Mornin' everyone!
Nice and sunny outside here in the Finger Lakes but a bit cool at 50°F. High today will be 58°F with a mix of sun and clouds. We did end up getting a little over 1/4 inch of rain last night and there are puddles drying up as I write.
Dick says:
RAY: That was very interesting info regarding Bully Hill, I didn't know that he had passed away and his wife was now running the show. How about sending a 19K tanker full of Moscato blush via CSX mainline?
19K of the stuff? Doubt they made that much and it is undoubtedly already been bottled. So I'll probably have to ship a couple boxcars of what they have here to the dinner for special occasions.....
TMarshOK, you're right Ray, enough of the Swallows and coconuts. We'll talk about Shrubbery. But ONLY if you bring another shrubbery. And place it next to the first shrubbery, only slightly higher to give it a two level effect with a little path running down the middle. Oooh! a modeling idea!
I will not cut down a tree with a herring! That's just silly!
Next to the Grumpy Old Men movies, Monty Python's Holy Grail is just about my favorite.
Zoe I'll have a bran muffin and a cup of dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug please.
Today will be spent partially finishing several things that were supposed to be completed a few days ago......... Then mowing more lawn.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Wow Jeff! You'd never know that was pre-built! Great job. Now, about that health dept thing. I thought I was the only person with that old coke machine. Mine's leaning against the back of the Pizza/Bait/Gas and Garage...in the junk, I mean Treasure pile.
Oh, and I'll take one of those Hires Root Beers. Haven't had one of those in years.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
JimRCGMOJeff, I'd seen that hot dog stand in our local H-L, but wasn't sure I could weather it enough to not look too toy-like. But I might reconsider getting that one, after you get done and I see what it could look like...
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Good morning folks.
I am up bright and early to help my Kiwanis club clean a highway. I've never done it before, but it's about time I did. Earlier in the year I was so happy to see the bags of garbage on the roadside, ready to be piked up. I thought, "boy, I'm sure glad they cleaned that up". Then I thought, "who's they?" Well wouldn't you know, at a Kiwanis meeting the other day they announced that we would be doing the clean up at eight a.m. Saturday. I requested to come in late at work and here I go. I'll have to to bring a change of close so I don't have to clean in a suit! I'm starting to understand the good feeling of volunteering again!
Thanks to all for the birthday wishes! I had a good day at work and the evening wasn't too shabby either. I ordered the twenty ounce prime rib, medium rare! I could have finished it, but we had dessert instead. Now I have a prime rib sandwich waiting for me later.:D A few of my family forgot to call, but I forget to call them some years too.
NO modeling tonight. We are getting together tonight with my in laws for my birthday. I requested a night of bowling and beer! I haven't done that in a long time.
I hope you folks have a great day! I know I will!
Mornin, Lotsa coffee please, Thank you Big Garage sale day. The guessers took the rain out of the forecast. Best get cleaning out the junk. Fire Dept is having a pancake and sausage breakfast so I am tasked with fighting the crowd upstream... both ways, to get Brenda Breakfast so she can stay and sell all the stuff we don't want to someone else. I love this country.
Have a Great Day!
Oh and I keep forgetting with all this Monty Python stuff; Jerry, Elvis left the building yesterday. Keep an eye out.
Good morning all
Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Southwest wind between 5 and 10 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 44. Southwest wind around 7 mph.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good evening,
Chloe? a plate of fries, a 7-Up, and how's about one of those hot fudge brownie sundaes? Sounds real good tonight.
JimRCGMOChris - I'd heard that those Central Valley bridge kits had an abundance of parts, so that was probably a bonus for your loads project (maybe a costly one, but what the heck - it's for 'art', right?). I like it!
Thanks JIM (and LEE), like I said, I built it back in '87, had it in storage from '88 until...2004, scrapping of the bridge occurred in 2005 or 2006. The parts have been collecting dust in the parts/tools/supplies bins ever since.
I keep thinking, the main parts were quite long, and had to be cut to size. I think a full-scale template was included to facilitate this. Probably a lack of a scale rule then, plus the working environment (dorm room) led to some less than perfect cuts, and less than perfect fits...which ultimately gave me a "perfect fit."
I don't remember what I paid for the kit back then, I'm sure it wasn't cheap by any stretch of the imagination...but, 22 years later, I've finally found a good use for it.
And yeah, I like it too...
Oh yeah, an update on the missing tripod. Loving Wife found it. As it turns out, she brought it back a long time ago...putting it up here, in my office.
Oh well...at least it wasn't out in plain sight...
Chris
Just had a thought... IF I hadn't sliced up the bridge a few years ago, I could've used it to model the CRANDIC (ex-MILW) bridge in Cedar Rapids, post-flood...
Nah...scrap loads is/was a better idea... must be time for bed.
Goodnight, and MORGAN, good luck on the SAT stuff, and everything else. From a former techie to a current one.
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
OK, you're right Ray, enough of the Swallows and coconuts. We'll talk about Shrubbery. But ONLY if you bring another shrubbery. And place it next to the first shrubbery, only slightly higher to give it a two level effect with a little path running down the middle. Oooh! a modeling idea!
Nik- We know. That happens to be my favorite movie of all time. Well that and The Outlaw Josie Wales "Now spit"
I wonder how you could make an HO scale Herring.
G'night all. Big day tomorrow. Prayers for those in need.
SO, ust got back fromt he High School's first of two production of Little Shop of Horrors. Yep, I'm set crew. Lots of fun, went well tonight *Knocks on wood* I'm some up most of the posts, and say thank you, both for Dad and for the compliments of the car. I too, am proudI think I found everyone.
inch53MORGAN,, good job on the Lincoln car.
twhiteMorgan: That's a model of the Lincoln Funeral car, right? I like what you did with it a lot! Got any 'under construction' photos? Nice job!
Not of this car, unfortunately. I started it last Saturday with plans in head, and then caught the "Hey! Idiot! Your NOT invincible, stay in bed and sleep for the day" cold you gets on little sleep and a lot of musical practice. You know it? From there it was kinda a hastened rush to get it done before thursday so mom ( REALLY wanted to be there too...) presnt it on the eve of the train's travels. He LOVED it, sent me an e-mail and sid h'd treasure it, and gave the group a copy of the original timetable of when the train went through. But I plan to build another one for myself, so I'll be sure to get pictures of it.
TMarshMorgan- Unusual project, I've not seen or heard of one before. Very nice.
Heartland Division CB&Q Morgan... Your Lincoln's car is outstanding. Trivia: Lincoln's birthpalce is only about ten miles from the KY Ry museum. .......I'll be praying your Dad's chemo has cured the disease........good luck with the SAT.......
Morgan... Your Lincoln's car is outstanding. Trivia: Lincoln's birthpalce is only about ten miles from the KY Ry museum. .......I'll be praying your Dad's chemo has cured the disease........good luck with the SAT.......
I think I went by when I shapdwed there for a buisness class my 8th grade year. So far the cancer (same one that caused the scare in July, just now finishing up) has been responding. I can't wait to get him off these Benadryl/Steroid swings. He doesn't sleep cause the 'roids. and he can't stay awake for the benedryk (allergic reaction to one of the meds)
blownout cylinder Heartland Division CB&QMorgan... Your Lincoln's car is outstanding I agree with that one!! That Lincoln car must've been a patience tester! And good luck on the SAT!!
Heartland Division CB&QMorgan... Your Lincoln's car is outstanding
I agree with that one!! That Lincoln car must've been a patience tester! And good luck on the SAT!!
JimRCGMO Good to see you back in the Diner, Morgan - and will be sending a few up today for your tests, as well as for your Dad's treatment(s). I'd have to agree with the other Diners on that excellent passenger car (which probably wasn't as easy as the finished car makes it look...).
Good to see you back in the Diner, Morgan - and will be sending a few up today for your tests, as well as for your Dad's treatment(s). I'd have to agree with the other Diners on that excellent passenger car (which probably wasn't as easy as the finished car makes it look...).
You'd be surprised. The hardest part of building the car, was actually putting it on the track for bench tests. Turns put we had some trucks on too tight so they had too little free-play, and the way the inside truck arms are mounted, it was something like trying to put a centipede on a string. Or, I think I can sympathize with BridgeTom and his articulated. Beyond that, I fretted taking off the detail parts underneath without showing torn plastic, and that was it. There's NO major re-building of the car itself, putting the parts on is no more difficult than adding a detailing package to a locomotive really, but I could hum a few bars and fake it if you'd like. Dad might say that tieing he tassels for the bunting was the hardest part, working with tiny string and tiny knots, but he volunteered since I had no life for the musical. I set to getting the roof. All told, it was 16+S&H fpr he car, I laready had the styrene, the tissue and the spraypaint for the bunting, and the decal paper, all that was less than 10, and the trucks are basically 10 as well, thouh I stole a pair from another car, but I'll need to replace.
Ugh, SAT tomorrow at 7 freaking 45 am. Have you seen my life? I'd very much like it back.
Prayers for all of yas, I;m sure you all need them, and I'll try to be in more.
-Morgan
Evenin' gang!
It sprinkled today. That was the really exciting news................
I have been running around putting out fires all day. In the midst of trying to get everything done that had to be done yesterday for the MLK Committee (Scholarship stuff) and running up to feed my sister's kitty cat while she is visiting an old college buddy in South Carolina (she goes there once a year to harass them.....), I get a call on my answering machine from my pastor's wife who is the head of the Head Start Program here in Geneva. I had promised her a month or so ago that I would get some display kiosks that we use for the MLK Art and Poetry contest over to the Rec center in Geneva for Head Start to use for a community show tomorrow........ Of course I forgot to put it on my calendar and totally forgot. Several phone calls later, they decided they didn't need them after all. So several phone calls later it got all straightened out.
Most of the day was spent trying to put together the final copy of the qualifications of the Scholarship Applicants into a data sheet for the committee to be able to compare. The lady that usually does that was not able to get that done so, since I am the Vice President (of making sure all gets done, I think) I have been spending the evening going over applications with a fine tooth comb. We have 11 candidates for scholarships this year and every one of them is excellent. All have GPAs in the high 80s and 90s and have won many awards and are off to a great start in looking at Higher education. Unfortunately this year was a bit lean on donations so we will have to choose 4 or 5 to get the scholarships. Have no idea how we are going to do that!
Tom the bridge builder.... Good luck tomorrow! I know your accompanying will be brilliant and I hope you get to play!
All this talk about sparrows and coconuts....... What about SHRUBBERY? Or the Knights who say NI? There is a lot more to life than sparrows carrying coconuts you know!
So Zoe, how about some of that Coconut Cream Pie served on a bed of shrubbery? And a cup of decafe.
Tom, as soon as I paint these up I’ll take some pictures. Right now they are bare metal. The LEDs are easy to wire, I buy them from a guy online and he includes the right resistors. Just a little solder and your done.
Chris, those scrap loads look very nice!
Sawyer, sounds like we missed a great game!
Steak and a Soda Pop, Chloe.
TMarsh, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. If you clicked the link you can see the argument.
Tomorrow I will be doing my grandmother's wood, with about ten other men. We are just splitting and stacking, but we've got bout' seven piles to do, and they aren't tiny ether. So I'll be up at 7 o'clock and be gone at 2.
Quote of the Day: "You will do it! Ah I said it! I said it again! AAAH! I said it again!" (As his comrades say NI! Ni! Ni!)
See yall!
Good Evening, Chloe - how about a hot fudge sundae brownie and a cup of coffee in a Espee mug, please? Thanks!
TMarshOh come on now. A coconut weighs what? About 2 pounds and a Swallow weighs what 4 oz? It would be physically impossible for the bird to carry that kind of weight.
Ah c'mon, Todd; it could fly - off a cliff, and at about an 85 degree down angle... ("Squaaaaaaaaaaack!!" splat...) (The preceding attempt at humor is rated PG-13 for [implied] violence)
Good to hear your garage is doing better (now, how to get that pesky car back inside, eh?). And it sounds like between your and Dick's gardens, Duke may have a tough choice, deciding which direction to go for his Rhu****b pie...
Chris - I'd heard that those Central Valley bridge kits had an abundance of parts, so that was probably a bonus for your loads project (maybe a costly one, but what the heck - it's for 'art', right?). I like it!
What? Only 13 bridges, BridgeTom? Have you been dismantling some of your bridges, or did Remington ("Uff-dah") make off with one because you were keeping all your Yellowstones under lock and key? Best wishes on getting THAT one musical piece nailed down for the concert.
Jeff, I'd seen that hot dog stand in our local H-L, but wasn't sure I could weather it enough to not look too toy-like. But I might reconsider getting that one, after you get done and I see what it could look like...
Say a few for Rob, Ryan and our other 'Southern' Diners tonight, with that storm front moving through the Southeast.
I'll slide into the booth and get to business on my dessert and coffee, then head home before I start to off - a full tummy does that to me at times...
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Jeff- Thanks for the heads up. I'll know what to do if I experience anything, shall we say, unwanted.
Bridge Tom- OK by me and crossed fingers the accompanist doesn't show.
Dick- My long green/red stalks are looking good too! If we're talking the same things and I think we are!
Rob- Praying the sirens are a precaution for you.
Nik- What film? I'm just saying that a European Swallow is not large enough, therefore does not have the wing span nor the wind speed velocity, to carry a coconut.
twhiteJeff: Neat hopper. You're to hoppers as I am to refrigerator cars, I think. I can't pass one up at the LHS to save my life. How's the foot coming?
nik .nAn Erie-Lackawanna ACF center flow hopper. Anybody get the idea that I like these things? I only have ten of them, from many roads including the KCS.Is that a Walther's hopper?
Afternoon all from RainyCal. That little system that couldn't make up its mind over the Pacific finally did, and it's been raining all day. Can't open the garage, but the lawns look nice. Hey, I can ALWAYS run the train, we can't always get wet weather. It's a warm storm, though, so not much possibility of adding to the snowpack in the Sierra except on the higher (7000'-plus) peaks.
Hey, another TOM here now! . And a Vietnam Vet and retired firefighter, two qualifications that get you one HECK of a lot of respect from me. I'm the Tom that has the two huge cats (Maine Coon, Norwegian Forest Cat) that invade the diner periodically. Spooky's the Maine Coon, she'll make off with your corn on the cob, Remington--known as "Uff-Dah!" is the big guy wearing the Viking helmet--he'll just make off with everything that isn't glued down, LOL! I'm also known as BridgeTom for my propensity for putting a bridge under every piece of straight track on my MR. 13 and counting, LOL!
Jeff: Neat hopper. You're to hoppers as I am to refrigerator cars, I think. I can't pass one up at the LHS to save my life. How's the foot coming?
Okay, latest from the home (Jesuit) front. Got a call from my ex-partner in crime, the choral director this morning. Accompanist isn't feeling well. Everything's up in the air. I told her that I had the music, I'd work on it today (which I have been). See her at the church where the concert is, tomorrow after I finish Vespers at my Parish, about 6:45. Concert's at 7:30. Which means I get 'spot-check' runthroughs before the Concert--ASSUMING that the regular accompanist isn't sick. Nothing like a little suspense in your life, right?
Just been thinking: If you guys want to go back to my old nickname "BridgeTom" (I think Jim came up with that one), then Tom Wright won't have to worry about who's writing to who. Sound okay with you guys? It works for me.
Oh, and Lee: How about some pictures of your signals? Funny thing, I just read in MR on how to connect LED's to a power source other than my power pack, and after Duane at Tomar went through all the trouble to convert my LED semaphores to 1.5 lights. Nothing like a day late, I say, LOL! Oh well, at least they aren't lit by my power pack, which sure saves a lot of energy.
Well, back to the piano. Got one piece that I MIGHT be playing tomorrow night that is kinda/sorta giving me fits. Better get it down just in case, right?
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Good evening to all, cloudy day with showers off and on all day. I thought I would get a chance to work on the layout, but my wife's PC had .net framework issues, so I spent a few hours fixing that problem and installing updates.
Yesterday I was very lucky to get the last permitted burn done before May 1st cutoff date for the year. I had one huge pile of brush to burn, over 8 feet tall, about 50 feet long and 20 feet wide, all from the big Ice Storm of December 2008. I lit the pile at 9:55 and it was GONE by 10:10, I could not believe how fast it went up, as much of the brush was fairly green. It was a long day, the wife brought up a sandwich so that I could watch the fire and take a short break from feeding with tons more brush. I didn't get done until 6:30pm. I was so tired that all I ate for supper was a bowl of soup, took a hot shower and hit the sack about 10, and I didn't get up until 9 this morning.
JEFF: Sorry to hear about your foot acting up again, I'll have a talk with Cardinal Neumann.
JERRY: How is that Lifelike diesel working now, any smoother?
DUKE: Guess whats up in the garden and looking like a great crop this year? (Hint) Long green/red stocks and very tart !!!
Later guys,
Will catch up with you folks tomorrow. Tornado Alert for our county so just came up here to shut down the puter.
Didn't get much train stuff done. Did manage to hammer that same thumb causing a blood blister to form under the old scab.
I hear the tornado siren. Gotta go! Have a good night. Rob
Oh come on now. A coconut weighs what? About 2 pounds and a Swallow weighs what 4 oz? It would be physically impossible for the bird to carry that kind of weight.
You guys are arguing the same argument they did in the film!
jeffrey-wimberlyWent to Alexandria today to visit the hobby shop and found that it was closed the 30th, 1st and 2nd. Of well, I'll spend my MR money elsewhere and headed over to Hobby Lobby where I picked up these two items:An Erie-Lackawanna ACF center flow hopper. Anybody get the idea that I like these things? I only have ten of them, from many roads including the KCS.And Bob's hot dog stand (can't stand hot dogs myself).
Went to Alexandria today to visit the hobby shop and found that it was closed the 30th, 1st and 2nd. Of well, I'll spend my MR money elsewhere and headed over to Hobby Lobby where I picked up these two items:An Erie-Lackawanna ACF center flow hopper. Anybody get the idea that I like these things? I only have ten of them, from many roads including the KCS.And Bob's hot dog stand (can't stand hot dogs myself).
Is that a Walthers hopper?
Evening all!!
Looks like a busy day! Time for dessert... Cheese cake and a decaf please? Thank You!
Seen some of our new (or hiding in the back) friends on other posts. I like it here because of what you have observed. Personally I have a hard time keeping up with the names and what's going on.... but it's fun.
For those that know, I sold mom's car to our long time neighbor. One more thing out of the way.
Is IE8 the beta version? I always stay away from those..you become the test bed and put your computer at stake. No loss for "them".
The carfloat is coming along but needs some weathering so it will photograph. Right now it's all black with little silver strips on top!
Mmmmm... Cheese Cake!!!
Eric
The hot dog stand I bought today had two figures with it, both of them N Scale! Tiny!
TMarshAaaaah. Dr Pepper please. Installed IE 8. Website loads faster! For how long, and what else may not work??
Aaaaah. Dr Pepper please. Installed IE 8. Website loads faster! For how long, and what else may not work??
I can see the floor of the train room and actually walk up to all parts thanks to the impending garage sale. I can now get under the bench work and do something without moving a ton of stuff. I can also store more stuff!!!! Tuh-rain stuff!!!! Only problem is, the freshly cleaned out garage is now full and is questionable as to ever getting a car back in.
Robby- I'm sure your "cheap little cars" will look like "expensive models" when you are done!
TomWright- That's where my confusion lays. Tom WRIGHT, Tom WHITE. How about TC, or is that too close to PC. Hmm. We'll figure it out. Oh I see Jim's already made a suggestion. Anyhoo, a Vet AND a Firefighter, Thanks!!!!
Chris- Scrap loads look great! And as far as the wife goes....She looks like she's enjoying that! You might want to ease into that rake thing.
Galaxy- Sorry to hear of the Carpal Tunnel. If it were me, then yes you are right, stuck in the middle. And I think most Neurologists had their funny nerves removed.
Sawyer- Congrats on the win.
JimRCGMOGood luck with that one, Chris... And *do* post those pics of your loads - [EDIT] Thanks for the pics (great job, by the way!) Between you, Robby, and the others, I might actually learn how to do some of those neat things! From the grin on her face (was that you in that pic - on the table?), she might enjoy that way too much. Pick your time verrrrry carefully to ask her!
Thanks JIM!
No, the guy on the table is an old friend of mine, John Moes. His wife, Janet, is on the saw. Kit is the one holding him down. I shot that in the spring of '92 while a student at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids. For an art history class, I had to "recreate a famous work of art." For some reason, I decided to do the "Judith" painting. IF I remember right... the two "ladies" in the original were cutting the guy's head off for something he did to 'em. I decided to take a "serious" painting, and clown it up a bit. I think I got an A on it...one of the very, very few I got in "art school."
Most of the time, I was too busy out watching the CNW and CCP, or chasing fire engines as a freelance photojournalist... self-edumacating myself in the ways of the photo biz.
Kit's "certifications" include: mowing, shovel operations (snow and dirt, with advanced level recognition in snow shoveling thanks to the last two winters), rake operation, and even weed mitigation and shrub re-sizing.
As for the scrap load, nothing fancy there. I built the bridge on a TV tray in my college dorm room...not the most conducive model construction environment. It was a little less-forgiving than my skills allowed. I never had a use for it...so hacked it up into stacks of structural components. To make the loads, I just hacked them up more into pieces I figured could be handled by scrap yard machinery. I mounted the chunks on a very thin piece of styrene, cut to fit and painted to match the gons. IF I ever get a layout built, I can have empty's in, load's out thanks to the removable, one-piece loads.
Weathering was really basic: the original bridge was grimy black, with some dry-brushed rust. I hit the pile with a little more dry-brush rust, a heavy wash of "munge black," a non-scientific, mad-scientist brew of "weathered black," isopropyl, and water. I also hit some of the cut edges with a "newer" rust...to look like the hacking was recently done.
Nothing fancy, all done with on-hand materials/supplies for zero cost; and I'm happy with them.
Thanks G. We're 2-2-1 (2 wins, 2 losses, 1 tie)
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Evenin' guys.
I'll have prime rib end cut medium well{taht means just soaked in au jus}, au gratin potato, salad with blue cheese dressing and some fresh baked bread please.
Went to Neurological Center today for tests. The tests confirm what we thought we already knew. I have carpal tunnel syndrome. Now I have to wait a week to see what we do about it. The neuroscientist Dr. guy wasn't too exciting, he may have been all professional but was also rather dull. Now watch- I will fall into the category of "bad enough for me to be in discomfort and pain, but not bad enough to do anything about it yet".
Will wait at least a week to plant my new plants I think. A few frosty nights ahead?
MAYBE tomorrow if nice we go to Steamtown!!!
Van needs new blower motor and control switch. Another $500.00. It isn't nickle and diming me to death its $500 dollaring me to death. I'd only make a mess of things if I tried to do it so better pay the professionals. It is either on full blast or not. At least it can be on and not stubborn and off always till it gets fixed next Wed.
That might just definately take away the money needed to go to Owosso MI for the train festival this summer for sure. Durn, durn and double durn. To bad Steamtown can't/won't/doesn't host such a big shindig.
WEll, I see Jeffrey faired fairly well at the Dr.s.
WELCOME to the new guys!
Prayer candle is lit for those in need.
Congrats Sawyer on your win.Hooray!
Howmus you forgot one: Key Note Singer- The singer who passes notes on which key to sing in during the song. {And passes the evil notes about the choir director}.
I saw a great joke, but while really actually clean, sounds probably too dirty for here. It was about Fords.
Have a nice evening y'all.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Hey guys, was too tired last night ot check in, but we won 2-1! Our last goal was off a thrown in I did from over midfield away, their goalie came up to try to grab it (yes, I can hurl the ball with enough force so it will bounce there), it went over the goalie's hands, and then one of our guys kicked it in.
Afternoon, Zoe, just stopping in for a RBF (and hoping I don't hit the TOP again ). Thanks!
AmanaMedicMaybe, just maybe I can get the wife recertified in rake operation...
Good luck with that one, Chris... And *do* post those pics of your loads - [EDIT] Thanks for the pics (great job, by the way!) Between you, Robby, and the others, I might actually learn how to do some of those neat things! From the grin on her face (was that you in that pic - on the table?), she might enjoy that way too much. Pick your time verrrrry carefully to ask her!
Tom (tcwright), sounds like (except for the locale) you're modeling same kinds of stuff as I am (my layout's set in the Southwest, fictional short/bridge line, between Santa Fe and D&RGW). Since we have two Tom's in here, what about calling you PA Tom? Helps keep you two separate for those of us (like me) who get easily confused.
Rob, hope (while you're waiting on the paste to dry) you can get some time in on your layout. (And is watching paste dry more fun or take more/less time than watching paint dry, I wonder...?)
This morning at w**k hasn't been too bad - did get a teenager with a bit of attitude (toward her mother, the kid was playing Miss Innocent with me , right...) who now, I get to let the school know that it's okay for her to go back to school and she's not a threat or anything. Now, if attitude was a threat...
Turned out that apparently the guys I saw out front with the landlord the other evening may be doing some renovating of the empty apartments - at least, later that evening I noticed them tossing carpet, side rails from a bed, etc. out the basement apartment's window.
Back to MRR'ing stuff - this evening, I'll get back to my June issue of MR. I would like to see a copy of Iain Rice's new Shelf Layouts book - I like his layout designs. I want to sit down with a pad and pen/pencil and make a list of MRR projects/bits of stuff that I can do in not a lot of time. Figure if I get a few things done a few evenings in the week, I might actually make some headway. But with the weather forecast for about the next week, spraypainting won't be one I can get to (humidity and all)...
I'll be in the window booth, checking out the switcher doing its thing.
Blessings,