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For me, the layout hasn't been touched in a little while.

My wife and I went to see her parents in Phoenix all last week (I even managed to hit all the hobby shops there that I could). After we got back, my wife has had a series of 'end of summer' chores that included adding a storm door I still feel we didn't need at all (the wind and rain comes from the opposite side and the front door is well recessed from the overhead and it never ever get wet from rain there). But, her household-related wants get translated to 'need' and I have given up getting her to understand the difference between the two (I have no individual needs, according to her, so I can't use the same logic. Go figure).

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This project was made more maddening by the fact that it came with no instructions at all! We looked up the info on the company website and it had no info on how to install the pistons that keep the door from flying open and closing on it's own. Thank goodness for YouTube, as I'd never even seen anyone installing one of these before.

Yeah, it's a purple door. Note the color of the house, it's a very light shade of lavender. My wife has a thing for purple. No sane (or straight) man would paint their house this color!

I still need to get my ET&WNC hoppers built, as I have all the parts, paint and decals at the house, just need to get a day where I have time for that. My dachshund-poodle mix pup Sweet Pea (who just turned one year old last month) doesn't deal well with me doing model train stuff at the dining room table, though, so generally she needs to want to sleep before I can anything done or my wife needs to be home...

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