Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas All,

Here is a Christmas Eve tradition I like:

The Shepherd

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-shepherd-edition-2017-1.4455219/fireside-al-maitland-reads-frederick-forsyth-s-the-shepherd-1.4458378

Take care,
Have fun,
Dave
Near Toronto, Canada

Not to be confused with the song from which this has been metered to, whose words stand immortal.

CEF wrote:On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me,
A Sportsman in a pear tree.

To make a long story short:

[Verse 12]
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love sent to me
12 Venoms screaming
11 Conquests piping
10 Spooks a-needling
Nine Medallions rev'ing
Eight Tee Dees racing
Seven Black Widows singing
Six Surestarts flying
Five Golden Bees
Four Strato Bugs
Three Pee Wees
Two RR1's, and
A Sportsman in a pear tree.

Merry Christmas to all!
       

Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS !! Hope all have been good and get that new engine /plane /supply's/ women nah ! Warm weather Is coming !

Merry Christmas!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS CEF

I receive in the mail 5 days ago a package from my Aussie friend (Allan Laycock).
I promised him I would not open them (three Christmas parcels in the one big box) until Christmas day.

Well, I opened them up right after my breakfast like a young kid and ripped off the wrapping paper.

One unwrapped --- a Cox engine --- in a good condition.
2nd one unwrapped --- another Cox engine --- also in a good condition
and the 3rd one unwrapped --- another Cox engine --- it to in good condition

Below are the Christmas engines I got from Allan.
Left to right is how the engines were unwrapped.

Thanks Allan, and Merry Christmas to you!



Now for personal Christmas presents to me.
Vintage Enya Engines:



Enya .09 Model 3001 -- T.V.




Enya .09-II -- T.V.




Enya .15-II -- T.V.




Enya .15D-II -- T.V




Enya .19 -- T.V.




Update (12-25-2022) from Allan Laycock about the engines he gave me for my Christmas presents:

Hi Mike,

There is one version missing and one subset missing.
The Space bug Jnr came usually with a cream nylon tank and the subset was a red nylon tank.
The version missing, and I have only seen pictures of the Space bug Jnr with a cast aluminum small tank that looks just like the nylon one.
The cage on the Hopper is a repro and was not originally supplied by Cox.
The later Thermal Hopper (like rear intake .15) had beam mounts – a much better mounting idea.

Allan

HalfaDave wrote:Merry Christmas All,

Here is a Christmas Eve tradition I like:

The Shepherd

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-shepherd-edition-2017-1.4455219/fireside-al-maitland-reads-frederick-forsyth-s-the-shepherd-1.4458378

Take care,
Have fun,
Dave
Near Toronto, Canada

Great story Dave, Mosquito guides a Vampire down to a safe landing.  




First Christmas in a while that my son and I did not exchange some sort of Cox product gift.  RX-7 Christmas instead.

Gas struts for the rear hatch, a do-it-yourself brake/clutch bleed kit, plus gloves and microfibre wipes.



Loved your Christmas card Mauricio!

Years ago, I think I read that story in Reader's Digest (RD, that was when people still did reading instead of burying their faces in cellphone screens). Was a subscriber, I don't know if that magazine is still around.)  A good story, along those to get people to believe in ghosts. RD used to carry a number of ghost stories in it.