If you type, you’ll understand. Here I present another quirk of typewriters in poetic form. ~TH~
A Portable Poem
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1934 ROYAL portable
ROYAL portable from 1934 SN A378890
12-29-16 – Hmmm… this should be an ‘O’ – with an ‘O’ prefix on the serial number. Here’s a photo of the serial number; looks more like a ‘A’ to me… confusion.
A Repost For The Wizard!
Time has certainly screamed by for me these past two plus years. Here we have a post from my early days of typewriter collecting. I need to dig out this Wizard tomorrow and type on it. Enjoy the photos. ~TH~
1957 Underwood ACE Golden Touch
Sorry to say, nothing golden about the touch of this typewriter at the moment.
I purchased this critter in December 2015 but never got around to using it much due to some frustrating mechanical problems. I didn’t pay a lot for it, so I’m willing to put it on the workbench soon and try to fix the niggles.
I have posted it on the Typewriter Database, in case you want to explore some more information about this series of typewriters. ~TH~
A Tale Of Two C/Ts
Blue- SN 8Y350243
Beige – SN 8YA355215
Instant two-tone machines!
JOURNAL- 10-9-2016
JOURNAL- 10-9-2016
This weekend past, Laurie and I provided music for the wedding of some good friends youngest daughter, Hillary… and her now husband Steven. It was a lot of fun, and we partied like teenagers, albeit not near as late into the night.
Two days ago a homing pigeon ended up in our yard, pecking at the grasses near the milk house. Laurie noticed that it was banded and after some online research, she discovered that if we could capture the bird and secure the numbers on the leg bands, we could alert the owners. So, with kitty crate baited with seed and a small net, I successfully captured the critter. We have reached out to the appropriate club (Syracuse NY), and we’re hoping for a reply. If no reply comes in within the next two days, I plan to drive the bird a little closer to NY and release her. I ain’t takin’ her all the way to Syracuse!
Now I’m enjoying a little down time outside in some beautiful fall weather. I figure I should be outside every chance I get now, before things get really chilly. Everyone out there in inter-web land have a great week! I’ll post this as a ‘typecast’ because I did type it on my Alphasmart 3000. ~TH~
Archy and Don Marquis
On the tail of yesterday’s entry, I continued to dig deeper into the lives of Archy, Mehitabel, and Don Marquis. I downloaded a book of poetry written by D.M. – for free! The poetry is quite good, especially when you keep in mind the era from which it was written.
Here for your enjoyment is Sam Waterston reading a delightful poem by Don Marquis, regarding an assignment that Archy (the typing cockroach) was covering. ~TH~
