Good Friday the 13th Morning Everyone. 68° and clear right now. Expecting 92° for the high for a couple more days, then a major norther coming through after daybreak Sunday. Thanks
Chet! It's good to be home after the trip; my bed, my bathroom, my PC instead of the wife's laptop, my kitchen and most importantly, the train shed. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy the adventure. Recapping, we headed to Gulf Shores AL for a four day stay on the Gulf Coast and we were met with a pseudo-hurricane when we arrived Saturday. They basically shut the town down for what amounted to 1.5" of rain and 40 mph winds; known as a minor thunderstorm back home on the plains of North Texas. There was a storm surge coupled with an almost full moon high tide that partially flooded some of the low lying areas of the island around the bayou. Fortunately nothing serious. Some minor power outages 60 miles away in Mobile AL and casino flooding in Biloxi MS. You know that if you build a casino within 100' of the coastline at 1.5' above sea level, flooding will occur! No Einstein needed here. Sadly upon our return home, I discovered that the neighbor's teenage daughter never fed our resident cats at all like she said she would, and 5/6 disappeared. Haven't had a chance to speak with her yet, but I do imagine that they all went to her house since that's where the parent cats all live anyway.
Looking forward to getting back into modeling action later today, but will probably run a few trains first while I piece together the thought process.
Going back a couple of days to comment on some posts that I missed commenting on while I was out of town.
Curt - I think that you did an excellent job on the workbench and other castings. I like doing details a whole lot, even when no one but me knows that they are there.
Louis - I liked that picture of the baseball diamond. I guess that "anybody" could own one!
Eric - Thought about you and your home in Acworth. By Texas standards you would have been "close by" and I might have been able to convince the wife that we needed to stop by. By the way, have you heard from
John (Beady)? He went AWOL about the time that we had the red page issue and hasn't been back. I do hope that all is OK; I liked him and his sense of humor. Is your Dad trying to get rid of you? lol
Ken (D&J) - I too continue to pray for your granddaughter and the whole family. Unfortunately I suspect that there is more to this situation than any of us will know.
Johnny - I had forgotten that you had posted last year about your wood shop. I hope that your latest works of art will be satisfying both to you and your eventual customers. Be Safe in the shop.
Sherrel - Read the manual for the phone to find out how to resize pictures. Or just do as I do, I download everything from three different cameras, two tablets and my wife's cell phone into folders that I set up in the computer. I then use editing software, in my case "Microsoft Picture Manager", not "Photo Viewer", to edit any way that I want. I do a "Save As" so I do not lose the original which eventually makes it to an external hard drive for back-up.
Justin - Your storefront row is coming along nicely. Don't worry about DPM kits being easy. Their detail really stands out if you put some time into painting them. Just don't rush it; there's no race to win here.
All right now, some pictures from the vacation. These are all from the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola FL at NAS Pensacola. I wrote down what type of plane that all of these are, but I think the list is in a dumpster back in Gulf Shores because I cannot find it.
Regarding downloading pictures. It appears that the limit on this forum is less than 2MB. The first one here is 1.93MB and it is also 3648 x 2736 pixels. The others I had to reduce because they were over 2MB. Now to see if they all show up on the forum when I hit reply.
Later all. Everybody have a great day.
Willie