No…I model 52 weeks a year…I will take some time to go catfishin’ or race my 1/24th and 1/32 slot cars or perhaps a dinner date but model railroading is my main interest…Thankfully my yard isn’t that big so it doesn’t take long for me to cut my grass and of course being a bachelor means NO HONEY DO LISTS! [:0][:D]
couldn’t live without it that long 
I don’ t take the summer off, per say, however things must be done outside; and in Minnesota you savor every opportunity to fix things above freezing temperatures!
I really do not plan to take off the summer, but outdoor chores pile up, and there really are not many train shows to attend in July!
Jim Bernier
My garage is pretty toasty in the summer, so I definitely spend less time in there, but due to the fact that my wife has given me the OK to work on train stuff in the house, at least if it is contained to a box and doesn’t take over the living room.
Summer is typically when I do more events (either playing with my band, putting on shows, DJing at clubs or midnight movies, or my music festival) which eats into model railroading time but does not entirely supplant it.
ya i do. i didn’t touch my stuff from probably mid April when softball started and i’d go watch that till the end of July when my baseball season was over. i haven’t touched anything though for a month due to railfanning some, college stuff, now school is starting and i have to work now a lot because of my work experience class.
if i get some time though on saturdays or something i’ll do some work, but until then i’ll be working my bum off to make money for college and hopefully a new car next spring and watching college football.
my guess is probably the end of October i’ll be doing work and going to shows though. hopefully by that time i’ll have my building built for my layout and can find a place for that. also i need to get some more locos.
In summer it gets soooooo hot here (105 today !) I generally do alot less out in the hotbox known as the garage where my layout is. So I tend to work indoors on cars, locos, buildings, etc at the workbench.
I plan too add a window A/C to the garage but i have to add some insulation to it and seal it up better.
Great…so your the guy that’s been running his AC…you rich LA folks are gonna have us po’ folks down south in rolling blackouts before you know it…
Ehh, Shut up and get back to your miles of beach San Diego boy![:D] [8D]
I’m stuck here in inland Hot Angeles and dont need to hear any crying from you’s guys laying back on the beach with yer Pina Colada’s and Mai Tai’s…[8D][:D]
Actually survived the whole day inside yesterday (105 ) with only the fans on, opened the house up early in the morning so it got real cool inside then shut up the doors and windows, kept the fans on and watched DVD’s all day long! Not a bad day off…
It’s amazing how after pouring the ice cold Corona into a mug, you can hold the empty bottle up to your ear and hear the ocean…before putting the bottle in a proper recycling container of course.
April through October gives the club members the chance to get some major progress done on their modules. October is always a big slapsh for us at the Great Scale Model Train Show (www.gsmts.com). There are a couple of members in the club that are like sharks…if they stopped modeling(swimming), they would die!
Take off model railroading just because it’s Summer. NO WAY!
Why would you want to do that?! I never have and never will.
Heh. Up here in Sacramento we consider taking off our wool sweaters when the themometer hits 105.
It was 99 degrees today–so I was out in the garage doing benchwork. I now have 16 feet of shelf upon which to lay out my layout.