Busy week. Friday is the parade of lights. We always host an open yard after the
parade, and stuff as many people in our yard as we can to enjoy the lights,
trains, cider, cookies, and Christmas music. People have to park all down
the street past our house to get to the parade, so after we just kind of
scoop them in as they’re trying to get back to their cars. Saturday is the parade of historic homes. We’re told there could be several
hundred people passing through our house between ten and two. Sunday is Judy’s birthday. I have to be nice to her the entire day.
Trains
It was a good train day. The Louisville Express Line is complete. Not all
the track ballast is down, but the roughest spots are covered. Memo to yard
train builders: put the barrels of track ballast from last year in the sun
a few days before you want to use it. It was a nice fifty degrees warm
today, but I spent the day chipping out frozen gravel from the barrels of
ballast behind the spruce tree, and carrying it by the bucket into the front
yard to pour on the track so it would thaw out, so I could use it. The Colorado Southern Line, on the south, is about three quarters done. I
change the track layout a little each year, and this year I need one more
piece to make it work. I’ll buy a six inch straight and a three inch
straight. I have a four inch gap. I’ll just have to see which piece looks
the least forced. Pictures of the Louisville Express in action.
Christmas house
After all this time. In all its glory. All the pieces. All at once.
Sunday
_ Well, hoping the day gets better. We woke up this morning to the cat trying
to cover us up. If you start the day as something the cat wants to bury,
what else can it do but get better from there?
Thanksgiving
_____________________________________________
From: Steve Taylor [mailto:spt@thetaylorcompany.net]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 10:54 PM
To: Bill Taylor (E-mail); David Taylor (E-mail); Tom Taylor (E-mail)
Subject: thanksgiving But after some serious work, the Cottonwood Circle is complete.