Good Morning All. 68° and light showers, brief light thunderstorm passed about two hours ago. Heavier storms are nearby but will probably miss me. Sure could have used more than the .1" in the gauge. Had a good Father's Day yesterday. My son sent a cooler full of "Omaha Steaks" that I will start enjoying this week. Haven't had anything from them in about ten years since my buddy left their Dallas store. I could afford their products when he gave me his 50% employee discount!
Out in the train shed, I overhauled a pair of Athearn blue-box SD40-2 locomotives. Cleaned them up, added new lubrication, hardwired one and exchanged some of the wheels for NWSL ones. Unfortunately my LHS only had one package left and they said that they didn't know when there would be more, per NWSL. So half of the axles on each engine were replaced. I also pulled a nearly 20 year old P2K PS2CD covered hopper kit out of the stash and started to build it. I was feeling industrious yesterday! Started by re-numbering it, and reaming out all of the holes with a #72 (.025) drill bit to ease insertion of parts. Those of you who have assembled these kits know what I mean.
Bob - Yep! Babes...it's Sanger location is only twelve miles away. Love it. I have never had anything from Beth Marie's since I am not an ice cream person, but my wife swears by it.
Chet - I know that deer are not a big deal in some areas (except as a nuisance), but they only started showing up in this area about 15-18 years ago. Most of my neighbors do not allow deer hunting on their property in order to allow the population to build up. There is a mountain lion that roams in the woods about a quarter mile down the road that gets its fair share of fawns though.
Beady - I am still laughing at that cartoon. I did grow up in that era!
Eric - No experience here with the Faller cement, so I cannot advise.
Everybody have an awesome day.
Willie