Day 144

The washer fix seems to be a success.  There was no water on the floor after all the wash was done today.

When we got up it was raining.  It rained really lightly for all of the morning and a little of the afternoon.  The temperature was about 70.  I went out to the garage to put track in the display case.  I wasn't able to do anything else because the paint isn't dry yet.

I felt like doing something, so I went into the well house and cleaned up all the stuff I had stacked on the table saw.  That way I'll have a secondary workspace when I start working on the layout.  I would have started tacking down some of the track, but I can't until I get the new viaduct pieces.  The whole layout is a connected system.  I can't be sure of the positioning of any part unless I have everything connected together.  I did set up the wire stripper I got for the lead wires.  I also figured out a good way to do the track connections.  I'm kind of excited to get started.

As part of the cleanup I looked through the pieces and kits I accumulated.  I'd forgotten some things.  If I'd been on ebay I probably would have bought stuff I already have.

I still felt like accomplishing something, so I hung the picture we bought in Fredericksburg.  I got lucky.  The new picture replaced the one already there perfectly.  I took the old picture and hung it in the entry way.  When I measured where to put the mount it was 1 inch from a stud.

I spent the rest of the day surfing with a little bit of TV watching.  Not much though.  I got bored.

The dog was full of energy today.  She ran around when I went to get the paper and stayed out patrolling.  I guess she went out several times while I was in the garage.  She also did some running around when we went to get the mail.

Late in the evening I picked up Fletcher and noticed a bare spot on the inside of his left rear leg.  He'll be going to the vet tomorrow.