Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 67°. Right now the light rain is mainly east and southeast of me. I'm not sure we'll get any today, although it is sprinkling at the Weather Underground station 1.1 miles southeast of me. If it's Friday for
Tom, it's Thursday for me and the weekly grocery/beer trek to Denton is on tap. It won't be a big one since we're taking a short three day trip to the Hill Country in Central Texas starting Sunday. We plan to stop in Hillsboro to visit the
Roadside America Museum, which is a privately owned collection of 40s and 50s advertising memorabilia, classic cars, and nostalgic Americana. Then it's on to Marble Falls for lunch and a tour of one of the local wineries or breweries. Sunday evening we will meet an old work buddy in Fredericksburg, which is re-known in Texas as a German Heritage town, for dinner. Then a day and a half touring that area, more breweries and wineries and a wildflower seed farm, before departing Tuesday afternoon for dinner with our son and his wife in San Antonio. Depending on when we get to San Antonio, we may go to the model railroad museum there first.
Yesterday was a somewhat productive day, I got four new tires for the RDX in advance of the trip and cleaned up some of the garden afterward. Then we went to eat at Outback Steakhouse with a negative experience that turned positive later. They brought the entree out before the salads, and the server brought cold bread! He sent the manager over who knows us from many previous visits, and she apologized. What I didn't realize until the server brought the check, was that the manager comp'd everything but the drinks, thus saving us around $45!
Easy this morning Flo. Just a bowl of raisin Bran with milk this morning.
Thanks for the many likes (and loves) yesterday regarding he progress on the Savings & Loan;
Sherrel, Karl, Steve, Guy, Garry, Patrick, Tom O, Hughie, Joe, Chet, Gary, Tom, Ken.
Mostly yesterday I painted stuff out in the train shed. All of the mailboxes, roof vents and fire hydrants that came with the Bachmann kits. A couple have already been added to the Savings & Loan.
I'm switching directions for a couple of days, and I decided that I wanted to build an Accurail freight car.
I started with the underbody, but I guess that I forgot to take any progress photos!
Sherrel -
On another note: Why do they have Interstate Highways in Hawaii?
Good question! Maybe Elon Musk is going to bore a tunnel to the left coast!
Steve - Interesting side hobby. That's a nice looking bracelet.
Guy - That bank isn't the tallest structure on my layout, but I can relate to it's size. They recently completed a skyscraper in a town twelve miles away, all of four floors of a Holiday Inn. In this part of the world, grain elevators are considered "prairie skyscrapers".
Garry - I can see how those Bachmann kits could supply a person with loads of detail parts. I now have all of the mailboxes, fire hydrants and roof vents assembled and painted; and I will be dropping them into scenes all over.
Tom O - I do sometimes get into a rut or get bored, but not for long. I usually just run trains for a couple of hours and that always perks me up.
Terry - I don't have an issue with paperless billing because I never gave my E-Mail address out to any utility, credit card co., or bank. Whenever they ask for updated info, I still refuse. But if you ever drop your guard and accidently give it away, then beware. I know folks who innocently gave it to utilities years ago before all of this paperless BS hit, and they now have the same issues as you have. I also pay most bills with an envelope, check and stamp.
Tom - I thought that I spotted a vineyard on the left.
Property taxes -
Gee Tee brought up the outrageous taxes in his area, $8K a year is outrageous! I pay about $900/yr for a four bedroom 1500 sq ft home, 15 acres and a train shed, plus a barn.
Everybody have a great day. Kroger supposedly dropped the mask mandate yesterday, we'll see how that works out in a few hours.I'll most likely still wear mine this week.
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). My computer was randomly crashing and I took it in and the diagnostics showed it was a broken video controller causing errors that would cause the machine to freeze up. Took a week to get the part in and the fix done, and when I got it home theThunderbolt ports were not responsive. I took it back (this was Monday) and got it back today and it works fine. The problem with the Thunderbolt ports was the new logic board being off a hair when placed back in the chassis and so the ground to the ports not being reliable. (In case anyone is wondering it is an iMac).
