Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 35° to start our day. Should be another nice day once the clouds blow away in another hour or so.
Great day yesterday to be outdoors. I spent the morning cutting and stacking wood. I'm hitting that every other day for now. Afterwards, I finally removed the window A/C from the NW bedroom window. It's the only one that I take out for the winter. Later after lunch, I took out my drone and practiced with it. I sent it further than I had before, about 1.25 miles down the road to the mailboxes and back successfully. It's supposed to have a six-mile range, but I never expect to test that. Ironically, even though it has a six-mile range, the onboard battery cannot power it for the 12 mile round trip, only about 7.5 or 8. You could send it to a remote person who could put a new battery in.
Today will start with minimal mowing, a few hundred sq. ft. that I removed branches from in the last two weeks or so. Then it's food prep again. My wife misses preparing her own Thanksgiving dinner for just us and the two daughter's families, so we're doing that tonight at daughter #1's home. We're making most of it either here before we go there, and some being made there. Except, my wife is not doing the turkey. My daughter is going to do her first turkey ever! Something to look forward to. She will have my wife there for the last hour or so, just in case.
I did get out to the train shed yesterday, and did some maintenance on a structure that I had on my project list. It's a City Classics gas station kit. It took a few direct hits from the rainwater after the recent tornado. The station itself was not damaged, but the cardstock interior suffered.
View attachment 205719View attachment 205720View attachment 205721Let's try something simple with the floor before I remove all of the details and make a new one. I misted the floor and put it under weights overnight. On the walls, I just glued pieces of cardstock to the backs of the warped paper walls, and weighted that down as well.
While making a new floor is easy, it would be time consuming. As part of the process, I would either have to find new flooring on the Internet, or design my own in the computer. Floor is a bit critical here, due to the large front corner windows.
By the way, all of the tools in the second picture as well as the lift visible in the first picture, are white-metal castings or pieces of wood, from the now shuttered American Model Builders. I don't know whether their new owner, Berkshire Valley Models, has plans to continue the castings.
John - You're not alone with unfinished projects. I have numerous patches of bare plywood in between some fully scenicked and detailed areas.
I've certainly heard of Cold Duck, but I don't actually recall consuming any. Of course that may be the very reason that I don't remember.
Tom O - Good luck with your life changes coming up. I guess that I never realized the extent of Terry's tobacco issue.
Louis - They quit making Ripple wine in 1984 or so. Another one that I never knowingly drank. My "go-to" cheap wine was Boone's Farm.
Mike - Oh my! That was probably one expensive plumbing call!
Today is Small Business Saturday. Your LHS is probably among them. Try to support them all, all of the time instead of just today. Some birthday's today include musician Billy Idol, athlete Bo Jackson, producer/actor Woody Allen, and historical figures Mark Twain and Winston Churchill.
Everyone have a super Saturday.