Good Morning Everyone. 71° and overcast. Scattered thunder and lightning, but no rain here. It's raining a bit over a mile away at the nearest Weather Underground station though. Whatever we get will be very scattered and very light. Looks like cooler weather for the next ten days, highs only in the upper 60's and lower 70's. Some cool nights in the upper 40's coming up.
Broke the isolation again yesterday, going to the Feed Store to purchase tomato and pepper plants. Only one other customer while I was there so social distancing wasn't too difficult. Owner said that the feed/seed business was still really good, but most of it was now delivery to the local ranchers and farmers instead of pick up. Got back too late to plant yesterday, but depending on the rainfall this morning, I should be able to plant them this afternoon or tomorrow. Covid-19 finally hit our county with two confirmed cases this past week, one in a nursing home and the other is a health care worker who works in a different county. We'll soon see how many others that they came in contact with before being diagnosed. Still no lockdown from the local authorities, but it is still an individual county decision in Texas.
How about some ham, egg and cheese biscuits this morning Flo.
Thanks for the likes and comments on the backdrop and the next kit build;
Karl, Bob, Jerome, Johnny, Sherrel, Joe, Gary, Guy, Phil, Justin, Chad, Curt, Tom, Patrick. I hope to continue posting progress pictures.
As expected I mostly ran trains yesterday. I did do a bit of workbench stuff. Assembled the foundation and primed the foundation walls for starters.
I later painted the rockwork and fastened everything together.
I also added primer to all of the structure walls while I was at the paint booth.
Sherrel/Bob - Fence will be droopy. What I meant to infer by making it taut, is that I will be removing some of the upward kinks out of it.
Joe - Congratulations on getting some trains running.
but Governor Cuomo ordered all non essential work places shut down into April, and Model Train distribution and fulfillment is not considered essential according to the State of New York
Too bad for that. One would think that essential or not, a couple of employees filling orders from a big warehouse could keep their distance and continue to contribute to the economy, and send tax money to Albany. It's almost like some politicians want their economies to fail.
Guy - It normally doesn't take that long to mow, but with all of the rain and ideal growing conditions, some areas got out of control. And with the somewhat still wet grass, I had to do some areas twice to get an even cut. On top of that, it should have been started about a week ago.
That garage came out really well. I like the interior detailing.
Terry - Interesting what the owner said about using vacation time, but you
may be better off. In Texas, if I am reading the stimulus package correctly, employees on unemployment will actually receive bigger paychecks than if they kept working. My wife the tax preparer, confirms this.
Phil -
Used WALLY-WORLDS pickup service . Worked very nicely. The parking lot was half filled. WHY ???
All of those employees shopping for you and others.
Curt - Nice deal on the Walther's stuff.
I see that today would have been Major League Baseball's opening day. Too bad as many cooped up folks could appreciate it. It's also Lady GaGa's birthday; who cares?
Thunder and lightning stopped about 30 minutes ago and the cool front from the west has hit. Looks like a line of light showers behind it coming our way. Earlier rain didn't even get the cars completely wet. Fluffy the cat is taunting the granddog from the safety of the other side of the glass door.
Everybody have a great day and a wonderful weekend.