Leather and Tin Ball

[TomE]

Here's a project that I haven't seen discussed before.  President William Harrison's leather and tin ball, which apparently is the origin for the phrase "keep the ball rolling." https://wordsmarts.com/keep-the-ball-rolling/?lctg=3e121733-b5b4-47ec-a793-21d132d067fc.

Now that I have your attention, my real reason for posting is to ask does anyone else have trouble with the leatherworker.net site loading slowly?  For the past ~3 months, most pages of this site require about 20-30 seconds to load.  It is a slow process to use the site.  Is there a workaround?  Thanks for your input.

 

[fredk]

All working fine at my end

but, there have been reports that the Russians have been interfering with Western communication satellites and although its been going on for more than a year in recent months they've stepped up the interfering

[AlZilla]

I don't have a significant lag most times but very often I get a "page can't be reached" message and the page loads a few seconds later. Both on my home DSL and mobile 5G.

 You may recall a few months back, we had a DDOS attack and it took the Boss a few days to get it straightened out.  Maybe we're still being hammered and she's just filtered most of it out.

[TomE]

Thanks for your replies, @fredk and @AlZilla. We have fiber optic internet (a miracle, considering we’re in the boondocks) and no other issues with slow service. Occasionally this site loads quickly, but usually it’s a wait. Wasn’t the case until the last few months. 

[PastorBob]

13 hours ago, TomE said:

Thanks for your replies, @fredk and @AlZilla. We have fiber optic internet (a miracle, considering we’re in the boondocks) and no other issues with slow service. Occasionally this site loads quickly, but usually it’s a wait. Wasn’t the case until the last few months. 

I am just SW of you @TomE and not having any issues on multiple internet signals.  Might try clearing your cache on your browser.

[TomE]

On 11/20/2025 at 6:27 AM, PastorBob said:

I am just SW of you @TomE and not having any issues on multiple internet signals.  Might try clearing your cache on your browser.

Thank you, @PastorBob.  Clearing the cache may have completely solved the problem.  Pages are loading faster now. I use Chrome on multiple devices and hadn't considered that the shared cache might be slowing them all for this site.  Other sites that I frequent aren't showing a lag but maybe they will be even quicker now that I've cleaned up the cache.

Edited Friday at 12:56 PM by TomE

[Handstitched]

I'm using  a hand held gizmo, and seems to load quite well, here  in west ' upsidedown' land , Western Australia 🇦🇺 

HS