Good Morning All. Clear and 66°, quite cool for August. Managed to do a lot of mowing while it was cool yesterday. Then I ensured that everything in the house was "walker compliant" for today. Checked out the ice water circulator even though they'll most likely give us a new one today and washed down the toilet seat booster and leg elevator.
Today is the big day for my wife's second knee replacement surgery. I am not allowed into the out-patient clinic, so after I drop her off, I will embark on the weekly grocery/beer trek and some other errands. Doctor is supposed to call me around 10:00 with the good news. They won't release her until after most of the anesthesia wears off, after 4:00 if all goes according to plan. Got to
remember to take the phone with me!
Thank you to all who passed condolences on the passing of my cousin.
My wife also thanks everybody for your well wishes on her surgery which is
today.
Light breakfast today Flo, just a Bear Claw and OJ.
Thanks for the likes and comments on the layout progress yesterday;
Sherrel, Patrick, Guy, Tom O, Chad, Louis, Garry, Hughie, Jerome, Joe, Phil, Karl, Tom.
Despite everything else that's happening, I did spend some time in the train shed yesterday. Added brick inserts to the ground floor windows on the tenement facing side of the warehouse that I am making. I also assembled all of he walls.
I had to kitbash some DPM parts for the cornices on the top of the walls, since Walther's didn't make enough.
I also shortened the base since I am not making a back to the building and I am just butting it against the backdrop.
As can be seen, I also added the foundation walls to the base.
Don't know what I will get to today as the whole day will be just spent waiting on phone calls.
Joe -
Not for nothing, Jersey has an exit tax, to penalize you for leaving the state.
And they wonder why people are leaving to begin with!
Garry - I like the Walther's modular walls as well. They provide a contrast to the DPM walls. It's just their way of marketing them that irritated me. They made far more wall kits without considering how many wall column kits were needed to go with them, unlike DPM who inicludes the columns with the walls. Walther's column kits ran out very early in the production leaving many folks with walls and no way to attach them to one another. Quality control was terrible as well. Check this out:
The two wall panels on the lower right are a noticeably different color than the others, and the columns don't match either! The difference is more noticeable to the naked eye. It doesn't matter if you intend to paint them anyway as I am. Likewise with the DPM cornices up top.
Hughie - That is what I meant by camera car, camera mounted on a flatcar.
Chet has one that works really well.
I also don't post my videos here because I have been unwilling to start a YouTube account.
Tom O - Continued best wishes on your recovery.
Curt -
I hope your wife can come home. I missed where she was back in the hospital.
Thanks, you didn't miss anything, but she isn't in the hospital, she's having her knee replacement surgery
today in an out-patient clinic and should be released tonight.
Tom - Nice herd, they're much too clean however!
Gotta go now. We leave for the clinic in the big city soon. Everybody have a great day.