Once again it is time to move the diner. The theme that we have chosen is unusual rolling stock, both locomotives and cars. I am a little bit afraid of what will show up because I have a bad habit of wanting to build oddball projects![swg]
Let’s see what you can come up with! I would really like to see some scale models as well as the real McCoy.
Good morning, everyone. A new month, eh? Glad to see it – February was rough. Anyway, I’m supposed to be cutting down on carbs and sugars, so I won’t be bringing donuts that often any more. So instead…
Enjoy! (Someone else get the eggs, they’re too spendy for an editor’s salary.)
They are on ration here in the U.K… Along with a list of other foods.
Or to put it another way; Another reason to ‘whack the price up and make more profit.’
My dining car is an old metal streamliner from Tyco. It’s probably from the 50s and had no specific prototype. The windows are a thin, cloudy plastic strip, so I haven’t put in any interiors for my streamliners.
I named my diner Alferd G. Packer after the only American ever convicted of cannibalism.
Bird flu. In December it was reported that in the latest outbreak the US has lost over 50 million chickens so far. If they each averaged one egg a day, that’s over 18 billion eggs per year.
Somehow, we have eggs. Our mailman is a local egg farmer, small scale, and to keep enough healthy hens he sells eggs to his postal patrons in our community. He delivers us a dozen eggs every week for the princely sum of $3. These are farm-fresh eggs from hens that get to go out and peck in the garden, so the yolks are bright golden yellow. We have bacon and eggs every other day, alternating with yogurt and fruit. In not too many more weeks we’ll start getting fresh fruit from the farmstand. We have a freezer still mostly full of a quarter steer we got from an organic grass-fed place last fall, and our fish market gets right-off-the-boat fish in season. A local butcher supplies our bacon and pork.
I have a friend who sells me all the eggs we want at $2 a dozen. We have to save the cartons for them, though!
All is well in NW Wisconsin. Son moved from Kalifornia to Nevada to take care of his FIL.
Daughter and SIL are flourishing.
#1 Grandson plays juniors hockey for the New Mexico Ice Wolves, they made the playoffs their first year in the southern league. Starts in a week. Stanley Hubbard owns the team. Track Fiddler probably knows that name.
Daughter’s brain cancer seems to be under control. I hope it stays that way. Docs found a mass at the base of her neck at the last scan, but it hasn’t grown. They seem unconcerned. I do not.
I’ve been following everyone’s postings, hope all is well.
HAY, I got som of those! I bought them in Japan back in the 60s. Never able to make them work on my layout. Looks like they need 30 or mor for the curves. A and B locos and a whole string of cars. All need tender loving care. You can have the lot of them if you want them (Lion@broadwaylion.com)