Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier

+ Follow

news 16,123 Posts 530 Threads

since Oct 02, 2015

Merit badge: bb list bbv list

Forum Moderator

Pearl Sutton currently moderates these forums:

personal challenges 9066

Biography

Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.

For More

SW Missouri

Apples and Likes

Apples

Total received

In last 30 days

201

Forums and Threads

Recent posts by Pearl Sutton

Explaining Faceblindness

I also don't know many faces, too many people all look alike. I end up going off context and mannerisms more than anything else.

I am most likely to recognize faces I deal with often, but names are filed in a different part of my brain. I have learned to tell people I work with "In a different context I will know you, but not your name, remind me." so when I see them in the mall I don't feel bad about saying "I know you, wrong context, tell me your name, thank you, hi!!"

My name is an odd one, so I will often "remind" people of my full name, because that makes them tend to say their name, great when I'm with mom as she knows no one's names ever. When someone walks up to her in public and starts chattering I'll say "Hi, I'm Opal's daughter Pearl, I think you are in her tai chi class?" response is something like "I'm in the yoga class, Kathy Williams" Which also tells mom their name :D

My dad was good with faces and names and it amazed me. He could not see someone for 10 years and still know their name, phone number, where they lived, wife's name, basics about kids (oldest is a boy, next three are girls) I have no clue how he did it....

11 hours ago

23 hours ago

The 25th of may is neigh.

The lilacs are in bloom!
Reg Shoe is about to die, he'll get over it.
See the little angels rise up, rise up, see the little angels rise up high!!
And I shall need a volunteer to escort Mrs. Soupson home.
:D

2 days ago

meaningless drivel

The Great A'tuin gets a makeover

He's so CUTE! I'm honored to have been part of his restuffing and I hope the input I added works correctly. I look forward to a usage report :D

4 days ago

sewing

Any ideas how to haul long logs from the woods with no vehicle?

If the 4 wheeler cannot be fixed (and THAT is REALLY the best option) steal it's front axle and wheels for a wheeled cart like is posted above.

I'd suggest block and tackle pulling the wheeled thing up the slope, but I'm into them and a biased opinion. (BUT! If you are stealing the front end off the four wheeler, the back wheels might make good pulleys!!)

4 days ago

low tech

Discworld quotes that fit

From Feet of Clay:
..the old man led the way through the teaming mounds of multispecies dung to the building on the other side of the yard.
"I expect it is good for the garden, anyway," said Vimes, trying to make conversation.
"I tried it on my rhubarb," said the old man, pushing open the door. "But it grew to twenty feet tall, sir, and then spontaneously caught fire. Mind where the wyvern's been, sir, he's been ill -- oh what a shame. Never mind, it'll scrape off beautifully when it dries. ... "

4 days ago

meaningless drivel

Yard sale, trash or treasure?

WOOT!!!

The one that sort of works, is a Singer 774
The interwebs tell me it uses a metal class 66 bobbin. One came with the machine. Will plastic class 66 bobbins work?

Yes.
And I have bought odd cords on ebay before.

6 days ago

zero waste

Evolution of stress.

Weeding is absolutely stress reduction. It can be either meditative or working out hostility to clean it out of our heads.
I had a psychologist ask me once "what do you do for stress?" "I use the mattock to dig out bamboo roots"
Depending on the day, I use it either way. But it always reduces my stress to be out in the sun, listening to the birds, watching the critters, and pulling out weeds.

6 days ago

personal challenges

jokes

Fingers-Mazada, the first thief in the world, stole fire from the gods.
But he was unable to fence it, it was too hot.

He got really burned on that deal

1 week ago

meaningless drivel

My fourth attempt to salvage this drill press has failed

Daniel Andy wrote:

Pearl Sutton wrote:I wonder what drill it was made for? I have a press like that, but I also have old drills.
Wonder if you could find a drill that fits it on ebay or something?
Any idea what drill it was made for?

If I were trying to make a mount for it, I have different skills than you, I'd not be 3d printing things, but weaving wire into an open net basket the right shape. But that's how I roll.

I have never seen a drill that looks like it was made for this. I bought a vintage 80s drill. It wasn't old enough.

Solving a hardware problem with metal weaving sounds wonderfully zen. I wish I had those skills!

Wouldn't the basket need to be attached to the drill somehow?

I wish I had your 3D print tech and skills, we are even :D

I'd make the basket work with that wire thing, it's already structural. Make the drill slip in, sort of like a holster or sheath.

1 week ago

repair