I also have Antique Copper weathervanes in roof mount, post mount, deck mount and garden stake for 38 different colleges – These are powder coated steel and made in the USA

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Weathervane

Alabama Crimson Tide Weathervane

Arkansas Razorbacks Weathervane

Auburn Tigers Weathervane

Clemson Tigers Weathervane

Duke Blue Devils Weathervane

Florida Gators Weathervane

Florida State Seminoles Weathervane

Georgia Bulldogs Weathervane

Illinois Fighting Illini Weathervane

Indiana Hoosiers Wethervane

Iowa Hawkeyes Weathervane

Iowa State Cyclones Weathervane

Kansas Jayhawks Weathervane

Kansas State Wildcats Weathervane

Kentucky Wildcats Weathervane

Louisville Cardinals Weathervane

Louisiana State LSU Tigers Weathervane

Michigan Wolverines Weathervane

Michigan State Spartans Weathervane

Missouri Mizzou Tigers Weathervane

Nebraska Huskers Weathervane

North Carolina Tar Heels Weathervane

Ohio State Buckeyes Weathervane

North Carolina State Wolfpack Weathervane

Oklahoma Sooners Weathervane

Notre Dame Fighting Irish Weathervane

Oklahoma State Cowboys Weathervane

Penn State Nitney Lions Weathervane

Purdue Boilermakers Weathervane

South Carolina Gamecocks Weathervane

Tennessee Volunteers Weathervane

Texas A&M Aggies Weathervane

Texas Longhorns Weathervane

Texas Tech Red Raiders Weathervane

Virginia Tech Hokies Weathervane

West Virginia Mountaineers Weathervane

Bronco Weathervane

Wisconsin Badgers Weathervane

I have updated the FAQ section to help customers understand the way the check out works.  Each item now has a link to the FAQ where the Check Out information is located.  You can click HERE to see the FAQ and check out instructions.

I have also added and options menu to the Antique Copper weathervanes to make it easier to choose which mount you want.  There now are pictures of the mounts.  Just click on the mount you want and then check out.

From the encouragement and conversations with this businessman at the time I began moving forward.   I have been saying Yes to the Universe, to Sprit.   Rather than giving up I have been learning a lot of new things, I have added to my product lines and learned new ways to market.  I am finalizing a new site Geezer n Geek and very soon I will be beginning a whole new series of opportunities from what I have been learning since this man encouraged me not to give up, not to look back and to simply move forward. 

Right at the time when the new opportunities have begun to open up and become reality, I got an email from this businessman, placing a new order a couple of days ago.  He enclosed a two photos of the windmills I had shipped to him a couple of years back.  So here are the photos – I wanted to share how much these mean to me, and to say Thank You to the Universe, God, Spirit for sending this businessman to me and for his help and encouragement.

In the class and webinars I will be showing you some free tools and how they work and will also show some tools you pay for and how they work. The goal is to show you a free way of getting something done and a paid way of getting things done. There will a lot of free information and tips on the site. There will also be a “membership” area where you will have available much more detail and on screen tutorials on how to do things. The membership area will have a monthly fee.

I will also soon have a course on how to use your computer available soon. This course will be available for purchase soon.

If you want to begin to learn how to use your computer and or learn a lot about the Internet there will soon be a pace on the Geezer n Geek site where you can sign up for free tips and information.

What does this new site have to do with windmills and weather vanes? I get phone calls quite often from people who want a windmill or weathervane but do not know how to buy things on line or use their computer. I also get people coming into the store and also emailing me that they just do not know much about how to use their computer or how to connect and use things like their digital camera, video camera, iPod or other music playing device, iPhone and other smart phones and so on.

I have been asking my windmill customers if they would like to learn how to use their computer better, I have been asking people who come into the store the same thing – I keep hearing some of the same things. “computer illiterate” is something I hear a lot. So I am putting the Geezer n Geek site together to offer a place to learn about computers and some of the “new” technology.

I also get emails and have people asking me how to do things like get on Facebook, or put their photos in an email or on Facebook.

It just seems that a number of people are really struggling when it comes to computers, the Internet, application software, electronic gadgets and on and on. So I am putting together several things that will help people become a lot more comfortable with the technology and electronic gadgets and do that in a way that is in plain English rather than “tech or geek” speak.

As you watch me put the site together you will see I am really just learning how to do this type of site. Even though I have a couple of sales sites and a couple of blog sites already I am learning and experiment with this site. I will be posting more on this site as I make it work. I will be recommending a number of tools, classes, instruction that I find useful in learning.

Geezer n Geek will have a number of tips, ideas, tutorials, simple instructions and live webinars to help people learn to use their computers and or learn how to do more with their computers.

It appears that a lot of people my age (baby boomer) and older have gotten computers and can do some basic web searches, send email and maybe have gotten on Facebook but just do not know much about how to actually use their computer.

What Geezer n Geek is about is a place where people can learn to use their computer, and how to do things with their computer like bring digital photos from their phone or camera on to their computer.

There will be a number of free tips and tutorials and there will also be some courses and webinars designed to help people get much more comfortable with technology. You can overcome being “computer literate” and we can help.

Watch as I build up the site. There will be places where you can sign up to receive simple computer tips and tutorials and if you sign up you will be not only kept in the loop you will be able to tell me what you would like to learn to do with your computer. A lot of the upcoming classes will be based on what you want to learn how to do, or what is giving you problems with using and understanding your computer.

There were also windmills along the railways for the steam trains.  There are still quite a few operating windmills in western Nebraska and in the Sand Hills area however as time goes by the number become fewer and fewer.  In the Central Plains rural electricity became more available plus the water table dropped – the result was that deeper wells had to be drilled to get water.  The windmills could not pump water from these deeper wells.  Only about 100 feet was pretty much the maximum.  The windmills were replaced with electric submersible pumps in many areas.  Windmill manufacturers either went out of business or started making other things.  Windmill parts became difficult to find and windmill maintenance became more and more time consuming.

There are several museums and historic windmill collections around.  There is an annual event where people sell and swap windmills and windmill parts.  CLICK HERE for a link to the Windmill Trade Fair  and Windmill Museum to one of the windmill Museums. Here is a great site about windmills this Museum is in Lubbock Texas.  Here is another great resource if you are into windmills and windmill history – The Windmillers Gazette has some back issues and reprints.

This year the Windmill Trade fair was held in York Nebraska – Windmillers Trade Fair.   I really had hoped to attend this event this year but just could not get away.  I am hoping that there will photos up on one of the above site about this years Windmill event.

Something interesting to do is Google the various manufacturers represented by the 17” mini windmills – there is some very interesting information available.  There now are  7 of the “brand name mini windmills – Dempster and Eli being the most recent.  Others are the Currie, Fairbury, Heller Aller and  Kirkwood.  There are 7  others – the plain tailed 17”, the Aero, Stars and Stripes, Texas, Route 66, Kansas and the Commemorative models to make a total of 14 of the mini windmills available.   This Link will take you to where you can see the 14 made in the USA mini windmills that I carry.