Good Morning All. Clear and 77° to start our morning. At least there's a little breeze today. Today's grocery/beer Thursday, so that's on the agenda this morning. Wife's three day a week physical therapy sessions are getting a little harder as she progresses. Her regular therapist was back yesterday after a week off, when Brutus took her place. I have been using my new chipper/shredder for about 45 minutes a day lately, but the pile isn't diminishing much since I am also dragging other brush over to add. It still beats the bonfire that I used to endure along with the anxiety of setting the county on fire.
Just pancakes and sausage for me this morning Francine. Is Flo over there getting cooking lessons from
Louis?
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding yesterday's Tire Shack pictures;
Patrick, Sherrel, Chad, Dave, Johnny, Jerome, Garry, Justin, Tom, Louis.
OK, on to the train shed. Another short session out there yesterday. I managed to spread a bit of ground cover and I am working on a string of pennants for the Tire Shack, not easy! I painted a few more detail parts, unfinished still, and ran a switching run. I don't really have any progress pictures from yesterday, so I will post some (not so good) pictures from a scene on the layout. Part of this scene showed up in one of the locomotive power pictures that I posted a few months ago, and someone, I think it was
Dave, asked about it.
It's a little hard to discern, but the girl on the right is washing a dog in a tub.
Here's Dad staying out of the way with a few cold brews.
Front of the trailer.
Why haven't I finished the scene? Well I
lost er, misplaced the two sets of stairs!
I have a bunch of scrap styrene that I will eventually use to make new ones. Someday!
Johnny - While we've hit 99° on 20 of the last 22 days, it still hasn't quite broken the triple digit barrier
here yet this year. Dallas saw 100° on Friday, but otherwise it's been a cool summer, for us. Remember a year ago in June, we were at 110°+ for about ten days. Note that our average is 18 days a year, our greatest year was 2011 when it reached 100° 71 times, and in 1980, it was 100°+ every day in July! Historically we have had triple digits in every month from March through October, but August is usually the greatest number of occurrences. This is from my gardening records.
I redo scenes that I am not happy with sometimes. I usually add more vegetation or figures. It comes about after looking at them for a few months and realizing that something is missing.
Dave - Good luck with the computer. Makes me nervous since I am using this ten-year old desktop right now.
Beady - Trees here are dumping leaves because of lack of rain, not because of the approaching seasonal change in another three months.
Sherrel -
I always thought of a tamale as being "rolled" whereas a burrito is "wrapped"?
So much fast food Mexican food is the same stuff, a filling, folded, wrapped or rolled in a tortilla and cooked in various fashions. LOL
Glad that the trip home was successful.
Kyle - Welcome back, don't be such a stranger. Lot's of the same folks still, just a bit more eccentric.
Louis - Doesn't sound like you get real Mexican or Tex-Mex food in your area. It's all great except the menudo that
Sherrel alluded to yesterday! I make it all the time. You would most likely love Carnitas, which is (the way I make it), slow cooked cubed pork shoulder with oregano, garlic, jalepenos and toasted cumin seed. Serve it on a large flour tortilla with homemade verde salsa (green tomato, onion, garlic, chile peppers, cilantro) and Monterrey Jack cheese. Another favorite is fajitas. That's marinated grilled steak or chicken (or goat), served on flour tortillas with grilled onions and bell peppers, cheddar or Monterrey Jack cheese, pico de gallo (diced jalepenos, tomatoes, onions and cilantro) and sour cream.
Note that Taco Bell or Taco Bueno are
not Mexican food restaurants. LOL
Today is National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day. Good luck with that!
Everybody have a great day.