IRON HEART FORUM "HOMETOWN HEROES" PICTURE COMPETITION - SPRING 2022
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Better late than never…here’s my contribution for the week...
My wife and I moved back to ohio to be closer to family and start one of our own. 9 years later and we’re busy raising four kids.
We bought our home from Jon and Judith Hendricks. Jon was a pioneer of vocalese jazz. I cherish the afternoon my wife and I spent with them touring the home after we closed and hearing all their stories. The home was still furnished so they gave us an opportunity to ‘make an offer’ on anything still in the house. There was a massive collection of vinyl and Steinway piano. Unfortunately, my offer for those got rebuffed. I managed to grab one of his records from a local shop in town and brought it to our closing. I told Jon I’d be honored if he signed it. He graciously did.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/obituaries/jon-hendricks-96-who-brought-a-new-dimension-to-jazz-singing-dies.amp.html
We spend a lot of our time outside with the kids and we’re fortunate to have an open meadow with a small river across the street. We take walks to the ‘secret’ bridge and throw acorns and hickory nuts in the river.
On the other side of the bridge used to be landscape art with a fountain and waterfall.
Spring will arrive soon enough. I hear more birds in the morning and the sun is rising earlier. However, the trees are still bare and the snow just melted. So everything is brown. Much prettier once there’s a wall of green. Minor trade off to be able to enjoy all 4 seasons….I’m standing in front of the old fountain and on the bridge wearing ih-101j-sr // ihdr-502 // ihwe-jou
thanks for reading.
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@jordanscollected all about the buffer day
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Flannel and fish. Trying to teach myself tenkara on the Clear Fork of the Mohican River about an hour from my house. I read that looking away from the cast can sometimes work. I think it’s the same idea behind “a watched pot never boils.”
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Today’s entry is all about IUP: Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Affectionately also named I Usually Party. Over the years it’s been through quite a bit. Labeled once a party school and living up to it, over time the school has transitioned from the image a reputation to more student and culture related efforts. I think this photo shows a good example of it. Behind me is Fisher Auditorium, I saw many concerts, plays, and events held there growing up. Most notably seeing James Brown, The Beach Boys, and while now controversial Bill Cosby, inside the building on the left of the photo. These were to me the biggest names and most stand out shows in my little town. This led to a deep appreciation of live shows and performances. You can also see on the right of the photo the new add on and renovations to the building. These were made past my childhood and when I was out and about in the world. IUP now has a new flavor mixing the old with the new and brings academia, culture, and a bunch of income to our town. There are quite a bit more renovated and updated buildings, but this one has the most sentiment to me as I enjoyed a lot of music and entertainment there.Wearing IHJ-526SL, IHSH-277, IHDR-502ib, and Blundstone boots.
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First ride of the season.IH-666-21oz, IH-waffle knit, Iron Rangers and Lewis Leathers 391 Lightning. Oh yeah - and the bike is a Guzzi.
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Great to read about all these places. Really bringing the forum to life.
My photo for today is of Chicken and I in my garden. I feel lucky to have a place of my own, a beautiful partner, and a good little dog now to make it even sweeter. Wearing grey kersey and shinyaka 888's.
Part of why I got into Iron Heart is that I moved down to Portsmouth on the South coast of the UK for work without knowing anything about the city and found out that IHUK is close by. Then learned that there are an incredibly cool and friendly team running the place.
My born and raised hometown from Seattle is long way away from here, but becoming part of communities through work, sport, and now even clothing starts to make a place feel like it is one's new hometown. Not sure I'm there yet after only four years, but hope to be at some point.
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Work …
Carpenter/ joiner Timber Frame erector
Crane lift supervisor
Slinger/signallerThursday 3.3.2022
Alarm goes off at 4.20 am leave my house at 5.00am in Newport South Wales to travel 45mins to get to Stroud to travel with my friend to Wolverhampton another 80mins drive .Arrive on site for 7.10 start work at 7.30am
Todays job
3 bed detached house built in a day 2 carpenters and a labour and a 40T crane.
Wearing: IHSH-292-IND
: IH-555s-UHRAll complete by 5.30pm ready for roofers to tile the roof then the bricklayers then the other trades follow.
arrive home at 8.00pm.Shower/dinner/bed glad to have a day off tomorrow
Outtakes:
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Another stonking day folks. I agree with @jordanscollected it is going to be tough when it comes to awarding prizes. I'd like to take this opportunity to send a big thanks to Jeff ( @jordanscollected ), he kindly agreed to disqualify himself from prize consideration and help me put this thing together. He was instrumental in making it happen.
As for my offering, it is winter half term here, so no pics of 18 year olds desperately avoiding the acquisition of skills and knowledge. Nor can I offer any pictures of the lovely (::)) town of Bodø. (although that may happen tomorrow).
I'm using the time off work to get in some hours with my mitre saw and other sharp, noisy tools and finish off some house renovation chores. I'm been cutting up and installing MDF wall boards all day…
IHSH-106 and IHV-19 are two of my favourite items of work wear to work in. The CPO is warm and the pockets room all the pencils, measuring tapes, lasers and so forth, while the vest keeps my tees from getting eff´ed up and has even bigger pockets to keep knives and multi-tools handy.
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3.03
Dinner date with the wife at one of our favorite spots in Brooklyn.
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Nothing to contribute today (no time and no chance of matching today’s offerings). I’ll try to get another in before the end.
@Jcaz6996 glad I’m not the only one on here who works a stupid distance from home. I had to visit Newport a couple of times to sit exams at the IPO some years ago, which has tainted my view of the place.
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Ugliest Building ? Probably. Name says it all. Hasn't been in use for some time but you can almost hear what went down there. I actually had a hard time trying to pick which one I thought was ugliest as I drove around. These small farm communities are slowly going away.
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Me with that "just dropped the kids off at school and have the whole day off" glow all over my face.
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Brief stop under the Septa Market-Frankford line on my walk to pick up my dog at daycare. 17oz duck type III, UHF, and 666-XHS.
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I moved back to my birth town of Poole in Dorset last October it’s got a beautiful natural harbour. This is a spot as children we’d fish where the fishing boats would come in. We’d ask the fishermen if they had any old bait they didn’t want. One day the fisherman threw us two quite crispy mackerel to use. After some time I asked Malc my cousin where the bait was he told me he freshened them up in the sea and sold them for two quid to an elderly lady who was going to barbecue them for her and her husband.
