Good Morning All. Mostly clear and 39°. The wind will reverse and come from the south today and we'll be in the 80's tomorrow. Another minor cold front with rain Saturday before settling down and returning to the 70's next week. Glad to see that the vicious north winds have moved east, sorry that you folks have to get them now.
Spent the morning yesterday ensuring that all of our required tax information was together. Had to sort through a lot of eventually useless brokerage statements and the like to get what was really required. It boils down to SS income, interest income, a very small pension statement and a sizable RMD from one of the retirement accounts. We'll probably owe a little due to the RMD which I do not have taxes withheld. Actually I don't have taxes withheld from anything, but not enough is taxable enough to incur a penalty.
After lunch, I hoed the onion rows in the garden. So far I have not lost any of the plants that I have planted. Spinach and other greens have not broken through yet, I expect to see that kind of stuff within the next few days.
Fridge is nearly empty so it must be the weekly grocery trek day today. I know that the Vitamin Shop is on the list along with a stop for gas. It won't be long before I will have to fight road construction to get to Denton. they are going to widen IH35 from 2 lanes in each direction to 4 lanes, with "flyover" service roads. About a 50 mile stretch from Denton to the casino north of the OK border, They are already doing the bridges and overpasses north from where I get on, and the utility relocation seems to be progressing well south to Denton. Of course to get to the Interstate, there's still the 5 miles of construction on the county road that I described last week.
I continued with my model home rehab out in the train shed yesterday. First steps were clean-up. I've posted before about the tiny spiders that plague the train shed, here's an example. This is inside. The only way in or out is through the small chimney opening seen here with the cobwebs.
A quick cleanup with my cleaning paintbrush.
I'll seal that hole later in the process.
Making progress.
I've made more progress but didn't take any updated pics. Another improvement I am making is to remove the way overscaled and grossly out of position porch light that came with the kit.
This was also taken care of yesterday and the area under it was shaved and filed to resemble the clapboard siding. The original clear styrene for the windows has deteriorated a bit and I will replace all of that. There's enough room inside the model to manipulate the new thicker styrene.
Todd - We finally got a motel nearby us about two years ago. It's a 4 story Holiday Inn Express. Seems out of place though as it's the tallest structure in town.
Good luck to Maria on her polyps. Mine have always been benign.
Mike - I have had good luck with LG appliances over the years, until recently. They've let QA slip out of their hands. The older ones still work fine but not the newer ones.
Mac -
scary to drive a curtain side trailer over some bridges on Jersey coastline
I bet that it is! Be safe out there.
Troy - Sure seems like the makings of an indoor pot farm to me!
Everyone have a great Thursday, and thanks for taking the wind away from us.
