Woo, my first Train Car and Bob created new items for his G-Scale Garden Train Set

Bob has been in love with trains since before I knew him.

When I first met him, he showed me a train set he had created out of Lego. When we viewed the house we ended up buying it was right near a train track where freight & passenger trains race by numerous times during the day. When we hear the train horn he runs to the window to watch. lol Stay tuned as we are hoping to one day set up a web cam.


When we started dating there was discussion of starting our own train set but it would be HO, but then it was decided we would go bigger to G-Scale.


We certainly have the room at the new house location as the yard is a lot larger.


Bob has been busy working on his own creations for his train set.

His newest creation was with the little pallets he made out of popsicle sticks he then created tiny beer cases to go in his train car complete with wrapping over top.

Bob's passion is German Train Cars.

Watching the freight trains go by in the back yard made me think it would be so cool to have a CN train set. It would be awesome to copy what I see go by daily. Bob is very excited that I'm beginning to like what he likes (trains). So I purchsed my first train car.

A Grand-Trunk Box Car -- mind you, we don't see this in our backyard, but since it was on sale at a train store we were at, it was the perfect car to purchase.

This afternoon we went on another Metal Detecting Adventure -- click here to read up on it.

UPDATE: All G-Scale Messages can be found in our new blog www.gscaletrain.blogspot.com

Received my Yellow Submarine Bag, I love Ikea & Another Fun Day Metal Detecting

So, on Friday, I received my Yellow Submarine Messenger Bag which I purchased from a store on Etsy named HIPPIE STRIPS I had researched some stores that sold a Messenger Bag made of materials I liked and came up with her store. I told her exactly what I wanted and voila, she did it!!

On Saturday morning we got up and headed out to IKEA -- LOVE THAT STORE!!!!!!!!! The house we moved into is basically like a blank slate and we are thinking of idea's of how to decorate it. Bob's old house was full of colour and we want to do that with our new house.

The following are photo's of items that we really liked. Not sure if we'll incorporate them into the house we are in. We'll see.

First, in our upstairs "party room" we have a bar fridge. We were looking for something interesting to stick upstairs and put the fridge on.
Bob really liked the above but it is too tall.

This might work, but really isn't colourful.

This definately would need a staining or paint job.

We saw the following and instantly thought it would be in our kitchen if we ever had money to add on to the side and redo the cupboards.We loved the colourful dishes they had!

This was very cool -- they were pieces of fabric on Canvas.

Very colourful carpet!

This would be perfect for the front porch and has storage undernearth.

Again, very nice and colourful!

Since we don't have closet space, this would be perfect for hanging coats on.

Bob also wanted to look at items for the bedroom.

He really liked the colours here! It wasn't in our budget for this month.

This would be cool if I could paint it a bright colour!

This would of been good for the bedroom side table but it is way too short.

I LOVE this yellow cabinet!!!!!!!!

Some crazy throw pillows Bob really liked.

Some more fun colours!!

I actually overhead a man telling a woman how cool he thought my Yellow Submarine Messenger Bag was and another lady stop me to ask if I had made it. :o)

We then went home, packed the car and headed off for our Metal Detecting Adventure.

Happy St. Patrick's Day & Another Local Talented Artist for the Niagara Region

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Last year, we were able to go out to some local bars & pubs for some drinks with family and friends because it landed on a weekend. Unfortunately, this year, it lands on a week day. So to bring back good memories I've posted some photos of Bob and I. One even contains Marnie. :o)

Karyn Bower - ever heard of her? If you haven't, you should!

She has been a professional vocalist through out the Niagara Region for almost 2 decades.

Karyn’s love of music has been with her for as long as she can remember. Her earliest influences were singers Karen Carpenter and Anne Murray, and Fleetwood Mac. Although Karyn has performed in different musical genres her love remains in pop, soft rock and country, and says doing the classic country, rock and pop hits of the 50’s 60’s 70’s has been a lot of fun and brings back a lot of memories of the music she grew up listening to on the radio and listening to on her mom’s records.

Karyn has sung with several bands over the years, starting with Charlie’s roadhouse band, Barstool Mountain, Wild Horses, Wine Country, and Karisma. She has also been involved in other projects, one being a two girl duet called “Lipstick” with singer and friend Donna Gandza. And a male /female duet Burden and Bower with friend Dave Burden, who recently wrapped up a 2 year run. Although they recently ended the duet due to differences Karyn says “ Dave is a very talented individual and although things didn’t turn out the way we thought they might, I wish him the best and know he will be successful in whatever genre he chooses”.

Karyn is currently performing at several legions throughout the Niagara Region. There is no better venue than this , she states, as these fine people are respectable and appreciative, and they come out to dance and have a nice time. The hours are decent and she never wants to go back to the days of putting up with the heavy drinkers and bar fights in the local bars. The acceptance she has been receiving in the Legions make those years of struggle all seem worth it.

Click the photo below of Karyn & Me to go to her Web Site.

And I am also happy to report she is my 2nd cousin! :o)

Hopefully, she will have CD's available -- so check back often!

And as for Ceol Cara, they will be playing @

The Irish Harp Pub http://www.theirishharppub.com/

245 King Street, Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario

Join them in the Harp all afternoon & evening as they celebrate!

ALSO, hoping my Yellow Submarine bag arrives today!!!

A day at Prudhommes Wet 'N Wild / Victoria Hall in Vineland Station, Ontario, Canada 03-15-09

The weather was to be awesome today so last night it was decided we would go metal detecting with Steve & Nadine. The phone call came around 8:30ish asking to meet them at a local Tim Horton's for breakfast. After our showers we headed out and beat them to the coffee shop. After a fun discussion about where we should go, we jump into our cars and drove around to the old Victoria Hall as it had caught on fire in the early hours of March 10th.

If you click the above photo it will take you to a photo album I took of more photos of this building.

And a following is a video that a good friend of my brother's (Bryan) took along with more photo's of the actual fire when it happened.

We saw other people inside the old Prudhommes Wet N Wild Park where I had worked one summer as a teenager so we decided to pop in and take some shots. SO weird!!! Everything is overgrown, very sad.

Click the photo above to go to my mini album of how the park looks now.

This is how it looked prior

After walking around and reminiscing we decided to go metal detecting.

CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT OUR DETECTING STORY.

After hours of detecting and including a nice coffee break thanks to Nadine, Bob started to feel weak since we really had not eaten anything all day except for a muffin. It was decided we would part ways and go off in search of food and head for home for a nap and a day of relaxing and painting. After all, I had a special request for a painted frame, so I should get that finished before the end of the day and Bob is practicing his Guitar Hero.