Good Morning All. Cloudy and 40° and the radar shows that it's raining here. However I have walked outside and it is not. NWS has added rain to this mornings forecast; it wasn't there yesterday on that forecast that I posted!?!?!? That radar actually shows snow across the Red River in Oklahoma. Doubt that anything is sticking though. The rain appears to be mostly east and southeast of here, with ice in Shreveport LA. Otherwise no change noted for the ten day forecast. Note to myself: Let the fire in the heater go out Thursday and remove ashes Friday when there are no embers. Always easier with no embers.
Helped wrap Christmas gifts yesterday and continued to tidy the place up. The living room which has been my wife's base for the surgery recovery is slowly recovering itself. All of the medical supplies have now been removed since dressing doesn't have to be changed daily. Still have the piles of pillows that she needs to keep herself elevated, but those will be gone by Thursday. For the third or fourth time, she has changed her mind regarding the Christmas tree, so it's back in the box. I have my Christmas Train Tree up and we have an 18" tall living tree up though.
We also went to Denton last night to eat at Red Lobster. It was the last day of 25% off for Dine Rewards members which I am one. The knee held out once again with just the cane. She still uses the walker around the house because I installed a basket to act as hands as she travels about. Slowly but surely life is returning to a more normal state.
Thanks as always for the likes and comments regarding the layout pictures yesterday;
OB Ken, Christian, Sherrel, Louis, Smudge, Steve J, Hughie, Rick, Tom O, Jaz, Gary, Tom, Karl, Guy, Dave, Chad, Patrick.
I'll take the old standby today Flo, two eggs over easy and a handful of bacon with a tall OJ to wash it down with.
Another Sunday out in the train shed yesterday, always a short day there. I did finish attaching the remaining feeders and track down and started on the DPM modular wall structure.
This is the front sections and part of the left side.
I decided to just go with all window sections on the ground floor rather than wait on my next trip to the LHS next week for blank walls. The structure will be two sections deep and four across the back. The right side will be stepped rather than angled to eliminate the need to cut wall sections to get the length needed for the angled wall.
Terry - Thanks for letting some of the discussions go as far as you (and other moderators) allowed them to go. I think that everyone was very civil and there was a lot of informative comments. But you're right about some might have exceeded
Bob's guidelines and he will be dropping in more during the holidays.
Speaking of moderators, what's up with
Willis? Hadn't seen him in over two years. And
Tony the wombat has been absent for three years except a single post about a week ago on a different thread. I hope that all is well with both of them.
Jaz - I'll have to give that other forum a look. I looked briefly yesterday and bookmarked it, but my present loyalties are here. I am actually a member of four or five other forums that I no longer post on, mainly because I just don't need to spend all day on the Internet. Easy to do with all of the fine videos, especially the cab-ride ones, as well as the other forums. And the news feeds, and the music videos, etc. Too much since I also have another life besides sitting in front of a screen.
Troy - I had a similar issue when my wife wanted the main bathroom remodeled after we had the master bath done. She picked out a vanity without regards to the plumbing coming out of the wall. I was able to deal with the water supply differences easily with the flex tubing, but the drain piping resembles something that M.C. Escher might have designed. I also had to remove the back of the vanity, since the prefabbed opening didn't line up.
Gary - That's a classic picture of your tree in front of that window overlooking the snowy landscape.
Christian - Another great blues musician, Gary Moore.
Willie - Very interesting. Thanks.
Rock & Roll history including blues, is my second passion. I have over 2500 contributions to Wikipedia articles. Most cover the time frame of 1955-1988. Indeed, I have over 65,000 mp3's as well (350GB's), 72 of them are Gary Moore.
Joe - Even though I only see them when passing through the living room, I now recognize many of those Hallmark Christmas movies. They're on year-round in my house it seems.
Greg - It appears that your bar is going to get a lot of use coming up if the Packers stay on track. As I recall, it's in the Packer Room?
Mike - The snow looks good.
Everybody have a great day and if applicable, don't work too hard. Stay warm and safe.
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