Good Morning All. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers out there. 52° with scattered clouds, at least no threat of rain. .6" in the gauge from yesterday which brings our monthly total to 6.1" so far. I'll take Eggs Benedict and a mimosa this morning Flo, to honor mothers. Yesterday we had a lengthy visit from our oldest daughter, her husband and our four year old granddaughter. Granddaughter brought her rain boots with her so she could visit the train shed. We spent almost an hour looking at the various new projects and a lot of the upper deck that she hasn't seen before. She was excited about being allowed to climb on the step-stool that enabled her to see stuff up there (overprotective mom wasn't with us). Ran a few trains for her and she asked that I stop and pick up some cars at a grain elevator; "
Grandpa, can't you make it go faster?" She also commented that she couldn't wait to be seven and then she could run a train.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday;
Phil, Dave, Sherrel, Chet, Tom. Somewhere along the way, I received my 1000th "Like". Thanks to all for that recognition.
Chet should reach that milestone today as well. While that's not the reason that I post, it's nice that the forum has that feature.
Here's a few random businesses located around the layout. First up is Snells Automotive on the left and an appliance store on the right. Door in the center leads to a dance studio upstairs. This is a very old Walther's structure called "The Gemini Building" which traces it's heritage to an older Magnuson model of the same name. It is one of the very first structures that I built over 28 years ago. The appliances and the Coke machine are small blocks of wood that were painted and detailed with a pencil.
Here's "Home State Bank". This is a downloaded cardstock structure from the Illinois Historical Association that I printed on 65# paper and assembled.
No home yet, but it is residing in an undeveloped area with about twenty other structures.
Another structure in that area is Walt's Cafe. It's a City Classics kit that's sold as "
Main Street Cafe".
Here's a shot of the roof showing my scratchbuilt TV antenna.
While I did get to spend some time in the train shed yesterday, I only got a little accomplished. Added more ground cover and added details to the warehouse, which will be a paint distributor as soon as I locate suitable signage, not a real problem, just time-consuming. I have some more details to add and then it gets "planted" and I can re-size the two spurs. I did have to re-stage some trains after the earlier visit with granddaughter.
Garry - Good to read that you are enjoying the trip.
Sherrel - You're not the only one frustrated by the weather, I've had just too much rain as I have been posting lately.
Once again, everybody have a Happy Mother's Day.