Sunday, December 24, 2023

[Zephyrus52246]

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

[ACL1504]

Morning Dr. Jeff and others,

Quiet here as well. We are expected to get the liquid snow here tomorrow.

Have a safe and healthy Christmas Eve ya'll.

Tom 

[GPdemayo]

Merry Christmas Eve  y'all.....

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Have a last minute skunk rescue today. I'm not particularly happy about that but I guess it is what it is.

I won't be in tomorrow so I wish everyone a Merry Christmas or what you choose to celebrate. I wish everyone the very best.

[Jim Donovan]

Greetings from somewhere in the Caribbean. Weather is 75F (22C for the rest of the world). I'm sitting on the balcony enjoying the sun, the soft rocking of the ship and working on designing parts for the clothing factory project. All in all a very good Christmas Eve. It is days like today that I realize how fortunate I am. I hope everyone has a great day before Christmas.

Jim

[jerryrbeach]

Good morning.

It is a drizzly lightly rainy day here in my little corner of upstate NY.  I need to do some laundry, otherwise planning to fill my time with some modeling. 

I hope everyone has a safe day filled with the spirit of the season. 

[deemery]

There was a bit of sleet on the driveway here in SE NH, so I guess that's what we'll get for a White Christmas.  

Happy Holidays to everyone, and safe travels for those venturing out.  We're staying home, as usual.  I have a beef roast in the fridge with a spice rub for tomorrow.

dave

[Rollin]

Merry Christmas:

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[ReadingBob]

Morning all,

I think I'm about as ready for tomorrow as I'm going to get.  My better half has warned me that one of my X-Mas presents hasn't been delivered yet.  Oh well, it's not like I was going to clear off the workbench and start working on it tomorrow.   

Today will be a quiet one.  I'll squeeze in some workbench time this afternoon.  This evening we're invited next door for some food, drinks and general merriment.  Tomorrow will be just us.  The better half will cook up a feast and we'll just relax and enjoy the day.

Have a great one! 

[Erieman]

Good afternoon All,

Each year Christmas seems to get bigger family wise. The Grandchildren continue to grow and now we are hearing that  
a great grandchild is on the way. We might have to get a bigger table for everyone to sit around. Everyone is doing well otherwise. Our weather had finally turned acceptable. No high temps, just plenty of sunshine. My wife gave me a early Christmas gift that I could buy some more train stuff!!! Actually i am in need of fire escapes, roof top water tanks, roof vents, etc. 

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have over 50 structures in my cityscape area. All are plastic and many are heavily kitbashed. They are two to 15 stories high and form a wall along the northside of the layout. All if not most will also have led lighting, interior details etc.... I'll try to take some pics for my next post. Many need to be removable for access to tracks on three levels. For those not familiar with my layout, that sounds a bit crazy. I'll take some close up pics so everyone can visualize this area better. You can also see the layout diagram of my layout in the 2019 Great Model Railroads issue.

I wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and may Santa bring you all lots of train stuff.

Frank / Erieman