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March Coffee Pot 2016. 11 years old. Wonderful grits and sweet ice tea for the southern gents. Coffee and oatmeal for the Yanks. Locked

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Thursday, March 31, 2016 7:52 PM

sir james I

Chief set your alarm for midnight.

60s today, rain again, storms by evening again.

S.J.

 

 

Gotto hit the bed before then.

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Posted by KRM on Thursday, March 31, 2016 1:24 PM

Good afternoon,

Warm at 68 degrees with sun and wind. Had rain overnight. None yet today Doug.

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Posted by cnw1995 on Thursday, March 31, 2016 12:44 PM

Aloha. Just one storm after another today. Got a quick walk in with the dog and even got the grocery shopping done between downpours. Youngest is off to the movies with his g'pa - and I have a dentist appointment later today. Hang in there, Ray. Prayers for the right decision. Now to clean some bathrooms Smile

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Posted by sir james I on Thursday, March 31, 2016 9:34 AM

Chief set your alarm for midnight.

60s today, rain again, storms by evening again.

S.J.

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Posted by cheapclassics on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 8:37 PM

Good evening all,

Posting on wife's tablet while traveling is an evercise in frustration.  Had a nice road trip on Indiana 1 to Fort Wayne.  Spent the day Tuesday seeing many places there.  I highly recommend stopping by Phil's Hobby Shop while there.  Very helpful people there.  Came back today on Indiana 9.  Two detours and a missed turn seemed to keep off 9 more than on it.  Still a nice drive and got back in time to mow the yard before the weather turns bad.  Going to Evansville Friday and Saturday.   I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

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Posted by KRM on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 6:10 PM

SPMan

Good afternoon all,

After a tough night taking care of my wife, The doctor called today and wants to admit her to the hospital as soon as they get a bed.  Either today or tomorrow.  It will be welcome relief for both of us.

Ray

 

Ray, your a good man and my GOD bless you. I had always planned on my wife being my caregiver. Who knows?? Hang in there. It will all work out if you just let go and let the higher level deal with it. JMHO.

 

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Posted by SPMan on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 6:05 PM

Good afternoon all,

After a tough night taking care of my wife, The doctor called today and wants to admit her to the hospital as soon as they get a bed.  Either today or tomorrow.  It will be welcome relief for both of us.

Ray

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 4:57 PM

Evening all!

Rain here today on and off. Some storms in area but none here and nothing serious (at this time) with the next wave coming later this evening. Rain was good for the yard but overall not enough to run off. 70's this week Yes

DougDaG - mums the word!

 

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Posted by dougdagrump on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 11:50 AM

Hola Dudes & Dudettes !

What a busy weekend, Friday and Saturday at the museum then Easter Sunday family and extended family gathering. Only nine people this year since many of the extended family members were traveling far and wide to visit actual family. Difficult to cook for only nine when you kinda get used to cooking for a larger group, not so much portion wise but timing wise. One gets conditioned to being up before dawn to get things started but this year slept in. Thumbs Up

Had a couple of the Kid's Club engines drop out before we even got running. A lionel SD-60 locked up a gear box, think the worm gear broke, and the Railking Cab Forward lost it's chuff, gonna try a reset to see if that helps. Just need to find some time, and more importantly, energy to work on them.

Anybody hungry for a sub sandwich today, at Jersey Mikes all of today's receipts go to local charities. San Diego county stores go to Rady's Chidren's Hospital . Bow  Dinner The BetterHalf and I will be having dinner from them tonight, just won't tell my cardiologist when I see him this morning.

Gotta get moving.

Prayers for all in need .

Later !

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 8:38 AM

Good Morning from sunny Southern Ohio,

Suppose to get up into the 70’sF today, which will be good because we plan on the re-paint of the fender and bumper on the Civic today.

I’m done preparing the surfaces and have most of the masking done.  I’ll be glad to get this done.  My bride scraped the garage door again with the van when parking it.  Thank goodness for plastic bumpers.  This is now the 4th or 5th time.  I’m running out of paint to buff out.  I’m toying with the idea of changing out the 9 foot wide door to a 16 foot.  Maybe that will help. Whistling

I go for my pre-employment physical tomorrow morning for the new job.  That should not be an issue, then my start date is 4/11/16.

 

Looking forward to that!  I was talking to a friend who is a contract assessor and he said there is a lot of work to do in the department

I was hired into.  

 

Got to go

May God bless,

Jim



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Posted by fifedog on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 6:12 AM

Thank you, Ray.

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Posted by SPMan on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 8:36 PM

Good evening all,

Seems like a lost day since nothing was accomplished as far as I can see with my doctor.  They drew blood yesterday from my wife but no news today about future treatment.   Nursing home or home?  I still don't know.  Will call the doctor tomorrow.  As for good news, I made contact with a care giver lady who wants to work for us if we choose homecare.  I'm 99% ready to pull the trigger on that unless the doctor comes up with a better plan. The lady did caregiving for another family I know of and is recommended by them.  Sitting by my  wife's bedside now with some hymns being played softly in the background from a CD given to me by my friend Larry who is the drummer in the band called the Nightblooming Jazzmen.  Good sounds.

Ray

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Posted by cnw1995 on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 8:32 PM

Aloha. Grandma is on her way back to Connecticut and I spent the day working and cleaning up - along with taking Mr. Torben the Wonder Dog on a long slow walk (to allow him plenty of time to snifff around).  Ran Ivor tonight for a few laps too. Hope you feel better soon, DJ, and the transition smooths out. Happy Anniversary to SJ and his bride!

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Posted by KRM on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 6:56 PM

Good evening,

Well this will be short. Nice day today, mid 60s with sun. I put out the last of the deer corn today. Tomorrow they will be on their own. Green is coming up all over so they will be fine.

Hope Tyler will be good DJ. I think your right that some of the people he is around need to know the history.

Ran trains with the wife last night and we both had a few Beers

Have a good one.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 6:17 AM

Should of sent you Yankee peeps 

Life's hard, even harder if your stupid  John Wayne

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Monday, March 28, 2016 11:47 PM

We all know who the Yankee Carpetbagger is on this forum [RT].  He sent me this.  Maybe he is converting.

Reb beeps.

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Posted by cheapclassics on Monday, March 28, 2016 9:54 PM

Good evening all,

 

Had a nice road trip to Fort Wayne after a quick visit to foot doctor where she said looked normal.

 

Keep on training,

 

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Monday, March 28, 2016 8:47 PM

Evening all!

Long day here. Relaxing with SWMBO and some TV shows.

8n - that is cool about your HS robotics team. congrats!

Regards, Roy

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Posted by 8ntruck on Monday, March 28, 2016 7:13 PM

A happy late Easter to all.

We had a quiet day - went to services, had beef roast veggies and potatos for dinner, then hamburgers for dinner.

Lost most of Friday and Saturday to the Game of Thrones season 5 CD set my wife got me for my birthday.

I forgot to mention that the local high school robot team that I have been involved with went to another meet last week.  Did well, too - ranked 11th out of 61 teams after the qualifying matches and ended up in 2nd place in the playoffs.  They also got the Engineering Award that is sponsored by Delphi.

All for now.

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Posted by cnw1995 on Monday, March 28, 2016 4:31 PM

Aloha. Happy Easter Monday. Today it cannot decide whether to be grey or sunny. I've been entertaining my mother, who's visiting us from Connecticut for the week. I'm so glad I can virtually-clean and fix the yachett with Fife. Bob, that trolley is wonderful! I used to have one like it.

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Posted by fifedog on Monday, March 28, 2016 8:42 AM

Mornin' boys.  Rainy & cool here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  We "hosted" dinner at a local Irish restaurant for our family.  'Twas nice coming home and not having to clean up afterwords.  Wifey said we spend about the same amount cooking the meal...

Grandson duty today. 

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Posted by submmbob on Monday, March 28, 2016 7:13 AM

Hello all

Quiet night on the mountain.

Hope everyone had a good easter.

Resume is now updated and starting the sending out process. 

We found out last week the director is no longer the director. One possible outcome of this is positions being eliminated. They have to give us 90 days notice so we should here something by Friday in that regard. Fortunately for me, I was planning on leaving anyway. 

 

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Posted by Banks on Sunday, March 27, 2016 10:00 PM

Hello There,

Hope all had a good Easter.

Ours was great. It was a beautiful day and Son surprised me last evening asking what time is Dinner. The original plan was he and family would not be joining us. He was to have Dinner with in-laws then he had to leave for work by 2. Seems their Easter get together got moved to Sat PM so today our family enjoyed a ham dinner followed by an egg hunt for the kids before he had to leave for work. A great time was had by all.

Mom is doing ok although she was quietly crying in the back seat as we left from placing fresh from the front yard Daffodils on Pap's grave yesterday PM.

My bad wing is greatly improved after some rest and lots of Naproxen. Don't think there is any serious damage. Thanks for your concerns.

Ray.......continued prayers for you and yours

Best get t sleep..........

 

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Sunday, March 27, 2016 8:13 PM

Good evening from cloudy and warm (70F) Southern Ohio,

Fantastic services this weekend, and afterward met at my bride's mom's house and had lunch with her family.  The kids and I left and came home and I took a nap.  Did some more sanding on the Civic bumper.  It will be ready to paint soon.

Sister-in-law was asking about a co-worker whose husband died and she wants to sell his Lionel collection.  They are in Cincinnati and I think there is a large Lionel community in Cincy that may be able to help her.  Anybody have a contact I could pass on?

Happy Easter!

May God bless

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Sunday, March 27, 2016 6:02 PM

Happy Easter all!

Services today and then our traditional extended family picnic/egg hunt at a local park. Sunny but cool and very windy.

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Posted by SPMan on Sunday, March 27, 2016 3:29 PM

Happy Easter all,  it is a beautiful day here.  A lady friend of ours from church brought us a delicious home cooked meal for Easter.  It was really needed too.  What a Saint that lady is.  She was the same one that helped me with Helen for two days last week.  Hope the Easter bunny is good to y'all.  Chief send some of that rain over here.  Weather man is guessing we might have a couple of days with showers later next week.

Happy trails,

Ray

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Sunday, March 27, 2016 10:17 AM

Chilly and rainy Easter here.  Have a good one.

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Posted by sir james I on Sunday, March 27, 2016 8:45 AM

Easter Morning

He has risen.

Happy Easter to all.

S.J.

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Posted by KRM on Sunday, March 27, 2016 8:30 AM

Happy Easter. Enjoy your day!!!!

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