Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 73°, should reach 94° later today. Only made it to 89° yesterday. Forecast for tomorrow has been changed, drastically. The weather geeks are now calling for a high of 82° with scattered thundershowers.
Where is everyone this morning Flo? I'll take two eggs over easy and a handful of bacon this morning.
Resumed the task of mowing the SFW estate yesterday, finished the east and north sides of the yard. Today I revisit the south and then it will be a few days before I start the cycle over again. Continued with the early summer task of cutting and stacking next winters firewood. Had to take an Advil this morning for the lingering aches.
Thanks
Patrick, Dave, Sherrel, Chet, Justin, Phil, Jerome, for the likes and comments yesterday regarding the City Hall pictures.
I have a few bars/lounges for my little people to hang out at. Marvin's Hi-Ball is a DPM kit called Goodfellows Hall. You might remember this picture from a project about a year ago.
Murphy's Bar is also a DPM kit called Skip's Chicken & Ribs. It has a home that I haven't developed yet. It will include a beer garden overlooking two different tracks for railfans. It's tentatively on the project schedule for fall of 2020, although that could easily change (forward or back).
Meanwhile out in the train shed yesterday, I mostly only continued with the scenery around the fertilizer distributor in my peninsula project, before embarking on two switching runs. The first involved switching out all of the cars at all of the industries in the project. No problems encountered as I had already tested all of the track in the past. The newly installed grade crossing was not an issue either. For the other job, I switched out all sixteen tank cars at the imaginary ethanol processing plant. No work on the Masonic Lodge yesterday, it's taking a breather. I did clear a few more partially painted Preiser figures off the workbench. I'm looking through the stockpile of people for some suitable ones to begin adding to the industrial district.
Sherrel -
but if I have anti-virus why do I have viruses?
Good question!
Patrick - Congratulations on the blueberries. Good to know there is another "gardener" here in the Coffee Shop. We have a couple of others. I have been an avid organic gardener for 45 years now. Haven't been successful with blueberries though. A couple of other "acid soil" tricks include sphagnum peat moss, fresh coffee grounds, cottonseed meal and
diluted vinegar. I have used all of these in various combinations over the years for potatoes, which also require acid soil.
Dave - Not a really big deal about the broken parts, sometimes I just need to back away for a while. I used to use a simple spreadsheet to keep track of freight cars, but I switched over to a real inventory program to keep track of 800± freight cars. It includes a maintenance log for each car as well.
Chet - Thanks for the award. At least I didn't have to go anywhere to get it. Acetone debonds CA glue and that's exactly what Testor's Liquid Cement is.
Ray - Nice weathering on the boxcar.
Everybody have a wonderful day and an awesome weekend, especially
Sherrel who is home alone. Be sure to clean up after the party. One night of partying equals two days of recovery any more.
