Good Morning All. 77° and overcast with a few sprinkles so far this morning. Just returned from my walk and there was some that hit me. From the looks of the radar, they might get more steady in about an hour or two. Then again this time of year, they may go away completely. These are coming from the North and have nothing to do with Hurricane Hanna which seems to have settled in Northeastern Mexico.
I did manage to mow the East side of the yard yesterday, the biggest and easiest hunk, before doing other stuff in the house.
I too am looking at new computer gear to replace my eleven year old desktop. I have been getting the "Imminent Disc Failure" message for about nine months now, every time that I reboot. Solution is don't turn it off. Every so often the whole thing freezes up and I can either reboot or wait 15-20 minutes while it reorganizes it's brain. This happens about once every three or four weeks. I already have all data and files backed up and my Win7 is no longer supported. I
do not want a laptop; I like my 19" screen, easy to see! While I really like my current HP Pavilion, I also realize that eleven years old is pushing it a bit. They should have all of the bugs worked out of Win10 by now.
Sausage. egg and cheese biscuits for me this morning Flo. Maybe a few strips of bacon on the side.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding the motive power pictures yesterday;
Guy, Mopac, Sherrel, Tom O, Patrick, Phil, Justin, Jerome, Tom, Curt, James.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I continued the "sweeper" train that I started Sunday evening. First stop was to pick up three covered hoppers from the Tupperware factory, and a boxcar from an adjoining industry, in Rycon Township.
Moved on to Charlottesville where they picked up an empty Railbox car from Federal Cold Storage, after leaving the caboose parked on the main.
Finally an empty boxcar at the beer distributor two industries over.
They then reconnected with the caboose, and pulled it on to the siding with everything else.
Engine did a runaround and pulled the caboose back on to the main.
The crew then reconnected with the rest of the train, pulled out on to the main to retrieve the caboose and headed back to the yard.
I am still in a modeling funk right now. So I spent some time yesterday testing some of the locomotives on the layout (70 right now), to determine which ones to retire to the "standby" shelf to make room for the new SD45's that I got. I kinda needed to do that a year ago when I got the new Dash9's but never got around to it. It appears that some of my 30 year old "Blue Boxes" will be the first to go. They are fair runners, but lack some of the detailing that my newer power has. While things are still fluid on the layout, it's getting crowded until I develop some blank areas that I have future plans for. Some of those 70 are already on the standby shelf and I rotate them off and on every so often.
Tom O - As I posted recently, I am not at all familiar with paper mills and am unfamiliar with their operation. In your picture in post #755, how are the logs unloaded and stacked, in real life?
Justin - Thoughts and prayers go out for your father.
Curt - Sorry to hear about your grandsons. Hopefully this is the event that might straighten them out, since switches are frowned upon now. Maybe the owners should have pressed charges and dropped them later; would have had a more powerful impact.
Nice progress on the benchwork.
Bunker - Welcome to the Coffee Shop. Flo and Francine need the extra tips.
According to the radar, showers are now less than a mile north of me. Yard and garden are awaiting.
Everybody have a great day.