Kyle it amazes me how you can turn a brown blob into something that looks amazing. Have fun.

Good afternoon from Wisconsin. The cool down hit hard this morning as at 4am it was 40f degrees. The high might get to 63. Supposedly that 63 might be the highest temperature until Tuesday.

Volleyball on campus tonight, maybe. The Terry replacements are busy tonight and the grandkids can't because school started this week! I don't want to go alone.

Somebody wrote "no ambition". That's the way I feel about MY personal trains and layout! The commission work though I'm ok with. At 11:30pm yesterday I finished clear coating 6 diesels. This morning I sent off pictures for 4 more diesels after adding a slightly heavier weathering to them that was requested Tuesday. I'd like to get all 10 billed tomorrow if he approves those final 4 today.

Not sure what happened but my IPadPro is telling me I cannot play the YouTube content videos I subscribe to. I use DuckDuckGo as my browser and never have had issues like this since I came home Saturday. I left a message for the family geek and computer guru, the son!

Be well
TomO

That forge is awesome, Dave.

I hope you do find a way to easily make the wall removable, so that all those details in your machine shop will be visible.

Nice Karl...very nice
terry

Good morning, Karl and crew. I had routine blood drawn this morning and then a walk.  After some chores I have styrene brick walls to glue together. 

Karl, that's quite a gap in the rails.  During WWII the Army ran some tests on how to blow up track and found it wasn't easy to derail a train.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agznZBiK_Bs

George

Afternoon all,

Gee, it's been a busy morning. I started out with my 2.5 mile walk. Then, after cleaning up from that, I ran to Home Depot to pick up three fresh five-gallon water bottles for the cooler we use in the kitchen. Swung by the 'bad place', as my better half refers to McDonalds, on the way home to pick up breakfast.  Then a trip to the eye Doctor to pick up some glasses that were ready. After that I swung by the pharmacy at Publix to get the Flu and RSV vaccine. Just now got home and sent an e-mail to my regular Doc asking what's next on that front. Blood work I'm assuming but I'll wait to hear from them. I think the rest of the day is mine now. Maybe I'll hit the workbench after lunch.

Have a great one!

I bet the track crew "borrowed" that splice bar...  

I'm getting serious about pick-up/put-away, organizing all those small parts.  I ordered some small plastic boxes to try to gather stuff together.  Once I get the stuff off the floor, I might think about digging stuff out of the closet to add that stuff to the new organization.

dave

Good morning crew,

Curt, thanks for opening, coffee and breakfast.  Good luck with the oil paints.

Rick, hope the hike was a good one.

TomACL, the train room sounds like a good place to spend the afternoon.

Karl, glad you had basement time.

Larry, winter prep sounds good. Are you new porches winterized, too?

Dave, I agree on organizing stuff.  Your Dad's words were spot on.

Ron, good luck accomplishing your work tasks.  Free weekends are nice!

Jerry, hope your day was restful and fun.

How is the rest of the crew?

It's a bright morning with a forecast of 87°F.  Cooler weather is in store next week.  I started the morning by knocking a full jar of BBQ sauce off the shelf onto the pantry floor.  It was a mess and killed my morning interests. It was my favorite, Stubbs BBQ.  I am smoking a pork roast this weekend and had planned to use it.  I guess I'll have to go to the store.  

I finished printing some tools and parts for Sharon's painting.  Also, reprinted some of the details for the lodge. Not sure what is in store this afternoon.  Cowboys tonight.

Have fun,
mike