Good Morning All. A very pleasant and cool 62° and mostly cloudy this morning. While this is great for outdoor tasks and sleeping with open windows; the pool is cooling off, down to 82° yesterday, most likely around 78° this morning.
Just some sausage links and whole wheat toast this morning Francine, I'm not real hungry after grilling fajitas last night.
Spent the morning yesterday pruning hackberry trees that grow wildly and tend to grow downward and swat me in the face when mowing. Second time this season, and I will have to do it again due to all of this rain. Pruning also causes the trees to send out multiple new shoots from their trunks that can grow 18" in two or three weeks. Today we're taking my wife's SUV to our "shade tree mechanic" for some TLC. It's a bit rough during certain acceleration situations. Have to first go and pick up a rental car since she won't drive my Honda Civic with its manual transmission. She cannot currently even get in or out of it with her soon to be replaced knee anyway.
Thanks for all of the likes and positive comments regarding yesterday's structure and flatcar pictures;
Johnny, Phil, Sherrel, Patrick, Jerome, Dave, Curt, Justin.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I mostly cleaned the place up. Used the shop-vac to remove dirt and grass clippings/leaf debris that had stuck to my wet shoes over the past month. I moved the ballasting supplies that I hadn't used in three weeks back to their storage area as well as some other landscaping supplies that I won't be using in the near future. Started making trees for the peninsula project, don't need too many for an industrial park! I also started making some very small trim parts for the Masonic Lodge.
These are a scale 3' in length, less than half an inch, cut from very delicate 1/16" stripwood angle. I need twelve in this or very similar configurations. This one took 25 minutes, the rest will go faster now that I have a pattern that works. I read ahead and found the following instruction: "Cut a brick strip from the brick sheet one row in height". Wait! What? A brick strip one row high...and I need 20" of it!
Meanwhile a few more structure pictures. All of these are temporarily staged in a 2' x 16' blank plywood area (one of several) with a main line and passing siding running through it. There are industries on one end, four of them featured in the previous layout project, and a couple more incomplete at the other end of town.
Here's a shoe store, gym and appliance dealer.
All three of these are Smalltown structure kits.
A couple more, the bank is also a Smalltown kit and the cafe on the left is from City Classics.
This area is on the to do list for 2020 as I am going to tackle several other smaller areas after the current peninsula project.
Greg - Enjoy your extended stay at the cabin, without the Mrs? Watch that excessive partying with young neighbors!
Patrick - Hope your young ones can get that BP in check. It is one of the easiest things to control with the proper medications which are the cheapest ones that I take. As
Dave posted, no salt and lots of physical activity. In my case I should lose some pounds as well.
You're right about the stress. My job could have been extremely stressful if I had let it, a scheduling manager at a plant with over 600 employees. I learned early on to leave it behind me as soon as I left the parking lot and I
never thought about it at home.
Garry - Great news this morning. Have a speedy recovery.
Everybody have a great day.