The piece is two sheets of steel, carefully welded together around the edges, with a pipe going into a small space in between them. It was heated up in a gas forge, and Elizabeth is blowing it up with compressed air--which you can do because hot metal is a lot softer than cold metal.
Ransom Notes is a fun game, and you might want to click on this picture to make it bigger (especially if you are not looking at this on a phone) and read everything in this picture.
The way the game works is that you have a random assortment of words and you have to use them to convey the message that is on the card, which is sitting in the middle of the picture.
I think Schell took this picture.
On Sunday morning Grindstaff Road was solid ice. The rain washed a lot of this off during the day. Don't know what the night holds.
For decades, a small group of neighbors have been getting together more or less monthly in various places in Celo to sing the rich harmonies of the Sacred Harp shaped note hymnal. These days it happens at the Celo Friends Meeting. This is what it looks like when we sing Homeward Bound, but the other songs look pretty much the same.
(This picture is better bigger, which, like all the pictures on this blog, you can get by clicking on it.)
