Hell has frozen over, the Fat Lady has Sung, the End is Nigh!!!
It must be…
Today… my WIFE gots…
wait…
ready…
are you sitting down…
HER OWN TRAIN SET!!!
yep, she found a circus train set for sale on deep post xmas discount while shopping at work during lunch, at TJ Max of all places. I picked her up tonight cause she needed my car to pick up some large items she had bought and had on hold there. While there she told of it, I looked said it was a junker Keystone/BuddyL/Heritage set, but she asking me questions about other circus set, I told her about Bachmann’s and LGB’s, I even stopped at Allied Trains (she works on the west side) to show her some LGB stuff, but she freaked at the LGB prices and kept talking about it and talking about it and so on… I just said, you really want me to buy it dont you?
So here’s my wifes set…
Now she wants me to start looking for animals and “circus folk” , be afraid, very afraid…
You lucky man ,its nice to have a wife that likes your hobby, mine enjoys my layout she is the designer and gardener, We get along well. So both of you enjoy[bow]
What you need to be prepared for is when she walks up and says, “Can we move the track from here to there?” (Ofcourse, by “WE” she will mean “YOU”) Been there and done that too.
Now all she says is "When are we goning to make the track reach all the way out to the trees (otherwise know as Green Apple Orcahrd.) I remind her that it is 175 feet from the current end of the line to the trees, and another 175 feet back, that’s 350 feet at $7 per foot, thats $3,000 plus another couple thousand for buildings and such. That tends to keep her quite for a few weeks.
I’m supprised she has not already asked you to kit bash/fabricate one for her already. I know you have gotten me in trouble before when my wife sees one of your works of art. “I just wish you had half the skill as Vic and could make your own!”
In the long run it is a lot more fun, having her out in the garden running the trains and repairing buildings and such.
