Good Morning Everyone. 59° with mostly cloudy skies. At least it's not raining again this morning. Expecting three days of no rain if the forecast is to be believed. While I cannot really do any outside projects, I have had to pick up considerable extra household duties due to my wife's temporary immobility. The good news is that while not improving yet, she is not getting any worse. Not sure whether that will change without the knee replacement. At least she's made the decision to go forward.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding the post yesterday;
Garry, Jerome, Patrick, Chet, Phil, Curt, Justin, Tom and
Sherrel.
OK, I as well as many others here on the forum have been concerned about
Louis and his absence. He sent me a lengthy E-Mail yesterday. Here is a short edited excerpt from it.
"Forgive me for being AWOL.....I'm a creature of habit and my routine has been turned upside down, but the results are encouraging. I'm making steady, albeit slow progress.....My hope is once I get a grip on this new schedule I will have more free time, but for now I'm still struggling with it. I've never slept so many hours per day in my entire life!"
Continue to remember him with positive thoughts and prayers.
On to the train shed. I did get to spend more time there yesterday. I made progress on the peninsula project, just not real visible progress. Painted a lot of brown earth, applied a second coat of gray to the parking area, added a lot of ground cover along the ROW and around the beverage distribution center and also painted stripes in the parking area. While I was landscaping, I added some ground cover across the aisle on that narrow strip of plywood that I posted a week or so ago.
Here's a couple more structures that will be joining the ones posted yesterday, over on the left side of the peninsula between the layout edge and the main line. I am an advocate of running the main line through the scenery where possible. I have most likely posted other pictures of these structures in the past.
First up is a Dairy Queen from Walther's. This goes back to the time before they added drive-thru windows, so it actually pre-dates my era by a couple of years. Modeler's license. I may eventually add one to the right side, it looks to be easily done.
I know that I posted pictures of this Texaco gas station when I was completing the build a couple of years ago, forgive me if you have seen it. It is a laser-cut wood kit from JL Innovative Designs. It's called "
Brownie's Northside Service".
The interiors of both businesses are detailed, but are hard to see in these pictures.
Chet - Your P/T adventures are giving me a prelude to what I can expect with my wife's upcoming adventure into joint replacement. So far though, she is refusing to take anything stronger than ibuprofen and wine.
Tom - Never realized that there were two cylinder clubs around. Maybe I should find a local one to join just so I can borrow someone else's plow!
Sherman & Clint - Interesting Big Boy videos, thanks for posting them. I didn't hear a thing. Wait! I have the sound turned off!
Sherrel - Dang! 4:14 would have gotten you 300 miles in Texas!
Besides being Derby Day, today is also National Star Wars Day and World Naked Gardening Day. It's too wet for me to participate this year.
I'll refrain from providing a link, but if you want more info, just google it.
Mañana es Cinco de Mayo. Es hora de una fiesta! Comer fajitas y beber cerveza.
Everybody have a great day.