Good Morning All. Clear and 73° at the moment. Yes, Happy Canada Day. Today is the last day of temperatures in the lower 90's for a while, we supposedly will begin a week long period in the 80's. Still have rain in the forecast for most of that time, although the weather geeks missed on the last two dry days. We are having an extreme cool spell, while you northerners are in the midst of an extreme heat wave! Go figure. Maybe global warming doesn't affect red states!
Grocery/beer trek this morning. Don't need a whole lot this week, but I need a stop at the Vitamin Shop for fish oil and vitamin C. An added attraction is that I need to get my ears lowered before my wife gets home.
Thanks for the likes yesterday regarding the layout views;
Steve, Sherrel, Chad, Rick, Joe, Hughie, Karl, Garry, Tom O, Guy, Ken, Justin, Tom.
I'm starved this morning Flo. I'll take the chicken fried steak basket with extra cream gravy. Diet A&W root beer to go along with it.
Just the usual activity out in the train shed yesterday. Working on ground cover again. Completed everything inside the fence including adding shrubbery around the house.
I am not happy with the painted driveway, so I will cut a piece of .040" styrene and paint and glue it on top. Today I will paint and add a mailbox and sort through my stock of completed trees. Believe it or not, I actually have about a half dozen trees made for other places that didn't get used.
For
Sherrel, here's a progress shot of the spurs leading to the cannery that he thought were "
too neat".
Meanwhile behind my in-laws house is going to be a small Plasticville model kit. I have started with the driveway.The kit itself is called Cape Cod House, and comes with a side porch which I need to locate and add to the other side for train watching. It also has awnings for each window, but they are not era or locale appropriate here. It's kind of a memorial to my Dad, since he had the O scale model of the same thing on his Lionel layout.
Joe - That is a priceless picture of the Monarch pulling CNJ 1087 out of the harbor. I read a bit of history on the 1087, apparently after this incident it went on to serve Conrail at least into 1988.
Tom O - Too bad about the property management company. July 15 is pretty aggressive for straightening it out.
Hughie - 21 hours for an update! I have had to start over with a new install of Win10 three times now since I bought this new computer, twice by me and in between when I sent it in for warranty repairs...they replaced the hard drive. I keep a pretty good backup, but it is still a hassle. I need to write down passwords. This one is easy, it hasn't changed in 10 years, some places that I visit require a new one periodically.
Too bad on the AC. Hope that it is fixed on schedule. I have always used window units here. Since we really only use half the house now, three units are sufficient. I rotate which ones are on because it only takes two of them to keep the house comfortable, just one at night. And lately, it gets turned off by timer around 0100.
Karl - Did you notice that in the diesel listing that you posted yesterday, the seller shows that power supply is AC?
Everybody have a great day. Stay cool.