Who wants a ride on the beach right about now to escape all this cold weather?

A very interesting topic for Tractor Talk today with a captivating audience. Art Purdy talked about spending over 300 hours when he he first started making little ships in a bottle. Now he can do it in about 80 to 100 hours. When he worked on the Mayflower he had to have a lot of patience while he put together the little brass fittings, the anchor chains, the canons and all even the pulleys on the strings. When he figured he had enough of ships in a bottle he took to building airplanes in light bulbs. He had to go through a lot of light bulbs before he finally had one that was usable. He used store bought blueprints however he ended up using his mechanical skills and he built all his own tools. And Art even won a door prize. Jim L. and John T were the other two winners for the door prizes.

We are getting ready for Tractor Talk Time this Tuesday, February 6th. Art Purdy will be coming back and showing us his model ships and airplanes that he builds in bottles. Coffee is on at 9AM. Hope to see you all there!

Jerry Woody Woodhead posted this picture along with the following words on the Historical Edmonton and Northern Alberta page. "From 1918 until 1928 these plates were issued to steam tractors working on farms and other commercial uses. For the first five years the boiler's number was stamped in the rectangular box in the lower right corner but was often not enforced. After 1928 steam tractor use was declining due to gas powered tractors. 1928 was last year of issue for these."

Look.......Tractor Prints..... Tractor Foot Prints actually. What a great idea. I have to figure out a way to do these with the school groups. It looks like so much fun!

Two years ago, Piter proposed to his girlfriend Shayla here at the tractor museum. Yesterday they got married here. They are planning a big reception in the spring/summer but just wanted to get married and thought our museum was a great place to tie the knot. We think so too. Congratulations Piter and Shayla!

A full house for Tractor Talk Time. Ken Wood showed some very interesting pictures of the before and after tractor restorations he did with his dad, Garry. And Garry was on hand to help Ken keep his facts straight....lol. Ken also mentioned that if he was invited back he would talk about his Internationals. We will start working on that for sure. Otto. S won the hat and put his name back in cause he has already won a few. So Barry S; Art. A; and Richard T. were our door prize winners. Lots of networking, lots of socializing, a few did their "walk a block a day thing" in our back gallery and lots of story telling going on. We are now getting ready for next month. Art Purdy is back by popular demand. He will be talking about building airplane and ship models inside bottles. Complete with step by step pictures. Happy News Years everyone!

Tractor Talk Time is coming up this Tuesday, January 2, 2018. Ken Wood will be speaking about the tractors he restores with his dad, Garry Wood. Coffee's on at 9 and Ken will start speaking at 10. Hope to see everyone out!

Tis the season.....

Check out the latest addition to our collections. Jim Bendfeld from Edmonton made these two little Singer tractors out of sewing machine parts except for the steering wheels. They come from clock pieces. Amazing intricate work.

Looking for that particular gift? Check out the Gift Shop at the museum!

Leo Seguin wrote a book about "A positive response to the need for humanitarian aid". It is a collection of his memoirs of Ethiopia. This book is for sale in our gift shop. We don't make any money from the sale but we get to help sell his book which 100% goes to help the people of Africa. Something to mention is how 95% of money raised by Rainbows to the Future goes directly for aid. How many other agencies can say that?