Good Morning All. 77° and clear and dry. The weather people have inserted a chance of rain into their forecast, for three days beginning Monday; it wasn't there yesterday. My wife has decided that there are issues with the newly remodeled bathroom. Funny thing is that I told her of these issues long before we started, but she didn't acknowledge that. Chief among them is the lack of towel racks. We had three in the old bathroom, we now have one plus a towel ring. Another is the height of the new vanity. It looks good but it is 39" tall, old one was 32", allowing plenty of bending over room since it was waist-high. We now have to stand back further and bending over to spit toothpaste is becoming an art, like using a spittoon. I told her to walk over and spit in the shower, but she didn't appreciate that suggestion. Life goes on!
Gave the mower a much needed break yesterday, even though I haven't completed the "back 40" yet. Instead, I gathered up piles of grass clippings and moved them to the garden to use as next years mulch and for composting.
Moving on to the train shed, I started the day by re-staging a few unit through freights and changing up the motive power. I am not really ready to implement my switching program at this point in life. While I have all industries, car types, capacities, frequencies and freight cars entered into the program, I have not input the locations of any of the 800 freight cars. I put together the track cleaning train and promptly shorted everything out. Seems that the cleaning wrap on my Centerline car had worn through in just the right spots to allow the brass roller to contact both rails. It took a while to locate the supply of new ones since I didn't have any "Handi-Wipes" in the house that I could use. My cleaning train consists of a masonite car to clean any loose debris, pushed by an engine and followed by the Centerline car with its alcohol soaked roller, followed by an old Bachmann cleaning caboose with a dry felt pad to wipe off any residue.
Chet - You're making progress on that RIP track I see. I have hundreds of those springs, and it's one of the few things that I remember where they are stashed. I made all of my staging yards open so I wouldn't lose track of anything in them. They do take up some real estate but they also impress visitors. Nice night time scenes.
Greg - I would love to see some of your rain here, but it unfortunately doesn't come from there to here, ever! Thankful enough for the 8'.5" we got recently, even though it all fell in two days, it was the first real rain since April. Rot is not a problem here fortunately.
Louis -
If you lived near me I would ask if we could carve out a couple of baseball fields, football field and a basketball court. For the kids to play ball.
I purposely didn't plant trees in a 60' x 220' area in the front yard so my kids and now grandkids could use it as various ball fields. It's the easiest part to mow.
I didn't notice they regulated the volume of the shows.
By the time of governmental intervention, many bands didn't approach the upper limits to begin with. I was once at a concert at the State Fair Music Hall in Dallas (1969 or 1970), where the plaster and other debris began falling from the ceiling at an early Chicago (Transit Authority) concert. Terry Kath's guitar was screaming that night, Peter Cetera's bass was absolutely booming and the horns were amped up pretty loud. While they weren't really known as a "loud" band, this was a relatively small arena, 3500 seats. I had just seen the original Allman Brothers there about two weeks before (same tour that their Fillmore album was recorded on) and my ears were still ringing from that one. Soon afterward, they remodeled the hall.
Terry - Sounds like your wife is making positive progress. Thoughts and prayers continue. While it is a smart idea to plan as you are, as I posted yesterday, many people live relatively normal lives with both dialysis and diabetes. They do have to take care to follow the correct regimens and not miss any prescribed procedures or medications.
Everybody have a great day.