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May. 15th, 2012 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogAs well as photos and paper ephemera, I looked through some of my grandfather's things in his office and workshop. He had quite a collection of books about horses and about metalworking. He had quite a number of smithing tools around too. This Summer, I will get the forge and anvil out of the basement a few times and use some of them. Hopefully I can get a few plant hangers made before visiting Ceilidh!
He had a number of miniature anvils on a shelf in his office. Some small and cutesy, but some that were big enough to be functional for some uses. I saw one that I knew my sweetie![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lisagems would be able to use. I think my grandfather would be happy to know that it was being used. I gave it to her yesterday, and I'm happy to know that it has a good home with someone about whom I care enough about to want to give it to. She'll appreciate it, will clean it up, and use it to make things. There's beauty in that utility that I like to think Grandpa would appreciate. There were so many random things around the rooms he used that I wish I could ask him about the history of. I wish that I'd had more time during school to get out and visit.
My grandmother also gave me Grandpa's camera. It's a Pentax K100. I don't know a lot about Pentax hardware specifically, but it's a nice DSLR. A neat thing about Pentax is that they have not changed their lens mounting system for a long time. I can use any Pentax K-mount lens made since around 1975 with that camera. Other than having to deal with a bunch of manual controls (which I think I know enough theory of operation to do), they'll work just fine. There's a part of me that's really excited about learning to use it.
Most of me, though, starts crying when I take it out of the diaper bag he used as a camera bag ("Nobody's going to steal that!" he commented) and start looking at it. Especially when I look at the pictures of my family that are on the card from the last times he used it. I was going to use it to photograph the protests here in Chicago this week, but I don't think I can deal with it yet.
He had a number of miniature anvils on a shelf in his office. Some small and cutesy, but some that were big enough to be functional for some uses. I saw one that I knew my sweetie
lisagems would be able to use. I think my grandfather would be happy to know that it was being used. I gave it to her yesterday, and I'm happy to know that it has a good home with someone about whom I care enough about to want to give it to. She'll appreciate it, will clean it up, and use it to make things. There's beauty in that utility that I like to think Grandpa would appreciate. There were so many random things around the rooms he used that I wish I could ask him about the history of. I wish that I'd had more time during school to get out and visit. My grandmother also gave me Grandpa's camera. It's a Pentax K100. I don't know a lot about Pentax hardware specifically, but it's a nice DSLR. A neat thing about Pentax is that they have not changed their lens mounting system for a long time. I can use any Pentax K-mount lens made since around 1975 with that camera. Other than having to deal with a bunch of manual controls (which I think I know enough theory of operation to do), they'll work just fine. There's a part of me that's really excited about learning to use it.
Most of me, though, starts crying when I take it out of the diaper bag he used as a camera bag ("Nobody's going to steal that!" he commented) and start looking at it. Especially when I look at the pictures of my family that are on the card from the last times he used it. I was going to use it to photograph the protests here in Chicago this week, but I don't think I can deal with it yet.
