07-13-2025, 08:10 PM
Howdy friends
Things are improving here on Wilderson. My wife is now able to take a shower by herself and has even done some cooking. She is still wobbly but very much improved. I too am gaining but not near as fast as she is. I can still mow the grass and pick up groceries so the chores are getting done.
I discovered a trick for home fries (bake the taters in the microwave then cool under running water, peel, slice and fry) so we have been having some home fries with our eggs and choice of bacon or sausage. We easily skip lunch so the calories are not building up.
I put a decoder in the last locomotive in the new old stock lot I bought from Ebay. It was a hard wire job but easy to do except................. the gear grease had turned to glue and the trucks were bound. I used LaBelle 102 to soften it and cleaned it out with a straight pin, paint brush and an exacto knife. It is a Riverossi C420 that will eventually be repainted for Lehigh and Hudson River.
Another of the Kiski fellows is not doing well. He sold his house and moved into one of those senior complexes and he told me he liked it pretty well. They had meals that he could go too and all the other amenities and being a life long bachelor he was quite content but I got word last week that he had fallen in his bathroom and could not get up and it was 2 days before he was missed. this happened about 3 weeks ago and he was in the hospital for a week and now has some kind of infection and other health problems he didn't have before, though something may have contributed to the fall. I got to talk to him Thursday and he did not sound great.
Charlie
Things are improving here on Wilderson. My wife is now able to take a shower by herself and has even done some cooking. She is still wobbly but very much improved. I too am gaining but not near as fast as she is. I can still mow the grass and pick up groceries so the chores are getting done.
I discovered a trick for home fries (bake the taters in the microwave then cool under running water, peel, slice and fry) so we have been having some home fries with our eggs and choice of bacon or sausage. We easily skip lunch so the calories are not building up.
I put a decoder in the last locomotive in the new old stock lot I bought from Ebay. It was a hard wire job but easy to do except................. the gear grease had turned to glue and the trucks were bound. I used LaBelle 102 to soften it and cleaned it out with a straight pin, paint brush and an exacto knife. It is a Riverossi C420 that will eventually be repainted for Lehigh and Hudson River.
Another of the Kiski fellows is not doing well. He sold his house and moved into one of those senior complexes and he told me he liked it pretty well. They had meals that he could go too and all the other amenities and being a life long bachelor he was quite content but I got word last week that he had fallen in his bathroom and could not get up and it was 2 days before he was missed. this happened about 3 weeks ago and he was in the hospital for a week and now has some kind of infection and other health problems he didn't have before, though something may have contributed to the fall. I got to talk to him Thursday and he did not sound great.
Charlie