Afternoon, everyone.
Been spending time with the relatives so not much time here. Of course, after I told them how nice fall weather is here, we have a day and a half of rain, gloom, and a high of 59. Oh well, we needed the rain, and it should clear up to about a week of nice fall weather for the next week.
Chris, how are things with your wife?
Steve, so you've sent off all the emigration paperwork? Good deal, step 20 of your 2300 step project plan is now complete.
Ray, I'd be laid up for a week if I had done all the wood cutting you have. Sounds like you have enough for two winters now, even up there. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just eat like your granddaughter and not worry about making a mess? I'm looking forward to doing that again when I get old and senile.
Tom, never look too closely at your layout. I was inspired by Ray and painted some of my yard tracks to give them the proper rusty look. While having my head down there on the tracks, I found about 15 things that had either fallen off, gotten bent, to just didn't look right. It all looked fine if I just stood there with my hands in my pockets and looked down.
Paul, you'd be amazed at just how dumb people are at grade crossings. Don't know if this woman was drunk but we had track that ran alongside a street with road that crossed at a right angle. At least once a week, someone would turn onto the tracks instead of the road next to it. The railroad finally filled in the space with ballast up to the railheads to make it easier for us to get a tow in and get the car off the tracks. Most of the people weren't drunk, they just couldn't seem to tell the difference between a road and railroad tracks.
Hope everyone else is having as good a day as they can. I'm actually looking forward to seeing some sun again.