Morning all.

I slept really late and I'm still the first one here?  No cinnamon rolls, sorry.  

The sump install worked well, and I didn't even need a trip to Lowe's for parts!  

Minimal work on the ITLA kit, but hope to get to it later today. 

Exciting game (too exciting) for the Hawkeye women's team last night in the final four, they're going to the final but I don't think any team can beat South Carolina. 

Jeff

Looks pretty good so far.  After I finally get my first town done, there's another to be built.  I think doing the mockups is a great idea, instead of moving the finished structures again and again.

Jeff

Morning all.

TGIF and I have a four day weekend.  I didn't fix the sump pump Wednesday, and I need to go get some PVC pipe later today to do the job.  The rain/snow has stopped (it snowed Wednesday), and it's a beautiful clear morning here.  The picture is the view out the back door this morning.  

Hope to work on the ITLA structure later.  Two more walls to trim, then gluing/painting.  

Jeff

Morning all. 

We've had a lot of rain over the last 24 hours, which is good.  What isn't good is I have a dead sump pump.  
No flooding, as there is a second sump pit whose pump is working.  Years ago I had a "basement water remedy" company put in two new pumps with battery back ups.  I had hoped they'd get better commercial pumps (later I found out the Zoellers are about the best), but they used the same kind and cost me $$$.   

I have a haircut appointment this morning, meeting my Doctor this afternoon and probably sump replacement in between. 

Jeff

Morning, all.

Happy April Fools Day!  Hopefully no tummy aches this morning from too much Easter Candy.  

Trash/recycling is out.  Trip to the grocery store on the agenda for later.  Maybe more work on the ITLA structure and starting a build thread.  

Jeff

Morning all.

Looks like the Easter Bunny left some baskets here.  Will load the grandchildren up with sugar and send them home with their parents today.  

Happy Easter!

Jeff

Very cool.

Jeff

Looking good.  You're making great progress on this interesting kit. 

Jeff

Morning all.

My son and his family will be here later today, so there will be no layout work until Monday at the earliest, though I suppose a train or two will run.  Some late clean up planned, and apparently one of the bathroom sinks is plugged, so I'll work on that this morning as well.  

Jeff

Morning all.

Hump Day.  I'll be cleaning and straightening up the basement as my son and his family will be coming this weekend.  I had to clean the track where the ties got painted, and ran a couple of trains to make sure everything was in working order. 

My ITLA kits came, I've started looking the one over and will get to it, probably after the kids leave Sunday.  

Jeff

Morning all.

A 50 degree morning here and the rain is supposed to start soon.  We could really use it, so I'm not complaining.

Jim's 1905 truck from a couple of days ago was pretty cool.

Craig has posted his new kits are available.  I don't need any more kits (ordered only 2 ITLA kits last week )but the Scrap Merchant's place will probably find a spot on the Empire somewhere. 

Maybe some layout work later, and will watch the Hawkeye Women's BB game tonight.   Time to take out the trash and recycling.

Jeff

I'll bet you used a LOT of printer ink.  I need a small background piece for the area of the layout I'm working on.  I'll look thru the LARC site and see if anything would fill the space.  Thanks for posting this.  

Jeff

Morning all.

Snow has melted on the streets and sidewalks, but the grass is still covered.  Didn't get much accomplished yesterday, trip to Target and Best Buy this morning and will watch the Hawkeye Women's BB game this afternoon. 

Jeff

Morning all.

Rain wouldn't be so bad.  We have a blizzard going on now.  Looks like at least 2 inches and it's really coming down.  Glad I didn't have to go to work today, but we did have a 0730 meeting online.  

Fired up the other set of new locos which worked well and managed to get about 3 feet of track painted Wednesday.  Maybe some more layout work today.  Or computer games and YouTube videos.  I don't think I'll be out driving in this. 

Jeff

Morning all.

Hump day.  Nothing planned.  Maybe I'll get the other set of F3s out from my auction winnings and see how they run.  

Jeff