Good Morning Everyone. 68° and clear; pool is 81° right now, perfect for me. I know where I'll be as soon as I return from my walk. The garden has officially moved from spring to summer production. Harvested the last beets, all of the onions and the heat has doomed the peas after a meager season for them. Froze or ate less than two dozen meals from the harvest. Typically I get about 30 meals from a row. Many tomato plants are well over 4' tall though, with tomatoes on many of them. The garlic should mature in another 10 days. The pickled beets that I made last week came out well; that receipe is a keeper and I will make a few more jars today or Friday. Meanwhile the grill is working overtime, getting used five of the last six evenings. No mowing yesterday, but I replaced it with about an hour of weed-eating; house, barn, train shed, pool, trees and garden/flowerbed borders. Whew!
Thanks for the comments on the SD40-2 lash-up
Chet,
Curt,
Garry and anyone else that I may have missed.
Out in the train shed, I worked on roads and parking lots for phase II of my current project. Didn't make as much progress as I had hoped, but household chores and yardwork seemed to interfere. I'll have more time today since we're going out for supper and I won't have to spend time preparing it. Additionally, I made some minor repairs to several freight cars that I set on the RIP track over the past two weeks while I was cleaning and inspecting the fleet.
Chet - Of all of the places that I could add power lines, I picked this scene because there is going to be no need to reach through to reach trackage. It is also intended to be a primary visual scene on the layout. To add to the realism, I drilled .015" holes through all of the insulators on the crossarms so I could string the .010"wire through them; as opposed to gluing or wrapping it. Add to that the holes for the guy wires, feeder lines and transformer feeds, at least ten holes in each pole. But I believe that the final product will be worth it. Great airport pictures of some classic planes.
Bob - Really cool pictures of the planes. You do a great job at photographing moving objects.
Justin - I have repaired a couple of Atlas switches with Super Glue. Just be careful as you probably already know.
Greg - Don't you just love it when you find a lost and forgotten box of stuff. Unless you have replaced it and no longer have a use for it!
Curt - That freight house is going to look great in that location. Hope that you get the sleep situation under control.
A few odds and ends from my layout. Again, most of these are in unfinished areas, thus the lack of scenery. First up is "Joe's Radio". It is a simple structure made from DPM modular walls.
Next is "Ace Auto Parts". This is also a simple structure from Downtown Deco. As I have posted before, painting and weathering Randy's kits really sets them apart.
Next up is a Blair Line kit of "Pizzaland". It is a laser-cut wood structure and can be seen briefly in the opening credits of "the Sopranos" I am told.
Thinking of changing my avatar; anyone want to see a picture of yours truly?
Warning, I'm not as handsome as
Toot!
Everybody have a great day. That's my plan. By the way, did I start something with the plane pictures?
Willie
