With a long weekend coming, anyone have plans? Will you make a commitment and then show us?

Working OT to pay for more trains

Building benchwork frame for the final module of my layout then Barbequing a pork tenderloin!

More benchwork for my ever growing layout....More beer for my ever growing belly and lastly more work for my ever dwindling bank account...

I hope to finish this stage of my layout and get all of the track down.



More pictures are posted in the 3-Rail section, but that's my goal.

Oh yeah....I like the idea of the beer, too.

I'm organizing the garage after installing slatwall. Reminds me that I must paint some drywall screws so that they can be drying before the weekend. The slatwall is an off-white color and the screws are black. I have been spraying the heads to match the slatwall before we put it up.

Then I have to organize the workshop big time. My first goal is to sort out all the items that I have bought at Menards and Home Depot and didn't use and then return them for credit. Most of them were long enough ago that I don't have the receipt but will gladly settle for a store credit. The items that I can't return and aren't likley to use will then be sorted for our garage sale in a couple weeks. I'm not sure how many of my "dinosaur" tools I will want to part with yet. My son ribs me everytime time he sees my old brace and bit and other old hand tools.

The next project is to buy a 5 foot section of ready-made kitchen countertop and install it for my model workbench. After that we will installing the remaining slatwall above and beside it. Add another flourescent light above it and I will be back in the modeling business.

We have the carpet ordered for the basement and the cabinets are supposed to be ready early next week. Now if I just had my tack plan finished.....

Art

I plan to accomplish a lot. What I will accomplish, is anybody's guess.

I don't even have a plan - and as lazy as I've been lately, I'm not hopeful of accomplishing much - too many family visits, grandson ballgames, fishing, etc. And when I do have time, here I am on the forum.

With all the rain we had lately I plan on mowing the grass. Then baleing the grass. Then mow the neighbor's grass that somehow I got "volunteered" to do.

Gene Anstine

Great topic !! Been pretty busy lately & have to work Sat. plus Monday. That's all extra & just got my cicuit breakers that I want to add to my ZW mainly !! It seems the Holiday weekend is shorter than the regular weekends for me !!

Thanks, John

Plenty of Spring Cleaning inside and out. Auto racing all day Sunday, GP of Monaco starts at 6AM, Indy 500 in the afternoon and the Coca-Cola 600 for the evening. That should be a case of beer right there

Rand

Thinking about the holiday weekend made me remember how much I used to hate summer holiday weekends when I was in the bakery business. Trying to guess how many hamburger and hot dogs buns to bake was impossible. It all depended on how many days it rained over the weekend. I used to figure one day of rain and then wait and see if we got one, two, three or zero days of rain. The more days of rain the better the area pigs ate afterwards.

Now that I am retired, I have much more important things to worry about such as my track plan for example.

Art

Accomplishments: drink beer/wine, eat yummy food, play with the kids, drink beer/wine, eat yummy food, play with the kids, repeat until....



John

No rain forcasted so it's golf, and more golf and then some more golf! And we will toss some steaks on the grill and drink some good wine with friends a couple of the evenings.

Well, you guys are making me thirsty. It's about that time.

I plan to go over to one of the other George's on the forum to run some trains.

Have a great weekend!

George

Go over to Hot Waters house and run TRAINS and drink BEER.Place BEER BOTTLES on the the layout and take photos of TRAINS with BEER BOTTLES in the background,so I will have something to post on the Sunday Photo fun thread.BF

I will likely go downstairs in the evenings, sit down and think about what I want to do. Then a few hours later I will wake up, still in that chair, and go back up to bed, having done nothing but slept.

How do I know this? Because it happens all too often when the only time I have to work on the layout is in the evenings after the kids are asleep.

First I get to drive 1000 miles to see my layout (should arrive Sat). Then I plan to start on a new 12 x 32' area which has plywood waiting but is totally empty now. But if the hay on my sister's farm is dry I'll get to help bale.

Tom

Will cook hamburgers and hotdogs Sunday for a family cookout....and drink wine while I cook. Probably not to much work on the trains this weekend, but I'm sure there will be a few requests to "run the trains" from the guests.

Nextweek plan to start scenery on my rail yard addition that has a four track yard off of a Ross four-way, an Atlas engine house, and a GGD coaling tower.

YARD WORK, YARD WORK AND MORE YARD WORK! Wife has a lot of plans. I have been
putting off outdoor chores. I have to pull weeds and plant the annuals. If time allows I will try and finish my track work. I am working on the third level and need to put in a wooden trestle over a future lake. If I can finish this I will be able to start the signaling system.
Have a great Memorial day,
Joe

Tweaking layout plans!

http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/453102703/m/7461094764

In addition to a couple gatherings of friends and family, drinking some beer and watching some racing, I've got quite a bit planned. My list is pretty ambitious:

• Finish scratchbuilding and install a curved trestle.
  
• Build and weather various buildings/fronts for a 3D city backdrop wall module.
  
• Restore and install a 3656 Operating Stockyard (minor work).
  
• Paint mountains onto the backdrop.
  
• Install two Lionel arch-under bridges.
  
• Wire up my signals to insulated rail sections with relays.
  

Hey, it's already 10:15 - I better get moving!

Got a roadside produce stand scratchbuild project to wrap up.

Got 3 watermelon cars (1 AN kit and 2 scratchbuilt) to work on...

Got an On3 scratchbuild boxcar project to tinker with...

Got a pile of receipts to sort out to get reimbursed for my last week in Paris (you know that place in France?).

Might even do some (GASP!) scenery work on the layout!

Mow the lawn, grill some brats, drink some beer.......

Honor those that gave their lives so that I could live free.
God Bless them all!!

BTW, while I was in France I had the oportunity to visit Normandy, Omaha beach, and the Nat'l Cemetary there - very special places considering Memorial day coming up.

Installed General Electric Company on Bellevue and Schenectady RR. Now its off to Yard work and Flower planting 101.-Don Klose