Aloha and Welcome to my small speck of cyberspace! Dec 8, 2010 is the birth date of my blog. Never had one before, but my son encouraged me to have one, and it seemed like a good way to at least keep a log of my RC airplane building and flying. With the initial design kicked off by my son, I'll carry on from here and have fun with it. Now that I have it, I will use it to also keep track of my oil painting efforts, and any other ideas, hobbies, travels, or whatever else that come up. LIFE IS GOOD!

Update on 02/25/2011. It's been a few months since I began this blog, and I am enjoying creating and having it! I like documenting the things I have done in my hobbies, and sharing with my small family. I think Jer and Tad actually view it fairly regularly, as a means to see what I've been up to lately. At worst, it serves as a reference for my own use.

Update on 12/22/2011. This blog stuff is habit forming. My blog is a year old now, and I make an entry about every other day or so as that seems to be the frequency of doing something in one of my hobbies. Like my hobbies, this blog is a lot of fun, and it has become in itself another hobby that I enjoy.

Years are flying by...update on 01/11/2013. Still enjoying maintaining this blog even though hardly anyone sees it. I don't advertise it anywhere or to anyone, and it is mainly just a way for me to keep my own notes and thoughts on my flying, painting, and cars. If a stranger happens upon it, I think it is by pressing NEXT at the top of the current blog they are visiting, lol. It's a great device for me.

August 2014: still here! Took up flying RC helicopters one year ago and got hooked. Had flown micro Helis up to then, but got serious with 450 size for a couple months, then bought the Goblin 500 and Gaui X5 . Also got my Boxster in April 2013. Most importantly, Ariel was born 12/02/12 followed by Skylar 07/20/13, and they are little beacons of joy in our lives. Life is indeed good!!!

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Went NUTS on HO trains collection!

HOHOHO, for the last month I have been reviving my love for my old Lionel HO trains by adding to the collection via eBay.  I then decided to put a small oval track with sidings on the pool table just to test the new locos and train cars.  Once that was up, oh well I decided to put a few of my old buildings and people out, and soon they were ALL out on the table.  As I got my fill of rolling stock, I felt I was spending enough and should slow down, but just get a few cool buildings.  So I did.  As I received the new buildings, there was space enough on the table at first, but as vacant lots disappeared, I soon began removing my old buildings, many of which were rather crude ones I built from scratch or plastic kits in my childhood years of maybe 10-13.  My thirst for nicely built, detailed, and weathered building did not wane, and I then I needed trees since I had none at all.  At the same time, I needed more town folk to roam "Youngtown"!

I think I am pretty satiated now, but still on the lookout for unusual buildings at reasonable prices.  Of course this all does not end because I need better trucks to wend the narrow streets and to add to the realism!  I could have had a new large RC helicopter by now, but this HO train hobby has a special place in my heart since I was a child, and it keeps me out of trouble and in the house on those long dreary days in Oregon's Winter and Spring.

I need to add pics but the early ones are buried in e-mails, and more recent ones are on my iPad, so I need to hunt them down to show the evolution described above.  Tally HO!

It started this simple!

Soon  it became this.

It burgeoned into a town with lots of trees and people...

...with more cool and realistic buildings!



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