Good morning. The wind let up and the temps are only supposed to be in the mid 80's today.
Louis is correct, winter is coming. Saw a winter weather advisory out for out area. Lows could be in the upper 20's with a high only in the 50's. Hard to fathom that after a day in the upper 90's.
The winds caused the fire to take off to th north. It jumped a road and there were some mandatory evacuations. As of this morning, from Friday afternoon until this morning 11,000 have burned. The first photo was taken yesterday afternoon and the second I took on Bozeman Pass on the way to the club last evening. There is an entire mountain range behind all of that smoke.
Sherrel, You didn't have to share the fires. One saving thing is that the weather will be changing on Monday.
Coming back from Livingston last night I only saw a few smaller fores from the interstate but the main fire would have been out of sight further to the north. The high winds we had yesterday have subsided so I hope the fire crews can get a handle on it. There were some structures lost, but I have no idea what they were. There are some really fancy homes in the area of the fire. A few years ago when I was still working for the trucking company we hauled 8 truckloads of sand from some place in New York for some idiots horse arena.
Thanks to all of you who commented on my family photos at the old garden.
IBKen - Really like those cabeese (cabooses).
Terry - I assume that a Big Boy has made it onto your shopping list.
Dave - The photos with the "M" are just north of Bozeman before you head over Bozeman Pass on I-90. Montana State University is in Bozeman.
Joe - Some choice photos. A commuter electric and a GG-1.
Willie - Like the photos. I have the Walthers grain elevator but it was quite a chore to fit it into the space I had available. 150+ grain cars?? That may be more than all of the freight cars I have. As for the garden we had, we did get enough out of it to last us for quite a while. The corn was an early sunglow hybrid. One of the few varieties that would grow here. We have a shorter growing season than those living in town because we are at a higher altitude. We also had plenty of spuds, green beans, peas, radishes, lettuce, cucumbers, dill, zucchini, and carrots. The wife used to do a lot of canning, but as the kids got older (and ate more) the time for canning was cut into die to the kids social and sports activities.
Alan - Lotsa luck with that unassembled steamer. It's bad enough to deal with when you take them apart. I painted quite a few brass locomotives. Some for myself and we had an O scale brass collector who I painted roughly 25 different items for him.
Had an interesting last night at the club for a while with bowling starting up. We had trains running in
both directions on
both main lines last night. There was a lot of scrambling for passing sidings and some waiting for trains to pass. Sure kept you on your toes. I did manage to get a total of
67 freight cars behind my F-7's last night and they really didn't have a problem with the train on the grade. I was going to add some more but then they started running in both directions so I had to shorten to train to fit either into a passing siding or a yard track.
Almost impossible to get a photo of an entire train that long, but here are a couple of shots at the club.
Now that the wind has died down I had better get the rain birds going.
Later