Good Morning All. Clear, still and 80° in this part of the world. Still under a heat advisory with 100°+ days coming up. The rain that was in the forecast, then out, then back in, is once again out for this weekend. Trees everywhere are losing their leaves.
Got the weekly grocery list almost ready, have to watch it closely today as there are some "once in a blue moon" items on it that I don't want to miss. Sam's Club is on the itinerary to renew the membership, pharmacy is on there as well. Plus a couple of places that my wife wants to go that she missed last week when she wasn't feeling well. The ill feeling never really went away, so she finally took a Covid test yesterday and it was negative.
Well after seven or so years of badgering the County Road Commissioner (two different ones), he finally sent out the grader yesterday. The operator cleared the ditches alongside the road, that prevented runoff water from draining. The water ran across the road in a couple of spots instead and was both a hazard to traffic, and has caused the road itself to deteriorate. Across the road, in one spot, it caused a 2' deep gully to form for several hundred yards across the pasture. It's a two step process, yesterday he cleared everything and left a large ridge of dirt on the road. later he pushed that ridge into the ditch and today a front end loader will come out and remove it. I convinced him to think about grading our easement road that runs alongside the south property line. He's willing to do it even though it's not actually a county road. His solution which is better, is to talk to his boss and have a few loads of gravel brought out and build up the road itself. While technically they aren't allowed to work on private roads, they get away with it under the guise of preventing damage to county and local EMS & VFD equipment if they have to respond.
Now they don't have to send out the mower!
Interesting to read everyone's music tastes. I myself am an amateur rock & roll historian covering the 60's through the 80's roughly. I have over 2500 contributions to Wikipedia in that category. On the computer and backup, I have over 80,000 mp3's, with 30,000 of them on my iPod. That music is the main reason that I have to use hearing aids today. Went to too many live shows in the front row, and used headphones extensively.
Thanks for the comments regarding yesterday's progress report;
Tom O, Gary, Chad, Sherrel, Troy, Louis, Hughie, Dave B, Steve J. Jaz, Patrick, James, Smudge, Tom, Rick, OB Ken, Guy.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I was able to make some more visible progress. I added a parking area to the left, and filled in with ground cover between the structure and the RR ROW.
Next, I will be tidying up a bit here.
Steve J - Congratulations to your wife.
Ken (D&J) - Sorry to read of the back issues causing changes to your plans. It appears that you can still enjoy the trip though.
Everybody have a great day. Stay cool and safe.
