Good Morning All. A warm 77° and partly cloudy here in North Central Texas this morning. A little late in posting this morning, as I went for a two mile walk and a dip in the pool before composing.
The weatherman's prediction of 102° yesterday came true, so today he's going out on a limb with 106°. At 30% humidity, it's bearable but we're still under a heat advisory.
My wife continues to do well. I think that she has used her cane while I was outside so that I wouldn't know that she was using it. She has cut back on the narcotic pain meds; and has reduced the icing (for swelling) from 22 hours/day to about 15 hours/day. I still have to fill the damned machine up during one of my middle of the night bathroom breaks.
How about a big ole stack of blueberry pancakes and a handful of bacon for me this morning Flo. And a pint of maple syrup and a whole stick of butter to smooth them down with.
Thanks once again for the likes, reactions and comments regarding yesterday's museum pictures;
Sherrel, Jerome, Tom O, Lee, Guy, Bob, Karl, Phil, Chad, James, Curt, Chet, Louis, Tom.
Spent several hours in the train shed yesterday, without much actual examples of progress. I worked mainly on the Bar Mills InstaFence sections, I am using 350 scale feet of it. The work isn't all that hard, but it is slow, especially when my eyes cross up and I have to take a short break. I did complete all of the sections that I will use and here are some laid on the layout.
I didn't drill any post holes yet because I also put in all of that ground cover and the glue wasn't dry yet. That RH piece is just leaning against the building. Those piles of what looks like sawdust around the fence posts in the piggyback yard, are a combination of drill shavings and the exposed underlying plywood. They will disappear when I get to the next phase of ground cover detailing when I add tall grass and weeds and additional ground foam.
Since that's the only progress picture that I currently have, that I didn't delete for being out of focus
, I will post a few more layout photos from the O scale layout in Foley AL.
Sherrel - Glad that all of your relatives are safe. Beaumont escaped most of the brunt but there were a lot of trees and fences down and power may not be restored yet. Lake Charles was not so lucky, although news reports here indicate that most damage was from winds. The 20' storm surge didn't materialize. Lake Charles is 30 miles inland, but it is only 13' above sea level with nothing between it and the Gulf, so the surge would have made it that far and caused some major flooding.
Troy -
Yep, I put those legs over the lowest part of the floor.
That's always the case isn't it?
Instead of one large 3/4"hole for wiring, I usually make multiple 3/8" holes, staggered and offset so as not to weaken the supports.
I found that mounting one side directly to the wall is easy insurance toward leveling.
Curt - Regarding the wiring issue; I don't have many issues at all, but when I do, it always turns out that I mad a simple error somewhere that I should have been more careful about. Something like putting the insulated rail joiner in the wrong rail, (I run DC).
RANT, sort of. I had occasion to go into Walmart Thursday on my grocery trek. I already hate going there because I don't like parking a quarter mile from the door and dodging drivers who are either texting or reading texts while driving. That and folks that randomly back out of their spaces without looking first.
I felt so out of place there. First, my hair is its normal color, not purple, green or pink, and I don't braid my beard. Next, and I don't mean to "body shame" anyone, but all of my clothes fit. I don't have a 350 pound ass hanging out of booty shorts or stuffed into Lululemon pants; I go braless but I don't wear halter tops that are too small for "Large Marge" to be wearing. I am not a male wearing heels and skirts. I don't go in wearing pajamas or flip-flops or wearing my underwear on the outside(?). And lastly, I am not covered head to toe (including face) with tattoos and facial piercings. Some of the outfits that I saw looked like Halloween costumes!
It's like another world to me.
End of rant.
Oh well! Everybody have an awesome Saturday
I actually made that discovery myself shortly after I posted, when I took a closer look at the jumpers. That's when I saw that the red/black wire positions on J2 and J5 were identical, but were opposite on the front and rear truck! I swapped out the rear truck for one with its wires in a "mirror image" (I got four trucks, two for each unit I'm converting) and that took care of the shorting problem.