Next week, Rt. 236 between South Berwick and Berwick, Maine, will be closed on 10/5 thru 10/6 so that the Rail Road people can replace the track that goes across the road, apparently to improve the safety of the track.  Some have asked for a clearer map of the suggested detour.  Thanks to Google Maps, I've done some screen captures with updates.  Hopefully these maps will help.  Otherwise, if you have a GPS mapping service for traveling, use that to get you around the construction: there are alternative roads.

The first is a composite, followed by the 3 images.  (hope this works!)

Marketing Update: Angel Soft 12 Jumbo Rolls Bath Tissue

Saturday, October 12, 2019
Last week, I purchased another 12 pack of Angel Soft Jumbo Rolls of bath tissue at my local Walmart.  (aka toilet paper )
I like to keep track of UPC codes, but did not find this package's UPC in my database.
And it seems, no one else on the Web knew about it either!

"So for the record":

The one I purchased on 9/20/2019, and for the last four years:
UPC-A: 030400790003
Angel Soft 12 Jumbo Rolls
12 ROLLS
381.3 SQ FT
286 SHEETS PER ROLL
4.0 IN X 4.0 IN
"280+ SHEETS PER JUMBO ROLL"
$5.98

The one I purchased on 10/4/2019:
UPC-A: 030400792427
Angel Soft 12 Jumbo Rolls
12 ROLLS
321.7 SQ FT
254 SHEETS PER ROLL
3.8 IN X 4.0 IN
"250+ SHEETS PER JUMBO ROLL"
$6.12

INTERESTING:
For what appears to be the same "Angel Soft 12 Jumbo Rolls",
the price has gone up from $5.98 to $6.12,
the sheets per roll has dropped from 286 to 254,
the total square footage has dropped from 381.3 to 321.7,
and the size of each sheet has dropped from 4"x4" to 3.8"x4.0".

The price alone is approx. a 2.3% increase.
But when the number of sheets you've purchased has changed also (approx. 11% decrease), the price increase is more like 15%.
Wow.

I'm not surprised by the change in width:  seems as if the TP in the store rest rooms keeps getting narrower and narrower, too.

Not so "Jumbo" any more.

ROYAL-AID RAZOR AND CLIPPER SHARPENING COMPOUND

Saturday, November 25, 2017
I've had this for a long time.... probably got it from my Dad; maybe 1960's-1980's?  But since nothing found online about it, I'll archive some info here!  (Note: There's one word in the Directions that I can not read.)

LABELING:

ROYAL-AID
RAZOR
AND
CLIPPER
SHARPENING
COMPOUND
FOR
REMINGTON
SHICK
SUNBEAM
NORELCO

MADE IN U.S.A.

DIRECTIONS
SQUEEZE 1/2 INCH OF COMPOUND ON
FINGER.  START RAZOR AND SPREAD
EVENLY OVER CUTTING HEAD.  SHARPEN
FOR 45 SECONDS.  WIPE OFF VISIBLE
COMPOUND AND CLEAN WITH ????DON [CAUTION ???]
OR MANUALLY.
.
DIRECTIONS
SQUEEZE 1/2 INCH OF COMPOUND ON FINGER.  START RAZOR AND SPREAD EVENLY OVER CUTTING HEAD.  SHARPEN FOR 45 SECONDS.  WIPE OFF VISIBLE COMPOUND AND CLEAN WITH ????DON [CAUTION ???] OR MANUALLY.

VIA Marble Spoon Rest, 1995 Design By 'ANCONA 2' N.Y.

For whatever it's worth........

Archiving info about our Marble Spoon Rest.

We have owned this for a while now.  Just tried to find the UPC online, with no results.  But there are lots of results for "Marble Spoon Rest"!  Just not this one!

The label on the back

793658926777

via (TM)

DESIGN:  ANCONA 2, NY
(C)1995 MADE IN TAIWAN

gave me some clues to search online, from which I'm guessing the following:

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FINDING ONLINE:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-ancona-65744b53
Jane Ancona
Design Professional
    New York
Previous   
    Ancona 2

Design Professional
Principal
Ancona 2
1983 – 2003 (20 years)

GOOD DESIGN AWARD
Chicago Athaneum - International Industrial Design Competition

VIA Pasta Timer, VIA Bagel Slicer, VIA Kitchen Baster

=

SHE LEFT, AND THE BUSINESS IS NOW:
http://www.a2inc.com

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SO:
"VIA" appears to be a brand associated with kitchen stuff....
"ANCONA 2" was a design firm in "NY".....



SO this is probably:
VIA Marble Spoon Rest, 1995 Design By 'ANCONA 2' N.Y.
Dimensions:  5.5" x 4.5" x .63"

Information you just can't live without.........
 

Toilet Tank Drip Tray - Melard 1634

MELARD 1634 DRIP TRAY
MELARD NO. 1634
UPC:   071862016348

9:34 AM Tuesday, February 16, 2016
In the "good ole days", toilet tanks used to "sweat":  in the summer when it is very humid, moisture from the air would condense on the toilet tank, due to the cooler water inside the tank, after a flush.  The water would then run down the outside of the tank and drip onto the floor, making puddles, and general yuckiness.



You could suspend this drip tray under the toilet tank, hanging from the aluminum straps, and attach a plastic tube to the little drip extension, and run the tube off to a container (kind-of hidden under the toilet).  Voila!  No more puddles!

I think the sponges they included were to be placed on the tray, as an alternative to using the tube.  But you might have to remove them and wring them out occasionally if the water did not evaporate before running over the edges of the tray.  But who wants to lift a yucky sponge and wring it out!  Not me!  I used the tube, going to a container.  Then I'd only have to empty the container occasionally.



It was a little tricky to get the tray off-level just enough to have the water goe towards the tube, to empty the tray, but it was do-able.

And it worked well.


But today's toilets don't seem to sweat the same way, so we haven't used the drip tray for several years now.

And these two pieces of paper have now been recycled!

5/7/2015 Throw-Back-Thursday: Barbershop Quartet

For today's Throw-Back-Thursday, I came across this picture and then realized I still have the audio files!  The event was a Talent Show at St John's United Methodist Church in Dover, NH, sometime between 1984 - 1990.  Anyone remember exactly when?

The Barbershop Quartet members were (...if I remember correctly!):
John Blackadar, Tenor
Everett Bean, Lead
Bob Johnson, Baritone
Gus Korn, Bass

Gus had been a member of local Barbershop choruses for a long time.  The rest of us had done it sometime in our past!  John and I both went to West Virginia Wesleyan College, and I think we may have both sung in a Barbershop quartet during that time.

Amateurs.... but fun!

My Wild Irish Rose

Wait till the Sun Shines, Nelly

Down Our Way

Shine On Me

10/17/2017 Update:  These 4 songs can now be found here:
Barbershop Quartet during Talent Show (1980's)

 

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About my new blog "Bob Johnson's Misc Stuff & Things"

I like to archive information about a lot of stuff.... everything from shopping receipts (which I will NOT be posting here!) to photos and text about all kinds of things (one of my biggest computer folders is "Appliance & Equipment Info").  It seems like, quite often, I will go online to find out more about something..... and I find almost nothing.  And to someone like me, that's frustrating.... especially, since I may be holding one of those things in my hand!!!  "What do you mean?  The internet knows nothing about this???"

So in my own crazy way, I'm going to start blogging about some of this "stuff", in the hopes that this info will become the results of someone else's online search, and, then, maybe not feel so lonely out there!

Oh, and about the origin of "Stuff & Things":

I used to work in a small town hardware store.

The owner was anything but "small town"!  He had been a regional sales manager for a large light bulb manufacturing company.  But at one of their management meetings, he could not morally subscribe to the direction the company was taking, told them so, and walked out of the meeting.... and quite his position.  After returning home, realizing he'd just quit his job, he asked himself what he was going to do for a living.  Since he needed some eye-bolts for his dock at the lake, and none of the three hardware stores in town had them, or even seemed to be able to get them, he decided to open his own hardware store!  After setting up a relationship with a distributor he'd known, he opened his store, and got his eye-bolts!

But one of the stories I remember best that he would tell customers around the wood stove in the middle of the store, in the middle of winter, when things were a little slow, was about the secretary he had during his previous employment.

His secretary was sent on business trips occasionally.  When she returned, she'd turn in her expense report, and promptly get reimbursed.  After several trips and reports, he'd been noticing the same line item at the bottom of each report: "S&T".  Trusting her implicitly, he did not want to ask... but finally had to.  Her response:  "Oh, that's just stuff and things."

He continued reimbursing her without any further questions.