I donated 12 tables and 24 chairs to Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center this morning.
When I bought my house a few years ago the basement was full of these nice (but dirty) black bar tables and chairs. They were supposed to get rid of them before I moved in, but they didn't. I couldn't find anybody that wanted them. I wasn't trying to sell them or anything, although I bet I could have. I didn't try very hard to get rid of them, but I finally found some one who could use them. The Mendelssohn Center is just across the river, about 1/2 mile from my house. It took 3 trips to move the the 12 tables and 24 chairs.
Here is the first load with all the tables (and a couple chairs).
This is the second load with 8 chairs
We weren't sure how many chairs they needed or wanted, so we only took 8. They ended up wanting 2 chairs for each table, so the last trip was 14 chairs. Heres most of the chairs in the garage after the move
and all the tables
They are pretty nice after you clean 'em (these aren't clean yet).
Heres what is left in my basement
and more
Here is the pile of seat cushions
and another room full of chairs
This cleared out a room and a half of tables and chairs in my basement, so I finally took some time and cleaned up the junk and organized some stuff down there. I've been putting that off for 2 years :) so it feels good to finally get some of it done.
In this case (at Trekk), Fun = Food
Breakfast
Cream of Wheat with strawberries, blueberries, honey, brown sugar, and vanilla rice milk with Tropicana Premium Orange Juice with calcium and vitamin D (no pulp) and Tropicana Peach Orchard Punch to drink.
Here's a shot of some cream of wheat with blueberries.
Cream of Wheat with brown sugar and honey.
Afternoon snacks consist of a cheese dip made with velveta and ground beef, ritz, triscuits, and oatmeal creme pies (big pak).
Here's David enjoying an Oatmeal Creme Pie (its hard not too enjoy an oatmeal creme pie).
My fourth geohash expedition!
Click here to view the full report
Here is a screen shot of the track log near the hashpoint
This is a video leaving the hashpoint.
The last picture is showing my location at the hashpoint. The second to last picture is nature stuck in my jeans.
This is a video from at the hashpoint.
This is a video of the sun shining through the trees as I was walking back.
This is a video of me sliding on the ice.
This is a screenshot of the track log near the hashpoint.
This is a screenshot of the track log where I turned around to help the old lady with a flat tire. She was at the intersection (the yellow wrench). I was heading south, through the intersection, turned around and headed north, asked if she needed help, then went north and turned around again and continued on my way heading south again.
Here is a screenshot of the GPS track log from in the field. You can see we went to the house, and then swerved throug the field to the hashpoint.
Here is a screenshot from my phone showing that we were at the hashpoint.
And this is a video of leaving the hashpoint. Its dark so you can't see anything, but you can hear me and you can hear us talking.
It was a cold and foggy night (really foggy). We left at 11pm, excited for our first geohash expedition.
I think we averaged 30mph off the highway because it was so foggy. On the way to the hashpoint, we almost hit a raccoon, and then we did hit an opossum (but we did try to miss it). On the way back we almost hit a raccoon (we think it was the same one).
We were using our phones for navigation but kept loosing service. The GPS seemed to work, but there was no map data (as you can see in the images).
After taking some funless gravel roads we eventually made it to field where the hashpoint was. We parked on the side of the road near an opening in the fence, put on the blinkers, and started walking. It was dark and foggy and the only light we had was from our phones, which was tricky because we also used our phones for navigation. So I kept pointing my phone down to see where I was walking (through snow and rows of dead and broken corn stalks). Then had to stop and look at my phone to see where I was, then point my phone down again to continue walking.
I don't think we stopped right on the hashpoint, but I'm sure we crossed it a few times. The combination of loosing service and not being able to see where we were going made it hard (and fun!), so we took some pictures and left.
Also, this was all on Saturday night (not Friday). We didn't realize we went to Friday's hashpoint until recording our expedition on Monday morning (we are still working out the kinks in our geohashing skills).
This is the fog we were driving through:
Here is a picture of my phone showing that we are at the hashpoint:
David and I at the hashpoint:
And a video driving in the fog just after leaving the hashpoint (its sideways and I didn't bother to edit it because there's not much to see anyway):
We had soup and stuff for lunch!!
Here is all the delicious soups, salads and breads:
This was my soup: "Joe's Slightly Zesty Assorted Chicken Gumbo ft. Sausage"
Ingredients:
and our sweet dessert!
The waffles is warm and crisp, the ice cream is cold and creamy, making this a delicious treat!
(Sent from my Android phone)
