Good Morning Everyone. 62° and mostly clear with a bit of haze over the full moon. It managed to get up to 92° yesterday, cool front came through last night, although not as ferociously as predicted, and the high today will only be 75°. Highs beginning Monday in the 50's for a few days. Terrible nights sleep last night for some reason. Slept great for four hours and then was awake for the next two and a half. Finally went back to sleep for about two more hours. I'll be napping about 9:00.
The great water blackout from yesterday didn't last long. Turns out that the power company hit the water line while they were installing an underground conduit to my newest neighbors "front pump". He has a "back pump" near where he is going to build a house that is being served by an overhead line. The community water coop had the broken line fixed in just under two hours and the water was back on by 9:15. They didn't have to dig a hole since the power company had already done that!
Meanwhile the power company added another pole at my corner, using their hydrostatic drill. Too much buried stuff there for them to use the mechanical drill. I guess that they will remove the old pole that's next to it when they go live with the power to the new line. They also strung up a bunch of wire on the poles leading down the road..
I plan on resuming mowing today since it is cooler now. It should go a lot quicker since everything got mowed last week, and things aren't so wild and uneven. I did use the weedeater around the house and train shed yesterday.
How about a couple of those breakfast burritos again this morning Flo, sausage, cheese, egg and potatoes. Lots of hot salsa to wash the cholesterol down with.
Thanks for the likes and comments on the "finished" structure yesterday;
Phil, Patrick, Sherrel, Jerome, Karl, Garry, Guy, Chad, Curt, James, Joe, Tom, Chet, Mikey, Ken, Johnny. While it's finished for now, there will be some improvements to the detailing and to the site itself. Stay tuned.
I got started on the first 12' of layout clean up yesterday out in the train shed. First up was this Walther's structure that I acquired at an estate sale several years ago. I plopped it into place without actually rehabbing it and it has sat there since. I always knew that I was going to have to do some work on it, since all off the other structures that I got (for a great price) needed a lot of work to bring them up to my standards. I think that this is George Robert's Printing.
Note that the upper left window has fallen out. This particular modeler did a lousy gluing job on all of the structures that I got.
Here's that accumulated insect mortuary left behind.
After removal, the structure made it over to the workbench where I noted several other issues. Firstly another window was not properly in place.
That will be easy enough to fix as will the missing unit found inside the building.
Part of the stairway railing is missing.
There are several more surprises that I will document tomorrow.
Patrick - Nice looking control panel. Similar to the one I had in the old train room. Current use of ground throws and walkaround throttle has eliminated most of the need for one now, except for the electrical blocks. I keep them all on all of the time unless I am parking a train on a block.
Joe - The stoves came with the kit, as it is sold as a stove manufacturer. I just decided to use them as part of the wares for the antiques shop. Coke machine is something that I made with cardstock and some underlying braces. Years ago I downloaded some soda machine pictures to use for this. I resized them to be a bit undersized from the real thing and I have used them in a couple of other places already.
I also have Dr Pepper but cannot locate that strip right now.
George, James. Tom, and to some extent Joe - I sure can understand your desires to leave the Northeast because of the taxes, fuel prices, poor government etc. It's too bad as Upper New York State has some of the nicest summertime scenery that I have ever seen. My cousin lives in Chatham NY near Albany, on 75 acres that's been in our family for over 150 years and it's really beautiful. The wintertime snow would be an issue for me.
Today is what we used to call Holy Thursday, also known as Maundy Thursday. It commemorates the day of the Last Supper.
Everybody have a great day.