Photo | Chris Aldrich

Photo from one home to another across the street at night. Of note is an 8 foot inflatable blue and white unicorn with candles from it's horn to the nape of it's neck making a menorah. The unicorn horn is the shamash candle.

No, you’re not dreaming, that is a blue Menorahcorn decoration on the lawn across the way. 🕎🦄🤩

Close up of a LEGO version of Wednesday Addams dorm room at Nevermore featuring a tiny black LEGO brick typewriter

For fans of the Juwel 3 typewriter that appears in the Netflix series Wednesday, there’s a tiny little simulacra in LEGO set 76781 Wednesday & Enid’s Dorm Room.

With the recent drop of the second season and Halloween around the corner, I was surprised to see the set on clearance at Target for about $30.

A black Corona flat top typewriter in the foreground with an index card reading "Wednesday Core" in it. In the background is a television playing season 2 of Wednesday on Netflix featuring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. It almost looks as if she's staring over to the Corona typewriter jealously.

True Wednesdaycore: Even Wednesday Addams is checking out my Corona flat top! Hey Thing! Wanna come over and type with me?

Wooden table with a gray and chrome 1949 Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter next to a crystal tumbler of scotch in front of a brown container of Aberlour Scotch. In the serene and cozy background are a well-appointed bookcase including a small plant and a purple orchid.

We were allowed back into our neighborhood over the weekend and were excited to find our poor wind battered and smoke damaged house still standing.

Naturally I brought back a daily typewriter, but it was eerie to see what I’d last typed on it two weeks ago just before we had to evacuate.

A dark wooden table with a thin cardboard and taped package on it. Sitting on top of it is a pair of blue handled scissors. Nearby in the background is a lazy susan with a plate and several small decorative pumpkins on it.

Typewriter ribbon unboxing! I bought a full reel of 660 yards of blue/green bichrome 1/2″ nylon typewriter ribbon from Fine Line Ribbon in Ennis, TX. It arrived yesterday, just in time for some use over the weekend. I’ve now got enough for more than 41 universal 2″ diameter (16 yard) spools, so I should be able to ribbon up my entire collection and have some left over.

A heavily ink smudged paper towel sitting on the keyboard of a green Olympia typewriter. Spooling a full reel of ribbon was obviously a very messy business as seen by the black, red, blue, and green smudging. — Latex gloves and a good rag are necessary when spooling up from a 660 yard reel of nylon ribbon.

THE HELPERS Today as I was working at my Royal KMG typewriter, the same model used by Mr. Rogers, I was heartened by remembering an old quote of his: "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

Typewritten page sitting in the carriage of a 1952 Royal Quiet De Luxe. In black ink with an art deco-looking Vogue typeface we see the on the page the lyrics of the Madonna song Vogue.

I started the process of cleaning my green 1958 Olympia SM3 to bring it back up to speed. Things are generally moving apace although the mixture of eraser shavings and old oil has tarnished the carriage rails. Spent some time with some metal polish trying to bring them back to their old glory. Should be able to finish flushing out tomorrow and getting it back together and properly adjusted.

Here’s a bit of a time lapse of the work:

An empty wooden table with some wooden chairs on the far side.

A light colored hand towel now sits in the middle of the table.

The silver wooden case of an Olympia SM3 now sits on the towel on the table.

The typewriter case is now open and we see the green dusty typewriter inside it.

The typewriter has been removed from the case and sat on the right side.

A small Dyson vacuum and brush have appeared on the table next to the cleaned out case.

A black leather tool case has appeared on the table above the typewriter which now sits on the hand towel next to some index cards and a pen. The case and vacuum/brush have been pushed off to the right side of the table.

The leather toolcase has been emptied and now sits in the chair opposite the typewriter. Several tool pouches full of tools have appeared between the typewriter and the case.

The typewriter hood and several pieces have been disassembled and appear on the table around the towel and the body of the typewriter.

The platen and even more pieces have been removed from the typewriter and its carriage. They sit above and to the side of the typewriter and the layout of tools.

The skeleton of the typewriter sits on the table surrounded by it's parts and screws.

Finally, we see a different angle of the typewriter looking across the table. In the front is the naked typewriter on the hand towel which is surrounded by it's now cleaned body panels, platen, feet, and various other parts, screws, and springs. In the background we see the tools including many screwdrivers in their tool bags.