Thinking back to my site managing days… A project where the client is willing to spend the kind of money quality requires and finding the contractors that will deliver was always something of a unicorn. Finding good contractors usually wasn’t the constricting factor in my experience, though.
An important corollary: the client needs to know how to give input and then get out of the way instead of micromanaging.
Amen to that!
yeah, the guy is a millionaire, obvs. this will be our most expensive cabinet job I’m sure. we’re lucky to have the clientele we have because otherwise it would all be framing and boring shit like that.
It’s beautiful work and lovely that you have an opportunity to do it! I’m so impressed by the precision of the things you post
my boss is a stickler, obsessive about minutiae, required for the type of projects we get and the price we charge
Me, too! Mine just came Thursday. I love the image.
Thanks, @FloridaManJefe !
We’re hosting an eclipse weekend in Ohio. We have two sites at a park that we booked a year ago.
Our RV is the anchor with at least 6 tents. We’ll be there for 7 days, everyone else will be there 2 nights maybe more.
We’re serving at least 2 lunch or dinner meals and two breakfasts. My wife plans the meals I cook a lot of it.
When we host an eclipse event everyone gets gift bags with goodies. This is the stuff I made and my wife has spent 3 dollars on Temu to get bags of sun, moon, and spaces related stuff. Paper plates, napkins, table cloths, jewelry for the kids, etc…
Our daughter and husband made the buttons and stickers. She’s also responsible for eclipse cookies.
In the photo… Bags, stickers, buttons, fleece blankets, can coozies, coffee cups, knit hats, sweatshirts, and we’ll have 48 t-shirts.
We even made a few special shirts for us special people that saw the total eclipse in 2017.
We’re getting excited, gonna be a blast.
Here’s hoping for a clear day!
Thanks.
The Sandusky tourist bureau came out and said for the last 12 years that day has been clear. But, we’ve never been there waiting to see an eclipse.
We have a lot of money invested, worse case scenario were spend a weekend with family and friends being disappointed together.
Not a bad way to spend a weekend.
We normally don’t take an extra vehicle but we are taking one this time.
Me and my wife will a abandon everyone and chase clear skies if we have to.
We might even have a convoy chasing it but everyone is warning of traffic jams so we play it by ear.
This was my shirt for the 2017 eclipse.
Unfortunately, a cloud moved over the sun just as totality was beginning, so I did not burn my eyes out at all.
I will not be wearing a special shirt this time.
you, sir, are amazing! that goes for all of your peeps involved!
what a truly incredible event you are hosting!
wear your safety glasses!
we here in the keys are promised a “partial”. again. such a narrow band of observation, crossing a barely one mile wide island in between the gulf and the ocean, well, maybe we need to go offshore a bit to see more.
just don’t ask us to go to the mainland.
New for 2024 the Johnny 5 eclipse viewing station.
Ordered some solar film, pulled out the drill press, hole saws and went to town.
They work really well.
As long as I was ordering stuff I also got a new solar filter for the old Nikon.
Neat! I’d say the sunspot near the top (if it is a sunspot) is just a little bit smaller than the Earth.
I took a picture of the transit of Venus in 2012, using this sophisticated apparatus.
The black dot at 6:00 is Venus.
What is that and how does it work?
I’m guessin’ it a cereal box eclipse viewer variation.
Which reminds me, I gotta eat some cereal because I need the box.
It is. The binoculars (one lens covered) focus the sun’s image on the white paper screen. The picture was taken with a camera pointed at the screen. As I say, not exactly Greenwich Observatory.
@FloridaManJefe Received the postcard over the weekend, i was busy so i set it aside and forgot about it. But i remedied that when i got to work this afternoon, it shall find a place on my bookshelf of curios. Thanks for the kindness of sharing your art.
i am happy folks are enjoying the mail art!
but let’s remember, everyone, there are some who may not have seen theirs yet!
