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Jim - Sorry I didn't notice your earlier post - HAPPY BIRTHDAY you old fart ! (is it okay to say that here? I should be able to 'cause I'm probably older than you - heck, I'm older than dirt!) Phil - good to be back amongst some fine folks. Thanks for your concern, and your thoughts re: my nephew. I'm just beat from using muscles that had long since gone into hiding. Swinging a 22 ounce "California Framer" all day long over your head while hanging off the side of a tipsy ladder is challenging both my equilibrium and my body. There's just some places that an air nailer won't fit. Fixing the bottom plates to the concrete floor using a 22 calibre charge in a nailer you have to wack with a hammer is tough on the ears, too. Then there's the sawdust in my nose and behind my contacts, and the occasional scorpion I step on ! That has forced me to start wearing shoes in the basement now ! I hate scorpions worse than spiders, and delight in squishing them. Weather's been typical for this time of year - hot & humid w' rain in the afternoon almost every third day. We had an incredibly violent electrical storm a few days ago, and lightening burned down two houses in the area. One of them belonged to one of my wife's co-workers. No one was hurt, but a week ago, 3 people were killed by lightening about fifty miles away. Nasty stuff. Has anyone heard from 'emory' recently? He was a regular on the NES until just before the door was slammed shut on it. Lupo - I'd be fibbing if I said i hadn't forgot about getting you the info on my UP stuff. I did forget, and will get it to you real soon. Tom - we should try and get together soon and share info on our interchanging railroads. We're not too far away from each other, and I hear the coffee is exceptional up in the mountains. Wayne - where in the northern Adirondacks are you located? I grew up in the Mohawk Valley, and spent many a summer weekend at Old Forge or Lake George, and skied almost every weekend in Turin or at McCauley Mountain outside OId Forge. God's Country. Last time I was up there I paid a visit to the Adirondack RR - now called something else I think, saw the shops near McKeever or Thendara (can't recall - it's been a long time) and walked across the trackless trestle at McKeever over the Moose River (?), just as we use to in high school. They sure have tidied up the former NYC Union Station in Utica. Too bad more of those classic depots haven't been preserved. We are fortunate that there are several resurrected depots where I am now, espedcially the ex-L&N ones in Woodstock, Holly Springs, and Blue Ridge, GA. Hey it's late - tomorrow's another day of more blood, sweat & tears, followed by the next day. BILL
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