We are in Wuhu for a week and 1/2. This is the plant a few years back before machines.
The yellow crane is for loading molds into the molding machine
A few years back after first machines.
3 machines now in place
Now picture from same window.
Now looks through engineering office
Standing in front of that office
3 presses will be put in place in the open spots front right this weekend. The big room on the left that runs the entire length of the building is a clean room with presses and assembly for taillights and LED assemblies.
Standing near the middle of the room looking back.
The office extension. The window in the back of the office in the middle is where the other picture was taken and in the hallway outside Mary’s office. To the left in this picture and outside is a drive that goes between this building and another one just like it that they have moved into over the last few months. This is inside the door.
These 3 machines were sitting in the empty spots in the other building
The white walls are another large clean room for what would generically be called chrome plating. Raw parts going in from the machines onto racks and plated in the room and packaged.
They added a nice conference room when they added onto the offices.
And finally here you have Mary going back to the plant after lunch.
First off a major business dude from the Nashville airport.
Hes got the big time phone earphones, he’s really busy, he covers his mouth when he talks so no nearby lip readers can understand the top secret business stuff he is talking about, he has the Popeye’s chicken, and to balance that out he has the FitBit for your exercise tracking.
We went to the market today and bought some of the market food. On item was from the stall where we bought the big 5 lb fish for New Years dinner last January. This time they had a Sea Bass ( or as it’s known in some areas Seab Ass) So Mary has them cut a couple 1″ steaks off. Now that is a lot of fish. In fact a little over 2 pounds.
2 sea bass steaks
In the US at your big Kroger or Whole Foods those go for about $30 per pound so you are looking at about $65 worth of fish there. We paid less than $10 and it was cut right off the fish. Ate it and it was quite good.
I went on a safari to the back creek d’Yusmith today before leaving for China. Had many face to face encounters with the deer living here.
I thought this one saw me but I blended into the foliageEarly morning sun makes right settings hardThinking about eating our dogwood tree
Long about 9:30am Wylie wondered byLong about 10PM he wondered back with his dinner carry out
Because this is shot as jpg I cant do anything to improve the IR exposure but it looks like maybe he has a possum (although it looks small for that) or maybe a mole. (seems too big for that) If it is a mole wish he had picked up a 6 pack.What ever it was it was still warm.
I shall return to the wild kingdom when I get back.
It’s all back. The server is running and everything has been backed up at least once. Just in time to leave for China later this week. We will be in Wuhu most of the time so there will not be much excitement to post about, but you never know that was the sight of the be The Ebola scare a couple years ago. To hold you over here is Mary and I and the entire 1967 Portland class from the reunion we went to.
Also I did tear down the bird nest but I couldn’t get all the brown stain off the house and I thought I caught them trying to rebuild a couple days later but I have not seen them since. There better not be some bird Trump like establishment back up there when I get back.
You may recall that last summer I had a problem of birds sitting on the ledge above the front door and pooping all over the place, well not all over, just in front of the door. I determined that they were barn swallows a common bird that hangs around people and their human structures so they can build nests in them (thus the barn part of their name). The nest look like this.
If you are wondering how I happen to have a picture of a barn swallow nest it is because it is built in the upper corner of the thing that covers the front porch and door. I noticed this last spring and at that time pulled it down, (it is about 25 feet off the ground). I didn’t think much more about it except Mary said that that is a lucky bird and there is some top secret thing in the nest that if you are some Chinese person you are suppose to eat. A few weeks ago I noticed that it had been rebuilt. I didn’t do anything about it at that time under the mistaken assumption that it was abandoned. A week or so ago I noticed that there were birds in it and that it was then too late to pull down. So the birds grew and I decided that there were 4 (although as they left the nest over the last couple days I think the real number was 5.) I could count them here.
This was the only way I could see them because as soon as I opened the door or approached from outside the adult birds would start flying around in buzzing mode sending up warnings and the young birds wold duck down and hide in the nest. Now the problem with this is once again poop. I can’t find a study to confirm it but the barn swallow has the highest ratio of poop to body weight in the known universe. Also, apparently the first rule that is taught a young bird is don’t poop in the nest but stand up on the edge and poop over the side. As a result the ledge under the nest and the front porch have about 248 tons of bird poop collected. This generated another great mystery that, since I am not a lepidopterist, I have no answer for. I noticed the other day that there is one brand of butterfly that flocks to this collected bird poop like old folks flock to the “all you can eat”.
Yesterday and today it appears that they have left the nest for good and soon I will need to clean this mess up. I’ll leave you with the photo that will be the envy of all great wildlife photographers. I can’t tell you how I got this picture, trade secret, but I outsmarted the birds and their stupid warnings.
The golden site of the internet is back online after being down for about 2 weeks. It seems that the NAS box suddenly slowed down and after trying to do something about it tried restarting it which at that point caused it to not start at all. I still don’t know how this happen as that is what a NAS box is to protect for by running RAID arrays and stuff. To make a long story short I had 2 or three scattered backup locations for the data but none of the quick ones to get to had the WordPress database so I could recover Yusmith. I had another full back up at Amazon using their Glacier program (about $.60 per month for a couple hundred gig of data.) Now I know why it’s called Glacier. Its been downloading and resorting for about a week and a half now and still is only 70% done. But luckily it had restored the required WordPress files first and I found that there was still no database. This led me to discover that I didn’t know how to back up WordPress so I’ve got to recreate the whole thing. That can be done, I have everything but the text (pictures and most other things) It all needs to be loaded in the appropriate databases. The text I can get get from the Wayback Machine and cut and paste it over. I just have to do it one post at a time. I started this chore today as you can see below with the first 3 posts from 2012. Consider this to be like one of those TV shows where the main people sit around and talk to each other and say “remember when we…” and then they fade to a part of an old show and they make an entire show out of doing this. You can relive the last 5 years of YuSmith while I do this. I probably wont get this done before I leave for China and I suspect the Ol’ Chairman Mao blocks the Wayback Machine. If he doesn’t I can work on it there also. To give you a glimpse of possible future posts here are some happenings in the wildlife department of YuSmith
I spent the winter trying to figure out what animal was trying to live in our crawl space. The vents kept getting knocked out. So I put on my wild kingdom hat and investigated. The first sighting was on the back porch (along with what is apparently a neighborhood cat)
opie!
I then found it around front.
There is a local racoon that lives down by the back creek.
Of course all the deer that just seem to keep growing in number.
The hawks that fly around rarely land but this one did.
This spring there were quite a few wild turkeys grazing the front and back yards.
On beast that I’ve been tracking since last fall goes by the name Wylie. This picture from mid afternoon in the fall.
Again from the middle of the night this winter, although it does resemble one of those Bigfoot pictures.
About 3 Sundays ago we got these 2 pictures.
There is no doubt there are coyotes around here , our neighbors say they hear them at night howling and the suburb west of us claims to have a problem with them I just hope i don’t see a pack or have someone come to the door selling one of those velvet paintings of wolves baying at the moon that you used to see on vans.
Finally the scariest creatures of all caught crossing the back yard.
So there you have it the new beginning for YuSmith. I have one hard drive that is giving me a warning but I can’t replace it for another 3 or 4 days so if I get that far with no problem I should be able to say everything is fully operational. All that will be needed is to redo the posts so watch history unfold again in the coming weeks.
The office extension. The window in the back of the office in the middle is where the other picture was taken and in the hallway outside Mary’s office. To the left in this picture and outside is a drive that goes between this building and another one just like it that they have moved into over the last few months. This is inside the door.
