What no bacon for the dog!Tom- Is it an expansion issue.
Good morning.....Up early, dog needed to go out so now I'm up. Coffee Flo, mine as well get the day started.
No kidding!I hate punctuation
Glad to hear the wife is improving, I am frustrated on how mine goes ok a couple of days then do nothing wrong and the knees griefs me,but in general pain has dropped off enormously and I had a laugh with the physio saying if I did not do the exercises enough I would tattoo a chicken on my arm, she had all my sympathy,as do you as I know my other half has gotten stuck with a load that I usually do.Good Morning All. Cloudy and 45°, going up to maybe 60° later today. That will be nice. Another cold front tomorrow and then back into the upper 50's - low 60's for another week. Rain in the forecast for this morning, but right now it is really widely scattered and very light. It just might not make it any further north than Dallas/Ft Worth. Man! You guys who live in those sub-zero locations have to be crazy. I will be in shorts and tee shirts for most of the next week, I hate bundling up! Takes too long and then I can't move.
Update on my wife's recent knee surgery; It's been five weeks and she is doing some unaided walking around the house without the cane. Two weeks ago, I put the walker back into storage as well as the handicap shower chair. The toilet seat riser is still there, so I am still having to use the other bathroom when it's too cold to pee in the yard. Country living that saves on septic tank usage!
Scrambled eggs and bacon with another slab of dragon meat today Flo. A tall OJ to wash it down with.
Thanks to all for the many likes on yesterday's posts. Too numerous to mention, but you all know who you are.
Out in the train shed yesterday, it was warmer and I was able to do some modeling. I touched up the paint on a few more of the Chinese figures and changed the ethnicity of a couple. View attachment 138398
That's glare on the pants of the second figure from the left.
I also changed the hair color on a few. They all come with black hair to begin with.
Also because I couldn't resist, I started one of the kits that I received for Christmas, a Walther's campground kit.
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This looks vaguely familiar. Don't I have the exact same kit under the Busch name?
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The answer is yes! It is exactly the same kit, just in a Walther's box. Not a problem as it will look better with four trailers plus a few more that I already have. On the plus side, the Walther's instructions are in English instead of German!
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However the German instructions have much clearer pictures and diagrams.
Somewhat simple kit.
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First trailer ready for weathering.
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It also comes with a lot of campsite accessories like tables, chairs, campfire, office etc.
Tom H - Following up on your question regarding painting figures. The two main brushes that I use are a Meedon 4/0 and an eBoot 5/0.
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I like the eBoot better, my wife bought those for me from Amazon. The Meeden also came from Amazon but they aren't as fine a quality, but someone gave them to me and I use them.
The craft paints that I use are primarily Deco Art and Apple Barrel as that's what's available at both Hobby Lobby and Michael's near me.
Other modelers paints that I use are Tru Color and Badger, but both of them generally require two coats as they are too thin for brush painting.
Smudge - I have never gotten any "spam" E-Mails that I could track back to this site.
I would have to ask my brother where in the Emerald Isles my family actually came from. Three of my four grandparents were born there and all came over as young children around 1905-1910.
Patrick -
Probably not a bad idea at any age. Start with anything manufactured like boxed mac & cheese, most bagged chips or pre-prepared dinners. Then reduce high carb stuff like potatoes, bread, rice and pasta. Moderation is the key with most things. One example is that I substitute mashed cauliflower for mashed potatoes, although the gravy could nullify that. I use almond flour in gravy with some success.
James - I have no experience with Polymeric sand, but it looks interesting. Too late for me to try it as I have enough ballast to complete all of my trackage already.
Greg -
That was pretty much a rite of passage back in the day.
Tom O - An Irish wake is one way to get over the discomfort of a root canal.
Today is Elvis Presley's birthday. He would have been 87 if he hadn't self-destructed.
Looks like I was wrong about the rain, as I now see drops dripping off the roof, it has also turned very foggy which may be the cause of the drops.
Everybody have a great day and stay safe.
She got her peanut butter biscuit. That's her favorite over anything.What no bacon for the dog!
I believe it was Groucho Marx, "I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know"I hate punctuation
I hate punctuation : I am appallingly lazy;I hate going back and correcting my English;I hate word checker; "I did consider going for an even longer sentence; grammatical errors don’t bug the hell out of me. In real life I can talk for some time without taking a breath, count your mercies lol.
Jaz- A lot of women I know have that verbal skill!I hate punctuation : I am appallingly lazy;I hate going back and correcting my English;I hate word checker; "I did consider going for an even longer sentence; grammatical errors don’t bug the hell out of me. In real life I can talk for some time without taking a breath, count your mercies lol.
Spent some of the afternoon and evening removing ballast then decided to rip up 8’ of the curve. Tomorrow this section will be ME flex track. That was decided after the track switch spring on the ME turnout came apart. All I wanted this weekend was to run trainsThat's from running all those loaded cars. Call in the track crew to R and R that section.
Good morning from Nova Scotia!
I am just enjoying my coffee while catching up on the news and the forum, busy past work week. Lots of snow to clear again today and just getting the fire started and waiting for daybreak before heading outside.
Looking forward to getting some more foam down today.
Hope you all have a great day !
Ouch I think that was a choice thing,you need a plug that takes a usb cable,be aware we bought two of these plugs which it turned out do not automatically turn back on after a power outage and need you to remember to go manual turn them back on, so much for modern technology lolFiggered out how to get most of my apps and photos over to the new phone, but I've been chugging twisted tea si I better quit while I'm ahead.
Mebbe tamara I will try to take some pitchers.
Maybe not, cuz the damn thinh came with a micro usb cabble, but no charger. Hows one supposed to charge it up??
That is awesome! My boys go up St F X every now and then as they have friends up their as well, it’s a beautiful small town to visit. Both of my boys have gone to Dalhousie, my youngest is on his last semester now with his Chemical Engineering degree.Gary....I didn't realize you lived in Nova Scotia! I
Bugger that, borrow one of your neighbours animals that could do with some treatment, vaccine shots, anything.If anybody's interested, the pet hospital is named Banfield. We have been customers since 1999, and have paid $35 a month for their wellness plan since that time. We went with them not because we felt they were the best, but because they had locations nationwide, and we needed that because we traveled a lot. I'm sure everybody here can mulitply 35 times 23 years, and figure out how much money we've given them. But they want ALL the money. Especially the last two months' payments for the current contract. Obviously it will be pure profit for them, because we have absolutely no way to incur any further care.
I think the idea is to appeal to a "wider audience" and get away from stereotypical roles (yes, I used spellchecker), But I agree with you, people forget that humour, especially, is subjective to the context of the time it was performed, Jim Davidson (google it people) and his character "Chalky" and Alf Garnett (I forget the name of the sitcom) spring to mind, very un-pc by todays standards, but at the time...........I like 2 and a half men Charlie sheen was much better,and when the replacement and some of the pc correct kit hit in I watched it a lot less as some episodes made me wince, humour in programmes nowadays can make me wince.
Did anyone like ghostbusters 2, I saw five minutes turned it off,and how Thor could play the part I have no idea I felt so sorry for his character, still I am sure he pocketed a big fat pay check.
As a woman I am sick of seeing films originally played successfully by male parts, redone for women with appalling acting and cringy updates, pc correctness has ruined a lot of films,humour is humour and unless directed as a specific person, then who cares about race,colour sex, blah blah blah it just annoys me,no wonder so many films bomb nowadays.