Morning all,

Another nice day here, sunny and headed to 81 degrees.  

One estimate in hand, another coming in today.  Hope the other two are done by Monday so we can decide and get this work done before winter.  

Some household chores on tap today.  I only have a three day weekend as I work Monday, but that's only a four hour day.  Then a week off so I can go to the Narrow Gauge Convention. 

Jeff

Morning all,

High of 75 today with possible rain this morning.  

I have a fourth company coming today to give me a roofing/siding estimate.  We'll see how these all pan out.  

A trip to the credit union is on tap for today, otherwise nothing planned for hump day.

The highlight of the Quad City Air Show was the Thunderbirds.  I've seen them a few times and the show never gets old. 

Jeff

Morning all, 

First day of school here today.  Headed to a pleasant 72 degrees.

I have a trip to the grocery store and two guys coming to give me siding/roofing estimates today.

Jeff

Morning all,

Great day yesterday with the airshow (any show with The Thunderbirds is great) and meeting my brother for breakfast.  

Sunny with a high of 75 today.  I can actually skip my "every other day" mowing today, but will probably do it tomorrow.  

Maybe some train time today or just a lazy Sunday. 

This is a "Cavalier" Mustang.  A company built these for personal use planes after the war, though some foreign countries bought them as fighters.

Jeff

Morning all,

Air Show Day!  I'm headed out to Davenport for the Quad Cities Air Show.  I'll meet my brother for breakfast, but as he had back surgery 3 weeks ago we figure all the walking will be a bit much for him.  He seems to be doing well post op.

Here's a Staggerwing in an unusual paint scheme.  Apparently some where used by Britain in WW2.  

Jeff

Wow.  Your painting skills on the backdrop are amazing!

Jeff

Morning all,

Headed to 82 today.  Seems a bit less humid.  Maybe the heat wave, which has been pretty much all summer, is over.  

Mowing later is my only item on the docket.  I don't mind doing it, but this every other day stuff is getting ridiculous.  

It's a bird!  It's a plane!  No, it's a blimp.  Goodyear brought two of their blimps to the airshow.  

Jeff

Great news, George!  Hopefully a quick recovery.

Jeff

Morning all,

Headed to 84 today, a cooling trend from the weekend.  Still quite humid, however.  

Going to Cedar Rapids today to get TSA precheck stuff done.  Two trips planned for October, hopefully that will get us through quicker.  

I think this is a Grumman Albatross amphibian aircraft. 

Jeff

Morning all,

Icky and sticky already this morning, headed to 90 with rain later.  Maybe it will cool off.  I'll have to mow before the rain.

Trip to Costco and Lowe's this morning.  Did some work on the FSM kit, will hope to get back to it today.

Here's an O2 observation plane.  I always remind my son that if I didn't have a wife, kids and a dog, I'd own the civilian version, a Cessna Skymaster.  

Jeff

Morning all,

Headed to low 90s again today.  I did get some new spray to get rid of the stingers.  They are yellow jackets.  Sprayed last night.  Did see one buzzing around this morning when I sprayed the hole again.  Will probably try some gap filling foam on the hole later today. 

I fixed the tender on the locomotive as something on the rear truck was below rail height, so I bent it clear.  Also had a dragging chain from one of the trucks which I removed.  It still has issues stalling, I suspect on the loco, will need to clean the wheels and look to see if there's something shorting somewhere. 

Here's a C-121 Constellation that was used by MacArthur as his personal transport. 

Jeff

Morning all,

Happy belated birthday to Pete!

Gonna be another hot, humid one here.  Headed into the mid 90s.  

We have some kind of stinging flyers (my wife's been stung a few times when watering her flower baskets) living in between the landscape bricks on our front steps. I tried a spray 2 days ago that didn't seem to phase them.   Probably go to Lowe's to look for something else today.  

I got the loco lubricated and it no longer squeaks.  something is causing it to slow over turnouts, I think something is dragging or maybe the wheels need cleaning.  

A U-2 spyplane from the  show.  

Jeff

Morning all,

Seventy one degrees here headed to 90s for today and the weekend.  I think I'll stay in and do the elliptical versus an outside walk.

Hope to continue detail painting as well as some figures.  I got a new "wet palette" as it's supposed to help keep the paint wet and eases thinning.  We'll see how it works. 

I also recently acquired a brass 4-8-4 which needs some lubrication, hope to get to that as well.

Here's a "Spooky" gunship converted C-47.  

Jeff

Wow.  That looks great.  The roofs, details, everything.  

Jeff

Morning all, 

Happy Hump Day!  Headed to 83 degrees here today.  

Have a haircut scheduled for this morning, will probably mow this afternoon.  After that a trip to the hardware store.

This is a reproduction P-64.  It's odd as there were only six original P-64s, manufactured mainly for export, one of which is in the EAA museum in Oshkosh.  

Jeff