Friday 31 January

[PRR Modeler]

Good Morning All,

Today for breakfast MOH has made homemade donuts with coffee, juice and soda.

Started out the day with a walk at a very pleasant 60F. Yesterday, I worked several hours on the kit and we got final approval from the city inspector so all the holes in the walls can be fixed. We're at 56 days for the 1 day plumbing job.

Today is errand day so probably no train room time.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning from So. Central Wisconsin where the temperatures are warm, it's 36f degrees now heading only to mid 40's. The upper 50's (58) of yesterday are gone. The "real feel" now is 24.

Haircut at 9:30 this morning. Other then some work on the layout I'm not sure what's going on until 7pm when we will watch on TV #1 nationally ranked Wisconsin Women's hockey team plays #6 Minnesota-Duluth up in Duluth. Because I am heading to an op session Saturday I think I heard Terry say she'll do the grocery run herself but while I'm gone, not today.

The honey do list is blank, unusual for Winter but I'm ok with that!

Curt, thanks for opening and I'll grab a diet Dr Pepper and a donut.

Enjoy the day
TomO

[KentuckySouthern]

36⁰ in Mid Michigan with fog and rain. 

I've much more layout work to do.  I will make some time for that. 

Have a fine day all.

[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

Anza-Borrego weather: Partially cloudy with a high of 70.

Curt, thanks for the coffee and doughnut.
Glad you got your final approval from the inspector.

TomO, have fun at the hockey game.

How's the rest of the crew doing.

Nice to see many familiar names here and thanks to everyone here on this forum for having us.

Star and I walked 6 miles yesterday on the Blair Valley Trail.
Today I'll air the tires down for the first time and drive the entire 14 mile loop of the Blair Valley Trail.

Here's a short video I posted yesterday of the garden layout at the San Diego Model RR Museum.

https://youtube.com/shorts/H1YjIFLBb9Y

Have a great day everyone.

[Philip]

Good Morning! Thanks for the coffee Curt.

Rained like crazy overnight and a mere 52°. Warmest weather in a while.

Not sure what the day brings yet. Have a good day!

Philip

 

[MartyO]

Morning 

Still recovering from the death of one of our cats who had cancer.

[Rick]

Morning

Still recovering from the death of one of our cats who had cancer.

My condolences on your loss.
I know how hard it is to lose a loved pet.

[jerryrbeach]

Morning

Still recovering from the death of one of our cats who had cancer.

Marty,

My condolences for your loss.  Been there, done that, know how hard it is to process and move on.

[jerryrbeach]

Good morning.

Curt, thanks for the donuts, cannot remember the last time I had homemade ones.

Freezing rain here to start this Friday.  The forecast calls for it to change to all rain later this morning.  I hope the forecast is on point, as the ground is getting increasingly slippery.  

Made a major mistake when building a caboose yesterday.  I Acc'd the platform tight to the end of the floor without leaving room for the end walls.  Big oops.  I did saw out a place for the end walls using my hobby size table saw.  That blade was wider than the walls, so this morning I'll be using some strip wood to fill the gap.  At least that's the plan, stay tuned to see if it works...

I hope everyone has a safe and productive day. 

[GPdemayo]

Morning all.....glad to see your post this morning Rick, I hope you keep us posted with the adventures you and Star have in the future.

[deemery]

Marty, sorry to hear about your cat.

Weather in SE NH is 'unsettled'.  It's right at freezing, with rain due this afternoon changing to snow and then another cold snap for the weekend.  Our driveway will probably be bad with snow/ice/snow sandwich.  

Today I'll pick up the 100' ethernet cables I was using temporarily to try to debug a problem with house wiring and our internet connection.  Works fine with those cables, but I'm still seeing intermittent random brief drops using the in-house Coax that worked fine until a couple months ago.  I'll probably end up running a line OUTSIDE the house from the basement where the fiber modem is, up to the 2nd story home office where all the other hardware is...   That's taken up valuable time that I should have been using on the Lamson build...

dave

[Larry C]

Good Morning,

Curt thanks for the coffee and doughnuts; tough to find a decent doughnut any more.
Great seeing all these familiar faces here and a big thanks to this forum for welcoming us in.
Marty sorry to hear about your kitty; that's a tough one.
For those following along, under the "roundhouse" tab, I moved the PHSL RR from "layout tour" to the "O-narrow line" along with Ron; just makes more sense to me since they were kind enough to set up that sub-forum.
I did check @ 9:30 & the RR line forum is now down.
It's a rainy 32 with a high of 38 in New York. Ran a couple of early errands then will start catching up my layout thread here to reflect where I'm currently at now.
Have a great day!!! Be well and stay safe.

[PRR Modeler]

Morning

Still recovering from the death of one of our cats who had cancer.

Marty I am very sorry about the loss of your kitty. Losing a fur family member is always traumatic.

[BandOGuy]

Still trying to recuperate from last weekend at "Springfield"/Amherst. The published attendance figure was over 27,000 for Saturday and Sunday. The problem was the cold. Almost all of the Reading Modular Group returned home suffering from colds, but there have been no reports of the dreaded Springfield Crud.
Modular was supposed to be on the way to the show at Timonium, MD this morning, but we had to drop out due to illness and exhaustion. The members are all getting older or are still working for a living. I know I am not up to a three-hour drive today, set up and two days of being on my feet again. I've got a lot of catching up to do today here and around the house.
Behave yourselves.

[Zephyrus52246]

Morning all.

Sorry to hear about the loss of your furry friend, Marty.  

Here it's 39 degrees and raining.  We really need the rain.  

I'm not sure what's on today's agenda, we'll see what happens. 

Jeff