Good evening. I was watching the 6pm evening news only for the weather. That was a good thing as it seems to be the only story the local station was covering anyway.
As predicted everything ended at sunset tonight as the snow moved in and the winds picked up. Don’t drive, don’t walk, be ready to dig out, blah, blah, blah… The thing is sunset was at 4:26PM, almost 3 hours ago. The wind hasn’t picked up and the snow is not here yet. The news I was watching was a live up to the minute broadcast. Maybe they should have gone outside?
The alarmist reports have always bothered me. I understand we are going to get clobbered and that some of the family may not get here. I believe that. Our County and local road crews are tremendous, but I’m not driving tomorrow. Terry and I hit the grocery stores for last minute baking and food items this afternoon. We didn’t need more water, toilet paper, milk, bread and other essentials. We have a good stock. She did need eggs though. The milk was almost gone as were all the brand name breads but the bakery bread stuff was available. We checked on our order for Saturday and asked them to let us know if issues develop. I can bake dinner rolls and bread if needed. Ok, we then got extra eggs at $4.99 grade A large, that Terry tells me in October we’re $1.49. The sign on the egg cooler says the price increases are because of the Avian Flu. Those chickens need to be wearing the masks.
I hit the LHS today because my normal Thursday run is cancelled due to the incoming blizzard. I did well, except he has to order the #11, 17 and 18 Xacto brand blades for me. Seems Xacto has been having supply chain issues for about 2 years now. I have a brand of #11 and #17 blades that are terrible. Just a few slides with the blades on styrene and the edge is gone. The brand name escapes me as I type this. He also was out of Excel blades. I do have scalpel handles and the scalpel blades to fit but even though I have them, they are scary to use. One slip, that’s all…
The paint booth is in and the compressor is hooked up. I did test it for a few minutes today. The issue is, it is 3 miles from our house and we are staying here till the 1/5 closing. I am going to work on a couple pieces of my own weathering to completion before moving on to more items. I have no current client projects for rolling stock weathering. I don’t need to be efficient, I need to be able to keep busy. I have unpacked the scratch building supply’s, the tools and had the daughter bring over the bins with my Evergreen styrene rods, ankles and sheets. I have more Evergreen then my LHS and that is the honest truth. i do buy it all through him though. I will be building facades for a large 52” long brewery (.060 plain styrene and custom windows) a plant facade similar to the closed Oscar Meyer plant in Madison, Wi.(.040 styrene and brick sheet from the daughters’ laser cutter), a large modern cold storage facility ( laser sheets maybe) and a new biomass plant ( Evergreen corrugated siding). The new biomass will only be about 90’ tall as the last one ( picture below) felt out of scale on the layout. I believe I finally figured out that the height was wrong.
That’s 130’ high. That is the 3rd, 4th or 5th attempt at the biomass plant. Never got it right.
Some Christmas cheer
. Glad the train crew are OK.
