Good Morning All. 64° and sunny. Expecting upper 80's again today and tomorrow, then thunderstorms and 70° high on Saturday. They are giving it a 99% chance, rather certain. I'll take a breakfast burrito this morning Flo, well make that two. Sausage, egg, cheese, potato and salsa should do it.
The quarterly doctor visit yesterday went well for me, he did however manage to sell my wife some CBD oil for the pain in her knee(s). Quite unexpected from him as he is not known as a "snake oil doctor" in the 14 years that I have been seeing him. Too soon to know whether it works. Of course the insurance doesn't cover it so I am quite a bit poorer today.
Since it finally dried out a bit, I did get some quality time in the garden. Managed to get a few more tomato plants into the ground and installed the posts for the first twelve tomato cages for the plants that I got in last month. No cages yet, just posts. Onions look like they will be ready for harvest in about three weeks.
The endless week of out of town trips continues today with the grocery/beer trek this morning. Stops include Wal Mart for pool chemicals and the traditional drugstore for a "new" BP prescription for my wife. Aging, SIGH! I'll be mowing later this afternoon working on my tan/melanoma.
Thanks for the likes and comments on the Magnuson structures yesterday;
Jerome, Justin, Sherrel, Dave, Patrick, Phil, Chet, Tom and any other folks that I may have missed.
Another day of limited train shed time yesterday, because the rest of my day was full. I was able to get the parking area painted for the two new warehouses on the left side of the peninsula.
This is simple paint on plywood method. It's now ready for striping and additional ground cover to fill the gaps.
Elsewhere I started the first and easiest of the grade crossings.
Haven't run a full train through yet, but the test truck works.
Stay tuned for more.
Sherrel -
Willie - Nice job on the "warped" building; never know it by looking at the photo.
It took a lot of effort and time, but I really like that and all of their structures and I was determined to make it work.
Patrick - You should be able to accomplish a lot with that much time off unless "other stuff" interferes!
Chet - Recovery and rehab seems to be going well for you. I know that you are pleased to be able to get back to work on the cars.
As I am finishing this post, I can hear the local crop duster at work nearby. Distinctive plane and distinctive sounds as he makes those very low level passes over the fields. This same fellow has been doing this around here for all of the 38 years that I have lived here, although he no longer flies
under the power lines! My guess is that he's fertilizing the emerging sorghum or Sudan hay fields prior to the expected rain. Too late for additional fertilizer on the wheat fields as they're starting to "head". Great day for it as there is absolutely no wind. I don't know whether it takes more skill to fly a crop duster or a Boeing 747? What do you say
Sherrel?
Here's a picture of him from last year.
Everybody have a great day.