Good Evening, Flo - I'll have a hot fudge brownie sundae and a Santa Fe mug of coffee, please. Thanks!
I have way too many pages to hope to catch up (think it was about 17-20+ pages of posts since I was last in). Ulrich, from the few more recent pages I quick-scanned, you've been doing great on the tour updates (sorry I missed some of those days). As for the emigration museum, I probably could find some ancestors' info in there. Had some of my Dad's predecessors come over from Hanover in the 1860's or so.
Jeff, sorry to see your Mom took a fall. Did they say if the fall was likely caused by her low blood sugar? Liked your photo of the little car there that Ezekiel used to own.
Curt, your layout pics show that you keep on improving things there - keep it up!
A belated for you, Thayne! One thing better than having the day off from w**k, is to have that day be the start of some vacation time. (Oh, yeah!)
Garry, I like how your power plant is coming along - keep the photos coming as you progress on that! I thought about that DPM kit, but as others said, wasn't sure my layout would (ever) have the space for that to fit. Instead, I'll be using the Edison St. Powerhouse, which is a bit smaller in size (I'm thinking about 3" X 5" footprint for it (or close).
Rob, it's good to see you back in the Diner. As for your car, how long has it been in Washington? I had one summer (back in my married years) that was parked in a garage at the in-laws' farm because we didn't need to use it, and when the summer was about over, we noticed that a small vine - maybe honeysuckle - had wound its way up between the radiator and front grill of the car (maybe more, we didn't spend a lot of time looking for sure). Did a bit of 'weedeating' on THAT. Coulda been worse - they could have had kudzu... How is Kudzu Valley, by the way?
Chris, did I read it right, that you've started on your layout? Cool!
On-call this Sat./Sunday (and calm this afternoon), but I got some more done on my trees, plus started painting some of the W-S (white metal) pine trees. I got out one of the big ones (6-8" tall), and I think W-S can stand some cleaning up of their molds - had a couple of places where four branches were semi-together. I'll need to do more cleanup on the big pines, I think. Have some photos of some progress, but still need to shrink 'em down some and post on my Photobucket account yet. It may be Tuesday or Wednesday on that, since tomorrow I have training for w**k during the day, and on-call Monday night.
And Todd, how are you doing after Friday night? I had one officer I saw (for an on-call matter) last night say that he thought the Cards-Rangers game on Thursday night was more stressful than when he was in Iraq(!). I think Friday might have been a close second to Thursday. I really think that if the Rangers pitcher (forgot his name) who had the 98 mph pitches had been able to pitch on Friday, the outcome might've been different. As it turned out, I figure St. Louis might get back to normal about Tuesday or so (perhaps)... Ol' "Cardiac Cardinals," yep...
I'll see if I can get my progress on the trees (and other stuff) ready for a Tuesday post. Don't hold me to that, however...
Prayers for comfort and healing, and for power to come back for those who got the white stuff dumped on them by the East coast storm(s).
Blessings,
Jim in Cape G.