Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 6

[deemery]

Well, our great October weather continues.  It's cooler than yesterday by about 15 degrees, but still sunny and dry.  Leaves are well past their peak, and the wind last night put a lot of them on the ground.  But our oaks, in particular, like to hold onto their leaves.  One tree tends to drop the majority of leaves in -March-.  

Dover does its Trick-or-Treat the day before.  Weather was perfect, but we got fewer kids than I expected, so I have too much leftover candy.  Mostly they were neighborhood kids, we have a lot of preschool/grade school kids here, and that's nice.  But at least one of them next door is rapidly turning into a teenager, and has had a few loud parties over the summer.  One little devil lost his/her trident at the end of my driveway...

Scotch Club is on for the afternoon, so I'll try to get some time in the train room.  But first I need to listen to the legal update from last night.  

dave

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning Crew. It's damp and ugly outside. We may hit 55 today.

The grandson and family went east toward the big lake to play 2 hockey games. Last night his team played and won 3-1 at home and they look pretty good. No points for Brooks but he got good minutes on the ice and played both power play and penalty kills. He rang one off the crossbar. His line is normally the 3rd line but the 1st line winger went off early in the 1st so his coach moved him up. He's 5'4" but the other team wingers were all much taller. He's holds his own well. He texted later that he played well and more importantly to me he had fun.

Thanks again for the well wishes for Terry. She appreciates it and thanks u guys.

We have the grandkids here and at their place tonight till Thursday. Parents fly to Cancun at 3am Sunday morning. Brooks will miss his 2 hockey games as his soccer team plays its last game this seasom at noon tomorrow. Hey asked his hockey coach if it was ok and he said yes.

Between activities today I need to weather a couple bridge girders. The girders only will be installed and glued to the roadbed. It will be a ballasted deck. All I'm doing is the weathering and sealing. The parts not used on the bridge (everything else) will go into the unused bridge parts bin for kitbashing or detailing down the road!

Enjoy the day
TomO

[Philip]

I found an old used HO Ernst kit for the HO tiny Hustler on Ebay! Perhaps a miracle....

Cloudy day today and the politicians are out! Lock the doors and draw the blinds!    

[Jim Donovan]

Good Morning;

We are sailing back to Tampa for end of our cruise. It has been a nice week. The Boss got some jewelry and I had time to work on an article I promised John S a long time ago on 3D printing. Still it will be nice to get home. Today I will be trying to use the internet to watch one of our grandkids playing in soccer tournament. He is a senior and apparently some colleges are interested in him.

When we get home I really need to clean up my workbench, I made a mess during last project. Now that it is done it will be time to work on the layout. Well off for another cup of coffee, hope everyone is enjoying a great day.

Jim

[deemery]

Another sunny fall day, wind yesterday blew a lot more leaves on the yard.  The oaks still ahve most of their leaves on the branches.

I'm off to the exercise machine, then some work on the river bed.  Scotch Club this afternoon.

Dover does Halloween the night before.  Here's Cyclops the Pumpkin, fresh from his appearance in "The Odyssey".  (A couple days ago, a squirrel gnawed where the eye is located, and that inspired me to do the one-eyed monster.)


dave

[PRR Modeler]

Back from the ER. Drain was removed, some manual draining then re-bandaged to be changed daily. At this point I still need the surgery but I'm pain free.

Tom have a good lunch with Bill.

[deemery]

"I'm pain free"  Congrats, Curt!

dave

[KentuckySouthern]

Nice day for an OPS session. Enjoyed it. Missed a big buck lunging out of the weeds!

In case anyone missed this in Baggage Car...

  Pretty cool...

Oh dread it's time change it's going to be dark before supper...