A New Simon Templar The Saint to be filmed

Well for those fans of Simon Templar aka The Saint of which I am I have some potentially good news. Actor Chris Pine is apparently going to play him for Paramount. Script being worked on. This character has been around since the late 1920s. He somehow manages to keep going. So hopefully in the next couple of years he will be back on the big screen.

Coal near Railroad Tracks South Schodack NY

 It has been a reasonably mild January for these parts. So I have been back to a little archeology in my spar moments, Have not found anything much. But I did find some coal near the railroad tracks in South Schodack Rd area. Small pieces. No doubt left over from when trains burned coal which some did into the early 1950s. Now electric or diesel. They were small specimens because coal is soft and wastes away quickly in weather. My mothers as well did a lot of families used to go coal hunting near these same tracks to help heat the family homestead in the 20s and 30s. 13 kids in the family and they were rather poorback then. So off I go on to other projects and mild adventures. But I have not written in a while so here is my small report.