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Oh, I forgot. We have their dog too. And Thursday evening our youngest daughter showed up with her husband and dog. And Sunday our SIL’s mom and step dad showed up for an overnight trip. So we had 6 adults, 3 kids, 3 dogs in the house and we lost power at 8:30 pm until 12:15 am. What a poop show it was! Edit: Forgot the cat. 🤣

The wife and I raised 4 great kids. We had our first when I was almost 28. Wife was 25. Year later, second one showed up. Next two were 1995 and 1999. It seemed very easy at the time. This week our oldest daughter and her husband took off to Jamaica for 6 days for their 10th anniversary. Of course super grandma says we can handle this. No problem. LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Famous last words. She might as well have said, “Here, hold my beer. Watch this.” Last night she admitted Super Grandma is good for 6 hours, not 6 days. I managed to squeeze in some mandatory yard work yesterday and a run to the trash dump. No bench time, no quiet time. Even the thought of me sitting at the bench is out of the question. That’s my relaxation place. And if she caught me there, well let’s just say it wouldn’t be a happy moment. Every cough and sneeze is a germ super soaker. Why do kids feel the need to look you in the face when they cough and sneeze? Grandma is up 2-3 times during the night feeding the 10 month old. Of course I’m wide awake as well from all the crying and whining. And the baby crying too. The silver lining to this cloud is now she’s thinking our summer get away will be just us at a resort or on a ship and not a beach condo with these rug rats running around us again. Counting down, t-minus 30 hours until their parents pick them up!

I’d do the same.

I’ve had accidents like that. I picked up the Arizona many years ago. I was targeting the Missouri as well, but just never found one at the price point I was comfortable with. Yea, it would just be taking up room in my stash right now (like the Arizona is) if I did get it.

Hehe..I’m glad I didn’t see that earlier. As bad as that kit is, I’d still be tempted.

Even though I’m not going, I’d buy one if it wasn’t for the T shirt collar. All I wear is button ups or Henley pull overs. I get something around and up close to my neck and it’s like putting tape on the bottom of a cats feet.

I really like the Australian standards! Seems our home builders have the standard of cheapest, fastest and most expensive sale price they can get. I’ve seen gradient work done for wet areas, but it’s a special request adding lots of $$$$ to the price.

Ok, pretty neat how they keep the bathroom floor slab areas lower than the rest of the slab so it can be built level once flooring starts going in. Around here it’s all one flat slab with the tile thickness basically a rise to trip over.

And that humidity. Like 99.9999%. I know, it’s an old joke about “but it’s a dry heat”. But my first visit to Las Vegas in the summer let me experience this dry heat thing. Yea, much more tolerable than getting soaking wet with your clothes stuck to you and a bad case of swampass. I’ll take the dry heat any day over the southern swampass season.

Wow Ernie, so glad to hear you and your loved ones are ok. Amazing how tornados pick and choose what gets destroyed. Old friends daughter was telling me Friday night about a tornado the went over and partially through her house in NC a few years back. Completely knocked in the front door, frame and all, windows too. But that was it with the house. 4 plastic lawn chairs in a circle in the back yard. Two completely shattered into pieces. One up in a tree in the neighbors yard and the fourth still sitting where it was before the storm.

Wow, what a long life she has had. Good to hear she responded well to her care. My feline fur ball won’t let me near his nail, but as a kitten I was able to trim them. He’s not having any part of that now. He will bite his off to keep them in check though. He wakes up at night while he’s on the foot of the bed gnawing on those things.

Isn’t it amazing how a set of good springs can completely change the personality of a car?

Oh, I had this shipment from Scalehobbyist.com show up Thursday. First time ordering from them.

So another Tamiya Corsair? I bet you could build those in your sleep. (Just a bit of brevity, I know….P-40N) I need a low cuss factor to jump on after the Cutlass. Just a break from all the fitting, filling, priming, filling, fitting, priming….

Going to make your slime lights more realistic?

The shopping or the package arriving? Now the shopping I cannot prove. But the fact that I’m typing this out should be proof I’m still alive and my fingers aren’t broken. See your Cutlass peaking out over the top of the box?

Ha! SWMBO was out shopping with the daughter. I turned off the ring doorbell notifications this morning. It was meant to be.

It was meant to be. Wife was out shopping when the big brown toy box on wheels pulled up. Yea, another under the radar!

Ok, I sent another email and after a few days they responded and sent me a PayPal invoice. I have two sets on order. FWIW, they offer an early and late KAI conversion. Could not make out any differences but went with late since these are for the last Phantoms schemes.

Anyone remember this old gem? Well it’s being re-popped! https://www.culttvmanshop.com/PREORDER-Lockheed-C-141-Starlifter-1108-scale-from-Atlantis--2799-PREORDER-RESERVATION_p_7815.html?mc_cid=9aa342e717&mc_eid=e9532bbbba I really should build mine.

Might have to wear this one like a red badge of courage! It’s going to be hectic here tomorrow between daughter and SIL visit, new pup, their dog, doctors appointment, doing lunch out….Hmmm….I have a bunch of empty cardboard boxes I could pile up on the porch. She might not notice another sitting there unopened.

FYI, it just dawned on me that the shipping charges seem to have changed at Sprue. And for the better. At least for this shipment. In the past expedited shipping was something like $16.99. This time it came up as $9.99, only $2 more than standard shipping. Yea, I paid it and it’s arriving tomorrow.

Just applied a second coat of thinned putty after sanding. This late night work because of the new pup is giving me flashbacks of when my kids were little and I snuck down to my basement workshop after they went to bed to get a little time in. Wow. My youngest turned 25 this year. Time sure flies.

Hey Peter, I thought about epoxy, but didn’t think about plastic filler rod. Honestly, I’m still afraid of too much shrinkage. I’m running into town tomorrow for a grocery run so I’ll swing by Advance Auto. I did find a can of bondo, but the last time it was used must have been on a 1990 something on the assembly line. It was as hard as a rock inside.

Don’t have any in my stash of supplies. I can run to town and grab some Bondo at the auto parts store. Wait…I might have some epoxy putty. I’ll have to look.