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 Good Morning Everyone.Still dark outside, not even six o´clock. The Diner is already open? So it´s Zoe for the morning shift? Hi, Zoe,  coffee for me and a toasted bagel, please n´ thanks.Today I have to  attend a seminar on job integration for the elderly -  am I an elderly person already? I am only 53 and still behave like a 6 year old when I see a steam loco ... [:D]Vincent - I am married to Petra for more than 25 years now. With that mileage on the record a wife turns into SWMBO - that´s She Who Must Be Obeyed. Never bite the hand that feeds you...[:)] I have already found a settlement - I don´t talk about a train room in the attic - it is a train corner now. Actually, the room is not big and has a sloped ceiling. Part of it will have to be used as storage for all the gear we probably will never use again, but cannot part from [swg]. The remaining part is big enough to revive my Alaska RR plans posted earlier - but without money this will take decades to realize. Jim - we won´t be moving the boxes ourselves. My brother jumped in and is paying for the moving company. There is no way I could possibly do that myself. Unlike in the US, we have very rarely built-in closets and cabinets, so it is all heavy furniture, which requires two strong <strike>gorillas</strike> men to carry it upstairs. Leaving our home is still putting a heavy tax on our soul. The new flat will also be a good place to live in, with a lot of German "Gemuetlichkeit", so that will help us to get over the loss. After all, there is also a benefit to it - a lot less w*rk for Petra and me to keep the place tidy... [(-D]Ray - as soon as we have survived the move and have settled a little, Petra will resume to provide strudels, cakes, pies and other goodies for the chow hounds in here... [:D] She used to teach nutritional science and home economics and knows what can be done about that bad toe. Maybe I can talk her into writing a recipe book (which I will have to translate). Her father suffered quite a lot from the gout and showed a lot of improvement with the "gourmet diet" she had developed for him.Tom - that loco is a jewel - aren´t you a lucky guy to have bought for so little? Those old brass locos are of unreached quality. I doubt, that a MTH or BLI loco will run like that after 40 years. I remember having a NWSL D&RGW HOn3 T-12 4-6-0 which ran like a jewel. It had cost $ 160 when I bought it in 1976. I painted and lettered it - and sold it. [banghead]Garry  - my prayers for your BIL´s surgery!You all have a good start into the new week!
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