Friday, June 19, 2026

[Zephyrus52246]

Morning all,

Presently sunny and 58 degrees headed to 80 later.  

A trip to Costco later this morning.  We have to prepare for my daughter and her family arriving next week, so we'll be picking up mainly food items.  

The downstairs cleaning is done and the trains are ready for action.  I even figured out how to reset a steamer that lost some of it's sounds.  It's a QSI decoder and I needed to reset three CVs.  

Jeff

[jbvb]

Good morning, Jeff and crew!  Yesterday's thunderstorms brought us heavy rain for a while, today is sunny headed for 80F. Today will be indoor & outdoor projects, tomorrow I have a helper so can return to the double slip project at Seashore.

[deemery]

A bit further north of James, we got light rain, and then a big squall came up suddenly.  One of the dogs was out, it scared him so much I had to call a bunch of times to get him to come out of the rain.  I've read about those sudden violent squalls in 'sea story' books, but this is one of the few times I've seen one inland.  

Anyway, yesterday was a lost day, no motivation.  I should do better today, but then US v Australia is at 3:00 EDT this afternoon...

dave

[Jim Donovan]

Good Morning;

Sitting on back patio, it is already in 80's with a heat advisory. Between the birds  chirping and fan noise I am having trouble keeping my eyes open. Dogs have already made that decision. Hope to make some progress getting challenge parts out, can't believe I managed to to drag it out this long. Hopefully they find the wait worth it,

Have a great day.

Jim

[GPdemayo]

Morning all.....

[KentuckySouthern]

Bright total Blue SKY this morning in MI, temps may now be in 60s after an overnight in the 50s, chilly and windy yesterday.  Long term (8 day) forecast doesn't climb out of the the 70s for the whole run.  Some run at times but not much.  The Doll heard me grumbling about not currently having a good rain gage so I had one show up in the Smiling Blue Truck yesterday intended as a Father's Day present.  It seems decent and is in place in the back, just in case.  Surely there will be no significant accumulations now for the near future.  Not that we need much, as flood chance notations still appear in the NOAA info-bits.

Ended up after the estate sale going out for the buffet at the Menonite Diner we've become fond of.  Ate well and had to bring my Rhubarb Pie home.  It's just like Mom used to make, and I have more than once myself.  #1 on my Pie List, Peach next, with Blueberry, Apple and Cherry in a 3 way...

I have a couple of Lionel Challengers with QSI sound I've not run in a long time.  I should get them out and test them one of these days,  I had an around the room continuous run layout during once of the conventions and ran them double headed with ~70 cars.  Sound was a newer novelty then and the show was well received.  We have a regional convention in the area in the fall of '27.  Maybe I'll subject myself to that hassel again.  Not so sure.  One convention I was on the list and had 6 visitors in 3 days of open showing.      Minimal EGO, but still took a hit after all the work I did.  It then sat for 18 months unvisited, even by me, before I got back at it. 

All I got...enjoy the day all.

[jbvb]

Karl, layout openings have been a crapshoot for me too.  Between being a regular on the Tour de Chooch and most progress this decade being the slow accumulation of structures, attendance is quite variable. Sometimes a dozen or two, once none, I treat it as "mandatory layout time" and work on the layout when no visitors are present.

[chris.mincemoyer]

What season is it?? Here in NW PA it's 66 degrees out with lake effect showers/storms occurring!