Good Morning All. Mostly cloudy and 52° after the predicted thundershower last night. Misted and drizzled starting about 3:00 pm and then the storm hit about 10:00. All over before midnight and I have 0.85" in the rain gauge this morning. The mild weather continues however, for at least the next ten days.
Groundhogs are not found here in Texas, so we have no weather prediction. We have armadillos but they're too blind to see anything, much less their shadow. All they're good for is digging up and consuming fire ants and an occasional stew.
Yesterday, I started planting my onions in the garden and got half planted before the drizzle just made things too messy to continue. In retrospect, I should have started about 30 minutes earlier, but the rainy area blossomed out more rapidly than expected. I did get 140 plants out however.
Shouldn't be a major issue getting the rest in early next week, I did hoe up the rest of the bed and I have "mudded" them in many times in the past. Note that I still have a small 6'x10' area that I need to spread wood chips on, in the upper center of the picture. I survived with only minor discomfort in my hamstrings this morning.
I was out in the train shed for a while after the drizzle started. I spray-painted all of the fence plus the additional rails for the stone pillar part with some Krylon white primer. It wasn't worth setting up the airbrush for just 5 minutes of spraying, especially since I would have to clean it out while waiting for side one to dry. In between I inspected and cleaned another 14-15 freight cars. A few needed trip pin adjustments and one needed wheel cleaning, but no major repairs needed.
Archive time again.
I haven't weathered a lot of freight cars yet, and all that I have done are rather crude. I am no where in the same league as
Tom O, or
Tom (Cambria), and I use mostly dry-brushing and weathering powders. Some of my graffiti is quite crude, as it represents late-60's through early 80's graffiti, although I have used some Blair Line decals recently. Here are a few examples:
David - Seems like an interesting sleepover for your grandson. Here's hoping that Dawn is feeling better today.
Mike - That's quite a Lego set-up. The Lego company could use that video as an advertising campaign. Yes! There is probably a lot of bucks in that layout, but not nearly as much as paving the entire layout area!
Know what you mean! We had to shut off the notifications on our phones due to the feral cats and other neighborhood critters wandering the yard at night and setting off the ring doorbell camera, and the motion camera on the back deck.
Problem is remembering to turn them back on in the morning!
Can't you set the notifications up on a timer?
Today is the 65th anniversary of "The Day the Music Died". Rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper all died in the fateful plane crash in 1959. Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on that plane, but he gave up his seat because The Big Bopper was sick.
It was truly a tough time for Rock & Roll since Elvis was in the Army and Chuck Berry was in prison. Kinda left us with Neil Sedaka and Pat Boone!
Everyone have a super Saturday. I'll be updating my layout thread later this morning after I spend a little time with my wife.
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