The summer is over almost, so maybe there will be more participation Ulrich!
GM, Men!
Today is the day we ride the Nickel Pate Road #765 out of Steamtown!!!
http://fortwaynerailroad.org/
It will be a LONG day, but enjoyable! The best thing is that there is A/C on board and comfy newer seats. The train nut freind is going with us.
So, Of we go, It is time to get ready.
see yas on the morrow!
PS: I get Tippy Top, too!
Daisy, here is my CC give me the bill later on or tomorrow...
-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 folks....
Enought time for a short stack and a side of bacon Flo, if you would.
I have some fence repairs to do; the trash truck bashed the chain link top rail in the alley and if you don't catch them in the act, it's on you :( Got a 10' piece of rail and I have to fix it today.
Hope everyone has a happy and safe Labor Day weekend.....
Bob Berger, C.O.O. N-ovation & Northwestern R.R. My patio layout....SEE IT HERE
There's no place like ~/ ;)
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Vanilla Almond Organic Granola with fresh Bluberries and a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee for my FGLK Mug this morning.
Sun is trying to shine outside this morning. Currently 80°F on its way up to 87°F here in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS. Good day to stay in side and enjoy the air conditioning (powered by the nice sunshine falling on the roof...).
Manét got his first insulin shot this morning. He jumped and gave me a look like, "What was that for, Daddy?" I gave him lots of head scratching and lovin' after. Hopefully he will be as good as his brother has been getting the daily dose. Still haven't heard about his blood work.... May not hear anything until next Tuesday.
Other than getting some Division (NMRA) business done and driving over to the Mennonite store for some items, I haven't got much planned for today. May even get back to working on the bridge I started to build last January for the layout.
Have a great day and weekend out there!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Happy long weekend!
I finally have my computer up and running again. I've had a couple of issues, not related. The first was a disk problem caused by a power failure. I had to get a special boot disk and run chkdsk on my hard drive, but that did fix it. A short time later, it got very warm (the weather, that is) and I think that may have caused an intermittent problem I've had with my graphics card. A couple of days ago I removed the card, and then this morning when it was nice and cool again, I put the card into a different slot and powered up. It worked. Yay!
Now, where was I? I had a follow up with my doctor a week or so back. He looked me in the eye and said, "I treat a lot of people with type 2 diabetes like you, and I've seldom seen such a dramatic improvement in blood sugar levels. You get a gold star for your forehead." I've been getting a lot of good exercise, and that appears to be the key. I was afraid he was going to increase the meds, but he kept them the same and told me to keep up the good work.
No, he didn't actually give me a gold star for my forehead.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Mr B.: One word -- Nice!
Richard
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
i agree inch best time of year. I love when football starts. Baseball playoffs will be starting soon along with hockey. It may be 40c here but fall is in the air. I'm not the biggest college football fan but will not usually have it on if there is no baseball game on.
Good Afternoon,
It has been a while since my last visit so I thought I should put in an appearance and get some of that great food they serve here, not to mention the great company.
Well it has been very wet here and hot with a lot of showers. We had a real downpour yesterday that found a problem with a basement window well that decided to overflow into the basement. We were able to clean it up ok but now I will have to find a solution that hopefully won't mean getting the foundation dug up.
Nothing on the RR front here, except that I just placed an order for a a RPO and a sleeper for the N scale layout. I have a list of things to get done on it and I 'gearing up' so hopefully the motivation will come.
We finally picked up the new TV last week but it is still in the box. The issue is getting the old one off the stand. It is a heavy rascal and my wife can't help at all what with her back problems. I have a wheeled cart but I will have to pick it up and swing it over to the cart. I hope I'm up to it. All my friends have back problems so I really don't have anyone I can call for assistance.
We have been going out every Wednesday morning bright and early for birding and breakfast at a nearby nature conservancy. I have really enjoyed getting out. The leaders are keen birders and their enthusiasm is very infectious. I'm not a keen birder but just an interested one. The site is an old quarry that still has some rail lines in it. I was excited to find it is 85lb. rail dated 1921 laid by CP. No one else seemed to share my excitement, funny that.
Ever get a song on your brain and you just can't shift it. My fault for listening to oldies on Youtube. The offender is 'Lovers Question' by Clyde McPhatter.
Garry, a belated Happy Birthday, hope your day was nice.
I see Galaxy is off on an adventure today. Nice!
Well soon time to fire up the grill. We are doing chicken in pita with zatziki sauce. Hopefully it doesn't rain. Even if it does I'll drag the BBQ under the eaves and grill anyway. It won't take long, only about 5-6 minutes to do thin chicken breast.
I too would like to hear from some of guys who used to drop into the diner but I guess some just move on. I sometimes wonder how they are doing. Haven't heard from Chris in a long time. Wonder how Rerun is doing.
CN Charlie
Afternoon folks!
Janie, just a glass of iced tea to tide me over to supper. Will need to go husk the sweet corn soon....
Mister B, great report from the doctor. Keep up the good work!
Brother Elias, it took me a while to locate where the lion was hiding in your post today......
I have spent some time trying to look at possible locations for the NMRA Divisions Fall meet. So far everything I have looked at is too small or way too expensive for us.... I just just sent an email to the other officers and a couple others that are advisors to me too see what they might be able to come up with. I'm hoping we might be able to get a room at a local church or something of that nature. We have been to the Rochester Club recently and I like to move the locations around. Getting close to the edit on it.........
Manét seems to already be walking a bit further and better, although he has mostly just s;lept on the carpet in the dining room all day.... Haven't heard anything yet from the vet. Probably won't now until Tuesday.
Catch you all later!
Afternoon, everybody.
88f and very humid. Went for a bike ride today with a couple buddies. Wasn't too bad at 60mph, but we were sweating at stop signs!
Kids and grandkids were up 3 weekends in a row. We had fun!!
Work is very busy, seems everyone decided to do their projects at once. Good for me tho, full up through deer season!
How about a video?
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-sdm06bptA
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7CFONZjtM
Hope all is well!!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Evening Dinners
Flo, a beer for me and I pick up the tap of all the MIA Dinners!
Mr B Good for you!
Terry Boy you have a sweet layout, how big is it and how long is the main line?
Work Front, store had a good day and I had a great day! Store did around $5500.00 and I had $4300.00 of it! Had two great sales that netted me a extra $250.00 in spiff!
How was Daves Day you ask? Well he FELL OFF THE WAGON AND HURT HIS HEAD! Yes Dave showed up a little lite and around 1:00 PM he had a good head of steam, his bolier was cooking!
I knew something was up when I got to the store, paper work while never his strong point was a mess. He called at 10:10 AM and said he was going to be late. He sounded a little confused and was having a hard time finding need words. He said "I could not find the stuff I needed to make a deposit with?" I said "Dave you mean the deposit slip's? They where on the desk right in front of you, I am looking at them right now."
I could go on but why bother with details. By 1:00 I sort of comfroted him and said "Dave, you are slurgging your speach and seem confused, do you need to go home?" He just stared at me?
I had be debating for a few hours about calling Paul the GM about Dave. While I don't really want him at my store, I hate to be a Rat and get him fired. What brought to a head was around 2:30 PM. We are out of toner for the fax machine. I called Paul to see when we should get it. I all so said there was some new toner at the store but not what I needed. Paul told me that was the extra toner I need for the St Charles Store and the toner you need should have came with it.
Paul started asking me questions about the shippment I could not answer, because I was off. Guess who was there, Dave. Dave said he got the package Friday, he thinks. Paul looked on the UPS site and he got Them On Thursday? Paul said he sighned for two boxes, Dave had no clue what he got?
That is when I walked a way and told Paul "Dave is off the wagon" and he said that he will let the owers know.
Will anything become of this? More than likely not.
Later Ken
Drunk Dave under a full head of steam, bolier is cooking!
I hate Rust
Ah, the joys of alcohol. My wife has been trying to quit, and had gone several weeks without it. It's my contention that she doesn't actually have a drinking problem, but she sure has a hangover problem, and that's what she wants to be rid of. Anyway, she's joined a church fellowship group and found that the support was helping her. As for me, I thought the group was great, because there is a great old time rock 'n' roll band at a local bar that night, so I would go there while she went to her church group.
The fellowship group went to the mountains for a retreat this weekend. She was not going to go, but they convinced her that the time away would be good to help with her stress problems and being with the group would "lead her not into temptation" as well. So, she agreed, and then they asked her to drive, and help set up the program, and ferry food around, and.....
This was supposed to help with stress. In the end, it pushed her over the top, she had a glass of wine and then another and ended up cancelling out on them. So much for helping, I guess.
Well, home now, Thank the stars.
What a fiasco. There is Steamtown people, NS people, Nickel Plate 765 people, the Delaware water gap people, NONE OF WHOM knew what was going on! The left hand didn't knwo what the right hand was doing! The..oh never mind, i will tell yous alls abouts it on the morrow. TO top it off, I got injured!!! IT may seem minor, but when I went to up to the concession car to buy coffee and a new bottle of water, well, in betrween the cars, the train LURCHed suddely, I zigged, the train zagged, I stuck out my left hand to steady against the pillar, normally NOT a bad hing. but the sudden LURCH meantmy pinky finger got jammed nail first into the pilar, and the nail got jammed and TORN right straight across the finger halfway up the nail. IT MAY have to be YANKEd the rest of the way off! {surgically of course}. I am still "harmonically rocking"as I speak.
The box lunch the website promised was a NO-SHOW.
I will digress tomorrow. It is WAY past my bedtime....
Sorry to hear about your injury, Galaxy. I know there were some rough spots on the D-L when I went on the ELHS excursion a few years ago. It sounds like they never fixed them. Hopefully you had SOME fun, though, and the whole trip wasn't a complete ordeal.
Maybe Ill see you in Nicholson next weekend for the Tunkhannock Viaduct Centennial.
Good morning everyone....
Flo, a cup of your finest joe if you please....and a chocolate french cruller. The better half says they're no good for me but they taste so good, how can they be bad for me?
I got the fence fixed, put a new tube in the youngest's bicycle and it's all about trains today. Looking for a high of 100 so I'll hide inside this afternoon.
Have a great Sunday whatever you do....
Zoe, I'll have the Breakfast Buffet this morning. As always looks like a great array o food! Oh, I will need a large pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee to wash this all down....
Galaxy, sorry to hear about the injury! OUCH!!! Were you on the coaches from Steamtown or some other one.
Currently 80°F outside (was 73° when I turned on the computer at 8:30 this morning) and will peak out at 87°+ later today. Good day to do laundry and tend to projects on the SLOW. Air conditioner was running already when I got up. It is nice and sunny outside. Today should be a good day for making electricity. Only problem with September is that the Maple tree next door still has it's leaves and is now startimng to shade the panels for a couple hours every day. This will continue until the leaves drop in November. Then it will still affect the output but not nearly as much.
Manét got his second dose of insulin today... He had the same reaction of "Ouch, that hurt Daddy!" He is walking better already. Blackie doesn't even flinch when he gets his.
Still trying to nail down a location for the Fall NMRA Meet. Have a couple more places to look at that have been suggested by other officers.... Will be spending time on Google Maps today too.
Have a great day!
Thanks for the encouragement, guys. Last year when I was on Metformin, it felt like a death sentence. My personal reaction to the stuff was very much non-standard, but now I'm very happy and the bike riding has me feeling better than I have in years. The problem will be moving into winter, when the weather will no longer be conducive to bike riding and I'll have to move indoors to a gym or something. Yuck.
MisterBeasley. . .The problem will be moving into winter, when the weather will no longer be conducive to bike riding and I'll have to move indoors to a gym or something. . .
Have you considered a stationary trainer for your bike? I used one when I was training for an event and it was just too darn hot to ride outside. (Summer time in Arizona.) I am not going to kid you, it can be incredibly boring, but it is better than nothing. Three things that helped me.
Evening Folks!
It´s been a bad day - in terms of the weather we had to "enjoy". Lots of wet stuff coming down, only interrupted by short spells of sunshine luring one outside - only to get soaked after a few minutes!
Janie - I´ll have a nightcap - you know, a mug of hot chocolate soiced up with a generous swig out of that bottle Vinnie is hiding under the counter!
CU all tomorrow!
Evening guys
a warm one out today, almost 40c with humidity. School goes back around here for kids on Tuesday. I can't believe how quick the summer went by, I didn't get out on the bike at all this summer. That is the first time in years. I guess I can still get out if I want to though. Not much new to report here that interview went well on Friday. I am off until Thursday of this week so still have some time off this week. I am just going to kick back tomorrow and get a few games of strat baseball and football in
Flo, please.
Work is boring when Dave is sober. He is back on the wagon again, well while he was at work today. Plus it was real slow anyway, only 4 customers came in today. But after Saturday with over 20 customers I did not think we would be busy and I was right.
Will Dave get canned? Seem's Marvin did talk to Dave yesterday and knows he was, well under a full head of steam! Guess we will see what happen's Tuesday when he work's at the St Charles store. (that is where Marvs offices is) Will Nancy save is Bacon again, or will he become Road Kill?
See you all later, Ken
We do have a wind trainer, and I used to use it. My daughter uses it when she's home, and she sets it up in front of the TV. I will probably do that. At one time I had an old road bike with a cracked head tube that I used on the wind trainer so I didn't put any wear and tear on my good bike. I haven't seen it around, so we probably tossed it. At least I've got old tires around so I won't grind down a good one.
Of course, gyms do have all that eye candy...
Good evening. Oh brrrr!! It's cold here today with a high of 48F. Reminder that summer is about over. Spent several more days off the grid this past week.
Just received the news that my daughter was named on of the top 50 people in in the world of running by Runners Magazine. Really proud of her accomplishments as executive director of the Road Runners Clubs of America.
This is the last big summer holiday weekend in Canada, so, hope all our Canadian friends are enjoying the end of summer labor day weekend.
Jim
Well,
Typical just after Labor day here...the 20 degree {f} drop! Tomorrow will be near 90, by Friday/Sat, it will only be near 70F, and will only go down from there, I am afraid.
I always hated my B-day for that reason..it means colder weather is definitely on the way, as the first day of Fall is 2 days before my B-day.The 'getting older' part does not disturb me. its the weather.
COnversely MOH's b-day is in April, a wonderful, if not rainymonth in which it is sure to get warmer!
well, it is late as I slept most of the day, now time to get to bed again.
later
RAY: it was the good ole 765 steamer taking the Delaware gap trip form Stemtown!! I was riding and got the injury on. I will have to see the dr. abut it, it may have to come off. I know the podiatrist who has yanked 6 of my tonails {one grew back in two places for two nail regrowth and was yanked yet again}, but I don't know who would remove a finger nail..?
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Steamtown has #26 about ready [probably next year} about run. It will be the only stemer for a while, a 0-4-0, it won't do muchbut pul the local 2 cars, but the money for the steam program is always short...People forget Steamtown National Historic Park is NOT just about steam, it is about RAILROAD HISTORY, which includes steam!
Flo, I'll have the Belgian Waffle with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a cup of your finest decaf please...the better half is on me about too much caffeine lately. I can't wait for the BBQ this afternoon; I'm ready for that chicken and especially those just roasted hatch chiles on those cheeseburgers.
The youngest has a strange problem with reinstalling her games on her new laptop; it won't let her because the codes have been used already (??), so it's gona be a long drawn out phone call to EA tech support so she can play Sims 3 again.
I have a couple of small houses that I'm finishing for the patio layout and I have a friend who's been bugging me to let him see the layouts in action. I've been putting him off until they were both cleaned up and fully operational so the BBQ was a good time to show it to him.
Mister Beasley, Metformin is what they put both the better half and my daughter on and they both reacted badly to it. Did it effect you badly as well?...just wondering...
You all have a happy and safe Labor Day....
Zoe, a Breakfast Muffin with egg, cheese, and Canadian bacon would hit the spot. don't forget my Dark Roast Coffee too...
"The sun is a shinin' to welcome the day...."
Already 78°F outside on its way up to 92°F here in the Finger Lakes Region this Labor Day. I will be spending much of the day out at my son's house. He will be serving the BBQ around 4PM he says.
The boys have already had their morning insulin. Manét is letting me give him the shot, but makes clear he doesn't like this at all.... He is moving around more and seems to be walking a little better already.
Mr. B, I am on Janumet for my diabettes. that is 50mg of Januvia and 1000mg Metformin twice a day. It has been keeping the sugar well controlled and I haven't had any bad side effects so far. Been on it for about 4 or 5 years now. What side effects have you and they had from it.
I best get moving... Catch you all later!
Afternoon, everyone!
After the heavy ra*nfall we had the last couple of days, we are now enjoying some "calm" autumn weather, i.e. it´s sunny and bright, but not too hot. Actually, my kind of weather!
With nothing else to do I just tinkered around with that short "video" of my layout plan, just to gain skills in using the WindowsMovieMaker for future projects.
I have made some changes to the layout base, which I want to be a small cabinet on wheels, enabling me to store my train stuff and move the layout around. I had plans to buy something like it, but the cabinets I found are either too small, too big or too expensive (or, in fact,m a combination of two items on the list). So it´ll have to be either custom-made (too expensive) or my friend will have tho honor ...
Well, here is the updated and improved video:
Enjoy!
Good morning and happy Labor Day to everyone! It's a sunny and pleasant day right now, but the heat comes in later in the day and sticks around until the end of the week.
luvadjMister Beasley, Metformin is what they put both the better half and my daughter on and they both reacted badly to it. Did it effect you badly as well?...just wondering...
By the numbers, the Metformin did what it's supposed to. It lowered my blood sugar dramatically. But, most people report that they lost a few pounds and had more energy. I actually gained weight and was too sluggish for exercise. I think it was starving my brain as well, as I felt mentally sluggish, and my wife reported that I was a pretty nasty person to be around. It was just another example of why you've got to tell your doctor when the side effects are messing you up. I'm on Glyburide now, just a small dose, and I feel like a younger man again.
ROAR