Thread: Planning ahead for Christmas gifts.

My wife recently ask me to make out a Christmas list as she wanted to plan ahead early this year and due to the current state of the economy she request that I only list three or four things.

Here is what came to my mind:

A country home patterend after the Issac Norris home located near Philadelphia. It would look very good sitting atop the mountain behind my current house.

A Beechcraft King Air C90GTx Twin Engine airplane. I am afraid of flying and this is one of the safest planes made so I think it is an excellent choice.

A Purdy 12 gauge shotgun, sidelocks, 26 inch barrels, choked improved cylinder and improved modified, double triggers, rust blue finnish, with crown engraving on the receiver and a straight stock of good French walnut fitted personnaly to me.

A Chinese Junk with an Allison aircraft engine, 1500 HP, tucked away in the hull along side the Befors cannon. (For Pirates you know)

That should do it.

If I can't get that, I guess I will settle for a pair of bib overalls, a bottle of Knob Creek and some Coates shaving cream.

Heck, a guy can dream can't he.

I have a permanent list running, 365 days a year. It's called my "Public Wish List" at Lee Valley tools, and all you have to do is go to Lee Valley and search for my name....then you can see what I desire.

Of course there are the staples which have not been purchased, such as a vintage Steinway concert grande....the German ones....not the newer American made models.

And a '67 GT 500.

I understand. I am unfortunately one of those with Champange appetite with beer income.

I'm happy if I wake up and everything is still working more or less as it should be.

I would think you should list as many things as possible.
that way, she can pick the one which is available, or on sale, etc.

I agree with Bruno... by tossing everything I could think of at "wish lists" and "pre-christmas lists" is that I got most of my toys, although not necesarily on a special date.

To date, that's how I got:

A Martin guitar
motorbike
a Mastro Livi
Illionois strop
wood planes
cement mixer
shed
edger
compressor
Norton hones
cameras (several 35mm and one 6x6) and a pelthora of lenses and filters and flashes and... well, you get the idea.
Ph meter (when I was keeping a reef tank)
fountain pen
dozens of zippos
darkroom equipment and chemicals
anvil

... and I could go on for hours, which is more or less what I invested in making the list in the first place

The list:

Make it long. Make it wide. Make it deep.

incidentally, my twin engine bonanza is still on the list, as is the ferrari.

Originally Posted by d. m. ellington

My wife recently ask me to make out a Christmas list as she wanted to plan ahead early this year and due to the current state of the economy she request that I only list three or four things.

Here is what came to my mind:

A country home patterend after the Issac Norris home located near Philadelphia. It would look very good sitting atop the mountain behind my current house.

A Beechcraft King Air C90GTx Twin Engine airplane. I am afraid of flying and this is one of the safest planes made so I think it is an excellent choice.

A Purdy 12 gauge shotgun, sidelocks, 26 inch barrels, choked improved cylinder and improved modified, double triggers, rust blue finnish, with crown engraving on the receiver and a straight stock of good French walnut fitted personnaly to me.

A Chinese Junk with an Allison aircraft engine, 1500 HP, tucked away in the hull along side the Befors cannon. (For Pirates you know)

That should do it.

If I can't get that, I guess I will settle for a pair of bib overalls, a bottle of Knob Creek and some Coates shaving cream.

Heck, a guy can dream can't he.

as a former airport employee and listening to the Pilots, ask for a Cirrus SR22 turbo, more comfortable, faster, and as one old boy put it "the damn thing flies itself, hell I took a nap on the way here"