Good Morning All. 72°, clear and sunny,, headed up to 94° later today. A 35% chance of thunderstorms has been added to this afternoon's forecast ahead of the cold front. Tomorrow's high around 80°, which is a cold front around here in June. Let me have a stack of those whole wheat blueberry pancakes this morning Flo, lots of maple syrup and a handful of bacon.
Just got back from my morning walk a few minutes ago and greeted some of my neighbors standing at their fence, naked they were. They reminded me of my favorite Gary Larson cartoon from the last century:
Spent most of the day on the tractor mowing the SFW estate yesterday, rotating with dips in the pool. I now have about 2.5 acres done, just a half acre left to go. It's been nice walking on dry ground for a change. I am going to have to deal with an eroded spot in the front corner of the property where the fiber-optic crew installed a vault. They put the dirt back OK, but the grass hadn't had time to cover the area and a washout developed. I could leave it be, but it's impossible to mow around.
Thanks for the likes and comments on yesterday's progress update;
Dave, Sherrel, Chet, Phil, Justin, Curt, Jerome, Louis.
I was late getting out to the train shed yesterday, but I still got some stuff done. Got the fourth wall in place on the Masonic Lodge, but not before I had to correct a minor issue with one of the other walls. Had to unglue about 1.5" of wall and clear out some unwanted debris that had inadvertently gotten into the joint. Didn't notice it previously since I had many weights/blocks pressing things together. Not a biggie, but time consuming. Sometime last week, I had also moved my base of operations to the other side of the peninsula and started working on ground cover and other scenery around the fertilizer distributor. I got all of the grass in and will now focus on the gravel drives and parking lot. I also started on some trees for the whole area, none installed yet, but trunks prepared and painted and locations scouted out. Since I didn't take any progress pictures, I will post instead some other structures from the layout. I know that
Chet and others are interested in many of these.
First up as another tavern; I have many of these. It is called Nine Mile House and is a laser-cut kit from American Model Builders.
Kit was designed so the front doors could be in any of the front openings. It currently resides on an undeveloped part of the layout, hence I have not added any people or other details yet.
I have shown the back of the Stone Bakery before. It is a discontinued DPM kit. I have a second unassembled one that I am going to replace this one with under a different name.
How about the front?
And the other side.
I will most likely move this structure to a different location as I upgrade this particular area. The front with it's Queen Anne windows and interior detail is not visible at all.
Chet - More excellent pictures showing off the club's scenery.
Curt - I wish you better luck on the flatcars than you experienced on the tanker. By the way, how's Mom?
Jerome - Belated Happy Birthday to your wife.
Everybody have a great day.