Denver broke the record high for February 15th with a high of 68° February 24th Denver tied the high of 71° with 1981. Denver had 41 days at or above 60°F for the meteorological winter (December–February), Denver finished with its 2nd-warmest winter on record since 1933-1934. Denver had the second snowless February on record and first since 2009. February 2026 was also the third-hottest February on record in Denver.
A little late getting this out from usual. There is going to be an in person get-together on Saturday. We did get a couple of notes from members.
Leon
Leon, our member at large from Kansas, tells of a recent machine acquisition and giving hand crank demos.
Just checking in. Happened to be close to this Elna TSP last week. "doesn't work, needs electrical work". Cheap and came in a cabinet. We dragged it home and gave it some oil and cleaning. Light always works. Power randomly. I did get it to run for 15 minutes. Then nothing. I haven't taken the plug area apart yet. It may need a drop of solder. It is fun though. Oh our state museum finally opened up and we got to go do demos for our hand crank machines. Maybe 400 Kiddos tried them out. Greetings from Kansas. Stay safe. Leon and Iris.
Cheryl & Chris
Cheryl sent a note about Chris doing a rewire of a foot controller with notes on how he did it.
We had a little bit of sewing machine related activity lately. Chris noticed that the foot pedal on my 301 was looking sketchy so he did what he's done many many times before and rewired it. But this time he documented it. Here's a link with photos of the process and there are his comments with each photo describing what he did and why.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ML2Mtp1hRNcNJ6Jw8
In Closing
As mentioned before we plan on meeting in person on Saturday so will probably have a part B next week.