Good Morning All. Clear, hazy and 49° to start November. High today is supposed to be 76°, rain tomorrow and a high of only 58°. Won't get back into the 70's until next Monday, still predicting close to freezing Thursday night.
As usual, no trick or treaters again last night. I am reminded of my younger days when I held a Halloween party and always had a contest for the smallest costume. Only females could enter. Prize was usually a bottle of wine. Wish that there were digital cameras back then!
Nothing new on my wife's condition. Still looking forward to the 12-3 date for the new replacement knee to be installed. Today being Monday, we look for Staci to show up and draw blood.
I put in a full day of outdoor tasks yesterday, as I assisted and directed my contractor buddy with all of the roof and ladder jobs. I drug away all of the oak tree branches as he climbed the ladder and into the tree, and cut them down. It looks like I'll get two weeks or more of firewood from them to use about a year from now. I'll be cutting some of them up later today, and resume later in the week depending on the rain. We got them all down without crashing any into the house. He also installed the new chimney cap and together we cleaned the chimney of all the built-up creosote from last winter.
He also fixed some loose trim that required using the ladder as well, something that I could have done but since he was here, what the heck.
Thanks to all who commented on or liked the bookstore photos yesterday;
Christian, Rick, Jerry, Lee, Sherrel, Ob Ken, IB Ken, Troy, Hughie, Guy, Joe, Curt, Justin, Karl, Chad, Jaz, Patrick. Making those books was an interesting project, slicing up and painting bits and pieces of scrap styrene. Table was also made from scratch.
Since biscuits and gravy seem to be all the rage this morning, put me down for some with a tall stack of sausage patties. I see that
Karl has already spilled gravy on the new Thanksgiving tablecloths!
I did spend some time in the train shed yesterday. Some more odds and ends were done on Ramone's. Added vehicles including one with a jeep with a Union 76 ball inspired by
Jerry.
The antenna is a bit oversized, but that is the thinnest wire that I have.
I installed that fence that you can see part of in the last picture.
I still need too go back and tamp it down a bit today after the glue has had time to dry.
Then I explored the figure box for somebody to populate the area.
These are some of the various figures that I have painted. I found some for this scene, not enough, but I forgot to snap a picture yesterday.
Tom O - Enjoy your stay in the Pacific. Hope that you get over the jet lag soon, as you're missing out on a good portion of the day.
Christian -
Willie - Many moons ago you posted a few overview of your big layout. I downloaded them but unfortunately I lost all the photos. Could you post these photos again ? Thanks.
I'll have to locate them. I found them in the June Coffee Shop, here are the two pages.
Post #369
Post #384
Links go to the pages. Scroll to the posts.
All Saint's Day today for those of us who are Catholics and many other Christian religions. On the secular side of things, today is also National Calzone Day. I'll have to get one to go this evening from my favorite Italian place. I usually get the "Meat-Lovers" variety with sausage, hamburger, pepperoni and Canadian Bacon.
Everybody have a great day. Stay safe.