Good Morning All. Light rain and 65°. Rained all day yesterday and most of last night. There appears to be 1.5" in the gauge, a little flooding as of right now in the usual low spots. It's expected to continue all day long, radar doesn't show anything heavy right now. We are under a flash flood watch, but that normally doesn't affect me, as long as I stay home. It will be interesting to see the Corps of Engineers lake across the road after the sun comes out. Tornado warnings and baseball sized hail hit the Ft Worth area about 60 miles south of us last night. We were just outside the warning zone. That weather has moved NE toward Little Rock and probably Memphis. It looks like it stretches beyond Ohio.
Getting ready to head out on the weekly grocery/beer trek this morning. Wife actually wants to go to Home Depot!!! I spent some time yesterday morning freezing some containers full of spinach from the garden. It takes a lot of raw spinach to make up a dual serving container. I made three. With the cooler temperatures coming up, only one day above 75° in the next week, my harvest will be extended for a while longer. Spinach bolts and goes to seed once temps stay above 80° for more than a day or two.
Bummer of a day yesterday, as a momentary power failure knocked out the computer
again. Spent an hour on the phone with an HP tech in The Philippines, and we parted just before things were finished. Then the power went off again and I had to start over, but this time I had written down the steps which saved some time. This is getting to be a real drag. He said that it was a Win10 issue and I agree since I can get the HP part of things going immediately. He also explained that you cannot reload Win10 without erasing all of your data, unlike previous versions of Windows. Fortunately I had done a data backup Sunday night so I didn't really lose a lot. Of course then there was the hassle of reloading programs like Firefox, AdBlock and AVG anti-virus programs. And then turning off all of the Win10 default garbage. It took almost an hour to reload my files from the backup. I still need to download Open Office and shut off Microsoft Office and all of their other propriety software. Now I just have to contend with adding words back into my dictionary. It was a pretty much wasted day.
How about a stack of blueberry pancakes and an equal sized stack of sausage patties for me this morning Flo.
Thanks for all of the likes yesterday regarding my layout progress;
Sherrel, Rick, Chad, Justin, Garry, Hughie, Patrick, Tom O, Guy, Karl, Gary, Jaz, Tom, Joe, James.
I did actually make it out to the train shed yesterday despite the setback on the computer. I wasn't out there for very long, as there was a break in the rain and I grilled burgers.
The only actual project work that I did was to add more ground foam to the corner lot. Not much, but every little bit helps towards the finish line.
A little sloppy looking when I took the picture. I did also finish cleaning the track in the quarterly clean-up, a bit late because I have been doing various structures since starting. That last section that is part of this project goes from the horse farm (with drive-in in the background) to the next passing siding. All that's in this area is the Red River Valley Feed & Seed Co.,
The grain mill is an early American Model Builders kit, made from styrene before they switched over to laser-cut wood. The small structure out back is a cardstock structure that was a free download from an outfit unknown. The shack out front came from LifeLike, or Bachmann in a train set from the 80's.
Guy - Boat is coming along well.
Joe - I'd argue with you on whether scrapple is better than corned beef hash. But it is certainly better than Spam. Scrapple isn't really available around here. Now
Rocky Mountain Oysters on the other hand, are.
Mikey - I want to say that Tyco made that house kit. But it is a house kit, not the
hardware store that looks similar. I should look at the bottom to see if anything is embossed there.
Everybody have a great day. keep it safe out there.