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#1
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Wednesday, March 27, 2024
March 27, 2024, 07:35:11 AM
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
#2
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Monday, March 25, 2024
March 25, 2024, 08:03:27 AM
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
#3
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Sunday, March 10, 2024
March 10, 2024, 08:33:14 AM
Morning all.

Glad I'm not working this weekend with the time change, I got up at my normal time, which is now an hour later.   ::) Hopefully by Tuesday I'll be more in sync.  

Will watch the Hawkeye women in the Big Ten final later this morning.  

Jeff
#4
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Friday, March 8, 2024
March 08, 2024, 08:04:58 AM
Morning all.

Raining here, but that's good, we really need it.  I have a four day weekend, and hope to get some work done on the layout.  

Jeff
#5
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Wednesday, March 6, 2024
March 06, 2024, 08:33:22 AM
Morning all.

Slept late, but I'm still the first one here.  No plans for today except for a trip to Costco to pick up some new glasses. 

Jeff
#6
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
February 28, 2024, 08:12:20 AM
Morning all.

Eight degrees here this morning as our spring weather has gone.  

I'm off to get a haircut in an hour, then a trip to Costco.

No other plans for today.

Jeff
#7
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Sunday, February 25, 2024
February 25, 2024, 08:58:02 AM
Morning all.

Another beautiful day here. It's supposed to break 60 degrees.   8)

Hope to finish the Deco build today.  

Jeff
#8
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024
February 21, 2024, 07:53:17 AM
Morning all.

It's supposed to get up to 60 degrees here today.  Very warm for February in Iowa.  

The window company is supposed to come this morning to finish installing the last four windows on the project started last year.  I'm glad it's not below zero today.  

Maybe some bench time later.

Jeff
#9
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Saturday, February 17, 2024
February 17, 2024, 07:57:11 AM
Morning all.

Single digits here this morning, but we'll break the freezing mark later. 

Did my taxes yesterday, but two support people couldn't seem to fix a problem that came up.  In fact, one just said she'd be back and signed off, never to return.  Will try again today.  

I've done some touchups on the Deco kit, hope to get to the next step today.

Jeff
#10
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Monday, Feb. 5, 2024
February 05, 2024, 08:21:45 AM
Morning all.

You "Easterners" (my mother called them "snobby Easterners"--my dad was from New Jersey) sure sleep late.  Us midwestern folk have been up awhile, set out the trash and recycling bins, read the paper (it's really thin on Mondays) and are having breakfast. 

Supposed to get to 50 today, we'll see.

the Tree Guys (that's the company name) are coming today to clear the yard debris from the snow storm of early January.   

Work on the DD build later.

Jeff
#11
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Sunday, February 4, 2024
February 04, 2024, 07:55:35 AM
Morning all.

Supposed to warm to near 50 today.  We'll see if that happens. 

Will work on the Tattoo parlor build some today, hopefully.  

Iowa women's BB won last night in a game they blew an eighteen point lead.  Pretty exciting second half.  

Jeff
#12
Kit Building / DD Luci's Tattoo
February 03, 2024, 04:29:01 PM
This is a build thread for Downtown Deco's Luci's Tattoo Emporium.  Mark Dalrymple's help on my layout dilemma showed that this building would fit perfectly in the town scene.  The building I used there is a Hardware store which doesn't fit the "theme" of the bad side of town.  But this tattoo parlor will.  

Jeff
#13
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
February 03, 2024, 07:32:01 AM
Morning all.

Another day in the low 40s here.  I'm a bit disappointed as it was predicted to be in the 50s the last couple of days.  But it's cold, windy and gray instead.  

Hit a bit of a snag on the Deco build, so I didn't get much accomplished yesterday.  Hope to do better today and start the build thread. 

Trip to the grocery store later this morning is on the docket. 

I'm always mindful of getting my roof stack/vents/chimneys perfectly straight.  This week I noticed this on the roof of the Culver's across from my office. 

Jeff
#14
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024
January 27, 2024, 07:36:48 AM
Morning all.

Foggy here again this morning, but were just above freezing and no rain/snow forecast.  

Hope to continue the Gusano Loco build today.

Here's a picture I took when we went to California over Thanksgiving.  It's just sitting in the street in Monterey.  No historic sign/plaque to explain what it is or why it's there.  

Jeff
#15
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Tuesday, January 23, 2024
January 23, 2024, 08:10:25 AM
Morning all.

We're on a one hour delay at work due to freezing rain and snow in the area.  Our temp is right around 32, and should go up a tiny bit, so hopefully it will just be wet later, but I'm watching the road conditions.  

Jeff
#16
Kit Building / Gusano Loco build
January 19, 2024, 04:45:03 PM
I needed something to build while watching playoff football, so started this kit.  It's Gusano Loco from FOS.  Stripwood, siding, signs, instructions windows, roofing and some water putty to make stucco.

Jeff
#17
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Friday, Jan 19, 2023
January 19, 2024, 08:29:04 AM
Morning all.

It's one below here with a high of seven predicted.  I need to push or snow throw the two or so inches of snow we got yesterday somewhere.  Need to go to the credit union to renew a CD later today.  Otherwise a lazy day here.  Maybe some structure and/or layout work, we'll see. 

Jeff
#18
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Monday, January 15, 2024
January 15, 2024, 08:23:02 AM
Morning all.

TGIM!  Why Monday?  Because it's caucus day here in Iowa.  The extremely annoying political ads/texts will end for awhile.  

Very cold taking out the trash this morning.  Fourteen below with a wind chill of thirty one below.  We won't break zero again today.  I will venture out later to clear part of the sidewalk that got drifted in by the wind. 

Maybe some layout work later, I also started a structure build I need to begin posting on.  

Jeff

#19
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Sunday, January 14, 2024
January 14, 2024, 07:38:50 AM
Morning all.

It's 17 below (42 below with wind chill) here this morning.  Snow is blowing around and it's icy and slippery everywhere.  I will only go out to do some shoveling touch up where needed.  Otherwise trains, computer games and football are on today's agenda, though I wonder how much longer my wife wants to keep the Christmas tree up. 

Jeff
#20
Baggage Car - Daily Chat / Sunday, December 24, 2023
December 24, 2023, 08:03:22 AM
Morning, all.

Happy Christmas Eve!  As our celebration with the kids/grandkids was last weekend, it's just a quiet weekend here.  

Didn't get much accomplished yesterday as I spent 3+ hours dealing with installing the Ring Doorbell, which still doesn't work.  Don't get me started about their "customer support".  We'll try again today.  I'm glad I didn't throw the old doorbell out, as I think it will probably be back in place by tonight.  

Cloudy and 57 degrees here with rain later.  No white Christmas, but I'm not complaining. 

Jeff
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