Good morning, Jim and crew. My clock says one thing and my body says something else. We're going to be in the 40's again today.

I'm working on drilling 1" holes in a stump to put some stump removal chemical in. I get one hole out of a battery charge, so with two batteries it's going slow.

I spent some time at the workbench yesterday with little to show in progress. I'm doing a lot of planning for some difficult steps.

George

Coffee with 2 carrot cake pancakes and a stack of bacon.

Clock in my shop is now correct,

Looks like it could snow; probably get the usual miserable cold rain; got wood for the fireplace ready and books to read when not in the shop.

Finished that batch of resin work finally, so it's clean up that workspace, and get into other projects! Got lots more detail parts to paint and that.


So it goes.....

Good Morning All,

Started out with a walk at 58F and I believe getting into the 80's later. Yesterday I noticed some weeds starting to grow in the driveway cracks so that's on the agenda today. I also want to run trains.

I hope everyone has a good day.

It’s a tough job but being out in Paradise sure beats shoveling the white crap that fell in Wisconsin last night. Back to a 5 hour time change. This is so ridiculous but remember our politicians have our best interests at heart.

Jim thanks for opening but I will be skipping the exciting van ride to the Greek’s the next few Sundays. Real and warm sunlight are wonderful and unless the Wisconsin Badger women’s Hockey win in the Final 4 semifinals on Friday we are here for awhile. If they win Friday, we will be in Duluth Sunday afternoon.

Got here Friday night, slept on and off yesterday out on the lanai and other then it’s 71f degrees out here at 3AM and I am awake, all is well. 81 later and tee off is at 1.

enjoy the day
TomO

Good morning everyone.

Jim, thanks for the coffee and ride.

Sunny and upper 70's here in Palm Springs.

Gym and finding a dog park are the only plans so far.

Have a great day everyone.

Good morning from S.E. Michigan where it is 24 degrees and snowing lightly. We received about an inch and a half of new snow so far. It should stop by noon. Tomorrow is supposed to be a repeat of today, with an inch or two of new snow.

I finished the King Post Bridge build yesterday. Today will be a 'no modeling day'. I have some painting to do in the real world and then I have to collect the info for this year's Federal and State taxes.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get back to working on the 'stream scene'.

Have a great day!

Morning all.

Here it's just above freezing and not going to get much warmer today. Going out to lunch with some of wife's family. Our nephew stayed over a couple of days to visit college friends and so it's a family get together of sorts. I'm going for the food. Working one some 1:1 projects here as well that have been on hold due to weight lifting restriction.

Jeff

Good morning Guys, and all incoming crew. Thanks for opening the Lounge Jim with our morning coffee and chat.

34 degrees and sunny for todays weather again, here in the Ocean State, Rhode Island.

Everyone enjoy your day whatever you choose to do with it. Going to a niece's birthday party today.

Everyone have a great, safe and healthy day ahead. I'll see you all on the RR-Line Forum.

Well, it's nice and sunny now and in the 40s. But that changes tomorrow. I was reading the 'forecaster discussion' from our local weather station (Portland, ME). That's always worth reading if you're interested in the details. This discussion pointed out the forthcoming storm is similar to 2 storms that produced the #1 and #4 greatest snow amounts in Portland, but without the same blast of cold weather. And they said the snow will come in 2 relatively narrow bands, how much snow you get depends on where those bands travel.

We have a busy week all next week, it could have picked a better week for this. Still, I'll take this over a Florida summer any day!

Not much accomplished on the railroad, I did order a smaller Arduino board which will simplify parts layout. I'm now pretty comfortable doing the component perfboard soldering, and That's A Good Thing. The screw thread inserts arrive tomorrow, that's the part I need to do the final component laydown and assembly. I also ordered some spade bits, which are supposed to be the best thing for drilling through the ABS plastic in my box. At this point, I can see my way to the end of the project, but there's still both assembly and desktop test, before installation.

dave

Good morning. 36F and snow flurries in northern West Virginia.

Today I will do more organizing of my layout room and getting my layout ready for the open house. I think will be hobby day, working on my depot, practicing guitar, and relaxing in general. We might go to an old time music event this afternoon.

Have a good one.

Mike

Unexpected inch or so of schmutzy crud on the flat surfaces. More tonight. All the wonderful extra daylight will help the solar system hand it today. This is my favorite day of the year. I love the longer daylight hours in the evening. Early hours before usual time up are wasted on me. I’d be all for permanence with it as it. -rant=30-

Had a good time running trains yesterday, loads of coal to start out then GN, NP, and UP passenger trains. Last time I’d seen one fellow, before the Dark Times, he had his grandson in his arms with all the amazing, “Trains! Grampa, TRAINS!!”, we all enjoy. Yesterday Zeke, his name is, was there throttle in hand running trains, following the signal indications, making station stops, set outs and pickups like a pro…”be 8 his next birthday…” great little spark of life in the hobby. Fine group of 20-35 yr olds there as well.

Sort of like Winter, still, imagine. Easy as we had it thru Jan and I’ve predicted the wet and cold won’t relent with any regularity until Memorial Day. It’s still 6 weeks until Syrup Festival…could be 80⁰ or 3’ of snow… we rarely have “Spring” as such…we’ll just have to see won’t we? All the extra daylight will make it great to watch…

Be well all, the geek squad is enroute, the Doll’s weekly ‘puter frustration….needs a drop everything and get over here…so, no time with the layout. It’s rude to go off on your own when we have company…

See you at the Greek’s, oh nope, it’s too late…oh we’ll the bs was too high this morning anyhow…

L8R y’all. KS

Afternoon all,

For some reason I overslept this morning so I'm getting a late start to the day. That's okay though. I've declared it a "me day", so I'll do whatever I feel like today. That I'm still burned out from a long workday on Friday.

Have a great one!

Good afternoon, all. The lower Merrimack Valley is mid-40s with bright sun. Yesterday's airline circus first had the plane 2 hr late, then a sudden "go to the airport right now" email claiming a 10 minute delay. Wife & kid made it onto the plane but by the time it reached the Boston gate it was an hour late. I've done all the clocks except the cars.

Next chore is finish the presentation. Sooo many other possibilities (packages from WeHonest and Rapido)....