Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 70° this Friday morning. Even though the radar showed showers here a couple of times yesterday, nothing ever hit the ground. Forecast is still pretty much the same, thunderstorms every day for the next ten days except for tomorrow. Today, Sunday and Monday are all predicted to have 1"+. Right now they are all considerably north of here and are clobbering
Patrick. Temperatures no higher than 81° for the same time period after 91° today. Got to be careful as this is tornado season though.
The grocery/beer trek yesterday was not altogether successful. They were out of a few minor items like our brand of margarine, sugar-free honey mustard salad dressing, my wife's diet soft drinks and a certain frozen vegetable that my wife likes. Plenty of meat, eggs and paper products, and all other shelves seemed to be well stocked. It looked like some canned vegetables were low, but I only buy fresh (sometimes frozen) so that wasn't a concern. Since the rain passed us by yesterday, I took advantage and mowed the front or east side of the yard. While it could have gone another day or two, I need to stay ahead on this right now because growing conditions are favorable and
if it does rain, it will delay that task.
Breakfast tacos sound good this morning Francine, along with a healthy helping of salsa.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday regarding the progress on detailing the scrap yard and the beginning of the Earl's Oil build;
Jerome, Guy, Sherrel, Phil, Chad, Karl, Patrick, Louis, Garry, Curt, James, Bob.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I was able to assemble the doors and windows for Earl' office building. Then I installed them and assembled the walls to the base.
That's one of the roof rafters that I have test-fitted to determine its fit and where I should be careful with the paint.
Not much else yesterday as time was limited and a cold one in the pool just felt too good.
Garry -
Willie .... You are placing a lot of interesting details at the scrap yard
There will be a lot more as time passes. I am working on a few more over on the workbench and I still need to examine the scrap box. These types of projects never really end for me. I found some cardboard box models that I never used the other day. While I won't be using them in the scrapyard, I kept them out to use on some other scenes that need upgrading.
Joe - Finding any Polly Scale paints has been getting almost impossible. I still have about two dozen bottles left, many over 15 years old, and some have reached their last hours of usability. I definitely miss them. Many of the Model Masters colors are an acceptable substitute, however they don't have nearly the volume or variety.
Sherman - Yeah! I know all about OSHA!
Dealt with them and their rules for many years. Those bottles do have a safety chain around them and the two wheeler, it just can't be seen. They don't need to be upright right now because Clyde is about to wheel them out to cut some stuff up.
Terry - Interesting about your local Kroger being out of paper products. Stores around here never really ran out of anything except TP and hand sanitizer. Is it the impending hurricane?
Bob - Nice picture of the neighbor. It's a pretty nice looking one at that. For some reason I have not seen any yet this year, I usually have seen dozens by now. My wife is also absolutely terrified of them, I just take them as another of God's creatures that I share my world with. Occasionally one gets into the house and she hides in the bathroom until I can catch it (by hand) and move it to the field across the road. It's always interesting to come across one that has recently devoured a large field rat. They tend to hide under something until the "swelling" has abated somewhat and they can easily move again; lest they become a target for the local hawks and eagles, or the coyotes. It's always fun observing life in the country! Thankfully there are no poisonous ones in my locale.
Everybody have a great Memorial Day weekend. Remember that it is not just the unofficial start of Summer, it is a day to honor our fallen Armed Forces members.