Sunday Morning Greys

[Orionvp17]

Mornin,' All!

It's a lovely 49, feels like 49 and apparently headed north to 63 under the ritual grey blanket in the northern mitten today. Possibility of leakage from above, so be prepared. Be careful, though...  Friday the Thirteenth comes on a Sunday this month, and it's Today!!!!  😳

Found the keys, so the cook is in, with Lineman Blend in the silver bullet, brats and Luftwaffles on the grill along with a variety of egg stuff he found somewhere, and the usual beverages and condiments on the counter.

Reenactments of Lexington/Concord, Menotomy and so on apparently all week, and the Marathon will run as well.  Should be an interesting spectator week in New England!

Make it a great day, All, and stay safe!

Pete
in Michigan

[deemery]

It's not just any reenactment of Lexington/Concord, but the 250th anniversary of the Midnight Ride, etc, etc, etc.  I remember doing Isaac Davis March in Boy Scouts.  

We're invading Beantown this afternoon for a concert.  So no time in the train room.  

dave

[jbvb]

Good morning, Pete, Dave and later arrivals. I was just reading that a Lexington & Concord reenactment was canceled due to weather unhealthy for either human or horse reenactors. But the Flying Yankee meeting went well. Several of us stopped at an ice cream stand on our way home; I had a cone of chocolate banana. Ice cream in pretty much any weather is a New England oddity; about 50 years ago I was among a number of TMRC members walking across the Harvard Bridge (MIT to Back Bay) at night in a February snowstorm for ice cream.

Today the NH seacoast is 40-ish with a high chance of rain all day. I have preservation work to do but hopefully can make it to the layout later.

[Orionvp17]

Dave, I hiked the Isaac Davis trail when I was in the Scout troop in the early 1960s.  Gave me chills then, as we did it at around 0530 or so, got to Concord to see the colonists gathered, heard the fifes and drums as the Regulars came out of the fog and watched the chaos unfold....  Still gives me goose bumps! 

And then there's Menotomy (now Arlington), where Samuel Whittemore made his name.  Old campaigner, in his eighties, heard the British were burning their way back to Boston, and there was no way they would burn his town while he was alive, so he loaded his pistols, stuffed them in his belt with his cutlass, grabbed his powder bag and the musket from the mantlepiece, told his wife he was going into town to confront the Regulars, and went out the door.  The British troops came around the corner running and yelling, bringing chaos and gunfire, so up went the musket, then the pistols and then he caught a round in the face and he went down.  They rolled over him, stabbing with bayonets; he took thirteen wounds there and finally died... fifteen years later insisting he had done the right thing and would do it again!  His statue is on Mass Ave in Arlington, just down the hill from my older son and his family....

Pete
in Michigan

[KentuckySouthern]

Overcast with a few drips in lower mid central slightly to the left Michigan. Geographically speaking. 

49⁰ currently going to? Pete guessed 60⁰ We'll see.

Went to a trains show in Grand Rapids suburb Wyoming yesterday, made one solitary purchase..$5 old athearn pulpwood flat.  On display was the example of the feeling some have of the thrifty nature of the W Michigan folks, sure a lot of them REALLY love their $tuff and will be taking most of it home. Few deals were to be found.  But I'm pretty well set, don't need much unless it's a terrific, you sure? kind of price, too.

After that stop I took the Doll to the far Northwest part of the GR metro conglomeration I'm Not as familiar with.  MAPS an app was quite helpful.  Especially a reconfigured Exit off the speedway now on the left rather than the right across several lanes...a rare positive fix for the constant remix Of our embarrassing road system.  Our governess has slacked on her "fix the damn roads" pledge to nose about in national politics. IMHO.

Work bench stuff on tap today. 

Be well All.

KSinMI

[Orionvp17]

Dave, and anyone else interested... you might enjoy this book by a retired US Army four-star general:  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-minute-men-john-r-galvin/1101412916

General Galvin did his scholarship, and this puts to pasture a lot of the "stuff" we were (and still are) fed in schools about the rag-tag bag of farmers up against the vaunted British Army.  T'warnt like that!

Recommend owning and sharing around!

Pete
in Michigan

[ReadingBob]

Morning all,

Looks like it's going to be another pleasant day down here in sunny Central Florida. 

I worked on the lighting for the distillery yesterday.  I only did a string of LEDs at the upper level to light up all three floors but wasn't satisfied with the effect, so I'll be adding more LEDs this afternoon.

Have a great one!

[GPdemayo]

Morning all.....