Good Morning Everyone. Clear and 57°, heading into the mid-80's today before returning to the lower 90's tomorrow.
So first night home was a good one for my wife, she slept 8 hours and even found her way to the bathroom unassisted, albeit with the light on. She is more mobile than she expected to be, but it does take her 5+ minutes to traverse the 60' walk from the couch to the bathroom. This morning we're expecting a drug delivery of the pair of antibiotics to arrive by courier, I believe that this will be a daily thing for 6-8 weeks. Then a visit from the home health care specialist, which may be daily for a few days and then twice a week thereafter. Today she will change the dressing, take a blood draw and who knows what else. If the courier arrives first, then she will administer the antibiotics through the PIIC tube dangling from Arlene's arm. Most of the time later, we will do that ourselves. I got the training yesterday. Me, I will be AWOL from 8:45 until about 10:00 for a dental appointment that was already postponed. Hoping that I'm home when the courier arrives as the drugs have to be signed for.
No breakfast today Flo, in advance of the teeth cleaning. But I'll take a large OJ.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday regarding my several posts, once again, too many to list but you know who you are.
I did not go to the train shed yesterday, as life elsewhere was more pressing. I hope that my townspeople didn't miss me. Let's see if I can find something in the archive that I haven't posted before, at least not recently.
Here's LaBosky Motorcycle Repair, a laser-cut wood kit from JL Innovative Design.
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Ken - How did the furniture delivery go?
Steve - Regarding your rant yesterday, I mostly agree. I do admit that I have a few cars with solid bearing trucks on the layout, when in my era they all should have roller bearing trucks. But they are not mixed on any cars. Technically they were still allowed on cars that were not interchanged and that's my story. Perhaps there are enough mis-matches that you can just swap trucks around and correct a few.
Tom O - I do believe as I may have posted previously, that hospitals do everything possible to prolong the stay by "paying patients", in order to line their pockets.
Thanks for the hints on the building coloring.
Joe - I also have some vintage Athearn and Roundhouse cars on the layout. Over the years, I have improved all of them with metal wheels, and some detailing and weathering. They all got Kadee #5's from the very beginning. It's amazing what a sharp lead pencil can do to make molded on grabs look like they're separately applied.
Monday night I heard quite a ruckus outside. It turns out that I had visitors from the north visiting and they were still here this morning. They are about 30 yards across the road in the recently harvested and plowed sorghum field. No doubt feasting on the spilled grain. There's probably 60-70 of them. It's unusual that they spend two days here.
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Today is National Plus Size Appreciation Day, I guess that I was observing it early at the hospital yesterday.
Everybody have a great day.
