Perch would be my second choice.Cathy Wilde wrote:(Sorry Den, she's into Perch/TBreds
Some of our horses really like flute, none of them dislike it.
Whistle seems iffy.
Not sure. It's Lee Valley Conservators' Wax, pretty expensive stuff for a bench.Cathy Wilde wrote:Chiffed wrote:I've been trying to preserve some old leather and softwood carvings, and conservators wax has been used (on a conservators recomendation). <snip>/quote]
Is that the same as Butcher's Wax? I've been told I need some of that for a bench that sits on my porch. Need to do an Internet search because it's certainly not in a store near me ... thanks for the reminder!
You might want to try machinists test wax......comes in all hardnesses and they usually sample in 5lb bags (esp if they think you might buy 55gal drums later...they like new apps)......I'll try to remember to get you a name......(remind me)Cathy Wilde wrote:Chiffed wrote:I've been trying to preserve some old leather and softwood carvings, and conservators wax has been used (on a conservators recomendation). <snip>/quote]
Is that the same as Butcher's Wax? I've been told I need some of that for a bench that sits on my porch. Need to do an Internet search because it's certainly not in a store near me ... thanks for the reminder!
Nice to hear from you again! You must be in shorts with the warm weather your getting! How is the flute physics coming? I would like to re-invent the 19th century conical flute... Sounds like you got yourself a nice horse there!Nelson wrote:Every morning at about 10 o'clock I go up to the barn, feed, brush my soral 1/4 horse. She has a pony to keep her company. I don't much. I used to ride her up the mountain most every day but I get fat doing that so now I walk up the mountain. It is easier to cut down on the horses feed than it is to cut down on my feed. I saw in a book that hacking was good exercise but not for me. I wish I had someone around to ride with. It is more fun riding with some other horse around. I used to Fox Hunt and Cub and show jump. I'm up most of the night writing books and playing my flute in winter. Now I am writing about cryptography on the internet see http://www.patriotcrier.com . Last winter I worked on http://www.flutephysics.com and I have to get back to it this winter. Before long I am going skiing down close to where Johnie Gallagher has his shop; if we ever get any snow this year. I want to try that boxwood flute of Cathies before it leaves his shop, now that it is all fixed up. What a long time to wait. He really did a super job on putting a silver lip plate on my cocobolo R&R.
I wish I could go riding with yous guys.
Nelson
Poor Bunkie. I'm so right there with ya. My old gal's T-4 is 0.2 without supplementation. I've been to hell and back again with her (not to mention near bankruptcy!). But she keeps going!candis bowen wrote: I don't ride much any more; my Morgan has chronic founder from hypothyroidism & we're trying to save her life.
That does sound cool, Nelson. I miss riding, too. And I miss riding buddies, yeah. I think I rode fewer than 10 times last year. Anybody want a HUGE (and getting huger by the second!) Percheron cross?Nelson wrote:About 100 feet behind my house I bulldozed out and had a basement-wall-maker put in a 3 sided wall and built a barn around it into the hill. Behind it I brought a water line in way below ground. I put it in an insulated box on the side of my wall in the vestibule of the barn. There is a lightbulb in the box (water closet). The water closet is closed except when I fill the horses water bucket. So the spickot has a short hose that goes over to the water bucket. The water bucket has a wee heater. The (2) large stalls are like jail in that they have bars in front facing the vestibule. So I just stick the hose through the jail house bars to water.
In the summer I put a chair next to the wall and play my flute. It's cool.
Those professional guys like the ones that teach at Augusta really play fast. I could never play that fast a lot. In Irland and Scotland I never see folks dance that fast. I wonder why thay do it.
Nelson