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Don Campbell’s Austin -Western Portable Rock Crusher and screen plant

Don Campbell’s Austin -Western Portable Rock Crusher and screen plant

Plant and Machinery - Here is the other side of the portable screen plant. I still got a lot of parts to build and attach yet, but you can see I am slowly making progress.
EATING HEALTHY DAY 42- Deb and I made our morning visit to the farmers market and loaded up on frshe fruit and veggies. Some of the first apples are being picked now. The sweet corn season is about done. I am having some today. This is the first time in my life I made it throught the whole sweet corn season with no butter on it.
I ate over 30 ears this season, umm!
We got a nice rain so Deb and I couldn’t walk this morning. So we got two walks to catch up on today. I already washed my truck, washed my tractor, mowed the lawn . So it’s been a pretty relaxing Sat. seeing it is only noon. ha,ha.
Deb and I are doing the best we have ever done eating healthy.
For five years we have struggled trying to lose weight , always taking 6 to 8 months. Doing this this way 100% healthy food, measured portions and counting calories, I should be close to losing 28 lbs. in two months, it’s unbelievable !!!!!!!!! It is not easy, everyday it takes a lot of focus. It’s easy to see why 60% of Americans are obese. It is so fun to eat junk. (:>). Not sure what tomorrow will bring, I could overdose on a full slab of ribs, a full bucket of greasy Kentucky Fried Chicken , umm and a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi LOL !! One day at a time.
Have a nice Sat. with the ones you love

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Don Campbell’s blog hits 835,000 visitors today .
 

Don Campbell’s blog hits 835,000 visitors today .

ONE MILLION VISITORS - When I began the webpage , I remember thinking it would be so cool to hit 10,000 visitors. After getting 1000 , I thought I could just do it. Well, now a days , I am hoping someday i will hit One Million Visitors to my webpage/blog.
This morning I checked the visitors location and found I had already had visitors from 35 states in the U.S. and visitors from 20 Countries. This was this morning at 8:00 . That still amazes me to think people know me from every state in the U.S. and from 90 countries around the world. It is very Awesome !! knowing so many people enjoy stopping by to see my model building and my little daily blog comments. Thanks again everyone !!!!!!!!!
This mornings countries visitors at 8:00am were from, Malaysia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Australia, Italy, Czech Republic, France, Finland, Korea, Austria, Philippines, Spain , and Germany. That sure shows model building interests are world wide.
FORTY-ONE DAYS OF HEALTHY EATING- I am actually wearing a shirt today I have not wore in three years. I can’t hardly move , and I won’t be able to get it off by myself, but I AM WEARING IT , OH YEA !! No Actually, it fits pretty good. So I am pretty tickled about it . Today Deb and I have now walked 240 miles since 41 days ago. Deb is keeping track as if we were walking to Wash. D.C. She says we are getting close to the Ohio border. She says today we are near Hudson, Michigan .
AUSTIN - WESTERN ROCK CRUSHER AND SCREEN PLANT - Here is the first progress picture of the screen plant. I picked up a couple magazines a while back from England called Plant and Machinery. Some very cool old stuff in them.
If all goes well I’ll post the first picture tomorrow of the other side of the portable screen plant model. I am working on it now. MID-MICHIGAN MODEL BUILDERS ; PRESIDENT - The picture below this one is some recent visitors we had to my toy factory (:>).

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John Martin, President of the Mid-Michigan Model Builders stops with his family at the Campbell’s in Gaylord for a Toy Factory Tour (:>).

John Martin, President of the Mid-Michigan Model Builders stops with his family at the Campbell’s in Gaylord for a Toy Factory Tour (:>).

Here is a picture Deb took of John Martin from Freeland , Mi. with his wife , Tammy, and his daughter Kaitlyn.
John and his family were on vacation this week in the Gaylord area and stopped in . John has e-mailed me and visited my webpage regularly for the last couple years. This was our first time meeting in person.
We had a great visit talking about models and model building . Tammy and Kaitlyn visited with Deb and the pre-schoolers.
John enjoyed the tour of my Toy Building Factory. (:>).
It’s a mighty small factory !! , but it is pretty amazing over 200 mini machines have passed though that little shop .
And some of them not so mini ??
They could not even be assembled on the workbench .
Thanks John for stopping by,
Happy Modeling ,
Don and Debbie

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