December 2006
Monthly Archive
Deb and I on the last cruise of the Ice Breaker Mackinaw going under the Mackinaw Bridge
Posted by doncampbellmodels on 29 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: From the Workshop
Deb and I on the last cruise of the Ice Breaker Mackinaw going under the Mackinaw Bridge
Deb and I on the last cruise of the Ice Breaker Mackinaw going under the Mackinaw Bridge
Ice Breaker Mackinaw- This cool picture was taken by a fellow that was standing on top of the Mackinaw Bridge. You can see the Mackinaw just going under the bridge. It was a very cool ride . Deb and I had been aboard it 6 times over the years, and two times it was in the winter and we were breaking ice. We broke ice under the bridge in the shipping lanes one time so this brought back fun memories for us with Keith , who was the Captain and his wife Nancy and their kids, Brian and Karen. All of our trips on the Mackinaw were with them. Knowing this ship would never leave the dock again once we tied up at Mackinaw City was kinda sad. It was part of our past and some very special memories we will always remember. Thanks again Nancy and Kieth for inviting us to tag along all those times.
ICE BREAKER MACKINAW VIDEO CLIPS- We posted the first video clips today on my webpage of Deb, Tom, and I boarding the Mackinaw Ice Breaker for the last cruise, and us out on the ship and us passing Mackinaw Island. With 40 video clips already on my webpage, We will continue to add more video clips from the last voyage of the Mackinaw. I have always been somewhat of a boat nerd. ha,ha. Freighter Frank from Boatnerd Headquarters in Port Huron would enjoy seeing these. Frank took a couple pictures of us when we passed by on the Paul Tregurtha on that cool trip.
Acco Grader- I managed to get a few railings welded on yesterday in the afternoon.
We’re still having fun with Nicole and Bill , Nicole has been very helpful with the video clip process. So I want to give her a special thanks for coming home on vacation to get away from computers and the hussle and bustle of D.C. and working on computers. ha,ha.
And I want to thank Bill for all his time in the woods making sure we had plenty of fresh meat at meal times, ha,ha.
Nicole working on more Videos for my webpage
Posted by doncampbellmodels on 28 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: From the Workshop
Taking video off a Camcorder and downloading to the computer is a slow process. This picture shows us deciding what clips to add to the webpage.
Taking clips from the small digital camera is much easier , so from now on we will use the small camera for the most part. We added another snowplow picture this morning of me with Tom in the plow truck . We also added more pics from the mine with James. Hope you like them.
Deb and Nicole just left to go shopping, yes, you read that correctly, more shopping, ha,ha,.
I am pretty well shopped out , so i will putter in the shop a little on the Acco Grader . As I get it father along, I will take a video clip of it to show everyone. Our weather is still mild with no snow . Sure glad I got to ride the snowmobile a couple weeks ago.
Deb and Nicole at Michigan State University over Christmas Break
Posted by doncampbellmodels on 27 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: From the Workshop
Deb and Nicole at Michigan State University over Christmas Break
Deb and Nicole at Michigan State University over Christmas Break
We drove to Lansing on Tues. and did MORE shopping, ha,ha. Nicole had not been to M.S.U. where she spent part of her college years for several years. So we drove down to Lansing and spent the night and we went to a couple malls we used togo to with her several years ago. When Nicole was younger, she would save all her money until we went to Sandusky, Ohio to Cedar Point Amusement Park. She usually managed to save a few hundred dollars to take. We went for 15 years and it was rare she would spend much of the money at the park. But when we got to Lansing , we would spend the night and head to the mall. It was pretty common for her to be broke as we left town the next day and headed back to Gaylord. She always looked forward to her Lansing Shopping trip.
Even though she said the last two days with her in Lansing ,was not considered ,( serious shopping) , she did manage to completely fill our car with more merchandise as we returned to Gaylord today.
But we had a great time and had some funny moments. Bill did not end up going with us, instead the picture below this one shows where he is spending most of his week with his dad and brothers, ha,ha.
Video Clips update- We bought the last item we needed to start editing movies from our cam-corder movies . So we are experimenting now to see about adding more video clips of me in the Cat 793C Haul truck and me inside the Terex RH-200 Shovel. Also more Soo Lock Boat clips and several others.
Glad you are enjoying the new video clips.
Acco Grader- No progress to report while on Christmas Break.