July was the wettest month since 1927 and August appears intent on trying to best that today. Tomorrow should be good though and maybe Shirley and I will get to take in Hamlet in the park on Prince’s Island.
My writing yesterday was spread over the whole day and completed only at around 11pm. I first had my sister’s call from Holland in the morning, while in the aft I completed my shopping which ran up to 120$$ thanks to some druggist items.
In the evening I phoned Herman to reschedule our lunch, which was fine. However, he informed me that Gabriella’s talk had to match the A-side of his in order to have two talks on one tape. This complicated my tape editing process in the evening, which I did not get done until about ten pm. So, I had a busy day, but a satisfactory one for which I was grateful as well!
Derrick, now Metta, let me know that he is coming down for my birthday on the Saturday before and would like to stay at my abode initially. We have done this before without much hassle, as this apartment is about 700sq feet in area. It will give us a good time to connect and gives me a chance to reciprocate his hospitality for when I am in Victoria, BC. I have kept my parking spot for that reason, though my car is now gone.
Yesterday I searched and found a good reference for the ‘Cruquius’ pumping station in Hoofddorp NL.
Yesterday I searched and found a good reference for the ‘Cruquius’ pumping station in Hoofddorp NL. It has a very special early steam pump design, which is similar to the model Annie constructed last week in her summer school class. I’ll put the Cruquius link here and if you select and click ‘Demo’ in the right hand side menu you will get an animated display of the pump’s operation. The design of the steam pump and building are vintage for the industrial age and so preserved.
That was transition time from windmill and sail power to steam, analogues to my life time where we went from electro mechanical to electronic and beyond.
Credit for finding the name ‘Cruquius’ goes to my brother Okkie and his wife Theresita who live near by and know the museum. I thought the name was “Leehgwater”, but that the second of three such steam powered water pumps designed to empty out the Haarlemmer lake, which took three years of continuous pumping in ca 1840. That was transition time from windmill and sail power to steam, analogues to my life time where we went from electro mechanical to electronic and beyond.
Today is the day for Juliet and I to meet, but I am not sure this will go through and it is too early to call right now to find out!