Prayers for Hudson John's mom's surgery today.
Thunderstorms all day here with a high of 56, only 52 tomorrow.
Cubs got their rear kicked last night in game one. He he he!
Fire in the fireplace last night with wifey and me talking about things from over the years. Your right RT, she has had her hands full with me.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Welcome back fife.
Gloomy skies and rain headed our way through tomorrow.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Mornin' boys. Frost and 31 along the Patterson Creek cut-off today. We got some more furniture shopping to do, I think. Half our belongings are still out in the garage. Spent $200 on a new kitchen trash can at the WallyMart... You know what I mean fellas...
Mom was sent home late last night from Morgantown. WVU is one of the best hospitals we've ever stepped into. Staff was top notch.
Northwoods - No flamingos made the journey west... Thank you, sir.
Fife,
Good to see you back. Even those of us who just lurk around the coffee pot have missed you. I hope all goes well for you and your family. Hope to see some work on a new layout soon.
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The Northwoods Flyer Collection
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"The Toy For the Boy"
Good evening all,
Had one of life's small pleasures today as pain two made a big mistake, tried to blame me and was shown proof of her own error in her own handwriting..... Got latest CTT today. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Wow. Last week of October, and I have not posted this month. Where has the time gone?
We celebrated our 37th anneversary early in the month with a Celtic Thunder concert.
The next day, we ran a kid's program at the KATY Depot. Had a Thomas the Train layout that the kids could run, adnd 6' by 9' with two loops running a selection of other things. the Moe & Joe lumber car was a favorite, ass was our new (to us) accuisition - a barrel loader.
Preparing this week to set up our Polar Express layout at the local toy show/swap meet this coming weekend. Built new tables for this one last weekend - the old ones were too heavy and have assigned to Thomas service at the museum.
We wandered through the holiday section at Menards last weekend. Came home with one of the flat cars with a bus loads.
Lost one of my co-workers of 13 years to cancer a few weeks back. Lost a neighbor to cancer too - he was the town's piano tuner.
Medically, I'm working on a tight/sore tendon in my leg and my wife's asthma is flared up again.
Condolances to those on the 'pot who have lost friends and family.
Prayers for those needing healing.
Pulled up all of my tomato plants but one several weeks back. That one had one tomato that was just starting to turn ripe along with a bunch of good sized green ones. The weather forecast for the next week was for reasonable weather, so I left that plant in, figuring on one more vine ripe tomato. Turned out better than I thought. That one vine has produced about 6 more tomatos.
About all for now.
Boy Kevin she sure has put up with a lot in the last 34 years. Sandra you must be one great person to put up with him that long I know my wife is for putting up with me for 32 years.
Congratulations to the both of you.
Fife you found a way to communicate from them there hills. Great to hear from you.
Fife Glad Mom is doing well. It must of been the shock of you finally coming home. Persay.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Well 30 years ago today we got hitched. So we both ordered Heavy Carhartt flannel shirts today as our gifts. Just another day otherwise.
Yesterday was 34 years since we got together. In some way it seems like a long time and in others it seems like yesterday. A lot of stuff has hit the walls in the last 34 years. Glad she kept me.
Thanks for the welcomes and warm wishes. Mom is going home tonight, so you guys work fast!!!
Banks - for your Mrs.
Afternoon all,
Partly sunny here and temps running 10 degrees above normal for foreseeable future. Ugh.
Fifer - welcome back!
88 - maybe your equipment was part of the Botnet this past week?
Have a great day all!
Regards, Roy
Hello all
Up at work for the first full week of the season. Getting things turned on and ready to take data.
Found a stray dog on the road on the mountain. Took it down a found a place for it for the night. It was fortunately reunited w/ it's owners yesteday.
Hope too take care of a few little things on the motorhome this next week off. Need to put a clutch master cylinder in the Datsun. Was driving the Corvan around for a couple days and it did fine.
Cubs in the series? My first little league team was the Cubs, and like the actual team, we came in last place:)
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Cloudy and cool. rain later and all day tomorrow. Just going to sit it out.
Like Doug said, nothing on the local news but Cubs, Cubs, Cubs.
Good to see your back Fife, Hope your mom does well.
Wonder what Bob has been up to?
Mornin' FellasHE'S BAAACCCKKK! Welcome back Fife!Yes you do get a lot more done when off the grid! Well, unless you are trying to fix your connection to the grid - in which case you get nothing accomplished!I received a letter from Comcast last Thursday that I would be receiving a new gateway as the one I had from them was having issues. Well all weekend internet was spotting and WIFI was even worse. Made TheQ very upset because she had a business plan meeting on Saturday with her ASQ board, and she was prepping for an FDA Audit at NCI (Google NCI Dunleavy - look for the Washington Post article and not the Wall Street Journal). Anyhooo the new gateway arrived yesterday and I got it all setup and working... or so I thought... when TheQ got home and tried to use her laptop she wasn't able to connect to the internet... three hours later and I found one of the range extenders' firmware is out-of-date and when the new gateway came up it lost connection and could not reset itself. Everything is working now... well this morning when I tried to log onto work I didn't have a network connection - appears one of the network ports on the new gateway is dead... I'll deal with another day.BTW - have I mentioned that I really dislike computers? Not much else going on... gotta run.
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Aloha. World Series begins tonight - a big deal here in Chicago. Though the media is acting like there hasn't been a Series here in 71 years - just another reminder the White Sox aren't on anyone's radar screen... Glad you're back online, Fife, and moving in. Prayers for your mom's recovery, and Linda's mom. . .Hang in there, DJ.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 41 from Short Gap, West-by-God-Virginia!!! Hard to believe it's been 3 weeks without internet. BTW, you really do get a lot more done when you are off the grid...
Getting settled into the new fifedom slooooowwwwwly but surely. Lots of cleaning and shuffling things around. We were living on beach chairs until the new furniture arrived Friday. Still have to order more. Due to family events, including my mom having a mild heart attack, it's been difficult keeping one's nose to the grindstone. Wifey wants a lot done, but she sees I've been stretched thin this week.
Shocking thing from this whole ordeal was that I was able to overload 2 (two) 10-yard dumpsters with stuff. I was embarrassed that I had accumilated that much stuff to be discarded. Unfortunately, the layout became part of that pile. Just couldn't fit any of it in the POD. So, when the time comes, I shall begin all anew.
That's all for now. Gotta get caught up on the Coffee Pot. Missed you folks.
Mike was going to use it for resale at wife's booth in the vintage mall she has but decided to keep it. So it's up above the closet in my train cubboard (LOL) for a later day.
Evening all!
Sunny and warm here. Mid-80's for forseeable future. Ugh.
Long day here so calling it. Have a great evening all.
Very good day at work as both pains were gone. Good weather for walk. RT, the james Gang is one of the finest DC sets Lionel ever made. Very nice set, and I run mine every once in a while. I hope everyone has a good day.
I have know a lot of people who won't turn the heat on till Nov???? I am too old for that these days. If it is cold it is on.
No wind today, I just did about 5 loads of leaves and did the burn, sat in the chair with a beer and watched the leaves burn off. Chili tonight getting colder every day.
Prayers for those in need.
Evening all. Chilli-mac on menu for supper. Had two V.A. apointments today. Been taking it easy since. Got a early 80's set in today I won on the bay ( yes I know it is DC) the James Gang set. Actually like it more now than when I won it. Appears never to have been used. Was missing the shack but found one on line also so it now is complete. In original box. Nice addition to my collection.
Other thanthat no real train news for today. About time to eat so talk to you all later
Good Morning from beautiful Southern Ohio,
It is a little over cast and cool, in the mid 50’s. No furnace yet. We’ll see how long we can hold out.
It was a good and busy weekend. Doing yardwork to get things cleaned up. Borrowed my neighbor’s new backpack leaf blower and fell in love with it. It is a Husqvarna 150BT. He offered to sell it because it was bigger than he needed and I bought it about half of the new price. Train budget back to $0. Saturday night we took the kids and several friends to a Halloween scare the bejeebers out of you. It was well done and the kids enjoyed it.
Robmcc – we do not heal a quick as we used to!
Banks – I’m adding Mrs Banks to my daily prayers
Fife – When is the house warming party?
Joe – I was introduced to Skyline in 1978 when my upon graduation bride to be was going to Nursing School in Cincinnati. I think it was one of the original restaurants.
May God bless
Jim
Yes Brent you did mention that Penn beat the Buckeyes...
We all saw the game and know why they won by 3 points.
But a win is a win and it counts.
Morning all. 55 degrees and sunny. Off to the east to hunt. Back tomorrow night.
Prayers for Mrs. Banks.
Glad someone is track problems with this site. Something new everytime you visit it. Crazy.
Have a great week ahead.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Mornin' FellasWas an awesome weekend for College Football. Alabama started the day off with a convincing win over Texas A&M, then PSU upset #2 OSU! Took me a bit to wind down to be able to sleep Saturday night. Yesterday The Steelers proved once again that then really need to draft a quality backup for Big Ben. Tired of them saying "Oh Landry Jones is a viable backup, no need to worry." Yeah, and monkeys can be taught to shovel ____ but that doesn't mean they are good at it!Banks - Prayers for the Mrs. My renter texted me on Saturday and said they found a mass within one of her's. Really hope and pray it turns out to be nothing to worry about, she is a single mother of 3 and a very nice woman.We may hear from Fife later today or tomorrow when he gets hooked up to the modern world again... but knowing him he doesn't miss the computer all that much. Roy - Attics are for ventilation to keep the house cooler in the Summer, basements are for trains, man caves, work shops, etc. Sheds are for lawn equipment storage, work shops, and wood storage. My father stores his firewood in the basement under his garage... never quite thought that was safe, but safer than storing 100 cardboard boxes in an attic. Seen a few house fires that started in the attic and with all that cardboard = tinderbox!Leaves are starting to drop... yeah my least favorite part of Fall. Means I'll be mowing the leaves 2 - 3 times per week till Mother Nature is done blowing them all over creation!Oh yeah - in case I forgot to mention it... PSU beat OSU!
Banks....Prayers for your Mrs.
88...So Mountaineer Fife is out in the wilderness of WV.
Had a great visit with Mitch at York.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
Good weather today. Got 8.6 miles in today....all walking. Averaged 3.777 MPH so that was not too bad. Got to watch the sounds of F-1 today. US based team (HAAS) got a point for 10th. I hope everyone has a good day.
Well rib-eyes , mushrooms, and a salad tonight, Sure it was good but I can't taste or smell anything,,,,,,,,,,, Lung crud has moved to my head now so WTH????
Sandra said it was good. LOL
Nice weather here, got to 75, sun, just so nice, just wish I felt better.
Did leaves but only had 4 loads
No Roy basements are for trains. I just burn the hardwood floors and replace them in the spring.
RT - Basement too!
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