Coffee Pot #12 December 2011 5+ years and going strong and its for all to chat. Plenty of coffee and ice tea for all. Come and join us and chat.

Konnichiwa,

It's about 1700 my time.  I don't think I've ever been so early to post on a new Pot thread.  I did not work today, but we did not get any decorating done either.  It was rainy all day so we just lazed around and relaxed.  We will buy a live tree tonight.

SJ - I have plenty of old favorites as well.

Kev - When the Air Force started sending me places many years ago, I learned to never look at my food too closely. 

Sayonara,

Joe

Good Morning,

A Chilly 37 at Central Jersey.

Joe, I am glad things are working out in Japan.

Nothing new, but that is not bad.

Have a great day,

John

Hi GUYZ,

  A bit colder tis mornin.  Took dog for another walk and saw 4 more doe last nite after school.  Going up to MOMs on saturday hope to see half as many as I do around here.

KEV, wish the owners of these farms would let us hunt but no cigar here.  They have it and put out deer blocks and get nice big bucks.  Oh well at least I get to hit them with snow balls in the winter time.  Scares the heck out of the deer.

Stay frosty,

laz57

Morning USA and Japan (who probably another day). Chilly. Concrete poured and finished. Guys coming back to cut in stress joints and put on sealer. Move things back in except pontoon (which will stay out ubtol I get back). Jack,why do dogs roll in "things"? Finn had to be bathed last night before dinner. ;-( If you want surprises, get a Droid. Never know what is typed (this site onlu) and never know if you can answer a call or terminate it. Also you never know who your texts are going too. Buckeye, if you still have those stones, come see DR. Chief. I have a big mall from my Great Great Grandfather that will crush them into tiny pieces. ;-) Have a good one. (Home tomorrow AM).

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a heavy frost 25 degrees. Going up to 40 today with sunshine.

Today is a busy day. I have a few errands to run. The usual chores around the house. Later, I can relax and take a nap.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast. Then, it is off to all Point West.

Y'all have a great Thursday.

Chuck

Good Mornin Y'all From Chilly But Clear Taxachusetts,

About 32 now and going uo to a balmy 50 later.  I had a brief issue with my outdoor lights last night.....quickly rectified when I discovered the problem was with a timer malfunctiono, not the lights.  Swapped out the timer, problem solved.  Daughter & SIL called later, said their lights kept tripping a breaker.  Short or overload?  I guessed overload because they have a zillion lights and lawn figures outside and the larger nativity figures use conventional light bulbs inside them.  We split the load to two separate outlets not on the same circuit......joy, happiness, and sanity restored.  Language cleaned up somewhat too.   

Chief........their are a number of credible theories why dogs roll around on the ground (and sometimes in *** and on dead animals)..  But the most popular ones are:  to cover their secent from predators;  to communicate to other members of the animal community where they have been;  to mark their territory, similar to urine marking.  I am convinced that conventional wisdom is off the mark.  I think the NACB (National Association of the Canine Brotherhood) has entered into a secret and evil agreement with the pet grooming, pet shampoo, and pet products industries.  We need to follow the money trail.  Your dogs probably have a ton of dough stashed in untraceable offshore accounts. 

Jack

Well he seemed to get it done Pat even from the out house at the lake.

Morning all well get up was very jiggery and heart was racing a little PB was fine but pulse was up in the 115 range instead of being around 80 and felt very tired and weak so tells me pulse was up most of the night ( along with soreness in chest comes from heart racing) so instead of going into work today decided to stay home didn't feel it was best for me to be driving either with the way I was feeling so laid down on the couch for about 2 hours. still feel a little jumpy but not as bad as earlier BP is still where it was a little high but not bad 130 over 86 and pulse is still up there at 118 ( just checked again.) I have courses that have to be done for work by the end of Feb as they now use your birth month. well luckily I can access from the house here so I can do that some today to get some of them out of the way.

Well you all take it easy think I will have a little light breakfast this am.

Talk to you all later.

Mornin' boys.  Only 23 more shopping days...unless Target, Walmart, Best Buy, etc. decide to open up Christmas day  Wifey home today so I'll try to keep out of her way.  Quick, gimme some busy lookin' work...

Brutus - I wanna go to Disney...

RockIsland - Been a good 4 years.

Roy - Always something.

rt - Relax. Don't over do it.

laz - Try deer tipping.

Good morning. It's 38 and sunny. The high will be 64 and mostly sunny.

Today is December 1st and as such is the beginning of a new month. It's also bill paying day. I've already paid quite a few online. The others must be paid in person as the places the money is owed to haven't come out of the stone age yet. I also have to take one of parents cars to a garage in town. After yesterdays weathering marathon there's nothing else scheduled for today.

Aloha from a balmy Crystal Lake where it is 27 - might get to 40 today. Brrrr. Been waiting on the teen to cut up some leaves. Might just do it myself today or tomorrow and fine him. Tried to puzzle out how to remove James the Red Engine's rod at the wheel so I could slip on a new traction tire. He's been running without them for a while now, but I know he'd do better pulling with them. I can find a socket to fix the head but don't know how to get it off because the wheel of course wants to move too.

Then I decided to see how many cars certain engines can pull on my 'hilly' layout. 520 is the winner pulling 16. It had the power to pull more but the cars stringlined on my 027 curves.  Have a good day.

Good morning guys,

I am in the same boat as Jeffery. December 1^st Pension payday so bills to pay!

Frosty and cloudy here same as with Chuck.

Hey Chief, Thanks for the new pot!  Better make sure they show up to cut the stress cracks. I had a guy wait two days and by the time he got here it already had a crack of it’s own. You know the three things they guarantee with concrete. Won’t burn, no one will steel it, and it will crack. 

Laz, We can hunt the woods here. Lucky for us but the farmers still get the best ones. The wife won’t let anyone hunt our little part of the woods. We just feed them so everyone else can have fat ones. 

Rt, just take it slow and easy today…….work is sooooo overrated.

DougM, I decided to not use any full 027 curves for that same reason. my tightest is a 034 Marx 180 section between the two sections of table

Well I better get with the bills, don’t plan on any extra for the trains this month. 

Later,

Kev.

Good Morning

December 1st so Merry Christmas

30 now with sun. Granny's out on her own this AM but I told her to come back if she hurt too much. Yes I did offer to take her. Read a little CTT yesterday but still have a lot of pages to go. She left me a bacon and egg sandwich..S.J.

V8 Dennis, I will look for you at TTOS on Sunday.

Good morning all,  High winds blew all night here.  Noise from things blowing around kept me awake most of the night.  We had a power failure due to down lines around 2:00 A.M  and stayed off until about 8:00 AM this morning.  Neighbor next door let me plug my refrigerator into his gas powered generator.  Swimming pool looked like a swamp with debris floating on the surface.  My son cleaned most of it out before he went to work.  Neighbor came back with his kids after going to school and said they had cancelled school because of power failure.  He said there is also a huge pine tree down about a block from us but haven't seen it yet.  My oxygen concentrator was down with the power failure so I used my portable until the battery went dead about 2 and a half hours later.  Lucky for me that my oxygen needs are not critical and I can live without it.  Might not be good long term though.  I do have an oxygen cylinder I can use if I need it.  Another surprise was when a window right over my head in bed blew open during the night but the drapes held it in place.  What a night!  Hope it is better tonight.  I need some sleep.

later,

Ray

Good Afternoon all,

I have been MIA for some time being very busy at work as well as at home.  Life is good, the grandkids we’re raising are doing great but keeping me busy with transporting to sports and the like.  A big consumer of time has been the bedroom addition we started in September.  It is in the dry and going to start the plumbing and drywall soon.

As a train note, I have expanded my train horizons to include Marx pre-war tinplate.  They are so neat.  I’ve got a simple loop running around the tree and they are very “toy-like” in appearance and look very appropriate under the Christmas Tree on yes I’ll say it, three rail, tube track.  Something I have discovered about Marx trains, they are just about bullet proof.  Very simple and basic but they run flawlessly.

It is cold but sunny out. We had a very heavy frost.  The deer are really moving and I saw about a dozen on the way home from work yesterday.  A lot of folks are off work hunting.  I’d like to, but alas, no time.

I hope to stay in better contact than I have been in the recent past.

May God bless you all,

Jim

SPMan

V9 Dennis, I will look for you at TTOS on Sunday.

Good morning all,  High winds blew all night here.  Noise from things blowing around kept me awake most of the night.  We had a power failure due to down lines around 2:00 A.M  and stayed off until about 8:00 AM this morning.  Neighbor next door let me plug my refrigerator into his gas powered generator.  Swimming pool looked like a swamp with debris floating on the surface.  My son cleaned most of it out before he went to work.  Neighbor came back with his kids after going to school and said they had cancelled school because of power failure.  He said there is also a huge pine tree down about a block from us but haven't seen it yet.  My oxygen concentrator was down with the power failure so I used my portable until the battery went dead about 2 and a half hours later.  Lucky for me that my oxygen needs are not critical and I can live without it.  Might not be good long term though.  I do have an oxygen cylinder I can use if I need it.  Another surprise was when a window right over my head in bed blew open during the night but the drapes held it in place.  What a night!  Hope it is better tonight.  I need some sleep.

later,

Ray

Ray - Think Spring, Think setting on the deck in a warm breeze with your favorite drink, Think slow smoking a turkey marinaded in your famous sauce, Think short sleeves, Think...........

Pat

Well feeling better now about 9 am my pulse dropped back to normal about 73 so ate a big breakfast I had 4 biscuits 3 eggs scrambled with sauté peppers and onions and 4 pieces of sausage ( yes i can hear you all the way up here Dennis) anyway about 20 minutes later feeling lightheaded again so took Blood sugar it was 86 ( it probably should of been over 200) about hour later it was only 106 about 1:30 - 1:45 ate a medium pizza well 6 of 8 slices took Blood Sugar at 4:45 about 3 hours later it was only about 174 still think it should of been higher with what I ate so have a message into my doc telling all going on at least I'm off the next 6 days so maybe can get this all straightened out by then.

well am feeling a little better tonight so I just put a sour cream coffee cake in the oven. to bake that I just made ( Note to Doug the grump) the whole coffee cake only has 1/2 teaspoon of salt in it. And its a 10" bundt pan and it will be about 3" - 4" tall when baked. Haven done this in about 10 years so will let you know how it turns out. But it does have a Fair amount of sugar.

Not much else going on. Talk to you all later

Pat --

Put down the Bourbon and slow smoked Turkey Leg and step away from the computer, HA

Even though it's been a fantastic fall with our weather I'm already looking at spring road trips.  I've had great fun this week setting up the standard gauge Christmas train in the sun room, we have the grand kids here this weekend sans parents and I KNOW we are going to have a good time  

Big day of travel tomorrow to put Christmas wreaths on cemetery plots in northern Iowa, it's been a real tough year for Sharyl and I'm hoping tomorrow will be a healing day.  Picking up the grand kids on the way home will simply be delightful, hope we can keep up with them.

Stay warm and go hug a loved one! or two or three .................

Ohayō,

We bought our Christmas tree last night.  It is a Noble Fir and it smells great.  Due to room limitations we could only buy a 5-6' tree; this one actually tops out a little over 6'.  I will not have room to use the platform I built last Christmas, but I will still have enough room to run a simple oval of FasTrack and set up the lighted ceramic buildings.  We will be doing that today and I am very excited. 

RT - I'm glad you are feeling better.  I guess you were hungry yesterday.  How did the coffee cake turn out?

Jim SP - It's good to hear from you.  I've been on the lookout for some Prewar Lionel myself, but the Marx tinplate is nice too. 

Doug M. - Our kids have felt the sting of a fine as well.

 SJ - I have not received my December CTT yet. 

Sayonara,

Joe

Good afternoon all,  Kind of got the yard and pool picked up from wind but it is still blowing all day today.  Walked up to see tree that fell near here.  It was about two feet thick at the base.  It did not uproot, it just snapped off like a wooden match stick.  Another one near it is all bent and leaning.  Probably have to be cut down.  It doesn't look safe.  Picked up a few avacados from the school yard where wind blew them down.  Not many left though as someone has cleaned out these trees before the wind came.

Been waiting for a plumber all day and he's not here yet.  Not an emergency though.  I just need my kitchen faucet fixed so it doesn't leak all the time.

RT, take care of yourself.  Hope everything gets settled for you.

Gardener due today and need him to pick up all the pinestraw blown into our yard by the wind.  Their mowers will pick up the stuff and leaf blower will finish off the driveway and such.

later,

Ray

Evening all!

Nice here today (65) but tunring cooler tomrrow and rain starting for the weekend.

The concrete guys did not show up today and if it rains tomorrow we will be dealing with a mud pit out front Not sure what happened and tried to call them. They are reliable as they did our entire pool deck in Sept. Hopefully tomorrow?

Got a deal cut for a new furnace and A/C unit. Half the price of the first proposal. High efficiency but not the highest. The part I do not understand is the cost of the ultra high efficiency units like the one I boght a few years back are now so high in price there is no reasonable payback from energy usage savings (over 15 years required). And this is here in Texas where we have ludicrous utility rates.

RT - take care of yourself!

Ray - the national news here said you guys are getting those winds again tonight!

Have a great evening all!

and this my friends is the coffee cake and yes it is delicious.

wrmcclellan

The concrete guys did not show up today and if it rains tomorrow we will be dealing with a mud pit out front Not sure what happened and tried to call them. They are reliable as they did our entire pool deck in Sept. Hopefully tomorrow?

Good day here today!

Finally finished filling the wood shed on next years wood side.

Put up wifey’s bird bath hot tub. An electric bird bath.

Won an auction for a K-Line Wisconsin Central Plymouth Switcher Train set, engine with ore cars for $76.00.

Rt: Glad your doing better and thanks for the tips. I ordered the brushplates from Jeff today. 

Laz: Talked to the neighbor today and he sat in the stand at sun up and only saw a coyote. I told him they are bringing $35.00 a head so now he is going to hunt them. I said I would supply him dead squirrels as bait. 

Time for me to take a whirlpool. 

Have a good night.

 Kev.

Good Evening

36 degrees, it didn't change much today, even with the sun. My friend stopped by with his fresh from the store Atlas GP DT&I. So we ran it for awhile, decided it was A-OK and home he went. Brutus called today while I was napping so him and granny talked for awhile. Didn't get into the CTT . Banilla will be ready...S.J.

KRM

Finally finished filling the wood shed on next years wood side.

Jeffrey,

Yeah it could hold more if I did not keep the spliter under the same roof. We don't use that much, but I use more now that I am retired and can burn all day.

 I think it is about 3.25 full cord in there. If my math is correct.

 I once got 6 truck loads of ties from the BNSF and used them to line the drive at the old place in Plainfield we had before the 1990 tornado. Got a bee sting from them. and 6 trucks was not too much because it was a 1976 Chevy LUV if you remember those.

Have a good night,

 Kev.

KRM

6 trucks was not too much because it was a 1976 Chevy LUV if you remember those.

Time for me to call it a night. It's been a busy day for me. Maybe I'll tell you about it tomorrow. See y'all tomorrow.

Kev - that is a lot of wood! We use about 1 to 1 & 1/4 cord (short cords I call them as logs are cut only 16-18" long instead of 24") in a cold winter here.. But that is the way firewood is in an urban area like Dallas. Plus many firplaces here cannot easily handle a 24" log.

Jeffrey - finally some Steam in your roster!