Friday Things

Here are my Friday Things for this Week! 

1.This bus

We were on I-5 heading to Potland, (OR ) and happen to catch this bus.

2. This milk.

Garys's Milk is a pretty cool dairy company, 1. Its local, 2. They use it out of old glass milk jars!  

3. These trains.


This photo was taken outside of Tangent, Or, You can see how fast this locomotive was going!

4. The old AERC Locomotives

AERC 2001 and 4201 were both sold to WIRX and replaced by two newer locomotives. ( Read more about WIRX here! )

5. This signal.

 

This may look like the same picture, but it's actually two differently Wig Wag Signals! 

A similar Signal ( C. Larry Tuttle )  

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Here are five things that made my week awesome!

1. Albany Eastern vintage EX-Southern Pacific locomotives. 

These pass by behind my house almost daily. It's always fun to watch what new trains the local company here buys and runs along the short line tracks. Side note: The orange engine (1750) has been away from Lebanon for around 10 years and is back now and running with 5399 (Black one) on excursions (Learn more about Santiam Excursions HERE or about AERC  HERE                                                

2. This rainy shot.

Hardy (my dog) and I took a walk toward the store and my parents were behind me in the car. We happened to both get stopped at the train tracks when 5931 was passing by. My mom snapped a picture of me watching the train. Good picture, I think.

3. Free ice cream cone.

I had a coin for a free ice cream cone at the local A & W here and my dog Hardy shared it with me. Makes me think of my dog Baz. He used to love to share the ice cream cones with me too. I miss him a lot, but having Hardy follow in Baz's footsteps comforts me a lot.

4. Happy-the duck's water perch.

I made a rock perch for our duck Happy so that she can dip her head into the water without getting fully wet. Of course, lately it's been raining a lot and she gets wet anyway, but this summer she will really like it when she swims around and can jump out quick, or just drink some water and not have to get completely wet.

5. Vintage Arkansas license plate.

I found this Arkansas license plate at a flea market at the Linn County Fair last week. There was a big box at the flea market and I was digging through it and got lucky in finding this Arkansas plate. I think this color of plate for Arkansas was issues around 1960.

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1. My dog Hardys hand with mine

                        Hardy put his hand on mine and thought it was cool!

     
                                                                  2. This sign

     Thought this sign was funny


                                                        3. This snail

       This is a woodland snail i found in my yard



                                                                            4. This book

                      my new star wars book

                                                             5. This photo

                  This photo is at Portland, OR JCT with I-5 and I-84, you can see the Hawthorn Bridge

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Hi.

I've been gone awhile from posting, but now I'm back and here we go.

1. Starting the car

My mom and dad have been letting me start the car now and practicing adjusting the mirrors and steering wheel for when I get my permit. I have two more years still, but it's fun to pretend.

2. This old car

Maybe one day I will have a car like this to drive. 

3. Ducks Practice Field

My dad took me to the Ducks practice field this past week and I got to see some really cool stuff they do there.

4. Giant zucchini

We grow them big here. Just in time for Halloween.

5. Our ducks

Happy and Rosey

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Hi, here I am again with another Friday Things to share with you. We had a good week and here are some things that where worth sharing.

1. Train Layout.

My train layout is coming along slowly and I've added a lot of fun stuff to it so far. My mom helped me paint the tunnel openings and we are going to add some bushes soon over the brown and green. I made a road coming into the layout from the side and even added some cracks to make it look more real.

2. Decals.

These decals are for a Ho Scale Hopper car ( witch carries grains and dry goods. ), for when i re-number it. 

3. Portland national train show

This is my ticket for the national train show that took place in Portland, OR  witch i bought a lot of train cars at

4. Model railroader magazine

I thought it was funny that it said Jeffandsk railroad, which is supposed to say "Jeff and Skylar's Railroad," but they shortened it.

5. Rotary Phone

This is my new 1940s rotary, hotel phone that sits in our front room for our home phone. We had someone from The Old Phone Shop in Wisconsin rewire it for a small fee and now it works for modern day phone lines. When it rings it's pretty awesome!

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Here's week two of my Friday things and here are some things that made my week awesome!

1. This train. 

I've always wanted to catch that train on the trestle. (1910 trestle) AERC 1807 and 1841.

2. This book.

My mom and me have started this sticker book after we watched the movie in theaters recently. It's along the same lines as Harry Potter and it's really good.

3. This picture.

We were out walking on one of the streets as one of the trains passed us. My mom got this cool picture of me watching the train pass by and I have used it as my profile picture on many places, including my blog now too!

4. This ice cream.

This ice cream is named after Jimmy Fallon and it tastes pretty good.

5. This cat.

My cat, Eleven, in the kitchen sink watching the fish in the tank on the other side of the counter.

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I'm back with some Friday things. Last two weeks have been a bit crazy around here. Friday before last was storming really bad and the power was off for several hours. The storm didn't pass until late in the day and by the time the laptop battery gave out. Then last Friday we helped some of my parent's friends move, even on Easter Sunday, so we were beat by the time we came home. But here we are this week and here are some things that have been happening the last couple of weeks.

1. This fishing trip.

I took a fishing trip with my mom and dad a few days ago and we tried to catch some trout, but nothing was biting. I got to try out my new fishing pole and play with some salamanders, so that was a lot of fun. My dad showed me ways to cast my pole and my mom took a lot of pictures. We all had a good time.

2. This cat.

My cat Eleven is growing big! She's so curious of everything and likes to bat things around. She's funny to watch sometimes, but she's still afraid of some things and doesn't like to be picked up a lot.

3. This game room.

We went to Dave and Buster's with our friend Charlie and MacKenzie and it was a blast! We played games and ate pizza almost all night long!

4. This train.

5. This cup.

To water the small cactus we are growing. It used to be my dad's cup when he was growing up and he used it to water his cactus he named Pokey. So now we have Pokey 3 and Pokey 4. The Pokey 2 name was for a cactus my mom and dad got before I was born and they had in Arkansas. It grew to be almost six-feet-tall, but it didn't survive the Oregon climate and died. :( Hopefully these two will make it and we can keep them growing tall!