Summer Wrap Up

Where Are Today

The Ridge

Our time here at “The Ridge “for 2025 is soon coming to an end. We have been busy putting away, closing down and packing the trailer for our departure this Friday, Oct.17^th to start our trek to the southwest.

 Pat keeps you all informed and up to date on our daily activities, she is so good at doing that. My summer has been busy work wise with some big and small projects on the work front. We have done three decks, railings and a rebuild of the back half of a house that had snow and ice damage from last winter.

From this

To this

It has also been a good summer hobby wise. I haven’t managed to crash any airplanes this summer and have purchased a couple of new electric planes to fly and one gas powered plane.

Tiger 30 Gas powered

Two Electric planes, a Carbon Cub & a Cherokee

Progress is being made on the Aeronca Sedan aircraft that I am building. It is a scratch build, so definitely a challenge, as I have never built from scratch before. Hoping next year brings it close to being finished.

Aeronca Sedan

The Ridge is packed, all but a couple of last-minute items to happen Thursday afternoon, before we head out Friday morning. Hope you check in once in awhile to see our journey back to Quartzsite Arizona progresses. I will continue to post the map with the route we take.

Thanks for stopping by, until the next time.

 

Fall, Where has the Summer Gone

Where Are We Today

“The Ridge”

Priceville Ontario

 

Here we are, the Middle of October and our last week at the Ridge for this year. Patsy from “patsyischillin” has kept you all update with our daily adventure of life and the fall colours that we are experiencing this year. All but a few last-minute items have been put away for the winter before our departure this coming weekend.

My working schedule has come to an end with many reno’s for happy customers completed.

Fuselage

 This has been a great summer hobby related, with many weekends out at my local flying field, The Saugeen Radio Control Flyers, and starting a new building project. In an earlier post I had mentioned, the building of a Corsair, sorry to say that I lost interest in that project and have passed it on to someone else.

My new project is a Aeronca Sedan, which will be finished as a stand off scale model of “The City of Yuma” an Aeronca Sedan that did a 47 day nonstop endurance flight back in 1949. You can Google it. The aircraft sits high on a pedestal in the city hall of Yuma Arizona.

Here you can see it on it's pedestal, you can also get on the second floor and stand right in front of prop.

Built this box to house the fuel tank and make the front end stronger for mounting the engine, not sure if I am liking this, may make changes.

Cockpit area

Back in the day of Model kit manufacturers, there was a company called Pica that produced a 1/5 stand off scale kit of the Aeronca Sedan. They are no longer in business, but I was able to get a set of the plans from this kit. I then had the plans blown up to ¼ scale and found “Katana Aircraft Models” to cut me a short kit. (A short kit is the formers and ribs, none of the stick or hardware that you would have got from a manufactures kit.)

Tail section, large cut out is for one of the servos

When you buy a manufactured kit, you get all the parts including the stick and hardware along with the plans and a instruction book with step by step instructions.

Scratch building is the way I’m building this model, no instructions. I have never scratch built a model before so I will admit that I will be stumbling through some of the build. Having built several kit models before will definitely help me work through the process. Over the summer, I have made considerable progress on the fuselage, as shown in these pictures. Now that we will be heading to Arizona in a week, the building will have to wait until next spring.

Thanks for stopping by, until the next time, take care. Comments are always welcome.