HOME AT LAST

We have finally arrived at our new (actually quite old) home, have unpacked mostly, and have begun settling in.  That includes building furniture, rebuilding furniture that was damaged in the move and refurbishing furniture that keeps showing up that just happens to "fit" in a familiar corner or alcove that needed that forlorn piece redone just so. It also means fixing the persistent leak in the downstairs shower, mowing the persistent lawn and weeding the persistent weeds that love the Oregon rain. The shop (garage) is taking form so that I can accomplish some of the above mentioned but will have to be disassembled to be sheetrocked and insulated as well as the basement ceiling needing the same treatment. No layout work done yet but materials are beginning to pile up.  I have to add a couple of lighting circuits and one plug circuit.
The layout plans are coming along both on my end and my brother's. Things would be looking much better if there were 36 hours in a day. All of which is to say......The U6b's are still packed in their shipping crates.  I don't really have a workbench on which to spread things out and begin building. One step at a time.  This is all an integral part of the layout as I have a location tentatively marked out for a workshop, dispatchers office, donut shop etc. but until I'm absolutely sure of that I'm not going to build a new wall.  I don't mind work, I just loath doing the same work twice.......

I'll try to get some of my sketches of the layout up on the blog and some other stuff as soon as I figure out how to get that done.  I don't design in the computer, obviously, so I have to scan my drawings and import them etc....sometimes they go off to cyberland and I can't find them.  I get angry and the good day go's to hell.  I have promised myself to learn CAD for years but I know I would have to suffer many bad days in hell to get there and I am not yet prepared to do that.  Maybe tomerrow......

Did I mention that I am the proud owner of a 275 gallon tank that once held diesel oil that fed the monstrous old defunct furnace? The oval shaped one like you see on most layouts. Yes, it sits smack dab in the middle of the west end of the main terminal of the biggest town on the railroad. Or at least that spot on the basement floor. It's free to anyone who can get it up the basement stairs and out into the Oregon sunshine.  Just thought I'd let you be the first to know......