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Friday, February 10, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Activites for Senior Men - Tool Quiz
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- Ball Peen Hammer - Flat on one working surface, rounded on the other, used by mechanics, iron workers, and steam fitters when assembling and repairing mechanical materials.
- Monkey "adjustable" Wrench 1900 - Older version of the adjustable wrench, needed in the day when nut and bolt sizes were not standard, in the carriage shops, automotive shops as well as by mechanical and plumbing craftsman.
- Claw Hammer - Most familiar carpenter and household tool used to drive nails of all sizes into framing materials and trim material, and with a slotted pry bar on the other side of the head, used to pull nails.
- Raw Hide Mallet - Another special purpose hammer consisting of tough hide (usually buffalo) tightly rolled inside a tube, usually used in crafts and trades such as jewelry and leather work.
- Buggy Wheel Multi-Wrench 1880 - Specialty wrench made with common nut and bolt sized openings used in assembly, repair and maintenance of buggy bodies and wheels.
- Rubber/Nylon Head Mallet - Most common hammer surfaces used when metal hammers can't be used, such as leather, sheet metal, jewelry, and other materials where crushing or marks need to be avoided.
- Cobbler's Hammer - A small delicate hammer with a round end face and a blunted punch shape end used by cobblers and leather artisans, especially in assembling and repairing shoes and boots.
- Meat Tenderizer - A type of mallet used to flatten and tenderize meat, pounding on a piece of meat laid out on a wood surface.
- Farriers Pliers - Specialty tool used by craftsman in care and shoeing of horses and mules, with tongs and pinchers built in for pulling, cleaning, straightening and repairing hooves and horseshoes.
- Tack Hammer - Small hammer used by upholsters to fasten material to chair and couch frames, delivering light precise blows to tacks and brads.
- Pipe Wrench - Specialty hand tool made with adjustable opening jaws, with curve to a surface, used by plumbers and steam fitters to tighten and loosen threaded pipe and connections, especially water pipes, steam lines and gas pipes.
- Sledge Hammer - Heavy hammer of steel used to drive large spikes, drive star drills, break rocks, and other purposes requiring a high force on the object.
- Masonry Hammer - Used by mason and brick layers to chip and divide brick and stone into desired sizes and shapes as an alternative to using a masonry saw, with one edge for tapping and striking flat blows, the other with a curved chisel end.
- Fencing Pliers - Specialty tool used to make fence, attaching barbed wire or woven wire by driving staples into posts, or using other end to pull staples, with built-in wire cutting machined surfaces.
- Ford Model T Wrench 1900 - General purpose wrench used by mechanics, for turning bolts and nuts and pipes.
Source: Creating Together Journal January / February ©2011
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A right delayed is a right denied.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-mined men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
A lie cannot live."
Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: Creating Together Journal January / February ©2011
A riot is the language of the unheard.
A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-mined men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
A lie cannot live."
Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: Creating Together Journal January / February ©2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
The Complete Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we can not dedicate —we can not consecrate— we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Source: Creating Together Journal ©2011
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we can not dedicate —we can not consecrate— we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Source: Creating Together Journal ©2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Information about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was founded by Jan Scruggs, who served in Vietnam from 1969-1970 as a infantry corporal. He wanted the memorial to acknowledge and recognize the service and sacrifice of all who served in Vietnam. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. (VVMF), a nonprofit charitable organization, was incorporated on April 27, 1979, by a group of Vietnam veterans in Washington, D.C. Jan Scruggs (President of VVMF) lobbied Congress for a two acre plot of land in the Constitution Gardens. Significant initial support came from U.S. Senators Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. of Maryland and John W. Warner of Virginia. On July 1, 1980, in the Rose Garden, President Jimmy Carter signed the legislation to provide a site in Constitution Gardens near the Lincoln Memorial. It was a three and half year task to build the memorial and to orchestrate a celebration to salute those who served in Vietnam.
Source: www.thewall-usa.com/information.asp
Source: www.thewall-usa.com/information.asp
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Camptown Races Song
Stephen Foster published this song in 1850.
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The Camptown ladies sing this song, Doo-da, Doo-da
The Camptown racetrack’s five miles long, Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to run all night, Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag, Somebody bet on the gray.
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Oh, the long tailed filly and the big black horse, Doo-da, doo-da_
Come to a mud hole and they all cut across, Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to run all night, Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag, Somebody bet on the gray.
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I went down there with my hat caved in, Doo-da, doo-da_
I came back home with a pocket full of tin, Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to run all night, Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag, Somebody bet on the gray.
Source: Creating Together Journal ©2011
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The Camptown ladies sing this song, Doo-da, Doo-da
The Camptown racetrack’s five miles long, Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to run all night, Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag, Somebody bet on the gray.
)
Oh, the long tailed filly and the big black horse, Doo-da, doo-da_
Come to a mud hole and they all cut across, Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to run all night, Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag, Somebody bet on the gray.
)
I went down there with my hat caved in, Doo-da, doo-da_
I came back home with a pocket full of tin, Oh, de doo-da day
Goin’ to run all night, Goin’ to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag, Somebody bet on the gray.
Source: Creating Together Journal ©2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Oh, Susanna Song Lyrics
Stephen Foster wrote the original lyrics for this song in 1847.
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I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
I’m going to Louisiana, my true love for to see
It rained all night the day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death
Susanna, don’t you cry
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Oh, Susanna, Oh don’t you cry for me
For I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
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I had a dream the other night
When everything was still
I thought I saw Susanna, a-coming down the hill
The buckwheat cake was in her mouth
The tear was in her eye
Says I, I’m coming from the south
Susanna, don’t you cry
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Oh, Susanna, Oh don’t you cry for me
For I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
Source: Creating Together Journal ©2011
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I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
I’m going to Louisiana, my true love for to see
It rained all night the day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death
Susanna, don’t you cry
)
Oh, Susanna, Oh don’t you cry for me
For I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
)
I had a dream the other night
When everything was still
I thought I saw Susanna, a-coming down the hill
The buckwheat cake was in her mouth
The tear was in her eye
Says I, I’m coming from the south
Susanna, don’t you cry
)
Oh, Susanna, Oh don’t you cry for me
For I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
Source: Creating Together Journal ©2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Quilt Pattern Matching Game
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