Friday, September 6, 2024

jerryrbeach · September 06, 2024, 07:02:47 AM

Good morning! Coffee is on, blueberry muffins on the counter. Let's go sleepyheads, we're burning daylight!

I did a little scenery work last evening. Nothing special, just used some Sculptamold to rough in some land forms. Still, after a summer away from the layout it felt good to make even a little progress.

Beautiful weather today with rain forecast for all day tomorrow. Looks like a great day to be outside. The farmer that works my fields merged the swaths yesterday and round baled the fields. Looks great to see the fields cut short again and the bales in the fields.

I hope everyone has a great day!

Zephyrus52246 · September 06, 2024, 07:19:08 AM

Morning all.

Welcome to fall. It's 58 degrees right now to a high of 72.

I have a meeting at work at 0700. I have no idea how they will waste another hour of my life, but we'll see. The only advantage is the Big Boy loco is also in Cedar Rapids today. After the meeting, I'll find a place to watch it roll by.

Jeff

cuse · September 06, 2024, 08:32:38 AM

Morning Gents,

Busy work day today but had a productive work session yesterday...mostly just vacuumed and swept off the dusty (from cutting etc) layout and everything around. Also, carted all of the excess homasote, masonite, styrofoam, and wood out of my little office/train room - so it doesn't look like a construction site anymore (for now). I laid nearly all of the HOn30 trackage (simple loop with a couple sidings) and could easily finish tonight and, maybe even have a train running again.

Off to the sweatshop. Happy Friday to those of us that count them. Happy 6th Saturday to the rest of you full-time modelers.

John

deemery · September 06, 2024, 09:27:41 AM

After the cleaners are gone (I have to sit with the dogs to keep the dogs from bothering the cleaners), wife and I have to go buy a new kitchen faucet. The old one has a leak and the guy who looked at it said "I could probably dig out and fix the bad gasket in the guts, but you should just replace it." Then it'll be back to the train room, with the priority task of finding my little dropper bottle of "Flamingo Glue" so I can start building bridge trestle bents.

dave

Onewolf · September 06, 2024, 10:24:10 AM

Good morning,

My dad and his companion are visiting for several days so I took the day off from 'real' work. Beautiful day weather wise so I will probably go collect some rocks in the yard.

Drywall finishing crew is here today. They work FAST. Only been here for 1.5 hours and they have made substantial progress.

Doug

Photo of dad on the back deck drinking coffee waiting for the sunrise.

ReadingBob · September 06, 2024, 01:47:08 PM

Afternoon all,

Lazy Friday here. I did my walk first thing this morning, before it got too hot (yeah, Fall weather is still 92 down here). Read the paper, watched a movie, etc. Now I'll hit the work bench.

George made good use of some of the pictures I sent him.

Have a great one!

deemery · September 06, 2024, 02:14:02 PM

The A/C guy finally got here. We need a new fan, and that's expensive. Lesson learned: NEVER BUY LENNOX. (This unit is 6 years old, the thermostat, main controller board and now the fan have been replaced. Only the thermostat was covered by the warranty.) And we bought the replacement kitchen faucet, the guy should be here to replace that next week.

I found the missing bottle of glue, so I'll get back to the trestle project after I walk the dogs.

Hanging drywall goes quickly. Finishing taping takes a lot more time...

dave

MartyO · September 06, 2024, 08:23:10 PM

Dave, it's looking much more like a place to play.

ReadingBob · September 06, 2024, 08:53:30 PM

Quote from: deemery on September 06, 2024, 02:14:02 PMThe A/C guy finally got here. We need a new fan, and that's expensive. Lesson learned: NEVER BUY LENNOX. (This unit is 6 years old, the thermostat, main controller board and now the fan have been replaced. Only the thermostat was covered by the warranty.) And we bought the replacement kitchen faucet, the guy should be here to replace that next week.

As much as we didn't want to we did end up going with another Lennox. Long story but we bought all the extra coverage we could. Knock wood, so far so good. My joke about the old one was they replaced everything (some things multiple times) except the concrete pad it sits on.