Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 4

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning from a mostly bright blue Wisconsin sky. 36f degrees now at 6:55am CDT heading to 62. It's Mothers Day so there are no grandson games to see today. 3 yesterday, 2 hockey and 1 soccer.

Not sure what today will bring! Maybe we will head to a hamburger shack about 1 hour away as we both want to try this place. Restaurants above the 10x10 shack level will be pretty busy today. The grandson who now cuts 5 local lawns including mine is taking his mom to a golf range and a 9 hole par 3 course. He's even using his money, a good thing! He's now been golfing 6 weeks. He and 2 buddies have been hitting into my golf simulator at least 2 times a week. All are hockey players that just seem to do decent on a golf course. One of the local golf pros and a neighbor is giving them lessons. He had them at his outdoor range in April and it was cold. He then came over twice to my place and gave them lessons. I have with his list been helping them since. They listen well.

I'm in one of my modeling slow downs but coming out of it. I have been continuing to help 2 friends build their layouts on Wednesday and Friday mornings till around 2. I am building 1 paper mill for one of the friends as a gift to fit a 24"x32' space and it's slow going. I'm designing my own new paper mill to fit a 30" x 198" peninsula after selling the 1 I started building in 2015 and been detailing since. So I had been in overdrive for about a year now and while still helping at work sessions the home bench has not been visited too often since mid April after returning from traveling. The friend I am building the paper mill for is modeling the PNW between Wenatchee and Tacoma in 1965. The mainline is just over 1200' on a three level mushroom do-dad thing and he had some other framework to finish. I'm waiting for the lighting but I have the 46" chemical end completed with the essential structures. The digester, recovery boiler and bleach plants are ready. The liquor tanks are ready and I'm back to the blow tank. No piping yet but that will be coming. The 30" enclosed rail dock in the shipping department with removable roof is done. Still have maybe a year left to complete and install the essentials before I will start all the piping, conveyors, cabinets and miscellaneous details that say this is a big industry! But I'm having fun and everything is designed.

Enjoy the day

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

Well, I'll try this again. I hit the wrong key and my post went bye bye!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all moms past and present.

Rick, thanks for breakfast.

Yes, the pool was a major issue and fix.

We have an inground vinyl liner pool, 15,000 gallons. I noticed dirt in the bottom of the pool and air bubbles coming from one of the water jets. Those are two big indicators that I had a leak. I called the leak detection folks, they came out and found the leak, under the concrete slab. A little cha-ching.

Breaking the slab, making the repair and redoing the area of concrete more cha-ching. I re-laid the pavers so, that saved a little more cha-ching.

When the pool water was off, I noticed what looked like small bulges under the pool liner. Drained the pool to find small roots had worked under the sides of the pool and onto the pool bottom under the liner. These were palm roots from a palm I planted some 30 years ago.

Removed the roots, repaired the root damage and had a new vinyl liner installed. Major CHA-CHING!

I'm very much lighter in the pocket and the pool is now fixed and beautiful. More importantly, momma is very happy.

Have a nice Mother's Day everyone.

Tom

[KentuckySouthern]

Page 100 Greetings!

Happy Mother's Day!

We are having two rounds of daughters today, and a grand or two.  #2's daughter moved in with her mom's sister after high school, tired of being Cinderella, and we have two of everything now days.

Nice weather will make it a nice day. 

KS

[jbvb]

Good morning, all. Pleasant spring day in the lower Merrimack valley, with a shower possible later.

Rick, SD is one of three US states I've never visited, but somewhere I once found a geological history of it. The glaciers and the ancestors of today's Missouri River had a complicated, occasionally very dramatic history.

Tom, I owned an indoor pool for 17 years. My 2nd wife wanted that house in the divorce, I had no problem giving it to her. She eventually got tired of the pool and demolished it during a renovation that shrank that house considerably.

[deemery]

Happy Day to everyone's mother...   Our house in Virginia had a pool, my neighbor the Vietnam era combat engineer and I sketched out how to blow it apart using det cord.  Our wives were horrified.  Eventually, though, we did bury it.  Neither wife nor I were interested in "a hole in the ground you pour money into."  But then, I like snow....

I did more work on rock cliffs, pictures maybe later today.  And I cleaned up the bench where I mix plaster, Sculptamold, etc.  Then Scotch Club, including my bottle of Raasay and another Raasay.  Very small distillery, but good stuff.  

Sunny right now, but rain showers coming later today.  

dave

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there!!

Rick thanks for the coffee & breakfast.
Nice picture.
Be safe driving today.

Larry have a nice day with the family.

Curt great video.

Mike sounds like you need to jump in and help Curt with the barrels. 

TomO sounds like you have a full time job building that new mill.

ACLTom looks like you got to the root of the problem!! 

Karl enjoy the day with your family.

Morning James.

Dave looking forward to your update.

Weather in South Jersey is P. sunny/62.  Later on showers.
I hope to get some siding on today will see.
Looks like were due for a new chapter here.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[elwoodblues]

Good morning everyone,

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Rick.

TomO, glad to see you are back and it seams that you have been busy.

Tom, your pool should now be good for another 20 years. 

Yes Jerry, I get to work the odd Saturday, but at least I get paid for it.

Current temperature is 11c (52f) and sunny.  Spent some time yesterday designing the enclosure for the DCC-EX components.  Design is complete and printing started. Printed the first plate yesterday, currently printing the second plate.  Have chores to do today but should be able to get back downstairs later today.

Have a great day everyone.

[deemery]

Ron, looking forward to seeing your DCC-EX case (and connections, etc.)  I've been reading a lot about DCC-EX and in particular about using it to do things other than just act as a DCC base station.  In particular, I'm going to do a "emergency stop" set of buttons to distribute around the layout, that'll make me learn both hardware interfacing and the EX Command Station language.

Since we're at 100 pages, later tonight I'll close out this thread and start a new one.

dave