Good Morning All. Clear and 78° leading into what is supposed to be the last day of our triple-digit heat dome! Forecast is for 100°. The thunderstorms originally in the forecast for tomorrow, were moved to Sunday in yesterday's forecast; today they have been moved to Monday.Probably won't happen at all! AQI today starts at 38, heat advisory continues.
Yesterday's grocery trek went as planned. I also went to Home Depot and got out spending less than $10, quite unusual! Gasoline has dropped a few cents to $3.19/gal in many places although I still saw a few places posting $3.35. There wasn't as many pretty young ladies shopping as usual.
Today is only the second day this week that I don't have to be somewhere, so I'll continue to remove those two trees from the front yard.
However I am not getting as much time in the train shed as I would like, or expected to get while wife is out of town. Letting granddogs out and in during the heat is time consuming, as is the tomato harvesting. Then of course is the excessive time spent in the pool! I did though, select the next structure for figure upgrading, one version of Walther's Merchant Row I. I had partially populated it but decided on a few more, as well as adding "fake" interiors to some of the storefronts.
Then I made an interesting discovery.
Seems that two walls had separated. So that had to be fixed first. I then discovered the cause of the separation which was that the roof didn't quite fit and had forced them apart. So out came the large file and I took off about .75mm from the length of the back. OK, it fits comfortably now but I was done for the afternoon. Time for beer and pool. I will be adding some vent pipes to that roof next along with some printed interiors, and maybe 4-6 more figures along the front and left side sidewalks.
Curt - Roxie obviously missed you!
Hughie - The posts about Brooklyn yesterday, brought back some memories. My Aunt's family moved into our "row house" when we moved out. I spoke with my oldest cousin who I played with as a youngster, while we were both at the other Aunt's funeral back in February. She has lived in Brooklyn all of her life and had jobs in Manhattan or Queens. She's 69 years old and has never had a drivers license or a need to drive! Then I remembered that my mother didn't get a driver's license until she was 32 while we lived in Dallas by then.
That's all for now. Have a safe weekend with those fireworks.