Good Morning All. Raining and 55°, about 0.45" so far. Thunder & lightning indicated worse, but the gauge is what it is. It started around 0500. More on the way. Power has blinked off and on a couple of times. It's not expected to get much warmer today, but sunshine and much warmer tomorrow. This rain will do the garden a lot of good, but will also make the yard grow uncontrollably. And the cars are getting a bath; then there's the 200' drive on the gravel easement road to get to the main paved road out front that will get the lower parts weathered again.
Yesterday's delayed weekly grocery trek went well, and fast. Wife chose to stay home, so it went quicker. No real inflation report, even gasoline prices stayed the same from last week, averaging $3.45/gal everywhere. That is except for the local country convenience store about 7 miles away from me where it is still $3.27...that's where I filled up. I still have 45 more days left to use my current gas points at Kroger, so I'll get them in soon. Right now I have 70¢/gal discount.
I spent more time on the mower than planned, but I got the whole SW part of the yard around the septic tank and leach fields, the whole West side bordering my hay field, all of the North and NW part around the train shed and up to my pond; as well as all of the back yard between and around the house and pool. Only the East and South acreage remained untouched, but I got all of that earlier in the week. Fluid intake: 2 gallons of gas for the tractor/mower and 2 beers for me!
A short but productive session out in the train shed yesterday. Remember this boxcar?
After looking at various photos on the different RR picture archives, I noticed that this paint scheme was not very durable, so I tried heavier weathering than I normally do. I started with a light overspray of white primer and then I did a little dry-brushing and lots of weathering powders to get this.
Still not as bad as most of the pictures, but at least representative to some extent. I believe that I will add a bit more grimy black to the doors.
Tom O - Hope that the back issue is just a short time thing and that you get well very soon. Good luck to your brother's investment in gold. My wife's sister and brother-in-law still haven't recovered from the silver spike in 1979! Lesson learned, never buy when it's going up!
Guy - Continued good luck with the recovery.
Mike - I guess that I should feel lucky that my roof was completed 4 days after I accepted the roofer's bid. Two days for him to complete another job, 1 day to get the materials and deliver them to my house, and 1 day to do the job.
Jeez! I just now understood the ABBA-Kiss!
Hughie - My mower has had me on speed-dial since Christmas. Right now, the cost of getting someone else to do it is prohibitive.
Swal -
The
mass migration echoes a trend that gained momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic and continued in the years that followed as Northerners sought warmer weather, cheaper living and
more favorable tax conditions.
The real problem is that some of them are bringing their political views with them.
Everyone have a great Saturday. I'll try to stay dry out in the train shed