Good Morning All. Raining right now and 69°. We had a brief thunderstorm earlier this morning that just barely wet the rain gauge, but there is another that will be here in a few minutes, bigger than the first. Major thunderstorms all around me last evening with several momentary power losses. Within 5 miles of me, there were a few places that got nearly 1" of rain according to the Weather Underground stations located there. I only got 0.25" in my gauge. The ones here now were not even on the radar 2 hours ago, just popped up out of nowhere. Last night and this morning's storms are not violent ones like Sunday night. 10 day forecast shows cooler weather for a week with highs just in the upper 80's before 90's appear again. My high reading yesterday was 96°.
A cardiologist visit is on tap for me today. Another follow-up. It's at the insane time of 12 noon! My wife must have been the one who agreed on the time without my input. On our last visit, she made the appointment while I was still talking to the PA in the hallway.
Yesterday's visit to the dental hygienist was just routine, no problems to discuss. Before going to that afternoon appointment, I cut and split more firewood and mowed for about 15 minutes. Later on, I made what will be the last visit to the pool this season. Water was even warm enough for my wife at 84°. I thought that the last visit was going to be about three weeks ago, but Mother Nature was just fooling us back around Labor Day. While this is a little later in the season than average, we have gone into October before, last year being one year.
Another shortened day in the train shed yesterday. I temporarily set aside my figures that I am working on until I build up my reserve of patience. Even though I now know which sets of arms go with which bodies, they don't fit well. I am looking at a super-human effort with a file, some super glue and then some body putty to get everything together like I want them. The drummer and band leader will be easy since they just need the arms attached, but the other four with the instruments just don't fit right. Doing anything with them will take more time than I have in one sitting right now and I don't want to interrupt in the midst of doing them. Probably this weekend when I don't have medical/dental appointments to interrupt my day.
Instead, I sorted through some trees that I made last spring and touched them up a tiny bit. I have about 40 of them that I either made or rehabbed, which I got from Chet, that suffered on the 1000 mile journey here.
Speaking of Chet, I spoke with him for about 20 minutes on Monday. He wishes everyone well and he and the two dogs are doing well. He misses modeling and is getting ready to dispose of his remaining stuff. I told him to get back on the forum and advertise some of it here. I plan to get some more vehicles from him, but I have all of the structures that I can use. I previously got about 20 structures, many of which I featured in past Coffee Shops. Todd, you need to go over and see him to see what's left.
Swal - Is that a castle next door in the picture that you posted in post #1493???
Mike - Why didn't the city remove the 6 evergreens since it was their sidewalk?
Dave - I'm with you on the cruises. Not just the crowds, but the expanse of water with no land in sight.
John - I have had to repair racoon damage to my Havahart trap a couple of times. I'm surprised that both of your visitors died in the trap. None of mine were that easy to remove. They don't like being inside, but it can be a real pain to get them out!
Louis - Wow! Hated to read about Angela. And I thought it was a different reason that you didn't post anything yesterday morning. My prayers are with her for a speedy recovery.
Everyone have a wonderful Wednesday while I watch the raindrops fall into the pool; which doesn't need more water!
is therefore more acutely effected. 
That's the last time. OH, and there was a fresh series of droppings on the path today. But it had been rain damaged. We've had on and off again rain from the wee hours of the morning. So no idea when it happened.
