Todd ... I just had a piece of the SRP you brought to the DIner. Thanks. I have 5 things to say about it: .... mmmm; mmmm; ......... mmmmm; mmmmm; yummy!.
Jeff ... Thinking of you today, and praying you have good news for us when you return from your appointment.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Morning All,
Another w**k day. Currently it is 62 with an expected high of 95 with some smoky late afternoon conditions, due to a brush fire south of Carson City.
Ice, meds, and knee brace seem to help my knee. I think I will wear the brace one more day at w**k and see how it does tomorrow.
I have actually disconnected my land line. It is one of those package deals with the cable company, and no one I know ever uses it, so why waste the electricity. My cell phone stays with me everywhere, and I have distinct ringtones for people I know. If I do not recogonize the ring tone I don't answer it.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
EDIT: I got top so since most of you folks are in earlier time zones, lunch is on me.
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of Blueberry Pancakes with NYS Maple Syrup, a side order of bacon, and lots and lots of dark roast coffee in my FGLK mug please...
Todd, I ignore half of the calls coming in when I do recognize the number... My cell phone usually stays in my pocket... turned off.
Barry, droughts over! So what are you going to stock the lake with this year?
Currently 73°F outside under hazy skies with a high around 83°F. Thunderboomers will commence about the time I arrive at Boy Scout camp to visit one of my troops this afternoon. I will also pick up a car full of old electronic junk to recycle.
Galaxy, my late wife had a car (old worn out VW Bug) she used to call "The Albatross". The one after that spent most of it's time in the repair shop (another $100 worn out junker we got for a little of nothing as a second car) so she called it "Tinkertoy".
Best get moving so I can actually accomplish something today.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
TMarsh Castle's open Tuesday, Thursday and weekends FYI. If you call after 5, I’ll be wo*kin and probably won’t be able to hear the phone over the fans etc so just leave a message. Since you told me your phone#, I won’t ignore it. Oh and had two kids and am soooo familiar with downloads that they didn’t do that just about kill a comuter. Anybody else do that? If I don’t recognize the number, I just don’t answer the phone. I figure it’s just someone trying to sell me something or the like. Either way, I probably don’t know them and if I do, well I have voice mail. Leave a message and I’ll then have your #. Besides, I’m not always in a situation where I can answer the phone anyway. Hands full, on a ladder, messing with glue ( unfortunately not model glue for a while), or have sausage fingers, got a pizza to take out of the oven or the exhaust fan is going. OHHhhh the list goes on. One of these days, I’m gonna get that trainroom cleaned up so’s you can even get to it, and THEN if
Castle's open Tuesday, Thursday and weekends FYI. If you call after 5, I’ll be wo*kin and probably won’t be able to hear the phone over the fans etc so just leave a message. Since you told me your phone#, I won’t ignore it. Oh and had two kids and am soooo familiar with downloads that they didn’t do that just about kill a comuter.
Anybody else do that? If I don’t recognize the number, I just don’t answer the phone. I figure it’s just someone trying to sell me something or the like. Either way, I probably don’t know them and if I do, well I have voice mail. Leave a message and I’ll then have your #. Besides, I’m not always in a situation where I can answer the phone anyway. Hands full, on a ladder, messing with glue ( unfortunately not model glue for a while), or have sausage fingers, got a pizza to take out of the oven or the exhaust fan is going. OHHhhh the list goes on.
One of these days, I’m gonna get that trainroom cleaned up so’s you can even get to it, and THEN if
When it comes to phones, we are in no short supply. We have: 2 cells, 1 land line the old fashioned kind, and one computer "land line".
~The old fashioned land line {OFLL} is our primary phone, IT has the "do not call" on it,and like MR. Beasley said, it really does work..the only exceptions are the political calls, the police benevolent society and anybody who might want to do business with you for your electric/gas supplier, WHO technically have the right to call you since you DO have a service contract with the carrier for those services. IF the phone has a # we don't recognize on it, we either A} don't answer and let machine get it, or B} Answer it tentatively knowing it is probably a wrong number.c} ignore it. It costs very little to have this one as I get the Medicaid discount life line service. We Make NO long distance calls on it.
~The computer phone comes with the Time Warner Cable package we have. It is "free" since we'd be paying for the cable and Internet anyway. We can all all over the country and half the world for "free". We use IT to make long distance calls. It has a a machine too and we get and ignore the obvious spam calls!
~The cells are the prepaid flip phone variety for traveling EMERGENCIES only. There are literally 5 people who know my cell number, one is MOH, one is my father, one is the in laws, and 2 are mechanics!!! The phone is ON ONLY if i am out in the vehicle!
~With the new job , MOH will have to give out the cell number MOH has, so the work can get hold of MOH.
iN other things:
Well i did the monthly household shopping and the grocery shopping for this week,. The hip and my back are NOT pleased. Oh well, done for the month and the week.
Ah well, the joys of living hand to mouth paycheck to paycheck.
well off to a lay down, not necessarily a nap.
-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.
Morning all! Coffee and toast would be marvelous please.
Thunderstorms, lightning, and heavy rain all night and early this morning. Muggy and humid right now, but strangely pleasant sitting on the porch looking at the hills.
Heading into town to grocery shop...one of my least favorite tasks to do. Although, after looking at those pictures of Buffalo above, I have an odd hankering for steak on the grill....
Fiddled with my Athearn Santa Fe passenger cars yesterday. It was fun and enjoyable and felt good to be productive.
Happy modeling and good day to all!
Don.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly."
It has literally been years since I picked up the land-line without letting the machine pre-screen it for me. Sometimes I'll answer if I know who's on the other end, but almost no one calls me on that phone. Most calls are for SWMBO. The answering machine is a better answering machine than I am. If I answer the phone and it's not for me, then I have to take a message, which means finding paper and something to write with. Why bother with that?
The Do Not Call list really does work, although it's not foolproof. In particular, election season is just chock full of junk calls because those calls are not covered by the list.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I will have a med Toasted Almond with cream and X sugar and a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese on the side please! Not much going on here today. I am gonna make a run to AA hobbies to pick up a couple of NCE power panels before I head to the circus I call work! The forecast says rain all week, we can use some to cool things off after the stretch of hot and humid days we had.
Todd- I also ignore calls from numbers I don't recognize. Most of the time its stupid surveys or telemarketers trying to sell you something. If it's something important, they can leave a message, but most of the time they just hang up.
Have a great day!!!!!!
John
Good Morning from KindaFoggedInVille....We are currently foggy and VERY wet here...got even more so-called showers overnight...now we are just drenched here...going to a high later on of 84 feeling like 103F...yay...oh...in the rain and those ol' t'underin'boomers no less....again...yayGot some medical appointments of mine own to contend with as well..more tests...again...sheeesh...Anyhow...have a good day!!
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...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and some of that breakfast surprise otherwise known as a casserole please. Thanks.
By the way, I just filled the pie case with SRP’s fresh from the oven.
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 91. Heat index values as high as 101. Gonna be a sweater out there.
Inch- Got your PM or, whatever they call it now. Don’t know if I’ll catch you with this before you leave, or if you got a laptop for that WIFI thing in the hotel. My friend just backed off the flooring people until Wed of next week so I’m not up against a wall type rush anymore, at least for now. After today pretty much anytime til about 2 in the afternoon is good for me. If you can wrangle in a little free time before 2…., glad to meet you somewhere even if just for a cup of coffee. Castle's open Tuesday, Thursday and weekends FYI. If you call after 5, I’ll be wo*kin and probably won’t be able to hear the phone over the fans etc so just leave a message. Since you told me your phone#, I won’t ignore it. Oh and had two kids and am soooo familiar with downloads that they didn’t do that just about kill a comuter.
One of these days, I’m gonna get that trainroom cleaned up so’s you can even get to it, and THEN if someone comes to town with a little time, they can see the layout such as it is. Now… .shoot. I’ll have to post the latest “that’s the layout in there…., really it is…you have to really look” picture. Kinda like one of those seek-n-find pictures.
Ray- seems to me your resolve was being tested yesterday. OR, a black cloud was hanging over you.
Welp, best get a movin. Like I's tellin Inch, still got some tile to pull up and a couple rooms to w**k on before next Wed now.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
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 moring to all. Ah, what a difference a night makes. The temperature dropped, and I was able to use the fan instead of the AC. It's so much nicer to sleep that way.
inch53Mornin, an irish coffee along with the farmers platter
Ah, the Farmer's Platter. I remember it well from my college days. In Boston in the 1960s, there were few eateries open all night. Our favorite was a place called Mondo's, a classic greasy-spoon down by the docks, tucked into an old warehouse building surrounded by cobblestone streets. 3 eggs, ham, bacon or sausage, home fries, toast and unlimited coffee, all for 99 cents. On weekends, there was a line outside the place to get in at 3AM. All that's left of it now is the cobblestones, as the warehouses were "gentrified" and became the popular Quincy Market / Fanueil Hall tourist trap and social gathering place.
Our TV, a Samsung that's about 5 years old, has developed a case of cyber-measles. White spots started appearing, first just a few, then dozens. It's reached the point where it interferes with the viewing experience.. This is a wide-screen DLP TV. I looked online, and it's a known problem with these sets. I called Samsung, and to my delight they will send a technician to our house and fix it, for free. I guess they stand by their products.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Morning coffee in the diner....
GOOD TUESDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Tueday, July 9th, 2013!!
I will light the prayer candles at 9 am for those in need...
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
'Till the chickens come home to roost':
Meaning:
Bad deeds or words return to discomfort their perpetrator {see also: The modern version: 'what goes around come around'}:
Origin:
The notion of bad deeds, specifically curses, coming back to haunt their originator is long established in the English language and was expressed in print as early as 1390, when Geoffrey Chaucer used it in The Parson's Tale:
And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest.
The allusion that was usually made was to a bird returning to its nest at nightfall, which would have been a familiar one to a medieval audience. Other allusions to unwelcome returns were also made, as in the Elizabethan play The lamentable and true tragedie of Arden of Feversham, 1592:
For curses are like arrowes shot upright, Which falling down light on the suters [shooter's] head.
Chickens didn't enter the scene until the 19th century when a fuller version of the phrase was used as a motto on the title page of Robert Southey's poem The Curse of Kehama, 1810:
"Curses are like young chicken: they always come home to roost."
This extended version is still in use, notably in the USA.
The notion of the evil that men create returns to their own door also exists in other cultures. Buddhists are familiar with the idea that one is punished by one's bad deeds, not because of them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge revived the imagery of a bird returning to punish a bad deed in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798. In the poem the eponymous mariner kills an albatross, which was regarded as an omen of good luck, and is punished by his shipmates by having the bird hung around his neck:
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. Tomorrow, along the same lines, we will have 'to mind our P's and Q's' To be Sure the chickens don't come home to roost wth us on bad things...
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.
Tomorrow, along the same lines, we will have 'to mind our P's and Q's' To be Sure the chickens don't come home to roost wth us on bad things...
Hi all,
It has been a long time since I have been around! I'm going to WVU this fall and I'm planning a 2x4 N scale that I can work on in my apartment. I'm looking forward to posting progress pics in weekend photo fun and I'm sure I will have a lot of questions. I haven't been in the model railroad game for at least 4 years now. Just figured I would check in here first and say hi. Glad to be back! Nice to see some familiar faces and some new ones.
Adam Thompson Model Railroading is fun!
OK...did we get a few showers here...all of 5" on the rain gauge here and TO got hammered...flash flooding all over the place. Our back yard lake looks more ocean-like tonight... ....the channels are doing their thing though.Tomorrow promises to be a wet one too...just what we needed...yeeeeaaaaahhh....right....
Hey Todd : Any Strawberry Rhubarb pie left? ..... It would hit he spot.
Jerry ....... I really like you background buildings. They fit right in and look realistic.
Some of this talk about bad drivers on congested highways, reminds me of why I like western KY. There is not much highway traffic here.
Watch out for the buffalo, however.
Especially the bull! I took these pictures a couple of years ago near here. Railroads once had the same problem. We've been busy with grand daughters, and I don't have much layout prgress to report. Best wishes to Jeff with his medical appointments. Paul ... Hope the knee will be okay Jeremy ... Hope the illness gets better. Flip ... Din't have a chance to reply to you about your post where you mentioned the Mallard. I saw that engine in the British Railway Museum in York England.
Especially the bull!
I took these pictures a couple of years ago near here. Railroads once had the same problem. We've been busy with grand daughters, and I don't have much layout prgress to report. Best wishes to Jeff with his medical appointments. Paul ... Hope the knee will be okay Jeremy ... Hope the illness gets better. Flip ... Din't have a chance to reply to you about your post where you mentioned the Mallard. I saw that engine in the British Railway Museum in York England.
I took these pictures a couple of years ago near here.
Railroads once had the same problem.
We've been busy with grand daughters, and I don't have much layout prgress to report. Best wishes to Jeff with his medical appointments. Paul ... Hope the knee will be okay Jeremy ... Hope the illness gets better. Flip ... Din't have a chance to reply to you about your post where you mentioned the Mallard. I saw that engine in the British Railway Museum in York England.
We've been busy with grand daughters, and I don't have much layout prgress to report.
Best wishes to Jeff with his medical appointments.
Paul ... Hope the knee will be okay
Jeremy ... Hope the illness gets better.
Flip ... Din't have a chance to reply to you about your post where you mentioned the Mallard. I saw that engine in the British Railway Museum in York England.
Gotta be up at 5am and on the road to Oakdale no later than 7am tomorrow. My father4 and I are going to talk to a doctor there. Other doctors we've asked says he might be able to do something about this foot of mine, like make it go away. They say he can do it on what Medicaid pays. We'll see. If nothing else he may know someone who can do it on Medicaid. No way am I paying for somebodies mortgage!In layout news, I looked at the park and took some measurements. Other than that there's no layout news.In computer news, the power supply I put in my mothers old IIe is making clicking noises. Maybe that's OK, maybe not. Today I looked at a couple of power supplies online. One is used but is reported in good condition. The other is brand new. Never been out of the box. After comparing the prices with shipping included there was a difference of 89¢. I ordered the new one. For such a small difference might as well get the best. Total $63. Birthday money at work.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all next time.Old all-metal kit-bashed Bachmann steamer.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Evenin' folks!
Janie, a cup of decaf would really be nice right now... Thank you Ma'am!
Weird Day around here. I got up early, had breakfast (yes, I had dark roast coffee - I do every day), gave Blackie his morning pill, and headed out the door to go open the museum for a bunch of little kids from a day camp in the area. Half way down the Thruway I hit a patch of rain coming down so hard I seriously thought about taking the ditch and waiting it out. Then I thought about the idjuts out on the road and figured I was safer keeping going. Moving target is harder to hit! By the time I got to the Museum the rain had stopped and in fact they had gotten no rain out there. Had fun showing some train stuff to the 5 and 6 year olds in the group. A couple of them are already train nuts and knew a lot about railroads!
Locked up the Museum and headed back home through a couple episodes of rain, but nothing too bad. Got home, had a late lunch and charged the PiP. About 4 PM I headed out to the Mennonite Landscaping store to buy a dozen blocks of stone to do the small raised garden around the boulder I bought a few weeks ago. Sun was shining. Drove the 4 miles over to the store, went in and told the guy behind the counter what I wanted, but could I look at some before I bought. He says, sure, and goes to get another kid to take over to where they are. He also brings out a huge umbrella. I look out side and it has just started pouring down bucketfuls. Unbelievable! I told him, "Lets just wait until the storm passes." About that time we hear "BOOM!!!" We both figured it might be smart to let the storm pass. 45 Minutes later storm is still thunderbooming around and rain is still coming down hard. I tell the kid, I'll come back later in the week. Run out in the rain, jump in the PiP, and with the wipers on high I manage to hit the road. Two miles down the road... just a sprinkle. At my house........ Nothing!
Think Toronto, CA has had that kind of day today too! Heavy Flooding. Barry, did it rain where you are??? Actually same system of storms.
The neighbors and I have decided on the exact design for the fence between our properties. I picked out what I thought would work well, and sent all the possibilities to them by email. They just sent one back with the one they like the best. Done! I have been drawing up the needed stuff on my property map to be turned in for the Permit this evening. Just about finished. I am also going to see what a contractor (one of my students from back when) will charge me to do the install. somehow digging 7 or 8 post holes 3' deep in the rocky and root infested soil there doesn't appeal to me like it would have 30 years ago.
Hope you all have a great night and all of us here in the North East stay dry!
Hi Guys,
Was at the doctors today. He doesn't know when I will be able to go back, so it looks like it going to be fun trying to get short term, will probably get it but when????
Look like alot of rain heading this way, seems like that's all we had this summer. Oh well, my weeds oh I mean lawn is green. Just finishing up a few freight cars again tonight. I will have a a bare shelf come tomorrow as I have built them all. Which is good, I'm kit building out at the moment and want to run trains. After a few days pass I may tackle that walthers warehouse that has been sitting here for years.Funny when you get a ton of free time kits go together somewhat quick,lol
Well back to my list im making of things to do on the railroad.
Evenin y'all!
Flo, can I get an RBF and a cone, bowl , no, a quart of mint chocolate chip ice cream??
Oh,,,,Mr. Todd,
TMarsh Karl- You also probably dealt with the cruise controllers who do not speed up as they pass another vehicle that they are going exactly 1/57th of a mile an hour faster than. Taking 3 miles to get around them blocking both lanes.
Karl- You also probably dealt with the cruise controllers who do not speed up as they pass another vehicle that they are going exactly 1/57th of a mile an hour faster than. Taking 3 miles to get around them blocking both lanes.
Yes, I am familiar with the strain of imbecile. That's why I want one of these for MY Impala!
Love that push bar!
In the end, truth be known, I probably need her more than she needs me. I shall never repeat that again.
You don't have to repeat it,,,,,,the internet is forever!!!
Galaxy, you're OK by me!!
Inch Obviously you don't get down to my end of 70 often. Usually backs up every morning and evening between 695 and 95. And 40 has more lights than a Christmas tree!
Ulrich Leave a stack of ballots by the door, we'll fill them out!
1st day at the new job, all went well, I could get used to this Time to work on some loco's,, catch ya all later!!
Karl
NCE über alles!
jeffrey-wimberlyYesterdays mystery of the computer parts has been solved. They came from my neighbors father. I needed it, he didn't so his junk became my treasure.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Good afternoon all,
With yesterday being Sunday, it was rail fanning time. Not all that great a day though. Besides raining off and on the whole time we were there, we only caught 6 trains. Most of the first hour and a half was spent watching an ES44AC & a Dash 9 switching out a long coal train from off the main and onto a couple of storage tracks. Also got to talk to an out of state visitor who stopped by to railfan with us.
Up and out the door early this morning for breakfast, grocery shopping, and errands that took us from one end of the county to the other. Stopped around 1 o'clock for lunch as we were on the way home. Got here about 2 o'clock. So I put a load of laundry in the washer and then just sat down. Ran out of steam and I'm not planning on doing anything else today. Besides, my back is telling me it isn't getting much better, so that needs to be rested as well. I did get lucky earlier in the week though. The handle on the wife's recliner broke. Called the manufacturer about a replacement but ran into a problem right off the bat with a tag containing the serial / model number missing. I've never had the chair (13 years old) upside down, so I know I didn't remove it. Anyway, wouldn't you know they have about a dozen different handles. So the young lady said she would send one she thought might work. Well, it came and glory be, it's the right one. No charge either having a lifetime gaurantee that I didn't even know about. So the wife is happy once again, and that is always a good thing.
The grass in the backyard needs cut again. I'm hoping for a few thunderstorms so I have an excuse to just ignore it. He says with fingers crossed. Hope everyone had a nice weekend and good days ahead.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Good Morning All...Its becoming cloudy and as Inch said rain moving in its 78 here...I'll have a diet Coke with lots of ice please...Thanks...Been running trains and working alittle on the layout...doing some background buildings..
Anybody know what happened to the thread here that had lots of background building you could use..I had it in my favorites but when I go there now its not there?..
Fair week here in Martinsville..may go down on my power chair one afternoon and watch races..Great Midwest trot and pace would be some good racing..
You all have a good one...Jerry
Good morning. It's 84°, feels like 91° and the humidity is 69%. The high will be 92° and will probably feel like 106°.Looks like it'll be a hot one today. Yesterdays mystery of the computer parts has been solved. They came from my neighbors father. I needed it, he didn't so his junk became my treasure.Tomorrow my father and I will be heading to Oakdale in search of a doctor who can do something about this foot of mine for what Medicaid pays. No doctor here will touch it for anything less than having their mortgage paid off it seems.
Good afternoon!!
I will have a large Butter Pecan Ice coffee with cream and X sugar please!!! It's been brutal out here on the east coast, to hot to do anything really. When out on a few dates over the weekend with some girls I met on a few dating sites. I'm getting sick and tired of doing everything by myself, so I guess it's time to try and meet some one!!
I was doing some wiring on my layout last night and walked into the cord for the NCE power supply and ripped it right off the circuit board. This is that second time I done that. so I went and got a surge protector and mounted it under the layout. Now the cord is no longer in the way where I can trip over it, get caught up in it or stomp on it..
Not working today so no case of the Mondays for me. Gonna throw some chicken on the grill and open up a bottle of wine. Have a great day!!!!
John!!!
Well it is still morning out here. Currently it is 68 with an expected high of 95.
My knee was hurting so bad yesterday, I was only able to do 3 hours at w**k and had to leave. Iced it down most of the rest of the day and evening, but it is still a bit sore. May have to have an MRI to see what is wrong with it, as the x-rays did not show anything when I had them taken in Feb. W**k again today, hope I can make a full day. So no layout w**k today.
I would comment on bad drivers, but my blood pressure would go through the roof. I have a 31 mile one way trip to w**k, almost all on I80, and I encounter multiple bad drivers each way, no matter what time of day or night.
Morning all...coffee if you please with milk and splenda.
Hot here again. It rained a bit yesterday which has made things worse ...you can actually see the humidity hanging in the hills and the minute you step outside you can feel the moisture in the air. But...I did manage to cut my grass, which was badly needed.
I plan on starting to work on my old Athearn Santa Fe passenger car kits. I picked up 8 of them at my LHS before my railfanning trip North. All mint in their boxes. I want to tint the windows on the cars as well as the vista dome, add diaphragms, new couplers, and possibly some new wheel sets. No interior lightning as I run mainly daytime operations...and I am a bit too lazy to fiddle with all that wiring and such (hey, at least I am honest about it...). Eventually, these cars will be pulled by my new Bachmann DCC and Sound Santa Fe EMD F7a and F7b...which currently look rather silly running around car-less .
Lehigh Valley 2089 Got the dark gray on the B-17G today. Other than that, not much to report.
Got the dark gray on the B-17G today. Other than that, not much to report.
I built that kit years ago, with "Outhouse Mouse" nose art on it. The B-29 kit that you have is impressive when completed. I used Baremetal Foil on one, and Model Master Metalizer colors on the other. If it's a REALLY big kit that interests you, pick up the Revell/Monogram 1/72 B-36...YIKES!!!! I have one that is perpetually under construction...I just don't have anywhere to display it once finished. Good luck with the project(s).
Happy modeling and good day all!
Good Morning
Kind of dull and stifling out there ...only 66F out there but it feels more like 83F right now..supposed to go to 85F feeling like 103F later on, under those ol' tunderin'boomers
Not much planned for today other than messing around in the studio...under the A/C....
Have a good one!!
Coffee and two eggs over medium, bacon , hash browns and a couple biscuits with butter and strawberry jam please. Thanks.
It’s not been that hot here but humid.
OK is one of the two most recognized and universally understood words in the world. The other?….Coke
Ray- Ah the slow down once they get in front of you people. Yup. Know them well. Like they gotta be in front of you. Of course once they get around the truck/vehicle they resume a speed just slightly faster than you are going. Drrrrriiift back down to a bit slower and, as you pull out to pass them….., they speed up. You pull back in the right lane……, starts all over again.
Welp, I was reminded by my “boss” that I agreed a month ago to wo*k for him this Wednesday night so’s they could go to the ball game in St Louis with his son in from Norway. So, that means I now have no “all day” to wo*k on the apartment this week as I’ll be w*rking every night til Saturday. I thought I was retired. WHICH reminds me, Brenda has decided while we were eating uneventfully despite Suki being our waitress, that she wants to go to Peoria for dinner next weekend. Now ANY other weekend of the year most likely would be fine EXCEPT the weekends in July until this apartment project is done. Once again something she knew and, will acknowledge as “oh I know, that’s fine.” in one breath then…."but you said we would go someday. We just haven’t gone and…etc, etc, etc", in the other. I still think it’s a test to see just what I’ll give up for her and what I won’t (shakes head). Like the Black Raspberry incident of recent and OH! She just offered up Saturday night “as many as you want, just let me know they are just taking over and we’re getting rid of most of them” the very same berry starts that she was “concerned” I was giving away too many of to my friend...., to her Aunt. AND, her brother was standing right there and also heard when I told his sister that's all I can get her for a bit. Brenda’s concerned I’m giving too many away because now suddenly she wants them. As per tradition.
She did make me a delicious Strawberry Rhubarb pie last night so….I think I’ll keep her. Love. Good thing there is such a thing or we’d never be able to live with anyone.
Good morning. What's not OK is the temperature. It was 79 degrees F. on the way to work at 7 AM, and just as warm in my office because they don't start the AC early enough on Monday morning after these hot weekends.
It was brutal all weekend. I pretty much stayed inside, watching the Tour de France, installing the track, turnouts and Tortoises for the last sidings on Phase 2, and then beginning the assembly of the tannery. It's a Walthers kit, and they put it together with modular sections. That makes it somewhat easy to modify where doors and windows go, but every wall is made up of many, many pieces. After 2 days, I've got 2 of the 4 buildings' walls assembled, masked and almost painted. (I ran out of paint.) The walls aren't put together into a building yet, since I've got to mortar the bricks first.