Good Morning Everyone. Clear and 75° on this windless Friday morning. Still holding at 95° for the high, headed into a couple of days of cooler temperatures for the weekend. Cooler but not by much, low 90's.
Spent an hour at the hearing aid center yesterday, all is still good. Some ranges are a slight bit better and some are a slight bit worse. Overall I still have a 42% hearing loss, the same as two years ago. Can't explain why some ranges improved, but it may be that the tinnitus yesterday wasn't as bad as it is sometimes. While I didn't need to upgrade, I walked out with a new set of upgraded hearing aids anyway, the trade-in (100% of the original cost two years ago) covered 75% of their cost, and my Sam's Club premium membership took another $400 off the cost. The new ones are Bluetooth compatible and all of the settings (bass, treble, volume, various noise filters, etc) can be controlled by an app on my Samsung Android device; as well as the controls on the hearing aids themselves. The controls on the hearing aids
can be cumbersome at times. Another difference is that the new ones are 128 mhz versus 48 mhz for the old ones, for increased clarity. Four year warranty and full maintenance every 90 days are included. I can actually already hear the difference in clarity. Still can't wear them underwater though!!!
Masking yesterday was hit or miss at the places that we visited on our trek into town. Mandatory in Target, recommended at Sam's, Kroger and the Vitamin Shop, and no signs present at other places. Looks like compliance was near 25%. I had mine with me, but I was able to socially distance myself everywhere. Wife went to Target, I didn't.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday regarding the park scene;
Patrick, Christian, Sherrel, Karl, Garry, Chad, Tom O, Hughie, Rick, Jaz, Curt, Gary.
Good Morning Francine. Flo got the day off? Good for her. I'll take a double BLT and a sugar free A&W root beer today. Thanks as always.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I did nothing constructive except to find an engine and re-attach a speed recorder that I found alonside the track. It wasn't for a lack of potential projects, I just couldn't get into the groove. Some days are just like that. So I ran a few trains, all of them from staging at one end to staging at the other end. Occasionally ducking one into a passing siding and running another in the opposite direction and then resuming. I even set up one to run continuously on the upper level while I ran others on the lower level. Running two trains at once is something that I never really do. Most likely I won't do it again since I can only concentrate on one at a time anyway.
So going back into the archives, I came up with these shots of a Walther's Merchant's Row I (of two that I have).
All of the interior scenes are just pictures that I downloaded from the Internet and manipulated in Microsoft Word before printing and installing. Signs came from a variety of sources, all of the figures were hand-painted by me.
Patrick -
Common sense isn't so common anymore. Sadly we're educating people above their intelligence or capacity for thought.
Ain't that the truth! Fully agree with the RANT.
Garry - Have a safe trip to see Uncle Pete's Big Boy.
I try to slip little scenes like that park scene in wherever I have a bit of space that can't be used for something else. Thanks for the comment.
Christian - Regarding the #321 magnets, I would use
Woodland Scenics Scenic Accents Glue. It's repositionable glue; I use it for figures and roofs that I may want to move or remove.
Not too sure that I like yesterday's upgrade to the forum. But I'll get used to it I guess.
Everybody have a great day and an awesome weekend.
