Good Morning All. Clear and 40° this morning, should be a nice day, and then rain after sunset ahead of a cold front coming through about 0300. Colder and windy tomorrow.
The weekly grocery trek went as well as could be expected. Many shelves were almost bare since they didn't bring in any overnight stockers on Thanksgiving, but everything that was on my list had at least a little there. The fresh meat/seafood display case was totally bare, as was the beer cases. I got the last two twelve packs of my choice. Soft drink/bottled water aisle was completely bare since that gets stocked daily by the distributors themselves, but I didn't need anything. Crowd wasn't as great as the usual Friday, but were still more than my usual Thursday shopping day.
After a brief price hike last week, gasoline has come back down, most places were $2.59/gal. With my almost expiring October fuel points, I paid $1.99/gal for 15 gallons. The savings paid for lunch at Schlotzsky's. I now have enough fuel points earned in November for $2/gal, but I am only allowed too take a maximum of $1/gal at a time. I should get at least two more trips between now and 12/31 when they expire.
I did some mowing and leaf gathering yesterday after lunch. While I didn't do anything with it, I did add fresh gasoline to the tiller and started it up to run for a couple of minutes. Depending on whether it rains tonight or not, I could do the first tilling for next spring, sometime early next week. Early spring planting time is just over 60 days away. The garden is currently covered with 6" of shredded leaves and aged shredded tree chips to be tilled in.
Meanwhile the granddogs are sleeping in this morning after an extended afternoon outside yesterday.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I mostly ran trains since I hadn't done that since Monday or Tuesday. I did choose and add some figures to the Dusty Saddle Saloon.
Mike - I never went Black Friday shopping except to the grocery store. I always tried to avoid madhouse crowds. I got enough of that at rock concerts and NASCAR events.
Todd - More insanely than how many cans of flock were used, is how you got that high to apply it?
Troy - I like looking at N scale layouts, and saw two very excellent ones in the Texas City Museum; but there's no way that I could ever work on them. I admire
Hughie for his patience and work on his, especially all of those laser-cut wood structures.
Louis - The Heisman Trophy, as told by my grandfather in an oral interview he made with my youngest brother, came about as a way to increase membership in the Downtown Athletic Club in Manhattan, which was waning due to the Great Depression. It did so at the time, but it's proximity to the destroyed World Trade Center caused it to shut down completely in 2002.
Everybody have a great Saturday.
