Monday, September 20, 2021

[Opa George]

George, what kind of chestnut do you have?  I've been very tempted to pay the big bucks for one of the latest hybrids that should be resistant to chestnut blight. 

dave

Unfortunately, Dave, I have no idea. The trees are 6 years old in my father-in-law's back yard. He had trees from the 1960s that produced nuts until the early 2000s, when he cut them down (they were well over 80 feet high).  It's possible they were survivors of the blight and may have been original American Chestnuts.

These two trees are about 18-20 feet. He got shoots from an old lady neighbor who has several immense trees. 

The pods are the size of tennis balls and produce 2-3 kernels each. Most of the kernels are the size of large acorns. Not as large as those sold in the supermarkets.

--George

[S&S RR]

Good morning! Thank you for all the great F&SM pictures.  Dan's picture is the new coal yard that George was telling me about on the phone this week. Great looking structure. It sure is nice to have all this inspiration moving into modeling season. I hope everyone has a great day.


There was a discussion, yesterday, about Swakhammer's not being on the F&SM.  Here is a picture from the archive of when it was.  George  told me that he got an offer he could not pass up and sold it before this area was finished.

[Dennis Bourey]

John, Thank You very much!!!! Dennis

[jrmueller]

Good morning y'all. Decided I'd rather work on The Smokey Hill fire company than do outside stuff. Get well Deb. Jim

[mainj]

Good morning gentlemen,

All this talk about retirement makes me feel like the new guy on the block.  Took the shingle down 1 month and 21 days ago.

Still haven't got this retirement thing down pat yet although i have done a bit of work on the layout.

One Saturday at a time.

Jim

[tom.boyd.125]

Afternoon check in today...
Drove to the bank, grocery store and gas station before the rain comes...
Will catch up on all the Forum this afternoon...
FSM Signal Tower build in 1974...kit # 30...the one with the blue cardboard brick...
Tommy

[chris.mincemoyer]

Retirement calendar? No more than 2 years,  10 days