Good Morning All. Mostly cloudy and 74°. 15% chance of rain after lunch today, that is usually a harbinger of a nasty thunderstorm! Of course that's the time of day that I will be driving my wife to Dallas, where she will leave with my daughters, their husbands and the three grandkids for a ten day vacation on the Gulf Coast. Side trip Saturday to have lunch with my son and DIL in San Antonio on the way. That is if she doesn't back out because my daughter's best friend tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday. Daughter and her friend had drinks last Friday night, so the possible infection chance is remote. Oh! I will be picking up the granddog while I am there to keep me company.
Speaking of Covid-19, I noted yesterday on my grocery/beer trek, that face mask compliance in the grocery store had risen to over 85% of customers and 100% of employees. At the stop at Home Depot, compliance among customers was higher than I had noted before at that location, seems like at least 75%; whereas in the past it was around 40%. Who wasn't wearing masks? Younger Hispanic gentlemen were not, although many more were than usual.
Also on tap today is a trip to the LHS, Discount Model Railroads for supplies. I actually have 16 items on my list, but I will most likely end up with two dozen or more.
Thanks for the reactions and comments regarding yesterday's townspeople pictures;
Jerome, Patrick, Sherrel, Garry, Karl, Phil, Curt, Guy, Louis, David.
First thing out in the train shed yesterday was to repair the boxcar with the broken brake rigging.
I know from experience that I will be unable to glue that part back in place, so I cut out and replaced a whole section with .020" styrene rod.
After painting everything, you cannot tell the repair was made.
I had to think hard about making this repair, but that is actually highly visible when the car is on the upper eye level.
On another front, I began printing and cutting out some backdrop structures for CUP.
The one on the right is reduced by about 25% to give depth to the background. They will be used in conjunction with the Walther's modular walls and a couple more made from DPM walls to offer variety.
Joe - Scar looks good. My wife's looked like that early on and now it's hard to see anything. Those glue joints are really an amazing advancement in surgery. By the way, my wife recommends that you go to the discussion forum at
bonesmart.com. She found it very helpful to relate to others who have had the surgery.
Garry -
Willie ..... You do great work bringing your scenes to life.
I do get rather involved that sometimes I forget that it is a model railroad!
Nice job on all of the trucks.
Louis -
It is amazing to me how many employees only want part-time hours. It seems to me they know exactly how many hours to work and keep their government assistance. My wife knows the ones because she fills out the forms for social services. The government needs to ask, “did the employee refuse additional hours?” If they did, they would probably all be full time!
Yep! I hear those kinds of horror stories from my wife during tax refund season. And now that $600/week unemployment kicker is definitely keeping people on the couch. Think of it, that's $15/hour on top of unemployment, a lot more than many of those folks were making to begin with. Social-welfare state.
Everybody have a great day. Keep your distance and stay safe.