Today I drove over to South Berwick, ME and got 2 poppies from the VFW.  There was a traffic jam where they were handing them out.  

It's seasonably cool and sunny.  Lots of wind last night, drying out the leaves, etc even more.  High fire danger (and severe drought) here.  Yesterday was a pick-up/put-away day for the bedroom and home office.  I hope to continue that down in the train room today.  

dave

Jeff, congrats on finding and fixing the loco power.  I'm sure you and your PCP will have fun gossiping about other doctors :-)

Supposedly the gas company is coming today to move, or at least figure out how to move the gas line for the new stove.  Right now it sticks out about 1 1/4" because the gas feed comes up on the wrong side of the stove.  I have a couple ideas how they could do it easily, but I'm not the expert.  The problem, of course, is I don't know when they're coming, so I can't plan anything particularly intensive in the Train Room.

update:  The gas guy showed up late morning, they had some unexpected emergency calls.  He looked at the range and the basement and agreed there's an easy way to do this.  But they now have to schedule the workers to come out and actually make it happen...

dave

I'm back from my cataract evaluation.  The bottom line, "You have cataracts, but you're not complaining enough for us to fix them."  Medicare has been cracking down, the patient has to have clear symptoms/complaints about degraded vision to justify the surgery.  (In my case, so far it's really mild.  Just a bit of loss of close-in depth perception, and some glare in one eye.  But the Dr said, "Your type of cataracts will progress rapidly, so we'll see you back in 6 months.")

So we'll see what I can get done in the train room while my eyes are still dilated.  At least i don't have to get used to doing eye drops, yet....

dave

Quote from: Jim Donovan on November 05, 2024, 04:07:12 PM

Quote from: deemery on November 05, 2024, 08:46:07 AMA little bit of much needed rain to start the warm day.  Wife and I will go 'renew our license to bitch' later this afternoon.  In the meantime, I'll do some more pick-up/put-away and ponder what to tackle next on the layout.  Tomorrow I get evaluated for cataract surgery, the problem is 4 weeks between the eyes, and I'm not sure I could "tolerate" being half-sighted for that long.

dave

Hi Dave;

I had the surgery done a couple of years ago and the Wait between eyes was two hours, just enough time to make sure nothing went wrong with first eye surgery.

Jim

This Dr's standard is 4 weeks.  I hope I can talk him down to 2 weeks...  I'll find out tomorrow.  

dave

A little bit of much needed rain to start the warm day.  Wife and I will go 'renew our license to bitch' later this afternoon.  In the meantime, I'll do some more pick-up/put-away and ponder what to tackle next on the layout.  Tomorrow I get evaluated for cataract surgery, the problem is 4 weeks between the eyes, and I'm not sure I could "tolerate" being half-sighted for that long.

dave

Lights in the Masonic Lodge building:

Attaching the SMD LEDs to the styrene ceilings was a real pain!  I finally ended up using thick CA to attach the little LEDs to a piece of styrene strip, then gluing that (styrene tube glue) to the ceiling.

It's not obvious this scene is only 1" deep...

dave

Looks like low clouds here, after the cold front came through last night.  Still no rain in sight for the next 10 days.  Seasonal temps for the next couple of days, but another heat wave in the middle of next week.  

Pick-up/Put-away and some work on the Masonic Lodge interior on the schedule for today...  The train room is a mess!

dave

We got a bright red sunrise with a chance of morning showers (we need the rain!), but turning sunny and warm this afternoon.  Might hit 75, about 20 degrees above normal, before that cold front comes through and takes us back to seasonal temperatures.

The cleaners are coming this morning, so I have to sit with the dogs to keep the dogs out of the cleaners' way.  Then down to the train room for the post-project pick-up/put-away.

Did I post this yesterday?  The hopper sitting on the coal trestle from the previous project...    A guy will do decals for me using his "Ghost Cartridge" when he gets a chance.


dave

Super job opening those windows!  Are you priming and then assembling?

dave

We had Trick or Treat last night, almost twice as many as last year.  I still have leftover candy, that I need to get rid of ASAP.

In a bit, I'll go down and think about how to paint the interior of that hopper.  I want it to look somewhat weathered/used, so I'll want a "wood showing through" look on the interior.

I spent some time this morning doing an edit of the latest edition of John Siekirk's Gazette.  

dave

GD hopper assembled and primed (Vallejo Panzer Black)

Still to do:  Some more painting, trucks, couplers, decals.  

dave

Our town is having Halloween today, I guess so the kids can go to neighboring towns tomorrow.  Weather here will be warm, and probably cloudy.  Last night we got some much needed rain.  I'll have to blow the leaves off the walkway before the Trick-or-Treaters start.  Before then, I should get some more work on the hopper.

dave

I spent most of the day helping a neighbor figure out WiFi problems at his church, and then he bought lunch in exchange...  We'll go back and hopefully redo with new hardware on Monday.  (The church building eats WiFi signals, I could see the throughput go from 100 to 4 when I walked around a corner.)  Plan is to use Eero Mesh components that he has, and run an Ethernet cable to a centrally located Eero from the church office where the internet enters the building...  

Anyway, no progress on the hopper.  Tomorrow is our town's Halloween, so I'll have to do some preparation for that, including figuring out dinner, before the little buggers start showing up at 5:00...  They're calling for a high of -80- tomorrow, that's about 27 degrees above normal.

dave

Marty, that came out great.  I appreciate the discussions of what when wrong and how you fixed it.

dave

Sunny and seasonal.  Wind fire warnings for this afternoon because it's been so dry here.  Last night's Scotch Club meeting was good, I tried a couple different Scotches, and my offering (Isle of Raasay) was well received.

Folks, I saw this for sale while looking for something else;  https://larkspurlaserart.com/microlux-tilt-arbor-saw/  If you do scratchbuilding in wood, this is a GREAT DEAL.  I have that saw and the same set of accessories, and love it.

dave