Good Morning All. 74° and partly cloudy. Quite the storm yesterday evening. It didn't rain after the initial .5" fell, but the very dark clouds lasted into the night. Local Weather Underground recorded wind speeds in excess of 35 mph. Speaking of weather, It seems like every time my wife (and sometimes me) goes to Gulf Shores AL for a vacation, a hurricane appears. The impending one will be the fourth in five years! Hello Flo. I'll have a couple of sausage & egg biscuits to start out the day.
I continued to maintain the household yesterday on day #6 of "home alone". Planning to do some yardwork during the cooler mornings coming up in the next few days. Today is grocery/beer trek day and I need to stock up before the wife's return Sunday.
Thanks to all for the likes and comments regarding yesterday's posting of flatcar pictures;
Sherrel, Chet, Dave, Jerome, Patrick, Garry, Johnny, Phil, Greg, Ken, Tom.
Spent a little time in the train shed yesterday. Finished off the small chicken yard behind the trailer house.
It's one of those many detailed areas on the layout that won't exactly stand out unless you're looking for it. I have many.
Then I moved left to the small feed store that occupies the remaining unfinished area. The main building started life as a small Bachmann (or maybe it was Tyco or Lifelike) freight station.
It is accompanied by a small passenger shed (same lineage) re-purposed as a hay storage shed.
Outhouse is from Grandt Line in their company houses kit. I did get the gravel and ground foam down yesterday, but it looked like a puddle of Elmers and I didn't get a picture yet.
Dave - I actually have a few empty flatcars as well.
Sherrel - Wouldn't valve stem extenders work?
Johnny - I use a pair of flush cut pliers when I work with DPM stuff. Or I sometimes use my Xuron rail nippers. Both work very well and are a lot safer than box cutters or Exacto knives.
Speaking of
Jeffery, I knew him through several (many) forums besides his own. He was a prolific poster. I was communicating with him through one of them, maybe this one, to visit him on the way by on one of our journeys to Gulf Shores. We always pass about 30 miles from his home in Sundown LA, a fictitious name actually, just outside Leesville LA, but he got very ill just before the time we had planned. He passed away shortly after. He stopped returning E-mails about three weeks before our scheduled stopover and I never got exact directions.
7-11 day today, get your free Slurpees. I haven't had one in over fifty years! Otherwise everyone have a great day.
) He helped me so much when I first got started with any and every ill-conceived idea I could come up with! He always enlightened me and cautioned me about my off the wall ideas and projects, but he never shot me down cold. He let me know my way might be needlessly hard and or expensive, or even just plain stupid, but he never failed to assist me. I still have a box of projects he helped me start, but losing him took the wind out of my sales. I still have all my notes from our conversations and correspondences. He took a bonehead newbie under his wing and enhanced my love and enjoyment of our hobby 10 fold. I miss him dearly and some day I will complete one or more of those projects we started in honor of him.
