Good Morning All. Around here it's 48° and clear. Lots of thunder and lightning last night around 7:30ish, but not a drop of rain. A bit cooler day is forecast for today, mid-60's, then warming back up for a few days. Deer hunting season started here yesterday, same as in
Mark's area, but all except one of my neighboring landowners do not allowing deer hunting; so it is still quiet unlike the last two months which were dove hunting season. They're attempting to encourage population growth. It's turkey season as well, but they seem to be rare around here. I only see them a couple of times a year.
It appears that I will finally be able to mow today, yard is looking ragged. The volunteer winter oats have sprouted up all over and growth is quite uneven.
Looks like the cats outside don't understand Daylight Savings! They're staring at me through the back door. Probably cursing me, but I can't hear them.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I did a few odd jobs. Worked a little more on the chain-link fence project and the adjacent landscape. Added a couple of dogs to one of the backyards and planted a few more trees in the already completed area. As I move forward in another area, I removed all temporarily placed structures and stuff along a ten foot part of the main line so I could spray paint the track and ties in preparation for ballasting. After the spray painting, I will touch up many ties with various shades of brown and gray paint for variety. Overall, I probably have about 65% of the layout ballasted now. I still have over 100' of mainline and 450' of secondary trackage and sidings to go.
Sherrel - Best wishes with the sprained back. Yep! It was most likely the patio door, especially if you had to hoist it over the side of a trailer. The leading cause of back sprains in my industry (patio door and window manufacturing) was mishandlng patio doors. They are heavy things.
Louis - So glad to read that you are OK.
I've been avoiding the political/partisian news. Each side has beat the dead horse so much that there can't be any remains. Why can't we open our minds listen to each other? Why does everybody get so angry at the mention of an opposing view?
You hit the nail directly on the head. Reminds me of the reporter that interviewed those college kids a while back. They raved about the "Bernie Sanders" tax plan that was really the Trump plan; and then they bashed it when the reporter corrected himself.
Daylight saving is over. I don't understand why we are saving it anyway. The extra daylight must be what's causing global warming.
Everybody have a great day. Let's step up with the forum posting today.
. A/C gets serviced.
