Good Morning Everyone. Clear and 36° in this part of Texas. Busy here in the Coffee Shop this morning, and I haven't even seen
Troy or
Karl yet! We're looking at another fine day here today. High about 60° with a southerly breeze. Good day for yard work where there is no residual mud
Mostly successful grocery outing yesterday. Wife went along and kept wandering off to get stuff here and there which distracted my normal route through the store; and kept dropping stuff in the cart that I didn't take off my list. As a result, we both missed the pie crusts which means making one from scratch. More than normal stock outs on some brands that we normally purchase but there was plenty of paper towels and TP. Of course we need neither, my last trip to Target about two months ago set me up until March at least, and I only purchased one large package of each. No hoarding here, just my usual purchase.
Scrambled eggs and a handful of bacon this morning Flo. Nothing fancy today.
A big thanks to everyone who liked the layout tour photos yesterday;
Luke, Karl, Dave, Tom O, Rick, Chad, Guy, Sherrel, Phil, Joe, PV Dave, Curt, Tom, Hughie, Garry, James, Justin, Gary, Jerry, Patrick.
I got some more ballasting and ground cover done yesterday in train shed. Not enough to take any pictures yet. Did some workbench modeling on a detail item for the Pizzeria that I did take pictures of, but I left the camera outside and I'm not ready to change clothes yet.
I'll post a few more pictures of
that layout tour from a few years ago. This is a different modeler and layout.
That's all from that day. I'll get busy in the train shed this afternoon.
Dave - I have to absolutely agree that that workbench would drive me crazy. While mine is cluttered, that one is a work of art.
Karl -
Willie, your workbench looks like mine right now!
That's not mine, just a picture that I took while on a layout tour.
Tom O - I cannot take credit for the White Castle model, it was on a layout that I went to see on a layout tour. Neat story about your grandmother.
Guy - Evergreen Styrene makes sheets of metal siding material that can be used for scratchbuilding. Easier though, is to purchase some type of
PikeStuff kit and start with it. You get blank walls and put doors and windows wherever you want.
That grocery store looks like it will be fun to build.
Luke - OK, how old are you really? Your bio says 30 and you posted 15! Nothing wrong with either, you just confused me!
We need more younger members here to keep us old fogies in line.
Mikey - How's your brother doing?
Garry - The stockyard and other photos are not from my layout. I wish that the scene along the street was though. He did a nice job on that.
Curt - You are certainly making rapid progress. Looking good.
James - Good luck with today's procedure.
Kleiner - Welcome to the Coffee Shop.
So glad that all of the snow pictures and reports are elsewhere and not here. I am a true warm weather person. We're not immune to snow here, but it's usually gone in a day or two. Although one winter we had 4-12" events over two months. That was the year that our local county EMS service got a judge to issue an injunction requiring the county road maintenance departments to send graders out to clear the roads so emergency vehicles could get through.
Everyone have a great day. Looks like
Karl showed up while I was composing.
