Poor weather projects

[Rene Schweitzer]

Ok, the weather is bad and you can't run trains. What do you do instead?

[hobbyfossi201]

Hi Rene!

Most of the time I do some other projects, like fiddling on the Livesteam-Loco to get improvement or just for maintainance....or kitbashing a new car...and of course sometimes the workbench has to be cleaned up.

Regards,
Klaus

[Anonymous]

I catch up on repair and repainting my out side buildings and making new ones , and do some of my car and engine maintenance. ben

[markperr]

My wife's honey-do list is a mile and a half long. I have lot's to keep me busy. Most of which is NOT trains (sadly). Oh well, retirement is just fifteen or twenty years away.

Mark

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Rene S

Ok, the weather is bad and you can't run trains. What do you do instead?

Hi Rene,

What do you mean? There's N and HOm to run![;)][:D][:D]

In addition there are a few other hobbies, one of them is skiing. [;)][:)][:)]

[Tom The Brat]

Bad weather? It was 57 here the other day. Today is 34 and snowing, much more like January but still very mild.

I was walking down the sidewalk and a girl was coming the other direction. "Oh!" she said, "This is a barefoot day!" She stopped and took her shoes off.

[vsmith]

It was 75 yesterday, might rain tomorrow but this winters been far better than last one.

If its raining on the weekend or during the week when the sun goes down by 6pm and I cant do any work on the outside layout, any free time I have is at the workbench. No shortage of projects there.

[tangerine-jack]

I've got a ton of railroad related projects to do. Too many to list. Plenty of work ahead for me.

I'm going to take this combine and super detail it for the Dixie D. I plan on doing a photo shoot on the construction and posting it as a "how to". I got this off of Evilbay for $20.00. I love the look and the lines, it just needs a little paint and some interior treatment to be a real show piece.

[FJ and G]

I'm reballasting, since my ballast disappeared in clay.

I'm also redoing the woodwork on my train shed, as the glue melted off due to the Thompson's Waterseal applied before gluing.

In other words, I'm redoing all mistakes; hoping this time to get it right. [sigh]

[Train 284]

I surf the web for garden railroads and tips for my railroad.

[FJ and G]

oh, and also

I'm corrugating all my pop cans

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G

oh, and also

I'm corrugating all my pop cans

It is helpfull when a person drinks a lot of diet MD huh? lol...

I used to hit around 2-24packs in one week, of Diet MD alone, Needless to say I am cutting back.

[tangerine-jack]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G

oh, and also

I'm corrugating all my pop cans

Yeah, me too! Tedious, isn't it?

[Anonymous]

Currently working on a model of a local house. All of the cedar siding is planed to the correct thickness and the pressure treated foundation was finished yesterday.

[Curmudgeon]

26 days of continuous rain.
Building a big PIKO water tank kit.
But, we continue to run the CCry.
8PM last night I finished the evening mail run with the railtruck.....

All points.

People stop running when the weather is bad?

Wind, rain, snow, earthquakes, we keep right on.....

TOC

[toenailridgesl]

Bad weather?
What's bad weather?
We set a record low temp this last winter, the thermometer got all the way down to 5 above freezing.

[kstrong]

You need an "all of the above." Or, at least an all-inclusive "avoiding that which I should be doing."

I've got two stations I'm building, a work caboose, a magazine, two columns, a 4-part series, and a 6-week old daughter. I go to work to relax!

Later,

K

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Not only forgot the all of the above, also forgot the bedroom sports!
1. Sleep in.
2. lounge in the whirlpool tub.
3. Read Garden Railroad again and drool over equipment you can't afford!
4. Take naps.

That's why I made it plural, there is more than the obvious to do in bad weather!

[ttrigg]

If the weather is not good enough to run trains in the back yard, then it makes for good surfing. Grab the board and head to the beach.

Beachboys forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(remember, here in sunny SoCal summer normally lasts for fifty and a half weeks, the other week and a half is either fires or floods!!!!!)

[Tom The Brat]

A local high school tried a varsity surfing team, but it just didn't work in Illinois.

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Uh, Don't those schools in Illinois teach geography? It's a couple of miles to the beach! Maybe even a long overnite train ride requiring sleeper cars! Oh yeah, those things are getting scarce!

[Tom The Brat]

You just don't get big enough swells on a pond.

[tangerine-jack]

Just why is the East Coast Surfing Championship held in Virginia Beach every spring when our surf is a killer 14 inches high? Why not do it in the fall when the surf is at least a more respectable 4 feet? Maybe because only a true, dedicated hard core pro surfer can surf when there is no surf. Zen.

Nothing wrong with surfing in Illinois. I ought to know, after all I built the greatest Navy ever assembled in a land locked country.

[Tom The Brat]

I think they get surf that high on Lake Michigan.

[tangerine-jack]

That's as may be, Torby, but do they have the sand tiger sharks?

[Capt Bob Johnson]

TJ,
You laugh, but would you believe that Austria and Switzerland have merchant marines? There are several landlocked nations that have shipping companies under thier own flags! Those who doubt should check Lloyd's Register of Shipping!

But, I agree with you about those surfing competitions in the most calm seasons of the year! Give them wet siuts and put them out there in a good Northeaster in January and they will have some waves to ride! Might have some ice cubes to dodge, but what the hey, just makes the competition more exciting!

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Torby

You just don't get big enough swells on a pond.

that depends on how big the diver is[;)][:D]

[ttrigg]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Bob Johnson

TJ,
You laugh, but would you believe that Austria and Switzerland have merchant marines? There are several landlocked nations that have shipping companies under thier own flags! Those who doubt should check Lloyd's Register of Shipping!

But, I agree with you about those surfing competitions in the most calm seasons of the year! Give them wet siuts and put them out there in a good Northeaster in January and they will have some waves to ride! Might have some ice cubes to dodge, but what the hey, just makes the competition more exciting!

Don't beat up the Swiss too bad now. Remember they are defending the America's Cup this time. (for you landlocked lubbers, America's Cup is ocean yacht racing.) The wife has given me my own TV and VCR so that come this summer when the races are in the final rounds and it is on TV, I'll be able to watch/record as needed. That is the only sport I watch on the tube, since it only comes around every 3~5 years, she doesn't complaint too much.

[Tom The Brat]

You can see those two aren't very big divers[:D]

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Tom,
I don't knock anybody that puts $$$ in my pocket, and every time one of them comes into the Delaware river it is $$$$ to me; even in retirement! Anyway, always found them both (on the ships) to be good feeders and good conversationalists!