Good Morning All. Clear and 58°. Quite a storm blew through here last night. Thunder, lightning, very high sustained winds and not much rainfall. It only lasted about 30 minutes at most. From what I can see in the darkness right now, there's some tree branches in the yard but only 0.3" in the rain gauge. According to the Weather Underground station about a mile away, the winds were in excess of 40 mph with gusts above 50 mph. I mostly slept through it, getting up only to close some windows and to relieve myself. Wife had candles going all over the house, but the power stayed on the whole time thankfully.
I did get to mow the south side of the yard and a little bit of the north side around the train shed earlier in the day. Gave the dishwasher and clothes washer a workout while my wife washed the outside of most of the windows. Temperature yesterday got warm enough to crank up one of the window A/C units for the first time this year. Had to run the one in the train shed as well.
Just a pair of sunny-side up eggs and a handful of bacon this morning Flo. Add a dozen doughnuts and give them to the next few customers that want them.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding yesterday's post;
Louis, Sherrel, Guy, Bob, Patrick, Jerome, Garry, Karl, Paul, Ray, Tom, Ken, Chad, James.
Out in the train shed, after looking at the area that I am working on right now, I made some minor changes.
I first patched and painted those cracks and imperfections in the plywood wall/backdrop. I decided to make the parking lot/loading apron behind Velikovsky's a bit larger and temporarily positioned the backdrop printed structures in place.
The one on the left is protruding from the wall a bit, while the new one on the right is going to be mounted a bit higher to give the illusion of some depth back there.
Meanwhile over on the workbench, since I hadn't put up the dry transfers yet, I pulled a very old Athearn boxcar off the shelf that needed assembly and renumbering.
New number applied, metal wheels and Kadee couplers added and here is what I have.
The number is a bit prominent right now, I'll fix that when I weather the car.
Finally, I ran a couple of trains. Several of you mentioned that you liked the red/silver Santa Fe warbonnet scheme, so here are a pair of Scaletrains Dash9-44CW's in that scheme.
Guy - OK, we just went through this with
Johnny. You don't need a layout, and you don't have to post photos to visit us here. We welcome all enthusiasts. So don't stop visiting and chatting unless you just have too much else to do.
Patrick -
...my reduced hours at the city is making my contribution towards the state retirement fund less which may cost me in a few years when I think seriously about retiring.
I faced the same type of dilemma during the downturn in 2008-???? when my salary was frozen. I just contributed more to my Roth IRA and my traditional IRA.
Hughie - I am glad that our governor is re-opening parts of the state economy, part of which shouldn't have been shut down to begin with. I am going to continue with my face covering for the immediate future because I am in four of what some medical "experts" consider to be high risk categories. The only part of my life affected by the self-quaranting has been my ability to go and sit in a restaurant. All of the ones that I frequented offer pick up so it isn't that bad, except the food gets cold during the thirty minute trip home. Of course, the drinks at home are a lot cheaper!
Everyone have a great day.