Good Morning All. Clear here and a cool 40° to start the day; going up to 67°or so later today. Another beautiful day in the neighborhood. It looks like a typical spring weather forecast for the next ten days, highs around 60±, lows around 42±; with the only exception of cold next Friday.
Another outdoor day yesterday. I took the push mower and grass catcher over to the edge of the hayfield where piles of tree leaves were collected from the wind. I shredded close to 2 yards of them to till into the garden. Shredded leaves are a valuable addition to the soil. Not only do they help loosen up my heavy black clay soil, they release all kinds of nutrients as they decompose; and provide food for earthworms who aerate the soil. Tree roots go deep into the ground to bring up trace nutrients that are then available for my vegetable plants.
Still splitting some wood from the 40 year old ash tree that I had to have taken down 15 months ago. I'm currently down to the 16"-32" diameter hunks that won't fit through the door of the heater. Probably don't need them for this season's heating, but they need to be dealt with at some point.
Short day in the train shed yesterday due to the outdoor activity. It's expected this time of year. I started on some more walls for the Ethanol refinery, mostly just wall sections with no depth to line the backdrop to give the impression of a large facility. I have a few other "irons in the fire" that I will be posting about this month. No pictures of any of my stuff today.
Here's a few additional pictures taken at the
Texas Northern Model Railroad Club layout that I visited two weeks ago.
That's it for these guys.
Troy - I wish that I could make wood-fired Pizza, it puts everything else to shame.There's no place anywhere near me that makes it. I can't justify the time and money needed to build my own oven, especially since I am trying to limit carb intake anyway.
Trash pick up: I have my own dumpster so it's not important to be on time. They normally pick up on Thursday afternoon but this week they didn't come because of the ice. However they did come on Friday just as I got an E-Mail from the company stating that this week's service was cancelled. I guess that they forgot to tell the driver.
Jaz - I like a lot about the layout that I have posted, but it isn't mine.
It looks like a severe fog has developed here since I started this post about an hour ago. Visibility is now less than 200' as I can't see either road that borders the south and east sides, and the train shed is beginning to be shrouded from view. OK though; I can still find my way out there and there's always a clear path!
Everybody have a great Sunday.