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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

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  1. GaryE

    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    Sounds like you’ve got a long history of visiting the area Dan. . We bought our house 15 years ago and just used it as a cottage in the summers, even though it’s not on the water. Sandbanks is a nice park, but we wanted to make sure we were not living too close to the park as it is crazy busy...
  2. GaryE

    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    Lol! Ahhh, to be young and silly again
  3. GaryE

    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    It is a beautiful area Martin. It's considered a "mini Niagara" and has become extremely touristy in the past 15 years. If you like to sip alcohol, there's a long list of places to sample in the area. Forty or so wineries, ten micro breweries, three or four distilleries, and half a dozen...
  4. GaryE

    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    Agreed. Lol. I think things will look a little more like retirement later this year when all these big projects are behind me. Having fun despite the brisk pace.
  5. GaryE

    Sticky What Machines Do You have?

    Just a quick update from when I joined the group a couple years ago. Managed to get through the painful process of transitioning my financial planning business to my partners, and stared retirement last March. Moved full tilt into finishing the new workshop and renovating the house in Prince...
  6. GaryE

    Howdy from Calgary

    Welcome from southern Ontario! :)
  7. GaryE

    Do you RC?

    Flew RC planes in my early 20s for one summer after watching the local club since my teens. Couldn’t afford to get into it until I had my first real job. After one summer flying, I realized that there were a bunch of other things that I wanted to try that were much more suited to my young body...
  8. GaryE

    Greetings from Toronto(ish)

    Thanks again to everyone for the welcoming comments. @Dan Dubeau - re: workshop first, house reno second. I made a case with my wife that if I am to do, or significantly help with the renovations to the retirement house, I'll need a good shop full of tools to be successful. She's a very smart...
  9. GaryE

    Greetings from Toronto(ish)

    @whydontu - my apologies for my poor memory. I totally forgot that we have a very cool corner of our country on the west coast that rarely gets snow. On days like today when we get 25 cms of snow, I think about how nice it might be to live out there. :) Then I read the annual weather...
  10. GaryE

    Greetings from Toronto(ish)

    Thank you everyone for the warm welcomes. John (Toronto Builder), LOL.....Thank you for your offer to become my new BFF. :) My retirement place is definitely rural with 50 acres severed from a farm, and 600 feet to my nearest neighbour on either side. That will allow for a bit of noise...
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