Good Morning Everyone. Clear and 62° again this morning. The ever changing forecast is now predicting rain starting next Thursday, moving up by a couple of days, and continuing at least a week! May is
usually our wettest month here.
Due to the overcast and rainy days, the pool water cooled off a bit over the weekend. Starting over again at 75°, still it may reach a comfortable temperature this week. It probably won't matter tomorrow when it dries out enough to resume mowing. In the meantime, I cut down a couple more trees last week and I can use my outdoor time today to cut them into firewood lengths for next winter.
OK, we broke the quarantine yesterday and went out to Houlihan's restaurant with another couple who were anxious to get out of their home as well. Seemed relatively safe, 25% indoor seating which wasn't even all taken, all employees were wearing gloves and masks, and the manager himself cleaned tables/chairs as the guests departed. They also had disposable paper menus, a nice thought. When we asked for salt and pepper, they brought over a couple of grinders and wiped them down with an alcohol wipe before setting them on the table. However they weren't serving draft beer and we had to settle for bottles. But Sunday was all day Happy Hour so the cost wasn't too extreme.
How about some ham, eggs and a nice toasted English Muffin this morning Francine.
Thanks for all of the likes and comments yesterday;
Rick, Guy, Chad, Sherrel, Joe, Curt, Phil, Bob, Hughie, Jerome, Mikey, Garry, Patrick.
Out in the train shed, I made some more progress with scenery in the scrapyard. At this point I am calling the project almost complete except for a few minor exceptions. It is a milestone of sorts as I now have three more feet of layout scenery completed from fascia to backdrop. It still needs a bit of tidying up on the misplaced scenery junk.
I had these "control panels" in the detail drawer for a few years now, I got them in a box of junk in an estate sale. Don't know exactly what they were for, but I always knew that I would use at least one of them one day.
First thing today is to add the signs and a gasoline storage tank.
I also need to add the rail spur gates and a "junkyard dawg", all of which I have but just ran out of time. As I run across some more scrap when I clean the workbench, I will also add it. I do need to obtain a HO scale front end loader to replace the 1:64 Matchbox one. Later today I will also begin to add some tall weeds here and there
Sherrel - Finally got your stimulus check! Was it delivered by the Pony Express?
Guy - Good temporary fix on the pipe. Mowing - That's only a small sliver of what I face. It gets easier toward the end of June when the rains stop and I can get on a biweekly (or longer) cycle.
Curt -
Willie- ...I'm glad your house and train shed stayed dry.
Only my head and shoes get wet!
Phil - A belated Happy Anniversary to you and your wife. Best wishes to both of you with the medical issues.
Bob - Nice view from the front porch.
Patrick - I saw on the radar over the weekend where you were getting hit pretty hard with the rain. While I didn't get as much as you did, it just seemed like it just wasn't going to move off.
Everybody have a glorious day. Stay safe.