Friday January 17,2025

[Jim Donovan]

Good Morning;

Clubhouse is open, coffee is ready. Not sure what the day will bring today. Have a doc appointment for skin check and have to clean garage again. Other thenn that day is mine. Oh, we have a pool going in as well. It seems to be coming along. Have a great day folks.

Jim 

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning Crew. A nice warm day in So Central Wisconsin were it maybe possible to hit 50f degrees. The shorts can probably be seen on the grocery store run today.

In contrast to today, the op sessions scheduled for all day Monday and for Tuesday morning have been moved already to dates in February. Dates I cannot make! The late Tuesday afternoon shakedown session for a new layout (5 miles away)has been moved to Wednesday morning. The temperatures on those 2 days have been guessed at highs of actual -10f plus high winds. Seems folks are trusting the NWS and the local Meteorologists guessing. The Wednesday actual temperatures will be in the teens. All guesses of course. I figure we will be seeing school districts shutting down next.

I thought for the 1st time in 5 years I would be painting today. The dry Waller returned yesterday for the final coating on a few repairs. The new bathroom fan installed before Christmas the electrician had cut too big a hole. All fixed, looks good and I told Terry I was off to Home Depot to buy touch up paint. That turned into a color change and finding out I can be the gofer for the painter. As soon as both grandkids are off to school this morning the daughter will come over to paint. During High School and College Summer breaks she painted school rooms in the Wausau, Wi school district. After college she and a friend painted professionally with their own business for 5 years before they moved on to other adventures. I was told in a note this morning to move all my clothes out of my new walk in closet. She will paint that too.

This afternoon I will review our notes and then Terry and I will discuss our next vehicle decision. Yesterday was a relief from the one thing in life I have consistently hated, not disliked but hated. Car buying. Dad was a car salesman and then owned a dealership and loved the car game. Both my brother and sister inherited the family car genes that totally skipped me the middle child. Thanks for some additional ideas in yesterday's Baggage Car. As always I am paralyzed by too much info because I definitely overthink this process

I will see the train room sometime today!

TomO

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Thanks for opening Jim. Looks like you and Tom have a full day of fun planned. My day is going to be full of modeling.

Have a great day ya'll.

Tom 

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Thanks for opening Jim.

In the 50's locally. MOH madeca potato, sausage, egg and cheese casserole for breakfast and everyone is invited.

We got the subdivision Christmas decorations down and stored yesterday. Plans today are to work on the kit after the daily chores.

Good luck with the pool Jim.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[MartyO]

Morning,

Just got my 2025 Property Tax bill, a 6.9% increase over 2024, which increased 6% over 2023. My income only increases 0.5%. Hmm, no wonder tiny homes and homesteaders exist.

[GPdemayo]

Morning all.....

[Bernd]

Morning fellow modelers. Just added another section of my Suydam Engine House thread.

Early morning consisted of feeding the birds and hawk that stops by occasionally for a snack.

A bit of clean up in the basement and maybe some bench time tweaking in the corrugator.

Have great day everybody.

Bernd

[Zephyrus52246]

Morning all.

Slept quite late after a busy work day yesterday, but now I have a four day weekend.  I'll get back to the FSM kit, maybe today.  

Grocery store run planned for later this morning.  We're going to get to maybe 50 degrees today before going back in the freezer phase next week.  

Jeff

[KentuckySouthern]

[jerryrbeach]

Looks like Greg has met his match for brevity...

[KentuckySouthern]

  

[GPdemayo]