Good Morning All. Clear skies and 68°! It's not often that the temperature is below 70° here in mid-July, but I'll take it. The pool is an incredible 80° this morning which is very pleasant but also unusual for this time of year. It hasn't been above 84° in over three weeks!
Spent much of the day Saturday and yesterday working on the mower deck for the tractor. The new deck arrived Friday, three days early, but despite assurances from Sears Parts Direct, it is not an exact match. It's missing a key bracket. So my neighbor came back by and we reviewed my options. He could cut the bracket off the old one and weld it on the new one, or after looking a second time, he decided that he could indeed repair the old one which he didn't think possible the first time that he looked. He was able to weld a small steel plate underneath to provide extra support and then weld the original broken bracket beck on. He took it to another friend's shop and did that yesterday. I reassembled everything but didn't have time to reattach it yet. That will take about 20 minutes this morning.
Since I bought the deck from Amazon instead of Sears, I can easily return it, no questions asked. Now getting it to UPS to send back will be an issue since it weighs 70 lbs, and UPS destroyed the original box when it fell out of the back of the truck in my driveway. Fortunately I took pictures.
Eggs over easy and a stack of sausage patties this morning Flo.
Thanks for the many likes and comments on the layout;
Christian, Steve, Guy, Karl, Hughie, Tom O, Sherrel, Tom, Sir Robbins, Garry, Ken, Patrick.
While taking breaks from the mower deck task, I stepped into the train shed to work on the Wayne Feed Store lot.
All three structures on that side of the road.
I'll pause here and work on the cannery and surrounding areas before adding some more details here. I think that I have enough people around the two LH buildings, but I want to add some more to Wally's Country Mart. And of course, raid the vehicle box for some customer vehicles. Signs and utility poles will wait until after I deal with the background, rather than installing and removing every time I want to do something back there. One would think that I have been doing this long enough to do the background areas first, but....
Guy - Sorry to read that your summer is warmer than you like it to be. My summer here is a lot cooler than normal but that's OK. I know that triple digits will hit sooner than later.
You can layer on the clothing, but, you can only strip down so far before you get arrested.
Depends on your neighbors! If I have a slight breeze I can be comfortable in a tee shirt, pair of shorts and my hat to protect my head. Obviously less in the pool.
Nice photo-study of the lumber car yesterday.
Hughie - You're right about the young kids. I wish that I had taken a picture the first time that I handed the throttle to my granddaughter. She was so thrilled to follow the train around, unplugging and re-plugging it in as it advanced. My grandsons, 12 & 14, however, seemed to have lost interest. Computers and Legos have taken over. Girls and cars are next!
Joe - Here's hoping that the CT scan turns out successfully.
Besides the Cape Cod house and the switch tower I posted a few months ago, my other Plasticville structure is the Supermarket. However the printed cardstock window insert was ruined years ago by a dirt dauber that decided that was the best place to build it's nest, before the new train shed. I will eventually find a replacement window scene on the internet and use the building in a city that is only partially developed right now.
If Subway Sandwiches are your thing, they are giving away free sandwiches tomorrow from 10:00 am until noon local time at all of their locations. Tell them Willie sent you and watch the quizzical look on their faces.
Everybody have a great day.
