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No I have not disappeared  from the face of the earth..... Just been busy as heck. I said prior that I needed to keep busy to help me deal with Heather's loss, well sport fans I have succeed beyond all my expectations. I am a member of my local  Royal Canadian Legion, branch 98  and at friends request I have now joined the Rotary International organization  Between all kinds of auctions and food drives that keep me occupy for sure, then once a month I go to Halifax to attend the 1st Halifax African Violets Society meetings, it was Heather favourite AVs club so I stayed on as secretary, I am still the secretary of my local Air Force wing Wood Hobby shop, where I will soon gives a few courses on hand tool woodworking. Meanwhile Rudy and I have traveled together close to 20,000 Kms (you are going to have to ask Ken for the distance in miles :-) going to visit family and friends from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario... Rudy has made many friends along th...

I have been looking for a small corner brace for a while and finally got this early Stanley No 994 during my recent trip to the Tools Of The Trades Show (TOTTS) That show and sale is twice a year; I went to the recent 2 Oct one. Next one is in Spring 17 The Stanley No 994 Joist or corner brace One portion of the top pad is cutaway,  allowing it to be positioned closer to a wall.  Notice the usual brace ratchet mechanism? The chucks on these is a giveaway of their vintage period, since it followed the brace's chuck development. This more recent one sport a much rectilinear chuck. Mine, above, has a bulbous Barber chuck. Pic from EBay It is essentially a truncated version of their regular brace,  same mechanism and chucks. Main features: The cut away top pad and the ratchet mechanism allowed it to be operated close to a corner, say inside a joist bay Sure make you think of another uses doesn't it? If you said the common mechanic's ratchet, you would be right! The bigge...

Rudy and I just returned from Montreal, we went to an old friend funeral service . We first meet in CFB Greenwood back in 1977, Mario was a Weapons Tech Air 571, I was a Radar System Tech 523. As usual Rudy travel with me, but this time he stayed overnite in Quebec city with my friends Francois and Jacynthe, other fellow vets from our days in Greenwood in the 70s. They retired from CFB Valcartier, home to the famed R22R, infantry regiment . In our military all flying assets belongs to the Airforce, even those attached to the Army or the Navy, so we get to play soldier or sailor with our fellow brother's services.  Years of fun :-) Since Aug 22 Rudy has now traveled almost 14,000 Kms. No, Ken, I have no idea how many miles that is :-) He is a good travelling companion and never complaint, as long as he is with his daddy :-) As you can see, he does not look worse for wear :-) (No this is not a picture of Rudy) In my travel I saw ads on the side of the highway in Moncton NB, for a Sun...