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The show is up in Davies Hall at Itasca Community College. There was room for 25 paintings (closely spaced). A heated argument about title cards ensued. I lost. There will be some. The lack of color in the paintings makes the fluorescent lights less of an issue.</div>
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If you want to climb the rankings it's important to choose the right category.</div>
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On my second sabbatical, back around the turn of the century, I thought it would be a good idea to learn how to build a website. When I stare at the mind-numbing code I sometimes regret that decision. Here I try to update my site to include information about the current project.</div>
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Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749400027177555552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469741306589914361.post-36238088549174659242017-06-12T11:25:00.003-07:002017-06-12T11:32:51.013-07:00Tin Can Life: The Book<br />
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Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749400027177555552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469741306589914361.post-1924063605582762402017-05-26T13:00:00.000-07:002017-05-26T14:20:06.944-07:00The End (ish)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My first Summer home from college My parents and I lived in the trailer while they built their dream house. When it was finally completed the trailer sat mostly unused in the yard until the day a young couple in a Jeep Wagoneer dragged it away in a cloud of Dunn Road dust. They claimed it was just what they were looking for.</div>
Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749400027177555552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469741306589914361.post-4724588661313180302017-05-21T15:30:00.001-07:002017-05-21T15:30:22.137-07:00Twinkie Boy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749400027177555552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469741306589914361.post-10607800403063732542017-04-21T14:28:00.001-07:002017-04-21T14:28:53.290-07:00Where's The Downhill Portion of the Learning Curve?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pro tip: You can get used art cheaper than new glass. I scoured the thrift stores and scored some sweet motel art. The harvested glass will find new life in my <s>monotonous</s> monochromatic paintings. </div>
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Once again the studio couch proves its value as I map out the book. To think I wasn't even allowed to sit on this front room couch as a child.</div>
Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749400027177555552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469741306589914361.post-39607238173597109492017-04-14T13:48:00.000-07:002017-04-14T13:56:03.586-07:00The Bane of My Existence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Framed paintings piling up. </div>
Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749400027177555552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469741306589914361.post-58507318741643753322017-04-06T15:18:00.003-07:002017-04-06T15:18:57.429-07:00Nice View<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The reward for hauling a trailer to the top of a mountain was the panoramic view. Unfortunately the view was often obscured by clouds.</div>
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No study of pre-Interstate Highway System travel (yes, that's what this is) would be complete without some mention of the most famous pre-Interstate highways, namely Route 66 and the Lincoln Highway. They were neither romantic nor nostalgic when we drove on them. They were simply the line (not straight) between two points. I have two clear recollections of traveling on Route 66. The first involved trying to sound out the word ALBUQUERQUE with amusing results. The second was traveling alone with my Father in the middle of the night. I was my job to keep him awake. I was listening to Wolfman Jack (before I knew who he was) on the radio. He was doing a bit about an elf or something climbing up on the bridge of your nose and saying the three words you longed to hear: "You're under arrest." We pulled into a truck stop and I got a bottle of root beer. I discovered that root beer tastes really weird at 2 am.</div>
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On two occasions while waiting for real houses we parked the trailer at Canyon Glen in Provo Canyon. There was a railroad bridge that teenagers jumped off of, my mother fished from, and a train regularly crossed. I was in a state of anxiety while my mother fished. The constant sounds of rushing water, the canyon breeze blowing through the trees, and trucks using their Jake Brakes* as they descended the canyon are powerful memories. There were no showers but there was a small trading post that sold Necco wafers and rubber erasers (the erasers tasted better).</div>
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I dusted off my artistic license and doubled the height of the actual bridge It still doesn't match my childhood recollection.</div>
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<i>*The Jacobs Engine Brake (also known as the "Jake Brake<sup>®</sup>") is a
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controlling the vehicle. When activated, the engine brake alters the
operation of the engine's exhaust valves so that the engine works as a
power-absorbing air compressor. This provides a retarding, or slowing,
action to the vehicle's drive wheels, enabling you to have improved
vehicle control without using the service brakes. This conservation
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This conservation also results in the thunderous BOOGADUH-BOOGADUH-BOOGADUH sound that echoed off the canyon walls. It's because of Jake Brakes you will often see signs posted at the edge of a town advising that noise ordinances are enforced or that engine or compression brakes are prohibited.</div>
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Being part of the family that "went West and made good" we usually won the silver dollar for traveling the farthest to family reunions. The trips I remember involved parking the trailer in Kentucky with a Roberson and then crossing the Ohio River into Southern Indiana to visit some Reasors. For me it was like visiting a foreign country with different customs, religion, and language. It was an exotic and humid land of porch swings and lightening bugs.</div>
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By the time I came along Grandma had already moved into English to share a duplex with Gladys and Riley. She had a woodpecker door knocker, yellow water, and a single die cast John Deere toy tractor to play with. The last time I visited "the old home place" (seen here) it had been almost completely reclaimed by nature.</div>
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Working since July without a major clean-up. Things are encroaching and beginning to limit my mobility but I hate wasting time on maintenance. Too busy sawing to sharpen the saw.<br />
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In Dad's post-military career his duties as a vocational rehabilitation counselor included occasional visits to remote locations in Northern Washington. He would visit places like Colville, Kettle Falls and Republic. On one trip he parked the trailer on the Columbia River while he made his rounds. One afternoon while out scouting for Sasquatch tracks I saw an enormous aquatic creature breach the still waters of the river. People said maybe a giant sturgeon, but I know better.</div>
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Streamlined polished aluminum with a backdoor, bathroom, bedroom, dual air conditioners, portholes, tail fins, vestigial wing buds, superfluous teardrop running lights, TV and a visor all pulled by a sleek Hudson Hornet. The ideal trailer might still need flared fenders and a rotating gun turret.</div>
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Pre-interstate Highway travel required that you slow down and drive through towns. You got to see their Main Street Christmas decorations, their city park, and their places of business. Restaurants and motels were located in town rather than clustered around interchanges.</div>
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Because we brought our own food and pulled a kitchen, I can only remember a handful of times we stopped at a restaurant of any kind. Most of those occurred after we got rid of some of the older girls. Dad claimed he didn't like soft ice cream so even the Little America 10 cent cones were highly unlikely. Cars were not dining rooms on wheels. Cup holders consisted of two shallow circular impressions in the sheet metal of the inside of the jockey box door. They were more designated resting areas than holders.</div>
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The future was streamlined by industrial designers like Henry Dreyfuss, Raymond Loewy, and Norman Bel Geddes. It was fully realized in my world in toys.</div>
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We didn't have a fan, let alone air conditioning. And television in a trailer was a ridiculous concept. We <i>did, </i>however,<i> </i>have a pink Coleman cooler and a broom.<br />
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After we moved to Spokane, Dad would sometimes drag the trailer up to Van Dissel's Waitts Lake Resort. Van Dissel would stomp around in his overalls and rubber boots maintaining his fleet of plywood fishing barges. He walked like Groucho Marx. Mom and Dad would head out fishing before the sun was up and for breakfast Mom would fry up a mess of fresh rainbow trout dredged in cornmeal.<br />
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In August of 1967 we missed the final episode of <i>The Fugitive</i> (a Quinn Martin production) because we were in the trailer at Waits Lake. As far as I know the "one-armed man" is still getting away with murder. One of the nearby trailers had a TV. I learned the meaning of the word "covet."Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749400027177555552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4469741306589914361.post-85184588702893006082017-02-16T08:31:00.003-08:002017-03-09T14:53:21.583-08:00Hey Lady!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our faithful and slightly neurotic dachshund, Lady, oversaw activities from her perch on the back of the front seat. Here her job is to prevent "bumper boys" from affixing Reptile Gardens stickers to the back of the beloved Buick. Dad didn't care much about the cleanliness of his automobile. I don't remember him ever washing a car, but the only sticker allowed was the Air Force decal on the front windshield that drew snappy salutes from the Air Police (apes) at the base entrance. </div>
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One of the coolest design features of the mid 1950s Buicks was the lack of a B-pillar. When you rolled front and back windows down there was nothing but empty space.</div>
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