Me noggin is not quite the best this morning. Feeling a little dizzy and out of sorts.
I slept upstairs with the fan on all night, set to low. You have to picture this. I blow the fan out the balcony door to take the hot air out of the house, and pull in cool air from windows about in other places. Right? So, the fan is three feet in diameter, and on high will clear the whole upstairs of hot air in minutes. It’s no toy. I got fed up a couple of years ago with going up to an overheated top floor and trying to sleep in that while it took all night to cool off. One big fan, and the top floor can be comfortably cool for the night half an hour after sunset, ambient heat and all.
I kept that fan on low the night through last night, which is great for white noise, and lovely on the temperatures. But this morning my head is spinning like the blades. Don’t know why. I don’t think it blew my soul out the door, but…
Anyway, I have been working on the garage the last couple of days, and trying to clean up the workshop. The heat has been oppressive, so my head is probably goofy to do with that. I think I need to find better hydration than Diet Dr. Pepper, too. So I will try drinking something more watery today, like water, perhaps with Crystal Light for flavor. It is a better thirst quencher. It has got to have less ‘whatever’ in it, too.
Today I will try to get a bit done again. Getting this shop space cleaned out is sort of key to a few other things we plan on cleaning when Missus has time off in mid-July. I think I better get the trailer emptied of firewood ready for a trip to the dump. We could sure use less stuff here.
Speaking of stuff…
My train engines arrived yesterday for the N-Scale model of the train I rode with my mom from Salt Lake to Denver when I was nine. The engine set for the California Zephyr on that leg is extremely rare. In a year and a half of looking, I have not been able to find one type of the four engines, the two middle ones, from Kato absolutely anywhere. I know there is a Broadway Unlimited, but I am new to this and don’t know about compatibility and likeness. Do they connect together, and are they alike enough to look correct together? So I have been looking out for these ‘B Units” for a year and a half, and while Kato lists them on their site, they don’t actually make them. Then I looked the other day, and a whole set of engines, A and B units, and all four required, came up for sale all in one lot, and I bought them. What’s better is they are the freight units, which apparently were also used on the passenger train, and these look more like the photos I have found of the engines on the Zephyr than the two A Units I had already bought. So, more accurate depiction! Great! They are a beautiful set!
Next trick is to get a controller, then I need to start setting up the base for the model, and get track to put down. I have not yet finished deciding on the design and where to put it. I have one idea in mind that I favor, but it will take up some space in my den. So there is more cleaning to do…
When the engines arrived, it was a little overwhelming to know that that part of the model is now a complete consist, accurate, and like what mom and I rode on. I’ll be making something of this for the memories.
Right, I have a baby goat that needs feeding, and Missus wants some breakfast. I am off to work on my jobs.