Tom Geiger

Never say never! I once had a 1978 Toyota Corolla Deluxe station wagon. It was my first brand new car, a company car. Surprise! A resin caster in Ukraine produced it! So I have it ready to build

I did the annual NNL East postcard mailing on January 15. Usually 2-3 days later people are posting about them on social media.. this year nothing! It was taking 2 weeks for people on the East Coast to receive them. I started getting Return To Senders almost immediately.. First I saw none of them had been postmarked! That’s close to $1000 postage that could be reused! Next as I looked at the reasons for the returns.. “No Such Address” “No Such Number” I started looking up the addresses and found both USPS and Google Maps found them. Google Street View found houses! I emailed a few and people said yes that was their current address! I sent the cards back out and didn’t see them back again. And 2 months later I’m still getting random Return To Senders. I don’t dare remove those folks from the mailing list since they could be good addresses! If you are on our list and didn’t get your card let me know!

Cars in US Market made in China (and people didn't even notice)... Polestar (By Volvo in China) Volvo S90 Buick Envision Lincoln Nautilus SUV A friend recently got a Volvo SUV and I asked him if it was made in China.. His reply was he didn't know. My wife's friend's husband was arguing the other night that there was a $15,000 electric car coming soon from China and he wants to buy one! I mentioned the damage to the US auto industry and he said he didn't care, just cared about HIS pocket. And that's how it goes!

There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun

anybody want one?

Me at 16 (the one on the right) My grandparents in the 1930 Chevy Rumble seat roadster And my grandparents with their 1934 Essex

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of cigarette odor

Boyd Coddington is a famous custom car personality

Scooby-Doo was caught eating his own poo

Employment is usually necessary if you enjoy the luxuries of eating food and sleeping indoors

Big news here today! My older daughter has 3 daughters. One is 7 and 5 year old twins My younger daughter has 1 daughter, age 2. She is pregnant and discovered it was twins about a month ago! Today we had the gender reveal and I was predicting girl twins, which would give me 6 granddaughters. But I was wrong. She is having a girl and a boy! So I will have a little model building buddy! Yay! 🙂

Plumbing is essential in today's modern life, imagine having to walk your bucket of yuk out in the yard every morning to dump over the neighbor's fence

Number one job in any profession or endeavor is SAFETY

Tree branches are all over my yard from the recent windstorm, and I'm not going out there to pick 'em up until the temperature warms up a bit

Rescues can make excellent doggies as they may have lived harrowing lives and understand how good they now have it in your domicile!

Shaker Village in New Hampshire was established by Benjamin Whitcher in 1792 where he harbored and protected local Shakers from persecution, eventually donating the land on which the village was built

Over in China they are teaching their kids all the important things our education system abandoned.

School is wasted on the young who are too immature to understand why they need to learn anything

Trades were done by school kids with sports cards, model kits and school lunches.

Soon I will apply for the patent on my Kleenex drying rack where you wait overnight and can fold them and put them back in the box just like new!

You are invited!

I wasn't expecting to do any work on this visit so I didn't have any tools with me. I am going to put together a tool box and just leave it there on my next visit!

"Freezes" Well played! 🙂 "Freezes my soul!" said Jimmy when Julia refused to marry him

I hear ya Kurt! Over 40 years of dealing with building departments here! Both corporate and on residential properties I owned. I swear they make stuff up just to mess with ya! Here's my gripe of the day. I was at my daughter's house and she asked me to put up a new towel bar. Of course they have no tools. My son in law hands me a bag with this in it. It does have a drilling template. I tape that to the wall and level it. My daughter approve the position and height. I question that this is really short for a towel rack. My daughter counters that it's just for one hand towel... okay! The hardware provided with this piece is just wrong... made in China of course! The anchors provided are HUGE, and once poked into the wall, they tear the sheetrock between them. The screws provided are longer than the anchors and cannot be fully buried. Those are the holes you see. I search their garage and find a set of anchors / screws that didn't get used on its intended project. I poke new holes and get the darn thing mounted! THEN she says, "Oh! That's the toilet paper bar!" and comes up with a smaller hoop thing she intended for the fricken towel! Now I'm pissed, but I have to swallow it! So I put the toilet paper on it and declare the project done! This morning, with a new attitude I pulled the whole thing down. It appears that the towel ring uses one of the same brackets so I left up the left one, which was screwed into a stud. I filled in all the holes, showing son-in-law how to properly fill them with spackle. He needed that lesson based on the work he and his father previously did and just painted over without sanding! Which brings me to the George Washington's Birthday image I found on the wall! I will be there next weekend and will sand / paint the area. The wall was recently painted so it should match! Did I say Argh!?