santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Sunday Morning Everyone. Around here it's clear and 44° headed up to 70° later today.
Average day yesterday for me. After spending the morning on the normal household activities, I mowed some more of the yard. Sadly, the parts that I mowed Tuesday have sprouted a new crop of dandelions and catnip. Then it was weed removal and planting bed preparation time in the garden in advance of planting the first 24 tomato plants and 6 bell pepper plants today, prior to the predicted rain tomorrow. I'll also be planting some spinach and squash plants that I started from seeds in small pots about a month ago. After that, the plan includes installing the new front brakes on the car. Normally that should take me about 45 minutes total time, especially if Murphy extends his visit to Justin and Ken and doesn't return here.
Hey there Flo. How about just a toasted English Muffin and a plateful of bacon today. No eggs this morning, I made a batch of egg salad yesterday for lunch later today.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday regarding the tree house progress; Karl, Sherrel, Justin, Gary, Phil, Tom, Hughie, Tom O, Joe, Garry.
Very little time left in the day for a visit to the train shed yesterday, but I did get out there. I only did some minor work on the tree house, but I did do some painting on some figures that I am going to use in that scene as well as a few others. While waiting for paint to dry, I exchanged the Kadee #148 couplers in the front of a pair of ScaleTrains SD40-2's, for some Kadee #146 long shank ones. The #148's that I originally installed worked, but did cause derailment of the trailing car occasionally on some places on the layout. The problem was the trip pins on the trailing cars would get wedged against the plow on the engines because of the ultra close coupling, and that in turn caused the wheels to lift off the track and derail. It took me over a year to figure this one out as it was only happening when the train was exiting a 32" curve to straight track.
Here's some of the booty collected from the LHS upon my visit Friday.
Some Oxford vehicles.
I know that some are duplicates of some that are already on the layout, but when I place them on different levels on different aisles, no one but me will notice.
Here is an additional vehicle from Woodland Scenics that has already found a home on the layout.
The Kadee couplers.
Some pre-made trees for fence rows and along the ROW of the RR.
Lots of young ladies from Prieser for Sherrel to ogle.
Karl - Glad to read that your son is doing better. We lost a 48 year old niece to Covid back in December.
Jaz - Your village scene yesterday looked really nice. Your eye for detail is very good. It is also great to see what British modelers are up to and to see the stuff that you model.
Garry - I know that I am seeing great visions of additional details that I can add to the eventual tree house scene, although some I cannot execute until after it's planted in place.
Sure is a busy terminal picture. Lots of motive power.
Today is count-down day, 3-2-1!
Everybody have a great day. May you be safe and negative.
Average day yesterday for me. After spending the morning on the normal household activities, I mowed some more of the yard. Sadly, the parts that I mowed Tuesday have sprouted a new crop of dandelions and catnip. Then it was weed removal and planting bed preparation time in the garden in advance of planting the first 24 tomato plants and 6 bell pepper plants today, prior to the predicted rain tomorrow. I'll also be planting some spinach and squash plants that I started from seeds in small pots about a month ago. After that, the plan includes installing the new front brakes on the car. Normally that should take me about 45 minutes total time, especially if Murphy extends his visit to Justin and Ken and doesn't return here.
Hey there Flo. How about just a toasted English Muffin and a plateful of bacon today. No eggs this morning, I made a batch of egg salad yesterday for lunch later today.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday regarding the tree house progress; Karl, Sherrel, Justin, Gary, Phil, Tom, Hughie, Tom O, Joe, Garry.
Very little time left in the day for a visit to the train shed yesterday, but I did get out there. I only did some minor work on the tree house, but I did do some painting on some figures that I am going to use in that scene as well as a few others. While waiting for paint to dry, I exchanged the Kadee #148 couplers in the front of a pair of ScaleTrains SD40-2's, for some Kadee #146 long shank ones. The #148's that I originally installed worked, but did cause derailment of the trailing car occasionally on some places on the layout. The problem was the trip pins on the trailing cars would get wedged against the plow on the engines because of the ultra close coupling, and that in turn caused the wheels to lift off the track and derail. It took me over a year to figure this one out as it was only happening when the train was exiting a 32" curve to straight track.
Here's some of the booty collected from the LHS upon my visit Friday.
Some Oxford vehicles.
I know that some are duplicates of some that are already on the layout, but when I place them on different levels on different aisles, no one but me will notice.
Here is an additional vehicle from Woodland Scenics that has already found a home on the layout.
The Kadee couplers.
Some pre-made trees for fence rows and along the ROW of the RR.
Lots of young ladies from Prieser for Sherrel to ogle.
Karl - Glad to read that your son is doing better. We lost a 48 year old niece to Covid back in December.
Jaz - Your village scene yesterday looked really nice. Your eye for detail is very good. It is also great to see what British modelers are up to and to see the stuff that you model.
Garry - I know that I am seeing great visions of additional details that I can add to the eventual tree house scene, although some I cannot execute until after it's planted in place.
Sure is a busy terminal picture. Lots of motive power.
Today is count-down day, 3-2-1!
Everybody have a great day. May you be safe and negative.