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[ngauger]

May the 4th be with you!

going up to 74 today, some rain mid week

Just a few errands today

[BR60103]

Tom
Can we ask what kind of dancing your nieces do?

[FiatFan]

Greetings, gang.

Clear and 37 degrees this morning. Upper 50s predicted for later.

I got the bills paid yesterday so I can live in the house for another month. After lunch I took the remote for the garage door that I keep on my bike in for repair. Unfortunately there was a sign saying they were closed and would be back at 2:30. OK. Went back at 2:45 and the place was locked up for the day. Looked up their web site and it says they close at 3. Looks like I'll be making another trip this morning. That's about they only item penciled in so far for today.

David - the ladies perform several varieties of dance including hip hop, ballroom, and tap. The only one I can identify is tap. All the rest look the same which to me looks like gymnastics set to music.

Someone must have read that the national average for gas has gone up as yesterday all the local gas stations raised the price from $3.89 to $4.29 which is within pennies of the national average.

All stay safe.

Tom

[FiatFan]

Greetings, gang.

Clear and 41 supposedly heading for the mid 60s later.

Yesterday was pretty quiet. I did get the replacement remote for the garage door so now I can open that door from my pollution solution vehicle. Also picked up some blue tooth speakers for my daughter's graduation party next week. They will also be used for my celebration of my 80th birthday next month. Not sure what I'm going to do this morning but after lunch I'll be taking the aforementioned pollution solution vehicle for a spin.

Gas dropped a very generous 4 cents yesterday. (end sarcasm)

All stay safe.

Tom

[sir james]

Thursday 5/7/26
Hello Blue
We have sun this morning it has reached our hi for the day @ 54 degrees.
Home from the skinoligist, got a few shots of the freeze spray, no issues though.
Wife has a lady friend here, they will chat and play with the 3000-piece puzzle they started a month ago. 
No train news.
S.J.

[BR60103]

Tom, you're about half a year older then I am.
Had a little joke with the lady across the street last year. Her birthday is the day after mine. I said "Well, for one day we're the same age."

[Charlie B]

Good evening

     Tom, I want to wish you a very happy 80th birthday and I hope you have many more happy and healthy ones.  I don't often reply but I do follow your posts. 
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     I had a typical Murphy's law night last night.  I was installing some constant lighting in another caboose and my soldering station refused to heat. I have extra heating elements and an extra soldering wand........Well, the extra wand needs a new element that I was going to change sometime but  ow I had to dead wands.  I have a little USB soldering iron but it isn't really hot enough so I got my old 30 watt Radio Shack out and found out it too would not heat well so I just called it a night.  Today I cleaned the tip in the 30 watt and was able to replace one heating unit and when I got that working I repaired the back up so I now have a spare.  I also was so frustrated I ordered a third wand for a spare, and a new 60 watt backup. 

     I got the lighting done in the caboose and I will be posting photos tomorrow.  

     I have found out that my dreams of loading dirt for my raised beds is going to require drafting my grandson. At least I can still drive the tractor. 

     Mowing needs done but the ground is so wet I got the tractor stuck on level ground so that too will wait. 

     the 4014 will be traveling another route so it won't come my way but the route selected is only 11 miles away at its closest point so we will attempt to see it 

Stay safe and on the rails
Charlie

[FiatFan]

Greetings, gang.

47 with some high thin clouds and a predicted high in the low to mid 70s. Currently no rain in sight for the next several days.

Another quiet day yesterday. Biggest news is that my daughter formally has a new job now that her schooling is completed. She will be starting as a surgical technician at the hospital that provided her with the scholarship to attend the school. Her current plan is to work there for 3 years to fulfill her commitment and then move to Omaha to be closer to family. I was going to ride the bike for about 12 miles yesterday but after starting out I decided that the 7 mile route was long enough. I may try the longer route today.

After lunch I decided that I really need to clean the paver blocks on the patio so I got the hose out, wet down an area, sprinkled some Mr. Clean on it, and started scrubbing with a very stiff bristled brush. It worked fairly well. I followed that up with the power washer and some more scrubbing. It will take a while to get the patio clean as I've neglected it for a few years but progress is being made. I want to get the patio clean as there will be a large contingent of family members here for the after party after my 80th birthday celebration.

I think I need to clear some minor confusion on that. I actually turned 80 back in March. If you scroll back through the campfire you'll see exactly which day to beware of (that's a hint). We're having the celebration in June as there are a lot of family members either still in school or have kids and grandkids who are still in school. Current count is probably 40 or so people just at the after party. Looking forward to lots of fun.

Charlie - sympathies on your soldering iron saga. I think we've all had days like that. But we still keep going back for more.....fun?

Gas dropped again to $4.21 yesterday.

All stay safe.

Tom

[tompm]

Good evening folks

For the first time in about two weeks my house is free of all industrial fans and dehumidifiers. The walls and floors are finally dry. My living room and oyer are missing walls due to the damage from the leaking soil/stack pipe. The pipe had three cracks in it that were the source of the leaking. Now we are moving on to the restoration phase.

I don’t have any definitive plans for the weekend. Tomorrow, we have a few errands to run. I will hopefully spend some time relaxing and recovering from working nights all this week. Today was my recovery day but I couldn’t sleep like I wanted to as I had to get my car inspected.

Sundy our daughter is taking my wife out for high tea with a craft for Mothers’ Day. I have already showered her with some gifts she asked for.

Now that the layout is uncovered, I need to evaluate how it survived the drying out process. I know of one building that needs repair. I ran my track cleaning vehicle from TCS. I like it as it not only cleans the track it vacuums them also. I have my newest eBay win to test run. I also need to vacuum the layout. This plumbing issue forced me into finally clearing the junk off the layout. Now I really think about what comes next.

I hope everybody has a good evening.

[FiatFan]

Greetings, gang.

46 going to the low 70s with winds near 20 mph.

Yesterday was moderately productive. Decent workout at the gym followed by a 14 mile bike ride after lunch. This morning is a trip to Walmart early followed by soccer at 10:30. Possibly a bike ride after lunch.

Gas dropped again to $4.18.

All stay safe.

Tom

[ngauger]

Tom
Glad to see it's mostly over....

Chilly and chance of showers all day today

[sir james]

Mondy 5/11/26
Good morning Blue. We will have a hi of 60 for the day.
Sun is awake this morning. Sunday we went to church with oldest son and DIL. Put some flowers on her parent's grave site, then lunch and a nap.
S.J.

[tompm]

Good evening folks

Posting late. My body needs to adjust to being back on day shift. I fell asleep after I got home and before dinner.

Weekend went better than I thought it would. My wife and I went to the farmers’ market in Wayne, PA. We picked up some steaks and pork chops. We also grabbed some goodies. We stopped at our favorite produce store, and my wife got some flowers to plant. Sunday, I cleaned the fish pond filter while my daughter took my wife out to a local vineyard where they made flower arrangements using tea pots while they enjoyed a high tea. My daughter was supposed to make the steaks for dinner but since they were full from their outing I had to order pizza for my dinner.

With the plastic off the layout, I ran my Rail Cleaning Vehicle on Saturday. Sunday, I tested a Broadway Limited CNJ M1S 2-8-2 blue box locomotive that I got off eBay. The locomotive runs very smoothly and the lights, horns, and bell work. The only downside is it came with a McHenry coupler so that will have to be changed out to a Kadee. Since it was new old stock I will need to run it for a while to break it in.

I had a very productive weekend. I built new Walthers passenger platforms to replace the ones that had been damaged by being knocked off the layout one too many times. I began assembling the Bachmann Spectrum City Scenes Trade Tower. I got three walls assembled. I apparently am a glutton for punishment because I keep working on structures that have a ton of windows that literally takes days to install just the windows.

I hope everybody has a good evening.

[FiatFan]

Greetings, gang.

Cloudy at the moment with some light sprinkles approaching. 62 now and maybe 80 later.

About the only activity yesterday was sweating. Spent an hour in the morning at the gym. Then after lunch I took the pollution solution vehicle for a 17 mile ride. Also managed to get a quote to take down a nearly dead green ash in the back yard. That will occur sometime in the second half of June. Not sure what I'm going to do today.

Gas continues dropping. $4.07 yesterday so early this morning I plan to fill both the car and the Super Cruiser before it goes down further.

All stay safe.

Tom

[FiatFan]

Greetings, gang.

Lots of sunshine this morning with warm temperatures planned for the day. Currently 50 headed for the upper 70s with light to moderate breezes. Better than yesterday's 35 mph winds.

I really didn't get much accomplished yesterday other than gas up the car and the Super Cruiser. Today isn't looking very exciting either. I'll be leaving in the morning for my daughter's place. Her graduation is Saturday with a small party afterwards. I had planned to head home on either Sunday or Monday but found out my grandson and his wife will be there either late Sunday or Monday so I'll stick around. Probably be home Tuesday or Wednesday.

All stay safe.

Tom