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This is one of the sculptures in the Sculpture Walk in Kingsport. Thanks to my husband for taking it for me. I will put more of them in here as I get more pictures of them. This one reminds me of an antenna that someone has talked on way too much and it just melted, then laid down. Well that is from a hams point of view. Sorry for so long between post, just been busy.
This is my first blog entry without picture. So I will try to paint one with words.I got home last night around 11:30 pm, with misting rain and temps in the mid 20's. With the cold temps that we had for 2 days had everything freezing. All this caused black ice build up. Turned on the police scanner and it had already started. First there were cars slipping here and there, and running into everything. Second it was muli car pile ups. Then the Police were dispatched out to the wrecks, not getting there because they couldn't go. Fire Trucks were having the same Bad luck. All major roads were getting impassable because of the ice and vehicles blocking and the pile ups. Then they call the salt truck workers in. They couldn't get to the garage, to get the salt trucks out. Then I heard that there were 18 wheelers jack-knifing here and there. Ems were having the same problems themselves. Wreckers were refusing to get out (don't blame them at all). Finally the salt trucks were getting salt out. This went on for hours, I got tired and went to bed around 3 am. I got up this morning at 9 am, the surrounding counties were still having problems. The insurance companies will have fun this week.
To bring good luck, the horseshoe must lost by a horse and be found by you, with the open end facing your way. You must hang it over the door with the open end up, so the good fortune doesn't spill out.This horseshoe was on the out building when we moved here, and it is luckily still hanging.
This sign leads in to the community that I grew up in. Lynn Garden was unincorporated, so in the late 80's it was annexed by the Kingsport City. Now it is in the city limits. The residents have all the good and bad things that go along with living in a city.
This Shopping Center in Kingsport is an childhood friend. It sits on Lynn Garden Drive. As my mind drifts back many years ago, I remember many shopping trips here. Most trips were made in a automobile, but I also walked here and rode my bike. Krogers was in the store behind the sign, and SuperX was the drug store. Grants, W.B.Greene, and a Barber Shop is what I can recelect as a small child. Later other grocery stores, World of toys, Eckerds, Freds, and a hobby store called Parkway Plaza Home.
Group of the Hams from the KARC BMRC Ham Club that made antennas for Fox Hunting.
Showing a few of the steps in making the antenna. Here the coax is held in place on the plastic pipe with a wire tie and tape. The coax is split and bringing out the copper braided wire. 
Soldering the coax to the cooper wire.
Attaching the soldered wires and measuring tape with clamps.
Tightening the clamp while keeping the tape straight.
