We are coming to the end of the month. What is the theme for March?
As a suggestion how about different types of rolling stock?
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Yes John. Norwegian Railways.
https://www.reddit.com/r/trains/comments/y5v7a8/the_old_nsb_nohab_di3_passing_on_a_sunny_day_here/
Good morning, diners. Just coffee this morning. I'll get donuts at church, come home, and start a busy week. I don't like weeks like this with something scheduled every day.
Dave, congratulations on the upcoming birth of a grandson. If this is your first, your life is about to change.
Kevin, the red beans looked great. I love making red beans. That's a Monday food in New Orleans, and generally anything left in the refrigerator goes into the pot.
Several of you have mentioned your mild winter. We are the opposite. We still have snow on the ground, and it's been cold. I expect there will be melting today with temps in the 40s.
I can't think of anything on my layout that would work for a gender reveal, but I immediately thought of my old Lionel train with a watchman who would come out of a door when a train came by. Rig up something blue or pink to come out of the door instead. Sorry! That's about as creative as I can ever get.
I think this is from Norway. It's not a color scheme, but I thought it was neat:
NSB Di3.624 by Lolke Bijlsma, on Flickr
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
hon30critter Dianne and I found out today that we will have a grandson. The reveal party was a lot of fun. They revealed the gender by having two friends in Power Rangers costumes, one blue and one pink. The Rangers had a mock fight were initially the pink Ranger tossed the blue Ranger to the floor (gently) so we thought for a moment that the baby is a girl, but then the blue Power Ranger jumped back up on his feet and trounced the pink Ranger, ending the skit by putting one foot on the now prone pink Ranger's chest. A boy it is! Were actually weren't too surprised. There hasn't been a girl born into my family for many generations. Cole and Kaitlin wanted a boy so they are very happy! Cheers!! Dave
Dianne and I found out today that we will have a grandson. The reveal party was a lot of fun. They revealed the gender by having two friends in Power Rangers costumes, one blue and one pink. The Rangers had a mock fight were initially the pink Ranger tossed the blue Ranger to the floor (gently) so we thought for a moment that the baby is a girl, but then the blue Power Ranger jumped back up on his feet and trounced the pink Ranger, ending the skit by putting one foot on the now prone pink Ranger's chest. A boy it is!
Were actually weren't too surprised. There hasn't been a girl born into my family for many generations. Cole and Kaitlin wanted a boy so they are very happy!
Cheers!!
Dave
Very Cool Dave! Congratulations Grandpa!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
SeeYou19090 two days ago... 91 yesterday... probably going to hit 90 again today. This Winter has been a theory only.
Well Kevin.... Up here in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, we always have 4 seasons. Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Repair. Take your pick.
And here in Delaware we're getting our first snow of the season. It's not supposed to last, and the outside temperature is 37 so it won't collect.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
90 two days ago... 91 yesterday... probably going to hit 90 again today.
This Winter has been a theory only.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
gmpullman There's never a cab around when you need one! 101118_1 by lmyers83, on Flickr Cheers, Ed
There's never a cab around when you need one!
101118_1 by lmyers83, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Here is a cab.
IMG_2276 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Lol that was funny what you said about the cab not being around when you need one.
Good morning, diners. It's a lazy Saturday morning here, so I'll have bacon, eggs, and black coffee.
This whole week has been almost completely unscheduled. It's been nice. Now for the change. Starting tomorrow, the next week is busy. Not looking forward to it.
A sign of old age -- my oldest grandchild is on a college visit this weekend.
This isn't really an unusual paint scheme, but it's one you don't see everyday:
Have a great day, everyone.
The World Is A Beautiful Place
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Good morning everyone, I sure do hope Chloe gets here with that order of eggs and toast soon.
I saw two starnge things yesterday, a Monarch Butterfly and a Red Winged Black Bird. I'll bet it has been ten years since I saw either one of those in Cape Coral. They are very common in the center of the state, but seem to stay away from the coastal counties.
BigDaddyThe one time I don't check my post for typo's and I missed the Top of the page
Thanks Henry, the sourdough bread goes great with the Red Beans And Rice.
Special paint:
150522_6_juniata by lmyers83, on Flickr
We're blanketed in snow again here in Ohio. February has been the least amount of snow on record here. In 2005 we had 185 inches, so far this season we barely made it to 20 inches.
All because I bought a new snowblower?
[quote user="SeeYou19 Still working on perfecting the dish.
-Kevin [/quote]
If you haven't tried; Some garlic, red chili and coconut milk makes a big difference.
I made the Red Beans And Rice for dinner tonight using the good sausage from Georgia.
There is plenty, feel free to dig in. This is the best batch of Red Beans And Rice I have made so far.
Still working on perfecting the dish.
The one time I don't check my post for typo's and I missed the
Top of the page
My sixth grade teacher was a friend for 40 years.
What is happening in schools rarely gets TV coverage, but to have dozens of schools where students cannot do English or math at their grade level is one of the biggest problems of our times.
Have a slice of sourdough bread
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
NorthBritThe college began a theme of wanting younger lecturers, so made life difficult for the older lecturers. (Dawn being one of them.) She was having nothing of it. She saw the Principal. Threw down a colour pencil and said "Colour me gone." and walked out.
That's too bad. The older, experienced teachers are almost (almost) always the best. The problem in most schools is they can hire a beginning teacher at half the salary as an experienced one, and when budget time comes around, money almost always wins out over good teaching.
Dawn was a Senior Lecturer at our local College. She helped so many students to get jobs. So much so, she received many, many thank you letters from them.
The college began a theme of wanting younger lecturers, so made life difficult for the older lecturers. (Dawn being one of them.) She was having nothing of it. She saw the Principal. Threw down a colour pencil and said "Colour me gone." and walked out.
It was the best thing she did.
The college has lost so much standing now. It used to be the place to attend. Not now.
York1(I wish I had taught a geometry class. Maybe I would have finally learned how to correctly figure out angles for my layout bridges.)
I was a music teacher, but we did a lot of good numbers!
howmusSo... What did you teach?
I started as a seventh grade teacher, but spent most of my career as a school principal. While principal, I also had some time teaching an 8th grade Algebra 1 class. It's good for a principal to keep his hand in daily teaching so he doesn't get too insulated in an office.
Being a principal was actually pretty easy. The hardest part of my job was walking down the hallways, asking kids where they were supposed to be.
(I wish I had taught a geometry class. Maybe I would have finally learned how to correctly figure out angles for my layout bridges. By that split infinitive, you can see I didn't teach English.)
York1Wednesday I talked to one of the teachers who was sitting ahead of me in church. I can't believe how much I don't miss my job. I didn't dislike my job, but I sure like all the time and freedom I have now.
So... What did you teach? I managed to get out when NYS decided to cull the higher paid (think almost livable income) teachers with a major buy-out. I was 51 years old at the time. Found out I qualified with only a few days left to apply. Came home from Boy Scout Camp (orders from the camp director who was also retiring...), called NYS Retirement System and was told, Yes I qualify. Spent about 15 minutes typing up my retirement letter and drove over to the mail office and turned in one cpory and made the secretary sign and date the other copy as proof it was turned in on time, walked out the door (flicked the school a nasty salute), and never looked back! The buy-out gave me 7 years extra credit! Not a hard decision to make.
Given what I see going on in many schools around here at the moment, I am very glad to be retired.
Hi Everyone,
Dropping in to say hello.
John: The UP loco looks fine to me, but then, I grew up in UP country so I'm biased. You're right about UP being popular in Nebraska. The railroad practically built the state! Well, there's also the Cornhuskers football team, but we'll let that one be.
Yesterday, the kitchen sink faucet that we have had problems with, finally gave up the ghost as it were and I had to replace it. Trying to get the old faucet off was a problem with all the gunk collected in it. But, I finally got it done last night. If anybody ever replaces their kitchen or bath cabinets, always get "butt door" sink bases. That means there's no center stile (used primarily on partial overlay doors). Full overlay doors normally don't have this problem. Now I know first hand why plumbers like them. I was resembling a pretzel while trying to remove the old faucet and install the new one. Hopefully, the new faucet will last awhile.
Nothing MRR to report.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
TEM 2 info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEM2
York1 John,
Good to hear from Ulrich, if only second hand. It's apparent that if he can't appear in the diner, at least he's planted a bug there. And so we'll offer a joint "guten tag!".
Attuvian1 John
In Santa Apolonia Railway Station, Lisbon, Portugal.
Same class of locomotive. Three different liveries. In fact I never saw two the same.
SAM_0938 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Eh? Those are not Russian Couplers! And isnt Poland on the European Guage?
Tiger just wanted to noe!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I just got an email from Ulrich identifying the locomotive in my last post!
He said that it is a "Russian-built class TEM2 Diesel-electric engine delivered to Poland in the late 1970s".
Thanks for that information, Ulrich! Normally there is a short description on most Flickr photos, but I didn't see one for this photo. Ulrich was kind enough to send me the identification.
Colorful locomotive waiting on the track by Ciddi iyi1i, on Flickr
Kevin: Sorry to hear of the passing of your friend. I assume that he had a son that you can mentor to help his memories alive.
Good morning, diners. Just coffee, Chloe.
Ugh...another morning of getting up and scooping snow. I'm going to try to remember these days in July when it's 105.
Wednesday I talked to one of the teachers who was sitting ahead of me in church. I can't believe how much I don't miss my job. I didn't dislike my job, but I sure like all the time and freedom I have now.
I'm not sure what this is or where it is.