santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 63° in this neighborhood. Looking at the extended forecast, mild days with temperatures between 65° in the morning to 85° in the afternoon. However it's supposed to be cloudy most days, so I took the opportunity yesterday with no wind to put the winter cover on our above ground pool. Water temperature had dropped to 72° and with no real chance of warming up, we're done for the year. Hated to do it as we really enjoy our pool. While we can sometimes make it until the end of the month, it ain't happening this year. We did get to use it for 16 weeks this summer, so that isn't too bad. I am not going to pay for heating that much water! I'd rather spend my money on model trains and beer.
How about something a little different today Flo, I'll take a couple of sausage, egg and cheese biscuits this morning. Save the coffee for these other guys, I'll take my usual OJ on the rocks.
Thanks to all who liked and commented on yesterday's new assembly post; Patrick, GT, Joe, Sherrel, Karl, Guy, Justin, Chad, Garry, Jerome, Rick, Tom O, Ken, Curt, Phil, Tom, Lee, Louis, James.
Since I spent all morning on household chores and convalescent care, and most of the afternoon winterizing and covering up the pool, I ended up with very little time in the train shed. I couldn't really get too deeply into anything because of the limited time. I did fix the over-painted yellow spots on both signs and applied the appropriate dry transfer decals.
Here's a preliminary view inside the Diner. That's Mel in the kitchen.
Through the window.
Next step on the interior is to add the counter stools, paint should be dry today and I found and exposed the mounting holes hidden under the floor decal yesterday. Haven't started on the pie cases yet. They go into those slots on each side of the counter.
I placed a lot of it together so you could get an idea of what it may look like later.
And the canopy out front.
I am having trouble painting the canopy supports however. I actually started on them a few weeks back and worked off and on on them. They will take some more time and a lot of patience.
I switched to a new finer paintbrush yesterday to try. I think that it may be a partial answer to my issue.
Troy - Good luck with the plumbing work. I generally find plumbing to be relatively simple, but it is always in hard to get to places.
Tom - Yep! you posted last evening about the same time I usually go to bed.
Lee - Congratulations on your milestone. Picture #6 in your post this morning looks like it is in a cave! Is that some secret underground government lab?
Lots of memories regarding 9/11 yesterday. We each took it in our own way.
Everybody have a great Saturday and don't go near Karl's or he'll lasso you into assisting with yard or auto work! And don't go to Sherrel's for breakfast this morning.
How about something a little different today Flo, I'll take a couple of sausage, egg and cheese biscuits this morning. Save the coffee for these other guys, I'll take my usual OJ on the rocks.
Thanks to all who liked and commented on yesterday's new assembly post; Patrick, GT, Joe, Sherrel, Karl, Guy, Justin, Chad, Garry, Jerome, Rick, Tom O, Ken, Curt, Phil, Tom, Lee, Louis, James.
Since I spent all morning on household chores and convalescent care, and most of the afternoon winterizing and covering up the pool, I ended up with very little time in the train shed. I couldn't really get too deeply into anything because of the limited time. I did fix the over-painted yellow spots on both signs and applied the appropriate dry transfer decals.
Here's a preliminary view inside the Diner. That's Mel in the kitchen.
Through the window.
Next step on the interior is to add the counter stools, paint should be dry today and I found and exposed the mounting holes hidden under the floor decal yesterday. Haven't started on the pie cases yet. They go into those slots on each side of the counter.
I placed a lot of it together so you could get an idea of what it may look like later.
And the canopy out front.
I am having trouble painting the canopy supports however. I actually started on them a few weeks back and worked off and on on them. They will take some more time and a lot of patience.
I switched to a new finer paintbrush yesterday to try. I think that it may be a partial answer to my issue.
Troy - Good luck with the plumbing work. I generally find plumbing to be relatively simple, but it is always in hard to get to places.
Tom - Yep! you posted last evening about the same time I usually go to bed.
Lee - Congratulations on your milestone. Picture #6 in your post this morning looks like it is in a cave! Is that some secret underground government lab?
Lots of memories regarding 9/11 yesterday. We each took it in our own way.
Everybody have a great Saturday and don't go near Karl's or he'll lasso you into assisting with yard or auto work! And don't go to Sherrel's for breakfast this morning.