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All righty then! I finished my wood carving. It has really 'fat' legs. While shaving the wood for legs, and before painting it, the back [left] leg broke. I glued it on. Did some sanding to erase the seal somewhat, and stopped carving so it wouldn't break again. So...fat legs. Anyway, some asked that I share it when done whether I thought it was good enough. Well, I don't think it IS.  It's very primative...but I share it N E way. After staining the twisted piece I was to use for the 'fallen tree', I then brought out the pink, yellow, white and black acrylic paints and painted the bird...

I then mounted it all on a small square mirror for balance and reflection...

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This is the 2nd slide show You Tube movie [link] I have made for this tour...
Steam...as in Steam Heat!! Steam bath!! I looked up in Google to try and find a photo of this to depict it....to get me a little 'header' graphic. Nada, zilch. But I did find the little ditty on "Handbook for Heating and Ventilating Engineers by James David Hoffman, Benedict Frederick Raber (1913)
"Suggestions for Exhist steam heat, Apr. 7, 1904, p. 332. An Improved steam heat. ... A Unique Low Pressure steam heat. Apparatus, Feb. 1909, p. 38. ..." Then, just below this it read OTHER SOURCES OF STEAM HEAT....well, I got one for ya. It's called Corpus Christi!! Yep, definitely a source of steam heat these days. Tho historically the area is in the deepest drought since records have been kept...it's still STEAMY!! The Gulf gives us that. The temps climb to near 100 degrees by midday and the humidity is so high...we have STEAM. LOLOLOLOL But really, you think subtropical...I'm in the steamy, heated, subtropics....you read the words steam heat, and think "Flamingos"....right? You don't? Well you should!!! 'Cause I'm gonna show you some. They love to be near water...surrounding themselves with steam heat!!! Okay, okay...just go with the flow here, I gotta work in 'steam' somehow for the post. Above, the slide show is from a morning tour at the Botanical Gardens in Corpus Christi that Bud and I attended last week! From this month through Labor Day, they're having a 'Flamingo Fandango" Contest...decorating those plastic ones as you see from my You Tube!






POSTED: Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
4:20 A.M.