A late Good Morning All. Clear and 78°, somewhat warmer than yesterday. Despite the triple-digit prediction, it only got to 98° yesterday, second day in a row not to reach 100°. But the weather geeks are obviously on vacation and have the same repetitive forecast for the next ten days. Got up at my usual time his morning, but went back to lie down at 6:00 and slept until 7:45! Now I am behind on my day.
I spent most of the day yesterday on gardening and household stuff. Usually by this time in the summer, the garden gives up due to the heat. But not this year! Tomatoes, squash, and bell peppers are flourishing. Grasshoppers however, have decimated the beans and Jalapeno peppers. Nothing else planted. Yesterday I canned more tomatoes. This time as plain tomato sauce which is easiest. Just pureed tomatoes and salt. I also stacked a wagon load of firewood that I have been cutting.
I win the lottery every time. It's the dollar that I don't spend!
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding yesterday's post;
Dave B, Guy, Smudge, Sherrel, Tom O, James, Patrick, Chad, Louis, Karl, Hughie, Curt, Joe, Rick, Gary, OB Ken, Tom.
Yesterday out in the train shed, I removed structures and vacuumed up the part of the layout that I pictured yesterday. I realized that I had installed lighting in more structures than I had thought, although none were connected to the power buss yet. Just another thing on the project list for now. No pictures yet until I get a little more done.
Here is a view in the other direction from the one posted yesterday.
Pay no attention to the disarray. I intend to include the area up to the industry siding crossing the road in this project.
A longer shot with the cream colored business in the upper right. One of the first things will be to remove more stuff and paint the backdrop.
Dave B - Thank you. Murphy visits me every once in a while. And it's usually for the whole day as experienced Thursday. Those are the days if I am working on the layout or an outdoor project that I usually just step back and return later. Thursday just didn't present that opportunity.
Tom O - Losing music in the train room is a great tragedy indeed. I use the old fashioned iPod with a docking station as well.
Mikey - I went to court one day in the early 80's and there were about 40 other persons there, all charged with the same minor offense - not related to each other. The judge started by saying that he would hear all of the cases, one by one, initially the ones in which the defendant brought their own lawyer. He would then go to the cases where a public defender was used, finally to those representing themselves like me. I was pleading no contest.
I watched as he went through the expensive lawyer cases and if they pleaded guilty or no contest, the sentence was the same for all of them; $500 and time served. Then the cases with the public defender went down the same except the sentence was $250 and time served. Finally the last group representing themselves and the sentence was $100 and time served. A lawyer acquaintance had previously given me the advice to plead that way without a lawyer. He was there representing several others who thought that they might get a better deal with him present. Anyone contesting the charges had to schedule another court appearance for later and also pay a court cost for their visit that day, which I believe was $47.50.
Outhouses and sheds look good.
Everybody have an awesome Saturday. Come join us
Karl when you are released.
