Good Morning All. Cloudy and 55°, possible rain light again later this morning, it's headed this way. Another 0.7" in the last 24 hours brings us up to 1.5" of slow mostly drizzle in two days. All appears to have soaked in, no runoff. Better fill up the gas can for the mower! It's not supposed to get above 60° today...I'll have to keep the fire going in the wood-burning heater. I still have a days worth of dry wood in the house and I'll stash some more under the stove for tonight/tomorrow. Fortunately, it only gets wet on the outside and dries quickly.
After careful consideration, we decided not to make the weekly grocery/beer trek this week after all. Since we went out to eat twice and to go boxes are in the fridge, and since my wife is going to spend the weekend at my granddaughter's home, the fridge, pantry and freezer will have to suffice! Not a real problem as the beer stash could easily last until Memorial Day
In celebration of my wife's last day of work yesterday, we went to Red Lobster for dinner. Instead of my usual all you can eat shrimp, I tried one of their newly advertised fancy-schmancy Wagyu burgers. It was no better than my homemade 93% select ground beef burgers made from Kroger Angus beef which only cost me about a fourth of the price! In addition, they didn't seem to understand medium rare, although it wasn't quite medium. I guess that is what one gets when eating a burger at a fish place!
Not only that, but they were out of CO2 so they didn't have draft beer.
I would have left for that reason, but my wife had her appetite set on crab-cakes, fried shrimp and scallops.
Just a couple of over easy eggs and a pair of sausage patties with my toasted English Muffin this morning Flo.
Thanks for the comments and likes regarding yesterday's progress post;
Chad, Guy, Troy, Joe, Sherrel, Karl, Hughie, Jaz, Chet, Phil, Gary, Patrick, George, Justin, Jerry, Ken.
One would think that I would have spent more time in the train shed yesterday than I did, since it was raining outside. But no! I ended up spending a lot more time than planned on my third hobby of editing and contributing to rock & roll articles in Wikipedia. I did get out there but mainly vacuumed and dusted.
While sifting through stuff to add to the A/C sales/installation company's scene, I came across these.
They are unidentified white metal castings that came in two different DPM Gold Series kits from about 15 years ago. I primed them at the time but I have no clue as to what they really are! Anyone got a clue???
Here's the next block along Main Street in Vernon.
The northernmost structure on this block is
Harrison's Hardware, a pre-built structure from Woodland Scenics. It is a rare purchase on my part since I normally only purchase kits. My model does not have the "Just Plug" lighting in it that newer versions have.
While I really like this structure, my issue with it is that the back sides are as detailed as the front side, but those details will not be seen unless I relocate it elsewhere; hence the reason that I have not truly planted it in place.
The lineage of this structure is an older DPM kit known as
Carr's Auto Parts. I had long ago used this kit as a candy store in a different town, although I built it without the recessed entry way. Here's a comparison.
Guy - My closest buddy had a Corvair that looked exactly like that one. I remember the afternoon that we added a racing stripe to it. Didn't help make it run any faster though!
Joe - H&R Block is not an employee-friendly employer. Like many corporations, they follow the advice of the bean-counters in Kansas City, who know absolutely nothing about running a storefront business. That seems to be the reason that corporate has been losing money for years! In the small town that my wife's office is in, customers will not drive 32 miles each way to visit another Block office this summer, but will go up the block to Liberty instead. Jackson-Hewlett was run out of town a few years ago. Interestingly, my wife's office manager only gets paid $18/hour! Note also as a cost-cutting measure, they did not have a receptionist this month, so the phone went unanswered and clients were seen walking out the door.
Hughie - Rudy's BBQ, it varies from location to location. The one closest to me in Denton is excellent all of the time. There's one in North Ft Worth that is mostly good, but I ate once in New Braunfels and was really disappointed.
Everybody have a great day, and an awesome weekend. Be safe.