santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 47°. Looks like .92" in the rain gauge from yesterday. That will make things grow around here. One of our cats pissed me off Friday night by sleeping in a large flower pot on the back porch that I had just transplanted some Basil seedlings into, crushing them. As a payback, I was trimming a pork shoulder yesterday morning and I placed some of the trimmed fat into their food bowl out in the pouring rain. Wet cats look funny and are a lot skinnier! Not sure if he got the connection though.
Out in the train shed yesterday, as part of my ongoing maintenance, I cleaned and dusted around 30 freight cars. Checked coupler height and action to assure smooth operation. I also started to add some ground foam to some virgin plywood in a continuous quest to complete more scenery. I also disassembled a pair of close to 1:87 Matchbox vehicles for repair and repaint. They were included in a bulk purchase of over 250 vehicles from a fellow forum member who was getting out of model railroading a few years ago. From the factory, they are decorated as custom hod rods but I don't really need as many as I got.
Joe - The weathered coal hopper looks real good. That "thaw house burn" is something that I had never seen or heard of before, I don't really see many coal hoppers in Texas anyway. Most power plants here are oil or natural gas fired plants.
Terry - I'm surprised that someone else hasn't come by and picked some of the appliances up for themselves. In Dallas, the city does that regularly and in my brothers neighborhood, it all gets out to the curb on Saturday. On Sunday there is an army of pickup trucks and trailers scouring the streets and by Monday all that's left is the real junk.
I wonder where David (Trussrod) is? Haven't heard from him lately.
Everybody have a great day.
Willie
Out in the train shed yesterday, as part of my ongoing maintenance, I cleaned and dusted around 30 freight cars. Checked coupler height and action to assure smooth operation. I also started to add some ground foam to some virgin plywood in a continuous quest to complete more scenery. I also disassembled a pair of close to 1:87 Matchbox vehicles for repair and repaint. They were included in a bulk purchase of over 250 vehicles from a fellow forum member who was getting out of model railroading a few years ago. From the factory, they are decorated as custom hod rods but I don't really need as many as I got.
Joe - The weathered coal hopper looks real good. That "thaw house burn" is something that I had never seen or heard of before, I don't really see many coal hoppers in Texas anyway. Most power plants here are oil or natural gas fired plants.
Terry - I'm surprised that someone else hasn't come by and picked some of the appliances up for themselves. In Dallas, the city does that regularly and in my brothers neighborhood, it all gets out to the curb on Saturday. On Sunday there is an army of pickup trucks and trailers scouring the streets and by Monday all that's left is the real junk.
I wonder where David (Trussrod) is? Haven't heard from him lately.
Everybody have a great day.
Willie