Trains

American Flyer Train Inventory

Model NumberNameConditionValueCommentsLocation
24043Sinclair Oil Tank CarVGOffice
436PN LocoExc100Office
629Missouri Pacific Stock CarVG50Office
88Franklin FY&P 4-4-0 Steam Locomotive Set with Tender and CarsGoodDen
922Illuminated Observation CarVGOffice
937MKT ‘The Katy’ Boxcar, yellow with sliding doors, die-cast trucks, knuckle couplers.GoodOffice
981Right WayVGOffice
982Operating Dump CarGoodTestingOffice

October Garden

  • Cabbage, yes.

We have Bell and Banana peppers still going strong from the summer. Our first four grape vines, well our second group, are climbing. The Blue Berries are continuing to hang in there, we now have four little guys. The Avocado tree is restarting and 6-8 feet high but they have a tough winter each year. Broccoli and Cabbage is established at about 18″ tall. Then we have lettuce, mustard and radishes well out of the ground. The mustard and kale is sprouting. Then, we expect to plant 750 Vidalia onions before the Danube trip.

Returning Home

One last breakfast before a test drive to the airport for me to drop off Chuck and Kelley.  One more round trip and I could turn the driving over to someone else on the wrong side of the road.

Travel always has some sort of stress and we started with a Hurricane, saw beautiful places, laughed with friends and were glad to get back to the island.

All good!

Edinburgh Castle

A wonderful breakfast buffet with anything you could imagine to start off our drive to Edinburgh. We had time to checkin at the Sheraton and make our scheduled tour at the castle.  The castle entertains 8,000 visitors a day all year. Great views of the city from the walls of the estate. We had appetizers at the club and our final dinner in the lounge.

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St. Andrews Fairmont

We finally found the accommodations which we were accustomed – ahhhh. The morning started with drizzle but cleared with the wind picking up to 25mph. There was a chill in the air on the driving range on top of the hill overlooking the course and ocean. A neat course and lunch at the club over looking the grounds with St. Andrews in the back ground.

Rinsed off and headed into town to watch part of the tournament on the Old Course, bling and hamburgers for all at the Brew Dog on Main Street. We bairly made the tour of the original church grounds and found a burial site of the The Bruce family.

VOLCANIC ICELAND

A few days after our departure.

LATEST UPDATE: VOLCANIC ACTIVITY HAS RESUMED ON REYKJANES PENINSULA

A new fissure eruption started on Reykjanes Peninsula on August 22, at 9:26 PM, marking the sixth eruption in the area since December 2023. The eruption’s effects are localized to the eruption site with road closures and do not threaten people.