Gentlemen:
The projected temperatures sound positively pleasant to me!!!
Could do without the rain, howsomever .....
Still hoping to get away from here Monday, though I may still have some sewing to do, en route, while my batman drives.
I am a mite miffed that a complete Queen's Own Rifles of Canada NCO's cross belt and pouch that I purchased on eBay will not likely get here on time ...... I bought it almost two weeks ago and paid for it by PayPal on Tuesday September 22. When it hadn't arrived as of Wednesday of this week, I sent the seller an inquiry, and he cheerily replied that it had been mailed on Tuesday, September 29!
I still have a faint hope I'll get it before my departure -
sometimes. the private contractors who deliver parcels for Canada Post work on Saturday to get caught up ..... or, I suppose it could arrive on Monday morning before I hit the road .....
Ironically, I had managed to accumulate all the necessary "hardware" to make one up (belt plate, lion's head whistle-and-chain, pouch badge, etc.) but when I was the successful bidder on this complete set, I shelved my plans to make it .... Oh well, I
would have cut quite a dashing figure in my QOR field uniform!
This is what it looks like, anyway ...... The third image is an 1889 photo of three NCO's of the Queen's Own Rifles.