Good Morning All. A Good Friday Morning at that. Cloudy here and 69°, heading into the mid-80's later. Forecasters are still giving us an 83% chance of heavy thunderstorms tomorrow and lasting until just before noon on Sunday. Highs around 70° over the weekend and then Spring returns for a couple of days before the next round of T-storms hits on Wednesday.
A much larger crowd than usual at the grocery store yesterday, but less than the usual number of folks using the ride-on carts, so navigation wasn't as bad. No line at the manned checkout line, so that was seamless. Store seemed better stocked than usual, at least for the stuff that I buy. Gasoline in town tended to be $2.65/gal everywhere, including the name brand places. Followed up with the haircut that I had to skip last week, no line there either. Spent most of the afternoon in the kitchen doing chores and making a delicious chicken salad for supper. Later I started installing tomato cages in the garden.
Back to the mower today for what should be a short round on the north side around the train shed and the still empty pond. Sadly, there are still downed tree branches in parts of that area which I am still mowing around. Rabbits and field rats have taken up residence there.
Once again, not a lot of time for layout activity out in the train shed yesterday. I did however, make some miniature square-tab shingles to provide the roofers something to do while on that roof.
Then I hand painted a pickup truck with dull coat before I attempt to weather it, for them to use as a work truck.
Joe - Happy Birthday to your wife.
Troy - I agree with
Terry that the upper level should be done first. While I didn't need to stand on any part of the layout, body parts did brush on some of the lower level stuff. Fortunately no disasters.
Everyone have a great Friday and a Happy Easter weekend if I don't see you in the next couple of days.
food I thought I would post my typical lunch.
