Mark Boyce posted:Woodson posted:Fendermain posted:lee drennen posted:Sorry guys for no post I’ve been really busy been going to my oldest daughters basketball games this is her last year playing before she graduates this year figure I can always run, build train anytime
Lee
Family always comes first..tell your daughter good luck with the games. I have fun watching my grandkids games.
Fendermain
You beat me to it Fendermain!!!! Family first!!!!!
Absolutely!
Take my Blackwater Canyon Line design in my signature line. When John C brought up the Western Maryland line, I dug out old hand drawings of an HO layout that I was planning on the Western Maryland from Elkins to Westernport. The date on my drawing was 2001. I had the benchwork built, but it only served as a table to assemble dollhouses with two little girls. Later when they had school projects, they would show me a plan, I would suggest materials, they would hop up to the "train" table, I showed them how to us cardboard, stripwood, styrene, Sculptamold, Woodland Scenics products, etc, and they built a portion of the Great wall of China, the Roman Coliseum; just two I remember that took up space in our attic for years. All the while, I was fixing toys with styrene, wood, CA and other items.
Now they are both grown and married. The younger is a musician and her husband is a videographer/editor. He was so excited to give me one of the first copies of a video he edited for a new company of the layout of a Well-known modeler in HO circles. They are working on the deal for a second video. They brought us a Internet ready flat screen TV because I am tired of paying for basic cable and getting little to watch on our old CRT TVs. Right now I am on a pain medicine for my bad sciatic nerve and shouldn't drive. This morning, I called up the older daughter to take me to the drug store to get a new prescription I got at the ER last night. This was the third time in a week I have called her to drive me. She was happy to, and took me while her husband slept after working night shift managing a Sheetz convenience store. She even offered to bring me a snack from the Sheetz.
All this to say, waiting from 2001 to 2018 was a long time to start benchwork again. I longed to get back at it always. It was well worth the wait!
Mark and everybody else if you have great children that care for you thought out your life no matter what you are blessed.
