TLOC
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Good morning from a very noisy front porch in South Central Wisconsin. Noisy because the garbage and recycling pick ups are occurring. 2 trucks picking up the bins that try to drive the speed of sound between the 100’ separating the bins at each house.
It’s still warm:
We are still getting the Canadian smoke haze that I cannot believe our illustrious leader has not issued a fricking tariff on. But that’s ok as he’d rescind it a couple days after issuing! Or say he ordered Canada to either become state 51 or put out those fires…
Insominiville: Welcome aboard. I’m much farther north of Willie by about 975 miles
Spent a pleasant day Sunday doing nothing except talking pictures of my freight cars for inventory and possibly car cards. I mentioned to Terry that I’m really thinking about tearing down and then building a new layout. The grandson said we should expand the slot car track. I told him not happening. Where the slot car track is now would become a helix! I’m at 55/45 in favor of starting over. She who must be obeyed keeps saying this is our final house in Wisconsin but I seriously doubt that. If I believed it I’d have started a new layout already.
Heading over to the 2 houses this morning I am the project manager for. A good friend and of course the daughter’s place. This week the daughter is moving her office from here to her outbuilding that except for landscaping is done. Appliances for her kitchenette are being delivered today and I will head over when they call with the 30 minute warning. The son in law has been having some we now believe is vandalism over at his vineyard the last few weeks. We now have cameras (done Friday)over there but last week he had 20 vines roots ripped out. Not sure if it’s human or animal but based on the tracks he thinks it’s human. A couple fencing companies will meet with him this week but a 6-8’ fence around the whole property may not be worth it or affordable. The vineyard after 6 years started showing a profit last season but barely. I’ll be interested to hear the quote. He is now a contract grape grower for 3 Wisconsin vintners.
Terry is at the VW dealership. The AC is barely working in my Jetta. They said 3-4 hours and they will Uber her home and pick her up if she didn’t want to stay. She’s been gone 40 minutes so I think she’s staying. She had a book with and breakfast at Burger King she can do is across the street and she can shop at a bakery a few blocks from the dealer.
The grandson is at Soccer camp this week conducted by the Men’s soccer coaches on campus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His best friend’s mom is an associate Athletics Directors at the UW. She picked Brooks up a few minutes before I started typing and one of us will pick up the boys around 4 this afternoon. They are using both the indoor and outdoor practice facilities because of the extreme heat.
The wife just pulled up in a Uber. As the car turned in the driveway her text saying she was coming home arrived
Enjoy the day
It’s still warm:
We are still getting the Canadian smoke haze that I cannot believe our illustrious leader has not issued a fricking tariff on. But that’s ok as he’d rescind it a couple days after issuing! Or say he ordered Canada to either become state 51 or put out those fires…
Insominiville: Welcome aboard. I’m much farther north of Willie by about 975 miles
Spent a pleasant day Sunday doing nothing except talking pictures of my freight cars for inventory and possibly car cards. I mentioned to Terry that I’m really thinking about tearing down and then building a new layout. The grandson said we should expand the slot car track. I told him not happening. Where the slot car track is now would become a helix! I’m at 55/45 in favor of starting over. She who must be obeyed keeps saying this is our final house in Wisconsin but I seriously doubt that. If I believed it I’d have started a new layout already.
Heading over to the 2 houses this morning I am the project manager for. A good friend and of course the daughter’s place. This week the daughter is moving her office from here to her outbuilding that except for landscaping is done. Appliances for her kitchenette are being delivered today and I will head over when they call with the 30 minute warning. The son in law has been having some we now believe is vandalism over at his vineyard the last few weeks. We now have cameras (done Friday)over there but last week he had 20 vines roots ripped out. Not sure if it’s human or animal but based on the tracks he thinks it’s human. A couple fencing companies will meet with him this week but a 6-8’ fence around the whole property may not be worth it or affordable. The vineyard after 6 years started showing a profit last season but barely. I’ll be interested to hear the quote. He is now a contract grape grower for 3 Wisconsin vintners.
Terry is at the VW dealership. The AC is barely working in my Jetta. They said 3-4 hours and they will Uber her home and pick her up if she didn’t want to stay. She’s been gone 40 minutes so I think she’s staying. She had a book with and breakfast at Burger King she can do is across the street and she can shop at a bakery a few blocks from the dealer.
The grandson is at Soccer camp this week conducted by the Men’s soccer coaches on campus at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His best friend’s mom is an associate Athletics Directors at the UW. She picked Brooks up a few minutes before I started typing and one of us will pick up the boys around 4 this afternoon. They are using both the indoor and outdoor practice facilities because of the extreme heat.
The wife just pulled up in a Uber. As the car turned in the driveway her text saying she was coming home arrived
Enjoy the day
