Scattered Thoughts . . .

T oday was another productive day.  We started the day by heading to Shaw's to pick up one of my prescriptions and a few grocery bags of food to hold us over until later in the week.  Then I started collecting tools again in an attempt to finish laying all the trackwork in the garden railroad.  By dinnertime, all the trackwork was laid and I was able to smoothly push a passenger car around the layout by hand without it derailing.  This meant that the trackwork was good! I can't run my locomotive because I am still waiting on the USPS to deliver packages of parts...  packages that should have been here far too long ago.  Once these last packages arrive, then I can install the electronics into the locomotive.  I have a trolley that I plan to convert too but that project is on hold for now.  The priority is to get the big 4-6-0 steam locomotive completed so we can run it as soon as possible.   All the grandkids will be here this coming week...

T oday was another very productive day!  I am left in extreme pain but it was a very productive day. I ended up getting sunburned pretty badly but that doesn't seem to be painful.  Sheila thinks it will blister but, oddly enough, I'm not finding it all that painful at the moment.  It is uncomfortable but I wouldn't call it painful.  I'm thinking I got so sunburned because I may still be very sensitive and vulnerable to the sun after two antibiotic treatments for my tick bite in recent months.  The heat index today was at 102 degrees so it was definitely too hot out there to be doing anything physical as well as being prime sunburning weather.   The real pain is in my joints and my spine.  The pain is nearing an unbearable eight on the ten point pain scale.  I plan to take some AlevePM tonight so that should help me get some sleep by cutting the pain and making me drowsy.  This will also mean a down day tomorrow due to drowsiness but it i...