Good Morning All. Clear and 47°. Gradually warming trend with winds back from the south tomorrow in the forecast. The storm Monday night was an isolated one here. We (me and the Weather Underground station around the corner) got 3.25" of rain, while a different Weather Underground station 8 miles south only got 0.9".
Yesterday's trip to Dallas to trade my wife for a granddog went without a hitch. He's never been here alone, as our other granddog usually accompanies him. It is his first car trip here/back (of about a dozen) without getting sick in his crate due to some medicine that the vet gave my daughter to give him.
Today of course is the weekly grocery trek day. It will go quicker without my wife tagging along. She "shops" while I get what's on the list and get out quick.
Another "running trains" only day out in the train shed yesterday. It's not that I am not motivated to do any modeling, but the desire to run is just really great right now.
Back to some scenery pictures from the archives, specifically animals today.
Troy - The pipeline video was interesting. I was able to see something similar when they put a 3" water line under a nearby road. Normally they would just use a waterjet to bore, but in the situation nearby, the soil was too unstable for the waterjet and they had to do the trench and use a drill.
Tom O - Good luck with the land transaction. The lease-back is always a winner according to the folks that I know around here. The fellow across the road sold 1800 acres (sight unseen) to an Oriental consortium back in 2006 and leased it back at $1/acre/year. Then after 18 months of paying him $10,000/month, the group dissolved and returned the title. $180,000 in his pocket for no work at all. The consortium of investors had no idea what they were doing, and the land is not good for any type of development since half of it is a flood plain!
Hughie - Sounds like everyone involved in the storm is safe, that's good.
Chris - I have always liked RE#1's dioramas very much.
Guy - How did you get engine pictures without the utility pole growing from the roof???
Mike - Interestingly the fire alarm plan at my grandson's high school was well thought out. The alarm that was set off was one in the basement that is not monitored with a camera. The perpetrator was able to slip out of the basement unseen with the rush of other students. Grandson says that the scuttlebutt at school is that it may have been a janitor in on the plan.
Everyone have a great day.