Good Morning All. Clear and 71°, back to summertime highs in the upper 90's for the next 10 days.
Still spending time with our granddaughter who is staying with us here. She likes playing chess with me, even though she loses every game. Yesterday she and Grandma went shopping for new school clothes, then we later went back to town to eat at Portillo's. She has eaten at one of their locations near her home and I have wanted to check it out after reading good reviews from
Kevin here in the Coffee Shop. See my review further down. I did spend a lot of time on removing leaves from the pool that normally don't fall in. But a combination of wind velocity, wind direction and trees losing leaves due to the drought brought a windfall! It did mean that I was in the pool at 9 in the morning, which was OK.
Hoping to get back to somewhat normal today after the all day Saturday party, Sunday's midday thunderstorm and totally wet outdoors after Monday's early morning thunderstorm. Of course, the dew is going to have to dry before I can commence with mowing. I should be able to get a few days of that done before the dust returns.
I continued with the fuel distributor site prep yesterday out in the train shed. Step one was to paint the road out front and all of the internal concrete areas.
Don't mind that the distributor has temporarily relocated to the roof of the neighboring Buffalo Industries. Then touched up and completed the earth color to the south (left).
I intend to add to the backdrop in front of that window, but it has to be done from the outside and I am not opening that window until it cools off some, probably late October.
Next I started ballasting the siding. I only did the first 14" yesterday; I will continue today.
The main line here is not ballasted from the switch southward yet, I won't do that until I do the unfinished area on the left.
Note that on my layout, I am following the localized Santa Fe practice of using light-colored ballast on the main, with a mixed ballast on the passing siding and the older, darker Gray on industrial tracks and spurs. I don't know if they did this system-wide or not, but a track foreman explained to me years ago, that it was done so the crew could tell which was the main in the dark.
Man! Over 100 posts in the Coffee Shop yesterday makes it hard to review this morning.
Tom O's adventures yesterday proved to be mildly amusing. Sad though that those kinds of inconsiderate people are around. And the neighbors! Thankfully the one homeowner apologized for her attitude.
Mikey - It seems like a fun day, even if you didn't get to stop at the Heart of Dixie museum.
Steve - Are you sure that the cat was just loving the napkin, or was it eyeballing your dinner?
Deacon Kevin - We went to Portillo's in Denton per your recommendation last night. Our granddaughter recommended it as well, so we took her there. I looked it up on the Internet first and noted that they didn't have any prices on their online menu. I wondered why not even though ultimately it generally never matters to me. I got the Beef & Sausage w/cheese (extra $) sandwich and it was good. Wife and GD split a beef sandwich. Got the fries for free just by joining their app, but I'll probably be bombarded with future promotions. It was to me, just a glorified fast food place, good for a quick lunch type meal. It wasn't a place that I would pick for a relaxed sit-down dinner. No appetizers, no veggies except for the fries or onion rings, and no servers. Very limited menu but what they did offer was appealing. Will I go again, yes but for lunch only. Besides I still have $12 left on my Father's Day gift card!
Everyone have a terrific Tuesday.
