parking money...

Checked my parking meters today for the first time in a year.
Made $6.46!

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first paying customer

My friend Jim came out today to check out his new land he just bought SW of TFL.  75,85,63,0,B

New Parking Regulations...

...are now in effect.  Two hour time limit unless I really like you.  77,86,60,0,B

pole 3

Ready for the parking meters soon...although there might be a delay since my friend Bob Vandervliet dropped off some Virginia Peach Moonshine this afternoon.  76,85,60,0,B

pole 2

Set the second pole for the first meter...ended up using some leftover pipe from Ben's fence corners since the meters are pretty heavy.  Silver spray paint is on the shopping list.  81,91,50,0,B

meter mania

As usual...when I come across something new that sparks my interest I get a little obsessive about it.  I have always been enamored with clock mechanisms and timers - especially the coin operated variety.  I guess that might be why I have always liked going to the laundromat.  What first sparked the idea of parking meters is when I saw that my friend Keith Chapman had put a bunch of poles in the ground out near his mini storage building on 118.  Eventually he is going to fence off the property there that goes all the way to the corner.  I thought it would be funny to get a parking meter off Ebay and pop one on top of one of his posts and put it up on his Facebook page.  Turns out there are a lot of parking meters for sale on Ebay as well as a huge assortment of replacement parts.  I ended up getting a second meter housing along with an assortment of timers.  













So I went to the corner yesterday to do my planned photo and it just so happened that Keith was there.  He got a kick out of the idea although I wasn't able to surprise him with it on social media.  He was getting ready for the weekly garage sale at Green Desert Living and wouldn't you know he had 7 galvanized pipes for sale that are a perfect fit for the parking meters.  I only need two but I bought the lot for what the two I needed would have cost me from McCoys.  It's gonna take awhile to make back my investment one quarter at a time from visitors...but after that it is all gravy.  57,71,55,0,B

if I had a nickle...

...for every Field Lab visitor...  Just got a great deal on Ebay for this old parking meter.  I'm gonna be RICH!  77,85,49,0,B