Good morning!!!!

[farmer2009]

Prayers for Bird.

I dont venture to the front porch after you had to get a special blessing to sit out there. Nor do i want to venture into the political stuff. I prefer to talk shop out here.

Anyone with advice on removing wallpaper border ? Fortunately not the whole wall. I believe i used the siezing(?) when installed, but won't pull off easy.

Best way to remove wallpaper I've found is to cover it with another layer of drywall or to remove the drywall and reinstall. Probably not the answer you are looking for.

I have been known to paint directly over it. Especially when it's in a mobile home.

 

[toppop52]

Thanks for the welcome guys. Always nice to see what others with some of the same interest have going on.
Just a bit about me, I am retired from Caterpillar since 2009 and we have 8+ acres on the North Bluff above Marseilles IL. about 2 1/2 acres are grass the rest is heavy woods with ravines. Our lane into the property is 1/2 mile long. So there is always something that needs tending to. And every Ash tree on the place is dead or in the process. So there is plenty of work to do. When I am not outside I spend a lot of time working on my O gauge train layout in the basement. Keeps me thinking and the grand-kids love to play with them. I just have to make sure they only run the ones that can be lost. :laughing:
Enough about that. I had better get going, I need to prep the wall above the kitchen sink for some tile work.

I love model trains, but have other hobbies and never got to them myself, I can spend way too much time watching them!

 

[toppop52]

An inch or two of wet snow this morning, then sun and basically all of it melted, thankfully.

 

[mkr7734]

Only reason I got back into toy trains was I had a bunch of them from when I was a kid. We never had a place to build a layout till Sandra and I built this place in the woods with a full basement and when I retired I got the ones I had as a kid out and,,,well the rest is history. :laughing: So I asked her if she would rather I spend time and money on the trains or cars and beer. Now you know!!!! :drink:

 

[toppop52]

Only reason I got back into toy trains was I had a bunch of them from when I was a kid. We never had a place to build a layout till Sandra and I built this place in the woods with a full basement and when I retired I got the ones I had as a kid out and,,,well the rest is history. :laughing: So I asked her if she would rather I spend time and money on the trains or cars and beer. Now you know!!!! :drink:

Did the classic car thing for 35 years, still in it small scale, trains would have been cheaper I think!

 

[mkr7734]

Did the classic car thing for 35 years, still in it small scale, trains would have been cheaper I think!

Me to lots of early Mustangs, and in 1970 I had a 1969 Shelby GT 350 that I had to let go because of the cost of INS :banghead: Later I had a 1967 GTO for 22 years, Went through it twice, then a 1968 Fairlane with a 428. Some Triumph T-160 Tridents (3) and all kinds of others. Can't afford that today and like I said the grand-kids love the trains, Our layout is about 28'x12' with 4 loops and a MOW track.

 

[toppop52]

I'm not going to try and list the cars my wife and I bought, drove, restored, sold over the years, a few favorites were my '67 ImpalaSS, '68 GTX with Petty Enterprises Hemi, '67 Firebird 400 (1 of 14 I've had) and '65 GTO convertible, 389/360 Tri Power car. But honestly I loved them all, and if I could afford to, I'd own a bunch now. Your trains sound cool, post some pics.

 

[Buppies]

Bird good luck and prayers sent

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Just a border needs removed.
Wont be necessary to re drywall. I've removed whole walls of wallpaper before, but was 20 yrs ago. I just remember it was a pain.

Thanks don.

 

[mkr7734]

Randy,
Yeah I did a lot of buy and flips to. I will try to post a video of my latest creation. A 200 series Lionel B-unit with twin motors, They never made them so I thought why not. Kind of gives you a view of the layout. Not sure but you may be able to see others of it. Anything listed as myssei94 should be of our stuff. I don't want to get off track here or get in trouble for doing train and not tractor stuff.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Love trains. I just don't have the time to build the layout. My son does train layouts virtual, on the computer.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. I've been out with Dog, then quickly came back in again as I didn't have chance to get out for a replacement waterproof jacket yesterday. Now I'm waiting for the rain to ease off a little before I go put more hay out. At least it's weekend, so I don't feel too bad at taking my time and being shy of a few drop of rain.

I have some exciting news about my niece to give the Morning Group, but because of contractual things I have to wait till Monday to post on a social media.

That's so cruel to make us wait all weekend to find out - or are we expected to have a guess ?

Ok then ...

Is she bringing out her own brand range of alligator skin bags, shoes and phone covers ?

Too young for an autobiography, so it's got to be she has a TV crew following her 'gator adventures, maybe even a whole series ? You can deny it all on Monday.

 

[wngsprd]

Randy,
Yeah I did a lot of buy and flips to. I will try to post a video of my latest creation. A 200 series Lionel B-unit with twin motors, They never made them so I thought why not. Kind of gives you a view of the layout. Not sure but you may be able to see others of it. Anything listed as myssei94 should be of our stuff. I don't want to get off track here or get in trouble for doing train and not tractor stuff.

Great layout. I saw a couple of cranes, so definitely qualifies for the forum .

 

[wngsprd]

22 heading to 47...already a great deal of frost on everything.

Kinda wish it would stay below freezing for a couple of days - need the ground to stay frozen so I don't make ruts in the soggy ground when I go cut firewood.

 

[Buppies]

26 high of 46 later today after all snow melted and the rain we are really wet

Love the train layout

Going to take walk behind toro to shop then put it up for sale as we just do not use it anymore

 

[Thomas]

16F clear sky high of 40F.
Couple stop and shops in town along w/dump run plan for morning,afternoon give wood furnace good old fashion cleaning than take the day as it comes.

Think I'll cook up wild game spaghetti meal for tonight.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[daugen]

30 degrees going up to 51 today and it seems that another bout of rain is coming in tomorrow.
All the local farmers are grumbling "can't get out in the fields for a week now" overhead at Napa.

Plumber coming this morning to install whole house water filtration system. I looked at Pelican systems but my usage
is too small for one of their big units. So I got a medium sized unit online with three filters, sediment, iron and charcoal. Supposed to last one year or 100K gallons. Since I use about 3-4K gallons a month, looks like an annual affair to replace the cartridge filters, which are about twice the size as the most common small water filters.

Luckily when the prior owner built this house he ran all the outside spigots off one separate line so I can avoid filtering all the water going outside the house. When I redid my bathrooms I chose that dark bronze color for fixtures and now I have sediment/water spots on all the fixtures. City water too but they sure aren't filtering it very well. My only concern is that with just me in the house, if I filter the chlorine out, and water sits in the guest bathroom lines for a month or two, will crud start growing? I always periodically flush the guest bathroom toilets but maybe adding a drop of bleach to the toilet tank occasionally would do the trick. Or put one of those little chemical hangers in the tank.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

22 heading to 47...already a great deal of frost on everything.

Kinda wish it would stay below freezing for a couple of days - need the ground to stay frozen so I don't make ruts in the soggy ground when I go cut firewood.

I'm in the same boat!!! My Mossflower Woods has become Soggy-weed Marsh it seems. Everything is squishy and waterlogged. I'm not even gonna try to put the tractor back in the barn or take the snow plow off Trusty Rusty Ranger... I need to cut some more rounds for splitting & stacking by the basement door. I ran the wood stove for a solid month and man did I burn plenty of wood!

I let the wood stove fire go out Tuesday because of the warm weather (actually the house was getting too hot) and now the heat pump has run constantly since yesterday evening & all night long... I'm debating firing up the stove, but I want to watch the game tomorrow in the basement on the big TV... Don't want it too cold down there, don't want it too hot either... Sigh...

I'm roasting off the Chicken Wegs (I use legs, got way more meat than wings) so I can marinate them for at least 24 hours before finishing them on the grill and devouring them watching Football. Yum, Yum!

Later today we will meet again with the Modular Home guys to discuss if they can even come close to a floor plan we can tolerate to upgrade/replace the house here. The engineer in me can't stand it when they say "Can't do that" without explaining why.

I'm pretty much not happy with builders & the rest right now. They all want way too much $$ to do way too little, and everything seems to be an "Upgrade" now, including linoleum floors? Sigh...

Beats the alternative!

PS - What's the word on Bird?

Be well all,
David

 

[Buppies]

30 degrees going up to 51 today and it seems that another bout of rain is coming in tomorrow.
All the local farmers are grumbling "can't get out in the fields for a week now" overhead at Napa.

Plumber coming this morning to install whole house water filtration system. I looked at Pelican systems but my usage
is too small for one of their big units. So I got a medium sized unit online with three filters, sediment, iron and charcoal. Supposed to last one year or 100K gallons. Since I use about 3-4K gallons a month, looks like an annual affair to replace the cartridge filters, which are about twice the size as the most common small water filters.

Luckily when the prior owner built this house he ran all the outside spigots off one separate line so I can avoid filtering all the water going outside the house. When I redid my bathrooms I chose that dark bronze color for fixtures and now I have sediment/water spots on all the fixtures. City water too but they sure aren't filtering it very well. My only concern is that with just me in the house, if I filter the chlorine out, and water sits in the guest bathroom lines for a month or two, will crud start growing? I always periodically flush the guest bathroom toilets but maybe adding a drop of bleach to the toilet tank occasionally would do the trick. Or put one of those little chemical hangers in the tank.

Be careful of bleach in tank known to eat the rubber stopper at least it did in my case

 

[Buppies]

Weather wise going to be a busy month mid February thru mid March around these parts. Cold in place and lots of precipitation to go around. Hope Bird is doing well