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Good morning folks It was 57 F when I hit the road. It will be 77 F today. The trip into work was better this morning and it took me my normal half an hour to get to the office. Apparently all the fun and delays were happening on Schuylkill Expressway this morning. My daughter’s volleyball...

Good morning folks It was 63 F as I head out into the mess this morning. High today will be 76 F. I had a frustrating ride in this morning. I could not go my normal way since the interchange with I-476 was gridlocked, so I went with my secondary route. The secondary route was detoured and...

Good morning folks It looks like autumn is here. It was 41 F as I rolled out of the driveway. Our high will be 70 F with mostly sun. Yesterday my daughter’s volleyball team had an up and down match. They won the first game 25 to 22, lost the second 25 to 12. The second wasn’t that close...

Good morning folks It was a chilly 42 F as I hit the pavement this morning. High today will be 66 F. Not much happened yesterday. Finished doing the outside Halloween decorations by hanging a couple of ghosts from the tree in the front yard. I had to go over to our storage bin and assemble...

The big thing right now is if we get a frost. The plants may not survive so I have to sink them in the deep end to protect the tublars. A neighbor lost all their fish, about 20 large koi to heron a couple of years ago. Since we are on the Atlantic Flyway and a couple of good flaps of a wing...

Good morning folks It was 51 F this morning. High today will be 68 F. There are Frost Advisory posted for north and west of us. It looks like it is getting time to winterize the fish pond. We had a great weekend with the Cub Scout Popcorn Show and Sells as we sold almost $900.00. Next...

Good morning folks It was 55 F as we headed out to setup our Cub Scout Popcorn Show and Sell location. High today will be 68 F. My son has popcorn duty from noon to 2 this afternoon so we will be heading over there soon. Afterwards we may go to the King of Prussia Mall. The new Lego store...

Good morning folks It was 53 F this morning on its way to 70 F. No trains last night. My daughter’s volleyball game was exciting. Things started off with a change in time. Her game was scheduled for 4:30 PM but it was moved up to 3:30 PM. I did not find out until 3:15 PM so I was late...

Good morning folks It was 53 F as I headed out this morning. High today will be around 67 F with sun. I need to mow the lawn but I can’t until it dries out from the storms the last few days. No modeling. We had Cub Scouts last night. We did popcorn fundraising training and I worked with...

Good morning folks It was 60 F as I rolled off into the morning traffic jams. High today will be 74 F and they say we may get some showers. We had a nasty thunder boomer move through last night around 10 PM. It had some window rattling thunder and quite a light show. No modeling last...

Good morning folks It was a chilly 54 F as I hit the pavement. High will be 76 F. We had a little family celebration for my daughter’s birthday last night. Not much else happened. I didn’t get any modeling done. I just kind of hung out with the kids. Today will be busy. My daughter has...

Good morning folks It was 65 F this morning. Our high today will be 77 F without rain. All it seemed to do this weekend was rain. We did have times of sun but they were short. It was a busy and somewhat nutty weekend. Friday we took delivery of our Cub Scout’s pack popcorn so I was running...

Good morning folks It was a chilly 57 F as I ventured onto the road this morning. High today will be 68 F with a lot of rain coming. It may rain clear through the weekend. No modeling last night. My daughter had her first school volleyball game yesterday. Her school won 25-21 and 25-17...

I hoping my son has some info when he comes from school today. The boy is in my son's class and they have known each other since kindergarten. I heard that someone got killed. I did not realize it was a conductor.

Good morning folks It was 62 F as I finally headed to the office this morning. High today will be 75 F and sunny. According to the guessers this will be the last time we see the sun until Sunday as rain is moving in. I am late today because I had to drop the van off for state inspection...

Good morning folks The van thermometer read 56 F as I hit the asphalt. We are supposed to go up to 72 F. Mostly sunny today but rain is supposed to be coming later this week. No modeling last night. I had to spend some time getting Cub Scout awards from the summer together for...

Mikey We didn't get to Governor Printz until after 4 PM. We had dinner at Denny's on the way over so we were not looking for food. Even so I don't remember Chick-Fil-A. They may have left by the time we got there.

Good morning folks It was 63 F as I head back to work this morning. Our high today will be 78 F and we will see the sun most of the time. No modeling this weekend. My son and I did run some trains for a while Sunday night. It was an extremely busy weekend otherwise. It started on...

Ozzy We will keep you in our prayers.

My father set-up the first Lionel Christmas layout under the tree when I was 5 years old. A few years later an HO layout went up in the basement. I grew up 500 feet from the B&O Philadelphia Subdivison (not far from Mikey). Iuesd to watch the trains roll by from my kitchen window. BTW, the...