Good Morning All. Mostly cloudy and 60°. It appears that it did indeed sprinkle overnight around midnight, just as the forecast stated. Except it wasn't thunderstorms like they predicted. From the looks of it, I have about 0.15" in the rain gauge, an amount corroborated by the Weather Underground station around the corner. Cooler temperatures coming overnight and on into Thursday, mid to upper 30's overnight and mid-60's in the daytime. No freezing expected.
Well @#$%&!&%#$, I just accidentally deleted three paragraphs and Windows Clipboard History was not turned on in my computer.
After looking at the forecast for the next week, and checking the ground temperature, I decided to delay the green bean planting in my garden for 2 weeks, coinciding with the next favorable moon phase. The soil temperature shown on the on-line USDA website just 7 miles away is 60°. That is at the low end of the tolerance for green bean germination. They
can germinate at that temperature, but in my experience it is about a 25% rate; and they grow poorly for a few weeks after that. I've checked some of my almost 50 years of gardening journals to verify that it might just be too early right now. I need this year's harvest to be on the excellent side, since last year was not good and I need to replenish the usual stock of canned green beans in the pantry.
I had a typical Sunday yesterday here on the SFW estate. Normal Sunday household tasks while my wife watched and cursed at the March Madness stuff on TV. Her bracket picks were shot to hell on Thursday and Friday; and she didn't do any better over the weekend. I got my Vitamin D fix by walking and weedeating some more areas around the pool. My daily walk is back up to 3/4 mile after the bout with Sciatica. I want to be back to 1.5 miles by the end of May.
Yesterday out in the train shed, it was strictly a "run trains" day. I think that I moved 11 trains from staging to staging along the main lines on both the upper and lower levels; and did 3 local switching runs in between. From staging to staging on either level takes between 8.5 and 10 minutes depending on the consist and power. Almost 3 hours without any derailments or other incidents. To all who read this who don't already know, track-laying is the most important part of layout building in my opinion. Especially so when you run near the edge like this.
Taking too long to post pictures again this morning, so I will stop here.
Swal - As a kid, my family lived just four houses away from the DAC Country Club in Dallas. Back in the 60's, it was not fenced in on two of the sides and on Mondays when they were closed, me and a buddy would walk around the back and search for golf balls in the woods and creek back there. We would then return another day and sell them to golfers while they were playing on the holes near where there was no fence. After two summers, the grounds crew supervisor chased us away because they were actually getting paid by another group who recovered balls on the courses, who paid for the rights to do so. We sold them for $2/dozen back then.
Grizzled - No the Internet/Google doesn't necessarily know who I vote for, but it does know which primary I voted in.
Troy - I think that getting the right number of fingers was an accomplishment in itself.
David - I am absolutely amazed that most people that I know don't realize that Alexa (and others) is listening to everything that is said within range. My oldest grandson who is usually quite tech-savvy, said that he never thought about it until I told him that Alexa was listening every time he cursed out his younger brother, every time that he talked to his girlfriend on the phone and every time that he farted. He immediately went into his room and unplugged her.
Louis - Please accept my condolences on the passing of Tucker.
Everyone have a great Monday. I hope that someone fixes this forum's slowness and response issues. It's getting to be quite annoying.
