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Today was an absolutely beautiful day. So, I decided to venture out into the lower temperatures and drier air to snap a few photos after work. I didn't have to wait long for two eastbounds to show up east of Boone: a stacker followed shortly by a coal train. 6/21/21 Every time I open the cabinet above my desk, I am greeted by a smiling Bob Ross. How my office partner thinks that I need a "positive energy drink" I'm not sure. I think it's a bunch of BS. 😇 Clouds over southern Hamilton County on a hot and humid 6/17/21. I'm not sure what today's high temperature was. The highest reading I saw was 97° (after that I stopped looking). Driving home, I really thought that I might see a little bit of a shower. It amounted to all of about five raindrops. It has been a fairly quiet day off. I went for a short drive, ate lunch trackside, and watched a lengthy westbound train of auto racks move through the east end of the yard at Boone. Then, home again, home again... 6/15/21 A couple of nights ago, I ran across this bottle in the basement. I'm guessing that it was part of a junk pile we discovered (and cleaned up) in our timber in Taney County, Missouri back in the 80s. North of Jordan, looking west towards Boone on a scorcher of a 6/10/21. Thanks to volunteers holding down the fort in the gift shop, I was able to get away from work early today. Sitting by the shaggy Wisteria in the back yard, fire in the fire pit, hoping that was a raindrop and not a bird. An eastbound Z Train, led by the UP 7799, tears across the countryside east of Boone, Iowa. 5/22/21.