I must be getting older - I forgot to post pictures of my newest addition to my line´s roster:
Sponsored by Daddy!
A little bird has told me that there will be some coaches coming for my birthday in August
Good Morning,
Chloe, I'd like an order of Eggs Bennie and a pot of strong coffee please.
The sun is shining here but it is only supposed to get up to 59F today and that will be the high for most of the week. Hope we don't get any frost.
I have lawn mowing and digging out some rocks near the backyard pond on the agenda today. I also hope to get the lawn chairs cleaned.
Garry, hope things go ok with your Mom. I can sympathize believe me.
Well time to get at it,
CN Charlie
Hi ho, it´s me again (I know this is bad English),
took a nap and now feel like having a large and strong coffee. Janie, would you please be so kind?
Ken - those tunnel portals from Chooch Enterprises are just fantastic. They are hand painted an lightly weathered - much better looking than any plastic portals I´ve ever come across. They will be an eye catcher on my layout
Attaboy - I am glad your divorce is finally through. Once your ex has moved out (which will hopefully be soon and without major damage to body and soul), you´ll be ready for a new start. I shouldn´t be saying this, being married for nearly 27 years, but from what you have disclosed in here, you´ll be much better of without her. I´ll be pulling for you!
Barry - my modules are 150 mm by 310 mm, but the size depends on the track system you are goung to use. Track length of a straight module is 312 mm, giving me that extra 1 mm at each end to disassemble the layout without a hassle. It leaves an unsightly gap between the modules, but I just pretend not to notice.
Just a few pictures I want to share:
This little museum line is located about 65 miles from my place. They have weekend service during summer and up to three steam locos under steam. It is the oldest museum line in Germany, open since 1966. If gas weren´t that expensive, I´d go there more often (last time was 2007).
TTFN
Morning All,
At w**k today and it is hot as Hades all ready. Not much happening otherwise. Asked MOH to buy 3 universal throttle pockets for my Fathers day present. I borrowed 1 from the club temporarily.
Ulrich- Glad you are back home. Enjoy your new loco. Picture?
Garry- Hope your Mother is OK.
Lee- I think I learned a valuable lesson yesterday about testing before installing.
Everybody take care.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Ken, I am coming over Wed or Thurs when you are off and we are going to sort out the DCC. We'll get the PR3 hooked up and I am going to trouble shoot the rest of the system to localize what the issues are. Let me know via PM what works. I am in town and don't have anything on the schedule except a boys baseball game on Thursday evening.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
Morning folks
Flo, Diet Dew Pleases
Tired and grumpy this morning. Was not sleeping well and went to the bed room to sleep around 5:00 AM in the bed,not on the couch. As quite as I was, I woke up the wife and she started to complain that she might not be able to fall back to sleep with me there! So back to the couch I went.
Seems a few of us are having Digitrax problems. When my went goofy we had a UT, DT400 and a DT 402 Duplex all hooked up. There is not a reason in the world that should have caused a problem. I have not been in the mood to mess with it. Again I am missing DC.
Train's Mo Jo Is all messed up now. Went to the E-Z Command, but nothing will make it around the bench. Derails, stalls or won't stayed coupled.
Gary Sorry to hear about yet another trip, any way to get Mom to move up to where you live?
Ulrich Well, you did put a smile on my faces! Glad you like the portals, I like them better than the Woodland's ones.
Well, time to get ready for work. Just not in the mood today after yesterday!
Tired and Grumpy Ken
I hate Rust
Good Morning!! Coffee please. Thanks. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. A bit soggy here this morning, but nothing compared to those in the flood areas. Or Lee. No squishy yard here. I guess we got dumped on yesterday whilest we were in Nebo. About an inch and a half in a short period. A deluge I believe is how it was referred to. Still, whining compared to many. Prayers for those and those with loved ones in Joplin, and Minneapolis. Joplin is horrific. Just so sad. Attaboy- Eat lots of beans. LOTs of beans. Nothing she can do but leave. You can open the windows later. It's legal, cheap and actually quite satisfying, both physically and mentally. Great for lots of laughs too. Try not to while she's complaining though. Makes it obvious. But later..... sidesplitting. Starting to chuckle myself just thinking about it. She sounds soooo much like my sister. You sure you don’t live in Decatur, IL? The name Paula ring a bell?
Good Morning!! Coffee please. Thanks.
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. A bit soggy here this morning, but nothing compared to those in the flood areas. Or Lee. No squishy yard here. I guess we got dumped on yesterday whilest we were in Nebo. About an inch and a half in a short period. A deluge I believe is how it was referred to. Still, whining compared to many.
Prayers for those and those with loved ones in Joplin, and Minneapolis. Joplin is horrific. Just so sad.
Attaboy- Eat lots of beans. LOTs of beans. Nothing she can do but leave. You can open the windows later. It's legal, cheap and actually quite satisfying, both physically and mentally. Great for lots of laughs too. Try not to while she's complaining though. Makes it obvious. But later..... sidesplitting. Starting to chuckle myself just thinking about it. She sounds soooo much like my sister. You sure you don’t live in Decatur, IL? The name Paula ring a bell?
Mononguy- Good idea on the foam for coal, try that cheap paint pigment in the art dept at Wally World. Now, to seal…..I guess some acrylic clear. Hm. Never looked for it specifically.
Simon- I figured you probably were a Cards fan. Hence the good hearted jab. I myself am stuck right on the Mason Dixon line so to speak. Our preacher is a Cubs fan most the congregation save a few, are Cards fans. Makes for interesting Sundays sometimes.
Now that I think of it, rural people and small towners are more likely to be Cards fans around here. Bigger Cities get the Cubs. Each has it’s fair share of the other though it seems the Cards reach farther in towns than the Cuds do in rural areas.
Garry- Sorry to hear troubles with your Mom again. My prayers continue. Sounded like the battery when you said the key wouldn’t come out without manually releasing it. (don’t like that feature and never figured out why it‘s there. Unless GM dealers got tired of jumping cars and not having a key) If it is in the anti-theft side, it’s worth the 50 mile trip to the dealer rather than anyone else no matter how much closer. Oh and I was watching the front door all day and I didn’t see JimCG come in either. It was like, “poof” and there he was. Creepy.
Today I must, of course, do the bookwork for the Church, then grocery store and this has to be done when not raining because …..dog food and…....maybe it doesn’t. I do have to go out and check Mom’s house again today.
I should take the opportunity to roll my lawn this wet week. It’s pretty bumpy and makes for a wild “push” when mowing. Or, Maybe I’ll work on the layout instead.
Best get a movin if I want to have time to get into the trainroo….. "MISSY!!! My gosh what did Mommy give you to eat!!??" (cough cough) You know, it’s so heartwarming to have a dog laying at your feet. Until..., they have to relieve themselves of some gas pressure. I THOUGHT I had her trained to excuse her self from the room, eviDENTly…., I was wrong. I will be leaving myself, she can have the room until the fog clears. Need to get going anyway.
See Attaboy? I works for dogs…., should work for you.
Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
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.
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning..
Ulrich: Hope things work out for your parents. Also--what are/were the measurements for those modules? I have a person here who is looking at something like that....
Ray: You do not need to call out the hounds just yet...as it is I've got a few days off so I'll be here a bit more ....
Well, we got another day of rain be fallin' on our heads again....and as usual around this time of year the first days of semi/pseudo heat/haze and humidity that gives rise to the ever popular chance of those ol' t'underin'boomers ...
Today, I'll be actually having a chance to run some trains as there is nothing on the agenda.....oh crash...a hd thing just showed up...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Good morning.
The layout will be on hold again. I'm leaving for Alabama very shortly. Shelley is still in Michigan and I'm off to AL. More problems with my 91-year-old Mom. It's been a very long year for stuff like that. The car will remain in the garage, and will be worked on when I get back. My truck will get me there fine, but it will be hard to get Mom in it if I give her rides.
Simon mentioned tornados in Joplin. Very tragic news from there. Hospital directly hit by tornado and heavily damaged. Dozens killed. Prayers for Joplin, today.
Ulrich. It's a good day for you. I'm glad.
JimCG claims he came in the front door. Uh, huh.
As Jerry says .... Have a good one.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Lunchtime - and I am home!
Feels so good to be back! I took my father to the convalescence center, where my Mom was already waiting for him. Just brought the luggage into their room, said good bye and off to home, where two little packages were awaiting me.
Ken - you made me a happy man! Just what I need to work on the bridge module, and plenty of stuff to work on the adjourning tunnel module, also. Those tunnel portals are just super! I hope to be able to commence w*rk on those two modules very soon, so I can post some new pictures here. You are a kind man, blessings to you and your family!
Petra is preparing lunch for me - I will enjoy it so much, after being responsible for the meals for two weeks. I am not the greatest cook, you know!
You all have a good one!
Jeff, the grass was cut, oops I mean the sign is rotating. Enjoy the long slow days, there will be plenty of short busy days ahead.
Curt, that’s what I did, hook everything up on the bench, check it then use it as an example. Crimping cables; I use CAT5e cables, thicker insulation than regular phone cable and not as touchy when crimping. I bought a box of wire, crimping tool, and connectors for networking and phone service for $75. CAT5e you have to mash the crimpers hard every time to drive the connector pin through the insulation. Phone wire requires a smart amount of pressure, mashing will split the lead or roll the lead off the pin.
Attaboy – Attaboy on the divorce, just remember to relax and breathe once in a while. (I’ve been waiting 2 years to use attaboy twice in a proper sentence). Sorry it had to happen, but in time you will be glad you did it. If she won’t leave call your lawyer, as an officer of the court he can get her out faster than the police.
Jim, great progress on the buildings!
My yard makes a squishing noise when I walk in it. It’s good for the plants, but the soil is super saturated. I saw on the news Ohio is getting blamed for some of the flooding down south as we feed the Mississippi river 60% of our rain and snow melt.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Grilled chicken, rice & black beans, please.
The road behind us (top of the hill) was finally cleared and we took a drive. OMG, the tornadoes path is something to see. Now that I can easily get there, I'll have to take a pic to share. We were luckier than first imagined. It will never look the same in our lifetime. Wow!
Got the mangled metal gate pieces & most of the tree to the front pasture piled up. Still a lot of chainsaw work to be done on that beast of a tree. All this cleanup is a pretty long term project.
Healing thoughts to those who Mother Nature visited earlier today and tonight.
Cheers! Rob
Since I live well and truly in Cardinals Nation, I find it rather amusing that it is suggested that I become a Cubs fan!
Actually, there are quite a few die-hard Cubbies here, who are very happy to be vocal about the team they support. A good friend, and Catholic Priest in a local parish, delights at dropping the following blessing into a baptism, especially when he knows the parents well and that they are Cards fans
"I baptise you a Cubs fan"
Have a wonderful rest of the evening. I can hear the thunder rolling in. The storms that killed in Joplin MO this afternoon are making their way into the area. Tornado warnings abound, so here we go again!
Evening All,
Flo I would like a decaf coffee please.
Well today was interesting (frustating). When I made up my loconet cables I made them like the picture on the Digitrax site. Pin up on one end and on the other end pin down. Hooked everything up went to use my DT-402D with the throttle plugged into the UR-92 and I kept getting all kinds of wierd throttle displays and could not insert a loco number. Checked wiring ect., ect., ect. Of course I did not check their operation last night at the club (stupid me).
I called the club DCC guy and he said the only thing he could think of after talking awhile was to redo one end of each cable so that the pins are on the same side. Of course this means going to the club to use the crimping tool and to test them this time. . After I went to the club I made the changes and tested the cables one by one with my throttle.
So I come back to the house hooked everything up and it all works like it should, but I do not understand why it is working differently than it should. What do they say about looking a gift horse in the mouth......? I also glued down the wood blocks that the tunnel portals are going to sit on. I also ordered wire for Tortoise wiring. I could only find small spools of it locally. Friday with some of my OT I am going to the LHS and pick up 1 Miniatronics PDB-1 and 1 PDB-2 for power tie in to the DPDT's.
Before that though Tuesday (go to w**k at1600) I need to build a hanging shelf to place the Miniatronics PDB's on. We have a spare wood table that I could use but I would need to cut down the legs and MOH says no .
Simon- Sorry about your team. Some of our PRO teams need the same system.
Todd- I had a guy in the Navy that was in my division that was a Cubbie fan. His faith in them never faltered no matter what they did.
Jim- I bet a neat detail under a broken down spout would be a green mold flowing down the wall.
Attaboy- Congrats on the final divorce decree, I know you are happy but please watch your back.
Everyone have a good night.
Flo, how about a refill on the decaf? Feels good to just sit back and relax for a while.
JimRCGMO Ray, good to hear you didn't have to rent the bushhogger for the lawn. The train museum attendance probably would've been just as heavy as last time if they hadn't decided to get the diesel, don'tcha think? What'd they use, a 44 tonner?
Ray, good to hear you didn't have to rent the bushhogger for the lawn. The train museum attendance probably would've been just as heavy as last time if they hadn't decided to get the diesel, don'tcha think? What'd they use, a 44 tonner?
Jim, if they had used the track cars (2 units) that can hold about 14 each, I can be reasonably assured we would have at least 30 people in every trip.......... We do have a 44 tonner out there, but haven't used it for service in the few years I have been a member. We used LV #211 RS3m for the motive power again today. Mostly because she was still hooked up to the Empire Express Coach we used last week. There would have been several switching moves required to bring out the cabeese we usually use with a diesel (or two). Normally we would have used ex US Army 80 Tonner #1654 but she was parked on the wrong end of the 2 crummies, hence the switching moves involving 2 locos to do the job. Time was short as the move to the diesel was only decided early this morning. So LV #211 RS3m did the honors again.
Personally I love to just stand around near her when she is sitting, idling in the yard.... The EMD 567B prime mover she ended up with has a wonderful, distinctive, glub, glub, glub, glub, glub, glub, glub, glub,... it is also fun to watch kids jump when she lets loose with the 3 chime trumpets on top.... Even if only one still works! i have offered to clean and repair the other 2, and have gotten a "look" and been told, "Are you nuts!?" All 3 of them would definitely wake some people up!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hey guys
Lots of trains for me this week. 3 operating sessions, and have been working on my trains.
Also made some progress with a girl at work. I gave her my number, and she won't quit texting me. even at 11:30pm when I'm trying to sleep. Unfortunately we were wrong when we guessed each others ages. we both though the other was 18-19. But she's 17 and I'm 21... jailbait I suppose...
Jim, I could take a picture of it.
Attaboy, Sorry, to hear about you're divorce, but congrats on doing what needed to be done. Is PA one of those "maritial asset" states?
Ken, You're not the only one having issues with digitrax stuff. At all of the ops sessions I went to, everyone that had a DT402D (or whatever the newest one is) was having issues. Occasionally one of the DT100s would cause the system to go buggy. Anyone with a DT100 or DT400 couldn't control trains, but my DT4R could...
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Hello, anyone here?
Slow Day Flo? Yeah I know the feeling! I take a in a frosted Monon Mug.
Work Front if you can call it that. Did not sale a darn thing today, goose egg, nata, zilch. Whole company had a bad day. Have no idea what has happened to my Sundays? I was doing $3000.00 like clockwork every Sunday!
Monon Jim On the white spots, I bet you can use 600 grit and then 1000 git sandpaper to get the bad spots off the cars. On the foam, been there and done that! One time I need just a little lacquer thinner, went to m painters work bench and poured a little in to a foam coffee. Yea, you know what happen! I am sure you know you can use water based hobby paint to paint the foam with.
Ken
Good Evening, Flo, and you will notice that (once again) I came in the front door (despite Garry's thoughts on THAT). I'll have a RBF an order of cheesy fries, and a BLT, please. Thanks!
Rob, I may do that on another building - when I got home last night, I found the other part of the downspout (the pin that fits into the cute little hole in the building was missing, but otherwise it was all there). I glued it to the wall under the still-attached 'top' part. I still have yet to get some TV antennas on the roof of a building (that one or some other one); I expect on that detail I will have some intentional bent end(s) to the antenna... Hope you get your storm cleanup done this year!
Simon, I'd agree with Todd - what you described about "Wait 'til next year" sounds like the Cubs (or a few other baseball teams with less-than-stellar won-lost records).
TSF - your picture of "Hillbilly Heaven" sounds okay, but I don't know if a Japanese car w**ker would love the lack of imports.
Todd - yeah, Native Americans got the flu (and a few other medical conditions I doubt that they had before those European refugees arrived...) I saw on one website that another of the Navajo codetalkers had died in 2010 (at age 91), and there are only two of the codetalkers still living. Sorry to see their numbers dwindling so. Hey, as for rest, I got the roof for the 'town jail' cut, painted and glued on (except that I'll have to go back and re-do the paint with Floquil - the acrylic I used flaked off of the styrene too easily). I also got the one little (unpainted) section of 'brick' on the Main St. Merc. building painted, and the window frames and the doors for Acme Manufacturing Co. glued into place. I painted the roof for Acme, but it was with the same acrylic paint, so I'll be re-doing that also.
Jeff, I've seen some 1:1 station signs that moved kinda jerky, too, so Ezra's is very prototypical. (I still wanna vote for the bigger difference - the 'clean' diesel)...
Garry, I hope that Caddy dealer has a lot of 'open' hours so you can get the car done. Is there a LHS not too far from the Caddy dealer (as long as you're in the vicinity anyway...)? What've you been up to with the CB&Q lately?
Attaboy, I'll second MononJim's comments on your decree. It sounds like the deputies may have to 'help' her get moved out (but hopefully it won't come to that...).
MononJim - not great when a can does like that Dullcote did, especially when it fowls up a couple of projects in the process. I'll have to keep that paint compatibility in mind when I get ready to make some ballast loads for some hoppers I have.
I'll be heading for home soon - there's a Jesse Stone special movie on tonight, and I like Tom Selleck's character in that. Then tomorrow, time to go back in to w**k (the office), but it'll be payday tomorrow, so that's good. Need to figure tonight, what gets paid out of this one and what stretch for MRR stuff there might be in this paycheck.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Evenin' folks!
Flo, just a decaf for me.
Had an easy day at the museum. Probably a couple hundred visitors total. Big change from last week. They decided to run a diesel today expecting we would get a lot of the people from last week who didn't get their trip to our end of the line. By the time a train crew was made up they ended up firing up LV #211 and ran the coach like last week. I will be going out for a small group visit on Wednesday morning. probably a school group of some kind. THAT will be track cars, so it will be a small number of people on site at any given time.
Barry, good to see you here! I was about to send out the hounds to find you....
Attaboy, this too shall pass! If you have trouble "evicting her", don't hesitate to call in the local police dept. for support...... As necessary!
Oh! THE LAWN IN FINISHED....... Sorry, didn't mean to yell. Tomorrow I shall drop the level down a notch and start mowing again. This time with the mulching unit in place. I would hope to do at least half tomorrow and maybe the rest on Tuesday. If the rain holds off, that is. Calling for some thunderboomers tomorrow around here.
Have a great evening!
Well, Attaboy, you have my concurrent congratulations and condolences. Your story just breaks my heart. Here's prayers that things will only get better for you.
I finished decaling a boxcar & hopper today. Before taking them up to the garage for a shot of Dullcote I thought I'd work on a coal load. Found a scrap of styrofoam packing and used a utility knife to cut & hack it into loads for two hoppers. Figured a quick coat of paint, coat with some white glue, sprinkle on some black ballast, and boom that's it. So I trot up the stairs with my two cars, two little styrofoam blocks, a can of black spray paint, and a can of Dullcote. Dullcote felt almost empty, but it turned out there was enough to cover both cars. So I sprayed both cars and set those aside to dry, hit the foam with the black paint, then stood there and watched the paint attack the foam until it had shriveled down to a crinkle. So off to the trash with those. Stupid. Checked the cars later and saw both covered with a hideous splotchy milky white coating. Bottom-of-the-can Dullcote is apparently bad Dullcote. So what did I have to show for my efforts in the end? Two shriveled styrofoam remnants and two ruined freight car projects.
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
A coffee TO GO, please.
***Barry, that sign gives me some ideas for the back of the wife's drive in theater, when the day comes I can return to MRRing.
Heading out on the tractor to start removing sections of a big tree which came down and crushed a gate to the front pasture. This is just a break from working on roofing. Whew!
Have a good one y'all.
Rob
Well, the deed is done. Got the final divorce decree in the mail yesterday. The ex-wife hit the ceiling. Complaining about how I said I would wait to file them and how I agreed to this and that. Now she's trying to be all sweet and loving to "salvage our relationship". Since she is already refusing to move out and crying poverty getting her out of the house may prove a bit more...raucous.
Jeff, layout pics are looking good. Like the rotating sign.
Good Afternoon..
I had been rather busy here with work and home related stuff going on...now I have a few days off to relax...well... sort of....
Right now it is sunny and a wee bit dryer out here..we are not seeing huge lakes out on the fields around here...now they are just largish ponds...
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Howdy ... RBF, please.
Evidently, somebody left the side door open, and JimCG entered the diner. .... Jim the buildings are lloking good so far!
Jeff .... Now we know the sign rotates clockwise.
Todd ... We did replace the battery thinking it would solve the problem, but it did not sole it. At least I don't have to worry about the battery for a long time. Evidently, the dealer has to re-program the electronic gizmo. It's somewhat like a kill switch. If it does not detect a signal from the key transponder, the car is disabled. Frustrating. ... The closest Cadillac dealer is 50 miles away. .... This has been a very reliable car. We've had it 7 years, and this is the first problem at 98,000 miles.
TMarsh Jeff- Is that electrical, or mechanical? Or are you just shifting for the next shot.
Jeff- Is that electrical, or mechanical? Or are you just shifting for the next shot.
Good morning. It's 76 and cloudy. The high will be 89 and humid.I'm down here at my parents place again. My mother is still in the bed but I expect her to be up and around soon. I brought along a movie to watch later. 'The Train'. I also brought a couple of locos and some freight cars. I'll be changing out the couplers on them. Other than that it'll be another long slow day.
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Good Morning!! I’ll take the Great to Be Alive Special please and a cup of Dark Roast thank you. Boy that is such a relief, at 9:30 last night I began to wonder if the world might have ended at six and I just didn’t know it (Einsteins theory on energy never ending thing you know). Then I realized the fingers stuck to the roof with super glue, felt a little more real than a dream would. Luckily t'wasn’t much of an attachment. Jeff- Is that electrical, or mechanical? Or are you just shifting for the next shot. Garry- Sounds like the battery has given up the goat.
Good Morning!! I’ll take the Great to Be Alive Special please and a cup of Dark Roast thank you.
Boy that is such a relief, at 9:30 last night I began to wonder if the world might have ended at six and I just didn’t know it (Einsteins theory on energy never ending thing you know). Then I realized the fingers stuck to the roof with super glue, felt a little more real than a dream would. Luckily t'wasn’t much of an attachment.
Garry- Sounds like the battery has given up the goat.
Jim-Weeeell look what the cat drug in! Good to see you again. Building pictures show you are doing a good job so with my blessing..., you may rest . Cigar wooden Indians? Funny you should ask. The Native American is credited with introducing Tobacco to the Settlers. (which I think is a funny name to be called. Like we were the first in the new land) Therefore, the "Wooden Indian" was used to depict them selling tobacco. some find it insulting, some don't. Ironic though isn't it? We gave them the flu, they gave us tobacco (chuckle). Guess they knew. Oh well, turnabout is fair play I suppose.
Simon- You’d make a good Cubs fan.
Well like I said, last night after zero hour I went down stairs, well, not right away, I spent like an hour on the you tube watching banjo playing people. Wish I could remember the name of the group, but it’s three young kids and they are faaaantastic! The banjo player is I think at the time, 8. OH YA! "Sleepy Man Banjo Boys" Here's a sample http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qbB4Kq3Y0 Warning, be careful, it's addictive.
Anyway, I did work on one of the mobile homes, the three sectioned roof one. Built some furniture for it and a counter. Not a full interior just enough so when you see inside, it of course isn’t empty. Also put a wife (or GF) waiting for hubby to get home inside. Mainly to cover draw the eye away from no kithchen table. Maybe they eat out alot. This is the one when I glued the front section of roof on, I guess I got a teensy dab of super glue on my finger when I placed the roof and when I used it to hold the roof down….
Today, though, I don’t believe I will have much time other than maaaybe this evening. We are going to visit my Aunt today in Nebo. Dinner is at 1. We’ll leave here at about 10.
When we do get home, I hope to go downstairs and do a little work on the scenery. I’d especially like to get the tunnels done to the point where I can close them up. I sincerly doubt I will get that far.
Welp, I had some zippy closer to leave you with BUT, alas, I forgot what I was gonna say.
Morning
Got the garden rotortilled yesterday. Worked straight through Apocalypse hour. One thing's for sure, I must be in Hillbilly heaven. Free beer, (too young, dang it) Skynard blasting out everywhere and sweet lifted 4x4 and not an import in sight. Oh yeah, Saint Pete's been replaced by Dale Earnheart Senior.
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When in doubt. grab a hammer.
If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
The World did indeed end yesterday, my team lost, on penalties, after extra time, the cruelest way to decide something so vital.
To put this into some sort of baseball context that might be understood by all my American friends, image if you would that at the end of the baseball season the team with the worst record was demoted to the minors and the team with the best record in the minors came up to the majors! This is essentially what happens in the English professional football leagues. My team just missed out on the jump to the majors. But as they say, there is always next year!
Guess I still suffer from insomnia here in the afterlife...or was I left behind. Tall glass of cool water and a bowl of mixed nuts, please.
***Cape Jim, it might be just as realistic to have one building missing half a downspout. Just a thought.
Have a good day all.