Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: paint

Slowly-- slowly --I'm painting the living room. This wall turns turquoise tomorrow. Taping that bookshelf was a pain.

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Explored! #299 [October 16, 2007] Thanks! Dismantled the bike over the weekend and took it to Assenmacher 's for a repaint last night. In another month it's gonna look new. I'm sure I'll post more pix at that time. Meantime, a few details: The frame was custom built by Matt Assenmacher in 1975 and has about 85,000 miles on it, 70K of them by 1986 when I finally bought a car. The Phil bottom bracket's been there since 1978. The crankset's a Stronglight 99; most of its parts date from 1975 but the left crank arm and small chainring are replacements. The bike was rebuilt with what eBay sellers call "New Old Stock" last spring, but I put the repaint off until winter because I wanted to get it on the road. Weather permitting, I'll still hit the road this fall, and maybe even winter. Just on a different bike.

What follows is unresearched, but is essentially true: This old barn was built about a century ago beside a dusty track which crossed the Grand River on a marvelous bridge . There were a couple farms in the neighborhood, but the location was remote and rural; the closest town was Portland, a few miles north. Nowadays the road is paved, most of the other local barns have collapsed, the bridge has been replaced, and Portland's grown into a fairly large town. And Charlotte Highway is surprisingly built up; it's mostly settled for the entire 8 mile run between Portland and Mulliken. But this barn remembers.... ======== Looks a lot like they ran out of paint, and never got around to finishing the job. Pretty soon they'll need to paint it again.