The turtles were born in Dover and when the creator moved away, he donated part of his collection to the museum.
The kids like this!
...and we have real turtles.
Buggy!
Someone like moths!
People will collect anything!
Them is some large beetles.
These little guys are 100 years old!
Wasps nests on the top of thee cabinet!
Some moths are prettier than others.
The garrison house before being moved.
Artifacts form WWI, WWII and the Korean War!
Old signs were fascinating.
Mary met a friend; a fellow doctor.
The RAL-7 is a 5 tube TRF design with some neat features that make it very desirable for CW work. It has two stages of tuned pentode RF (6D6) , a pentode electron-coupled detector (6D6), a pentode first audio (6D6), a pentode audio output and an audio derived AGC using a pentode.
What makes the RAL-7 so great for CW is its audio filtering; between the detector and first audio tube are a pair of filters. The first is an audio low pass filter with a cutoff at about 1400 hz. The second is a high-Q peaked filter adjustable from about 300 hz to 1400 hz.
There is a fine tuning vernier dial which can be used with the main, un-calibrated logging dial. It has a range of about 2 khz. Audio output is 600 ohms at about 1/2 watt. I usually use a 600 ohm LS 166 ruggedized jeep speaker. Power supply requirements are 90 and 180 VDC nominal, at about 40 ma. It will run just fine on a single 90 VDC supply. Also a 6.3 VAC filament supply is required.
War in the Pacific was featured.
The Civil War was also featured.
These rifles were produced a year apart
The pigs tail was used to grab any remaining embers in a cannon before it was reloaded.
Picture perfect; notice the flag waving in the breeze.
The lighthouse is on a small island about 75 feet from shore!
The pulley system delivered supplies to the island when needed.
That would be a little scary in the wind.
No need for a hair dryer here.
Looking good!
The homes have great views of the ocean but they would need a lot of heat!
The birdies like their little island also!
Come on in!!
Chunk and Ashton are deciding.
I met Tim, Jacquie's father-in-law; nice guy!!
The kids know this place well!
Smile Emmy!
Mary offers to cut up my food!
Then I found out she was after my drink!
S-m-o-o-o-o-o-o-c-h!!
I am a lucky guy!
Oh my, they cooked up the entire cow!
Complete with mushrooms!
We had more food than.....
Grandma assists Emerson! Grandpa helps Chunk!
That's a lot of food!
Mary spotted the skeleton
On dear. Dr. Mary in action!
