Good Morning All. Mostly clear and 54°, with a stiff north breeze. Forecast now shows a high today at 59°, back into the 70's tomorrow. Mother Nature chose to ignore the NWS regarding heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes last night, at least here. I didn't even receive 0.1" of rain in the gauge, although there was a significant isolated hailstorm about 30 miles south in Justin TX. We'll have a couple of cool nights coming, but after today the days will be pleasant. Of course to some here, a high of 59° might be considered pleasant.
Forum is running well for me this morning, I am finally getting caught up on some other threads and posts. Fingers crossed.
Household chores abound today, the delayed bed linen washing (not home Sunday, no water yesterday); empty the dishwasher that I ran last night, I need to clean at least some wood ashes out of the heater since I'll need a fire later today; and most likely running the vacuum since the wet grass clippings from yesterday will stick to my shoes and be tracked in!
Oh! I need to stash the emergency water jug again. Yesterday in addition to mowing and breaking the water main, I set up the new air fryer to replace the old one. The upper heating element quit working in the old one and like most small appliances these days, it was cheaper to get a new one than to attempt a repair.
I was out in the train shed yesterday, but mostly running trains again since I missed a day out there Sunday. Since I still have the water pan out for decaling, I did continue along those lines. There are 8 different graffiti decals in the Blair Line package and I might as well use them all while I am in that groove. I started with this GN car that is just too shiny to be realistic.
From RR Pictures Archive, this is what most looked like in my era.
I most likely won't get it quite as dirty/rusted as this one, but it gives me an idea.
Another one that I started is this one.
Then I started another one. This one is a gondola.
This is different from most that I do in two respects, First, the decal is 3.5" long and secondly I am doing it on a rib-sided car instead of a smooth sided one. But I have had success on the previous two cars in getting the decals to conform to the bottom door rail, so I figured what the heck. The SP car is from Details West, while the other two are Athearn RTR from the Roundhouse tooling that they acquired.
These three will all be getting some weathering as that is done at the bench while I continue to do other projects on the layout.
Sherrel - Have a safe trip. Good luck with the treatments.
Snowman - I stopped after the third jab, mainly because I just didn't think that it was necessarily doing any good. I still haven't gotten the China virus even though I am in four of the so called "high-risk" groups. Damn! I don't even remember what the four groups are anymore! Main reason for getting any to begin with was that my supplemental insurance provider was going to raise my premiums if I didn't.
Patrick - Dry ink in the printing heads was my biggest problem with my Epson. Cleaning the print heads 4-5 times before every use was a real hassle.
David - Girlie talk is pretty much nothing all of the time.
Mike - While I am not strictly anti-vaccine, I have never gotten a flu shot in all of my 72 years. I have never gotten the flu either. I do get Tetanus and Pneumonia shots.
My guess is that the water temperature in the Gulf is still a bit on the chilly side.
Chad -
Yes a Crock Pot is a brand of slow cooker. Kind of like all tissues are now Kleenex...
Ironically the brand of slow cooker that I have the cracked liner in is exactly that, Crock Pot. So whichever term that I use is correct!
Marvin Gaye would have been 85 today had it not been for his unfortunate demise.
Everyone have a great day.
I have like thirteen pockets so I can pick away the gloves and bits and pieces phone hand warmer hot drink…would I rather be sat in a warm car yeah but sometimes not possible I wonder when we’ll get flying cars brooom brooom or will it be wacky wacky wacka
