Soldering Work Station

Here's a portion of my work station for soldering.  I create the designs on the computer, print off, place between two pieces of glass (that I cut). They are then copper-taped, flux is applied, then soldered with silver solder, using my favorite tool: my soldering gun, which is heated to 700 degrees.

Saturday Night

Last Christmas I picked up some "paint-your-own" ornaments for the grandboys.  Jonah, Ez and Hazel came by while their parents did some Christmas shopping tonight.  Jonah and Ez really enjoyed painting their snowman ornaments and creating original designs on the balls.  Just need to get Weston's out to him.

Here's Hazel with her cute black keds.

Carved Friends

Old friends, these carved creations.  I whittled these years ago while taking a class in wood carving.

Little By Little Quilt Group

Our annual  Little by Little quilt group Christmas party was tonight at Kaye Evans house.  As always, we had an evening filled with laughter and good food.  A few of us have been in the group since it was formed in 1994. Because I haven't been president since our second year, I reluctantly agreed to do it for next.

 Kaye decided to simplify this year.  She cut down a wonderful Charlie Brown tree from the hundreds on her property and we all loved it.  She invited us to come over and cut down a tree of our own!

I wanted to give these special gals a gift, so I created a little "initial" pendant for each of them.  The picture on the front represents something about each of them, with their initial on the back.

A Great "Time"

Some of the gals from the accounting department were getting together to create some watch bracelets after work today.  They were so nice to involve Cathy and I.

This is the watch bracelet I created.

Maddox Ranch House

Maddox is located in Brigham City and is known for its wonderful food.  It's always busy, no matter when you go.  We went tonight for the Clinton City Planning Commission's annual Christmas dinner, always held at Maddox.  We could order whatever we wanted.  I ordered the halibut, which was enough for three meals.

Transferring Data

I have a few hard drives.  I recently purchased a terabyte hard drive as a back up to my blue 500 GB backup, which holds all my photos...My first hard drive is the black 160 GB which I still use for all my jewelry designs.  You'll also see in the photo my IPOD. I am transferring all my songs to the terabyte.  Also pictured is my clunky old hard drive from work, and I am working on transferring all my data and photos to the TB.  Also, sitting on my laptop is a 4 GB memory card for my camera.

In the late 1980s, the average home computer system had a single hard drive with a capacity of about 20 megabytes. By the mid 1990s, average capacity increased to about 80 MBs. Just a few years later, operating systems alone required more room than this, whle several hundred megabytes represented an average storage capacity. 

1 gigabyte of memory is the equivalent of 500,000 typewriten pages, or about one pickup truck of books.

1,048,576 megabytes = 1 terabyte (a terabyte is a thousand librarians driving Ford F150's stacked with literature...)