Posted on July 27, 2020
Recently, our voluntary neighborhood association looked into restoring the bronze signs that commemorate our historic neighborhood, which inevitably were covered with patina. We looked at various options, but ultimately decided to try restoring them ourselves. I had previously cleaned up a 30 year old bronze memorial in the area, so I had some practice. Below […]
Posted on June 26, 2020
Behold, my first attempt at restoring a 30 year old bronze memorial (plaque). It took me a few hours, but I was taking pictures after each stage and waiting for it to dry (and heat up) between coatings. Here are some before and after pics: Patina is an exterior surface change to a […]
Posted on July 31, 2019
Volunteered at our local National Center for Simulation (NCS)’s 2019 Hall of Fame Induction. This year they inducted: Dr. Peter Hancock, Dr. Randall Shumaker, and Michael Tschanz. In previous years, they have inducted the following modsim leaders. It was refreshing to see so many people from so many industries supporting the modeling and simulation community!
Posted on April 12, 2019
Honored to be The Parke House Academy Volunteer of the Year 2019! Every teacher in the school prepared a special dish for the volunteers luncheon. It was really nice (and delicious). Love this school!
Posted on January 3, 2019
Helped The Parke House Academy build a new fence for their little ones. Some of the 4x4s were reclaimed from my fence that I was replacing. After building, sanding was needed to make it nice and smooth.