Good Morning Everyone. Temperature went up overnight and it's now 44° but still drizzling. I miss the sun, it's been a few days. Even with the expected all day off and on light rain, it's expected to reach 60° later on, wind is currently shifting from SE to SW which always brings warmer temperatures. Brisk north wind shift around midnight will clear things out for a sunny day tomorrow with the high around 57°.
Thanks for the recent comments regarding the "beef",
Jim and
David.
Resumed the ground cover project yesterday in the train shed. I also swapped the position of two of the structures in this new town. I completed painting a few more figures at the workbench. I also spent nearly an hour disassembling the 64 unit container train and moving portions back to the various staging areas. As I was reviewing potential kits for my next build, most likely in April after I finish the two structures on the bench right now; I opened and examined a laser-cut wood kit that came from Bar Mills. I noted some missing castings and I E-Mailed them around 5:30 last night regarding that and another self-imposed issue. Surprisingly I got an initial return E-Mail from Art in less than an hour, he was on vacation and said that he wasn't returning for a couple of weeks; but Len at the plant sent an E-Mail a couple of hours later with a response! Such great customer service, I had to look twice at the calendar noting that it was Sunday!
Curt - That's one awesome looking dock.
Beady - Congratulations on the clean-up. Get something going soon before your wife puts something in the way. I like the Homer Simpson cut-out!
Ray - Quite the devastation down there. Crew was lucky.
Garry - Boy, that's a real drag regarding the car.
Louis -
Mark yesterday I heard on the radio the all-time low in Baltimore was -7 in 1899, I thought of you,
I've seen -2° here once in '88 or '89. I have read that it got to -8° in 1899, but I was not around to see that.
Sherrel maybe?
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average, in my county, the high temperature for the day is only below 40° for about six days a year. Although in the year that I recorded that -2°, it was below 20° for almost three weeks. Went through a lot of firewood that winter.
Another SNAP abuse is purchasing groceries for someone else who returns the favor by purchasing alcohol or tobacco for the recipient. Although it is now restricted, an abuse at the casino nearby in OK, was folks getting cash from an ATM using the Snap card. You know where they spent it!
Section 8 abuse is more widespread. It's not just the live-in spouses who work and provide some income, but the family members that they charge rent to. Since it's all cash, it cannot be traced. My wife has done taxes for people who were unhappy with the results and returned the following day with a whole different set of numbers; more dependents, greater child care expenses, they dropped income from some dependents etc. Like your wife, there's nothing that she can do about it. It is far more rampant than you first thought.
Everybody have a great day.