Sunday, May 25, 2014

Peaceful Sunday


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  1. listener--some more (probably excessive) notes on headphones and amp on previous thread.

    We shall have an early dinner and get to work in the yard around five o'clock. Warmish here, air pretty still. The back yard will get a breeze off the river is there is any, and we will try to work in the shade.

    --Alan

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  2. THANKS, Alan!!

    So, how hot is it out there?

    We had 75F and sunshine. Pretty good given that 72F and thunderstorms was predicted! Ha!

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    1. Hit 85F in Oak Park today, but has already fallen to 69F after sundown. Predicted highs in mid-to-upper 80s for at least the next couple of days.

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    2. It's my pleasure, listener, if I can be of some help.

      The high today was supposed to be 97 degrees, and it was probably something like that. There was indeed a breeze off the river in our back yard, which was nice. Humidity around 20 percent during the hottest part of the day. Very pleasant temperatures after sundown; low supposed to be 67F as I recall. We got a lot of weeds and overgrown neighbor's trees taken care of; Will cut up the prunings as time goes by--there is too much to get into the trash cans at a single go. Come to think of it, I had better take a salt pill or two to be on the safe side.

      Checking out a Grateful Dead CD with my new amp and not-new headphones. That's a good test for their instrumental sounds (I also have a classical orchestra CD for their kind of instruments), but not so much for voices. I have a couple of female vocalists singing roughly in the soprano range with music of different sorts--that's a better test for my ears. The rest of this evening is for R&R.

      --Alan

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    3. Hmmmm... upon reading my post, I see that the third sentence is not clear. Here's the second try:

      There was indeed a breeze off the river that blew into our back yard, which was nice. Better? Our house is on what is functionally a bluff above the river valley, but actually the old river bank. Since a big dam was built upstream in the 1940's the river has never come anywhere near filling its valley to the banks in this part of its course, although it probably has at a narrow spot a few miles further down.

      --Alan

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