Good Morning All. 27° and cloudy. What's the difference between cloudy and overcast? Miserable fog with mist all day long yesterday made for a lousy day outside. Conditions will improve for the next two days and then winter returns Saturday night, with a forecast low of 18° Sunday night. Blah!
Making the grocery/beer trek today, the normal day for a change.
I posted last week that the road fronting my property north of the house was crumbling apart. Well I called and spoke with the county road commissioner for our precinct and he stated that I was the first person to call him about it, and he would come take a look. On Tuesday, there was a grader/spreader, a road compactor and three semi-trucks with "flex-base" out to fix it. Ripped up the old road, smoothed things out and replaced about 150' with a new surface. "
Flex-base" Is a clay/rock material commonly used as temporary roads around here. They were back yesterday with the compactor only, running it back and forth for a few more hours. We're not due for a road resurface until fall of 2020.
Had to refile my application for the agricultural exemption for my property taxes yesterday. Have to do this every few years. They tax office took it away once about ten years ago because an intern looked at the property and reported that I wasn't farming. The intern came by in December!
Yesterday was an off day as far as projects in the train shed. Spent time running trains instead. Switched 16 covered hoppers at a large grain elevator on one run. Made a different run for 16 tankers at the ethanol processing plant. Capped the day off by switching eight industries, including another smaller grain elevator in my town of Charlottesville. Interrupted that one with a unit train of intermodal containers passing through.
Beady - Sorry to hear about your MIL's sister. My condolences go out for your family. I see that you didn't lay the track soon enough and now the layout table is full of stuff.
Dave - Nice scene with the gravel loader.
Garry - Nice angle on the farm scene. Do I detect a couple of kites across the tracks?
Terry - My LP tank is only 125 gal. I was told by the delivery driver over 35 years ago that if I ordered "fill-up". I would pay 10¢ a gallon less than if I ordered 100 gallons which is what I had done at the time; even if I didn't actually get 100 gallons. Still holds true today. I know that your tanks are bigger and you only get what you need, just an interesting factoid here.
Louis -
Gourmet and me in the same sentence? I never thought that would happen.
You could feed
Hannibal Lecter for a week or more.
I woke up with stiffness in my right ankle again. It comes and goes every few weeks and I can't figure out why.
Reckon it is connected with trying to do four hour Amazon runs in two hours? Remember that you're not eligible for worker's comp.
Jim - Thanks.
Today, February 28 is National Chili Day. A good day for it after reading some of the weather updates. It is also
National Public Sleeping Day, a rather odd observance. So eat a big bowl of chili and go to the mall to catch up on your own celebration.
Everyone have a great day.