Hello Again!

[NickScheuer]

It's been awhile.  Have had some 'puter probs since moving several months ago. Sold Gayle's home of almost 60 years and am in an apartment furnished like a man cave.  Front room is a workshop/tool room featuring may bandsaw, floor-mounted grinder, and big solid workbench along with shelves of every sort of fastener.  Two-hp table saw, drill press, disc & belt sander, and lathe are in a storage unit, all powered by a portable generator.  Sold the Allbin-25 last summer to a couple in Oriental N Carolina.  Delivery trip in the old 1993 Dodge 250 Diesel pickup powered by vegetable oil (free) was a BLAST.  Got much better fuel mileage through the Smokie Mtns than I ever got around home because the truck was coasting downhill half of the time and can climb any mountain wheel to wheel with the 18-wheelers whilst towing a 25 ft motor cruiser (or faster) almost as easily as it runs on flat roads.  Sold the truck after the trip to a guy who is restoring it.  Now tow a fiberglass sailing canoe on a small trailer behind my Kia Soul. 

[Timm R Oday25]

Hello Nick .It's nice to know you are still around

[Riley Smith]

Hey! Glad to hear you are doing well!

[Noemi - Ensenada 20]

Big changes, eh?  Sounds like you've landed in a good place.

FYI, Ramblin' Rod checked in recently too. 

[NickScheuer]

I wonder whht Ramblin Rod is up to every once in awhile.  Are C Jones and Westy still around? One factor in my absence was that I was getting a security warning when checking in to this site.  My computer tech guy changed the "https//" routing for access and the warning disappeared.

My canoe trailer (formerly one of those folding trailers w 8" wheels available from various sources) will soon be adapted as a utility trailer with a removable flat bed and side gates. Just put the canoe on the lawn and assemble the bed, eh?
 it would also serve nicely for transporting a boat as the tongue has been lengthened.  Am sorta looking for a Rhodes Robin sailing dinghy which I lusted after decades ago.  They were originally molded plywood but later made of FG.  Would also settle for an MIT Tech Dinghy in which I sailed at Notre Dame.  Any other quality design of 14 or less ft would also be considered.  I sold the Eastport Pram built by CJ for the Harmony Boatworks shortly after selling the Albin. 

[Norm L.]

Great to have you catch us up a bit.
When our IT raised the security system about 3 weeks ago I got locked out of here and several other sites that I used weekly for business. They had to go in an mark the good guys.
Westy did check in once a while back. We haven't heard from Charlie. I sent him an email with no response. I'm always worried about the status of Old Salts and Fiddler's Green.

It sounds like your apartment would be a great place for a Better Homes & Gardens TV tour. It sounds a bit like the guy I met in Charlotte whose apartment looked like an armory with a closet full of black powder, melted lead in a pot on his stove, and ancient black powder rifles laying around. Just in case he saw a buffalo in the apartment parking lot.      I don't think his neighbors knew what was in his closet. Your machine shop sounds much more legal.

[Spot]

Welcome back Nick!

CJ is still around, he texted me 4th July greetings today. He may be on Chat tonight.