What a crazy week ! Finally finished halloween layout and garage decor about an hour before the ghouls & goblins started to show-up. The last few days of set-up got a tad whacky, first the pressure regulator on the water line failed followed in short succession by the water softener blowing it’s seals and then a 90* elbow gave out. The same afternoon the real topper was a broken tooth, told the better half to get some orange facepaint and with a big smile I could pose as a human jack-o-lantern. As a result of the weeks “festivities” it appears as if there will be no train budget for quite awhile.
However it was a great evening, three sets of neighbors came over and the ladies handled the candy dispersal while the gents had a good time shootin’ the breeze. A little wine and only one brew was consumedwhile the evening progressed. The better-half and I went thru almost 14# of the Child’s Play mix and one of the neighbors brought about 5# of the Hersheys mini’s mix, they still had about a third of their’s when they went home at about 8. We were still getting the straglers till about 9:30. Many returnees looking for new pieces on the layout and one 4yr old that his Dad almost had to drag him out after about a half-hour. It was close to shutting down so I let his Dad bring him inside the railing so they could check-out the trains up-close.
Was it a real killer getting it done in time, you bet.
Home. Rifle cleaned and in safe. Camo jackets and pants hung up. All tools [worked on feeder and a stand] stored. Ate a bite. Watched weather. Kids out and back in. Three computer surveys completed. Check book checked on line. Meds taken. Coffee maker ready to go off at 5:30 AM. Now to bed.
Sleep tight [changed to bold on its on. Can not change. [:(!]]
40 here and a bit damp. Yesterday took a pond pump and drained the post hole , took about 5 minutes. Then scooped out mud another 5 minutes. Placed in stone then fence then cemented one section. Gotta dig another hole and do the process again today. Got 7 more sections then I a done. Looks like we might get a NOR EASTER next week? Hope not.
DOUG DA G, sounded like a good nite. Bet you slept good.
SIR JAMES, BINNILA in the kidos trick o treat bags? WOW some trick, bet they never saw that coming.
Learning more of the devastation in New York & New Jersey. You’ve got a long road ahead [angel] go out
Lots on the plate this weekend. May do some patching on the barn roof as well as final grass cut / leaf clean up. Still need to dig the flower bulbs that need brought in.
Chief, I saw an ad in the TCA newsletter of a train show in Raliegh. You Going?
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 50s. Had a lot of trick or treaters Wednesday night and forgot to post yesterday. Already 4 days behind on the posts. Got the December Trains yesterday. Some really nice pictures in there. TBIL and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
Aloha and TGIF! Sunny and cold this morning. Church meeting last night so missed the TARDIS. Brutus, I remembered where I had seen Ivor audio - and it’s free: http://www.smallfilms.co.uk/ivor/ Looks like my mom’s part of CT might get power back by Tues. Trying to convince my mother to go stay with my sister in Brooklyn. She thinks she’s better off. LOL.
Good morning. It’s 66° with 100% humidity and fog. It’ll be mostly sunny with a high of 85°.
No plans today for layout work. It’s possible that my mothers nurse/minder will have to leave this afternoon for a med appointment for herself. If that’s the case I’ll have to go down there and watch over my mother. That means being on my feet quite a bit. I’m looking forward to that like root canal surgery! It won’t be a pleasant experience. Nothing happening here this morning. I got some of the clutter off the layout yesterday. It’s a start.
Morning. No big buck. Had to compete with cotton picker. So got in one of my stands. About “good deer time”, here comes the big mower cutting the stalks for 30 minutes. [banghead] Didn’t bother the squirrels or a rabbit at the feeder. Kept the turkeys away [I always see there late]. Sunny and warm.
No Box work. Too busy doing Mayor and, what time I have off, hunting. Got Fall Festival tomorrow all day. Will draw a crowd. Free hotdogs for all.
It’s 38 with partly sunny. Summer temps are gone for the next 8 or 9 months. Granny fixed me a big breakfast as I will be helping to set up the modules for a week end train show this afternoon. We will have er ready to go for noon tomorrow. You all enjoy your Friday…S.J.
Warning Warning Will Robinson, This softwear sucks! [8o|]
I tried to add my location to my signature for V8Dennis and the thing won’t let me install the tardis now without this message. Maximum signature length is 512 characters. [#dots] Well Jeffery and I thought that the Tardis that was to blame so I removed it but even without the spinning Tardis it will not let me enter more than two lines, and NO way is two lines 512 characters [banghead] [banghead] [banghead] [banghead]
Tis what it tis I guess. [:(]
So whatever you do Don’t mess with your old signature if you like it, or this softwear will blow it away. [:S]
The electronics for tmcc is about the same size as the electronics already in there. So it would just be a switching of electronics. I beleive jefelectric did a conversion on one
Oh, that’s a closely guarded secret! If I tell you that the mods are going to throw you down and tickle you silly![:-,] Nah, just kidding.[(-D] Go to your profile. Click on your post count. To the left under ‘Search Results’ you’ll see a number in bold numerals. Take a wild guess what that is. Subtract 1 and you have your approximate post count.[8D]
