Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 62° here on the SFW ranch. No real changes in the weather here, highs still in the 80's, lows in the 60's for a while.
Another ho-hum day here yesterday. The grocery trek went off without any issues, nothing broke at home and leftovers for supper.
Today I am going to try something different that I hadn't done in about 20 years, I am going to an estate sale where there is purportedly a large train collection. It's in a pretty prestigious part of Denton TX, but the picture look like it's exactly that, a train collection. Why not? I have to go back to town anyway to pick up a new chair for the train shed that wouldn't fit in the car yesterday.
I have a few comments regarding cryptocurrency, but not enough time to post them. I don't indulge though.
I managed to get some work completed out in the train shed yesterday, however I had to do some jury-rigging to accomplish what I set out to do.
First the easy part, I made, painted and added a full length sidewalk alongside the road on the right of the vacant lot.
Then painted a parking lot. Here it is with the structure in place.
I used a different concrete color this time to add some variety.
Then the tedious part of the day as I attempted to rehab the signs for this building.
These are just standard Walther's signs that they provided in a number of kits in the 90's. I had partial duplicates and I was intending to just make new ones. The Sparky's Auto Parts worked out as planned. But part of the Newman's sign was missing.
That meant reworking the old one instead of making a new one. One mounting pin is missing but that can be fixed, the upper one is short as well.
Then disaster struck, the first decal disintegrated on me.
OK, that's the far side and is not readily visible. So to avoid a similar situation on the visible side, I simply cut out the decal and glued it and the backing paper on the other side.
Then I added a mounting peg on the wall.
Looks OK from the closest viewpoint.
Jerry - Welcome back you ole lost soul. Looking forward to seeing your progress on the layout.
IBKen - Interesting dinner. Congratulations again.
Patrick - I guess that your wife is older than I thought if she's applying for SS. The new deal actually sounds like it might be a good one if she takes it, despite the need for another car.
George - At least you can do some layout tasks after the surgery.
Todd - Quite a list. It should keep you occupied for a while.
Gotta go now. Everybody have a great day.