Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 55°. The forecast is for
thundershowers thunderstorms later today with over an inch and a half of rain predicted, continuing tomorrow morning with another half inch. This is the time of year for those unpredictable storms that might dump 4" or more and spawn a few tornados. Or they could turn out to be much ado about nothing.
Happy to report that every part of the yard within 240' of the house is mowed right now. Some places I have gone much further. I found a few dead limbs in a couple of trees yesterday that I removed. They will lay in place for a few days until I get around to making firewood out of them.
How about some ham and sunny-side up eggs this morning Francine.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding my rehab project,
Tom, Jerome, Guy, Bob, Phil, Sherrel, James, Patrick, Chad, Karl, Curt, Chet, Garry, Johnny.
Life goes on out in the train shed. Another unexpected surprise on the building that I am rehabbing. There's no glass in the windows to the left of the fire escape, or in many others either.
Among all of the spare parts that I also got in the same estate sale, I found some clear styrene that will fit.
In the next picture, you can see where the modeler(?) just glued cardboard to the inside of the structure, windows on the left, another wall is the same way. I am leaving it alone for now as those walls are in back and I don't have any ready-fit sized styrene for them. Besides this project is lasting longer than I had expected.
In this picture, you can see that the handrails for the lowest stairs for the fire escape are glued on backwards.
I did remove them yesterday without breakage and cleaned up part of them.
I did do some more track cleaning and vacuuming on another 24' of track, which is what I set out to do before getting sidetracked on this structure.
Hope to resume the photo tour tomorrow.
Patrick - Wow! You still have a Radio Shack nearby? I miss that store.
Hair dryer to flatten out that ladder is a possibility. Right now the weight seems to be doing the trick. I do have a hand-me-down dryer that my wife gave me years ago.
Tom - Interesting use for the old front runner car.
Bob - I love my electric chainsaw for all of the same reasons that you posted. They are also lighter in weight. I have a regular sized 16" one and a smaller 8" one on a 14' pole. On big stuff I have to use the 18" gas powered one which requires all of the prep work as well as hearing protection, (and safety glasses of course).
Foam board is not easy to get in the South. It's not just current conditions.
Garry - Nice job on the grade crossings.
James - I really like those trucks.
Louis - Easy to tell that you're not working right now!
Mikey - There's been a noticeable uptick in forum participation in the last month. Definitely some progress being made on some long idle layouts. Lots of new members as well. Happily, even
Louis has been able to return. Heck, we might even see
Bruce (new guy) return some day!
I have been seeing some really nice N scale pictures being posted here on this forum in the last few weeks, especially
Hughie's. I know that there are probably lots more out on the Internet, but I really don't have a lot of "surfing" time. Looking forward to seeing what
Bob comes up with.
Another day of self-isolation for us today. A big pot of chili is on the menu for tonight after the "kitbashed" shrimp & broccoli dish that I made last night. Wife is getting itchy being home all of the time, she misses shopping but many of her favorite stores are closed right now. She is going to work tomorrow, alone in the closed office to do tax returns that have been dropped off for her to do. Downside is that she is missing those generous $100 tips that she usually gets from those customers.
Everybody have a great day and an awesome weekend. Happy Easter in advance if you're not here tomorrow. Keep your distance.