Good Morning Everyone. It's 67° and warm. It's currently clear but still dark. The weather geeks have lowered today's forecast high temperature from over 90°, to a more seasonal 85°. Another day of these high temperatures and then at least a week in the 60's and 70's. With that in mind, I had to spend yesterday morning making another firewood haul. Most of my heating wood is oak 3" x 3" and 3" x 4" sticks that are discarded by my old employer. Each day that they work provides about twenty sticks; I use seven a day if I heat vigorously for 24 hours.
I still have to cut them in half to fit through the door of the wood burning stove, but they are free and burn well. They provide about 65% of my heating wood for a season and tree prunings provide the rest. This trip was within the self-quarantining program as I did not have any human interaction. On the way to get that, I gassed up the SUV and picked up a prescription, took a while, while waiting for Medicare to approve payment. No other customers in the pharmacy and the pharmacist was wearing gloves for my protection.
After that, the phone guys returned a day early to complete the fiber-optic hookup. One crew worked out front splicing the fiber-optic cable while a second crew did the remaining wifi hookup and cut the regular landline over. They also reprogrammed my wife's laptop, tablet, phone and TV over to the new network. I did my own phone and tablet, as I understand that stuff more than she does. I could have done hers, but they offered, so... Wife spent the next 30 minutes wiping down everything that they touched! Download speed is now 20.0 Mbs, and upload is 10 Mbs. I really noticed when I uploaded the above pictures. When they were done, one of the service guys left me with a sack of several hundred feet of old telephone cable that I can use for my lighting buss. He had previously seen the layout on a visit about 18 months ago.
Mexican omelet this morning for me Francine. Extra sausage patties on the side.
Thanks everyone for the likes and comments regarding the various projects yesterday;
Bob, Johnny, Guy, Garry, Phil, Jerome, James, Mike, Chad, Sherrel, Patrick, Tom, Curt, Joe, Ken.
Due to other events, I did very little in the traiin shed yesterday. I did manage to paint my crude interpretation of a horizon on the backdrop behind the current scene though. Next will be highlighting it a bit with additional green colors.
Mike - Forgot to comment yesterday about the backdrop. Even though I have not done it, I like the curved version better.
Beady - Religious reasons are not the reason that I boycott Hobby Lobby. They constantly re-arrange the store making it harder to find the few things that I went for. I have since learned that all of those supplies are available at WalMart (another place that I detest but still patronize when needed), for a lower cost. Besides it's much more amusing to view the WalMart customers. Even before Covid-19, I always kept my distance from them. Happy Forgotten Birthday.
James - Even from afar in Texas, I have seen the devastation that politician's inactions have wreaked on NYC in particular. Shameful.
Mikey - Neat idea regarding the signage.
Greg - Good luck with the tortoise issue. Not running low on supplies here, yet. I did considerable stocking up over the last few years, although that has nothing to do with hunkering down. I just live too far from most supplies to be making trips just for paint or glue. Prior to my LHS shutting down a few years back, the owner offered everything at 40% off MSRP, and I bought enough Woodland Scenics ballast and ground foam products to last years.
Terry - Sorry to read that you will be involuntarily unemployed. Perhaps you will be able to give us first-hand accounts on the stimulus package that might be passed by the House soon. Being already retired, most of it will do me no good, nor do I need it. I am happy that it
appears to be helpful to many who need it even though there is still some unnecessary "pork" in it. Too bad that the President doesn't have "line item veto" power. Sometimes you just have to swallow a little bit of bad to get a lot of good.
Today is National Spinach Day. Quite appropriate since I just started picking it from the garden.
Everybody have a great day. We're skipping the weekly grocery/beer trek today since we don't need anything.