Good Morning All. Cloudy and 64°. These winds from the south yesterday and today are bringing Gulf moisture up with them and it will probably rain tomorrow. Meanwhile the humidity is rising from the rather low reading of 15% seen on Wednesday and Thursday. Should see upper 70's again today. Cooler temperatures beginning Monday for a few days.
Somewhat busy but wasted day yesterday. I did the dishes, two loads of laundry, took trash out to the dumpster (three trips), and a lot of other general household maintenance. This morning I have a landscaper coming by to till up a brand new garden plot for me. I haven't recovered enough from the pneumonia yet to tackle it myself. I have had to abandon my old garden of 42 years because it got infected with
fusarium wilt a couple of years ago and with all this land, it is easier to just start a new one. Pathogen control is a lengthy process. This has put me about three weeks behind in starting this year.
Thanks to all who commented or liked yesterday's post of my cats;
Steve J, Smudge, Justin, Hughie, Tom O, Louis, Karl, Dave B, Chad, Curt, Sherrel, Rick, Guy, Patrick, Gary. I have two more somewhere but I can't remember where!!!
Short day in the train shed yesterday, again! I looked at the paint job on the new structure some more and decided that it looks OK under the layout lighting, whereas it really looked washed up on the workbench. So I will leave it. Meanwhile I added the clear window styrene and glued the two building halves together. No picture today because I didn't take any.
So let's see what I can dig out of the archives this morning. How about a few pictures of the Stone Bakery. It is a kit from Woodland Scenics that I assembled several years ago.
This is also on my list of small projects to complete. I only have too cover the bare plywood around the place.
Ken D&J -
manual says 48A at 240V Single phase
Piece of cake to make that connection. Running the wire through the conduit will take the longest time.
Have a great time with the operating session today.
Obviously living as close to DC as you do has really made you a pessimist regarding government policy.
I truly believe that Americans will wake up to this bullshit policy in the near future. Especially when new power lines have to be installed and the NIMBY factor comes into play. Don't get me wrong, as I believe strongly in cleaning up the environment as much as the next person; but let's attack the problem in India, China and third world countries where much of the problem originates.
George -
I hate to tell you this but no one's going to make it on the above wages. It was just on the news family's making a 100K a year are living paycheck to paycheck.
I respectfully disagree
partly with your comment. $15.50/hr is decent for an entry level job. The key here is "entry level". Those are jobs for high schoolers or part time college students, or bored housewives/househusbands just looking for extra money. People with families should have real jobs paying more. There's plenty of them around. In some areas, that is actually enough to support a small family. Of course things vary in different states. Here in Texas, the cost of living is not as great as NY or CA, where SALT eats away at one's income. What I see when I read about people making $100K having to live paycheck to paycheck, is things like new vehicles every two years, gym memberships that rarely get used, homes bigger and fancier than necessary and expensive vacations. For goodness sake, these people need to learn how to budget! Sure I lived paycheck to paycheck at times, but I included 25% into savings/retirement most of the time.
Curt - Nice lighting effects.
Dave B - Interesting fact about the dyed fuel. I did not know that.
Gary - I disagree that solar panels are only for the rich. I am not rich and I will most likely install some this year now that I have removed the big tree that shaded the west side of the house. I have to replace the roof first with a metal one.
Well, time to get out of here. Y'all have a great day and be safe.