Cold weekend

[john k]

Hi,  Darn cold here today, got up to about 10F, and inside the shop it was 25F.   Didn't get any kerosene for my heaters and am kicking myself for that.    Did work out there til my fingers got numb, any longer and my arthritis would be kicking in and that just isn't any fun.   So after finishing my book, and kicking around the house,  I pulled down some of my old film cameras off the shelf.   You see last week,  I blew eight dollars on another 35mm camera,  AGFA made in Germany about 60 years ago, and is a twin to one I used for many years.  Hard to knock a brand that I ran over 200 rolls through without a failure.  Problem with this one and several of my vintage pieces are the leather cases.   The fitted leather snap shut leather case that they came with when new.  The thread was failing and the molded part covering the lense was hanging by a thead, so to speak.   Just made me feel bad to see it in this condition, a lot like discovering a layer of rust on a favorite wrench.  Pretty soon the cover would depart and be lost forever, so I decided on this cold day to sit nice and warm in the house and fix it.  No stranger to needle and thread after a dozen years in the Army, I pulled out the rotten broken thread, and re-sewed it in the holes already there.   I may run a roll of film through these yet, before digital takes over 100%, and at least it will look a lot better than it did.  And one less thing to avert my eyes from up on the shelf.   Using my fingers doing this sewing has made them feel better too. 

[Papaw]

I have a few old cameras that need attention. Some I traded for with Skip years ago!

[turnnut]

John,  yes, it is cold.  we did better today as it got up to 13 degrees.
my son came over and we shoveled snow off the roof and chopped ice off the edges.
just can not keep up with it this year here in Massachusetts.

right now it is minus 4 7/10 degrees and the wind is howling.

the older I get, the more I notice the cold.

digital cameras are doing us in.  I have a Pentex K1000 that I really like, I bought it new,
way back when,  I find it harder to get my films developed locally.

I still have an old camera in a leather case, it is flat and black, no name on it. it opens up
with a bellows type.  on the case it says "ROHLIK"   I am not too sure, but I think it is 127 ?? film ?

my Dad gave it to me back in 1959 when I was drafted and it went everywhere I went. it was used
when he had it.  how old it is ???   I have no clue, but every time I walk by it, I remember my Dad.   

[OilyRascal]

10 is darn cold.  At 30 I make it a point to have about 20 gallons of Kerosene (or Off Road) around.  Sounds like what we call "Cabin Fever".  I have an old camera or two coming from family packed away.  I should dig them out myself.

I don't envy your weather.

[Lostmind]

I woke up to minus 12  it will be 10 days before we see " normal" highs of 36 degrees.
Nothing going on in my garage! It's colder inside the metal building than outside.

[skipskip]

I have a few old cameras that need attention. Some I traded for with Skip years ago!

And I still have some of the alligator wrenches you sent my way!!

[lbgradwell]

I woke up to minus 12  it will be 10 days before we see " normal" highs of 36 degrees.
Nothing going on in my garage! It's colder inside the metal building than outside.

It was -13F here yesterday morning (or -34F with the windchill factored in). I cancelled my run.

This is my friend's brother's front door in Moncton, NB this morning:

[john k]

I was going to say that is one tight storm door to have that much frost on it, til I realized that is snow to six inches of the top!   So, he went out the back or a window?

[1930]

72 degrees here today 
May drop down into the 50 tonight but no-one needs to worry, I have an extra sweater

[lbgradwell]

So, he went out the back or a window?

I imagine; there would be no way to push that door open!