Good Morning All. It's clear and 55° out there at 0730. Off to a late start this morning since I didn't get home from the wedding until past midnight. Mid-80's today and Tuesday, low-90's tomorrow. Back to normal on Wednesday; rain possible near the end of the 10 day forecast, but that's looking awfully far out for the NWS.
As posted, I went to my niece's wedding last night. I had mixed feelings. This was my first adventure into a same-sex marriage which I have no problem with. It was pretty much the same as a hetero marriage ceremony except there were two brides! Lots of relatives and old friends including my out of state sister and her husband who we don't see real often. Food and open bar at the reception was great, but the music the whole night sucked big time. The only good song was the one that my brother picked out for his dance with his daughter. A good time was had by all though. She is the last of the second generation to get married (16 of them), except a nephew with
Asperger's Syndrome who will never have a relationship.
Yesterday was not all together lost, I picked up the weed-whacking where I left off Friday, and I planted a partial row of Spinach in the garden for staggered harvest. After the full moon last night, it is time for root veggies again as the moon is waning. Although my wife said not to plant Carrots, I may plant some anyway. I didn't plant a great amount last year, but surprisingly there are two still left in the vegetable drawer in the fridge. She claims that mine taste "earthy"; probably because I grow them in clay soil instead of sandy soil. I have to deal with the hand that the Good Lord dealt me. No real plans out there today except watch things grow. I do need to water some of the transplants though.
No train shed yesterday, but I hope to make up for it today and tomorrow. Here are a few random vehicles on the layout.
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Mac - In that picture of the semaphore on the WK&S, is the couch there for train watching, or is it just someone's dumping ground as
Guy alluded to?
David - I also know that I have enough rolling stock, but that hasn't prevented me from purchasing 4-freight cars and 5-cabooses in the last two years!
Joe - I wasn't aware of that Medicare penalty regarding timely sign-up until it was almost too late. My wife stayed on my company insurance until I retired, even though she turned 65 while I was only 63, since she wasn't drawing SS and didn't want the premium hitting our bottom line. Fortunately at the time, there was no penalty if you signed up any time during your 65th year, so we slid by on that one. We actually had little choice about it since the COBRA payment for both of us on the company insurance was outrageous, and more than twice what we ended up with when she switched to Medicare and I remained on COBRA.
Patrick - My experience is the same as Alan's, stay the hell away from Medicare Advantage! It may be right for some, but it exists mainly to make money for insurance companies.
Louis - I had not heard the Godhead version of "Eleanor Rigby" before. That falls into the obscure to me category.
Swal - As I posted a couple of weeks ago, "Best of", and "Most Covered" are very subjective. Do either include instrumentals like Wes Montgomery, Al Hirt, Vince Guaraldi or Booker T & the MG's???
Today would have been George Harrison's 81st birthday. Regarding Rock & Roll birthdays, I missed one yesterday, late UK session player
Nicky Hopkins would also have been 81. If you're not familiar with his work, he played on many early Kinks, Rolling Stones, Who, Donovan, and Beatles albums among many others. He was also a member at times of Steve Miller Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane, who he played with at Woodstock.
Everyone have a great Sunday.
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