Good Morning All. Clear and 65° here in North Central Texas. Fair weather predicted for the next ten days. Cloudy Monday and Tuesday, but no rain in the forecast. We'll start to see 90's regularly on Wednesday, until September at least!
While not in the forecast yet, triple digits are coming up soon. On a positive note, the yard will stop growing as rapidly and I can cut back on mowing time. Meanwhile the tomatoes and squash in the garden are going crazy.
Wife left yesterday to pick up our grandsons and granddog. They'll be here this morning to stay for a few days, I don't know for how long though. Even though my other daughter has an in-ground pool less than three miles from where they live, they prefer ours because it's bigger! Most of her pool is only 3' deep also.
I did mow the south side of the yard yesterday and everything between the pool and house. No wind so there wasn't any debris to skim out of the pool. Pool is up to 81° Today I move to the north side around the train shed and pond before tackling the "back 40" tomorrow. Filled up the gas can Thursday and haven't yet put it in the tractor, so I should be good for another week. Wound up a couple of weedeater spools with line so that's out of the way for a while.
Lots of bacon and a couple of over-easy eggs for me this morning Francine.
Thanks to all who liked and commented on yesterday's post;
Bob, Jerome, Karl, Chad,Patrick, Guy, Phil, Louis, Curt, Tom, Ken, Justin, James. Always appreciated.
OK, out in the train shed, I definitely decided to make the Charlottesville Urbanization Project (CUP) my next project. I removed most everything in preparation for painting the rest of the plywood between the tracks and the backdrop; it's already completed on the aisle side. Then I will proceed with ballasting the track. This will allow me some additional time to contemplate the choice and location of various structures, and how I want to do the backdrop. The green hilly fields that I use everywhere else just won't really work here.
I am somewhat intending to keep the two structures on the south end where they are.
The total overall length (including some unseen area to the bottom of the second picture) is 16'. Overall it ranges in depth from 24" to 28" just because that's the way I did it. The area between the aisle and tracks goes from 2" at one end to 9" on the other end; while the backside ranges from 13" to 17", but mostly is in the 16" range. Plenty of room for a lot of stuff.
Over on the north (as the railroad runs) end are several industries that I posted last year when I did them.
Bob -
Seems like we're always about a hundred miles away before we remember something. Sometimes getting old sucks!
Yeah! Memory is just one of two things that have gotten shorter as I age.
...the wife is talking new kitchen cabinets and flooring.
Well, that should call for a larger train shed!
Greg - Sorry, Big Boy tomatoes don't really grow well in my garden. My most prolific grower is Early Girl, followed by Rutgers.
Curt - I could have built the train shed without the windows, but I like windows (I was in the window business for 43 years), and I wanted to be able to view that area behind the train shed to relax the mind.
You're moving right along with your building construction. Nice job.
Joe -
I note that Charlottesville will have some very familiar structures
I like those Smalltown and DPM structures and use many of them. I have posted some of these builds before. However I am running out of unique structure kits that are available and I am looking at options. Many E-Bay prices are just too ridiculous for me.
Hope that your knees hold out until the surgery; best wishes on that.
William - Good to see your post again. Don't be such a stranger.
Coffee Shop has been rather quiet since
Sherrel is on vacation and hasn't been dropping in to cause trouble!
Everybody have a great day and an awesome weekend.