Good Morning All. Clear and 72°. No change in the forecast, hot and dry!
I did do some mowing yesterday morning, as planned I got the south side and most of the east side of the yard. I'll finish the east this morning and do the area between the house, pool and train shed after that.
More of the same after mowing, I will attack the next tree that is down near the driveway.
I had to make an extra trip to the post office yesterday afternoon to pick up the new grass catcher bag for the battery-powered push mower. I can't believe that the mail-order place used USPS instead of FedEx or UPS. Of course it wouldn't fit in our rural mailbox, and since said mailbox is over a mile away, the mail carrier won't leave packages there. So 40 minutes and a gallon of gas basically wasted. At least school's out and I didn't have to deal with the school zone.
One thing that the tornado has me really bummed out about, more than all of the other things, is the lack of the shade patterns that we used to have. There were parts of the yard where I could set up a couple of sawhorses and be in the shade from 11:00 am through the entire afternoon. No more!
While there is still a spot in the front yard available, I don't risk the wife's ire by leaving projects out there for more than a day! Four 40' trees near the back door are now on the ground. To add insult, the tornado stripped many leaves off the remaining lower branches that won't grow back until next spring.
Many small projects out in the train shed yesterday. I picked up my ground foam container, the Iso/water and the diluted wet glue and went around the layout fixing the washed out spots from the roof leaks following the roof removal by the tornado. Basically there are many places where the drips left 1/2" - 1" spots of bare plywood, and a small mound of ground foam forming a mini-crater. I am also looking at all structures, figures, vehicles and scenery details for any other issues that need to be fixed. There doesn't appear to be anything else major at this time except some wavy track in one spot. I have been holding off fixing it to see if the plywood would come back in line, but I may have not left enough gaps in that part of the line to begin with. It's in a passing siding and the main line that parallels it is unaffected.
No new photos today, maybe I can find something in the archives that I haven't posted before.
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Swal - I have some friends with health issues, and there is one thing in common with all of them. They eat too many fatty foods from fast-food places. I personally go for the home-grown organic stuff and fresh produce from the grocery store. We rarely eat any canned stuff from the store; too much added salt and sugars, especially corn syrup. I don't go to fast food places at all. I am currently freaked out because my A1C from Tuesday's blood draw is 5.9!
Troy - Not meaning to be critical here, but most of the foods that you post would send my body into shock. Not the grilled ones of course.
Today is International Skinny Dip Day. Be careful as there are still folks out there that don't approve.
Everyone have a wonderful day.
