Good Morning Everyone. Partly cloudy and 72°, wind has shifted as the front has moved in, showers ahead of the front but they didn't form until the leading edge was about 45 miles south of us. High today is only supposed to make it to 82° after just managing 99° yesterday. The elusive triple digit managed to fleet on by once again. Expecting 51° by morning.
Got what will probably be the last hurrah in the pool yesterday, as the temperature made it up to 78.5°. It's ready for the cover; chemicals are good for the winter, everything's clean and I just need to backwash it one more time and go for it. Even though it will be back in the 90's by Saturday, the diminishing sun exposure and angle will work against me. However I will wait for Thursday when the wind is supposed to diminish before attempting to cover it. Meanwhile I can remove the ladder and vacuum tomorrow.
Took the day off from mowing yesterday, that will resume today. I did move some more firewood into the neat stack before it warmed up too much. I also earmarked some branches on existing trees for removal this winter as part of my ongoing pruning project due to neglect between 2005 and 2015.
We're headed out this morning for the first visit with the revision surgeon, prior to the projected Friday date for the re-replacement of my wife's left knee. Yesterday's visit with the original ortho guy was OK, the lab still hasn't been able to get any bacteria to grow in the culture which is good. Tomorrow the medical odyssey continues with the one week follow up to the cataract removal done last week. From wife's point of view it is successful as she hasn't needed her glasses at all. I guess that I'll just have to wait for something to break on me!
Thanks once again for the likes and comments regarding my slow progress;
Karl, Christian, James, Tom O, Steve J, Rick, Hughie, Patrick, Curt, Garry, Mikey, Sherrel, Gary.
Just eggs over easy and a handful of bacon this morning Flo. OJ to quench the thirst.
Didn't spend as much time in the train shed yesterday as I had planned, the last use of the pool interfered with the plans! Got the tree set in place and glued the fence down around the McCormac's Dry Goods store. Added a vehicle as well.
I still need to glue in the back piece of fencing on the RH side.
I also added ground cover between the near side of the road and the railroad spur. No picture yet as the glue was still glistening.
Not happy with the birdhouse mount. I used a scale 6" pole that just seems to overwhelm the house itself. I used that size because that's what I have seen done in the real world.
Today I am intending to remove it and substitute a scale 3.5" metal pole to see if I like it better.
Terry - Organ donation is a very noble thing. The family seems to be making all of the right decisions. Continued prayers and best wishes to all, and may the Good Lord guide them all in their decision making.
Troy - The straps look really nice. I could have used one early on before I found a seamstress who made me a handful of masks that have straps that go around the head. They're not N95's, but I haven't caught anything yet.
Today is National IT Professionals Day, Don't we have a couple on this forum? How are we really supposed to celebrate? Don't break your computer? What are these strange commands in the registry??? Maybe I'll manually uninstall this program by just deleting it???
Everyone have a great day. Stay safe.