Good evening Shop Dwellers!
Thanks everybody for the positive responses to my Sunday post! I'm pretty much recovered from the malady I was dealing with last night. Today was just another work-from-home day so all I had time to do was snap some quick-pics of the stuff I did on Sunday afternoon, those will appear further down in the post.
Sherrell - I'm glad to hear your son is at least conscious and breathing [mostly?] on his his own...that indicates there's a pretty good chance he'll eventually walk out of the hospital instead of being
carried out! I second what
Tom-O suggested, that you toss away your [justifiable] resentment and just be glad he's on the mend. I think he's already suffered enough by having to spend Christmas in the hospital, no sense adding to it unnecessarily.
. . . I was wrapping the wife's gifts and she came in the bedroom after I unlocked the door and asked what I was doing. It was obvious but I said I'm wrapping your gifts, she says good, don't touch any other gifts-You s**k at wrapping presents.
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Curt - I had to laugh when I read about your wife not approving of your wrapping skills! Along a similar vein, my wife learned certain techniques for house painting from a friend who was into property restorations. One weekend she decided the master bathroom should be repainted, and set everything out for the project. I picked up a paintbrush to help but she said, "No, just let me do it - I'm afraid that you might mess it up and then I'll get ticked-off at you." Hmmm, can't argue with
that! So to avoid distracting her, I quickly withdrew to the trainroom...
Troy - thanks for posting that video about the PEX piping, that might be something even
I can work with! Our house had all copper piping in it when we first moved in 20 years ago, and over the years we've had ~90% of it replaced with PVC. I've never tried to find PEX in any of our regional hardware stores (HD, Lowes, Ace) but if they carry it, I might get some next spring and replace the copper pipes leading to our outdoor spigots (which we
never seem to remember to close off in time before winter).
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Here are the photos of the business signs I added to a few of my lineside industries, so my guest operators will no longer have to merely
hope they're spotting cars at the right locations. I didn't have time to shrink & crop them, so they're "as-is" directly from my cellphone, warts and all. For a few of them you'll need to click and zoom-in to see the wording on the signs.
First, the pipe & duct supplier:
Next, the cement distribution facility:
(The decal may
appear crooked because of lens distortion, but it looks fine when viewed in-person with your own eyes)
The 84 Lumber warehouse:
(This decal gave me fits as I tried to "snuggle" it down into the grooves of the corrugated siding, but maybe the worn-out-faded look isn't so bad after all?)
The food wholesaler warehouse:
The propane distributor - I haven't yet made the support frame for the rooftop sign, but it will be a larger version of what you see on the sides of the trucks:
Good Night - and have a Pleasant Tomorrow!
