Good Morning All. It's 73° and cloudy. Sprinkles and light rain showers off and on yesterday left .75" in the rain gauge. We're in for more of the same today and for all of the next ten days according to the forecast. Didn't keep me from smoking a rack of tasty spareribs on the grill. Back to normal today, wait! Yesterday
was normal! No days off for the retired. I am hearing reminders right now that dove hunting season started here last Saturday. Due to the cloudy day yesterday, the pool was only 81° when I got into it about an hour ago. Since I am expecting rain most of the day, I went for my daily walk by the light of the moon (sort of) at 5:30.
Still working on small projects in the train shed. Wood work is on hold because I don't stand in the rain with the saw, and I had put up the sawhorses Sunday. I did do the scenery on that very small block of layout, 6 sq in, and took a couple of pictures. Alas! the camera is still outside because of ribs which were more important. Started and finished a small project of consolidating five or six separate containers of small pieces of small gauge wire into a single shoebox. I also dug out a "project" structure from the old layout that has been packed away for eight years. I will rehab it for a space in my largest town of Ft Wish. Prior to being packed away, a dirt dauber had built a nest on the backside of it which I partially removed yesterday. This is one of the earliest structures that I built for the layout in the late 80's. It was called the "Gemini Building" from Walther's at that time (previously a Magnuson Model), it has since been re-marketed as "Jim's Red Owl". Progress reports upcoming.
Mike - My projects are not only on the workbench, but scattered around the layout, on shelves under the layout and in boxes as well.
No disrespect intended (pun intended), but I read where the Aretha Franklin's funeral was over seven hours long Friday. I would have been napping.
Everybody have a great day in this short work week.