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I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottle of water. Guys, let's see what's happening out there.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.56 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $4.18 on the top end. Butcher hog in Iowa 67ยข a pound, and a lamb that's fat in Billings weighing a 100lbs will fetch you $2.19 to $2.22. But guys, there's more much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. Okay. Okay. If you listened yesterday, you heard me name a lot of businesses that were operating back in 1965.
OK Solberg:But boy, oh boy, I didn't name them all. Now, just for fun, let me name some more. If you live in Malta or you used to live in Malta, it's fun to hear names that we are familiar with, especially names we're familiar with from our past. Okay. Listen.
OK Solberg:We had Malta Drug, Ken's Thriftway, Valley Cleaners, Coast to Coast, Vanity Beauty Shop, Malta Mercantile, oh, how about Bill's Refrigeration and Electric, Lessa's Enco Superstation, Anthony's, and finally even Eaton's Body Shop. Are things slowing down in Malta? We don't have that many businesses now. Just saying. Okay.
OK Solberg:Okay. Today, something new. I've talked about baseball. I've spoken about local history. Well, I've mentioned cars often.
OK Solberg:Songs are a frequent subject and maybe even a little bit of poetry now and then. Well, I've even done more than one episode episode on quilting. Oh, hey. By the way, someone out there is making me a quilt, and I'm curious how it's coming. But today, something new.
OK Solberg:Today, we're gonna talk about String Art. String art. Do you even know know anything about it? As I wrote this episode, I had in front of me this beautiful and I mean beautiful string art decoration made by our daughter-in-law Cassie. It's for Christmas and Christmas is a coming and the geese are getting fat.
OK Solberg:So Thea hung it up a few days past and I grabbed it because I love it. And I could look at it for long periods of time. I mean, it's hypnotic. This masterpiece is like a campfire. It captivates the viewer.
OK Solberg:It has depth. It has color. It has a relevant message. Oh, yes. And it has multiple colors.
OK Solberg:Some of the string is red and then there's some white and it continues down the line spelling out the word Christmas and then the white turns to gray and the gray turns to lime green and the lime green melds into emerald green. I gotta say it is captivating. So the word Christmas is spelled out with string, different colored string fastened to small silver nails. And I'm gonna count the nails, I am. Here wait.
OK Solberg:I'll tell you how many nails there are. Hold on. Okay. Wait. Oh man.
OK Solberg:I got to 200 nails and my eyes got crossed. So I'm gonna take an estimate. I did count to 200 though. There are about 450 to five hundred hundred slender silver nails so carefully placed and the string is perfectly strung from nail to nail. And like I told you, it spells out the word Christmas in cursive.
OK Solberg:Now you're wondering how big it is. Well, let me tell you. It's on a one by 12 that is varnished a dark brown and the one by 12 is 26 and a half inches long. So it's bigger than the bread it's bigger than a breadbox. Well, it's wider than a breadbox but it's only an inch thick.
OK Solberg:No way. No way. I can't back that up. It started that being an inch thick and then they planed it down and so it's this exact measurement. It's the exact measurement of a one by 12 that you buy down at farmers and ranchers.
OK Solberg:Three quarters of an inch thick now and I know I better tell you that it isn't a full 12 inches wide. It's 11 and a quarter inches wide after they planed it. Mike Lowney I threw that in there for you and all the other carpenters around. So don't let me get crossed up here. Our string art that was a gift to Thea and myself was handmade by our daughter-in-law Cassie and it is a work of art, literally a work of art.
OK Solberg:I hope some of you asked me or Thea to see it. It's too pretty to keep to ourselves. And if you're a collector, well, which I am, people ask collectors two major questions about the item. Is it an original? Oh, I'll tell you it's an original.
OK Solberg:There may be others similar, but this is unique and original. And their second question is this, how many were made? Well, I have the answer to that as well. This here is one of a kind and I thank you Cassie. I love it and if Thea asked don't tell her I took it.
OK Solberg:I'll close with a bible verse and yes this is really in the bible and that deals with art and creativity. Listen. But now, oh lord, you are our father. We are the clay and you are our potter. We are all the work of your hand.
OK Solberg:Isaiah sixty four eight. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.