I woke up early today to open the gate for the UPS guy. Yesterday he came through the neighborhood about 10:00. Today he didn't get here until mid afternoon. Go figure.
I got two of the three shipments, with everything that I ordered. The third one is coming by Post Office, so I don't know when it will be here.
While I was waiting this morning I changed out the supports for the second raised area so that it will be at the new height. I also cut a little of the support board away for clearance. After that I decided that I shouldn't do much more until I had the track. So I went inside to read up on wiring.
That turned out to be dangerous. The text described operations, and I realized that a small change in the track would make a big change in the operability. So it was back to the layout program. I spent hours figuring out the optimal way of making the change. In the end, all I have to buy is two switches and a small package of track.
The switches are expensive though. I'm going to order the extra stuff tonight. I wanted to wait until I'd unpacked the track and fitted a couple of switches together. I wasn't sure that it would work, and without that the change couldn't be made.
It's good that I didn't do anymore benchwork. The change I made today will affect the remaining benchwork quite a bit.
In the evening we went out to get the mail. We stopped to run the dog. She did half a dozen retrieves and then stopped to eat grass. I'm tired of that, so she got packed into the car and we left. I'm going to keep doing this until she starts retrieving all the time again.
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