What to do on a cold weekend in February

I'm reading a book, while the TV has the Olympics on mute w/captions. 

                          The Concrete Master

Come to SE Virginia. 65 now and 70+ tomorrow.

Not so cold in NY but raining. Cleaning off my work bench. Just picked up some storage bins at the Depot so I can get things organized. Lot's of pieces and parts lying around.

Bob

Went out and bought Postwar trains (more on those later!) and took my mother out to lunch. Not a bad day.....

Finally getting over a stomach bug and decided to start reading a book l picked up at the Amherst railroad show this year

SJC posted:

Went out and bought Postwar trains (more on those later!) and took my mother out to lunch. Not a bad day.....

You're a good Son!

I spent a couple hours doing a base coat of “foliage “ for my small yard area.  Ran Trains a while and took some knew videos.  Came up stairs to watch Olympics

Rainy now, but wasn’t bad this morning. Spent the morning feeding my other habit at a toy show in The Fuge, an old research facility in Warminster. Just picked up some inexpensive odds and ends that will be decorating my desk and basement. There was a low end Lionel car on one table, but I left it there. I did grab a 1:43 model of the Jokermobile, which will end up on my layout.

Its raining cats and dogs here in TN.  Earlier I went to Home Depot and bought a tool box/ work station to put under our layout!  Fit like a glove! Then I spent part of the evening putting tools in it and some trains in the top drawer.  Trying to get the new train room in order! What a mess!  New layouts are fun!  

In the western suburbs of Chicago, we are shoveling/snow blowing LOTS and LOTS of snow. After THAT, I find Maker's Mark quite refreshing/relaxing. To heck with the trains right now.

I go outside (I live in San Diego) and run 1.5 inch scale 

JHF,

   The pictures of the fire place and the fantastic fire look great.

Just picked up another 817 solid Red Tin Place Caboose with dual auto-couplers for my Tin Plate Trains, nothing better to find on a bad winter day!

Hot Water,

   I like the 10 year old Russell's myself.

PCRR/Dave

February?  Michigan?  Cold/snowy outside?  What to do?....  You're kidding,.......right?

Ah, well...................................!  (Hey, her own birthday is in November!)

Nothing puzzling about that!

Oh yes......there's the trains, too.........

Well, the typical Feb day here is 60-80 degrees, I spent mine working in the front yard blowing the dirt from construction sites nearby which was clogging my decorative rock. I also added a picaxe fire barrel and another welder to the layout. NOW, a single malt scotch as peruse the forum. Gotta love a productive day, but that joker mobile was awesome.

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

 

Hot Water,

   I like the 10 year old Russell's myself.

PCRR/Dave

I enjoy Wild Turkey 101 also. Anything that Mr. Russell produces is excellent.

Plowed paths out to maple trees, repaired evaporator, maple sugaring season just weeks away..... 

Today it was in the mid 30's here. Not a great day for outside activity, so I go online, watch TV a bit and head to the basement where layout wiring remains the last item to be done. Just in the last two months, seven block signals, a target signal, a rail yard control tower, a working switching tower, an MTH coaling tower, lighted wood coaling tower, aux power feeds, and all the sensors were wired in. Next step is get power to the two towns (one industrial , one residential) that need to be lighted. Making progress but probably wont get the switch machines wired in until next season. When that's finished I'll just light up the cigar and say done;  or is a layout ever done?

RSJB18 posted:

SJC posted:

Went out and bought Postwar trains (more on those later!) and took my mother out to lunch. Not a bad day.....

You're a good Son!

You sure are a good son....Good for you. Nick

Being retired weekends mean  nothing to me.  They're just two of seven days in a week.  Anyway I spent much of Saturday organizing my tax info to take to my accountant on Wednesday.  Also spent some time photographing and cataloging rolling stock.

Pulled out my Lionel 1990 Santa Fe set from storage. I bought this at least five years or more ago, finally going to give it some run time. I already pulled the 2 pulmor motors apart for new lubrication and the only other issue is the EDT device on boxcar does not work. The dash8 has sparse details and is massive.

Puzzle update

Full head o steam rail clear ahead!🚸

Adding some Lionel 364c switches to my control station on my PW layout. These are getting harder to find in decent shape but they're out there.