Good Morning All. Cloudy and 52°, warmer than it was when I went to bed! Expecting a norther to blow in around noon to clear the clouds off and cool things down a bit. Near freezing tonight, but into the mid-60's tomorrow...upper 60's Monday through Wednesday. Just in time to clean the ashes out of the heater.
I still haven't figured out what happened to the original post that I made yesterday morning, half of the post got lined-out! Like I posted later, it must have been Russian hackers.
Please note to anyone who might be interested, the historic and famed
6666 Ranch here in Texas is now for sale. The main part of the ranch has only 142,000 acres, but it is tied to two other properties totaling 350,000 acres for an asking price of only $341 million. Scoop it up now! Main ranch property is 12 miles x 20 miles along US 82, and comes complete with it's own convenience store. The main house (among several) is 13,000 sq. ft. Cattle and quarter horses can be had in a separate deal. You could convert one of the workers houses or the bunkhouse to an excellent train room.
See
here for pictures and details.
Double helping of bacon and a pair of over easy eggs to start me up this morning Flo.
Thanks once again for the many comments and likes regarding the
other peoples layouts;
Justin, Patrick, Dave, Gary, Sherrel, Guy, Tom O, Chad, Luke, Karl, Garry, Phil, Ken, Rick, Tom, Hughie, James.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I put down some more ground cover and touched up the ballast in the corner. Installed the fence between the pizzeria's outdoor eating area and the railroad.
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Not much to that.
Worked on a small detail item for a bit to put over in the pizzeria scene. I somehow mis-measured the sidewalk out front and this is what I had to look at.
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What to do here? I decided to just add a planter here instead of filling in with another piece of sidewalk material. Out came a kit that I got last Christmas from one of my grandsons.
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In it are many different plants and shrubs etc. So I picked one out that would be appropriate, although I can't recall at this time what kind of plants they are. Things here are pretty tiny. I started with cutting three stems off the sprue and gluing them to the individual flowers while they were still on the sprue.
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Those flowers are about the size of a poppy seed.
Then I painted a piece of .080"x.080" styrene to resemble a planter filled with dirt and drilled some tiny holes in it. Then it was stick the plants in.
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After trimming the planter to size and painting the exposed end, it went into place. This was the easiest part.
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I am on hold for a bit while I construct some picnic tables for the plaza. There will also be a short wrought iron fence across the front, just need to measure and paint it.
Guy -
You are crazy!
Dave - A little late, but good luck with the crown. I know the feeling, I have nine of them.
Luke - I think that a moderator has to change your bio. Send a PM to
Sherrel or
Terry to fix it.
M
oermusic - Ooooh! The gravlax looks real good. Can I just call you
MO? Or do you have a real name?
Gary -
In case
Mo doesn't see your question, that orange stuff is gravlax, it's salmon cured with salt, sugar and dill and served on a cracker. I had a neighbor when I was a kid who always had it at Christmas time. She was from Sweden.
Garry - Happy Birthday to your daughter. It makes me feel young since my oldest is just 43!
Curt - I thought that I fixed that post around 10:00 CST.
Dave (PV) - While I have no regrets on my present layout, since I made all of my mistakes on several old ones; I do sometimes wish that I had made the train shed bigger. But then the realization that the reason I only made it 20' x 32' is because I realized what my maintenance capabilities might be as I got a little older. Of course I could always give up one of my other hobbies.
Luke - Sorry to read about your mishap. I could have been worse, thankfully it wasn't. Sorta reminds me of work. I worked in the window industry for many years. One of the hardest things to teach rookies is to not try to catch or stop falling glass, just get out of the way and let if go! Saw some serious mishaps in my career. Get mended soon.
Phil - I didn't forget Ugly Sweater Day, I chose to ignore it. Some days are just not relevant any more. Take today as an example. Today is National Hard Candy Day. OK if you haven't paid for replacement teeth like many of us, otherwise who cares?
James - Best wishes on your second recovery.
Everybody have a great day. Have an awesome weekend. Stay safe