** Picture of the Day 3 **

[goopysolelady]

Sunrise over the Thames River, London; 1 block from our hotel:

 

[klmall]

 

[goopysolelady]

12 hour dance day with our "baby girl". Tough day for her personally when, during the 2nd number of the day, when she was helping with a lift and dislocated THREE of her ribs! Danced through 2 numbers in pretty bad pain before a long enough break for Sara to get her adjusted at a local chiropractors. Time was really tight and she literally RAN on the stage for her solos when they returned with not a minute to spare. Needless to say, those performances left a lot to be desired. She pushed through the rest of the afternoon and group numbers ended up doing well, all receiving Judges Awards but personally..UGH...rough.

 

[goopysolelady]

...and breaking the Picture of the Day rules with another post! Up at 6 am to get ready to leave for dance and was very surprised when I checked other DGD's Instagram page! She was suppose to visit the UN today but instead decided to go to the FRENCH ALPS! She's really enjoying her European adventure!

 

[klmall]

Independence Gold Mine; Victor, CO

 

[goopysolelady]

Hard work pays off!

 

[klmall]

Banff, Canada

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Took this picture to make sure I could put everything back together again properly. It's the motor that rotates by stone in my pizza oven. It used to run on 2 D batteries or an AC adapter that I never bought and which is no longer for sale. I rewired it to take power via a USB-C port, so I can plug in a standard power brick, because who wouldn't want their pizza oven to be USB-C compatible?

 

[goopysolelady]

Even found Mickey in Ireland :

 

[boBQuincy]

along the 20 Mule Team Canyon Road, Death Valley NP

I remember watching "Death Valley Days".

 

[boBQuincy]

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Took this picture to make sure I could put everything back together again properly. It's the motor that rotates by stone in my pizza oven. It used to run on 2 D batteries or an AC adapter that I never bought and which is no longer for sale. I rewired it to take power via a USB-C port, so I can plug in a standard power brick, because who wouldn't want their pizza oven to be USB-C compatible?

Doesn't look that different from the drive system in the Dumbo models or even the Mark VII monorail. Nowadays it has to be USB-C *and* it has to have a microcontroller just because.
Nice engineering work!

 

[klmall]

Boys will be boys! This young man is now a full-fledged recording studio technician in L.A.

 

[goopysolelady]

What a difference from jeans and tee shirts to dainty ballerina's!

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Doesn't look that different from the drive system in the Dumbo models or even the Mark VII monorail. Nowadays it has to be USB-C *and* it has to have a microcontroller just because.
Nice engineering work!

Thanks. I think my favorite hillbilly electronic hack was when we took the boys on a canoe trip down the Buffalo River back in '07. We wanted them to enjoy the outdoors, but still have some of their electronic comforts from home. They loved playing with their Nintendo DSes, but there were no way the batteries in them would last for the duration of the trip. This was in the days before USB charging or power bricks, so we created a homebrew solution. We cut the cord from a knock-off DS charger and wired it into a lantern style flashlight. My assumption was that the nominally 6 volts from the lantern battery would be close enough to the expected 5.5 volts from the charge. It worked like a charm. I'm sure that some naturalist parents were appalled, but the kids learned that our family solves problems with technology. Now, they're techies - one with a job at a major software company and the other studying comp sci in college. And both love the outdoors.

 

[klmall]

Going back in time Bodie State Park, CA

 

[goopysolelady]

International goal #3 in today's game!

 

[boBQuincy]

Just one more of the Venus/Jupiter conjunction from 01 March.

 

[klmall]

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

 

[goopysolelady]

 

[klmall]

A 'sundog' (colored spots of light refracted through ice crystals) we saw in the Smokies one autumn.