Yesterday the missus sent me news via email that she got me a gift certificate to an online shop I've been trading with off & on for the past few years (don't believe I can mention his name, but he and I share the same first name). Since our 34th wedding anniversary is coming up, she wanted to surprise me (she did!) with a $200 gift certificate. Virtually all of it went to new modeling tools, scenery supplies and wheelsets and couplers for a new layout I'm in the process of designing (it should be an around-the-walls shelf layout, by the way, with a Frisco theme). Hmm......guess I'd better get them roses and dinner reservations PDQ........... After 2 years of COVID and no train shows, that and my visit to Bixby, OK to their annual train show back in April has really done my soul some good.
You're really blessed when you have a wife like her. She's a keeper! I totally get that. There was one back in early spring that did me a world of good too. Saturday is another one and I intend to be there. Nothing like taking in the atmosphere and being able to talk to other people about trains without them getting that blank look...
As for keeping her..... I told her that, God forbid, she die before I do, I would never marry again. I'm getting too old to break in a new wife. If I didn't mention it before, several of the items I picked up were festooned with the coonskin logo- a coffee mug, T-shirt (both also sporting 4-8-2 1522), the Stewart VO1000 in Frisco black & yellow, and at least one more yellow Frisco 50-foot boxcar. In my last order, I stepped into the dark side and got 3 Accurail Burlington Northern covered hoppers. Plus, a new magnifying lens with light and alligator clips to hold my work (eyesight going south a bit.....)
Yes. Wife training can be challenging. Let's talk about that dark side thing. Try not to go there again. It may be hard, but it will be worth it. I know others like BN but each to their own. Frisco rules!