Curiosity has me posting this and maybe some other folks are wondering about this too. I have knowest over the last couple of days that when I click on a tread some of the posts have a highlighted word, bold, capitalized and in blue. Hold the cursor over it and an add pops up. Not related to trains at all.

The last one which I wrote down is in the Bachman code 100 topic. 2nd page, post is called Pricey and it is the 2nd word 1st line (THOUGHT). Hold your cursor over it and it comes up with an ad for gradschool.com.

If you give a kid some sectional track, a power pack, an engine and some cars of course the first thing most of them will do is make a circle of track and see how fast the train will go. That’s the natural order of things.

My intention with the Inglenook was to disrupt the natural order enough so that the kids would sense that there’s something else going on.

Well guys it's Tuesday night and time to meet at the restaurant and go to the club. Tonight will be painting and moving some things so that we can begin the install in the work room of a new air conditioner. So far we have not had a day over 100 degrees yet in Texas but I can not count on that to last much longer.

So now we all know what I am doing tonight, what are the rest of you doing on this glorious Tuesday night?

Rob in Texas

I've toyed with the idea of building a working pike in my classroom since I started teaching about six years ago (I'm 58, I've had several other careers). A lot of it has been a selfish desire to increase my own opportunities to enjoy model railroading, so I've been cautious about making sure the academic value was appropriate.