@baltimoretrainworks posted:I just want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, it's been a long hard week but we laid my dad to rest on Friday. Being a former Marine there was a Marine Honor Guard there and they played Taps. It was eerie, when they sounded Taps everyone in the cemetery stopped what they were doing and just stood there, even the utility crew that was working on a pole outside the cemetery waited for it to finish, it was dead silence. I guess there is hope for the us all that we're not that jaded yet.
Anyways, I'm going to be getting back to posting a little more, still got a long road ahead for the family, the Grim Reaper cut a pretty wide swath thru the clan this past year, my mom and dad, my aunt (my dads sister), my uncle (moms brother), my brother-in-laws dad, my sister-in-laws grandmother and father, I think the rest of us have earned a bit of a breather and a chance to get back to some sort of normalcy.
I guess the first real Club business I want to attend to is to amend the size requirements a bit, if someone wants to join but their layout is no more than 45sq' (the area of a 5x9) I'm open to allowing them in as an Honorary Member, in fact when I told my dad he was an Honorary Member he asked a bit tongue in cheek what if the layout was 5x9 and not 4x8, so in his memory I'd like to make that the "Jerry Clause"
"So amended, anyone possessing a layout of more than 32 square feet but no more than 45 square feet shall be admitted to The 48 Club as an Honorary Member"
The requirements for inclusion.
A. The layout can be no larger than a 4x8 sheet of plywood or what can configured from a single sheet
1. Hollow core door slab layouts are definitely allowed
B. It can be permanent or seasonal since many 4x8s are set up during the Christmas season
C. In keeping with its seasonal origins the main focus will be S and O gauge, however if yours is one of the other gauges you are still welcome to join.
D. Anyone possessing a layout of more than 32 square feet but no more than 45 square feet shall be admitted to The 48 Club as an Honorary Member
Welcome aboard Dave!
Honorary Members
1. Harry Miller ... My grandfather
2. Jerry Makowiecki ... My dad
3. Thor Sheil
4. Alan Arnold
5. Allen Miller
6. Rich Melvin
7. Ed Boyle
8. Jim Barrett
9. Putnam Division
10. DavePAnd it's good to be back!
Jerry
Thanks Jerry - Sorry to that about your dad. It's been crazy with my son's Lacrosse games, work and ramping up to go back into the office full time, I apologize for not acknowledging sooner.
