Monday, Monday,
And back to work. Retirement countdown calendar is in the 140s now!
Late September and where has summer gone? I'm enjoying the cooler weather though. We gathered chestnuts from my father-in-law's trees Saturday and roasted a pound or two yesterday. Quite good, I must say. My wife, of half-Italian heritage, grew up loving them, but I had to be convinced. Now I'm a convert.
Sending best wishes to Deb for her surgery today.
--Opa George
Good morning , my retirement calender is under 70 , months that is ;) . After 2 months of healing I'm at 4-5 hours of work 4 times a week , going well though and feeling good .
Hope you all have a great day.
Good morning!
Good morning, all. Forecasting some rain in the Chicago area today. Sure hope we get some....
Other than that, modeling for much of the day.
Cheers.
Morning. I actually spent time at the bench yesterday :D A new addition on the F&SM
Present
Morning all,
Best wishes for a speedy recovery to all those who need them.
Spent time at the workbench trying to apply decals to a model. I got it done but not with a few tears and other assorted mishaps. :( Not my forte.
Count down to retirement is at 949 days (or less). Not nearly as impressive as Opa George's countdown. ;)
Have a great one!
Good Morning All,
Today we're continuing and hopefully finishing the sewing room and cleaning out the downstairs bedroom so we can start moving Dad's furniture from his old house.
I hope everyone has a good day.
Morning,
Election Day, time to vote and then hear complaints about it being hacked ... never in Canada?
Morning all.
Burned some midnight oil and processed all my open house photos. Got a thread started for them.
Here's a taste. A photo George wanted:
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Straight back down to reality today though. I have my first work related meeting at 0800.
Have a great day!
Good Morning Everyone.
Morning all,
My post retirement count is 273 months. Every day is Saturday.
Have a great day ya'll.
Tom ;D
Thom Driggers, tct855, painted the F&SM locos.
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Good Morning Folks;
Thanks to everyone for well wishes for Deb, she should be home today. What she is going through is nothing compared to what others in this group are dealing with. We hope everyone heals quickly.
Rusty, keep the photos coming, that layout is so rich in details, I hope to get back there next year but might be in area for October open house.
Today it will be helping my bride after her surgery. Perhaps a little modeling, who knows. Have a great day everyone.
Jim D
George, what kind of chestnut do you have? I've been very tempted to pay the big bucks for one of the latest hybrids that should be resistant to chestnut blight.
Today's International Paella Day, I made paella yesterday and we'll have the leftovers today.
Work continues on the stone factory, but I got a lesson in under-painting. I forgot I primed the first set of windows, so when I sprayed the second set with the finish color, the result looks quite different over Tichy grey than it does over Badger neutral yellow. I think I'll just dig out another set of windows and start over again. I do want the two wings of the building to match.
dave
Morning everyone
A brisk 58 here in South Jersey but sunny. Later on 75.
Well Autumn 2 days away I guess the modeling season will be in full swing later this week!
Errands to run this morning. Then some bench time doing pastels on the roof panels I just primed.
Everyone have a wonderful day!! :)
Jerry
Quote from: deemery on September 20, 2021, 08:37:04 AM
George, what kind of chestnut do you have? I've been very tempted to pay the big bucks for one of the latest hybrids that should be resistant to chestnut blight.
dave
Unfortunately, Dave, I have no idea. The trees are 6 years old in my father-in-law's back yard. He had trees from the 1960s that produced nuts until the early 2000s, when he cut them down (they were well over 80 feet high). It's possible they were survivors of the blight and may have been original American Chestnuts.
These two trees are about 18-20 feet. He got shoots from an old lady neighbor who has several immense trees.
The pods are the size of tennis balls and produce 2-3 kernels each. Most of the kernels are the size of large acorns. Not as large as those sold in the supermarkets.
--George
Good morning! Thank you for all the great F&SM pictures. Dan's picture is the new coal yard that George was telling me about on the phone this week. Great looking structure. It sure is nice to have all this inspiration moving into modeling season. I hope everyone has a great day.
There was a discussion, yesterday, about Swakhammer's not being on the F&SM. Here is a picture from the archive of when it was. George told me that he got an offer he could not pass up and sold it before this area was finished.
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John, Thank You very much!!!! Dennis
Good morning y'all. Decided I'd rather work on The Smokey Hill fire company than do outside stuff. Get well Deb. Jim
Good morning gentlemen,
All this talk about retirement makes me feel like the new guy on the block. Took the shingle down 1 month and 21 days ago.
Still haven't got this retirement thing down pat yet although i have done a bit of work on the layout.
One Saturday at a time.
Jim
Afternoon check in today...
Drove to the bank, grocery store and gas station before the rain comes...
Will catch up on all the Forum this afternoon...
FSM Signal Tower build in 1974...kit # 30...the one with the blue cardboard brick...
Tommy
Retirement calendar? No more than 2 years, 10 days