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The last pictures:

"Johnnie, quit chuckin' them rocks in the water."



"You can't tell me what to do!"

"If I don't catch something, all you'll have for supper is these here grubworms."

"Na Uh, Luke. You ain't makin' me eat no grubworms!"

"Iffen you don't let me catch something, none of us is eatin' fish!"

Here's all the plants that grew.





The trackless waste:







First, 2/3 of my financing was withdrawn. Then the credit card companies put me to default rate. There were no train sales in June, July and August. My software business went all summer with no work. The creditors are on the phone all the time. No money to pay rent on the shop. Time to retreat back to the Asylum.

I managed to take care of the customers that ordered in September, and I don't owe any suppliers anything.

Well, I'll be! One of my flowers has bloomed!

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(It's an impatient.)

Excellant!!

Any more buds kinda showin' their heads?

This is awesome!! I only wish I had the creativity and energy to take on a project like this!

What about baby's tears for a low growing ground cover type thing? It's good in low light and spreads. At least that's the experience I have with it.

The train garden is no more. Energy and ideas I had, but money and business ran out.

The impatient that bloomed had a bunch of blooms.

I potted some of the coleus to take home. It seemed sad to just throw the other plants out, and there were some people across the way, so I took one and said, "Would you like a flower? Actually, it's a coleus, so it won't make much flower but it has pretty leaves."

They were delighted to be given a coleus, especially the little boy, who was ready to follow me anywhere for more. His grandma came with him, and I gave them this impatient too.

So sorry to hear about this...
Where will all that stuff go now??

Thats' sad..
Hope you'll be able to take it home
or something and put it in a basement.

Another part of this hobby I like is making figures, and here's a few I hadn't posted before:

Mary Ellen


She eventually joined the boys at the stream on the other side.

Teddy finds a new friend.


Unfortunately, nobody introduced him to Mother!


Miss Smith the school marm tries to ignore him while Jefferson Smith, a bit of local color, explains Child Psychology.



The homework in our figure class once was to draw a figure according to somebody else's description of their railroad. The description was the assignment for the week before. Since I can't draw, I sculpted:



I sent his one to the guy whos railroad inspired the figure.

All the people are carefully wrapped in tissue and tucked into a little box.

Those are so cute...

*I know someone who used to carve people like that
and make bendie~people too with wires...*

What will happen to all of those people?

They're all carefully wrapped in tissue and tucked into a little box.

In my scale, a 6 ft figure is 2 1/2 inches high, so they're really small, especially the kids. The man who caught the boy is in a larger scale to match my friend's railroad, so he is about 3 1/2 inches high.

Since I model summertime durring the depression, the kids are out of school and visible everywhere. Most of the parents are busy. I figured on building some shops and industry where the adults would congregate.