Ever have a spell where it seems like everything ya do doesn't work out. I'm in a week long tire spinnin spell. I'm goin through the motions and thinkin stuff through, but I accomplishin very little.
A few weeks ago, a cousin told me about this bank in Hudson IN that was robbed by John Dillinger. Back then it was called the Farmer's Merchant Bank. It has since been turned into a restaurant. Used to be called Dillinger's, but when I got there, the name had been recently changed to the Gangster's Grille. Unfortunately for me and for whatever reason, it was closed the day I was there.
This is the pic I took of the outside. Inside there used to be (??) framed newspaper articles and photos of the robbery.
This is the water tank in Ashley IN. I think the bow tie is a nice touch. Ashley and Hudson are practically next to each other and are both small towns of a thousand people or less. This is where I saw the new Family Dollar and Dollar General stores side by side. It was a nice hour or so drive, but I didn't get to see the inside of the bank that John Dillinger robbed and went home hungry.
Over the weekend I was searching for a 13/16" forstner drill bit. Ended up going to Ft. Wayne to get one. Tried it out Monday. Not gonna work for what I thought I needed it for. The trip was a waste of time. Don't know why the directions suggested a forstner bit. A twist drill bit is what I need. Maybe the local Sears Hardware has one that big . . . No one else in town has one.
Been sellin a lot of cookie cutter sets the last week or so. I used to re-order every month but had not needed to since spring. Got to the point, finally, where I was gettin low on certain sets. So I put together an order over the weekend. They should be here tomorrow or Thursday for sure. When I order, I usually have a serious run on a particular set or two as soon as I place the order. This time was no different. Saturday PM, I had 9 sets of the 7 pc. dog house set and now I have three. Oh, well. I sold the last remaining sets of the football cutter about three days after I listed them. Got a new supply comin in this week. I will be getting a supply of the set of hand tools cutters too. I ordered a couple sets last spring and they went pretty quick. Sold my first set of Halloween cutters today. They are going to Australia . . . where else??? Halloween is a big holiday down there and I send quite a few there.
I'm in charge of setting up my high school class's breakfast get-togethers. Sunday I was sending out reminders, etc. for the next one in September. Wouldn't ya know it, I left a page out of the updated roster info. It was easy to fix, just send another email. I'm pretty sure I had all three pages in the snail mail envelopes. Too many pieces of paper to keep track of. Maybe I should do snail mails one day and the emails another day . . .
This morning I had a few cookie cutter sets to process and get into the mail. A couple were going out of the country and I have to process them differently than the US ones. Wouldn't you know it . . . My label addressing program disapeared from my computer !! Have no idea how or when. Had to dig out the disk and re-install it . . . and of course it isn't working as effecient as the previous installation. Took me way longer to get those two sets ready to go.
Yesterday I decided to turn a pen out of acrylic. When I got to the put together stage, I discovered the tube in the kit was the wrong length. More wasted, unproductive time. At least the acrylic I used turned out to be really ugly.
Was thinking about what I'm gonna transplant and change for next year's flower beds when it hit me that the sunflowers I planted did reasonably well. Just about every year that I can remember I plant sunflowers. Just about every year except a couple, they don't do well. This year I planted some of the tall ones and they did reasonably well, when practically everything else did poorly. I'm estimating the tallest are 11'-12' tall. Thought I better mention something that worked . . .
This isn't meant to be a blog post of complainin. Just a few things where I've spun my tires to the point of smokin things up pretty good.
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