Good Morning All. Cloudy and 74°, humidity is only at 98%. Scattered rain and thunderstorms all around, some might be here soon. Ominous rumbling outside right now at 0530. Yesterday was another crazy weather day here, never getting above 74° until 6:00 pm when it rose to 79°. It rained for a while before dawn, again at 11:00 am, then again around 1:00 pm for a total of 3". In between it sprinkled until mid-afternoon. None of this ran off, it's been on the dry side here so it all soaked in. It's been a wet August by our standards, average year is 2", we've had 6"+ this month so far. It's also been the coolest August in a long time, with the highest temperature that I've seen at 97°.
I am a bit disappointed that the pool filled up but it is only 76°. Hopefully it will start to warm up tomorrow when the sun comes back out.
Today is the weekly grocery/beer trek into Denton. I am not sure if we have any other stops on the list today. I'm thinking Walmart because they seem to be the only store in town that carries the brand and style of toothpaste that I like to use. My wife made a "Poor Mans Peach Cobbler" last night to go with the homemade vanilla ice cream that she made earlier in the day. The cobbler had peaches wrapped in pieces of Crescent Dinner roll dough, then doused with some melted butter/peach juice syrup and covered with a cinnamon/sugar mix, and then baked. Tasted great! It's a keeper recipe.
How about just a giant blueberry muffin and a handful of bacon this morning Flo. Tell Mel not to cook the bacon quite so long.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding the Dry Goods kit that I am about to embark on;
Joe, Christian, Tom O, Patrick, Garry, Hughie, Karl, Gary, Troy, Tom, Guy, Sherrel.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I worked on the Dry Goods kit.
I actually finished it but it looks like I forgot to take any pictures of the finished model!
I am not going out in the rain just for that right now...it's still too dark.
Additionally I added more weeds to the scene in Graham, this time on the other side of the scene by the bicycle repair shop.
Guy - Maybe the bears got all of the blueberries!
Great ROW pictures yesterday. Why the derail? Or do you know?
Tom O - Thanks for your analysis of the Super Trees. I did note the thin trunks and the frailness right away. I have already considered cutting the branches off and just making small trees which go better with the locale that I model. They might work in a cluster where the trunks can be hidden with smaller trees in front.
Garry - That is a nice looking BL2, but in my opinion the only uglier diesel is Santa Fe's CF7's. At least the CF7 was more reliable!
Hughie - In my post yesterday regarding the scene at the train shed entrance, I mistakenly attributed three models to JL Innovative. One of them is actually American Model Builders Laser kit.
Curt - While that dry goods store is a definite beginners kit, it will fit nicely where I want it to go. Most of my other AMB kits are quite detailed and are much more complex. I actually have two of their kits made in plastic before they shifted everything to wood. Those plastic kits were laser-cut as well. Both were bought back in the 90's.
Sherrel - Looks like Temecula has made the news again this week.
Garbage truck explodes. Seems like I saw another story about a trash truck fire in your area as well.
Well it's a heavier thundershower than I thought, at least according to the Weather Underground station just around the corner. It is showing 0.68" in the last hour. I'm not going to go out and check my rain gauge until daylight.
Everybody have a great day.