Your Today in Pictures...

[Steve Klare]

Tomorrow is the first Sunday in Advent

We went up into the Village of Northport and saw the sights last night. The gazebo where we see band concerts every summer is really ready for the season.

Maybe it's just me, but in times gone berserk like our own, the idea of Christmas on the way seems even more comforting than usual!

[Steve Klare]

Hi Graham,

It was a fawn deer in a cage, obviously headed somewhere new, and in a very un-deer mode of travel!

Later on, maybe someday he'll tell the other deer in his new herd "So help me, I was abducted by aliens! They imprisoned me aboard one of their ships! After they injected me I lost consciousness and when I woke up I found myself here.".

"Nobody believes that stuff, Bob! I think you found those fermented berries again!"

[Graham Ritchie]

Steve

What is in the back? your photo reminded me of this one taken, not by me but I think a press photographer in Glasgow. This young lion is waiting for the car owner to return, I doubt anyone would be game to steal his car. Going of topic slightly, Glasgow was always a favorite place for overseas guests to visit. Glasgow folk always were very welcoming, still are I am sure, so will throw in a few more old photos

PS. Had the lawn mower doing its thing yesterday afternoon, I am not a fan of running around with a lawn mower, but its got to be done, well of to Muffin break soon.

[Steve Klare]

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I saw this at a rest stop on Interstate-80 out in central Pennsylvania last summer.
I really hope he wasn't supposed to be going out for "beer" and misheard them!

[Lincoln Thorn]

A couple pictures of this Halloweens Activities:

I may get a rock, but these kids are getting full sized candy bars and other treats!

Sometimes you get so in the spirit it just takes over completely! Jack-O Lincoln!!

[Graham Ritchie]

Steve the growth here is out of control, I thought that when you retire you can take life easy not soit seems like every time I go out, the grass and weeds are another few inches taller than they were last night before. I can't keep up.

[Steve Klare]

Welll....
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Judging from the fallen leaves out there, it looks like this will be the last time I'll be cutting my lawn for 2023. I'll leave it up to Graham to do this on my behalf in his own Hemisphere until roughly April!

Back in the days when the coming of Winter meant days of freezing my butt off walking between the buildings on some college campus or other, I really didn't like this time of year. Now that I can ride to work in a nice warm car and there are plenty of enjoyable things to do, it's just a change of seasons: maybe even something to look forward to!

(The snows rarely come before Christmas here: looks like I have a minimum of 7 weeks not having to push some red, noisy machine or other around!)

[Graham Ritchie]

I came across this neat story this morning of one young man passion for aircraft.

[Lincoln Thorn]

Working on my Halloween costume for this year! I’ll be dressed as the Sheet Ghost from The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Luckily for the trick r Treaters I won’t be handing out rocks.

[Graham Ritchie]

Brilliant and were made to last especially when you need it to be reliable all the time, like when I was looking for an oil leak along with a inspection mirror late at night when this photo was taken many moons ago.

[Steve Klare]

Ahhh!!!

When ordinary objects approach greatness: the two D-Cell Mag-Lite!

Perhaps the greatest flashlight ever made!

-made of cast aluminum, gasketed to be water tight, spare bulb in the end cap.

Available in black, silver, red and blue and newer ones come LED equipped.

It's made in sizes down to 2 AAA-Cells and up to 4 D-Cells, but those are so heavy they should come with a shoulder strap.

If Porsche themselves made a flashlight, it would be no better than this one!
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[Graham Ritchie]

There is a lot of truth to that, after spending many past years working on British cars and British Aircraft, it was always a challenge, and that's putting it politely . The one thing British stuff all had in common, they all leaked oil to some degree and were a pain in the neck to fix.

Still have some tools left over, with British aircraft everything was split pinned and lock wired




Its hard to believe I bought this torch new and this was it after 10 years of use

[Ed Gordon]

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[Steve Klare]

Hi Graham,

We call that "Liquid Wrench" here. I checked the shelf and I didn't have any!

The bolts in that bracket were the worst of the whole job, but this was like the third step from being done, so I pressed onward!

[Graham Ritchie]

Steve when I worked for Ansett Airlines we used Free All its a brilliant product , just spray it leave it for a while then slowly work the bolts back and forth adding a bit more spray onto the part as you go. It penetrates really well I still have a can left over in my old work bench, highly recommend getting a can that's if they still make it