Good Morning All. Clear and 54° with another beautiful Spring day in store. Slightly warmer today and a bit more breeze at 7-9 mph.
Yesterday's grocery trek was unremarkable, Bidenomics is still causing some price fluctuations, mostly up. Gasoline around town is up this week, looked like most places were at $3.45/gal. I drove by the day-laborer corner in Denton and it was more crowded than usual. Not sure if it's just more people needing work, or another influx of immigrants. The City of Denton has added additional picnic tables/benches and more trash receptacles to the large pavilion that they built about 15 years ago, along with what looks like 6-Porta-Potties now, up from the previous 3.
On the home front, I did hand-water the Onions, Broccoli, Spinach and Lettuce in the garden; today I will move over and do the Green Peas. I also took advantage of no wind and burned the backlog of "burn-trash". Reviewed the plan to set out Tomato and Pepper plants and where the Green Beans and Squash will go.
As I planned, I skipped mowing yesterday, instead I finally re-attacked the giant pile of firewood trees that the neighboring farmer left over next to my hayfield. I cut up a week's worth and got quite a workout. Had to stop once and disassemble the saw to put the chain back on. Needed extra tools since it got caught up under the tip guard.
I then showered and we went out to gorge ourselves on Italian food at our favorite place in Sanger, 12 miles away.
I didn't visit the train shed yesterday since I had so much else going on.
I use a lot of different materials in my structure building, mostly kits from various manufacturers; plastic, laser-cut wood, Hydrocal and cardstock. Here are a few cardstock structures that I don't usually feature, but still fit the layout. All are "freebie" downloads from various sites on the net.
This is "Old MacDonald's Farmhouse.
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This is Skelly General Engineers, a backdrop low-relief structure that I enhanced with downspouts and a gooseneck lamp.
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One of my favorites is Mick's Food Market, which I made more 3D by adding strip styrene to represent door and window frames, sills and headers.
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I also added the sidewalk and porch supports.
Joe - Thanks for posting, I was wondering where you were? I hope that all is well.
Mike - Sweet & Low is at the tables/drink dispensers in most places around here, so maybe it's just a Florida thing. I don't use it or any other sugar or sugar-substitute so I can't comment further.
Tom O - Are overall Covid cases prevalent in your area? Or do you think that one member of your operating group brought it into the fold? It just doesn't seem to be widespread around here. "Official statistics" (to be taken with several large grains of salt) for my county shows .9 cases/100K people, yep,
.9 cases. With just 40,000 population in the whole county, they must have had to look hard to find that statistic. I'm sure that there are more that are just not reported.
KG - Welcome to the Coffee Shop. Always good to see a new face here, more tips for Flo and Francine.
Everybody have a fantastic Friday and a good upcoming weekend.
reading everyone’s comments.
