Yougottawanta asked: Mr. Beasly - love the picture of the wife carry - how did that event start ? I never knew people actually did this !
Mr. Beasly - love the picture of the wife carry - how did that event start ? I never knew people actually did this !
Apparantly, this sport originated in Finland. Sunday River ski resort in Maine has been doing this for 15 years. They now host the North American championship, and the winner qualifies for the World Championship to be held in Finland. "Qualification" for the Maine event involves being one of the first 30 couples to sign up. A team does not have to be married, but must be one male and one female, and both must be over 21.
Annie has always wanted to try this. This year, her boyfriend was up for it so they signed up.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Ulrich - What now that the order has been canceled ? What do you think you will switch to ?
YGW - I ordered it from a different source, where it was still on stock. Trix does not manufacture it anylonger - no wonder, they must have been losing a lot of money on it. The set price is about 35% of the price of the individual components.
Getting out today. Going to Leesville rehab hospital and staying there as long as I can.
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
mikeGTWJeff isn't that the place with no wi-fi and you had to hack errr borrow from somewhere else hope you kept the info so you can get back on
If we dont hear from you Jeff we know that you cant get a wi-fi signal. I wish you a qucik recovery and hope you can get home as soon as possible. I dont know If I asked you but how long do you think you will be at your dads?
Not much going on here ( Its Thanksgiving up here ) we had ours yesterday and brought home some leftovers for dinner. I am still stuck with this crappy cold, its now a oretty loose cough. I hope it clears up soon as I am off for 4 days starting on Friday.
Temperature out is ok but its going to wamr up tomorrow with some rain and humidity and then dropping back down again.
I might go play around with some video games and maybe get a game of strat in later.
Evenin' folks!
This is the third time I have tried to get on here today... Something always seems to come up requiring my attention. Saturday a friend of mine, a lady who is a member of the MLK committee and who lives only two blocks away from me, stopped in to ask a favor. Seems that their church (A Full Gospel Baptist Church) has a yearly anniversary service and party. Their tradition is to ask members to donate in memory of someone or to honor someone in the amount of the number of years the church has been in the community. They have an envelope for that purpose. The person who was supposed to print up this years envelope didn't get it done, so the lady was hoping I could run these off for the church. I have done similar projects for a Scholarship Fund at Howard University in her daughter's name and a couple other Scholarship things the lady is involved with.
Since this is a lady who has done wonderflul things for the community over many, many years helping a lot of kids to make themselves better lives, I taught her kids way back when, and has become a good friend (and is always quick to help me with checking materials going out from the MLK Committee), I, of course, told her I would be glad to get these done for her. I got to the project today, and it took me all of about 15 minutes to set up the page in InDesign. Printed off one envelope to make sure it looked good and sent her an email. Had to run out to the Propane Dealer to get a couple 20 lb. bottles filled and came back home. No sooner got in the house than the doorbell rang. It was the lady... Her computer is not working so she just decided to stop by to see how I was doing with it. She liked it so I told her I would print it while she waited. After about 10 envelopes she asked me if I like BBQ Ribs.... I told her, absolutely! Her son was BBQing ribs for a "Lost Explorer party" at her house so she left and came back about an hour later with a large portion of Ribs, Chicken, and Sweet Corn... Yum! Had a great supper, I did! She got the envelopes printed and I got a great dinner. FYI, I think two of her 3 kids were winners of MLK Scholarships.
I did get to work a bit on the Dairy project today. Intend to do more soon... May even have a couple photos to show.
Jeffrey, good to hear you are already heading out to the Rehab Horsepiddle... Was that the one with the good food or the........? Hope you get a strong enough signal to be online often! Good luck and know you are in my prayers!
Later...
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good luck on your recovery, Jeff and keep us updated as you can.
Gale
Janie, could I get a refill for my decaf please?
I did get to spend a bit of time this afternoon and evening working on the railroad.... Now have most of the new roof on the Dairy Building and ahve started to get some lighting ready to install. I will be making a roof over the doors where farmers will be dropping off and picking up milk cans. There will be lighting under the roof as well. Hopefully it will end up being a good kit bash for the layout...
Have a great evening. Oh, hope you had a great "Lost Explorer Day"!
Eveing Dinners
Flo, Beer Please.
YGW Yes, he has all wise been fair in his prices. He has been taken care of this house before we bought 20 years ago. Owners before us had is phone number on the furances when we bought the house. Best part of this month has been his modest bill, this month has sucked caboose!
Speaking Of Caboose Sucking, Today At Work Was Terrable! High Lite of the day was tripping and falling flat on my faces! We have a section at the St Charles store called the Kids Room. Room is around 8,000 SQ Feet and only one pole lamp is left on at night. So in the moring it is dark and clutter from all the toys small kid chairs which the kids mover all around! Well, there was a Floor Game Rocking Chair in a shadow by the breaker box! Guess what I tripped over? Left knee, elbow and right hand are starting to get stiff now.
Jeffery Hope you can stay in touch.
Ken
I hate Rust
Morning guys.
Thought I would drop in now. I work 8:30-7:30 for the next three days. The good thing is I am off Friday,Saturday,Sunday and then Monday. Still have the nasty cold with a barking cough now. I might be back tonight. I might be too tired to go on the PC tonight though.
Have a good day guys
I couldn't get online yesterday, something was amiss. IF I DID get online, it locked up on me! I called TWC and they reset the modem, I reset the modem, I unplugged the modem, I cursed at the modem, I banged on the modem, nothing seemed to work! Now this AM it works fine! {I think?}. You'd think as many times as I call lately with problems with it, and the $5/mo I spend RENTING their modem, they'd come out and replace it, at their expense!But, no, not yet! They got their money for the cost of the modem out of me 3 years ago.You'd THINK, since the cable box went the way of the DODO bird and they sent guy out to replace that {"oh, we dont use that box anymore" {then why didn't they do a recall}, that they'd have HIM replace the modem whilest he was here,as we complained about it too! But ...not yet...maybe I march it into them and DEMAND A replacement. Harumph!
Jeffrey,,,I will be sending you a PM!
well, I have to get to the Drs. to get flu shot and do blood work for the cardiologist I forgot to do a month ago! I hope it's nto a starving one....
-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.
The House Special with an Italian Roast coffee in a Stormy Southern mug, please.
With the overnight storms, will be too wet and muddy to do any outside work on the ol' farm, so a day of rest is in order.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Cheers! Rob
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.
Todd - Consider yourself lucky with the induction motor. I had a new furnace installed in 2000. So far the induction motor has been replaced 3 times. Once the plastic fan itself blew apart. That noise left no doubt there was a problem. Thought a bomb went off in the cellar. A few weeks ago the motor was screaming like it was in pain. I figured here we go again with another new motor. But the repairman put a couple of drops of oil on the shaft & spun it manually a few times, & presto, problem solved. I got away with just a service call for that part. But the furnace still needed a filter & a water panel. It just keeps adding up. But your right, any savings on my gas bill were eaten up with the replacement of the first motor. By the way, I think I had to pay more than $300.00 for mine. What's your BIL's number & how far will he drive?
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Rob - I think your storm is hitting us tomorrow. Calliung for an inch of rain. My site is already one giant mud pie. Still got guys working. Thats what happens when you dont get paid if you dont work. The bills dont stop coming.
Galaxy - why are you renting a modem ?
Ken - careful with that you may have fractured something. two years ago I fell at work while trying to cross some chain link fence. Broke both wrist ! Boy that was an awful time !
How mus - What time are we eating ?
Mister Beasly - Yea he looked pretty stout ! Did they have fun ?
Ulrich - 35% of teh price ? Wow that is a quick way to go out of buisness !
Cuda - That is a lucky find to have a furnace guy that cheap. Hope you send him Christmas cards !
Welp w**k front up to the knees in mud and tomorrow looks like its gonna be a gulley washer. Tonight my oldest daughter is getting her hearing aid. She is excited about that. Boy that was EXPENSIVE ! Over 3k for test, insurance hearing aid etc....Boy that will cut into the funds for the hobby ! But money well spent. Now parying for good report on 24th MRI of her back.
Gotta get back to w**k
TTYL
YGW
tcwright973 Todd - Consider yourself lucky with the induction motor. I had a new furnace installed in 2000. So far the induction motor has been replaced 3 times. Once the plastic fan itself blew apart. That noise left no doubt there was a problem. Thought a bomb went off in the cellar. A few weeks ago the motor was screaming like it was in pain. I figured here we go again with another new motor. But the repairman put a couple of drops of oil on the shaft & spun it manually a few times, & presto, problem solved. I got away with just a service call for that part. But the furnace still needed a filter & a water panel. It just keeps adding up. But your right, any savings on my gas bill were eaten up with the replacement of the first motor. By the way, I think I had to pay more than $300.00 for mine. What's your BIL's number & how far will he drive?
Todd; Tom:
Todd: You got off lucky.
You may or may not remember that 3 winters ago we had a whole new furnace...just the regular "80% efficiency" kind, installed. Well, half can be faulted back to the installer, who did NOT seal the chimney right to the roof when putting the new furnace in.BUT:
after paying a whole $3,600 for the new one {remember mobile home, so cheaper and smaller than whole house}, the stupid clear BATHROOM caulk he used to "seal" the chimney to the steel roof {YEP, Bathroom caulk!} leaked. I ranted enough about it, I was so..um er, ah angry!
AND so. It cost us $1,025 for a new: pressure switch, induced draft motor and igniter!
SO: Todd you got off CHEAP at the $300 alone, let alone FREE!
TOM: I wouldn't be surprised if we don't have the same problem over again, even though the roof IS NOW SEALED properly! WHY? you ask? because our induced draft moter is vertical of course, and my father found out that the vertical fan motors of any type/purpose in HVAC equipment tends to go BAD sooner than later.That is apparently why the new fan motors on these newfangled "ventless systems" have theirs horizontally insted of blowing up vertically. SO, I suspect and expect that ours will go bad again. sooner than I'd like.
My father found out his new blower motor was about half the cost of a whole new furnace, so he thought, and at that cost with the age of his at 10 yrs old, he'd have had a whole new installed as that plus the new igniter for his a year earlier added up.
My FIL just had a new whole new house system put in for +300 sq ft over my father's, it was nearly $10k for the furnace, to install it. MY father then, upon hearing that, decided maybe the $2,800 for his fan blower motor wasn't so bad after all!
Now, mind you there are two things about the fan motors on the A/C exterior unit {blows upward, vertical on my fathers} he found out: 1} they DO go bad quicker for the vertical ones 2} there is a capacitor that is attached to it, THAT is usually the first thing to go, and costs only about $20 to replace! YET, most "fix it places" will tell you "you need to replace it {the whole thing}" for the A/c exterior unit.
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Well, in other news: I got my flu shot now for the rest of the week, I will be feeling like I got it. Never fails, I don't care what you say about "not getting the flu from the shot".
Got the pics back of me in my kilt.Since I am nto in the habit of posting them, don't know if i will or not, Photobucket seems like a lot of trouble! Besides no one wants to see my fat belly tucked in to a kilt! SHowed them off to a couple of people who wanted to see, but never were around when I was wearing it/them.
well, I wil rest most of the day. I did to much this weekend, and now i pay for it.
duuno
later.
Jeffrey will answer your PM. Hope you are feeling well today and out of pain.
well, better go lay down with the puddy tat. Got some pics of him too. he will curl up on top of me {yep on top of me} or curl into my back beside me.
MOH getting the oil and wipers changed on the birthday gift Hyundai. Hope that is all it neeeds!
later
P.S. I forgot the quotable quote this monring, I was in such a hurry:
To be nobody but myself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
-E.E. Cummings, poet (1894-1962)
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have the #2 special this morning. Over easy eggs, bacon, home fries and a double order of sourdough toast and a pot of Seneca lake Blend dark roast coffee! Thank you Ma'am....
Galaxy, your quote of the day is very true. My sister in Canandaigua was (and is) one who always wanted me to do "My own thing" which meant I should be doing exactly what all the other people who are "Doing their Own Thing" were (are) doing just as long as it isn't what the older generation was doing.... Or something like that. She still gets her eyes rolling when I don't wear the latest fads in styles. Go to all the same type of events that she goes to, etc. I still prefer to be me.... Most of the time I like me just the way I am. That doesn't mean everyone else likes me that way of course..... Actually that person that is me does get along with almost everyone. I guess....
Sun is trying to shine here in the Finger Lakes Region this morning. Will have to open up the house very soon. Current temperature is 75°F outside, pretty much the high for today.
I should get some lawn mowed this afternoon. have a Pack Den meeting to go to tonight.....
Have a great one folks!
Good Eveneing!
Today is one of these days we better want to forget.
It started out that I got wet feet when going into the bathroom this morning. Our electric water heater had sprung a leak and the water came gushing out of it. A cry and a big leap to the shut-off valve resulted in a move, in which I must have pulled a muscle in my neck. I now have a terrific headache to battle. Adding to that, moments before the plumber came to install a new water heater (at the landlord´s expense), the pipe from the sink failed as well. So most of the day we were without water, which meant no coffee, no cooked meal. While the plumber was doing the repairs, the phone rang and I had to go through a 90 minute job interview for the position of an interim manager. I have no idea how I did in this - I´ll just have to wait and see.
Frankly, I have had it for today! I will just sit on the sofa, watch the idiot box and dream of that little layout I´ll be building.
CU tomorrow!
Prayers for Jeff!
Ulrich .... Evidently, you had a flying F3 day. ...
Jeff .... Hope you are doing better. Things got busy here last couple of days.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
heres something I have on my frig please feel free to print it out and display proudly wherever you want and you can fill in the app name
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please
YGW Only my hand hurts just a little bit when I push on it. Far as send the Furances guy Christmass Cards, never have. You need to remember here in the Midwest we have a very low cost of living. If my house was in Calf, it would be $550,000 plus. Here in Maryville, it is only $136,000.
Did some running today. Picked up more med's for Sparkie The Rocket Dog and some new dog food that is easier on the stomach. He does to seem to feel much better.
Sams Club, anyone here a member? I had been a member two other times, last time was around 10 years ago. At that time I had a good income. They built a new one not far from home and we got a free 1 month member ship. Main thing I am intrested in is food iteams. They did have chicken thighs for $1.29 a pound where Shop and Save has them for $1.99. I bought 6 pounds so I saved apx $4.50.
I did not see any big savings in other meats. But I had not record lately what I have been paying per pound either. If you are a member, which member ship do you have. One is $35.00 a year and the other one is $100.00 a year and you get cash back.
See you Wed, Ken
Afternoon, Diners, 51f and sun with alot of wind.
Todd, moh said the same thing!! LOL!! It looks different from the normal viewing location. A cab ride REALLY shows what is there. The fisheye is because I said yes to youtube fixing stuff. See part b below.
YGW and Jeremy, thanks for the comments! Hope you're doing ok ,Jeff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTOWmjkAZMo
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Morning guys
Good to see you got moved over Jeff
Ken : Good to read sparkie is doing better
Thought I would drop in early as I work another long one today. Still have the cough but stuffiness is letting up a bit.
See you guys tonight at some point
GRR, I had this all typed out and *poof* I got knocked off line.
Healing and prosperity to all
Jeffrey: I will check my messages after this to see if you sent me the info.Hope this morning finds you ":well' and in less or no pain.
It seems my fair city is one of the "10 worst most dangerous cities in the state"...bummer!
Today's quotable quotes:
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Lunchtime!
Janie, I´ll go for a burger platter with fries, and an RBF to wash it down, please!
I am miffed! My starter set was supposed to arrive in today´s mail - according to DHL, but guess what did not come? I was in happy mode all morning, but now I feel like a grumpy old man! Best to take a nap before my anger hits someone innocent!
CU later!
Mornin'....
Zoe, I'll have a couple sour cream glazed doughnuts to dunk in my Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee you're going to bring me, Please.
Dark, gloomy, and rainy here in the Finger Lakes Region today.... Currently 63°F under dark gray skies. The high will be 70°F sometime this afternoon, or so they say. That just about sums it up. I intend to spend all day in the layout room for a change!
Today is my baby boy's 45th. birthday! Yesterday they should have gotten something to keep them happy for a while.... Something from here in the Finger Lakes Region that is world class! Tom would know about it.... A blatently rude B-day card is in the mail to him, and I will be sending an email soon.... When I was his age, I had been a widower for 4 years already.... Rather makes me sad to think about that.
Jeffrey, hope you are comfortably settled into the rehab joint! Like others, I hope they have the pain in control for you. Here's to good Wi-Fi conections for you...
Catch you all later!