The past couple months have been really rough and as a result, I haven’t been able to do much work on the layout, or anything else. I’m just now starting to work on getting caught up on everything. I have managed to post some stuff on my website that’s been on hold…
If any of you are familiar with the Chili’s chain of restaurants, you may be aware of the fundraiser they do for St. Jude Children’s Hospital in September every year. If you make a donation, they give you a sheet of paper with their chili logo on it, and you can color it in any way you like. Thn they hang them up all over the restaurant until the end of the month. Anyway, I always like to do something fancy with it, so this past September I drew a scene from our In-ko-pah Railroad. The folks at Chili’s liked it so much they eventually framed it and mounted it near the front door! Here’s a photo of it:
If you want to see any of the other drawings I did, you can find them here:
http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Family_Drawings.html
On February 19th we hosted a meeting of the San Diego Garden Railway Society. I was barely able to get things ready, because Cris had been seriously ill since late January. But I managed to clear away the last of the rock pile at the west end of the patio, which had been there since I started the layout five years ago. In it’s place I put up a new patio table with umbrella and chairs. Here’s a pic:
You can see a few more pics of the meeting here: