What have you bought lately?

[Pyraxis]

I agree with all the sentiment that even the best electronic keyboard is not the same as an acoustic piano. I need it to be acoustic, I could never manage to interest myself in keyboards back when WolFish and I were moving every few years, even though he encouraged me to try.

I never considered that I might be able to learn to tune it myself. I may look into that.

Something that disturbed me in recent years is that my perfect pitch seemed to be fading. It was off by almost a whole note, and songs that I used to listen to and know exactly what note was being played now sounded like they were being played in a different key. That was disturbing and wrong. I badly need to retrain my ear and I hope this will help.

I had a really awesome conversation with the piano salesman when I was first trying out different pianos, where he explained in detail how to distinguish the different tones of various brands and types of pianos, as well as the details of their construction and what makes certain elements high quality. One could geek out with this guy for ages. As part of his work he got to personally visit the factory where some of the pianos were made, and learn all kinds of things.

He let me try a fancy Steinway grand, just to see what really good sounded like, so I could compare the others against it. A tone that I associate with professional classical music recordings, and I had thought was a consequence of high quality microphones and sound equipment, was actually the piano itself. A kind of resonance especially in the bass notes.

[Gopher Gary]

I bought Sugarbutt a new ceramic coated pan for his eggs. 

[Genesis]

Halo Tops Ice Cream, and Mango Pepsi Zero Sugar (next time I'm going to Speedway, I'm getting my fountain drink for free with my points)

[DirtDawg]

I splurged a little at the local nursery. I bought some hostas to fill in an area toward the back bed that has lain a little fallow in the past year. Filling in the barren area is the goal.
Additionally, a slew of deep purple "Wave" petunias for the edge of our patio to create a statement, some variegated vinca for trailing downward interest, a Dracena cultivar for some height, many bags of prepared potting mix, mulch, vermiculite, pearlite and organics (bloodmeal, bonemeal) and some superphosphates, sphagnum moss ... ... ...

I will need my shovel!

[DirtDawg]

I also bought some bench organizer bins. I will mount them at the back of my bench. I have two benches, so I have not decided which bench gets the update, yet.

One bench is the one that I built many years ago. I could literally work on diesel truck engines on it. It is sturdy!
The other came with my "finished" garage, kind of shitty, wimpy, but it was installed and it has drawers so I left it.

These are cool. I am probably going to get another set for the wall.  (Amazon)

[DirtDawg]

 
Then, to spruce up the outer area a bit, I ordered a set of wind chimes for each end of the patio.

On the corner wall of the house I have rebuilt my old set of chimes, which I made from six foot wide window shades we used to use as backgrounds when photographing portraits. The inner rollers are simply chimes, but no one knew it, until I stripped one of all its guts in and out and hit it while being suspended gently. I KNEW it!! These are CHIMES!
So I salvaged eight of them as they continued to fail mechanically in thier intended usage.

These do not sound like "Ting, teng, bing, ging, ding, king, twinkle, twinkle" but more like large orchestral chimes, being almost two inches in diameter and six feet long. I have cut some to alter tones, but with no regard for tuning them to a scale, just to make them sound different individually.

I could tune them to a certain chord or scale by shortening certain ones precisely, but I have never felt the need. I enjoy the random, dissonant tones they make.

Think of sounds like "Bong, bung dong, kong, tong, bung, dong" ... in other words, they make a very deep tone.

So now I have "Bass wind chimes" and two sets of "Tenor wind chimes."  I might get some "Alto chimes" for the front later.

[Gopher Gary]

I gambled on my first watermelon of the year. Wish me luck. 

[Pyraxis]

Break a leg!

[renaeden]

Gary, hope you enjoy the watermelon.

I bought a pair of black jeans for Kayleigh (because she lost her pair) and a pair of track pants for me that I can wear to the gym. $12 at the Salvos.

[DirtDawg]

If a person is behaving themselves in public, in a socially acceptable way, how does somebody "lose" their pants?

 

[odeon]

Beer.

[renaeden]

If a person is behaving themselves in public, in a socially acceptable way, how does somebody "lose" their pants?

 

She put them "away" somewhere in her room and now can't find them. I don't know if the new pair are the right size - she still hasn't tried them on.

[Parts]

Carbide toothed saw blade for some really big bolts I have to cut

[DirtDawg]

If a person is behaving themselves in public, in a socially acceptable way, how does somebody "lose" their pants?

 

She put them "away" somewhere in her room and now can't find them. I don't know if the new pair are the right size - she still hasn't tried them on.

I think she should stick to that story.
 

[renaeden]

I bought a lot of cat food, cat treats and a cardboard piece for the cats to sharpen their claws on.