Jeffrey, I'm sure they are waiting for a good neurosurgeon to arrive. Brain surgery is not something that should be performed by your average doc. Finding the location of the clot is a very good sign. With luck, skill, and God's help, she should make a full recovery. I join the others in remembering her in my prayers.
Indeed, Tony, I'll second Karl's advice. There's lots to learn but lots of time to learn it. You'll make some mistakes along the way but I've learned way more from my mistakes than I ever did when I did things right the first time. Many things in model railroading are getting to be commodity items, where the differences between each item are very small. It's much more difficult to buy something really bad than it was even 10 years ago.
BOC, any meeting which starts out with reading the riot act can't have a good outcome. Keep your head down.
Phillip, 70 mph winds would move pretty good size hail stones sideways, that's for sure. How much tree damage did you guys suffer?
Rex, I think the idea of Chris's SIL naked would probably be worse than having to use a push mower on all his ball fields.

It was another bust for rain here too. Got a five minute rain shower about 11:00 pm. We can only hope that tomorrow brings us some more storm coverage than we've had in the last few days. I don't mind the heat as long as we can get some rain every few days to cool things off a bit and help the plants.
Nothing else exciting here. I ran my trains for about 15 minutes before I was called upstairs to deal with a flying June Bug emergency. Both girls were screaming and yelling that it would "get in their hair".

Where do women get these silly ideas? Of course, our youngest had a boyfriend who was deathly afraid of spiders. I told her to ditch him because no real man was that much afraid of a spider. Turns out he was a wimp about a lot of other things too and he lost interest in her fast. Do you think my standard speech that, if you ever do anything to hurt my little girl, I'll hunt you down and kill you in ways so painful you can't imagine, might have had an effect?

I've found giving my speech while cleaning my Remington 870 has a very salutary effect on guys who are only interested in one thing, if you catch my drift.
