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ing Tips & Tools Monthly, Issue #101-Good potholes
July 15, 2015
July 15, 2014

Good Potholes Add Texture to Layout

Columbus Had It Right,The World Ain't Flat

So many layouts you see these days are built on Styrofoam insulation bases making bench work a snap, it is about the right size, easily worked and easily cut. Resist the temptation of building your layout with a flat yard or switching area, it is not prototypical.

Columbus proved the world isn’t flat. Granted, he had bigger things in mind than your little layout, but the principal is still the same. Your layout should have small hills and mini canyons. Even pavement isn’t really flat—many potholes where you live? Most foam board molders would be horrified by this technique. Find a particular flat spot on your layout, place your elbow in the middle and lean on it. Yup, you want to break the nice flat surface you painted or provide a major dimple in the flat pink or blue surface you are working with. If space allows you might try a couple of them.

Pick another smaller, flat area. Give it a thumb gouge, the idea is to provide a spot where water might puddle or pond as well as providing small dips and swales in the landscape.

But the world is not only depressed, you will find a variety of bumps, nodules, protrusions and terrain warts in your average backyard, back lot, or back 40.

Start with a conservative spreading of rocks that exceed the size of a freight car door in your scale (kind of a neat place for a hobo or a hunter to sit).

Now add the paper mache. Mix up a batch which will provide you with enough to spread over the target area and cover it to the depth of an eighth of an inch. Don’t worry about smoothing it, you are trying to create blobs and swells with no apparent pattern. Try not to cover the rocks you just dropped. If it looks to smooth add a few swells.

Before this coating dries, this is a time to add “landscape junk”, occasional twigs to represent logs, a few more rocks (smaller than a freight car tire) in a hit-or-miss array, a plank or two that look well aged. Remember, you are trying for the WOW! Effect, not the “oh yuh, there’s another one”.

Spectacular Layout Just 2 Hours Away

...If You're In London

But from here, I've got an ocean to consider Thank Heaven we have Social Media.

With more than 3,000ft of railway track and 28 trains, this spectacular display is thought to be the largest indoor model railway in Britain. The exhibition, dubbed 'Wroxham Miniature Worlds', was created by train enthusiast Sean Green, 45, and his 23-year-old son, Robert, in Hoveton, Norfolk.

Ron Pare offers a good look on his Facebook page

Advantages of getting past 75

1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.

2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.

3. No one expects you to run--anywhere.

4. People call at 9 pm and ask, " Did I wake you ???? "

5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.

6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.

7. Things you buy now won't wear out.

8. You can eat dinner at 4 pm.

9. You can live without sex but not your glasses.

10. You get into heated arguments about nap times.

11. You no longer think driving in heavy traffic slows you down as you are holding the. Up.

12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.

13. You sing along with elevator music.

14. Your eyes won't get much worse.

15. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.

16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.

17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.

18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.

19.You can't remember who sent you this list.

20.Knowing you are in the End Times seems to be more of a Blessing than a Curse.

Remembering Better Times

With sincere apologies to Bryan Fischer, the original author who hosts the radio program "Focal Point" for the American Family Association.

20 days ago we witnessed the moral equivalent of 911 when power Rainbow Jihadist Supreme Court blew up twin towers of truth and righteousness blasting them in the rubble.

On this day, June 26, 2015, five justices of the Supreme Court became moral jihadists who blasted the twin pillars of truth and righteousness into rubble. They did this by imposing sodomy-based marriage on the United States through an act of judicial tyranny.

We the people have ceased to be our own rulers and are now serfs on a plantation run by cultural elites wearing black robes who use their gavels like the slaveholders of old used whips, to lash uppity social conservatives into abject submission.

June 26, 2015 is a date which will live in infamy.

It is a day on which behavior which is an abomination in the eyes of a holy God was normalized, promoted, celebrated and imposed on an a nation built on the foundation of the Judeo-Christian tradition. On this day, the United States found Christians are no longer just citizens of this once great country but carry an added burden.

We are are now serfs on a plantation run by cultural elites wearing black robes who use their gavels like the slaveholders of old used whips, to lash uppity social conservatives into abject submission.

What can be done to restore moral sanity?

For one thing, there are governors in 31 states whose people have elevated protection for natural marriage to their state constitutions. Each one of these governors took an oath to uphold and defend his state’s constitution and its protection for natural marriage.

The federal Constitution is absolutely silent on the subject of marriage, which means, according to the Constitution the Founders bequeathed to us, that defining marriage is an issue reserved for the states. The Supreme Court has no moral, legal, ethical or constitutional authority to impose its own twisted view of marriage on any state in the country.

Every governor in every one of these states took a solemn and sacred oath to uphold and defend both the federal constitution and the constitution of his own state. But not a single governor anywhere took an oath to uphold the unconstitutional rulings of the Supreme Court. Their oath is to the Constitution, not to black-robed oligarchs and any benighted, unconstitutional and immoral rulings they might issue.

So the great need of the hour is for a principled and courageous governor to uphold his oath of office by issuing an order that no same-sex marriage licenses will be issued in his state.

The second thing that must be done is for conservatives to give unhesitating and unflinching support to Ted Cruz’s proposed amendment to the federal constitution, an amendment which would protect the sovereign and constitutional right of every state to define marriage for itself.

Since such a proposed amendment will require a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress, every congressman and every congressional candidate must be asked today whether he will vote for that amendment when it comes to the floor of either the House or the Senate. Amendments do not require the president’s signature, so President Obama can be entirely bypassed.

Not only every congressional candidate but every GOP candidate for the presidency must be asked today whether he will campaign daily for this amendment and make it a focus of the 2016 campaign. Any presidential candidate who is not willing to put his shoulder to the wheel on this issue is not worth a single conservative vote.

Bryan FischerHost of "Focal Point" Connect Follow More Articles What can be done to restore moral sanity to America’s public policy? - Bryan Fischer Rainbow jihadists of SCOTUS blow up twin towers of truth and righteousness

From a moral standpoint, 6/26 has become our 9/11.

On this day, June 26, 2015, five justices of the Supreme Court became moral jihadists who blasted the twin pillars of truth and righteousness into rubble. They did this by imposing sodomy-based marriage on the United States through an act of judicial tyranny.

We the people have ceased to be our own rulers and are now serfs on a plantation run by cultural elites wearing black robes who use their gavels like the slaveholders of old used whips, to lash uppity social conservatives into abject submission.

June 26, 2015 is a date which will live in infamy.

It is a day on which behavior which is an abomination in the eyes of a holy God was normalized, promoted, celebrated and imposed on an a nation built on the foundation of the Judeo-Christian tradition. On this day, the United States become Sodom and Gomorrah.

On June 26, 2015, I saw Satan dancing with delight. For this is the day the music died in the United States of America.

The homosexual lobby, the Gay Gestapo, has drawn an equivalency between support for natural marriage and racism. To oppose sexual deviancy is, in their twisted, contorted and devious thinking, no different than supporting slavery and segregation.

What this means, my fellow conservatives, is that on this day, we all became Bull Connor. It’s time to wake up and smell the napalm.

What can be done to restore moral sanity to America’s public policy?

Until Next Month

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