hon30critterThat is going to be a stretch for me because my past approach to young children is that they should be quiet and obedient. I can hear all of you experienced grandparents laughing now, but I am determined to change my attitude. Wish me luck!
That will take you about two minutes once you hold him the first time. Grandchildren are a lot of fun without all the responsiblities of the parenting.
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."
BATMANCONGRATULATIONS GRAMPS!!!!! Better get going on that layout of yours, he will be old enough and be wanting to run trains in the wink of an eye.
Yup!! We took the first step a few days ago by clearing off most of the crap that had been piled on it. The next step will be to finish getting the foam sub roadbed perfectly flat. I have most of that done.
This young lad is going to be a model railroader!!! (At least for a few years). I look forward to having the sorts of experiences like those that NorthBrit talks about with his grandchildren. My grandson will be able to put as many dinosaurs and rocket ships on the layout as he wants, and if he wants to run a train flat out so be it.
That is going to be a stretch for me because my past approach to young children is that they should be quiet and obedient. I can hear all of you experienced grandparents laughing now, but I am determined to change my attitude. Wish me luck!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critter Dianne and I are now the proud grandparents of a healthy 7lb 10oz red haired baby boy (our first grandchild)! Everyone is doing well. No name yet. Mom and Dad want to make a special announcement once they have rested a bit. Cheers!! Dave
Dianne and I are now the proud grandparents of a healthy 7lb 10oz red haired baby boy (our first grandchild)! Everyone is doing well. No name yet. Mom and Dad want to make a special announcement once they have rested a bit.
Excellent! My daughter is 32 and I haven't heard anything about children yet. Congratulations!
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
hon30critterDianne and I are now the proud grandparents of a healthy 7lb 10oz red haired baby boy (our first grandchild)!
CONGRATULATIONS GRAMPS!!!!!
Better get going on that layout of yours, he will be old enough and be wanting to run trains in the wink of an eye.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
hon30critterDianne and I are now the proud grandparents of a healthy 7lb 10oz red haired baby boy (our first grandchild)! Everyone is doing well.
Aaaawwwwh! That's great! Grandkids are great (you can alway give them back to the parents when you have had enough cuteness....! )
Have fun and enjoy the situation!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Congratulations, Dave! You're going to have fun!
JaBearThe boys up there finely cut a chilli into salt into which one dipped the slice of fresh mango. Hot, salty, and sweet, very tasty!
I will never forget the first time I had hot mango salsa on a taco.
What a surprising and perfect blend of different flavors. Wonderful!
-Kevin
Living the dream.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Good morning everyone. Chloe, I would like to start the day with some pan fried patty sausage and grits with white gravy.
York1I don't remember ever tasting a Mango. I'll have to try one sometime. The problem may be our part of the country. I don't remember ever seeing one in a store.
The one in my yard is a Zill High Performance Nursery designer hybrid. I think the variety is Tangerine Essence. It is a delicious mango.
I planted another Zill Hybrid last year, an Orange Sherbet variety because all the critics were raving that this was the best mango ever.
Unfortunately, the little tree did not survive the 140 MPH winds from Hurricane Ian.
Due to storm damage at the nursery, Zill Hybrids are hard to get now, and cost hundreds of dollars.
Anyway, you cannot find mangoes like these in a supermarket.
Good Saturday morning, everyone.
SeeYou190I love fresh Mangoes, and they do not get any more fresh than this.
I don't remember ever tasting a Mango. I'll have to try one sometime. The problem may be our part of the country. I don't remember ever seeing one in a store.
The Harriman Dispatch Center in Omaha, where 36,000 miles of track and 850 trains are controlled. The building is called "The Bunker". Not exactly keeping in the theme of signals this month, but I guess it's the equivalent of an old signal tower.
Union Pacific Harriman Dispatch Center America's Power, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Union Pacific Harriman Dispatch Center
America's Power, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
The first seven Mangoes of the year were harvested today, and they are perfect! Please dig in.
-Photographs by Kevin Parson
I love fresh Mangoes, and they do not get any more fresh than this.
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hon30critterI have given up driving because I don't trust myself to be able to apply the brakes properly.
I thought that all the fancy do-dads on your new car were supposed to take care of that for you.
MisterBeasley I like the Danish in the Diner just fine!
My last attempt to reply ended with a Forbidden 403 error. Then I got a pop-up asking if I wanted to translate the page from Danish to English. By Grabthar's Hammer, no! I like the Danish in the Diner just fine!
I finally have a date for my right knee replacement. It is happening on August 18th which is much sooner than I thought it would be. Covid caused huge delays in many non-critical surgeries. At one point knee surgeries were delayed by almost a year after diagnosis.
I'm happy that it will happen so soon. I have given up driving because I don't trust myself to be able to apply the brakes properly.
York1Maybe a signal system like this could be adapted for my garage to help my wife get the Ford into the garage in a straight line.
My wife can get the Impala into the garage OK, but she refuses to back it out if I am at home.
SeeYou190A very nice model of a USRA Heavy 2-10-2 has showed up on eBay, and it has caught my eye. I am considering it. Temptation might get the best of me.
I got outbid, but it still went for a very low price. I might end up regretting not grabbing this one for myself.
Good morning, diners. Friday again!
Maybe a signal system like this could be adapted for my garage to help my wife get the Ford into the garage in a straight line.
Have a good day.
Good morning everyone. Chloe, bring me three chocolate donuts with chocolate icing and a small bowl of peanut butter to smear on top of them. Thank you.
BrassTrainsDotCom listed the Fos Scale model ar $125.00 on their website.
Or... you can just go to the Fos Scale Models website and buy it brand new for $86.95, if that is what you prefer.
Mornin'!
SeeYou190I'll take the weather down here in the proper South. 10+ years since we have seen freezing.
Well.... I like it up here in the North myself (to each their own...). We have all four seasons here.
Yep! They are: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction.
hon30critterIf we are talking about the same thing, jumping spiders don't bite humans but they do eat lots of smaller creatures like mites that will bite you. Keep in mind that, if there are lots of jumping spiders, that means that they have a good food supply so they may in fact be helping you. I would leave them alone unless there are so many of them that they are annoying.
The problem is that they are on the back porch. I cannot have any bugs of any type in my relaxing zone!
RE gmpullman's pic of the BN signals "from behind"...
Those particular "searchlights" were the best signals of all. They were intensely bright and had a "depth" to them that the one-color replacements (particularly those that used incandescent bulbs) just didn't have. They were EASY to see, even in the brightest light. You couldn't miss them.
They had them on the former New Haven Springfield line for years, and on the old Maybrook freight line.
The newer LED lights are pretty good, but still don't match the brilliance of the old searchlights.
BigDaddy Except for the area around Gainesville. <SNIP> I realize that is further north than you are, but it was cold in the winter.
I grew up in Gainesville, right on the U of F campus.
Yes, I remember the bitter cold days up there.
I'll take the weather down here in the proper South. 10+ years since we have seen freezing.
Good afternoon from the stunning West Coast
Don't notice the incredibly good triple shot iced mocha or the warm sunny day in perfectville, check out those perfectly straight mower lines! Forest Gump ain't got nothin on me.
Good neighbours or bad neighbours, they are too far away to matter.
We have had rain all week. In the local TV listening area it has been 1-6". We have had 1.8" I appreciated the rain, but the gray foggy days are getting old.
I had the grandkids last weekend. They have way more energy than I do. We took them to my wife's neice who has a child close in age and a trampoline, which wore them out. I think they enjoyed their visit. It broke up my routine of going to the gym and I haven't been this week.
Kevin I am sorry about your neighborhood. I went to FIT in Melbourne for my freshman year in 1969. It was a space industry neighborhood. Everyone was from somewhere else and all the housing and commercial buildings were younger than I was. Except for the area around Gainesville. I did not venture to the west coast or the panhandle. You reminded me, I need to talk to my friend that owns a second floor condo in Naples. The first floor was wiped out and no one wanted to rebuild.
I realize that is further north than you are, but it was cold in the winter. I have no desire to live in FL.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Signals from behind:
Burlington Northern - Hinsdale, IL by d.w.davidson, on Flickr
I've always admired the Burlington's 'Race Track'.
Cheers, Ed
Good morning everyone. Chloe, can I get a fried egg sandwich on whole wheat toast please?
Water Level RouteKevin, hopefully when new neighbors come they will be good.
This is the house that has always concerned me:
It has a wide open very unusual floor plan.
It is basically a one-bedroom loft apartment with an attached two car garage.
When I moved here, it was occupied by the original owner. He had it custom built. He was a semi-retired engineer from Maryland and a lifelong bachelor. He built the house for himself. After Hurricane Charley he moved back to Maryland.
Since then the house has been occupied by two retired couples. That has been lucky.
I know it is just a matter of time before some semi-successful single guy in his 20s decides this house is the perfect party house. It can never be occupied by a family without a major remodel, and it is a lot smaller than it looks from the outside.
Hoping for another retired couple, but the current batch of retirees are not much better than partiers in their 20s. Oh well.
DoughlessIf not, if you were a risk taker, you could buy one or two. You've got skill to freshen them up and a source of supplies at The HD...LOL.
I thought about that, for about 5 seconds!
I am enjoying the no-stress lifestyle way too much for that.
My middle daughter really wants to buy the house across the street, but it is not for sale. She cannot tackle all the work needed on the one next door for $290,000.00. I have heard the discussions of the "Flippers" looking at it, and they all seem to agree it needs about $100,000.00 in renovations.
gmpullmanLet's see that print again...
Is that what is called a "smash signal"?
SeeYou190It was built a couple of years ago. It was on the market for only a brief moment. An investor bought it immediately and rented it out. The same tennents lived there since it was new. Three younger couples that split the rent. They were all very nice people with no kids. I was not happy when they left.
Sounds like maybe they grew up and decided to get their own places. I know Florida is growing and there is a lot of new construction. Swaths of acreage being converted into housing, so maybe there are more options for your neighbors than what they've had in the past.
I wouldn't be surprised if the hurricane scared some people off too.
I hope things work out.
If not, if you were a risk taker, you could buy one or two. You've got skill to freshen them up and a source of supplies at The HD...LOL.
- Douglas
Good morning, diners. I hope everyone is doing well.
It's grass-cutting day.
Have a great Thursday.