It's the "stroke of 12" and the sun is setting, fellas. Looks like it's time to remodel the diner again...
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Howdy!
Drove the truck out of town a few miles to get 10 bags of "Moo Doo" which is just Cow Manure for the garden. Got back home unloaded the bags into the garden, drove the truck back around the house to park it. The D@%^ Brakes stuck on again!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR! So I am waiting to have my son follow me up to the dealers and give me a ride back home. This time they WILL replace the calipers on it! So much for trying to save money. The truck has been driven several times in the 2 weeks since they "fixed" it, so it is not the, "Oh you need to drive it more" solution!
Robby P. Last day with the M-I-L !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice ain't it.... Actually I am one of those guys who absolutely adored my MIL. She was one of the sweetest and kindest persons that ever lived. I miss her much more than my own Mother (and I do miss her too). My MIL was well read, intelligent, easy to get along with, and helpful. She also was the world's best pie baker!!! You wouldn't waste one of her pies in that darned catapult thing. The crusts would simply melt in your mouth. Friday night in their house was traditionally called "scraps and apple pie" night as as my FIL got paid on Friday and there wasn't time to go to the store before supper time. And, by Thursday the money was already spent....... My Mother got all of her pies "homemade" by Mrs. Smith from the frozen foods aisle at the Super Market. She would say why make them yourself when they are just as good as homemade..... She was right as I remember her homemade pies... Ugh! Yep just the same as Mrs. Smiths....
Oh, BTW Jeffrey, I have a nest of Robins raising a brood in the light cover on my back porch. I have been trying to get a photo of them, maybe later. They get very nervous having me too near the nest although I can nw walk by and they don't leave unless I look at them.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
1/2 cup coffee in a SantaFe mug, please & thanks.
Storms are knocking on the valley here.
Not much to report on. Have a good day all.
Rob
Good late morning. I will take a sweet tea for now.
I'm coming and going. Last day with the M-I-L !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gotta go to a few stores, and thats our day. Haven't touched the layout. Haven't been home to much .
Jeff.........If you want some Robins, I have babies all over the place at my house. Its like the Robins have been watching the rabbits around here.
Well everybody, I gotta run.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Mornin all. I've been working on some more lighting in Toddland (of which I'm king) this morning. Well, staring is morelike it. Thought I had some wire. Guess I was wrong. Now I'm trying to justify a trip to town to get some. Wonder what else I need?
Have a Great Day!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Second cup of Jo ... rain again !!! My old friend Arthur Ritis is having a field day in my back .... .... hope all had a great weekend . Received yet another diecast caboose ... that I did'nt need ... LOL . Making some windows/winshields for the Williams CF's .... I won't paint or weather in humid weather . Have to finish stripping one car of detail parts and reinstalling them on another ..... why am I never satisfied ... ? Found a set of number decals for them so I won't have 2 of the same number ... YEA !! Later folks .... God Bless .....
Mornin' everyone!
A bit chilly here in the Finger Lakes this morning. Currently 56°F under cloudy skies and a high of only 61°F this afternoon. Looking at some rain later in the day and all day tomorrow. That is a good thing as we are at less than half our normal rainfall for the last several months. Predicting an inch of rain today and tonight and another inch tomorrow.
Zoe I'll have bowl of one of those high fiber cereals. You know the one with the dried fruit and the nuts. Morning Blends I think they call it.... Ya I know we already have enough "nuts" in here but we are an interesting crew to be sure! Oh, don't forget a pot of dark roast in a FGLK Mug. Thanks!
I have to work fast if I am going to get everything done I had planned for the outside today. Got to buy some "MooPoo" for the garden, then get it rototilled in so I can plant my broccoli and peppers.
I'll go sit in the back with Barry and watch Jerry first. (Ooo, I'm a poet and don't know it......)
Brought in a nice article about my son. He would have titled it "Trailer Trash makes good" (family joke as we lived several times in mobile homes, some very nice ones BTW when he was growing up). He says that now he will be able to keep me in a "good" nursing home in a few years....
Enjoy! http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2009/news090511.html
Good Morning All...Its cloudy and 68 here got a bunch of rain yesterday..I'll have ham and eggs,fried taters and just leave the coffee pot on the table please..Thank You...Visiting Nurse is coming this morning to take the last 5 staples out of my leg gonna be good to get them out..Worked alittle yesterday on a couple of circus wagons for my circus train...
Jeff..Thats another good photo..my thoughts and prayers for your Dad..
You all have a good one..Jerry
Looks like I'm buying..Order up and enjoy!!I'll be in the kitchen on KP ...This dish washing is hard on my hands!..LOL...
Good morning all
Hope all enjoyed their weekend.
A nice quiet but active weekend here with beaut-eous weather!
Thanks to all those who have and do serve. I may not agree with the conflict they were/are in, but salute them.
The prayer candle is lit for all those who need thoughts and prayers!
Jeffrey W check that PM we have going. I had my gall bladder taken out {cholecystectomy} some years ago after it plagued me for 5 years of agony. Since it only had "sludge" and no stones they thought better to leave it?! Hope he does well and they find a speedy conclusion to his woes.
My other half has fasting blood work this AM, so maybe we go out to breakfast at Pete's Legacy Diner after.
Well, have a great day every body!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Good Morning All,
51 F this morning with blue skies and just a bit of breeze. I'll have a regular and a donut please - what? - oh just a glazed one please. Bearded people and powdered sugar coverings can look messy.
Jeff - prayers for your father, hope they find whats up and can remedy it.
Jerry - I like the scene. It should blend right in once you get some ground cover on it.
Not much up here. I spent yesterday pulling apart the shop air lines to cure multiple leaks and by the time I was done had run out of ambition. Went to the house and fell asleep a page into my magazine. Back into the shop this morning and hard at it as soon as I'm done with my coffee. Catch y'all later. J.R.
blownout cylinderThe robins be singin'.
Good morning.It's 67 and partly cloudy. The high will be in the upper 80's and thunderstorms are expected.Today the docs will be checking out my father to try and find out what's giving him so much grief. From the symptoms he's experiencing I'm thinking gall stones, but there's so many other things that can cause the same symptoms. Didn't get anything done on the layout yesterday as other things kept getting in the way. Maybe I'll have better luck today.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 5/26/2009Wind Chill: 68°FHumidity: 96%Dew Point: 67°FSo Far TodayHigh: 70°FLow: 67°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 3mph SToday High: 88 Partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the morning...then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.Tonight Low: 68 Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph in the evening becoming northeast after midnight.
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Good Mornin'
The robins be singin'. The sparrows be chirpin'. The warblers and finches be doin' their thing---
And I'm having my Good Mornin' coffee--thanks Chloe.
The weather here is going to get wet as we're clouding up with showers beginning tonight, going through tomorrow--with more t'underboomers--and ending on Friday apparently.
Got some work to do this mornin' for a client and the office called about getting me to come down to check up on some paperwork that seems to have gone missing----some dang fool misplaced the originals and it's off to look for copies----yeeesh
Chloe, I'll have a refill of coffee and a muffin please---I'll be at the corner booth watching the trains---and getting ready for work---
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Evenin' Well, didn't make it to the train room. Tomorrow though .
Jerry- Bridge looks great!
Chris and RT Thanks for the quotes. I've copied a few to keep.
Garry and Ray- I love the little detail items. Hopefully someday I too will be able to accomplish that level of detail.
Kevin- Welcome back. I'm certainly glad you were not there when that happened
Rob- I agree. Jump in and get going. (after track plan of course) most "mistakes" can be corrected but something is better than nothing if you have the opportunity.
Paul- Well chief, you're right. That explains a lot . No seriously, I owe my life to a quick thinking Blackhawk pilot. Few people walk away from a mid air collision.
What? No Barry I am NOT wiping my fingerprints off the Pie-A-Pault. With the windows open it just got a little.......dusty.
G'night all. Gonna make it an early night. Windows are open and the breeze is cool. Prayers for those in need.
Evening Gang: Well we hauled hay again today. Hopefully this will last for a month.
A big Howdy to all my fellow vets. U.S. Army CW-2 65 to 72. A helicopter pilot. That explains why I am just a bit off level.
Well I'm really beat so I'll say
Good Night All
Rob,
You are certainly right about just starting a project. I keep paralyzing myself with fear that I'm going to screw something up. I need to remember that yes, it's not going to go how I planned. It will turn okay though. I just have to mess around with it for a while. Analysis paralysis!
Tall glass of cool lemon water, please.
***Kevin, I would also qualify as an extreme procrastinator, as it took me 46 years to start a layout (excluding the 4'x8' table in my early teens that never went anywhere). Now I just hope I still have time left to finish a layout. Sometimes just starting something, even if not "perfect", is better than waiting, especially since perfection is seldom reached anyway. My worth.
Good night y'all.
CPRail modeler As for my order, I'll have a slice of apple...SPLAT!!! ...pie...
As for my order, I'll have a slice of apple...SPLAT!!!
...pie...
CPRail Modeler!!--here, I think Todd was trying the catapault again-----
CPRail modelerHowever, there is also bad news. Roughly three and a half hours ago from the time I posted, there was a shooting at my high school. Some crazy guy jumped from the bushes and started shooting people with a pellet gun and pepper spraying people
And I'm sure he had a good excuse to tell the friendly officer who he had to explain this to.
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Well, been a quiet day all around.
Have a good night everyone. I'm heading off to
Hi,
It's been a while since I've been in here. Probably gone through at least 5 diners without me, main reason being that I've been quite busy.
3 months ago, I got a job at the local library. 16 dollars an hour...most people my age make about half that with their first jobs! While I plan to save a good part of it, some will also go to the layout, which is STILL in the planning stages. Call me an extreme procrastinater (if that is the correct term) if you will. I've also purchased alot more equipment, track, two locos, 8 or so freight cars and a Digitrax Zephyr.
However, there is also bad news. Roughly three and a half hours ago from the time I posted, there was a shooting at my high school. Some crazy guy jumped from the bushes and started shooting people with a pellet gun and pepper spraying people. No one was killed or seriously injured, but it's kind of scary when it happens so close to home. BTW, I was home when it happened, so I heard about it from the local news.
Kevin
Hey all me again wow 3 post in one night well got this in an email a few minutes ago so thought I would share it with you all also.
Once each May, amid the quiet hills and rolling lanes and breeze-brushed trees of Arlington National Cemetery, far above the majestic Potomac and the monuments and memorials of our Nation's Capital just beyond, the graves of America's military dead are decorated with the beautiful flag that in life these brave souls followed and loved. This scene is repeated across our land and around the world, wherever our defenders rest! . Let us hold it our sacred duty and our inestimable privilege on this day to decorate these graves ourselves -- with a fervent prayer and a pledge of true allegiance to the cause of liberty, peace, and country for which America's own have ever se! rved and sac! rificed. ... Our pledge and our prayer this day are those of free men and free women who know that all we hold dear must constantly be built up, fostered, revered and guarded vigilantly from those in every age who seek its destruction. We know, as have our Nation's defenders down through the years, that there can never be peace without its essential elements of liberty, justice and independence. Those true and only building blocks of peace were the lone and lasting cause and hope and prayer that lighted the way of those whom we honor and remember this Memorial Day. To keep faith with our hallowed dead, let us be sure, and very sure, today and every day of our lives, that we keep their cause, their hope, their prayer, forever our country's own." --Ronald Reagan
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Good Evenin'
To all who served in the military--Audrey and I salute you!!
Jeff-What you said in your Memorial Day thread was very well written----thanks for puttin' it out
I's be sitting here kinda relaxin'
fec153 Well darn. Haven't been in in months and now it's my treat. So dig in one and all. Flip
Well darn. Haven't been in in months and now it's my treat. So dig in one and all.
Flip
Dig in all
fec153 For all Nam vets- WELCOME HOME! For all fellow Vets, Thanks for serving. PFC 54 -56 7th I.C.C. 3rd Div. Ft Benning Hq. & Hq. Co. Flip
For all Nam vets- WELCOME HOME!
For all fellow Vets, Thanks for serving.
PFC 54 -56 7th I.C.C. 3rd Div. Ft Benning Hq. & Hq. Co.
Flip I'am concidered a vietnam vet all though I never made it to vietnam. I praise all you vets that did. Now on the other side of the coin I was one of the first ashore when the marine barricks was suide blow up and lost a freind there that I didn't even know he joined the marines after I left that duty station (he was a civilian worker on the base in indian head, MD. when I left there. Filled vending machines) I carried him to staging area didn't know it was him in the body bag but something told me to stick around and see when they opened the bag up.
I also was in the first persian Gulf war. from beginning to the end When we left Norfolk from what I was told we basicly did a decoration of war as we went straight to the suez cannal as normally it takes us about 2 weeks to get to Rota , Spain we went by there in 7 as we normally go down and come back up, we cut straight across the atlantic ocean I was on the U.S.S. Wisconsin BB-64 then .
1/2 cup coffee in a Burlington Northern mug, please & thanks.
On this Memorial Day, THANK YOU, all who serve(d), including my father, lead bombarier B24 Liberator. Sadly, sounds like he's needing to move into an assisted living facility.
Woke up last night drenched in sweat with that chest thing again. Wondering if I have sleep apnea that is causing angina? Anyway, trying not to worry about this until the wife is working and insurance kicks in, (easier said than done). Might take 2-3 months before I am covered.
Raining here today. Good for the veggie garden.
Have a good day all.
Hello everybody.
It looks like many of you are having a good day,and I'm glad.
Jeff, I hope your Dad's health problem can be solve quickly. I bet, he is not consumer your DaBomb sauce at the present time.
Where's Ryan? He needs to come back. He should be manning the BBQ grill.
As Dick said...where is Fergie? ...and Bill T?... Ed? ..Luc?
I'm glad Fip stopped in......
If you are interested, I posted another photo in WPF...
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Mornin', well, what's left of it.
JEFF: I saw your post on Memorial Day. All I can add is a hearty "AMEN!" and "THANK YOU!"
To all of our vets, thank you for your service. Some of you didn't have much choice, getting an "invitation" from Uncle Sam. Some of you volunteered. ALL of you did what needed to be done, and there are still some of us out here who are grateful, and in awe and wonderment of your devotion and duty.
Some thoughts for the day:
"[L]et us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us re-consecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain." --Dwight Eisenhower
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." --Sir Winston Churchill
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." --Calvin Coolidge
"Not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions, but there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men." --Pericles
Earlier this morning, I covered a Memorial Day observance in North Liberty (American Legion Bicentennial Post 1976). The local Boy Scout Troop assisted the Legion for a simple, yet moving ceremony capped off with the sounding of "Taps" and the 21-gun salute. I met (and thanked) a man who very recently returned from his third tour in Iraq with the Iowa Army Nat. Guard.
I don't mind w**king on a holliday when I get the honor and privalege (sp.) of an opportunity like that.
Stay SAFE...
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Mornin' folks!
Hope you are having a thoughtful and reflective Memorial Day. I will be spending part of the day praying for all who have lost their lives defending their way(s) of life. And for all those who have died because of man's inhumanity to man, greed, and hatred............ My prayers go out to all people everywhere whose lives have been changed by the horror of war. May our servicemen who paid the ultimate price not have died in vain!
I will have the #2 special this morning Flo. Over easy on the eggs, bacon, homefries, sour dough toast, and lots of coffee in a FGLK Mug.
Wanted to get the rest of the deck sealed today but I see the predicted low for tonight is well below what they say is good for drying, so I guess it can wait a few more days. I guess I'll rototil the garden again and get ready to plant my summer veggies. May mow lawn after that. With any luck, I may finish up another detail for the layout as well.
Hope all of you have a blessed day!
Goood Morning, Coffee please. Gentle rain this morn. Good to have rain and no storm or deluge for a change. We don't need rain right now.
Even though the bank is closed today, I suppose I'll do the bookwork for the Church and the deposit will be ready Tuesday morn. Then it looks like I'll get to do a little stint in the train room today. Hopefully. Of course it looked like I was going to win the lottery too, until they drew the numbers.
I said I'd help the lady who owns the restaurant pack the food on delivery days and help rotate stock. Should only take about an hour on Tues and Fri morns. She has some long named problem with the tendon in her right shoulder that can only be fixed by taking a piece of her hamstring or some such thing. She's a nice young girl so I'll help her out. I kinda hate to get myself tied into this too much. I already wait tables on Wed eves for a bit while the regular bowls and help bartend when he gets real busy. Not that I mind, it's just that I was planning on getting a job this year, retirement needs a boost ya know, and I hate to let them start depending on me then say , "well I'm outa here"
Jeff- I enlisted as a 64C, they call it an 88M now for some silly reason. After about 3 yrs I got on what they call "Full Time" ( though my paycheck came from the DOD) as a mechanic and became a 63B. Spent the rest of my time in Maintenance.
For those of you cooking out today, be careful
Thank you for all the things we enjoy made possible by all those who passed before us. Happy Memorial Day.
T. Marshall, MSG, 63Z, ARNG 1983-2004
Good morning All....
Our thoughts with all those who have and those who are now serving our great Country....
Its 68 and rain'in here...I'll have a sasauge sandwitch and coffee please..Gonna be a long day for me today..Sallie has Dialysis and caregiver has day off..maybe some train time and a long nap...LOL..
Here is a shot of New Hiway overpass with miror don't have it blended in with ground cover yet...
This is my latest rehab job..Eric you might recognize this car its a 40 foot gon I put trucks and couplers on and the load is a Walthers prime mover from their shop building..
You all have a good day....Jerry