santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Dense fog and 63°. The fog is so dense that the Weather Underground station around the corner actually has recorded moisture in it's rain gauge, like 0.01" without any rain. I ended up with .63" from the two brief rain/hail events yesterday. Even though some of the hail was the size of quarters, no damage has been noted. They kind of floated down instead of pelting down. In the 90's today, cooling off tomorrow to 82°, upper 60's for a few days and then back into the 80's. Off and on sunshine...typical April weather for around here.
Yesterday was a "wood" day here on the estate. Shredded more brush and scrap branches and ventured to the back side of the pond to cut some culled trees into firewood. I even got some mowing in on the north side of the house where I had removed some brush. Depending on how quickly things dry out, I have to attack some low-hanging branches on the Hackberry trees along the road that hang too low to safely mow under. While most can be gotten with the pruning shears, I will need the chainsaw for some. More brush to deal with.
Looks like I'll start today inside since it is so wet outside. Won't last long if the temperature does what it's supposed to do. Wind should pick up in a few more minutes and clear out the fog. Maybe I'll rearrange the freezer.
I didn't do any project type work yesterday out in the train shed. Intermittent power outages are not conducive to art! I ran trains since all they do is simply stop in their tracks (pun intended). Even though the few outages that I had were just momentary, they disrupt my train of thought, and anything longer means no lights.
After posting my latest cow pasture yesterday, I took some pictures of several others on the layout. Here's one outside the town of Graham.
Here's another across town with a grain elevator on the other side of the tracks.
Another partial near Gainesville.
A couple of views of one near another grain elevator in Vernon.
Since I model "flatlands USA", I have two others that I failed to take a picture of, as well as an incomplete packing plant. Plans exist for two more pastures in areas that I haven't yet developed.
David - I really like the scenery on your layout, it looks so British! Those close clearances really seem to mirror what prototypical pictures that I have seen. Are those cats on the roof in yesterday's picture?
Karl - They don't mind belly rumbling at our church as long as you are there and generously adding to the collection basket.
Joe - Yes you are blessed missing all of the weather action. I feel blessed as well as we have had a number of weather alerts here for tornadoes, high winds, hail and severe rain etc in the last 6 weeks. So far so good this season as the weather people have been mostly wrong, especially in their location - not here! Problem is that with this amount of false alarms, people will now get too relaxed and one of the alerts will be real.
Tom O - You're right about the skinny trunks on those Quaking Aspen trees. They do look good and I will look forward to seeing how you do them.
I also advance the "old" age as I near the previous benchmarks.
Everyone have a wonderful day.
Yesterday was a "wood" day here on the estate. Shredded more brush and scrap branches and ventured to the back side of the pond to cut some culled trees into firewood. I even got some mowing in on the north side of the house where I had removed some brush. Depending on how quickly things dry out, I have to attack some low-hanging branches on the Hackberry trees along the road that hang too low to safely mow under. While most can be gotten with the pruning shears, I will need the chainsaw for some. More brush to deal with.
Looks like I'll start today inside since it is so wet outside. Won't last long if the temperature does what it's supposed to do. Wind should pick up in a few more minutes and clear out the fog. Maybe I'll rearrange the freezer.
I didn't do any project type work yesterday out in the train shed. Intermittent power outages are not conducive to art! I ran trains since all they do is simply stop in their tracks (pun intended). Even though the few outages that I had were just momentary, they disrupt my train of thought, and anything longer means no lights.
After posting my latest cow pasture yesterday, I took some pictures of several others on the layout. Here's one outside the town of Graham.
Here's another across town with a grain elevator on the other side of the tracks.
Another partial near Gainesville.
A couple of views of one near another grain elevator in Vernon.
Since I model "flatlands USA", I have two others that I failed to take a picture of, as well as an incomplete packing plant. Plans exist for two more pastures in areas that I haven't yet developed.
David - I really like the scenery on your layout, it looks so British! Those close clearances really seem to mirror what prototypical pictures that I have seen. Are those cats on the roof in yesterday's picture?
Karl - They don't mind belly rumbling at our church as long as you are there and generously adding to the collection basket.
Joe - Yes you are blessed missing all of the weather action. I feel blessed as well as we have had a number of weather alerts here for tornadoes, high winds, hail and severe rain etc in the last 6 weeks. So far so good this season as the weather people have been mostly wrong, especially in their location - not here! Problem is that with this amount of false alarms, people will now get too relaxed and one of the alerts will be real.
Tom O - You're right about the skinny trunks on those Quaking Aspen trees. They do look good and I will look forward to seeing how you do them.
I also advance the "old" age as I near the previous benchmarks.
Everyone have a wonderful day.
. We found it in March, moved on it, now waiting for the mortgage stuff and a few other things.
