It snowed last night and it was a bit of a surprise to me this morning. There were a couple of inches on the ground but school had not been cancelled. With the way school gets cancelled these days I was surprised. When I was a kid school hardly ever closed. there used to be this rumor in high school that if one of the more elderly nuns could walk to one of the buildings without incident then school would be open. It was a silly rumor but made us laugh as we went to school in 4 to 6 inches of snow or more.
Eva was home sick from school but Allison and Andrew went in. I took care of Eva and got her settled and then went out to tackle the driveways, sidewalks and back yard. I fired up the snowblower and then took one pass down the sidewalk. I noticed that one side of the snowblower looked like it was just pushing the snow and the exhaust pipe that fired off the snow was a bit weak. Well, I guess two of the shearing pins had done as they were aptly named and sheared off. I then went about trying to get the broken pins out, I was able to dislodge one of them and I replaced the pin but the other one was stuck in so tight that I was unable to get it out at all. Even my more mechanically inclined neighbor was unable to do anything.
In 2010 I had a pretty decent collection of Disney Pins. I’ve always liked die cast enamel pins. When I went to Florida for my first trip as a kid I went to a flea market and bought a whole bunch of pins. I remember getting a Bigfoot (The monster truck) pin and more and putting them all over a trucker hat. I have no idea where those ended up. That is weird because I pretty much have everything from my childhood.
Cut back to 2005 when I started going back to Walt Disney World and this time with Allison by my side. I ran the Disney 1/2 Marathon and while there I started picking up some pins. By 2010 I had a good set of pins on a camp counselor hat that I work on our trips. On the way home from that trip I put that hat in an outside pocket of one of our bags and when we got home it was gone. It was stolen and I was devastated. I had picked out each pin purposefully and had some ones that were special to me. I had found characters on Motorcycles, other characters dressed as pirates and even more. They were all stolen. I detail it all in my 2000th photo-a-day post.
I haven’t tried to rebuild that collection but I did pick up a few more pins for myself on other trips. The pins above were from other trips and a couple came from a large lot of pins that I just got for Eva and Andrew. In preparation for our upcoming trip I went to eBay and ordered a random lot of 50 pins for $22. The whole intention was for Eva and Andrew to divvy them up and put them on some lanyards that I also bought for them for the trip. Continue reading Prepping for Disney Pin Trading at #DisneySMMC→
