Getting my Vinyl fix

Somebody must have dropped off a load of records from an estate at the Milford CT Goodwill. I walked out with fifty of them! That's about the cost of four CD's.

Stephane Grappelli,
Carmen McRae,
Howard U Gospel Choir,
the Main Ingredient,
Southside Johhny,
Dave Van Ronk
Eliane Elias
The pointer sisters first album
Ella and Basie
Malhalia Jackson
Les Paul and Mary Ford
Chet Atkins
Emmylou Harris
Louis Prima & Keely Smith
Doc Watson
Egberto Gismonti
John Hartford
Bill Keith (blue velvet band)
Robert Gordon w/ Link Wray
Weather Report
Steve Winwood
Joe Satriani
Chicago (man did they put out a lot of albums. and all like doubles.)
Benny Goodman with Stravinsky, copland and bernstein
Bucky Pizzarelli and Bud Freeman
some Cajun Music (Savoy- Doucet)
Old Bonnie Raitt (double)
Sarah Vaughn doing bossa
Philadelphia Folk Festival 1977
an extra copy of Stage Fright (the band)
Stan Kenton
Loudon Wainwright
Bobby Short (doing cole porter)
Stanley Turrentine
the Cheiftains
and a motown 4 album compilation with some cuts that are missing from my collection.

I haven't hit a good cache of records in a very long time. But then I have not been looking.

here's a shot of some GD records, since I don't have a photo of the random goodwill haul.

Recording Studio Acoustic Treatment Part 2: Mix Position Clouds

http://homerecording.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=2719114&postcount=1

Cutting Pegboard Retaining Strips



Pegboard Strips



1by spacers, 6 feet long, two feet apart. Drywall screws (coarse thread)



Measuring and marking



And they're up.



Linen-covered with 48 stars and 13 stripes



That's all. Later that night, I moved the panels seen to my right up closer to the ceiling and added another under the horizontal one. 6 panels left to place around, and we'll see how it sounds in there.

Sailboat Spruce-Up

Today's project was to clean the Sailboat. Peter from across the street offered it to us for free this summer. So one day we got together, put a new wheel on the trailer, pulled it out of the muddy decomposed leaf pile that had grown around it, and rolled it right across the street and up our little driveway.



It remained full of leaves mainly due to the wasp nest that occupied the leaf accumulation in the back of the boat. One got inside the house and later died on my bathroom windowsill, and I identified them as a European Paper Wasps. http://www.livingwithbugs.com/epw.html They were pretty agressive little guys, so waiting until this nice November day was essential. My uncle Tom was over one afternoon to watch the kids for Shawn and me, and was about to go out and clean it for us, but Jimmy (then still two) said the magic word... "bees!" So Tom's clean-boat-surprise was a bust...

I looked it up online and identified it as a Canadian made Tanzer 16. It arrived with a main, jib and genoa that seem to be in fine shape. The teak was soaking in the mud at the bottom of the boat for some time, but I braved the bees to tug out the aft hatch cover, which was spongy. Once it dried, it was a little rough to the touch, but hard and sandable. What an amazing wood.

http://www.clal.ca/tanzer16/

The whole boat was filled with leaves that had largely decomposed into a fine compost, so I enriched the garden as I cleaned. I discovered the rudder, tiller, a bailer, and even a small danforth anchor as I sifted deeper. It took a few iterations of clean out and rinse-out before the boat was ready for some dish soap and a brush. All the fiberglass surfaces of the boat excepting the hull were covered in a spotty dull grey patina of mildew and what appeared to be round bumps of lichen. The port side had a green cast of algae. It mostly came off with a little elbow grease and dish soap. A more complete cleaning is in order, but I think it's clean enough to roll into the garage before the cold weather sets in.

I've got some years before the boys are ready to go sailing, and I've got to get a little practice in myself. I'm not sure how much of my fifty-foot sailing skills will apply to a sixteen footer!