by waaytoomuchintothis » Thu Mar 12, 2015 2:17 pm
That's the big green shelf you did for people to put their slot boxes/traveling tools, etc, right? That kind of thing is always a welcoming sight for guests. There are signs that you can see when you come into someone's house that tell you, you are welcome. People don't forget that kind of thing.
There was a guy here in Virginia who hosted a huge annual gathering for HO that I loved going to, and he had arranged so much room for us, there was room for guys to set up tables to sell their stuff, as well as the 4 permanent tracks he had there for us to run on. He was a wonderful guy, and he eventually did so much relieving other people's troubles his health began to fail. I only hear from him a couple of times a year, God bless him, but no one will ever forget what a wonderful host he was or what he did for the hobby.