Good Morning Everybody. Mostly cloudy and 74°. Same old forecast for a while, warm, windy and dry. Partial chance of thunderstorms Sunday afternoon. Staying in the low 90's until Thursday, maybe.
Dropped my wife off at my daughter's house yesterday for her trip this morning to South Padre Island to meet up with my other daughter and her family. I picked up the granddog and brought her home with me. She will be roughing it as I forgot to bring her bed back with me and she'll have to sleep on the carpet or wood floor!
A couple of spicy breakfast burritos for me this morning Francine. Hope that your salsa is as good as the batch that I made yesterday.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding the boxcar repair and the background pictures yesterday;
Phil, Guy, Garry, Chad, Patrick, Jerome, Louis, Curt, Dave, David, Tom.
In lieu of the train shed yesterday, I went to the LHS near my daughters home for a resupply run. Hadn't been there since January before any knowledge of the impending pandemic apocalypse happened. I had 16 items on my list, three were unavailable.
One I special-ordered and the other two I will take my chance on since I have to go back to Dallas on July 8, to retrieve my wife and return the granddog. I purchased some other stuff while I browsed around. I picked up some more ballast and ground foam, a couple of bottles of paint, several packages of DPM modular wall components, some Walther's Goo to replace the tube that I cannot locate (I'll find it now that I have a replacement), several vehicles, styrene sidewalk material, two plastic structures, some detail stuff and a caboose. I left them with more than two Ben Franklins.
Not all pictured here.
I did run a train for a bit when I got done with all else around the house. Mostly I just fondled my new train booty.
Phil - Happy Birthday and many more to come. I'll toss back a few cold ones in your honor. Let's see here, you're 84 and your MIL was 88?
Joe - Climbing stairs already, that's great. Other than the two small steps to the back porch, my wife didn't even try stairs for two months. I am sure that she could have done them, but there was no need (or desire) to do so. She has scheduled an orthopedic doctor and a cardiologist appointment for the other one sometime after she returns from vacation.
My wife was also very hesitant about ditching the walker (nicknamed Hershel Walker), for the cane. I tried to encourage her but she wouldn't try. She is a bit overweight and that scared her the most. At two weeks or so, we were at the doctors for a follow up and he personally came to the waiting room door to escort her back and made her lift the walker off the ground and he observed. He told her to stop using it and use the cane instead. The cane by the way, used to belong to my grandfather. She always kidded me about getting it after he passed away but now it came in very handy.
That's great that you have an in-home therapist, we didn't. We started going to the clinic (eleven miles away) at four days though.
Guy - Module looks good so far. I am a fan of angling the track a bit, as I just think that track parallel to the edge can be a bit boring. That's not to say that I don't have some myself, just not a lot. Sometimes it cannot be avoided.
Everyone have a great day and the usual awesome weekend. Nothing special about today except that it is still
Phil's birthday.