Good Morning All. In this part of the world, it is clear and 45°, headed up to 65° before a week of highs in the mid-70's. It's the time of year where I let the fire in the wood burning heater go out most days and restart it at night. The totally unexpected rain yesterday afternoon left me with 1.25" in the rain gauge. It was mostly a slow drizzle over 12 hours. No runoff to speak of, it all soaked in. Unexpected because it didn't show up in the forecast until it had already started.
Daughter #2 came up and picked up the granddog yesterday before the rain started. While she will miss the wide open spaces around here, she also misses rolling around on the floor with my grandsons who play with her more than I do. Although she tried, she never caught any of the rabbits, vultures or squirrels that she chased. I truly believe that the vultures taunt her on purpose by flying/soaring 4' over the ground when she's outside.
Tomorrow is the rescheduled date for my wife's surgery to have her titanium replacement knee joint re-inserted after eight weeks of those plastic spacers in there. I have to have her at the hospital at 0700. It's supposed to be done as an outpatient surgery, so she will not have to spend the night.
Thanks to all who commented or liked the Drywell Inks structure yesterday;
Joe, Rick, Karl, Guy, IB Ken, Dave, OB Ken, Christian, Hughie, Tom, Louis, Jaz, Curt, Patrick, Sherrel, Jesse.
Out in the train shed yesterday, i just did some very small projects that were on my to-do list. Some are perennially there like painting some more figures, but I studied several scenes that I had targeted and placed a few in each one.
First are a pair of joggers on a street. Location unknown as I haven't decided whether it will be in Charlottesville of the next town of Vernon. It's sorta in between. I may eventually just make it a new town with just four rail-served industries.
Then I went over into Maultown to the Dew Duck N cafe and added several figures out front.
While there, I added another fellow in a sports car pulling in. He'll soon get the two young ladies attention.
On the subject of cars, I added four to the bank parking lot.
Note the ground cover added Friday.
Another figure was added to the back of the General store over in Jamestown, thus making two workers on break.
Mikey - Excellent work on the truck bed. I didn't realize that it was O scale.
Louis -
A house in Silver Spring, MD (Washington DC suburb) had a small dead tree in the yard. It was bare of leaves, but they had hung a dozen or so shinny Christmas balls of various colors in the branches. No other decorations, but that sad little tree
Are you sure it wasn't intended to be a Festivus pole?
Jesse -
Willie- Are you talking about recycling things like old cellphone chargers and power supplies with built in transformers?
Exactly. I also use old power packs from 80's era Tyco and Bachmann train sets. Read the output carefully. Personally I would have a switch on both sides of the power supply, a typical 120v light switch on the input side, which can be for many of them via a multi-outlet surge protector, and mini toggle switches to individual power busses as needed. Since I have only so far used incandescent lighting, I cannot comment directly regarding resistors. I mainly use 16v bulbs powered on a 12v buss which doesn't overpower/blind you with light. I have a package of LED bulbs and resistors that I just haven't installed yet.
Speaking of French Toast, today is National French Toast Day. Today is also the First Sunday of Advent for many religions.
Everyone have a great day. Stay safe.
