Good Morning Everybody. Clear and 63°, wind gusts of 0 mph out of the SE! How can they tell the direction at 0 mph? The forecast is for 94° again today, but yesterday it only made 89°. Blah! I don't expect the pool temperature to rise back above 78° any more this season, so I have to prepare it for winterization. Well, I got 3 1/2 months of use this year, which is about average. Even though the days will be nice and warm for a while more, the sun's angle and length of time it is shining will not be enough to warm the water much above the 77° attained yesterday. Some years, it will stay warm until October but it can't cool down this much this early in order to do that.
I wish to thank everybody for the well wishes on our anniversary yesterday, I think that we might just reach 50 next year.
Busy day yesterday with the grocery trek and other stops in the morning, followed by lunch/nap. Then some household tasks and the dinner out at the Texas Roadhouse last night. Review: We have only been to one Texas Roadhouse before, on our way through Shreveport LA. Food was excellent but the place was quite raucous and noisy. Well the one in Denton TX was no different. We had an excellent waiter, but he was obviously rushing us through as there were a lot of folks waiting outside for tables. Salads came before we were done with appetizer, entree came before we were done with the salads. I had an excellent 16 oz rib-eye, while my wife had a very good chicken-fried chicken. Salads were also great. Appetizer's were so-so, beer & Margarita's were also great. Opinion: The noise level was just too much for us, maybe Sunday lunch would be better, but we probably won't go back anyway; there's just too many other choices available in Denton.
Thanks as always for the likes and comments regarding my mini-project post yesterday;
Steve, Steve J, Sherrel, Patrick, Garry, Tom O, Christian, Gary, Hughie, Guy, Chad, Troy, Tom, Karl, Rick.
Light breakfast today Flo, Just a toasted English Muffin and an tall OJ.
I didn't have enough time in the train shed yesterday to accomplish much. It's not much but it is a progress update. Here are the fence pieces painted and the first piece being test-fitted.
Sherrel - No Italian last night, see above. Just trying to broaden our horizons a bit. Just as you asked about
ASH PIT, he posted yesterday. Over the yeas, I have observed that he doesn't visit the forum during the summer, too busy sailing.
Garry - I like the Tichy fencing. It's easy to work with, realistic and moderately priced. I discovered it quite by accident at the LHS one day; I never expected fencing from them. It provides a nice variety to the "miles" of fence that I need.
Guy - The thing about anniversary's is that it is always "her anniversary", never "our anniversary".
Even your "poor" photos look all right to me. At least no utility poles!
Patrick -
Supposed to get to 98248 today
is that a temperature or a zip code?
I'm real pleased to see some returning faces here in the Coffee Shop;
Lee a couple of days ago, and
Dave and
Mikey yesterday. Like someone mentioned earlier this week, I hope that
Joe survived Ida's devastation. As I recall, his driveway slopes
down to his house. I know that
Ken (in Maryland) is busy preparing his layout for some type of public display. Who knows who might be next to show up?
Bruce (new guy)???
Everybody have a great day. It's almost Saturday. Stay safe.