Thursday, February 9
6:00 am
It is -10 °C, with a high forecast of -2 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Sunny. High minus 2.
Tonight A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness near midnight with 60 percent chance of flurries before morning. Low minus 15.
Normals: Max +1 °C, Min -11 °C
9:30 am Literature
This is an amazing yarn. Totally, and utterly, captivating. Writing at its very best. Layers upon layers of meaning. To construct a story this powerful from four sentences of factual history is awesome. I am not likely to forget this book.
1:30 PM Model Trains
I have completed the 4:00 PM schedule for Session 2. This involved running Train #100, a passenger, east from Jasper and finally pulling into the Valemount siding. Then Train #201, a unit coal train, left the Coaldale siding heading west with a load of empties and ended up completing its run by arriving in Black Diamond at the Mercoal Mines. The last run for this time slot involved Train #600, a local freight, which left the Queenston siding and headed east. There were no switching moves for Wild Rose so it continued on to the Coaldale siding.
It was a good feeling to finally get the trains running smoothly on the outer mainline. I have experienced problems on two of the corners over the last two days and finally decided to replace a couple of sections of track which seems to have solved the problem, at least for the moment.
3:00 PM Literature
I am looking for a short novel and have opted for a Russian classic. This is one that I have seen mentioned on numerous occasions but have never read. I bought it late last year and this is a good time to finally read it.
