Morning folks!
Well we have broken the record for annual rainfall and over 2 months left this year. 40" so far and another 3-5 " predicted through Tues night...
60 right now and high in the 40's for Mon and Tues...
8n - I did the same thing with my drug plan - Walgreens - nationwide - has worked well so far. Glad they got that straightened out!
Banks - good luck with the caliper/brake repairs!
Kev - "keeping him at a low pace" - I like that!
I feel so popular! I am gettingcalls from senators, congressmen, Russians, and even one this week from a person in China (I think?)
Talladega today!
Regards, Roy
Good evening all,
Nothing to report. Grandkids teams both lost Saturday evening. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Morning. Beautiful day out. Meetings in Raleigh today.
Morning before I got to the stand.
Have a good one.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
NICE BUCK, Chief!!!
Finished off filling the wood shed. Picked 3 nice 8' stumps of ash from Jim's place to finish it off. That will cover this year and next. The dead ash gives off the least heat but will be the first wood burnt next year so it will work out good. By the time it gets real cold I should be into the Oak. Time for a nap!!!
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Santa Ana winds are howling today and all night last evening. Pool is full of leaves and wind damaged an umbrella I forgot to lower. Strong gust at times. No shingles lost so far. I celebrated my 82nd birthday this weekend. Kids took me out to dinner two days in a row. One gift I got was a plaque showing every type of Atlantic Coast Line EMD locomotive in the silver and purple livery. (My favorite)
Have a good week,
Ray
SPMan
Happy Birthday, Ray!!
Chief - Get there earlier....lol!! There was a doe and 2 fawns in my backyard on Friday. We have deer living behind the house and they are all over. We also have raccoon, opossum, squirrels, birds, vultures are a regular, and fox. Where we live is not rural by any stretch, but we do still have farms and woods close by.Saturday was a small inventory taking day in the train attic.....I found that I have maybe 100 boxcars in and out of boxes, scale and O-27, tank cars about 25-30 the bulk of which are Sunoco tankers, about 100 assorted flat cars, gondolas and hoppers, about 50 engines ( I did run a 8606 NYC that hadn't been run in 15 years, lubed it up and smokes like a champ, runs great, an MTH NYC 0-6-0 smokes and runs and the 2055 RT sold me). Found another 9000 series car, so now I have 6. About 70 caboose, again postwar, MPC and modern, boxed and unboxed. And then I found another box of assorted rolling stock.......at that point I called it a night. I'm positive there is more, I still have 3 more sets (1 is an MTH with LocoSound) which need to over to the front of the attic with the other 4 sets (2 Polar Express, Fire Rescue from 2002, NJT set with add on car, Western Maryland GP38 set, MTH and a Winter Wonderland set). I left my Temple Observation car at Mom's house, totally forgot it, I'll stop by on Wednesday. There is no accessory shortage, I have houses, farms and barns, log loader, bascule bridge, sawmill and a huge assortment of Dept. 56.I probably have more than enough to do a 50 X 50 layout.....
Crazy afternoon already, systems failures and all that. But 10 scans so far....
Back later!
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Semi-busy day at work. Will get colder Tuesday. Did errands for wife tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Hello there,
Ray.........HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Today was one of the days when the weather was all over the place. Grass needs cut but it's just to soggy. Thankfully the weather has cooled enough it's not growing much .
Found an adapter and finished the brake project yesterday. Today I did a quick check of everything else. Found the air filter box plum full of grass. Mice must've been looking for higher ground.
Got the camper out of the carport, it has a green tint to it from all the rain. Going to wash it tomorrow and take care of some odds and ends that need attention. The game plan is to pick Mrs up after work Wednesday and head for York.
Roy.......I'll look you up 1st thing when I get there Thursday. Have you heard from John F or Buckeye???
Best try to sleep.
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Hi all
Been busy at work and haven't stopped in a while. Looking forward to the York show and getting away from here for a few days! Hope everyone is ahaving a great week so far. I haven't read through the thread so hopefully everyone is doing ok.
Trying to update my avatar since 2020
MartyE and Kodi the Husky Dog! ( 3/31/90-9/28/04 ) www.MartyE.com My O Gauge Web Page and Home of Kodiak Junction!
Mornin' boys. Cloudy and 46 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Had to stop by the yard, on my only day off, to fix the audio system on the train. Lucky we had a spare wire burried in the store room.
SPMan celebrating 82. Youngest Princess celebrating 18. Took her and her boyfriend, along with the newlyweds, to Patrick's for Wings & Yings, then we all carved pumpkins in our dining room (her idea). She adores Halloween. Even had a pumpkin icecream cake.
V8Vega - Follow you heart... Doesn't seem you have any love for CA anyways.
Anjdevil - Can't wait to see the finished product.
Chief - You can walk across the deer here. WV reintroduced elk recently.
Will miss you guys headed to YORK. Have always wanted to meet Northwoods Flyer.
Morning. Busy day today. Hope all enjoy York.
Sun, but 35 and frost early this morning.
Safe travels to the Yorkies. At the photo shot, say hi to the fellers for me.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Afternoon FellasMissing York this Friday just doesn't seem natural, but has to be done. We decided not to pull the trigger on building a home with the first builder, met with a realtor who took us to builder #2... had potential till we started digging into the details and found they may not even build the house we wanted... found builder #3 on Sunday and went to visit without TheVPQ as she was on her way to Greensboro for another site visit. Anyhoo... this builder's homes are very impressive and within our range, so meeting tomorrow to review the details. Keeping fingers crossed because this puts us into an awesome school district, more upscale area, and cuts TheVPQ's commute down to 30 - 40 minutes!The house is Pittsburgh continues to get online views, but no showing requests... keeping fingers crossed! Heading up next Wednesday to put the finishing touches on a couple items... hope they make the difference.Kev - Nice wood shed! I may need to build one of those at the next house. Banks - that Tahoe project sounds like a number of my projects! Fife - Need to get out your way for a visit!Roy & other Yorkies - safe travels!
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Moved. It was hard to say good-bye to Roger's Corners. Many train memories.
See you 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
Evening,Hope EVERYONE has a good trip, finds everything, and has a great time !!!
Don
Morning. Another busy day. Cloudy and warm.
Sad, trooper shot and killed. Guy was caught a little later.
Safe trips to York. Enjoy.
Waiting on Mrs to get out of work then heading east
Good day at work. Got more done than expected. Weather tolerable for walk. Did little at home tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Fall is back. Heading east to hunt. Back tomorrow night. Rain coming Saturday.
Have a good trip Yorkies.
Later.
Good morning from a cold North Bluff!
32 and HEAVY frost out there, heading to 60 later. Sun and a wild turkey is eating under the bird feeder. Wife is asleep.
A trip to Menards this morning. Had a attack of GERD last night and could not eat without trowing up,,,WTH? I am hungry. I had that about 15 to 20 years ago and it seems to be coming back. Guess I will need to get back on the Omeprazole every day for awhile. I have noticed I have been having a hard time swallowing for a few months now but last night was the worst attack I have had. Most time it is bread or potatoes that do it.
Safe travels to the York folks!
Brent, The wood shed roof is 20' x 10', between the post is 8' x 16'. With the splitter sitting on 4' of one end and the west end outside the post filled it holds about 3.25 to 3.5 full cords of wood. Keeps the wood very nice.
Afternoon FellasKev - that is a nice wood shed! Met with the builder last night and the fireplace I wanted can not be installed in the house. They do a blower test to analyze the house's heating and cooling efficiency and since the fireplace is only 77% efficient they won't clear it for install. Disappointing, but it does save us some $$$... but no wood burning. The build looks like a go... still a few items to iron out and then sign the build contract... hopefully on Saturday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Roy
was at York from noon til 430. Spent some time chewing the fat with Roy. He was the only one I found. Hopefully find more at the CTT booth tomorrow at 1.
Walked Silver, Blue and half of Orange halls. Saw lots of Gilbert HO but nothing I don't have or was willing to pay the price. I did get a Lionel 654 Sunoco tank car and a vintage print of a K4 to add to my Christmas /Train cave. Both for less than $20.
This evening Mrs and I had steak, onions and baked taters at the campground.
88......seems to me another example of government sticking their nose where it doesn't belong.
Ready to crash.
Had awards event for junior high team. Went well. Work mostly quiet today. Weather cool but tolerable. I hope everyone has a good day.
Roy --->
88 - Jump over the Potomac. We let you build whatever your heart desires...
I will be there in spirit with the YORKies. The rest of me will be in Frostburg.
Mornin' FellasNot real bugged about the fireplace... there are other areas where the $$$ can be better spent on the new house. If we really want to burn logs, I can have a wood burning stove put in the basement later on.Going to miss York today. Definitely will need to go in April to get my 'fix'. Lots going on this weekend. Hope it all works out.I get to coach my first soccer game tomorrow... that is sure to end in disaster! LOL! Roy! More to come...
Morning all,
Hapy Birthday Roy.
Not a lot going on here today. We got our pre- pre-approval to but another house. They want to have it where I can go in as a cash offer basically. Basically I'll be going in already completely approved for the house. The house is 1275 sqft but the garage isn't heated but easily can be done, so that will take the house up to 1700 sqft. I'll probably close the garage off and it will become my train room. The garage was added on to the house, I can see where the windows use to be from the garage side so may take on of those and cut thru into the house and make it a door. (its in one of the bedrooms ( the smallest bedroom. ) so I have access from the house. The garage is 17' x 25' so if I make it 12' x 25' layaout, that will give me room to have a small work shop and walking area on one side of the layout. the garage door and a access door are on the 17' wide area.
Otherwise no real news. This all came about, because with some searching for services for my wife should something prevent me from performing them, and discovered the county I live in doesn't have the funds to suport such services. So we don't have it.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Happy Birthday Roy!!!
Brent that is just stupid that they can tell you that you can't have a fireplace but to tell the truth if I could do it over I would not have a fireplace and would of gone with a wood burning stove where the fireplace is with glass doors. The fireplace just sucks up wood and don't give much in return for all the work.
Good luck on the move RT!
Spent best part of 4 hours on the phone and on-line trying to change one dental INS policy for next year.
Busy day at work. Worked out some issues there. Watched Blue Bloods tonight. Weather ok. Traffic rough getting home. Too many wrecks and construction. I hope everyone has a good day.
Kev - they aren't saying we 'can't' have it, they are saying it won't pass the blower test. I was looking at the QuadraFire 7100, think fireplace insert on steriods! Once TheVPQ and I talked about it we found the gas fireplace they install by default won't be so bad... we won't have to buy and store wood, won't need the fireplace tools and other items... just declutters the room. I can also, much more safely, hang the TV above the fireplace giving the room a single focal point. The cost savings on the fireplace will also allow us to have the built-in cabinets and shelves installed next to both sides of the fireplace... win-win!Good luck to RT!
Morning all.
Well tomorrow we will put a offer in on the house we want. So I guess I need to start packing up all my trains in boxes I can move them in. ( Never, and I mean Never trust anybody to move your trains if it's possible.LOL )
Anyway not much going on here today. Hope all have a good day, talk to you all later
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