Good Labor Day morning All. Clear and 74° here in beautiful North Central Texas this morning. Set me up with a breakfast sausage burrito this morning Flo, with lots of hot salsa on the side. So nice to have the day off today?!#@?!
Finished mowing the east side of the SFW estate yesterday after lunch; it took until after noon before the dew disappeared. I'll start with the north side today, may even get to the overgrown west side (the "back 40") after that. Didn't notice a dew this morning so I can get an earlier start.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday;
Justin, Phil, Tom, Sherrel.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I tried something new, at least to me. Since I had decided to make the casket company structure look quite aged, I dry-brushed some freight car red paint on the walls before adding the mortar wash.
I did the first panel on the left before I remembered that I am going to add a loading dock and didn't need to add the wash to the bottom of the walls. I need to hit a spot or two with some emery cloth or sandpaper, and then add some weathering powder as well, but the initial effect seems to have worked as intended.
Mikey - Looking forward to your trials with the new
mystery material. I just used black painted plastic straws from a RaceTrac convenience store.
The clerk used to look at me funny when I grabbed a handful of straws whenever I picked up a twelve pack of beer on the way home from work!
Sweet potato salad sounds good to me. Does she boil the sweet potatoes or roast them?
Sherrel - Yes, the whole forum has been really quiet the last few days. By the way, walkers or canes are relatively inexpensive, if Kate would use one. I think that we paid less than $30 for Arlene's
walker on Amazon. Here's another item that might help;
Comfort seat You'll need one for the rehab period when needed.
Wife asked me yesterday why I slept on the edge of the bed, far away from her. Rather than saying that it was to avoid her thrashing and flailing all night, I said that it was because I am lazy and the closer to the edge, the easier it was to get in and out (not as far) for those inevitable bathroom breaks.
Discretion is the better part of valor. Of course it is also easier.
Besides being Labor Day, today is also National V-J Day; celebrating America's victory over Japan in WWII. Let's thank all of those remaining veterans.
Happy Labor Day everyone and grill big hunks of meat and drink your favorite beverage all day long.