This Space for Rent

Dec 01, 2024

Trolley picture of the day

Freshly painted type 1

This Type 1 car looks like it’s got a new coat of paint; sort of like the paint it had when it was shipped (#116 was one of the last 2 units in the original paint, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore) but not really.

This makes me think the twilight of the Type 1s is upon us, and it won’t be long before they’re all shipped off to the scrappers or railroad museums :-(

Nov 30, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Belated Mite
I’m sure it’s still officially friday somewhere in the world!

Nov 22, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

The tailor
Dust Mite helps me sew up some bags

Nov 15, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Citron is back on the menu, boys!
Citron is back, so it’s time to candy it up and roll it into a fruitcake or twenty.

Nov 08, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Still life with Mite, fruit, and bread
Let them eat bread & citron!

Nov 07, 2024

Polson Logging #2 in steam

Firing up Polson #2

The ORHF is warming up for the holiday excursion season, and that meant that when I rode by their shops today Polson Logging Co. mikado #2 was being cleaned and fired.

Nov 06, 2024

Photostitchery

The octopus tree (photostitched)
The Octopus Tree at Cape Meares, photostitched from a dozen individual photos

Nov 04, 2024

Trainspotting

McCloud River #25, railfan pose

We went to the coast last weekend to ride one of the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad’s steam-powered excursion trains, so of course I needed to take a picture to document the atrocities.

Nov 01, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Bread & Mite
Dust Mite hides behind the bread pile

Oct 25, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Salmon Mite
Dust Mite and everyone else’s dinner

Oct 21, 2024

Fruitcake!

post-transition fruitcake
behold the fruitcake!

This one was made with blueberries, citron – of course! –, and cranberries, brown coconut sugar instead of brown cane sugar, and (for veganization) Bob’s egg replacer instead of dinosaur eggs.

Oct 18, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Dust Mite & Blåhaj character studies Dust Mite & Blåhaj character studies
Character studies of Dust Mites & my Blåhaj

Oct 17, 2024

Horrible fun with animated gifs

The PV&T official train as an animated gif

I’d finished redrawing all of the passenger equipment that I’d put on the PV&T official train, so then I thought “why not make it into an animated gif?”

Several hours later, here it is, in fully horrible glory :-)

Oct 15, 2024

let them eat bread!

Let them eat bread!
Another day and a half’s worth of homemade bread, in baguette & roll form this time around

Oct 11, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

The fascinator
Dust Mite decorates my hat


Maybe the aurora borealis?

Maybe the aurora? (2)
Is it solar interference or do I have lying eyes?

Oct 06, 2024

It’s ready for its close-up

Ready for my close up
40 year old Bombardier/BN Type 1 car #124 leads a train south towards Oak Grove

Oct 05, 2024

Not in tow

Two coypu chilling alongside the Springwater Trail
Two coypu take a break from defoliating the Springwater Trail

Oct 04, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Mite & Cheese
Dinnertime for the both of us

Sep 27, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Pizza Mite
Dust Mite enjoys some home-assembled pizza

Sep 20, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Everyone's hanging out at the router tonight
The fuzzy gang’s all here

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