Good evening fellow, 'Rail Setters & Spike Drivers',
Hi Flo & Francine, How are both this nice day. I'll have some coffee and a Apple Fritter.
Clear 90.9 °F - Feels Like 89 °F;
Winds are from the West at 5.3 mph;
Tomorrow is forecast to be Much Cooler than today.
Today High 94 | Low 54 °F
0% Chance of Precip.
Yesterday High 96.8 | Low 62.4 °F
Precip. 0 in
Pressure 29.96 in
Visibility 10.0 miles
Clouds Clear
Heat Index 89 °F
Dew Point 54 °F
Humidity 29%
Rainfall 0.00 in
Snow Depth 44" and still falling! Lol
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This morning I got up around 7:00 to go pee and check on, Buffy, my male cat who had been all night as I couldn't get him in last night. There he was out front on the bank where I had cut some of the high grass back hunting but as soon as he saw me at the sliding glass doors he came running over so I told him to go to the front door, which he did and I let him in and noted how nice cool it was. I needed to do more weed eating but was still feeling a bit tired/lazy and went back to sleep.
That didn't last long, as fate would have it I was abruptly awoken around 8:00 to a strange sound of some machine engine running that sounded fairly close. So I got up and what did I see but some guy going back and forth across my front slightly sloping bank and said what the heck but half expected my friend Joe to come over and help me out even though I hadn't asked him and sure enough it was him using his Self Propelled walk behind heavy duty string trimmer he had halled over in his utility trailer, chopping the dry weeds down. What a surprise, so I figured I better get my lazy butt out of bed, get dressed and put on my high boots and get my string trimmer and get to helping him which I did. I had done a portion of the front prior but with both of us working we not only finished the front for the most part but also did the East side of the gravel driveway and all around back of the house up to my 10 x 12 metal building which sits about 100' from my home in the back yard is all gravel but even has some weeds that came up in it. It sure makes me feel a lot more secure knowing the tall grass is wacked back.
Thanks God for friends like him.
So needles to say I got one heck of a work out and boy were my legs stiff after that. I treated Joe to a Paddy Melt he said he wanted, he even offered to buy but I said NO, and had one myself and then Joe bought us each Fudge Sundays at the local frosty shop we were at, and he and I enjoyed talking about trains.
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Here are my Bachmann trolleys on my layout ... I believe they will look better after I install the overhead wires, but cleaning the rails will then be challenging with poles in the way of my clumsy hands.
Good morning ! ...... I'll have coffee and a donut.
I did take the time to work on the layout yesterday. .. Definitely was a good sanity break. .... I am completing the "one week project" I started over two months ago.
GArry: Getting lost in thought while working on the trains is indeed good therapy. Your prolonged endeavor sounds familiar. LoL, my layout it dragging along too but may now begin to move a little faster as I'm getting some of the other stuff done that needed doing. Outside weed eating
As far as cleaning the rails under the overhead Picatinary[?] would the Woodland Scenics hand wand be of any help? The handle can be folded down quite low and can easily be used from one side or the other in between the upright overhead hangers. While the head does have a lock position for straight, once move off the positioning post it can be freely swiveled 355+ degrees. I like to use the courser cleaning pads in mine that have precut grooves in them to hug the rails and when you come to switches you can carefully tilt the cleaning head on it's edge to at least get the inside edges of the rails and even carefully skate it over the frogs and point areas and points.
Good afternoon. 87*F and sunny. For that reason I am currently staying indoors - mowed my front lawn between 8-9am this morning to avoid the heat!
Willie - I can sympathize! I had to have a bridge installed last year, and it set me back ~$5000.
Garry - sorry to hear your having those issues with your ex-SIL. I'm no stranger to the ravages of addiction, my father was an alcoholic and wound up dying at age 48 because of it! That was a wake-up call to me when I started showing some of the early warning signs of the disease myself - with the help of God I haven't ingested any type of alcoholic beverage for the past 34 years.
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Not much going on here on this lazy Saturday afternoon. Now that I've finally finished tinkering with my RS3's I can resume preparing for an op session. I've already generated my manifests and switch lists; my next step will be to speed-match all the locos I plan to use for their various consists. DecoderPro to the rescue!
Ken: Congrats about having the knowledge and will power to keep yourself away from a bad situation!
WILLIE- We still fondly remember our SHAR-PEI that we had 20 years ago. Right now I closed my eyes and see him . damn tears are clouding my vision.
As for dental work, it's needed but ain't no funds.
As for railfanning, if I was so inclined, about an hour away in Wildwood, is a CSX yard.
Phil
Phil: Sorry for the loss of Shar-Pei, we do get attached to them as much as a child.