"Coffee please"
Todd, Ulrich.. or was it Chris and Ulrich. Depression, I've had a week of it. I can only blame it on Bush or the weather. I wake up at 2 am only to wander the hallways of the house.. looking for something.. perhaps something to eat and go back to bed. We have had cloudy weather all week.. well we do get sunshine.. once every 3 days.. and usually in the afternoon. One day.. hazy and cloudy, the next day.. cloudy and breezy and the next day.. cloudy breezy and then humid. The next day cloudy and drizzles.. then rain. Today, cloudy.. no breeze. Last year I looked up my bio-rhythm and said to Jeanne.. "If I read this right.. the next 4-5 years looks pretty lousy."
Now on the brighter side of life~ That hound dawg of my son's..? Well I do mean hound dawg. This lil guy is growing fast. I won't bore you all too much.. so just two pics.
My son is so shy. I said.. "Ah come on~ Boy and his dog"... "its a classic pic" "everyone has one!" .. lol.. so he poses for me.
But he did.. and I caught the love of the dog for him.
Ok.. now for something new and totallly different.
I've been spending time getting things done on the layout. Things.. just things.. to check.. and see what the 'heck is going on here' type of stuff.
So to really bore you.. I messed around with solar lights. I thought I'd give them a try.
If you noticed the long wires of the Malibu set... well thats Ideal for Fiber Optics in a very big long layout. I like the solar lighting.. because I feel its safer. I do not want an electrical fire of any sort. The bad thing.. is.. you can only use it for fiber optics.. well at least to me anyways.~
Now in this set.. there is only 3 ... 1.5 volt batteries to run it. And to make a very long story short... I actually hooked this up to my 12 volt streetlight lamps.. and well.. only a soft glow of orange light. Then Jeanne recommend.. lets hook up a 9 volt square battery.. and that worked fine. So in short, I will hook up my street lights with a simple 9 volt battery. But the housing.. and buidlings.. I still plan on going 'fiber optic'.
But thats it..other than finishing up the diorama and start on the 'laying of tracks' .. doh..! after I weather the tracks!
Lee, I wanted to thank you for a fine story. I would have commented on it earlier but I wanted her to read it. She said the same thing I did... 'What a handsome son you have'.. we both agreed on one word.. you son is 'special'. You could just see it in the pic.
Jeff, I want you to know.. I lifted up the hood on the Aerostar to look at the alternator. Well all kinds of hoses.. all kinds of stuff down there to remove.. just to get at the alternator. Not to mention a serpantine fan belt. I've looked at certain links.. youtube.. and the sorts.. to find a step by step.. of how to remove an alternator from a Ford Aerostar. Aside from all that.. I would need a 'torque wrench' to apply 40 ft lbs of pressure when putting it back on. Yikes. I will look at it one more time.. to see if I really want to mess with this. I can just imagine me doing something wrong.. and the belt comes off.. and I'm stuck with a bigger bill.
Right now, I can only hope the sun comes out.