Morning all,

Headed to 86 degrees later, humid as well.  Slept late, was up with the dog at 0330.  Apparently wife was up with her after that.  Vet changed her anti inflammatory med and as she's gotten older any change in diet or too many treats from the neighbor gives her tummy trouble. I suspect the med change is the issue and we'll probably go back to the old med. 

Probably more outside work today, maybe a walk before the heat hits. 

Jeff 

Morning all,

Sunny and headed to 86 today.  Yesterday I took a 3.5 mile walk and then swept and washed the patio and I was pooped.  I'll try another walk before the heat hits, maybe do the mildew spray stuff on the deck if it's not windy like yesterday. 

No train work, though I did get the backdrops ordered.  Maybe building a "shake the box" kit will perk me up, thanks for the idea, Karl.

Jeff

Morning all,

Presently 44 degrees F and sunny, headed to 79 later.  

Did some outside work yesterday, mowing and draining the tank on the snowblower.  I would hope we won't have another snow this spring, but who knows?     Probably a walk and maybe spray some mold/mildew remover on the deck and gazebo today.  

Some layout work, moved all the structures from the town so I could figure out the backdrop issue.  Trackside scenery hopefully will send me the estimate today and we can get that ordered.

(Very) slowly working on a kit as well, probably should start a thread on that. 

Jeff

Morning all,

Had a good day yesterday with the wife's family.  Today the temp will get to 72.  Possibly a walk later.  

I will go to another paint store today and see if they can match the sky color I need.  There is a undertrack sensor that requires replacement as well.  

An interesting solution to an end of the layout backdrop.

Jeff

Morning all,

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.  We're headed to Dubuque, IA today where my wife's family is from to celebrate her mother, who's in her 90s and more active than I am. 

TV arrived and installed yesterday.  Took me half an hour to load in the wifi/apps, etc.  I'm sure I'll be getting questions/complaints from the wife, who couldn't really figure out the last "smart" TV in the 16 months we had it.  

Let's have a good week!

Jeff

Morning all,

Sunny and 75 later today.  It's new TV delivery day, supposedly between 10 and 2, but that changed last time, so we'll wait and see.  

Disappointing yesterday after an hour at Lowe's that they couldn't match the sky color from the print to make paint.  I may try another place Monday.  

To Tom and Bob that asked if the picture yesterday was my layout.  I wish!  It's from last year's Narrow Gauge convention.   My layout is a Plywood Pacific/Southern Styrofoam.     Here's another pic from the NG layout.

Jeff

Nice color scheme and weathering.  Great work.

Jeff

Four inspiring builds. Congrats to all.

Jeff

Morning all,

Sunny and a high of 73 today.  Maybe a walk later.  

I did get the backdrops ordered, hope to get to Lowe's today for the matching sky blue paint.  

Jeff

Great diorama, Bob!  Great weathering, especially the roof.

Jeff

Nice conifers.  Can you send me fifty or so? 

Jeff

Morning all,

Possible rain this morning and a high of 65 F.  

Didn't get anything accomplished yesterday while waiting for the Geek Squad.  Originally it was going to be early AM, then changed to afternoon.  He though it was the TVs power supply board and it would be almost $1k to fix.  He couldn't check anything else as there was no power to the rest of the TV to see if anything else was broken.  So we went to Best Buy afterwards and ordered a new one which will arrive Saturday.     By then it was time for dinner and Red Sox baseball.  They've actually started scoring some runs, which makes the games less painful to watch.

We'll see what we can get done today, has to be more than yesterday.

I did enjoy the classic Star Trek link Dave posted yesterday.

Jeff

Morning all,

Cool here today with a high of only 58 F.

Best Buy geeks will be here sometime to "run diagnostics" on the TV.  I'll be interested to see how they do that on a TV that is dead.  At least their window has changed from "8 to 5" to "8 to noon". 

I think I have the layout for the rest of the backdrop figured out.  Will look it over again and send in the order today.

Maybe a trip to Lowe's to get some paint to match the sky on the backdrop as well.

Jeff

Morning all,

Happy Cinco De Mayo! 

Cooler today, headed to 61 F for a high. 

The second backdrop is up and looks OK.  I'll figure out which ones I want to order to finish the section and get that started.  Need to paint the rest of the top of the wall as well. 

It's the wife's birthday, so we'll be out for a late lunch/early dinner today, too.

Jeff

I first sprayed and attached the edge where the two meet.  I left it dry for 10 minutes or so and then unattached and rolled up the rest of the backdrop.  Then worked it in about 18 inch increments to the other end.  

It's still up and the edges are flat.  The joint isn't perfect, but not bad.  I tried some colored graphite pencils on the edges as a tiny bit of white showed, I think it may have helped a little ( I did get a mark on the surface as well  , I may try using a gentle eraser on it, but I'm worried it will lift the print.  Yes, there's a small lift at the corner, I should know better than to put tape on a corner.  Otherwise, just one small tear on the bottom.

I think it looks really good from the sides, from the front the seam is more visible.  

Anyway, I'm calling this a success and will probably order the rest in a few days. I'll need to paint the top black over the rest of the backdrop.  

I'm going to get some matching blue paint at Lowe's for the sky, it will cover the boo boo and I need to paint the one area with scenery with it as well.

Jeff

Jeff