This is all Bill’s fault !
Yeah pretty much.
Thought for the day…
Why does a chicken coop have two doors?
Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.
I’m here all week. Try the veal!
And now we turn to the geography quiz section of this thread.
#1. True or false?
During the LargeScale Centralian Pangean Era (i .e. the beginning of this thread), the world appeared as thus:
#2. Name this state.
#3. Define Cunmifosyllapies.
#4. Provide the caption to this photo.
Bravo!!
Rooster, I ran across this, and thought you might get a chuckle.
It inspired me to pursue this…
which led to…
I think I could write that book! 
I might have to read them once I am finished reading the boy his bedtime story tonight!
“I wandered into the hardware store and the owner saw my shadow… so we’re in for six more weeks of unfinished projects.”
It’s the Mayor and I have a proclamation allowing as much time as I need for unfinished projects.
Speaking of unfinished projects. I have been trying to go through my collection of them and clean things up a bit however I seem to keep getting disrupted with other issues.
So I was cleaning out the small garden shed and kinda forgot about some items I saved. Some stuff got tossed but actually most things just needed reorganized. The one thing I forgot about were the original ( to the house ) flat sawn balusters that were rotted out on the bottoms and needed some serious clean up but I saved them.
Finally getting around to making that sawn spandrel I originally planed on putting on the back porch when I built it ummm about 20yrs ago. At the time I opted for quick brackets/corbels instead as I didn’t want to deal with the clean up of the original stuff.
Anyway after digging them out of the shed I took them down to my work garage and stripped them down there because of the mess.
Brought them back home to the work shed. Cleaned them up a bit more and cut them down to the max height I can go with the spandrel as height is not decided on yet.
So after a few evenings and beers on the back porch I decided how I was gonna approach the project. Most would probably just build the spandrel in the shop then screw it up and trim it out.
However I wanna “follow the lines” and stick with simple details that can be picked out with paint and create shadows. So I opted to take down the brackets and the 2x4 trim under the main beam and reuse them.
I didn’t have enough to span both sides of the porch and only want it on the sides anyway for numerous reasons. The original balustrade was 7/8" thick so I opted for 3/4" instead of 5/4 board to make copies. I pulled all the nails, cleaned up the caulk, made my 3/4 board copies and this is where I finished out for the day. The 2 copies are on the left and the originals are on the right.
This is where I left off and not train related but it is an unfinished project that DOES fit into the outdoor railroad. Oh, before you 3d printing and laser cut guys have a pissy fit. NO they are not perfectly mated nor do I want them to be. REMEMBER the originals were cut with a STEAM POWERED saw and mass produced by a man and not a machine!
