Good Morning All. It's mostly cloudy and already 80°, or should I say it only dropped down to 80° last night. It's only temporary, back into the 60's and low-70's starting tonight. Rain is predicted for Tuesday through Friday next week. Very uncomfortable out there this morning with no wind and 84% humidity.
Off to a late start this morning. Granddogs decided to chase a rabbit off into the wheat field next door while we were on the far end of our morning walk. Took forever to round them both back up and head for home. The rabbits are usually long gone by the time I walk, so this was unexpected. I had to stay and call because I wasn't sure that they could find their way back to the house, or out of the field for that matter.
I resumed mowing again, and dealt with cutting and splitting firewood yesterday. I plan to stack it today. I was able to mow the largest section that I do, the east side of the yard. Technically that's the front yard of about 1.2 acres. I'll catch the west side aka the back yard around the pool etc, today. In the garden, I removed the remainder of the green pea vines and picked more Tomatoes. Picked the first three of the Early Girl variety along with some more of the 4th of July variety. Those 4th of July ones are early ripening, but they are only averaging 3-4 oz each; the Early Girl's are 6-7 oz. Looks like Yellow Squash either tomorrow or Monday.
Gotta do laundry today and vacuum some more, there's dog hair everywhere in two rooms.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I mainly ran trains again. I did take the cardstock drug store to the paint booth for a coat of dull coat, to reduce paint fading. It occurs even under the fluorescent lights. While running an intermodal train, I FINALLY found a well car that I've been looking for for over 2 years. This part has been on the workbench since I found it during a periodical layout cleaning back in 2023.
Several unsuccessful attempts were made to find the car with the missing platform, and I finally found it yesterday.
Note that there is a mounting hole only on the left side, which may be the reason that the platform fell off this Intermountain car.
It took a while and some deft maneuvering to drill a hole there, but eventually I was successful.
However I got it just a little too far to the outboard side and had to go back and enlarge both holes a bit so the mounting pins would go in properly. A couple of dabs of Gorilla gap-filling super glue took care of the oversize holes and here is the result.
Another minor but time consuming project off the list.
Troy - The Zucchini noodles are interesting, that's what I make for my wife and her Keto diet. They're OK, but I prefer real wheat pasta myself.
Everyone have a super Saturday and enjoy the weekend.
