Good Morning All. 48° and clear as can be out there this morning. Beautiful day yesterday with another one today. Rain is in and out of the ten day forecast more often than Australia is shuffling Prime Ministers. Yesterday, I resumed work on the latest bathroom remodel since it was dry enough to set up the sawhorses again. The whole wall project will require 225+ pieces of board to be cut, I mis-cut one yesterday and bent two nails, so I called it a day. No bulk cutting because this is an older house and every board is a different length. The ground is still too soft for the mower, but I did run the weedeater a bit yesterday. Maybe I can mow before the predicted rain tonight.
Out in the train shed I finally got that rehab Dash8-40CW reassembled but not before I dropped a screw which I never found. I had to pull the shell off my other one to see that I had two nylon inserts in wrong, which was negatively affecting reassembly. It now runs in the correct direction. As I posted yesterday, this Bachmann Spectrum model was purchased as a supposedly "new" model at a train show about 15 years ago, but sat on my shelf for a few years before being run. I had disassembled the old layout and was building the train shed at the time of purchase. It always ran backward in relation to other engines so it got set aside until this week. I checked my maintenance records and I never had even disassembled it before, but there was definite evidence that it had been taken apart and worked on by someone else as opposed to being mis-assembled at the factory. In addition to the motor being in upside down, the engineer figure was glued together (badly) in two places and at least two other parts were broken. Today I will resume the fence project which is nearing completion. I'm still spending too much time running trains though so progress may still be slow.
Joe - You're right about
all of the Spanish speaking people celebrating Dia de Muertos. I failed to mention that the Salvadorians and Hondurans that I worked with also celebrated. We dared not to ask any of them to work overtime on that day since they all had evening plans. I have never left the house on Black Friday, even though it was always a paid holiday for me! I also noted the Christmas stuff at HD over a week ago.
Sherrel -
...and then sandals, shorts, and halters for the afternoon.
Not too sure that I want to see you in a halter!
Garry - Great photo. It almost looks like the F3's and SD24's are drag racing like the semis in
Terry's video last week.
Your comment last week regarding running five trains at once reminded me that we haven't heard from
Bruce (New Guy) in a while. I wonder what's up with him. He was contemplating rebuilding the last time that we heard from him.
Terry - That is indeed bad news out of Baltimore, I'm with you in wondering whether
Louis was involved.
Chet - NASCAR is just down the road from me this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. Even though I'm not going, from my house I can make a left, a right and another left turn and I am there in less than 45 minutes (30 miles), at the back entrance. When the military does flyovers, they stage (slow wide turns at low altitude levels) over my house for the approach. They make some practice runs for about an hour before they do the actual flyover. I have pictures (fuzzy) from past years. I no longer get free tickets from vendors though.
Everybody have a great day.
