Hello, and I hope this is a good Sunday Evening to everyone.
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Everybody is welcome to join me while we enjoy a can or two of Two Lane Lager. This is good stuff.
Same old story here… still working on the house. I am going to continue doing as much as I can to the outside before the rainy season begins. Once the rains begin, I will go back inside and finish the master bedroom.
The pedestal (maybe a plinth) for sir Knightlight has been completed. I poured a bunch of concrete around the plinth to secure everything, then put the foundation stone in place.
I hope I can get the statue next week.
I have also been working on the wall for the front garden. This is now 90% done, and hopefully will be planted and finished this week as well.
I think my old Milwaukee 3/4" drill is in trouble. While mixing thin-set today, grease started coming out from behind the chuck. This has me worried. I need this drill to last just a bit longer. I am not prepared to replace a 3/4" drill.
Tomorrow my wife and I get our second Covid-19 vaccination shots. That is a huge milestone.
Kevin, the work looks good. I’m glad it’s you and not me doing all that work.
We are in the middle of a pretty good thunderstorm right now. The thunder is pretty much constant, and we’ve had a lot of small hail. Once this passes, we are going to have cooler weather for a week or so.
I am going to plant some grass tomorrow. I have several areas where Daisy the Dachshund used all winter for her restroom. She really killed a lot of grass. This was in two areas that I scooped snow off the grass so that she could go. I still want to Astroturf the yard.
I’m watching John Wayne in “El Dorado” on TV right now. It’s not one of my favorites, but any John Wayne movie is better than what is on the other channels. Later this week they’ll show “Rio Bravo”, that is a Wayne movie I watch whenever it’s on.
Doctor appt. tomorrow morning for work on the knee. I’m walking like I’m an old man. You can’t make any snide comments that my wife hasn’t already said.
Grease like that isnt good, bearings or seal is shot.
Since this month is in anthricite country, I have a seperate thread on the early coal cars and a new kit for them . plus a breif trunkated history for them. From what I could find.
I concur with these two Kevin. You been working awfully hard and it shows at the homestead down there. Maybe an R&R day at the modeling table is in order soon[Y]
Good morning Diners. The usual toast & tea, please, Brunhilda.
Having spent part of my life talking to miners and ex-miners and listening to their stories I am glad not to be a miner. I have a deep fear of fire, and being trapped underground.
One of the big players in the Anthracite region was the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western:
I followed much of their main line back in the late '60s and it was quite picturesque. I remember being in one of their poured concrete signal towers and I wanted one for my layout:
Thanks for the tour so far Ed. I sure like the Nicolson and Delaware River Viaduct Bridges. Lots of concrete.
My son came down for a visit with his new Indy pace car model Corvette. It has a 436 horsepower 6.2 L engine[:P] He wanted to take it out for the first road trip. It only had one owner and was a Florida car with low miles. My son likes red on black like his dad. You can’t see the removable sunroof is black and looks really cool.
We all went out for my favorite pizza last night.
It’s the pizza restaurant with the O-Scale New York Central running along the ceiling.
Someone sure did a good job at building the wooden steamers.
One of my best friends back in the high school days modeled the ERIE LACKAWANNA railroad. Back then, you could get railroad models in just about any roadname. I have not seen a factory painted model in EL gray and maroon in a long time.
I had lots of pictures of me and him working on our layouts, but like most things from when I was a child, they all disappeared as my dad moved several times in the 1980s and things got lost.
Ed, I am enjoying the information you are sharing. Like nearly all things railroad related, I know very little about the READING and other “anthracite” railroads.
I wish RDGCasey was still around. His READING models were stunning, and I am sure he would have a lot to share.
David I have neglected to thank you for your efforts last month.
This month seems to be off to a good start.
Kevin can you send me some of your energy and ambition? We have a small garden area. The landscapers left 6" of mulch, on a paper thin layer of topsoil on top of the gooeyist clay I have seen in my life. The Civil War battlefield up the road calls it the Field of Shoes. I had to move the mulch from side to side to add 12 bags of topsoil. The result may attract the cops.
