Good Morning All. Another clear and warm 79° morning. Will we hit 100° today??? Maybe, maybe not. We brushed it yesterday with 99°, but the weather geeks have been predicting it for the past 10 days and we haven't made it yet. Of course there's not really a lot of difference between 99° and 100°.
Yesterday,
Tom O mentioned that there was no TV in the train room. That got me to thinking. All 52 years that we have been married, we have only had one TV in the house. It does change every 6-7 years to a bigger one. Kids were never allowed to have one in their rooms. My daughter #1 has 7 of them including 3 that are in two different outdoor seating areas and around her pool! Daughter #2 has 6, but none outdoors. Last time I was at son's old house, he had 6 including one outside by his pool. What's wrong with me???
Same old song and dance with tasks outside yesterday, just less of them since I got bogged down with several inside household chores. Supposed to be more cloudy today, so I may be able to spend more time out there. I like being outdoors! I'll use the pool regardless of the clouds. Other than branches, yard debris from the tornado is pretty much gone except pieces of sheet metal from the barn that are trapped underneath larger branches. No problem since I can't get in there to mow anyway!
By the time I compose this every morning, I have already gone for a walk and a swim.
I painted the alley between Garner's Market and the MR III structure yesterday. I just painted the plywood a concrete color and it can't be seen too well.
I really need to get some more .010" sheet styrene and make a proper alley, but I just don't have any in stock right now.
Here's a shot out the train shed window of "Lake Willie" behind the building. Haven't cleared the branches out back there yet.
Over on the workbench, I lined out the next few figure groups that need work. These are just more of the Chinese figures, duplicate figure groups that at least they painted differently! Most of these I will just scrape excessive paint off, remove flash and repaint over what's there. Some colors can be salvaged.
Other than the fellows in the top row with hats, everyone has black hair and black shoes, very sloppily applied like everything else. If they weren't gifts from my granddaughter, I would probably trash many of them.
Tom O - I heartily agree about this fall's election. As I may have posted before, even with third-party candidates thrown in, this election will have the worst choice of candidates since 1976. Our only hope is that we get the right combination of Congressional people to keep the ship upright.
Troy - Happy Birthday to your wife.
To go farther, it gets into Poly Tics, but the younger generation (those that are not the extremely driven to succeed folks - the extreme end of the spectrum) have a very different and pessimistic view.
I don't think that politics has as much to do with the younger generation's pessimistic views, as their own expectations from life. Most of us here did not grow up with the proverbial silver spoon, we learned early on that we had to work to be happy and successful. For example, I see too many kids nowadays that expect to earn a paycheck while sitting on their couch at home instead of going in to an office. The same ones who borrowed money for college and now want someone else to pay it back for them.
David - Best wishes to Dawn with the physiotherapy treatments today.
Everyone have a super Saturday. Stay cool and hydrated.
