Transitions: A How-To

Did you know the little metal or wood strip that joins two different types of flooring is called a transition? Neither did I until started looking for one for the Brick House. I always thought they were called thresholds, but that is the name for exterior doorways.

You never know what mind bender an old house will throw at you! It might be how to fix electrical so it will be functional or it might be dodgy plumbing that can't be fixed without tearing down the house or it might be something simple like a too tall layer of tile.

 Most transition strips are made for a half inch difference in floor heights. The kitchen floor tile was laid on top of a layer of cement board (a good thing) which is on top of a layer of thin plywood and all that is on top of the original wood floors! That makes the total difference between the tile kitchen floor and the dining room a little shy of one and one half inches!

(I really don't mind that all theses layer on top of the old floors, I have plans of one day pulling it all up and restoring the wood floors, but in the mean time that is quite a ledge to whack ones foot on!)

 I bought at lest five different transitions. Mandy and I looked at every single one in every single store we happened to be in. I ordered from Amazon, but nothing worked. 

I finally gave in and moved on to how to make a layered transition look better. When we were looking at all the transitions I came across one that matched the tile perfectly. So I bought them and a length of simple ranch style window molding.

 The first step was of course cutting the wooden molding to fit and then painting it to match the metal transition strip. Then I drilled holes into the wood trim for the plastic screws of the metal strip. ( I was really excited to not have to drill into my hardwood floors!) Once everything looked good, I nailed the wood trim to the floors with a couple of trim nails.

 This nest step took a trial and error to get it right! The plastic screws needed to be trimmed so they could be pushed in to the right height. I happened to have a pair of tin snips handy and they worked perfectly! I then slid the plastic screws into the slot on the back of the metal transition (this worked a lot better then placing the screws in the hole and then trying to slide the strip on, which is how the directions told you to do it!).

I placed the metal strip over the wood trim and starting at one end, pushed the plastic screw into the holes. Sliding the screw along so the lined up with holes. Once all the screw were started in their proper holes, I took a hammer and pounded the strip into place. And just in case, I used a paint stirrer between the metal and the hammer so the paint wouldn't get dinged up!

And done! So much better! 

I am so glad I got this figured out. It was beginning to worry me! Now on to the next challenge!

What about you, an old house thrown you any mind benders?

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Zhan Zhek Khaw

Zhan Zhek Khaw

Photo Shoot Spring 2017

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Macaristan'ın rüya başkenti Budapeşte

Orta Avrupa turumuzun geldik son destinasyonuna. En son Slovakya'nın başkenti Bratislava'yı gezmiştik. Sırada Macaristan'ın başkenti Budapeşte var. Budapeşte, Tuna Nehri'nin iki yakasına kurulmuş ikibin yıllık tarihi ile kadim çağların izlerini günümüze değin taşıyabilmiş tam bir tarih ve kültür şehri. İçinden su geçen şehirler, daha bir romantik, doğasıyla daha bir cazibeli geliyor

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Conana intikamcı 21

Nette bu seri 20. sayıya kadar çevrildi ama uzun süredir son 5 sayı çevrilmemiş olarak duruyordu ve Bu seri çok kaliteli olarak 20. sayıya kadar gelmişti ve eksik kalmasına gönlüm razı gelmedi. Bir program dahilinde bu sayıları paylaşacağım. İyi okumalar dilerim.

İyi okumalar

https://www.mediafire.com/view/kv55jjzbkjh2l0h/Conan_the_Avenger_020_%282015%29_%28digital%29_%28Son_of_Ultron-Empire%29_tr.cbr/file

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Serinin ilk sayılarını da arzu ederseniz şu adresten edinebilirsiniz. Buradaki ilk 20 sayı benim çevirim değildir.

https://cizgigucu.blogspot.com/2015/04/intikamc-conan-conan-avenger-sral-liste.html

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Fire at the Mill Creek Road Gregg House

The Gregg House on Mill Creek Road

As you may or may not have seen, there was a fire yesterday (March 14, 2019) at the old house on the Delcastle Golf Course property, on Mill Creek Road at the bend. The house is owned by New Castle County and is part of its curatorship program, which allows tenants to rent the property for free, as long as they make substantial improvements to it. The current occupants have been there for about five years. The blaze, which preliminary reports state was an accident started in a laundry room, has seemingly done major damage to the structure. The residents were able to get out safely, but a Minquas Fire Company firefighter was injured in battling the blaze. Please send your thoughts and prayers or whatever it is that you send out to wish him a speedy recovery. I still don't understand the heroic mindset that allows people to run towards a burning building, but I'm thankful for all those who do.

When I saw this story, my first reaction was the same as that of Ann DePace Keen who contacted me -- What is the history of this house? My quick answer to both of us was a resounding, "I'm not quite sure." When I wrote about the earlier history of the Delcastle property almost five years ago, I deftly avoided mentioning this particular house. The reason I danced around it is that the history of the house is not quite clear. As you can see by the pre-fire picture below, the house is clearly old. The question is, how old?

The Gregg House in better times

The problem, and, I think, the solution, is that it's part of the larger Delcastle property. Going to the old maps, it doesn't appear until the 1893 map, which, looking at the construction, seems like it could be right. Unfortunately, the 1893 map doesn't show the owner's name. However, I have every reason to believe that it was then, as it is now, part of the larger tract. As recounted in the previous post, the farm came into the Gregg family early in the 19th Century. I can now expand on that by saying that Benjamin Gregg (and Enoch, presumably his brother) bought out the shares of the heirs of Harrison Wells in 1804 through several transactions late that year. It was essentially the same 182 acres that his great-grandson Irvin Gregg would sell to the Board of Trustees of the New Castle County Workhouse in 1916. In between, four generations of Greggs would work the land and, I believe, build this house. The question is, who and when.

At this point I'm going to bow to the obvious and say that from the looks of the house and the map evidence, it probably was built in the 1880's or early 1890's. So, who was living on the farm then? The owner was Benjamin Gregg (1835-1910), along with wife Elizabeth (1831-1899) and sons Irvin (1861-1918), John (1864-1933) and Joseph Morton (1868-1933). Since the house is located on the larger tract, my hunch is that is was built for one of the sons, probably when he married and was looking to move his new family out. So, which son?

Eldest son Irvin married Rebecca Brackin (daughter of William Brackin of Stoney Batter Road) in 1889. They would raise three children together, but from what I can tell Irvin didn't buy his own farm until 1900, when he purchased 103 acres not far away up Mill Creek Road. John Wilmer Gregg was the next to wed, to Sally Garrett in 1891. He also bought his own farm, along Old Wilmington Road, in 1900.

The youngest son, Joseph Morton Gregg, married Ella May Shakespear in 1893. In 1900, Morton and Ella, along with children Elva, Ralph, and Mildred, are listed directly after his father Benjamin Gregg. This lines up with a family history that states Morton was farming the property in 1898. By 1910, Morton was listed as a miller in Faulkland. This leads me to think that perhaps the house was built for Morton, either as he came of age in the late '80s or around his marriage in '93. After he moved away (whenever that was between 1900 and 1910), the house could have been used by a tenant farmer.

As you can see, my facts here are true, but there's a healthy bit of speculation to go along with them. If anyone has any additional information about the family or the house, I'd love to hear it (even if you prove me wrong).

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Lee CK

Lee CK

Photo Shoot Winter 2018-19

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Phong Vung Tau

Phong Vung Tau

Gym Selfies Summer 2015

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Athena Voltair Büyücü Papa 3

Üçüncü sayımızda yayaında. İlk linkin adflylı link olduğunu katkı vermek için burayı kullanabileceğinizi, buradan reklamları görüp aşağıdan da temiz  ve doğrudan linkleri indirmek için kullanabileceğinizi belirtmek isterim.


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Tavuk Sarma Tarifi

Tavuk eti vücut geliştirme sporcuları tarafından oldukça sık tercih edilen bir protein kaynağıdır. Hesaplı ve lezzetli bir protein kaynağı oluşu tavuğu oldukça popüler kılmıştır. Hal böyle olunca tavuk eti ile hazırlanan tariflerin çeşitliliği de oldukça önem kazanıyor. Bugünde farklı bir tavuk tarifi ile karşınızdayız. Eminim hepiniz yaprak sarmasına ve dolmaya bayılırsınız. Bu tarifimiz adından da anlaşılacağı üzere yapılış şekli itibari ile yaprak sarmasına oldukça benzemektedir. Lafı fazla uzatmadan hemen tarife geçelim, işte tavuk sarma hazırlamak için yapılması gerekenler;

Tavuk Sarma Malzemeleri

• Tavuk Göğüsü (600 gram)
• Cheddar Peyniri (6 Dilim)
• Ispanak
• Kırmızı Biber 
• 3 kaşık Zeytinyağı
• Tuz
• Baharatlar

Tavuk Sarma Besin Değerleri(1 Porsiyon İçin)

Kalori : 224 kcal
Karbonhidrat : 0.2 gr
Protein : 26 gr
Yağ : 12 gr

Tavuk Sarma Nasıl Yapılır?

• İlk önce fırını açın ve 200 dereceye sabitleyin. Fırın ısınana kadar tavuk göğüsünü ince bir şekilde (yaklaşık 1 cm kalınlıkta olacak kadar) kesin. 

• Daha sonra içerisine ıspanak, peynir ve biberi ekleyerek sarın. Normal sarma yapar gibi açılmayacak şekilde hazırlayın. 

• Daha sonra üzerine yağ ve baharatlardan oluşturduğunuz karışımı sürün ve kürdanı sarmaya batırın. Bu sayede dağılmadan pişirebilirsiniz. 

• Malzemeler bitinceye kadar aynı işleme devam edin ve sarmaları önceden ısıttığınız fırına atın. 

• Yaklaşık 20-25 dakika içerisinde hazır olacaktır. Afiyet olsun.

Sitemizdeki diğer Fit Tarifleri merak ediyorsanız buraya tıklayabilirsiniz.

Not : Dilerseniz görsel amaçlı üzerine susam da ekleyebilirsiniz.

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10 Rules for Writing a Sherlockian Pastiche

The guy on the left never called the one on the right "Sherlock" 

The Complete Sherlock Holmes, in the one-volume Doubleday edition, runs 1122 pages. That is a lot, but not nearly enough. So, hundreds of writers have related thousands of Holmes adventures that Dr. Watson (per Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) never got around to. I myself stand guilty of this, in both short story and novel format.

Some parodies and pastiches are quite good. Others are painful to read, at least for me. As a public service, I have recommended LeahGuinn’s fine monograph on how to write a Holmes story in the style of the original. Now I call your attention to Derrick Belanger’s “10 Rules for Writinga Sherlockian Pastiche.”

This excellent decalogue was written for young people engaged in the training that goes with being a member of the Junior SherlockianSociety. But any adult writer could benefit from it as well. Take for example, rule number three:

You need to read the original Sherlock Holmes stories. You can’t write a pastiche if you don’t know who you are imitating. Pay attention to how Doyle introduces Holmes, how the mystery begins, how his characters interact. Note that Watson calls Sherlock Holmes by his last name, “Holmes” not “Sherlock.” The closer you are to Doyle, the better. 

Obvious, you say? Then why do so many pastiches show no evidence that the author has ever actually read the Canon?

Belanger assumes that the budding author is writing a mystery. Though that’s not actually a necessity, since some of the Canonical Holmes stories are detective stories without being mysteries, I think it’s a more-than-reasonable assumption. And, as a mystery writer myself, I like  his advice in rule eight: 

Know your ending. You have created a client who has brought Holmes a mystery to solve. You have to have Holmes solve the mystery to bring your story to a conclusion, and the ending must be believable. I find that authors who don’t know the ending to their story in advance tend to get lost in the plot and often abandon their story. My advice is to know your ending before you write your story. If you know how the story will end, then you can set up the clues along the way to help you reach your conclusion and make it satisfying to your readers. 

Read all ten rules. And if you are a pastiche writer, please follow them!  

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