Good Morning All. Clear and 26°, headed up close to 50° today. By Thursday we'll be in the 60's and then Saturday night, the cold front repeats without the snow this time. Relatively typical winter here so far except the warmer days in December.
Boring day yesterday, that I can't remember what I did besides cleaning the ashes/embers out of the wood stove. Oh yeah! I did 2 loads of laundry and scrubbed the kitchen range. Today starts with the dishwasher again.
I spent a bit longer out in the train shed yesterday; longer than the typical Sunday. Took another 8 structures off to the workbench for cleaning and repair. I also rubbed the Tidy Track cleaner over 30' of main line and another 18' of passing siding. I'll get the industry spurs today. There's still 20+ structures left to do in this section. Current batch of trash receptacles has been painted.
I intend to weather some before I add them to the layout.
After much contemplation, I have decided on the next "big" project after the cleanup is finished in a couple more days. First some background: Over the years of building this layout, I concentrated mainly on bench and track work first. Then I went back and started scenicking things. At present, I am working on the scenery on roughly 2/3 of the entire thing. The last 1/3 is purposely being ignored until I get closer to 100% on the rest. I'm about 70% right now. Along the way, I concentrated on seeing trains running as I completed each 20' or so. As a result I didn't install all of the ground throws on all of the switches. So I decided that finishing that up would be a good project. Not totally necessary because all of the switches can be thrown with my fingers, but I just want to tie up that loose end so I can scenic some of those areas. First was an inventory to see where my starting point would be. I counted switches and really surprised myself. I was expecting 120 or so, but there are 174 presently! Did I ever post that I like switching the most. This includes 26 staging tracks scattered about, some of which are double-ended; and 11 passing sidings along with all of the industry spurs. There's 2 other short run-around tracks as well. OK, 138 have the ground throws (or remote electric mechanisms) already installed, so only 36 to go. Looks like I have all that I need, just have to install them. Will I get all of them done together or will I get sidetracked doing something else? My guess is the latter.
Troy - No problems here with dancing, I couldn't even dance when young and drunk.
I've had some of those Keto pizza crusts before. OK, but not close to the real thing.
Airbrush - Have a safe journey, both ways.
Everyone have a marvelous Monday and stay safe and warm.
to San Antonio Tx 
…flying back thankfully
