Good Morning All. Cloudy and 50°, only going up to 71° today, back into the mid-80's tomorrow. Weather geeks have finally added rain to the forecast for Friday, and Monday next week, but only a 40% chance of light morning showers. So it's either not likely or we'll get a deluge. That's how it works here in North Central Texas.
Finally plugged in the new HP computer yesterday. I'm not liking this Win10 right now, but I think that I'll get used to it. Too much razzle-dazzle for me. I am just too used to Win7 after using it for nine years. I did download that Classic Windows program that
Terry recommended last week, it sure helps. That was second after loading Firefox. Now if I could just figure out how to change primary users? Since my wife already had a Microsoft account, the computer defaulted to her name! Haven't been able to fix that yet. Took about an hour to reload all of my files and stuff from the old computer (260Gb) that had taken almost eight hours to extract Saturday. It was more than I had expected. Still have a few stray files to retrieve. Fortunate that the old computer hadn't really stopped working completely because some of the previous file backups were quite outdated. OK, next issue. I had been using Office 2003 on the old machine, but I cannot yet access those files on the new one. I used installation discs from work years ago, but I returned them at the time. I mainly use Excel, Word and Access, although I most likely won't really have a need for Access any more, I am less adventurous! Any recommendations from fellow users regarding some freeware out there? Not really looking for a cloud service, but maybe.
Headed out this morning for the pharmacy and getting my ears lowered, all in preparation for the vacation later this week. Wife wants to visit the dreaded Walmart. I'll use her handicap placard and stay in the car near the entrance and watch the people. She by the way, removed the toilet seat booster yesterday, which is an excellent indicator of her knee replacement surgery recovery. While it went back on for the overnight visits, we don't plan on taking it with us!
Afterwards, we will make the second attempt at absentee voting.
Speaking of our vacation, we're making a two day run to get to Gulf Shores AL, partly because my wife isn't supposed to be too inactive with the leg. We'll be overnighting in Gulfport MS, on the Gulf Coast Saturday. Sunday before departing for Gulf Shores, we'll be revisiting the
Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum again. They were expanding last fall when we visited, and according to their website, they're opening an additional building across the road. I spoke with them last week to be sure that they were open, but the gentleman wasn't sure about the new place; although they were having an open house there this past Saturday. Haven't determined the return itinerary yet, but we're tentatively planning only one day. The shortest route is 700 miles, but threads through parts of Mobile and is two lane (1 in each direction) until the Mississippi border. But it eventually passes T-Rays BBQ in Richland MS (a bit south of Jackson), that we like to stop at for lunch. That route also passes through Jackson and Vicksburg MS, both of which have museums with model railroads that I have featured here before.
Enough rambling for now, two eggs over easy and a handful of bacon this morning Flo. Hold the toast but bring me a large OJ to wash it down with.
Thanks a lot for all of the likes and comments yesterday;
Karl, Guy, Tom O, Garry, Jerome, Chet, Sherrel, Curt, Greg, Rick, Phil, Tom, Patrick.
Actually got in a little train shed time yesterday, I don't usually get much done on Sundays. Here is the interior window treatment sheet for the Village Pizza kit.
Since I am re-purposing it to a pub, I did some selective trimming on the storefront.
Here is a variety of optional signs that can be used.
I selected Derry's Pub. Many of the others will be used on other existing structures on the layout.
Completed view.
From the front.
True to form, there is a major faux-pas for Walther's here. Note on the top picture, there are 10 individual window treatments on the sheet. But wait! There are 13 windows to decorate! Black construction paper was used for the remaining three here.
Guy - I like the progress that you're making on the store. That interior could pass for a lot of different things. Early in my hobby life, I just assembled kits and made them look exactly like the box cover, thus duplicating what many others did. While I still do to some extent, many times I re-purpose structures for something more fitting for my layout situation.
Garry - Let me join the others in complementing the great picture yesterday.
Chet - For my store interiors, I use Google to find appropriate looking pictures, and then I copy and paste them usually into Word where I resize and crop them before printing them on 65# paper stock. Then it's a matter of trimming and attaching them to the structures.
Some more great pictures yesterday, some structures that I don't recall seeing before and some new angles on others. I am always amazed at how many vehicles are in your scenes. I don't have nearly enough in some of mine yet.
Dave - For the Middlesex building, the windows are really too small to bother adding details behind them, at last for my location on the layout. If you're planning interior lighting, some irregular cut pieces of black construction paper taped on the walls should suffice.
Everybody have a great day today.