I wanted to do some more work on the layout today, so after breakfast I started the wash and then went out to the well house. It seems that every time I want to work on the layout I get sidetracked doing something else. Today I had to mount a power strip on the wall so that I'd be able to plug in the soldering iron on the side of the layout that I needed to work on. All sorts of things went wrong. Bad screws, hard to access mounting places, etc. I did manage to get the portion of the mainline that ramps down from the plateau done, but it took until after 1.
I picked up the mail and took the dog to Circle C. Lucy's drugs came, which is quite a relief. The park was a little muddy in places after yesterday's storm. It also had horse shit all over it from the horses they were riding there yesterday. One horse shit right where their trailer was parked and they didn't bother to pick it up.
Before home I stopped at HEB. The kitchen was getting a little bare.
When I got home I went back to the layout. This time the sidetrack effort was to tie up the layout so I could work underneath it. I had to clear everything off the top, use C clamps to keep the layout from sliding off, and cut a support for the table so that it wouldn't tip over. I did manage to get one section of the mainline wired. The new wire cutter works nice.
I have about 60 power connections left to do. At my current rate, that's going to take 10 hours - about a week. I also have to wire up the 20 switches. At that point the only thing left to wire will be the turntable. I haven't figured out how I'm going to do that yet.
Ellen is coming in at 11. I'm just surfing until it's time to pick her up.
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