Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 1

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Curt hope you and Kathy feel better today.

ACLTom hope you finish decluttering soon.

Rick thanks for coffee & breakfast.
Beautiful picture.

Larry Brett has always been expensive with shipping.

Morning Karl looks to be a day of track laying.

Philip hope your plan works out for you! 

Ron it should be a good race today.

Mike looking forward to the next step on the bridge build.

Weather in South Jersey cloudy/rainy/69.
Hey it might be a good day to sit at the bench for a couple of hours.
For some reason unknown to my small brain I put studs were there is suppose to be a opening.
So I need to fix that.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[DaleM]

Good day everyone and top of the morning to you!

Another beautiful day in Northern Colorado with clear skys, light winds and highs in the 70s.

Yesterday I started building a pergola kit we bought last fall on sale. Digging the holes is the only hard part, the rest is easy, its all PVC. I should finish it up this morning and that will make the wife happy.

[GPdemayo]

A bit of relaxing today and back at it tomorrow, y'all have a good one.....

[Larry C]

Good Morning,

The morning beverages are on the counter. Breakfast is eggs anyway you choose, ham, and home fries.

Those of you who are feeling poorly, as my grandfather used to say, hope you're on the mend. For those of you who have been following my blog I'm taking a break for a bit; I've been writing Trek for the past 7 years and I'm burnt out.

What's going on in your world?

It's yet another rainy day in New York starting @ 58 going to 67. Still playing with details and trying to
get creative with what I have on hand. An errand shortly then the rest of the day, hopefully, is mine.

Have an enjoyable day!! Be well and stay safe.

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Thanks for opening and breakfast Larry. Everyone is entitled to break from time to time.

I want to thank everyone for the well wishes during our illness. It means a lot to me.

We retested last night. Kathy Is clear but still coughing, but the cough is slowly going away. I still tested positive and still have the previous symptoms. Tomorrow will be the 2 week point.

We got some much needed rain over the weekend.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[friscomike]

Good morning crew,

Larry, thanks for opening, coffee, and breakfast. Good luck with the new details.  I'm sure you'll come up with something creative.

Curt, good to hear Kathy is better.  Wishing both of you a speedier improvement.

Gregory, hope you have a great week.

Dale, good luck with the pergola kit.  Love to see a photo when it's complete.

Jerry, we've all done that about those studs in the door.  Fortunately, an Xacto knife does the trick.

How is the rest of the crew?

It's a sunny day, and the temperature is a cool 46°F, but it's warming to 73°F. Work continues on the bridge, and I'm already thinking about what structure to build next.  I think I'll lay the turnouts and track on the layout and tape them off when I work on scenery.

Have fun,
mike

[Philip]

G morning crew! Thanks for the grub Larry! Rain is going on and had to fire the boiler up again. A really damp and cold morning.

Glad you all are on the mend Curt.

Mike how big is your layout?

Gotta go.. everyone have a great day!

[elwoodblues]

Good morning Larry, Curt, Mike, Philip and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Larry.

Currently 69F and sunny here.

Watch the F1 race yesterday and McLaren was the clear winner with a 1-2 finish.  I also managed some bench time and got the glazing done in 3 building.  Next up is adding window shades and making some more light boxes to light the buildings.  I also need to decide what the stores will be so I can add some appropriate signage.

Have a great day everyone.

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Thanks for breakfast Larry, much appreciated.

Great to hear the Webb family is on the mend as Larry's grand father used to say.

Yes, I'm still decluttering. The decluttering is easy, the problem is finding a place to put stuff without moving it to clutter another area. So, as I'm decluttering, I'm putting stuff away or trashing the stuff I don't want and can't use. Over 60 years of accumulating is now coming back on me. 

I have sold many items on Ebay so I'm freeing up space for more stuff.

Have a safe and happy day.

Tom 

[KentuckySouthern]

Sun is hiding, just broke the 50⁰ line at 0930.  Rains were hard and frequent in the night. 

Stuff to do,  , not sure what.  Layout got 2 hours out of me yesterday.  Cleanup in the list there soon.

Was asked about Northern Command, Soon as dental and reverse 'oscopy bs gets handled,  , maybe a few days a week or two down the road.  Weather has been a factor as well.  I imagine the grass and ticks are NXS up there, skeeters are default huge any time.

Be Well...KS

[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

Philomath weather: 37 now and low 70's later.

Larry, thanks for the coffee and breakfast.
Hope you get to do what you'd like for the rest of the day.

Karl, glad you're getting RR time in and hope you can go to Northern Command soon.

ACLTom, stuff does accumulate quickly.

Ron, there was some good action in yesterday's race and McLaren right now looks unstoppable.

Philip, hope it warms up later.

Mike, have fun at the layout.

Curt, good news about Kathy.
Hope Dad is doing better and hope you start getting better too.

Greg, Jerry, TomO, Dave, Dale and everyone else looking in, what's new?

Slept much later than usual today.
Star and I hiked to the top of Marys Peak.
6 miles and 1,500'+ of elevation gain.
Great views at the top.
Taking it easy in the forest today.

A short video at the top of Marys Peak: https://youtube.com/shorts/SNowstfnrQc

There was some low fog over the lake yesterday before I left.



Have a great day everyone.

[friscomike]

Mike how big is your layout?

Howdy Curt, here are the specs for the layout:

General Information
Name: Buffalo Canyon Mining Company
Scale: On30
Size: 15' X 13'
Prototype: None - layout is freelanced
Locale: Quitaque, Texas (west Texas panhandle area)
Era: 1920's
Layout Type: Walkaround
Layout Height: 40″
Benchwork: 3 modules and boxed frame extensions with 2″ rigid foam
Roadbed: foam
Trackwork: Microengineering On30 plus hand-laid
Turnouts: Microengineering No 5 plus hand laid
Minimum Curve Radius: 22″
Scenery: Rigid foam covered with latex paint and ground foam
Control: Digitrax DCC



Have fun,
mike

[Jerry]

Afternoon everyone

I'm late today.  So I'll put on a fresh pot of coffee for anyone you wants a cup.
Errands to run in a few minutes so this is short.

I'll be back later.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[Philip]

Dang Mike,  Nice indeed! I wish I had more room.

Rick 2:40 pm and the heat is still going. Crazy town weather! Cat is sitting on the computer drawer stack...smart fellow! Been there all day. ZZZzzzzz

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning Crew. Nope I'm not walking this morning outside. After 8 hours of standing on my feet operating trains over the last 2 days I was tired. Sunday my steps at the session were over my daily goal of 8000 steps with 11,203. My walking pace is 2155 steps per mile. Monday was just 5926 but I did walk around the neighborhood with Terry last night at 3062 steps. I'm taking a break this morning. We are going shopping after the passport renewnal this morning, so I should get plenty of steps in

It's 51f degrees right now heading into the high 70's. The winds are calm at 2 mph. With a very slight chance of rain the WeatherChannel app is telling me it will be like this the next few days.

I have posted some pictures of the 2 sessions I attended on my FB page. At the Wisconsin River Valley and Terminal Railroad in HO scale. It's mainly a page for my weathering and adventures on the layout. Also there are pictures of Sunday's sessions on a few Facebook pages but mainly at the BN Marias Pass layout page. The BN Marias Pass is one of the nicest, best running layouts I have run on. The scenery is top notch, it's big with over a 750' mainline but best of all because the equipment is generally flawless it's fun. Fully signaled with dispatching and train masters it just keeps getting better every time. 16 of us were there including 5 guys from the Kansas City area. Plus the owner and his wife Alan and Darcy Schroeder are 2 of the nicest people you could ever want to meet. A few pics are at the bottom

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Today is passport renewnal at a distant post office at 10 and 10:20am. We need to venture out at 9:30 for the 20minute + drive. The son and his girl friend flew back to Austin around 11 yesterday morning. It was good to have him home for a couple days. He lives a tough life. Today they fly out to Cancun as his girl friend was a top 10 employee where she works and won the trip all expenses paid. The son is her plus 1.

The daughter, son and Terry attended Saturday the Berkshire Hathaway annual stockholders meeting. BK according to the son needs to be spending some of that massive amount of cash they have. Warren is looking for the prices to be right to make a big splash instead of a bunch of little ones. Terry has mixed feelings as she believes they should have been spending this year but the stocks have done so well for us she is not going to question them. Mr Buffet did indicate this will be his last investor meeting. I hate meetings and especially dislike stockholders meetings as an absolute waste of time but the BK meeting is unique that leadership is open to questions off the floor. This was the first meeting for the son and daughter and the 11th for Terry. I have been to 3. Our 1st meeting was together in 1992.

I had a client/buddy drop a bunch of containers off Saturday and I rushed 6 for him. He was having a photo shoot for his layout yesterday and today

Have a great day
TomO