Falcon Ranchero

No clock shop; just Savoy's jewler. I did in fact get on the NAWCC (National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors) forum and showed them photos of what happened, and I have got many helpful answers already. Also got a few of the pieces back in the correct place. I just want the parts back in and the watch to be all closed up as before; doesn't need to work right now, just down the road I'd bring it in somewhere but i'd rather not have parts laying around if i can successfully put them back in.

for Thanks Giving

Addition to my pocket watch dilemma; I've been kinda sad about it for the past few days since I broke it so today I am just going to have to attempt to fix it myself. Both jewlers in town charge $250 to send it away and have it fixed, but research showed that a mint condidion watch like mine, with the chain (the chain is long on on this one) is worth about $70 so mine is probably worth $40, so that means it would cost way way more to fix it than the watch is actually worth. This further means I am going to have to take matters into my own hands, which I'm a little skeptical of doing since it seems quite complicated, and every watch seems to have a relatively different mechanical arrangement than the next. On my watch only five pieces popped out, and three of them I have not a terrible idea of where they go on or how they attatch. I also have a few school assignments that are becoming a bit of a burden, but the way I see it, if I don't fix this watch I'll be miserable for at least the rest of the week so later today, I have no choice but to try again. If I could just see the arrangement I could probably put it back together, but the only photos of same watches I could find still had that back plate on; I need to see beneath that. Looks like this I need to see beneath this:

the garden area

Hopefully the actual final snowing of the season is coming this afternoon. I swear this is the stupidest weather considering it's April 2nd and it's still snowing, and we still have snow banks so high we still can't see over them.

Looks crazy cool; when done correctly those AMT custom parts actually look pretty cool on the cars.

in the garden

large garden area

Sun's melting the ice layer that came last night after the freezing rains

Around here, the local antique stuff and games store is really the only place to find models. About 2 or so years ago that store had nothing in terms of model kits. Then, March last year, the far back corner of the store had become absolutley filled with vintage kits. Johans, AMT's Monogram, Revell, there were tons of vintage kits. I guess someone brought in their whole collection to sell. And I got two then. All the really super cool ones had prices jacked up so high it would be unrealistic to buy the kit to build. The ones I got were priced at $50, about the norm for new kits in stores today. This year most of those outrageously priced kits are gone, and there's not too much. That being said this past January I got the '59 Lincoln AMT from '65 for $20, which was great, considering it was all complete. Went to the store again just this past Saturday, and all that's left from that original wave of stock are these really old-timey car model kits. Model kits of '20s-early '50s cars (mostly '20s-'30s) that I typically don't build so I didn't pick anything up this past Saturday. They're pretty cheap too, but I usually build anything '57 and up. However, I do have relatives down southern Ontario, which is where more stuff like that is typically found, so if I see anything listed somewhere down south I can just ask them to pick it up and then i'd pay them back next time they come up and bring the model kit (or vintage radio as i'm on the hunt for one of those too)

Just goes to show how unknowledgeable I am about the inner workings of a clock. I just hope the jewler can fix it up.

School delayed 'till 12:00 noon today since the freezing rain last night. Sun's out now; just took two hours shoveling the snow off my grandma's driveway, revealing the ice layer beneath. Hopefullt the sun will melt the ice and hopefully no more freakin' snow since it's April tomorrow.

Oh wow I like thisun 👍

Favourite year of the ‘60s Cadillacs. And this one looks fantastic 👍

Now that’s just really awesome 👍

Nice trio of three ‘57s. I built one of these too but chopped the top off and made it a drop top.

Looking extremely cool; we rarely ever see a Dodge Challenger with a six cylinder. Cool 👍

Looking real fine; I just have to get my hands on one of these kits. Love the vinyl top by the way 👍

Whell that’s the coolest thing I’ve seen today. 👍

I am mad at myself today. Broke my dad’s grandfather’s 1968 Ingram Renown pocket watch; about 10 seconds before I would’ve fixed it. Popped the back open to look inside, and then stupid me decided to unscrew the four little screws holding the inside plate in, and then take that out to look at all those gears and whatnot. I then proceeded to realize that the little S to F lever on the plate meant start to finish, and since the lever was at F, I came to the conclusion that in order to have the clock work again, all I had to do was reset the lever to start, and it would be good again for another long while. SO then I thought it would be ok to put it to the start position while the plate was still not screwed on. As soon as I did that the thing blew up. So now I am more than disappointed since all I literally had to do was push a lever, instead of unscrewing those screws. Going to have to bring it to the jewler tomorrow to have it fixed. Didn’t lose any parts in the explosion but I have no actual idea how to put the thing back together. I just cannot believe how idiotic the situation became. Very disappointed.

Very odd dude

The real Caddyshack

and other stuff

I should also mention that I, and neither do my parents actually have facebook, so we don't know the first thing about how it works but my dad just has a co worker at work who has facebook to message for us, but still that's not the issue, it's the luck of the 'book I guess

brings with it