Good Morning Everyone. 20° and mostly cloudy. Three or four days ago it was 81°. Not expected to get this cold again in the next ten days, probably not until next winter actually. Gradual warmup with temperatures in the 60's beginning Monday for about another week at least. Our average daily range for this time of year is 35° - 58°. Sadly, the ground outside is quite mushy from two days of rain and I cannot plant anything in the garden.
I spent a few hours out in the train shed yesterday. I am continuing to add more ground cover, and I did the second half of the meat market parking area. Did a little weathering on the slaughterhouse part with weathering powders and finally attached the loading dock stairs and subsequently the loading dock to the structure, since I had determined the final positioning in regard to the adjoining market.
Joe - I know what you mean regarding the sick people at the infusion center. Sad in some respects.
Good luck with your taxes. I respectfully disagree with one minor point in your post #319. All of the middle class folks that I know and informally polled over the last year have reported lower taxes, even though many didn't realize it until I suggested comparing their deposits with the previous year. I don't know any upper class folks to ask! What will bite you, Louis, Sherrel and others in high tax states is the reduction or elimination of the SALT deduction. I and all who I polled live in Texas where there is no state or city income tax. Otherwise I agree regarding the underachievers et al. See rant below.
Mike - That is one crazy drunk jumping aboard the engine. Wow! So many lives were put in danger.
Greg - You're certainly making some progress "re-habbing" the layout.
While we're discussing taxes, let me relate one "free-loader" that my wife prepared taxes for yesterday. This single mother of four worked four months and earned $12,000 last year and had $175 withheld. She could have worked all year since her mother who lived in her house, cared for her kids, but admitted to my wife that the 12K was the limit before they started cutting her benefits. Now that the tax return is finished, she is getting a check for $7600 from you and me. Call it laziness, gaming the system or all of the above, it just isn't right. If that lady worked 12 months, she would have earned over $36,000, well above poverty level; and well above the $19,600 that she will actually earn, and probably still wouldn't have to pay taxes. My wife hates doing these types of returns.
Today would have been my late dad's 90th birthday. Sadly Lucky Strikes called him home fifteen years ago.
Everybody have a great day. Today is National Boy Scout Day. I was one sometime in the last century.