Saturday June 3, 2006 5:20 am Lethbridge Alberta

A. Morning Musings

5:20 am The sky is clear with an early morning temperature of + 15 and a forecast high of + 23.

The primary task for today is to review the executor's statement. The lawn needs mowing.

Two more yard related tasks are to replace the front sidewalk and get the 5th wheel ready for maintenance. I will test the front sidewalk today and see if it breaks apart easily.

I want to visit the Radio Shack store in Park Place mall to see about wire.

But, compared to the last 5 days, today will be a day to take it easy.

B. Plan

Chores	Replace front sidewalk	1 hr
	Review Executor's material	2 hr
	Take 5th wheel in for maintenance
Health	Walk	1 hr
	Exercise	.5 hr
Model Trains	Shop for wiring & solder	1.5 hr
	Shop for large roll of "forest green", blue cardboard	1 hr
Literature	Continue reading "Mrs. Dalloway Reader"	1 hr
History	Continue reading "Citizens"	1 hr
Technology	Read manual for cell phone	1 hr
		9 hrs

C. Actual/Notes

7:40 am

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7:40 am I have been working on my layout for much of the last two hours, with only the time honored coffee breaks. I now have all of my groundcover material on the layout. I need one more large roll of "forest green" and I will have completed this phase of the layout. lay down scenery roll of "forest green " on the upper level. review lower level mainline turnouts to see if I should modify them to be operated under the table. I may decide to leave the switches above level and use some scenery to help hide the mechanism. My idea at the moment is to have all mainline switches electronically operated and all sidings and yard switches hand thrown. buy wire for power bus. rewire mainline on lower level to incorporate track feeder connections to a power bus. begin work on building the loading platform for the oil refinery. buy 2 sheets of blue poster cardboard for a backdrop. 4:20 PM I continue to make progress. I have the "forest green" surface on the upper level lumber mill area and have purchased one large roll of the same color for all of the upper level siding areas. I still have to lay this last roll down. I also purchased some sheets of blue poster cardboard and now need to try mounting this as a backdrop for my layout. Once I have this in place my layout will have "nature" in place and I should be able to begin improving my train features. The first step will be to get both the lower and upper mainline tracks working (lay the roadbed, attach the track, add the ballast).

D. Reflection

9:55 PM I have completed reading "The Mrs. Dalloway Reader".