Good afternoon folks!
Today is a chill day. Grey skies feeling still like late fall early winter norms. Temperature is actually not too bad lika heat wave a perfect 40 degrees! No complaint here! So this weekend we have a local train show coming for one day only...on Sunday in the capitol region. Downtown Albany, NY aka small-bany.
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Anyways I am thinking of going although it is not a big one but there may be something worth going to. It will get me out of the house anyways....we shall see.
My sanding towers for the diesel facility did come in. I have not posted the pictures like I said I would 2 days ago. Been busy tending to my parents needs since they have COVID. I crashed early the last 2 nites before 10 PM which is totally out of character for me. My body says "hey bub time to re-charge them batteries" so that's what I did. My normal schedule is up at 5;30 AM and to bed after midnight every night sometimes 1 AM. Been that way for 35 years or so. I feel good today, rested but stress is still there with all the worrying with my parents and my older sister.
In the office today, shoulda stayed home. Not much going on. I managed to purchase a boxcar on evil bay though lol. Tonight i feel good enough to work in the train room. More cleaning and organization while running trains. I have 2 locomotives on the programing waiting list that need attention. One of them is a SD70Ace EMD Demo and another one is an ES44. I hope to get to them tonight.
Progress is slow on the bench organization but I will get there. I have been side tracked no pun intended. I did get 4 pieces of lumber painted in the garage that will be part of the upper shelving. (painted black) I have 2 more to do and 24 brackets to spray paint black as well. Then I can install that system to finish my intended plan. This shelf system goes completely around the room 1 inch above the door and window. It will hold memorabilia of RR stuff and the nature of stuff like that. After I complete that I will need to do something for under the bench work as well to store boxes and rolling stock. I have been on the hunt for 2 sets of "flat files" like Safco architectural files. A buddy of mine did this and it's fantastic. He actually did several of them. One of them he cut the top of the steel off to create a window like frame and set a tempered glass top on it. He then put caster wheels on it and uses at a coffee table in his hobby room ingenious! Looks awesome! I will put caster wheels on mine but it will be used to slide out from under the layout. trying to find them used at a decent price then I will paint them black.
So many things on my to do list but all in due time. I am still stacking more firewood when weather and time permits. I am behind on this...not good. Usually I am done with this early.
Refrigerators------
Man I have one in the garage that must be 25 years old. It runs better than anything new. It's an old GE. The one in my kitchen is an old Frigidaire that's probably just as old. I would not buy an LG, Samsung or any other manufacturer that made TVs or Cell phones sorry cannot do it. I do however like the freezer deals on the bottom as a slide out drawer. I am looking to get a new refrigerator when I start my re-model of the kitchen. I have already done my dishwasher, garbage disposal, microwave and sink faucet this year. So the refrigerator and stove is next as well as redoing the cabinets & counter tops. My flooring is 80% done in the house
but held off in the kitchen area until I am ready.
Start at the 2 minute and 50 second mark ....this will twerk your brain. I love how the greatest generation built stuff!
Well that's enough rambling on. Ya'll have a great weekend and I will check later! I enjoyed reading up on ya'll posts!
