Good Morning All. 53° under cloudy skies here in North Central Texas. Taking the day off from holiday celebrations today, before resuming with the last one tomorrow. Yesterday's Mexican themed event went well, tamales, turkey enchiladas, barbacoa, and tacos with all of the sides and fixings. We managed to skirt through Ft Worth TX on the way home just before rush hour traffic got into gear. Just one minor 40 mph slowdown for about a half mile.
Ham and eggs this morning for me Francine. Good to see Mel back from vacation.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding the Saw Pit country store yesterday;
Bob, Chet, Ken, Sherrel, Patrick, Justin, Jerome, Curt, Jim, Phil, Chad, Tom.
Let's check out one of the two bars in my town of Vernon, Saulenas' Tavern; another of those Bar Mills kits.
Only a brief day in the train shed yesterday, woke up some engineers and ran a few trains around. I explored a couple of my Christmas presents to start thinking about where to use them.
The operating crossing signals have a future home already, I already have a Walther's flasher unit with optical sensors to operate them. The Overgrown Garden kit has a whole lot of scenery details in it that will go into various scenes that I have in place already. There's tomato plants, cucumber vines, sunflower plants, corn rows and various flowering plants. It also has creatures like rodents, snakes, tarantulas, a frog and some butterflies. Included as well is fencing, sand, ground foam etc. Some of this stuff may not really be visible unless you're looking for it or know that it is there. The butterflies will be hard to place! The Busch trailer kit only has the items pictured in the bottom picture on the box. The two Airstream trailers look really good at first glance.
Beady - Condolences and sympathies for your wife and the entire family. While no time is the right time for the passing of a loved one, it must also be a relief that she is no longer suffering. Went through the same scenario when they cut off the machine that my mother was attached to many years ago. Belated Happy Anniversary.
Sherrel - The Saw Pit must bring back memories of life in Arkansas. There were still a few similar stores in my area of rural Texas up into the 80's.
Curt - Good that you were able to resolve the electrical issue without having to call in an electrician.
Chet - Close call. Glad that you're all right. Belated Happy Anniversary to you as well.
Jim - While bands of coyotes are quite common in my neighborhood, we just happened to slow down for a couple of deer crossing the road in the same area just minutes earlier.
Tom - While I agree about the lawlessness of graffiti, it is a fact of life and I add it to many of my freight cars.
Terry - Best wishes to your wife and you on the knee replacement surgery. While they would have released my wife that night if she insisted, by staying overnight, she received some welcome physical therapy the next morning.
Everybody have a great Friday. Oooops! Website is down, I'll post a bit later. At least I didn't lose anything
this time.