Good Morning All. Clear and 44° with the sun barely peeking over the horizon. Warming up to just 75° today! Should be in the 80's on Monday, rain starting Tuesday for the rest of the week. A little bit of sunshine yesterday felt real good for a change. Things are starting to dry out, just a bit. That storm system that ripped through here apparently did some major damage after it moved east.
I had a chance to walk around the garden yesterday to observe no hail damage, but there was some minor damage to the plants on the back porch that I didn't rescue on time Thursday afternoon. I suspect that I will lose one tomato and two lettuce plants as a result.
Yesterday's weekly grocery trek went as planned, even being a day late. I went earlier than normal, so the Friday crowd hadn't shown up yet. Then we made the
dreaded trip across the street to the local Walmart, wife's insistence. I used the expired handicap parking permit to park closer than I otherwise could. But there were still unused spaces left so I didn't have any guilt. There was the usual Walmart madness inside and the usual quirky customers. I did note that they had removed one of the usual three sheriffs deputies from the store, so I guess that things are returning to normal. The Walmart on the other side of town does not have a police presence, but it is a much bigger hassle to shop there with narrower aisles and reduced product selection. I also noticed that they have removed the directional arrows from the floor and overhead signs, that most people ignored to begin with. I also only saw one person asleep in a motorized cart in an out of the way corner in the paint department. Might have been others elsewhere though.
Stopped for delicious take-out BBQ on the way home.
Today is a day of rest. I/we had to be somewhere every day this week, it was just like going to work all over again.
Thanks for the comments and reactions to the feline layout pictures yesterday.
Another day of not much activity out in the train shed yesterday. I did do some more painting on figures, but then put them up so I could do something different today. No real results since I did just one color at a time on a selection of about two dozen different ones and didn't finish any one. Not all got all colors, I might have painted black on 8, then yellow on 3, then blue on another 7. There was one Chinese one that I did surgery on since I had duplicates of one that I just couldn't use, I have no passenger facilities on my layout.
Paint job on this one kinda sucked anyway.
Note the excess flash on the leg on the left, it's actually the foot that seemed to have seeped through the mold. Trimmed that off, removed the luggage on that side, and shortened the luggage on the right to resemble a purse.
Of course that side is now shorter. I continued by filing the mold ejection marks on the back, slimming down the arms to give her short sleeves and removing some other excess plastic.
OK, the short leg is next. Over the years, I have had to remove lower body parts from many figures in order to fit them into drivers seats in vehicles. I saved them all and I selected this one for her.
Did some further trimming and now we have a bionic woman.
On to the paint shop.
Hmmmh! I either lost/deleted the rest of the pictures or forgot to take them! I'll get some more today.
Tom O - As you probably already know, private property is indeed private property around here. Yes, there are some protected wetlands and stuff like that, but most folks respect that anyway here in the country. The city is something different. Look at what happened to Houston during Hurricane Harvey a few years ago. They basically have paved over the entire area instead of leaving nature's water absorption fields alone. that led to extensive flooding.
Curt - No known hail damage except for the three plants noted above, and they're not a certainty yet. This hail was too small and was coming sideways and just skipped over the car.
Hughie - You're right about 4014, here's my shot taken about 18 months ago.
Troy - Sorry to read of your new back issue. Get well soon.
Today, March 4, used to be Inauguration Day. If you can remember that far back, you're much older than me. Today is probably special to authors like
Troy; it is National Grammar Day. March forth on March 4 to speak well, write well, and ... Believe me, the nuns back in grammar school really emphasized that to me and my classmates. Remember when it was still called grammar school?
Everybody have a great day and an awesome weekend.
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