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{{{{{Everyone else}}}}} just 'cause.
Mom, I get ads periodiclly for a phone ap that supposedly identifies plants from a picture. You might try that. When you said “red around the edges” my mind said “poison ivy?, oak? sumac?” but when I tried to look it up, got nowhere. Sorry.
Sunny Electric train layouts really need a fairly constant temperature, as do 80+ year old people. Dad’s garage needs to be insulated, especially the big door.
The second big bugaboo for layouts is dust.
The third worst thing for layouts is cats. 
The fourth worst thing for layouts is bad advice from other train people.
Please forgive me for picturing you laying flat out in your recliner, naked, with an Inspector Gadget device on your face.
You guys are making me wish they had a Texas Roadhouse out here in the wild west.
Heh. There might be one in Eugene, OR, only ~100 miles away from our place in the valley. Or ~200 mi. from our present location.
This is leading what’s left of my mind in an unhappy direction, so Ima gonna close now.