Good Monday Morning to All. Cloudy and a warmish 65° this morning. Cool front coming in later today and at this time tomorrow, the forecast calls for 38°. Highs for the days are still remaining above the lower 70's. The weather geeks have now inserted a 75% chance of rain for Saturday morning, but the high is supposed to be 78°. That's pretty far off though! Enough of the weather for now.
I spent too much time on household chores yesterday. Now that my wife has fully recovered from the knee replacement surgery, she decided that a fall cleanup was necessary. Didn't even fill a plastic sack for the dumpster, but all of the ceiling fans in the house and all of the kitchen appliances got a thorough cleaning. Amazing how dirty the top of the refrigerator can get, since there are no cabinets above it. It's taller than either of us so we never see it.
Tall stack of blueberry pancakes and a plateful of sausage links for me today Flo.
Thanks folks for the likes and comments on the surgery pictures yesterday;
Tom O, Jerry, Karl, Guy, Garry, Chet, Sherrel, Hughie, Ken, Phil, Curt, Patrick, Tom.
Sundays are generally off-days in the train shed and yesterday was no exception. While I did get out there, about all that I did was run trains, clean up some clutter and touch up the paint of some figures. Oh! I did glue some feed sacks to one of the pallets.
Here are the remaining pictures taken at the
Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum. This is a different HO scale one than the one from last week.
That's the only club member (museum volunteer) that had showed up when we were there. There were five other paid (teens) employees manning the front desk, commissary, gift shop, and standing by to operate the outdoor rides.
Troy - Nice photo of the fall leaves yesterday.
Chet - Your snow pictures this fall always remind me why I don't live in Montana. While they are picturesque, they indicate cold temperatures.
Tom O - Yea, you're right about the body itself adjusting to the climate, but my mind never adjusts to sub-freezing temperatures and snow on the ground for months at a time. My three kids all got away as soon as they could. Wasn't weather related as they all moved to similar climates, two within 75 miles from us. It was the lure of big city life instead of rural isolation. My oldest daughters graduating class had 13 in it, 8 girls and 5 boys. Really difficult to date a kid that used to shoot you with spit-wads, pick his nose in class (and show it off), and pinch your butt when you were both in grade school.
Dave - Middlesex Mfg is a bit tricky with those large walls. You're coming along just fine though.
I had never heard that pallet design called "Safeway" pallets before, but here they were referred to as simply "grocery" pallets; standardized 40" x 48" four way pallets. We gave them away to a fellow with a pickup and trailer, who returned the favor by dropping off a twelve pack of Corona to my supervisor in charge. Didn't want any of the oddballs,, but I made him take them in return for not charging him for the ones that he wanted. Saved me the hassle of setting him up as a vendor with all of the insurance certificates and saved me money on disposal costs.
Jerry - The January issue of MR has traditionally been bigger over the years to get the interest of everyone who got trains for Christmas. We'll see if that still holds true in another month or so.
Everybody have a great day. Be safe and keep your distance and avoid being a statistic.
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