Evening, Chloe, I'll have an oatmeal raisin cookie and a cup of hot cocoa, please.
Ah, looks like this is where the Diner used to be (judging from the empty spot here).
Here's the link to the new siding for the Diner (XVIII), to save a little looking for it...
Jim in Cape Girardeau
No rain for us in the forseeable future
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. West wind between 9 and 11 mph. Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75. North wind around 10 mph. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Northeast wind between 10 and 17 mph.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Afternoon all, just stopping in for a RBF and a little catching up. I'm off work for the foreseeable future (too wet to work). So I'll probably be on here a lot more. Well, I've finally been approved to create a "wish/project" list for my layout. So far I've been working on an excel spreadsheet with all the stats that I've decided are important to me (and more importantly, for Amy, so she can surprise me with new locomotives and rolling stock and such). Its going to be a big list, but I don't mind, the layout is going to be a long-term project, so the acquiring of stuff can be long-term too.
It would also appear that we are at 50 pages, so if no one else does, I'll be happy to start a new diner, if someone could just link us back to the old one for reference's sake.
Milk and a Huge steak, Zoe, with a Punkin' P*e for dessert.
ULRICH: Good to see that you are still with us!
Yesterday I won 1st place in the NWTF Mehoopany Creek Chapter Extreme Jakes Turkey Calling Contest without a call, using my mouth. My cousin won second, using the same technique that i learned from her.
I'm Happy
Woo!
See Yall!
Ulrich- Great to hear from you. We were getting a bit worried my friend. Get some rest and take care the continue.
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.
Mornin' ....... Uh, guess it's Afternoon already!
Just coffee for me right now Flo.
Ulrich! Good to see that you are still with us. Many of us were starting to get worried. Glad you are finally up and around a bit. Hope that you continue to recover well and gain back more strength every day! My prayers go out for you, friend!
I must have gotten myself tired out at the Museum yesterday as I slept in until 10AM this morning. Have lots of housew**k to do today (laundry and stuff) and then a Martin Luther King Committee meeting this evening. I got a forwarded email this morning about one of our 2008 Scholarship winners. She has been named the Virginia State University Miss Sophomore for 2009-2010, is a member of the Honors Program at the University, is treasurer of the Virginia State University Gospel Choral, and is maintaining a 3.2 GPA. She was one of my students way back when I was teaching Music and a very neat young lady!!! Do I sound proud?
The cats are bugging me for lunch, so I best give them FOOD! Yes they know the word, as soon as I say FOOD they run to the kitchen and look at me........
Later!
73
[edit] Looks like lunch is on me so order up!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Ulrich: We'll keep praying boy!! Good to hear from you!!
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...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Ulrich, Man, I don't know what to say. I've been praying for you. I do hope the doc's get things straight for you.
Good Morning...Its sunny and 70 here..Very dry Jeff send some of that rain up this way...I'll have coffee and coffee cake please...Thank You..You all have a good one...Jerry
Good Afternoon, everybody,
this is the first day I am allowed to get up and walk around a little. Took me some time to walk into the lobby, where they have this internet cafe.
Something must have not worked out properly during the surgery. The docs kept me flat out for three days. I was out of intensive care on Saturday. Funny thing to go to sleep on a Monday and to wake up Thursday night...
I am alive, but still very, very weak. Most of the time I just sleep.
I am so grateful having been given a new chance in life. My sincere thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers. I will be back soon to follow up on what´s been going on here in the Diner in the meantime.
Flo, whatever the chowhounds here are having - it´s on me!
I´ll go back to my room to get a rest.
Mornin' all!What a busy weekend! I had to teach both Saturday and Sunday, so on Sunday afternoon when I was done I just hopped on the bike and rode into the sunset. I rode for 7 hours and covered a ton of southern Indiana's country back roads. Tell ya what.......THAT, is good for the soul!So whats up with all of you today?
Morning Gang: Well It's been awhile again. I've been busy as usual. Who said retirement was relaxing? Anyway it's been raining for the last four days. We have six inches so far and more expected today and tommorow. I guess the drought is over for a bit. The pond is about a foot from full which it hasn't been in several years. The last time it was full I had pumped water into it from the frack pound which we still have. I'm about to send a resgestered letter to the company that built the thing and tell them to use it or loose it. These oil and gas companys will lie like rugs.
I haven't done any model railroading in ether HO or the live steam. There just seems to be something else that just has to be done all the time. When I leave the diner I have to work on the vacumme cleaner. Like I say always something. I was going to fix it a couple of days ago but when I went out to the shop I was covered with fleas right quick. I got some bug bombs and set two off Saturday and another last night. I hope that trakes care of them.
Well this isn't getting anything done. I'll see you all later. Have a good one.
Good morning.It's 76 and cloudy. The high will be around 80 and there's a chance of rain.Didn't get much accomplished yesterday with the exception of getting the old heater out of the house and getting the new one in. That becomes a real trick when you can't carry more than 15 pounds and you have to keep off your feet as much as possible, but I pulled it off. I still have to move the pieces of the old heater cabinet out to the roadside so they can be picked up with the trash. It took a good part of the rest of the day to get the room back in order. Today I have to go into town to turn in some library materials then go by the pharmacy to pick up some meds. Later I may have a chance to get some layout work done.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 9/14/2009Heat Index: 83°FHumidity: 93%Dew Point: 75°FSo Far TodayHigh: 77°FLow: 75°FRain: 0.13"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 8mph NNEThrough 10 AM...widely scattered showers and a few thunderstorms will continue to develop and move north or northeast across the region. Most of the activity will be found east of the Sabine River...and hourly rainfall rates will average a tenth of an inch. A few heavier showers or thunderstorms will produce up to a half-inch.Today High: 85 Numerous showers and thunderstorms. Chance of rain 60 percent. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight Low: 70 Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
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An extra large coffee TO GO, please.
The cemet boys are here doing some scraping (with our tractor...which is why they're cheap I suppose) and setting up for the first pours. Wife wants a walk & pad in the garden for her Dad, when she brings him out for visits. (I can't say argue about that ne, eh!) Plus a small retailing wall, just outside the room under the porch that is the main reason they're here. It's raingin lightly here. With more in the forcast for the week, hard to say how much will get done.
Have a good one y'all.
Rob
LSWrrThe Cleveland Browns didn’t disappoint anyone here in town; they lost as usual.
Good morning. What's this? Pancakes? Well ok but I think I'll say this is the last day for pancakes for a bit. Could I get some coffee and a couple of whole hog sausage patties with these please. Thank you.
Yesterday went well I suppose. No hair loss other than the usually shedding. I skipped church to work at mom's because I don't have a day to spend there for the next week. It's not like I wasn't in communication with the Big Guy, I was talkin to him all the time asking for patience and understanding and to please put his hand on my head to keep it from blowing the top off. I did get the second floor done, just some trash that needs to be loaded up and taken to the elevator and put in the dumpster. So that makes the basement and the second floor done. Now just most of the first floor, some of the garage, the two sheds and the pole barn to go. I've decided to give up on reason and just let her take whatever she wants. It's easier that way.
Lee- That's a good idea on the leaves. Looking at our weather forecast I may have to borrow some of your glue. Where has the Summer gone.
Jim- We have crop dusters here too. When the corn gets too high for the Hagies and the beans too thick they use the planes. I like watching them too. I wouldn't want to ride with them, my spot on the ground is juuuust fine with me.
Rob and Jim- Weeeeell I would love to help out in the strength department, but you see I sorta gotta twinge in my wrist and I'd better not further the damage. (also you'd find out I'm fairly full of Rob's avatar)
NittanyLion- The paint job does look good, but I agree that if I had to choose I would use a darker grey. The red looks fine from here. Ditto on Lee's safety stripe color suggestion.
Well not much planned for today. Of course the weekly bookwork for the church and then home for some stuff around here. Burning season opens tomorrow in Williamsville and I have a pile ready to go, The hose is attached to the outside faucet and has had a service check as has the lawn chair, some Blue Ribbon refreshments cooling down and some pulled pork BBQ ready to slap between some bread YEEE HAWWW! Might just go out and stomp it a bit to get the right compaction for a successful first burn. BUT... for today, straighten up the kitchen some, then.......CHOO! CHOOO! (hopefully). Might have to wash the dogs feet. They smell like corn chips again.
Have a Great Day!!
Good morning. Looks like its going to be a sunny week all week.
I didn't get to stop by yesterday, its football season. I kinda park myself in front of the tv.
Not much planned today. Maybe just clean up the house some.
I will talk to everybody later.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good Morning--#2
'Spring' sent my last attempt into the aether so I'm tryin' this ag'in--
This morning we have a bunch of fog for our viewing pleasure. The temperature is supposed to get to 28C for a high while the low will be 11C tonight. Still lotsa sun is forecast although yesterday it did the opposite---be dull dull dull and give us nuisance showers---
Today I have off so this'll give me a chance to pick up some last minute groceries and things for tomorrow I'll be doing work and starting evening classes-----
Flo, I'll go with the stack o' pancakes with maple syrup and a coffee please---I'll be over at the corner booth keeping Duke company--
I was all excited because I'd finished my first full scale test of my railroad's paint scheme, but digital photography revealed to me that I did a terrible job of masking. The colors didn't hit right either. I airbrushed SP Scarlet and spray painted Model Master Panzer gray. The red seemed oddly thin out of the bottle and came out thinner than I'd like. And the gray dried much lighter than I'd expected. Despite how bright it is in the picture, its much darker in person. I was looking for a brighter red and have tested Testors Guards Red (BRIGHT!) but have trouble with it being mottled. Guess I really do need to learn how to airbrush so I can get the darker gray I'd prefer and maybe use Soo or CP red for the right color.
Actual:
Target:
The gray vexes me. I used the same color on a building and produced the dark gray I wanted. I had primed with a light gray, and I wonder if somehow that had an impact. Tomorrow I am going to test spray my new red again and the gray on a shell thats been prepped with white Floquil.
JimRCGMOJeff - good to hear your area's getting a break from the 'drizzlecane' of the past couple of days. Good to hear you got the old heater (and cabinet) out without any problems for your feet. That new heater sounds like you could even move a couple of hundred miles north and stay warm!
Haven't heard anything of Ulrich. Anybody got any info?
PackerThat list of jobs you put up has some ones I've though about, #8 and #9 strike me as jobs I'd actually consider taking. Most of those jobs on there are probably easier and less gross than the one I have
JimRC: After looking over that job list thingee I'd rather keep this one I've got-- some of those don't look too inviting!! LOL!! The IT job might be one I'd consider---now if only my so called skills would show up----ahem coff coff
Well, morning comes early for me so's I best be headin' off to
Have a good night people----
Evening all (hey where ya'll at?), Flo a bucket of caramel popcorn for me. I'll be near the big screen TV watching the rest of the Packers / bears game. *dons cheesehead*
As usual work was a killer on the weekend. We were supposed to have a 60% chance of rain, but it was sunny all day. Guess the weather guys need to be able to look out the window. Got some stuff done on the MR front. Added some weight to some cars I have, and put some kadees one others. Also got the pipe load for my bulkhead flat finished, for less than 10 cents I think it looks pretty good, just need to get some black thread and we'll be in buisness. I have enough left over for my other bulkheads that'll be coming in. Also made a run to AC moore for some wood and to see if the airbrush jars they had would fit my airbrush (Anyone every here of Gunze?). Niether Badger's or Iwata would fit. I'm going to check Pensacola's HSs before I throw in the towel and get a badger.
Flu season is here in this part of the country. Both my brother and sister have gotten sick recently, now I'm starting to get the sniffles although allergy medicine seems to stop it. Guess falls in the air too.
Jim, uhoh, I just hope that soldering iron wasn't on or you'd have more troubles than just derailed cars.
That list of jobs you put up has some ones I've though about, #8 and #9 strike me as jobs I'd actually consider taking. Most of those jobs on there are probably easier and less gross than the one I have.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Evenin' all. Janie, I'll have a RBF, thanks.
I'll be sitting at the RC catching up.
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Good Evening--
A little busy tonight I see--Hello Ray, what was the attendence like at the show?--
I got a couple of loaders pieced together for the Williston Elevator Co. site -- now all I have to do is give them that metal clad look and finally get them placed there. Then it was the fun and games of finding a use for the old movie house--which is now featuring a 'For Sale or Lease' sign--(as I'm still trying to figure out where to put it) And some more houses are showing up around the layout. The highlight was actually having a couple of friends over for an informal operating session which featured a 'Spring' watching the activities from the bookcase and having his tail puff up everytime the engines would sound off So far I did not have a derailment----yet I've also started another elevator----just to bug one of my friends---he thinks I'm a little too much of a granger route guy----
JimRC: There are about 2 people up near Harriston ON that I know who still use crop dusters of the winged variety. The planes do have a short take off/landing capability ---they are also a hoot when one is landing/taking off in them--as in--I'll just pick up my stomach later I think I'd just keep using anything that rolls on the ground--huge booms or whatever---
Flo, I'll just have a coffee and a SRP please----I'll be at the RC with Ray--
Evenin' folks!
JimRCGMOSeems like not as many Diners have been stopping by today, so hopefully that means you've all been busy with MRR'ing or other fun stuff.
Don't know about anybody else, but I been playing with the 1/1 scale trains today.... Played Museum Guide for the day. We ended up with people working down there. The guy in charge spends most of his time up the hill at the other museum. All 3 of us are members at both places. The 3rd. gentleman is a newcomer this Summer at both museums as he just moved into the area. He is also an NMRA member but hasn't had national change his address yet as he will be moving shortly again (staying in the area). Didn't have very many visitors today so mostly we cleaned up some stuff and sat around chatting except for when the track cars arrived with some guests. Always have a good time out there. Too bad it is an hour drive to get there and an hour drive home......
Zoe how about a slice of pecan pie and a decafe.... I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter with Jim and wait for Barry to show up.
Good Evening, Flo - I'll have a Rio Grande mug of coffee and one of those oatmeal raisin cookies, please. Thank you - scrumptuous!
TMarshAround here and most places I've seen them, unless traveling really long distances they just buzz down the road with them and the truck meets them at the field. I don't know what the shed looking ting is on the truck. Could it be like a workshop or dry storage? A workshop of sorts would be a dandy and handy idea. The things are always needing something done to fix them booms. Holes in the field do a number on the sprayer arms bouncing around. So does the occasional power pole.
Todd, down in the 'Bootheel' of Missouri (anywhere from 30 miles south of here, all the way to the Arkansas border) what they usually do is use an old biplane (prop-driven) that's been fitted with all the tanks and spraying arms they can put on them, and it's fun (so long as the pilot's not a relative of yours) to watch them spray. The plane will drop down like a hawk at one end of a field, fly about 7-10 feet off the ground (spraying insectide/pesticide along the way), continuing until you're SURE he's gonna run smack into the wind row of trees at the other end, pull up (probably getting a dozen G's for himself in the process), does a 180 turn on the wingtip, comes back on the next few rows, and heads back the other way up the field. Something else, and you have to be about certifiably insane to fly one of those rigs...I know because I was married for a while to a farmer's daughter and their farm was a ways down in the Bootheel. Apparently they can make good money (well, until they don't pull up in quite enough time, or happen to NOT miss the aformentioned power pole...). Any of you city slickers, see #8 on this page.
Uh, Barry, would the person who liked that 'weave' thing happen to be a fellow countryman of yours? Just guessing there...
Lee, best wishes on that idea (good theory, anyway), but I think you might be needing a LOT of that Gorilla glue, since otherwise you might be getting your neighbor's tree's leaves (so you'll have to sneak into his yard and glue all those back on and re-paint them...
Jeff - good to hear your area's getting a break from the 'drizzlecane' of the past couple of days. Good to hear you got the old heater (and cabinet) out without any problems for your feet. That new heater sounds like you could even move a couple of hundred miles north and stay warm!
Here's that covered hopper I got for $13.50 yesterday at the train show:
Decided I'll have to limit how many of these 3-bay (PS 2893) covered hoppers I use, since I saw that on most of the 3-bay ones I have, their build date is somewhere in 1959 (the absolute latest year for my RR's era). The PS 2003 (2-bay) covered hoppers have earlier build dates, so I can actually weather them more than the 3-bay ones, too.
W**k on the tracklaying got delayed again today for two reasons - first, there was an earthquake on the CAW:
(Actually, this giant that went by with a huge shop vac may have hit the edge of the area and caused the tremors, it's reported). Second reason the tracklaying is delayed is, couldn't find my rail cutters - only found the flush cutters (that look a little like the rail cutters, but just won't do the job). So called my LHS owner/MRR club member and asked him if he could bring me another rail cutters to the club meeting tomorrow night (yep, he had one). I got spoiled by using rail cutters; don't want to go back even to the Zona saw (let alone the XActo p-o-c I tried using before that).
Our district fair continues - last night they had firew**ks at the end of the official evening's festivities - about 9 or 10 p.m. or so..Today/tonight is the Bootheel Draft Horse Challenge, followed by the Draft Horse and Mule Hitches event. Monday night is hot rod and tractor pull night, and Demo Derby is Tuesday night (sponsored by an Auto Tire and Parts place - gee, what a match...). So far, no problems with 'extra' cars in our apartment building's parking lot, so that's good.
Rob - I'd watch your cement folks extra close, so they don't get too many thoughts about leaving out anything important... Hey! With what Todd said he can lift, maybe we could enter him in that Draft Horse Challenge (well, in the lightweight category...) at the fair tonight - Todd, load up in the car and get down here!
And speaking once again of farm things, I wound up (what's the term?) 'detasseling/shucking' four ears of corn. I'd bought the four for one dollar last week and there was supposed to be some way you nuke them (?) for so long in the husks and all, and all the stuff comes off easily. But I couldn't recall the details, so I just stripped them husks and such off and then broke the ears in half for more portions (besides, I don't really need to eat a whole ear that's a foot or more long...) I recalled how to 'shuck' from the summer when I was married and we stayed at her folks' farm (between 2 different school district jobs). I learned that on a farm, you don't get the option of 'passing' on certain tasks...
Still no word from Ulrich? Anyone heard anything or received an email? Might need to see about getting the bloodhounds to track him down in the hospital, if they're keeping him there still. I just sent an email to Ulrich's email address (and used an online translator to try to get it into sorta German, so if Petra or another family member is checking his email, they can relay it on to him.
Seems like not as many Diners have been stopping by today, so hopefully that means you've all been busy with MRR'ing or other fun stuff.
I'll grab a spot at the RC for now until I finish up this cookie and head home.
Blessings and prayers,
Coffee in a GS-4 mug, please & thanks.
***Todd, I could sure use you around the farm...wouldn't have to bother with the tractor much at all.
***Barry, lots of neat pics. Hey, is that a "haunted house" in your last post? Also curious, with all the factory photos you take, do you ever get questioned by Security? Keep 'em coming!
Finished cleaning out under the porch. I'm beat! Hope these cheap-bid cement people do a decent job on the floor.
I had to disassemble the old heater (read as remove actual heater from huge and heavy wood cabinet and disassemble said cabinet) to get it out of here. While I had the actual heater out where I could get at it I decided to open it up and see what had gone wrong. Upon removing the back panel I could see that most of the space within was taken up by the stuff needed for the flickering flame light show and the rear projection screen. The ACTUAL heater was on top of all this hoo-ha and was smaller than an average shoe box. In fact, it's about the size of two Atlas loco boxes stacked on top of each other. All of it's parts are an integral unit with all the controls incorporated into the construction. I took this apart and located the thermostat. It was just as I figured. The thermostat had somehow shorted and welded itself closed. This was why the heater ran away. I had also correctly figured that replacement of said thermostat could only have been done by the replacement of the unit, so buying a new heater was actually the best course of action. I was however able to recover the two light bulbs that were required for the flickering flame effect and will keep them as spares for the bulbs in the new unit. I already looked and they're the same type bulbs it uses. One additional item is that the controls for the new unit are separate from the actual heater casing meaning that the thermostat and switches can be replaced without having to disassemble the entire unit. The new one looks a lot better too. Being that it takes up less space under the front of the layout that gives me some more space in which to tuck some tool cases (non-flammable) away for storage. I've already tested the new unit and it almost ran me out of here on low (700 watts, high is 1400 watts). It's rated for 400 square feet so it should have no trouble keeping my little trailer warm this winter.