Good Morning All. 67° and partly cloudy. It isn't supposed to get any warmer today after 89° yesterday, and depending on which forecast is correct, it will drop to near 40° before dawn tomorrow. Something about a cyclone that
Chet is sending this way. Barometer is relatively low at 29.40" but will be steadily increasing to near 30.00 " over the next 24 hours. A sausage and cheese biscuit and some orange juice will do it for me this morning Flo.
I climbed on the tractor and mowed some more yesterday, cut the SW corner and most of the 400' x 25' drainage swale on the west. Today I revisit the immediate back yard that I did last Sunday, and might just get some of the area around the pond. Half of my hayfield is ready for planting, we plant Sudangrass, a rapidly growing species that reaches 5' - 6' in about two months. The other half of the hayfield is left to natural grasses like Johnson Grass. Some years it actually outperforms the Sudan! Later in the day, my neighbor and I went to view the Medal of Honor motorcade, see last paragraph.
Thanks for the comments and likes on yesterday's grain elevator pictures,
Chet,
Justin,
Jim,
Phil,
Dave,
Mark,
Curt,
Garry, and anyone else whom I may have overlooked.
Curt, the elevator is a
Walther's ADM Grain Elevator kit. The larger storage bin is also from Walther's and the smaller one as well as the elevator kit are both from Rix Products. Just by coincidence, all of the ACF covered hoppers are kits from Accurail, I see one PS-1 ribside kit from P2K in the picture.
Here's a business that I don't believe that I have posted before, Import Motors, a plastic kit from Walther's. Makes good use of all of those "Fresh Cherries" vehicles that I got at Wally World about ten or twelve years ago.
Once again, I had limited time in the train shed yesterday, household tasks, yard duty and the motorcade predominated. Continued doing some scenery and painted and installed the large doors on Oakleaf Industries. Also painted the base and started the roof on the office building.
Chet -
Some times I don't know what day of the weeks it is. Retirement is nice.
Same here, I have to look at the lower right corner of the computer screen to see what Bill Gates says.
Greg - I never thought about Wisconsin not having any coal mines. Like the scrapyard scene, especially the use of the boxcar doors. Your caption indicates that it is from someone else's layout, you don't know who, do you?
Dave - I also like the Roundhouse kits, but all of mine on the layout are much more modern equipment, post 1965 or so.
Beady - Best wishes on your medical issues. I hope that you get some relief very soon. Tramadol, wow! Powerful stuff, be careful.
Mark -
Guten Tag herr Frauleins!
To the best of my limited German language memory, you posted "Good Day mr. Misses!
Forgot to mention yesterday was the annual Medal of Honor Motorcade from DFW airport to Gainesville TX (my county seat and where my wife's office is located). They pretty much close down IH 35 northbound through this area, (at rush hour no less) and all overpasses are full with fire trucks and large flags and banners along with thousands of onlookers. The motorcade itself is led by several hundred bikers and is usually 9-10 miles long. This is all in preparation for a parade in Gainesville on Saturday.
Medal of Honor Parade
Everybody have a great day.
