McHenry County Blog

This is the fifth of five articles about the Crystal Lake Park District Main Beach Woody show last Sunday.

The Antique Vehicle vanity plate on this cream Chevrolet convertible shows that the wood is ash:

NICEASH

Here’s the front view of the Chevrolet.

Here’s a car as old as I am. It’s license plate is one from 1942.

Here’s another toughy for me. I think it’s a red Mercury. Am I correct?

The boxes in back are quite impressive.

I didn’t get all the Woodies at the Crystal Lake Park District’s Main Beach on July 26th, but I got most of them.

You can see others in

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

If you want to save ash trees, here’s an article that tells you how. I traded treatment of my tree for an ad that I haven’t figured out how to post yet.

Still more woodies whose owners brought them to the Crystal Lake Park District’s Main Beach Sunday, July 26, appear below.

A Ford station wagon, this one with Illinois Antique Vehicle license plate number 4748.

Above is its front end. Notice how I’m getting more systematic as I go along.

I think this Chevy is green. (I’m red-green colorblind. My son told me the color of the red one identified above.)

Here’s its grill.

Here’s a Mercury. Is it brown or green. That colorblind problem again.

The front end shows its Antique Vehicle license plate is 94 765.

The next Woody has water skies leaning against it and a California vanity plate:

LOGRIDE

More woodies tomorrow.

The series has five parts.

Here’s Part 1 and Part 2.

If you can supply more information about any of these vehicles, please leave it in comments.

In case you missed them, here are the first two articles:

Part 1

Part 2

If you have more information about any of the cars or their owners, please add it in a comment.

Tuesday night between 6 and 7–on CNN’s only conservative show of which I’m aware–radio and TV talk show host Glenn Beck told of a woman (in Maine, I think) who broke a fluorescent light bulb in her daughter’s room and ended up with a state EPA man in her house.

He told her to hire a clean-up crew, the cost of which was $2,000.

The mercury was dangerous.

Zay Smith’s Chicago Sun-Times column yesterday was headlined:

Beware the dark side of
fluorescent light bulbs

They contain mercury and here’s the advice Smith gives:

1. Do not use a vacuum cleaner, as it will spread the fluorescent bulb’s mercury neurotoxin into the air and contaminate the machine.

2. Ventilate the area and reduce the room temperature.

3. Collect the material into an airtight container while wearing coveralls, goggles and an air mask.

4. Pat the areas with the sticky side of tape and wipe with a damp cloth, putting these, also, in the airtight container.

5. Call local authorities

That’s before he congratulates readers for “going green.”

I remember my mother’s having broken a mercury thermometer in our kitchen at 212 S. Aurora Street in Easton, Maryland.

It certainly was in my pre-school days.

It was such fun pushing the little droplets around and getting them to merge into one larger drop.

That probably explains a lot about my present condition, don’t you think?

The photograph of Glenn Beck is from his web site.

Tuesday night between 6 and 7–on CNN’s only conservative show of which I’m aware–radio and TV talk show host Glenn Beck told of a woman (in Maine, I think) who broke a fluorescent light bulb in her daughter’s room and ended up with a state EPA man in her house.

He told her to hire a clean-up crew, the cost of which was $2,000.

The mercury was dangerous.

Zay Smith’s Chicago Sun-Times column yesterday was headlined:

Beware the dark side of
fluorescent light bulbs

They contain mercury and here’s the advice Smith gives:

1. Do not use a vacuum cleaner, as it will spread the fluorescent bulb’s mercury neurotoxin into the air and contaminate the machine.

2. Ventilate the area and reduce the room temperature.

3. Collect the material into an airtight container while wearing coveralls, goggles and an air mask.

4. Pat the areas with the sticky side of tape and wipe with a damp cloth, putting these, also, in the airtight container.

5. Call local authorities

That’s before he congratulates readers for “going green.”

I remember my mother’s having broken a mercury thermometer in our kitchen at 212 S. Aurora Street in Easton, Maryland.

It certainly was in my pre-school days.

It was such fun pushing the little droplets around and getting them to merge into one larger drop.

That probably explains a lot about my present condition, don’t you think?

The photograph of Glenn Beck is from his web site.