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Posted by wrmcclellan on Friday, December 4, 2020 6:12 PM

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Considering that rig they're going to suit you up with you might  wind up looking like Maria the Robot from that old silent sci-fi film "Metropolis!"

Stay stong and hang tough Roy!

That is precisely what I look like! Except I ain't shiney....

Day 2 under the belt!

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Friday, December 4, 2020 6:14 PM

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Your radiation suit looks pretty cool - you could also be Radioactive Man......

I like it!

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Posted by dougdagrump on Friday, December 4, 2020 7:37 PM

wrmcclellan

 

 

 
anjdevil2
Your radiation suit looks pretty cool - you could also be Radioactive Man......

 

I like it!

 

Be sure to save it for next Halloween.

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Posted by Snip on Friday, December 4, 2020 10:31 PM

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...

Pondering the sale of 31 acres of timber.  Good price but not the best.  Waiting for call from CPA.  She may be the game changer.  Don't have to sell.  Will really not mess up my hunting as plenty more woods to hunt.  It is the oldest timber.  40+ years old. 

 

... 

I just read this, my wife partly inherited her dad's tree farm.

While not directly managing it, it is an interesting business, such as; years of negative income and then one year of positive income, and back to years (decades?) of negative income.

Hunters are allowed, but only if they contribute to the upkeep of the property, and don't screw or nail into the trees for their blinds.

About 20 years ago, my Father-in-law planted a number of oak trees, knowing fully well that they will be ready for harvest several generations beyond his lifetime.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Saturday, December 5, 2020 9:03 AM

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we have no idea if this is Covid related or not

Maybe, maybe not.  I lost two friends this year and it wasn't COVID that killed them.  There's a lot of things out there that can "Carry you off," as my late mother-in-law would have said.  A lot of people seem to be forgetting that.

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:02 AM

.77 inches of rain. Two big pour downs after midnight. Sunny and windy. 53 degrees. 

 
Got call from widow former Co. Comm. Truck still not cranking. She needs a battery. Since I'm not doing anything, will drive across county and see.
 
Wifey cooked country ham biscuits and grits [with ham gravy]. 

Snip, we are 99% southern lobloy pine.  Only a few hardwoods.  Bet you have lots of deer as they love accorns.

 

Have a safe and good day. 

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Saturday, December 5, 2020 7:12 PM

Regards, Roy

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Posted by fifedog on Sunday, December 6, 2020 7:41 AM

Mornin' boys.  Wifey told me to get the tree up today, so I'll talk tomorrow.

Roy - Lovely set. Yes

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Sunday, December 6, 2020 9:59 AM

50 chilly degrees and that is in the sun.  Rain coming again tonight and into tomorrow early.

 

Both of us are being lazy today. Got the birthday meal for Wifey's cousin at 2:30. Hoping restaurant will be almost empty. A little uneasy about the eating out thingy now. NC setting records and Gov. sitting on his hands. Youngsville [a town just north west of us in Franklin Co.] made national news by having their Christmas Parade and violating Gov.s rules. Nothing done to them. Make rules and don't enforce them. Means they are worthless. 

 

 

Hoping all will stay well. 

 

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Posted by cheapclassics on Sunday, December 6, 2020 10:38 AM

Good morning all,

Roy, gots to love the Standard Gauge!  Finally got upgrade to work on test system Friday!  Next week hopefully for production.  Once the problem was resolved, it took 12 minutes to run!!!  Go figure.  Lots of other good news.  Ran the gas out of John Deere finishing off the last small patch of leaves.  Did a 3.4 mile walk Saturday outside in under an hour (hopeful but doubtful we have the Mini in May).  Found a set of building bricks I thought I had lost.  Found a really good COVID mask I thought I had lost (front seat of Escape, again go figure).  Christmas tree is decorated and most of wife's village is in the bay window.  Watched not one but 2 entertainng matches of the English Premiere League yesterday (one was recorded).  Got to Mass early enough to get "my" seat in church ( yeah, I know it is kind of stupid, but the moment added to the general upward trend in my satisfaction level).  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, December 6, 2020 11:36 AM

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Roy, gots to love the Standard Gauge! 

I concur wholeheartedly!  I wish I had the room (And the wallet!) to indulge a bit of it myself.

I saw these folks at the WGHOT show in Chantilly VA last year.  Even though the video's from a year earlier at another location this is what they had, and let me tell you, the video really doesn't do it justice, you just had to be there!  Stunning!

Here it is, "Party like it's 1939!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4JNaaGvO-U  

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Posted by KRM on Sunday, December 6, 2020 11:37 AM

If it wasn't for bad luck,,,,, Friday I went to cut a wild hair out of my nose and clipped a blood vessel! WOW what a bloody mess. Took 45 minutes to get it to stop. The cat thought I was checking out and for a bit I thought I would have to go to the hospital. But after bleeding all over and applying pressure twice for 15 minutes It stopped. Been trying not to touch my nose ever since. Be careful out there! I never thought about COVID at all when I was bleading all over the bathroom. Smile, Wink & Grin Laugh

Chief we call that yellow pine. Nice trees.

Nice Roy, Yes

Fife, ours has been up for a week. I ran away when wife and the kids started to put it up. Wink

Weather has been too warm for this time of year. We have not had a day with highs only the 30s yet. I will take it. Been shotgun season this weekend and I see a guy in orange about 30 yards off the southwest corrner of our place above the ravine has a tree stand. Glad I saw him. Jack sits back there and hunts so it is good to know there is someone else there. One would think the guy would stop by and say so but nope! Stupid is !!!!

Best get, be safe!

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Sunday, December 6, 2020 1:36 PM

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Been shotgun season this weekend and I see a guy in orange

Man, did that trigger a memory!

Back in the mid-Eighties I was pheasant hunting (not peasant hunting!) with a friend up in the Walpack area of Northwest New Jersey. We were half-way up the side of a mountain and stopped to take a break.  Sitting on a large boulder we had a great view out over the valley and saw hundreds  of guys in blaze orange moving through the fields.  It was like an invading army!

"Jeez, look at THAT!" Charlie said.

"Yeah," I replied, "Now I kind of know how those guys at Bunker Hill felt when they saw all those people in the red coats coming at 'em!" 

We didn't get anything, by the way.  The only thing I came away with on that mountainside was a small rock with sea-shell fossils imbedded in it, which was an interesting find in it's own right.  Imagine, there we were at several hundred feet above sea level and here's a rock that was once part of an ocean floor.  Makes you think. 

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Posted by Snip on Sunday, December 6, 2020 7:54 PM

ChiefEagles

Snip, we are 99% southern lobloy pine.  Only a few hardwoods.  Bet you have lots of deer as they love accorns.

 

The current crop is "popple" (an evergreen used for pulp). We wait until the county forrester (or someone like that) says we can harvest some. Father and Mother in-law planted a lot of popple years ago. 1/3 has been harvested.  The farm is mostly trees with a few small hayfields. I think the planted trees only make of half of the total woods.

Some great wx we've been having lately. Last night we had a light dusting of snow, but it is gone.

Thanks Roy for keeping us informed!

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Posted by Banks on Monday, December 7, 2020 8:50 AM

Hello there,

Roy......train looks nice, continued Prayers.

DIL's aunt died from Wuhan.

Mrs has a friend from grade school to today who's husband is hospitalized with it. Another friends sister died.

Still no luck hunting. Haven't been out much.

Got the pressure tank changed. 

Winter is here. Highs below 30 for a couple of days.  This AM is annual eye doc and chiropractor at 3 for both of us.

Best get toit.

Prayers for those in need, those affected by the fires, hurricanes and the end of this pandemic.  

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Monday, December 7, 2020 9:58 AM

Remember Pearl Harbor.  Everyone cries out "9-11" but forgets pearl Harbor.  

 

42 and misty rain.  About to stop.  Rained good earlier.  No snow for us.  Up in VA and west.  Cold air rushing in behind this for a few days.  Natural gas usage was about 1/3 of last years for Nov. 

 

Not much on agenda.  Maybe Train Box as messy and cold.

 

Hope all are safe and well.    

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, December 7, 2020 10:07 AM

ChiefEagles
Remember Pearl Harbor.  Everyone cries out "9-11" but forgets pearl Harbor.  

Indeed!  But you know how it is Chief, if you didn't live through the event and have no first-hand memories of it it may as well have happened 100 years ago.  There are exceptions of course, but in a few years those born after 9/11/2001 won't give it much more thought than the Battle of Gettysburg.  Sad, but just the way it is. 

I wonder how much thought they give to Pearl Harbor, and how much the US's place in the world changed permanently after it?

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Posted by KRM on Monday, December 7, 2020 10:47 AM

Flintlock76

 

 
ChiefEagles
Remember Pearl Harbor.  Everyone cries out "9-11" but forgets pearl Harbor.  

 

Indeed!  But you know how it is Chief, if you didn't live through the event and have no first-hand memories of it it may as well have happened 100 years ago.  There are exceptions of course, but in a few years those born after 9/11/2001 won't give it much more thought than the Battle of Gettysburg.  Sad, but just the way it is. 

I wonder how much thought they give to Pearl Harbor, and how much the US's place in the world changed permanently after it?

 

 

So true Flintlock!

 And Remember the Maine!  Wink

LP usage here is way down Chief. Okay with me. They are talking high 50s later in the week. I am sure we will pay down the road.

The deer seem to have won the fight over the weekend. None of the guys got anything but cold. Laugh

Made a early trip to Walmart to avoid the rush, seems other are catching on as well. Way too many there for 8:15am. Surprise

Banks, that is a lot of people you know who have paid the price of COVID. Prayers for them all!

Best get.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, December 7, 2020 12:41 PM

V8Vega
Our drunk with power govenor has shut eveything down again.

I probably shouldn't say anything not having a dog in that fight, but I hear there's a lot of push-back out there, including from the law enforcement community.  I watched a video last night with a California sheriff, he laid out the push-back reasons very forcefully and succinctly, and in a calm collected manner.  No wild man revolutionary he.

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Posted by dougdagrump on Monday, December 7, 2020 3:24 PM

Flint, I believe part of the issue is that many parts of our so called intellectual society blame all of the world's ills, past and present, on us. Enuff of the soapbox.

The Christmas layout in the garage is slow going but getting there. We plan on the doors being open on the 22nd and the 23rd for maybe 3hrs each nite. Trying to decide if we will pick up some candy canes to give to the visitors, I guess that would fall into  the "carryout" category. Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Monday, December 7, 2020 3:25 PM
Good afternoon!!!

Pearl was the Greatest Generation's 9/11 - we don’t not forget either------

Recap - Friday was a rainy nasty day - Mom, my sister and my BIL headed to VA for my niece's wedding.  Jenni came over, we tried to fix the roadrunner - the 51 year old PS hose was leaking, and it got replaced but now leaks through the threads - so I'll have to seal it with tape at another time.  It was raining and now getting dark - so we used her HHR to get the tree and home with us it went.  We started setting up he N scale and then her Z scale on the coffee table, using foam boards from some of the packing materials I saved.  

Saturday I went back to Mom's to feed the ferals and continued on the N and Z Scale - did not get the Evite to the wedding and was at Trains and Things when I got the link from my Princess, so we watched it from the train store.  We picked up a Mopar Express set, some Marx, Lionel Tran Day car, Just Plug lights and a few other things.  Turns out, I was going to buy Jenni the Mopar Express and she was going to buy it for me.  Headed back to Jenni's house for a bit, then back to MY house to get trees and some other things from the train attic, then to Mom's to feed the ferals.  Headed back to Jenni's to start with the trees on the N/Z scale and string the lights on the tree.

Sunday back to Mom's and then to small food shop.  Cleaned Jenni's house as she cooked brunch (it was noon).  Finished up the Z and N scale layout.  Ran out to get fire starters for the fireplace and some other things for the house.  Back to Mom's.  Stopped to get aspen chips (out at the pet store) then a fire log (lines were crazy long again at Shop Rite), got back to Jenni's without.  Her friend showed up and we decorated the tree, afterwards we had dinner, got the Mopar Express running under the tree, set up a small village with creche under the tree.  Wrapped up with The Christmas Chronicles Part 1 - Red HEMI Challenger for Santa, anyone?

Roy - Looks GREAT!! Heal up soon!!

Spank - Prayers for Lucy!!!

Had 2 deaths in my social circles - 1 was Cancer.

Fife - I have/had 3 - they said I would pass all of them.  Haven't ssen 'em - tired of peeing through a strainer after 3 days....

Sunny and COLD!!!  39 right now.......

That's all from here - If I can get to posting, I'll see if I can get the N/Z Scale layout pics here!! - Video:   youtu.be/TcCM7my7_VU

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Monday, December 7, 2020 3:43 PM

Nice N and Z scale Christmas layouts 'Devil, and with the tree lights behind they look downright magical!

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Monday, December 7, 2020 6:30 PM

Flintlock76

 

 
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Remember Pearl Harbor.  Everyone cries out "9-11" but forgets pearl Harbor.  

 

Indeed!  But you know how it is Chief, if you didn't live through the event and have no first-hand memories of it it may as well have happened 100 years ago.  There are exceptions of course, but in a few years those born after 9/11/2001 won't give it much more thought than the Battle of Gettysburg.  Sad, but just the way it is. 

I wonder how much thought they give to Pearl Harbor, and how much the US's place in the world changed permanently after it?

 

 

I wasn't born then but will always remember that day and honor it.  Most veterans do remember and honor military dates and happenings.

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 8:28 AM

Good Morning!!!

Took the night off - was in bed by 10.

36 now and up to 25 MPH winds.  too cold too early for me - a dusting of snow due tomorrow morning.

Line/Exec meeting tonight - THIS should be fun...... Robert's Rules will be with me and the by laws, not like last month.  Time to rock the boat.....

Thanks, Flint!! Jenni did most of the work, I supplied the track work and the trees.....don't get her started on my tree stash....LMAO!!!

Off to work - check back later 

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 10:04 AM

Morning folks!

Doin' ok after #3. Met briefly with radiation doc after the treatment. I am getting shot with PHOTONs! wowzers! Beam me up Scottie and hold the photon torpedoes! #4 today, every day at 1:45 pm. Glad to be checkin' 'em off!

Got a good night sleep for first time in last couple months - due to exhaustion and various pains...it was welcome....

Anj - coffee table layout looks great! Nice job!

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 4:00 PM

Home. Finished by 2:55. Stopped by Northern Tool and picked up my bench grinder [I am going to try and fix the old one. bet brushes.]

44 and a little breeze. Did wear heavy coat.

Later.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 5:06 PM
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Posted by fifedog on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 5:28 AM

Mornin' boys.  Cold out.  Got transmission issue taken care of, now the wheel bearings are goin' bad.  Woof.  Spent yesterday up on the mountain top, tending to my folks.

anjdevil - nice little pike there.

Roy - Keep on truckin'.

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Posted by MartyE on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 6:06 AM

Morning all.

Hope everyone is doing ok.  Dad is back in the hospital for a night then onto a Rehibiltation home due to not getting enough PT at the assistant living.  Hopefully the new place will get him up and about again.  The holidays are going to be rough on him especially since he can socialize.

Roy glad to see you checking off those treatments!  Stay strong!

Didn't get through all the posts this week so if I missed anything big my apologies.

Stay safe everyone!

Trying to update my avatar since 2020 Laugh

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Posted by smokey1 on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 7:27 AM

Perfect time for Dad to buy some coal for a stocking or two

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