Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 69° to start what will probably be our last day of 90°+ temperatures until March. Still have rain in the forecast for tomorrow and Thursday, highs still in the 80's until the weekend. Unseasonably cold from Friday night until Monday morning, highs in the 70's and lows at night around 50°; yes 50°!!! Back to normal on Monday, 60°-85° for the foreseeable future.
While I probably won't need the wood-burning heater this weekend, I do need to sweep the chimney and empty the ashes, which I most likely forgot to do after the last use. Over the summer, I purchased a new chimney brush. this one connects with a portable drill/screwdriver and has a nylon rotary brush attached to a flexible cable. It is inserted in from in the house and pushed up to the top, instead of the old-fashioned one that has to be crammed up and down from rooftop level. Safer and easier for me. Last fall I paid a chimney sweeper $180 to do the job, and saw this device. Found the exact same one on the Internet for under $40. No brainer there. It came with a polyethylene cover to tape over the door opening to keep anything from going in the house.
Today I go for the capsule endoscopy at 9:00. Not sure if they will find anything, but Medicare is paying to ensure that all is well. I fasted an extra 6 hours and took the prep medication early so I wouldn't be up all night. It worked. This is the last step in reassuring that I am in good health other than BP. The pulmonologist, cardiologist, ophthalmologist, vascular surgeon, dermatologist and internist have already all given me a good review. Now it's up to the gastroenterologist to agree. Remember the good old days when only one or two doctors was all that you needed! Other than a presumed follow-up to today's procedure, I have no more scheduled medical appointments until January. Phew! The Medicare paymaster will be happy.
Got home too late yesterday to do any meaningful chores outside, today might be the same. Although I have no restrictions other than no food while that capsule is still floating around inside.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I had a disaster of sorts. I dropped the storage tanks from the oil distributor.
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No damage that couldn't be easily repaired, but it took a while. Took impetus out of my day out there.
Prior to that I did add some rudimentary painting on the backdrop and ballasted about 18" of track. I'll pick up there when I get back to it.
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Sherrel - To hear my BIL explain the fire was quite amusing as well. He regrets though, selling the whole thing to the insurance company, as he could have made a lot more money if he had handled it himself. But he would also have been responsible for demolishing the house (in a certain time frame) per city fire codes in Dallas. That or put up a security fence around the property. The restoration company made a lot of $$$ recovering their intact but smoke/water damaged possessions that remained.
Patrick - I guess that congratulations are in order for the raise. I was fortunate enough to be able to divert most raises into the 401k plan, which eventually allowed me to retire early (63).
Lee - Nice looking truck. Do you own it or is a company truck?
Tom O - Fishing in the dark that far off shore? Haven't they ever heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald???
Your daughter's venture. Out of money! Well it's a non-profit isn't it???
Louis - Very sad to read about Sophie. I know how attached you were to her.
I've lost track of all of the birthdays and anniversaries recently, so if I missed any, have a happy one.
Today is National Techies Day, so let's wish
Patrick and any others a good day. A couple of notable musical birthday's today, the late Texan Stevie Ray Vaughan, would have been 69 today. Lindsay Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac is 74 today.
Off I go to the procedure. Everyone have a great day.
