Good Morning All. Cloudy and 53°. Porch is wet so it must have rained last night. It's too dark to accurately read the rain gauge just yet, but it looks like 0.8". Verified by the Weather Underground station around the corner. Perfect timing for the garden. Speaking of the garden, I spotted flowers on a number of tomato plants yesterday...won't be too long.
Since today is technically the last day of the tax season, my wife's contract with H&R Block is over. She has a lot of clients booked for today so I am postponing the weekly grocery/beer trek by a day. They offered her a continuation contract for 2-3 days a week at a drop in pay from #33/hour to $15/hour and she chose not to accept it. Her office's loss since she is the only EA (Enrolled Agent) at her office who can do many types of difficult tax returns. They are going to have to send those clients 32 miles away to an office in Denton instead! The continuation contract also does not include the percentage bonus that the regular contract has, and is for only four hours a day. Just not worth it!
Dreary morning today Flo, maybe a tall stack of blueberry pancakes and a large handful of bacon will brighten things up.
Thanks for the likes yesterday on my slow project progress;
Joe, Sherrel, Karl, Garry, Hughie, Justin, Gary, Ken, Guy.
OK, out to the train shed and yesterday's progress. I did get all of the scuppers and downspouts made, painted and attached to the AC contractors shop/office.
I also touched up some of the concrete coping along the top of the walls. For the windows, I simply attached black construction paper to the inside of the walls.
I made some other invisible progress on the cleaning project, vacuuming the track and some surrounding areas.
Continuing on with the photo tour of the town of Vernon, the next batch of pictures shows the businesses lined up on the other side of Main Street, which faces the main line and part of a passing siding.
The initial structure is a backdrop building representing the local newspaper's office and printing facilities, it's made from DPM modular wall sections.
Partly blocked by the school bus is a small florist shop made from a sub-kit to a Pikestuff kit.
This photo also shows a small Bar Mills laser-cut wood structure of Louie's Cigar Store.
Moving further south is Tina's Tick-Tock Shop. A clock store which were common before the days of Walmart and Target.
This is a Smalltown kit. I don't remember whether it was actually a clock shop or not, but that's what I made it. Early Smalltown kits came without interiors or signs which many now have.
Lastly on this block is Saulena's Tavern, another laser-cut kit from Bar Mills.
This block is incomplete since I have no more suitable structures that will fit the narrow area. That's one reason that not all of the landscape is complete. It's on the project list somewhere.
Jaz -
How did I miss the naked man on a motorcycle?! I love motorcycles
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It wasn't a recent post. We have a Coffee Shop visitor who is on what we hope is just a temporary hiatus, named
Beady. He had quite a history of posting edgy but amusing photos. Believe me, you couldn't see the motorcycle underneath the overabundance of flesh.
Ken - My first car was a used '61 VW. Bought it in '72 for $400 just after getting married. Had to get rid of it in '78 because my seven-month pregnant wife didn't like getting up at 5 in the morning to give it a push to get it started any more. Found out from the new owner later that it was just a disconnected wire that neither me or a mechanic was able to find.
Karl - I liked the book suggestion.
Everybody have a great day. Stay safe and continue to socially distance.
