Well, the only thing that growing right now is the size of the puddles. And the weeds.
However, last Sunday I managed to snatch a few dry hours to assemble some PT lumber into trackbed for the lengthening of my basic raised oval. The new assemblies are now under a tarp, awaiting the next dry spell.
Depending on which forecast you look at, next weekend is either going to be drizzly 
or cloudy but dry with sunny intervals 
. I am hoping for the best, so I can take the current oval apart and shift the whole thing over, closer to the east fence (thus allowing more kid-space on the west side of the yard).
Biggest nuisance I have is a Hydro transformer at the bottom of the yard; cannot put any “structure” closer than 10 feet to it, which means a couple of hundred square feet or so in a not-very-big yard are off limits to railways, raised veggie beds, play structures or sheds.
If all goes according to plan (see Burns, Robbie, about plans of mice and men), the south end of the new oval will be at or slightly below current ground level near the top of our drainage slope (25% or so, but I’m not into rack railways); the north end will be roughly 28 inches off the ground and 10 feet from the futzverschluggene transformer.
The long-range plan is to run a ground-level branch from the oval across the “high land” to a mining/quarry operation on the western hedgeline (perhaps it should be lumbering, given the pruning those shrubs require each year). This will give me some “operation” when I get bored with trundling trains around the oval.
Fortunately, “Her Eminence” is prepared to allow me domain over parts of the yard.
Rain, rain, go away. Australia needs you.
– so I can cut and assemble roadbed sections out of the weather and then put the layout together when/if the sun ever comes out …