Good Morning All. 72° and clear, rather nice outside. If it weren't still 90¯ at 10:00 at night, we could sleep with the windows open!
Today is our 47th wedding anniversary.
That evening in 1972, started with me, my father and the monsignor (high level Catholic priest) reviewing the set-up with the best man who missed the rehearsal the night before - his wife was having their first child!
Make it eggs over easy and bacon for me this morning Flo. And pass the jelly doughnuts around to everyone on my tab today in honor of the day.
I'll celebrate by mowing the west and south parts of the yard this morning and weedeating around the pool.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday for the pictures of the crime-stoppers;
Tom, Garry, Sherrel, Ken, Chet, Joe, Louis, Clint. Today I'll post the other end of the block where some ladies are looking for dates.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I finally painted the remaining bare plywood in the current project section a light earth color. Today I hope to paint the main line and passing siding so I can proceed to ballasting later this week. Still fiddling with the track arrangement for the industrial buildings though.
Sherrel - Good to read that you are out of harm's way.
Chet - No K-9 in that truck, just Rin Tin Tin out for a ride. I haven't been to many NASCAR tracks, but I have been to Texas Motor Speedway and Bristol. Went to races at Bristol on the old track and the new track. Always lots of action on those short tracks. Saw Daryl Waltrip's final race at Bristol in 2000 or so. Texas is a good track to go to as well, almost every seat has a view of the entire 1.5 mile track. From my house, it's only three turns and 26 miles away. I too have stopped going in person due to the walking distance and lugging the cooler full of beer.
Joe - Good to see you. Many of us missed you. I can see from the pictures that you were busy in the train room.
Terry -
A tip for anybody putting together track:
Borrow a thimble from your wife's sewing kit, put it on your index finger, and use it to push the rail joiners onto the rails. That will prevent a joiner from skewering your finger
Another way to avoid the skewered finger is to use a small pair of needle-nosed pliers. Don't ask how I know this!
Louis -
Willie, don't be so hard on the Rangers, they are only 1 game under 500 now. The Orioles are 51 games under 500. The Rangers are beating the teams they should beat and have you looked at the Orioles pitching staff recently?
I actually don't follow baseball or any other professional sports anymore, I just happened to see an article mentioning that fact, it was a sweep in the end. I really hate baseball more than any other sport. Give me hockey any day, but I still don't keep up with it.
Yesterday, I was disturbed during my after lunch nap by a female voice crying out "help me I'm stuck". Since I didn't have my hearing aids in, I didn't recognize the voice, but thinking that my wife was in trouble, I sprang up to check it out. It turns out that it was "Hazel", the automatic "IRobot Roomba" vacuum cleaner that she had bought a few weeks ago! It had sucked up a corner of a throw rug and was stuck. I am not a fan of that machine, it takes a long time to accomplish it's goal. I liken it to "even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes". That thing just randomly travels about with no set pattern, turns when it bumps stuff and sometimes repeats itself many times before giving up! It will however head for it's charger when the battery is low if it doesn't have to pass the room limitation device, kinda like an invisible fence.
OK, I have rambled on enough now; everybody have a great day.