morning...
There was a young man named Timmerick
who loved to share a good limmerick.
He gave his gal Ange-lie-amond
a great big fat dia-mond
just for the heck of ick!!
Quotable Quotes:
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
-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!
The last day of May! This month has gone by quickly. It was also quite an expensive month. I have overspent my MRRing budget, digging deep onto July´s allowance. Until end of July, all I can afford is a bottle of white glue. Luckily, that´s all I need till then. I just bought the paint I need for the backdrop, a big bottle of white paint and a small bottle of blue paint. I´ll mx my own shades - makes things a lot cheaper. The paint was a whopping $ 10. The ballast is on order and already being paid for. I´d need some more stripwood to build the last dock, but that will have to wait until August.
There is a fair chance my friend will come over this afternoon and help me with the wiring. It´d be great to run a loco over the layout, which is kind of static as of now.
The next week will see my first attempts on the backdrop ...
Have a great one!
Good morning. It's 71° with 100% humidity. Very cloudy with a high of 85° and decidedly wet with a fair chance of showers and thunderstorms. with No plans for today except of course to stay dry. I may get some freight cars out later and see what I can do to them regarding weathering.As I said yesterday the Duodisk disk drive blew out the 0101 controller I use to test M0104/M0107/M0108 disk drives. As I need to have one on hand for testing I had to get a replacement from one of the other IIe's that was so equipped. I'll have to get a replacement for that one in July or August.Last nights storms left behind quite a mess. I can hear the neighbors cleaning up their yards now before a new storm system comes through. Right now the radar doesn't show much but with the air coming up from the gulf that can quickly change. Hopefully I won't have to go anywhere today.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Afternoon Folks!
I am a little bit miffed, as my friend didn´t show up
At least he should have given me a ring. Spend a couple of hours just waiting.
Janie, coffee and aslice of that deliciously looking pie, please. Maybe that sweet stuff will help me get over this disappointment (in the true meaning of this word...)
Me again!
Everyone seems to be busy today - kind of lonely here in the Diner.
After watching a couple of H2 videos on backdrop painting, I decided to give it a go - to quench my frustration! I will be employing a mix of techniques, brush and sponge. In a first step, I roughly outlined the areas where clouds will be. Next, I painted the clouds in a light gray, not uniformly, but as the paint flowed from the brush. I will let it dry until tomorrow, before attacking the blue colors. I decided on three different shades of blue - avery. very light blue (near white) on the bottom, a light blue in the middle and a tad darker blue on the top. For the cloud texture, I will later employ a sponge to apply various shades of grey and "broken" white. Some highlights will be added with a grayish light yellow, where the sunlight strikes the clouds.
I have never been good at arts, so this is a really big challenge for me. I won´t post pictures before the backdrop is near completion, just in case I have to redo it again. I will take pictures along the process, though, and post them maybe in aseparate thread on painting my backdrop - if it turns out nicely.
Ulrich:
I tried a little while ago and got "website not found"...so i assumed they were doing the maintenance thingy...maybe not, or the sure did it fast!
So:
also people are busy outside if nice weather! I shoudl/woulda/coulda gotten out the front this morning and did something. maybe tomorow!
later.
galaxyI tried a little while ago and got "website not found"...so i assumed they were doing the maintenance thingy...maybe not, or the sure did it fast!
Quoted from Steven Otte's posting. "Forums may experience sporadic page-not-found errors, inability to log in, and the like occasionally throughout that weekend."
Shame on me - I completely forgot about it.
So far, I had no issues accessing the forum, but that may change wile I sleep...
Calling it a day here at the ´ puter - CU all next month!
Got more thunderstorms going through. Right now it's a light rain but I can hear the thunder in the distance and where's there's thunder there's lightning and usually heavy rain. Radar shows that one cell has already passed through here and there's more heavy clouds down in south Louisiana heading this way with a good possibility of becoming more thunderstorms.Did a little weathering on an old Athearn tank car. A little dirt, a little rust, an accent here and there.
Sounds like you have had some good stomrs Jeff. We here have been dry for about two weeks now, we need some rain and they are calling for it Monday.
Did another 22 miles on the bike today ( that makes close to 45 in two days ) so I am taking tomorrow off for sure,lol. Spent the morning outsid and could feel my skin starting to burn and I was right as when I came in I was a bit pink. If I would have stayed out all day I can only imagine the pain I would be in right now. Knnes are a little sore so might just sit back and watch the Rays and Red sox game and maybe play a game of strat baseball.
Good Evening Folks and Herr Ulrich!
Flo, pleases and no need for the Rope and Rafter.
Work Front! Hee Hee Hee, I beat the heck out on Nancy today in Sales! Besides the extra drive time and gas used biggest reason I hate going to St Charles is I feel like it is Nancys way of saying I stink at sales and it is my fault the store is dong badly!
While I wish none of our stores do badly, I sure was hoping Fairview Heights would fall on it faces! By 2:00 PM Nancy called the store I was at and said "She is Derpressed how slow the store is and has had not a single sale yet". I on the other hand had a great day, made a extra $155.00 in Spiffs! On a Sad Note I out sold the whole company By My Self Today! While I had a good day it was not a Great Day with only $2600.00 in sales.
Other good thing today I was right, my pay check was $25.00 short like I thought. Got the $25.00 in cash. That sure with the gas today. By the way, if any one reads this and says so, there tap is on me all next month!
Later, Ken
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I hate Rust
I found out today that I have a house guest. A Carolina anole lizard also known as a chameleon because of it's ability to change from green to brown for camouflage. It should help put a little dent in the number of flies in here. But if I find it on any of my computers or trains it's getting evicted provided I can catch it. I used to be able to catch these things all day long with no problem but that was when I was twelve. I could move a lot faster then than I can now. When I saw the thing it was laying on top of the cable modem. Getting warm most likely. I keep it 70-75° in here year round. The modem belongs to the cable company so I'm not too concerned about it.Now wouldn't you know, we have another thunderstorm coming through. I can hear the rain hitting the roof now and the thunder is getting louder every minute. I'm gonna have to get off soon anyway so it's time I call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.Farmer Brown got lucky!
Evenin' Folks...
Janie just a decaf for me tonight.
Been another too busy day here in the Finger Lakes. Headed out to the grocery store before lunch and spent way too much money. I have accumulated 70¢ of per gallon for the next time I need to buy dinosaur juice for the car. That will be about Tuesday next week. I have just enough gas left in the Pip to make it our to the Museum and back tomorrow. RTight now I have gotten 93mpg on this tank of gas (Not including the kWs of electrons from the roof). That will go down about 10 mpg tomorrow due to the trip to the museum... Got the first of the 3 raised bed gardens rototilled, weeded, added Moo Poo, rototilled again, and gthen planted Squash (Zuchini yellow squash, and a few winter squash seeds. Went over to the hardware Value Store and got 3 hanging basket thingies and some hardware to to be able to hang 5 baskets. The hardware is installed on the fence, and there are now 5 hanging baskets decoating the fence on my side... That took most all of the day.
Todat was an excellent day for the solar panels netting me 28.45 kWh of power. I will end the month of May down about 50 kWh from last year though. Hopefully I will make that up in June and July which were not as good as they should have been last year (Lots of clouds and rain during those months last year. June and July should be the top producing months of the year!
I need to be up early tomorrow as I am working Train Crew (we are running diesel trains). ave a great night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
All aboard!
The May Diner is now closed and ready or the move to its new June 2014 location.
Thanks for your participation!