Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 76°. There is no wind and humidity is 91%, which made for a sweaty walk at 0530 this morning. Just 2 more weeks of the "humid" season here! The forecast calls for potentially severe thunderstorms, hail, strong winds and the usual spring afternoon activity here today and tomorrow.
Finished mowing the rest of the yard yesterday, after making the trek to the closest rural convenience store for refills in the gas cans. Took some time because I had to do among other areas, the dreaded SW part where the septic tank and the tree pile are. Higher vegetation and lots of obstacles to maneuver around. So I am ready for this rain to start the cycle over again. As I previously posted, the repeated heavy rains and flooding has seemingly drowned all of the grasshopper nymphs this year. There will still be some from late hatches, but we will get a few years respite from heavy infestation.
Other than mowing yesterday, I prepared the Prime Rib last night. I didn't take a before picture because I was more interested in "digging in", but here is an after of the leftover hunk of meat.
It was a perfect medium rare. In order to have leftovers without further cooking the meat, I slice up what I think we'll use, seal it in a Ziploc bag with air removed, and immerse it in 120° water for about 8-10 minutes. Warms it up without cooking any further. Of course some will make it between a couple of slices of Rye Bread for lunches.
Early chore today includes the dishwasher which I ran last night. Did all of the laundry yesterday which my wife hasn't folded yet. Outdoors, I will scour the garden for any remaining onions to remove before the rain. Sadly the very wet last three weeks has caused about a 5% rate in rotted onions that cannot be salvaged except as compost.
Not a lot going on out in the train shed right now. I did get the crossing shanty planted with all of the ground cover in place and stepped back to contemplate.
I picked up the building diagonally across the intersection to do a bit of maintenance since I noted a figure laying on her side. This is what I saw.
Whoops! No wonder she isn't standing. I don't know what might have happened here, as there was no foot anywhere in sight. No rodent evidence either, so I may have done something that I didn't notice.
OK, somewhat easy fix. All of those legs and lower torsos that I remove from figures that I put into vehicles end up in a container for occasions like these.
Let me just cut off a foot and attach it to the pedestrian.
Color isn't an exact match, but a dab of paint today will fix that. I'll change that shoe color as well.
Grizzled - Dealing with the DMV is easy here in our rural county, whether in person or online. In person is not so easy in nearby counties with Dallas & Ft Worth.
I also still prefer hard copy magazines myself, the problem is that unless you do DCC, there isn't much new about modeling, layout techniques or scenery in any of them any more.
Troy - Yep! That's a software issue with your app. Mine work exclusively through the hearing aid mic unless I specifically punch buttons for other options. But I only use the app for when I get phone calls and nothing else.
Curt - 75 minutes running a train must have been a lot of fun. I have to do that every few days just because that's what the layout is there for to begin with.
If I have an appointment card, I have never missed an appointment...yet!
John - One of the main reasons that I choose to use multiple room A/C units is that if one fails, there are backups and fans. Our ceiling fans are on 24/7 from March through November most years as well. I can generally leave some windows open during rain storms dependent on the wind direction.
I still haven't seen
Karl or
Sherrel in a while, I hope that all is still well.
Everybody have a great day.
