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I have a few irons in the fire right now, hence not many posts lately. We just finished March Break, so we had the grand peanuts over a few times and did stuff with them. Will she get the snow ball or not... Heh, she started it... :-) The few times that I have been able to get a gander at my blog stats, I noticed some comments left on my post about the Buck Rogers Push drill .  Someone has a broken one (or jammed) and is having trouble taking it apart. So I finally rounded one of mine (I have two) and figured, I'll simply take it apart and take pictures...  Well sports fans it is apparently not that easy... I know it can be done, since I took it apart once and shown a pic of it a parade dress.. Pic from earlier post, 2015  I am going to have to fetch the other one , maybe that was the one I took apart? If so, should be easier. Then I'll figured out a way to crack open the other one without damages. So in order to answers the few questions he had, I'll take them apart and...

Around here in the Annapolis valley of Nova Scotia, we haven't seen much of a winter yet. Barely any snow on the ground and when we did had some, it was gone within a few days. Mind you we do live in a sheltered valley with prime agricultural lands. There is a good reason the Airbase is located here in the valley... The scene around here on this past Saturday, Mar 3rd. I was supposed to do a snow shoes marathon, 5kms, but since there was no snow, we walked it... The Big Chill, in support of the Lawrencetown Education Center The only official snow shoe marathon of its kind in North America. There is also a 10, 15 and 30 kms if you are so inclined... Talking of incline, the first 1.2Kms or so are up an old ski hill. Its a heart breaking hill, brings back memories :-)  And about 50 mins later I was done. It would had been a tad longer on snowshoes...trust me :-) A good warm up exercise, but I have no intentions of doing more than 5Kms... I am old enough, no need to rush it...it will ...