Good Morning All. Overcast and 72°, relative humidity at 86%, quite muggy. Current radar shows showers across the road about 200 yards away, visually confirmed by SFW. Temperature is not expected to go up until tomorrow afternoon sometime. Give me the works this morning Francine, two eggs over easy, sausage patties, English muffin and a big glass of OJ.
Had a relaxing day at home yesterday for a change, well at least it was at home. Mowed parts of the yard, hoed the tomato plants in the garden and put in 24 tomato cages. Still have more plants to add, but the soil is still a tad on the wet side. I have already transferred all of them that are left into bigger pots so as not to retard their growth. Noted that the onion crop was starting to mature, looks like I'll be picking them by the end of next week if the weather cooperates; there is rain in the forecast every day until next Sunday, although the chances diminish as the week goes on. Still doing some prep work on the pool prior to removing the cover next weekend. Looking forward to using it real soon.
Thanks for the comments and likes regarding yesterday's pictures;
Chet, Patrick, Sherrel, Jerome, Dave, Jim, Phil, Tom
I had a productive two hours in the train shed yesterday. Started the other part of the double grade crossing, filled in some more areas with ground cover and contemplated. No progress pictures today, as it wasn't significant enough to bother.
No other current pictures to show right now, but here's a couple just for
Sherrel. They are the only "foreign road" crew cars that I have. They are used at a SLSF interchange, and very occasionally in pool service with autoracks. Both are Athearn blue box and both appear to be prototypical.
We'll start with a GP40-2.
And to follow up the rear.
Unlike many SLSF cars that I have seen, these are quite clean. They didn't send clean ones to Dallas.
Johnny - Have a safe trip.
Patrick - Do IT guys really get a vacation? When I still worked, our guys seemed to be on-call throughout vacations. Vacations to them just meant not being in the office; they logged in from afar and fixed things remotely.
Tom - Wow! Bagging the clippings from a whole baseball field is quite a chore. Hope that someone was there to help.
Dave - I am hoping to add a water puddle or two to the blank spots between the two tracks. That does seem to be an ever present feature most of the year.
Curt - So glad to read that you survived the book fair.
Tonight is the much anticipated 50th high school reunion for me. It will be very interesting. I went to a smallish Catholic prep school in Dallas. Of the surviving 100 or so members of our class, 60 have RSVP'd. Sadly about 25 have passed on, including my very first girlfriend and also my friend that I rode to school with, both very close neighbors.
Today is National Armed Forces Day, so honor and salute all service members.
Everybody have a great day.