Good Morning All. Clear and 41° here on the plains of North Central Texas. Weather geeks have moved their target for rain for the third time in two days to noonish today, but just a 30% chance. It all depends on how much moisture
Patrick can squeeze out of the system while it's in his neighborhood. Cooler today and tomorrow before hitting the upper 50's again on Friday. So goes the fall weather around here.
Today has been designated Christmas decorating day in the SFW household. A few days earlier than traditionally happening, but my wife is feeling differently now that she has two good knees and can stand for more than a few minutes at a time. About five years ago, we switched to an artificial tree instead of one that I cut down in the woods, so I am not concerned with it drying out. No lights outside though.
Ham, grits and eggs over easy for me this morning Francine. So Flo is running late this morning; must have had a date last night.
Thanks to everyone who liked or commented on the pictures yesterday;
Guy, Troy, James, Dave, Chad, Phil, Karl, Patrick, Garry, Curt, Tom, Joe, Ken.
Yes, I made it out to the train shed yesterday. Did some minor ground cover here and there, and then rebuilt an Athearn covered hopper kit that I originally built in 1988 or so. I had originally weighted it down with modeling clay, which eventually leached some type of oil out. I had also glued it together, so I had to carefully do some surgery to dismantle it. Removed the clay and cleaned it up before gluing pennies inside to bring the weight up to NMRA recommendations. Somewhere along the way I had already installed KD #5's (during initial assembly) and installed metal wheels sometime after 2005. As usual with these cars, I had to remove spider carcasses and webs from the inside. It's an ACF hopper with those big holes in each end. Glue should be dry by today and I can reassemble it and return it to the pike.
And now for a couple more mini-scenes from around the layout. A couple of days ago, I posted the Stone Bakery, here are a couple more shots of the happenings behind the store.
Mrs, Stone making sure that the trash men don't dent her trash cans.
Here's a few maintenance men puzzled over the A/C unit on top of the beverage distributor.
Troy -
The big question is whether the wedding cake survives after the purse dogs start chasing each other and throw the photographer off balance...
That's going to be a hard scenario to tie together!
Jerry - I have never built an Ulrich kit so I am watching your progress. They all predate my era by quite a few years.
Chad - Good luck with the new assignment.
Bob - Someone obviously changed the wrong CV's yesterday morning. Glad that it's finally fixed.
Greg - I hope that you aren't planning to use 26.400v on your layout!
Dave (truckdad) - I like the paint job on Middlesex Manufacturing.
Love reading and seeing all of the snow pictures and stories. Keep it for yourselves, thank you.
It's a bummer reading of all of the tales of USPS woes. I am so thankful that I have a LHS that I can depend on. I rarely shop online for anything anyway.
Everybody have a wonderful day and keep safe. This China virus ain't going away any time soon.