Good Morning All. Clear and 54° out here on the SFW estate. Cooler yesterday than Friday, and mid to upper 70's again today. 82° tomorrow for the eclipse if the clouds don't form first...there may be an hour leeway either way from the big event. Clouds or no clouds, it will be quite dark here for a few minutes. Heavy thunderstorms predicted for around midnight Monday through noon Tuesday. Forecast is for near 2" total.
Yesterday's activities included mowing and cutting firewood. Indoors was emptying the dishwasher and doing laundry. All of the above again today except the dishwasher. Depending on the wind, I might just be doing some grilling tonight. I'll take out some ground beef and if conditions are right, it will be burgers, otherwise it's Tacos. They're both the same; meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, all enclosed by a wrapper made of flour. Burgers get pickles and tacos get Jalapenos.
Yesterday out in the train shed was a wasted day, sort of. I spent the whole time with my new engines, breaking them in sort of. I ran them on both decks pulling various strings of unit or manifest trains. Tried them a bit switching on both levels, since that was what some of them were relegated to towards the end of my modeling era. No problems anywhere except one industrial spur that gives all six axle engines a bit of a fit. No problem for four axle units which is why I primarily usually use the fleet of CF7's and GP35's for local switching. Not all of my time out there was running trains though, I did set about 2 dozen more headstones in the cemetery.
Here are a couple of shots of those GP35's in action.
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Todd - I did the raise the head end of the bed 40 years ago but used bricks instead of 2"x4" blocks. Not noticeable at all.
David - So how much rain do you actually get every year where you are at? Seems that you are posting rain on most days.
Curt - I am kind of partial to the longer hoods on the SD40-2's as well; although I only have 2 but have at least 12 of the regular length. A couple of the older Blue Boxer's are going to the dead line this week.
Jaz - Sorry to read of the animal misfortunes. I think that the "pink sugar" that
Terry referred to is Sweet & Low, not some nefarious version of the poison stuff. I don't use either. When preparing meals, I use Monkfruit.
As noted yesterday, Prohibition in the US ended on this day 91 years ago. So today is National Beer Day. Flo, put everyone's brew on my tab today.
Everyone have a great Sunday