What Pleased You Today!

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 minutes ago, JollySipper said:

It's most likely the weather, Bill...............

That would be a reasonable assumption, but yesterday and the day before were the same as today, same barometric pressure, same overnight temp, same humidity...and I felt kinda like dog snot both days.

Today I feel really, really good.

Need to get cranking and make the best of it.   

[89AKurt]

Seeing Fall color, how many times in my life I was too busy to enjoy this.
 

[Ace-Garageguy]

6 oz. box of raspberries for 99 cents, which is $3 off the regular price...and they're not even moldy.

In other news, I found and restored the 1/4 inch of clearance I mysteriously lost under the dash of the '66 Chevelle, between the HVAC box and the relocated OEM control head.

I'm happy.  

[Russell C]

My 39 year-old 1:1 daily driver VW GTI runs again! Last weekend, while swapping in new plugs / wires, I broke the coil wire connector part on the distributor cap (don't ask; it's embarrassing) which of course then let the sparks run wild inside the cap instead of going exactly where they are supposed to go. New cap & rotor arrived in the mail today, Best to put those in no matter what, because when took out the old ones, both really had been in the car too long and looked to be close to the end of their usable lifespan. Engine fires right up again and purrs like a kitten.

Edited October 18 by Russell C
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[Ace-Garageguy]

Got sets of takeoff tires with great tread for the 911 and the blue XJ6. Free. 

Not exactly the right size for either of 'em, but they're each sitting on four totally rotten flats right now.

Just need to be able to roll them under cover to get 'em running again.

[89AKurt]

Finished more of the backyard remodel.  Blue Cloud helped out.

Edited October 19 by 89AKurt

[A modeler named mike]

Two pleased moments..

Finally, after a very long hiatus, this week I'm back to fiddling with styrene at my new, temporary model bench. I have a couple of stalled projects sitting but I decided to start something else to get back into the swing of things. I'll be using a previously built not so bad gluebomb that I picked up from ebay. An AMT '61 Buick wagon which will be mated to a Model King Boss Nova wagon kit.🤞

The other moment was when I walked into our local Walmart and discovered that they had ordered in a display box of model kits and priced @ $19.97 ea. No, nothing followed me home,but that could change today when I go back today..

Edited October 19 by A modeler named mike
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[James2]

I'm pleased to have had 10 wonderful days in Daytona for Biketoberfest, saw many friends and visited many favorite spots. Got home without incident and now it's off to Chicago for work again. Thank GOD we live in a great country with great people!

[espo]

Had a problem with the hot water heater tank leaking and everyone I called wanted $1500 to $1900 to replace it. I called the builder, since our place is four years old, and got the info on the plumber who did all their new construction plumbing. He replaced the hot water heater under the 6-year warranty, and I only had to pay for his labor for the installation. Savings of over $1000 isn't hard to take. 

[A modeler named mike]

2 minutes ago, espo said:

Had a problem with the hot water heater tank leaking and everyone I called wanted $1500 to $1900 to replace it. I called the builder, since our place is four years old, and got the info on the plumber who did all their new construction plumbing. He replaced the hot water heater under the 6-year warranty, and I only had to pay for his labor for the installation. Savings of over $1000 isn't hard to take. 

That's great news Dave. 

[dragstk]

Did pretty well at the Syrcon IPMS show this weekend. These were in the Street Machine class

[89AKurt]

Harvested some Mesquite in the Verde Valley, so this should last a couple years.  Depends on fire ban time.  It's like the model stash, looks like it would take 300 years to build all of them. 

Pleased that we finally got rain, it's very green now (everyone back East is laughing), hardly any bugs, been seeing more Fall color.  Pleased I live here, where I can get out in a reasonable time.  Pleased I found a bunch of cool rocks!

Last pic of the day.  Pleased the County paved a stretch of dirt road, and recently graded the last bit of dirt road.  It's a way around a town with a bunch of traffic lights along the highway, I could jump out and take this picture, before anyone came along.

[Ace-Garageguy]

On 10/23/2025 at 12:05 AM, 89AKurt said:

...Pleased I live here...

 

Yessir, that photo right there is one of the main reasons I love AZ.

I haven't given up on the dream yet, but it's gonna take a while...

[ModWrench]

Want to give a big shout out to the folks at Scale Hobbyist for outstanding customer service. I purchased a 1/35^th scale British Scammell Pioneer kit manufactured by Thunder Models from them in April 2024. I took the kit with me on a family vacation last month and started to assemble the truck. Barely got started and discovered that the entire sprue “D” was not included in the kit. Without this set of parts, the kit is basically unbuildable. I reviewed the Return & Refund Policy on their website. I am way outside the 30-day return window, and since I started to build some subassemblies of the kit before realizing the sprue was missing, had two strikes against me. I figured it was a long shot at best but threw a Hail Mary request to their customer service team asking for their thoughts on any potential resolution. It took them the better part a month (they even apologized for the delay!!), but I received the missing sprue in the mail yesterday! I will definitely be sending more business their way soon.

[JollySipper]

Never mind, sorry............. I was gonna share a new to me song, but I couldn't get the link to work............

Edited Sunday at 03:00 AM by JollySipper

[Tim W. SoCal]

14 hours ago, JollySipper said:

Never mind, sorry............. I was gonna share a new to me song, but I couldn't get the link to work............

Give us the song title and artist and we should be able to check it out...

[JollySipper]

1 hour ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

Give us the song title and artist and we should be able to check it out...

Foreigner made an album called 'The Hits Unplugged'....... I was trying to post up the song 'Long, Long Way From Home'. It sounds pretty good acoustic........

The album has a black guitar on the cover.

 

Edited Sunday at 06:11 PM by JollySipper

[Tim W. SoCal]

5 hours ago, JollySipper said:

I was trying to post up the song 'Long, Long Way From Home'. It sounds pretty good acoustic........

Let's see if THIS works...

 

[89AKurt]

Pleased I can still motorvate and get rocks for the yard.   Pleased I found this spot, that has tons of purple-red rocks, but found other cool rocks elsewhere.  Pleased about the nice weather, if the forecast can be believed, it's going to be "bad" this Winter.

[A modeler named mike]

8 minutes ago, 89AKurt said:

Pleased about the nice weather, if the forecast can be believed, it's going to be "bad" this Winter.
 

I've been telling my wife that I believe this winter will be harsh. Going by the vast amount of acorns and walnuts dropping from the trees recently. We've been lucky here in Md. the last few years.