2008 and the Coffee Pot is still on and over 3 years. Here we gather as friends with trains. Sweet ice tea too.

[kpolak]

FJ&G:  I agree with Brent.  The wood, not only being flexible is porus, and will draw the moisture out of the grout and thinset.

Don:  Save the espresso pot for summer.  Oh ya it's always summer there!    Nothing beats a tall iced capuccino!

Kurt

[dougdagrump]

Don:  Save the espresso pot for summer.  Oh ya it's always summer there!    Nothing beats a tall iced capuccino!

Kurt

Except maybe a big tall ice cold glass of Sweet Tea !

[anjdevil2]

Make mine Dunkin Donuts, I grew real tired of FiveBucks Coffee.  Not that good and waaaay overpriced!!! (Medium Coffee & 2 plain crossants $3).

HEY The sun is out!!!  Still 30ish though... and windy!

[FJ and G]

THANKS ALL!

 

Arguments against wood can be summed up:

 

1. Wood would draw moisture from grout/thinset

 

2. Wood would be flexible, causing eventual cracking

 

3. Wood would expand/contract at a different rate than the tiles, causing cracking

 

Solution is to screw hardiboard or backerboard to the wood then lay tile. Laying tile direct on wood with expandable thinset/grout may or may not work depending on a host of variables 

[ChiefEagles]

Evening all.  Good to see David on here.  Great to see B B the famous beagle.  She out ranks Snoopy.    Got some more cleaning done in train room.  Did get another one of thsoe storage cabinets for parts.  Getting things organized.  Cold and no breezes.  Fed deer and they were eating away when I drove off.  Later  

[sir james I]

evening All

fellow "pots" I like reg coffee w/cream thank you. however those of you who wish to partake of other forms of coffee  just be sure the pot is on. Icetea is good, but we would have to open a "tea" pot.

Well it stayed cold all day but no snow and like others I'm looking for that promised warmer weather.  see y'all later,,,,,,Sir James

[CSXect]

its been cold last few days but I hear that it will be in the 50's by monday

Chef how are things going???

Buckeye do you have anymore cheesy ......I mean chessie videos

[jakeoregano]

I hear you there Wes.  I work Near Polaris Mall and live maybe 5 miles from work and it took me 40 minutes to get to work yesterday.  The roads were a bit slick, and I could only manage about 25 mph. 

16 degrees this morning, but a clear commute.  Hope the weather warms up soon here in Central OH!!

Cheers,

Dwayne. 

 

[Buckeye Riveter]

Been at the beach all day.  Not too crowded again.  I guess people just can't stand the sunshine here in Buckeyeland.  

I heard I received an award from the Chief.  What did I win this time? 

 I just don't know a lot about trains to feel like I can write about them.

Misty, just name one character on this forum that can write about trains.  Tough isn't it.   Next year, you and your son are invited to the great neighborhood train party. See photo below.

Buckeye - Mountaineers played one hell of a game.  I agree...very emotional.  I think it has to do with thier coach leaving.  Lets just say Ive been told by many of their fans that the buckeyes will have a lot of people cheering them from WV in the 3rd week in november.

Postwar...The Buckeyes were cheering for the Mountaineers last night.  My daughter, a graduate of WVU was on cloud nine.  BTW, the hot fashion item for a Buckeye to wear is an Appalacian State T-Shirt.

Buckeye do you have anymore cheesy ......I mean chessie videos

CSXect...Yes, I do.  http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/pfoh/?action=view&current=OnFire.flv  You might like this one too.  http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/pfoh/?action=view&current=BOWRR.flv

I hear you there Wes.  I work Near Polaris Mall and live maybe 5 miles from work and it took me 40 minutes to get to work yesterday.  The roads were a bit slick, and I could only manage about 25 mph. 

16 degrees this morning, but a clear commute.  Hope the weather warms up soon here in Central OH!!

Dwayne...I work just southwest of Polaris in the Crosswoods near Champs.

The third and last of the new MTH Ohio State freight cars have shipped...just in time for next Christmas!

Wes...Hobbyland on East Broad Street has the new Ohio State Tank Cars.  If the Buckeyes win this year, will MTH update our National Championshiop Signs? 

Jon... I don't know how you folks in Iowa stand all the political noise.  Ohio will be besieged in the fall. 

[Manamanah]

Very windy, temps in the twenties and light snow today. I also got in a short x-country ski because we are supposed to get rain this weekend and that will mess up the ski trails. This weekend Ill help Joe put legs on his new N-scale bench and Patrick wants to paint a back drop for the Manamana rail road. Ill also relax with hot cup-a-joe with my sweetheart. Have a good weekend all.

[Brutus]

Misty!  Glad you are still hanging around, you'll have to post a review of your RMT.  I've thought of getting one of those myself!

Cold here today and first day back at school for the kiddos.  I like Coffee, Tea (hot or cold), but not espresso.  One piece of good news, we have some OT money this month, so I'll have a couple extra $$$ soon.  Usually just in time to pay off an unexpected bill!

Dave, I agree with Brent/EDW on this one and I would use some brand of backer board for ceramic tiles.

[PostwarMan07]

Postwar...The Buckeyes were cheering for the Mountaineers last night.  My daughter, a graduate of WVU was on cloud nine.  BTW, the hot fashion item for a Buckeye to wear is an Appalacian State T-Shirt.

haha yea I have one of those.  Got it when some friends and I went out to buckeyeland to watch the illinois game .  Somehow spending 250 for 20th row in the north endzone was still worth it even though they lost.  If all goes well Ill be tranfering to OSU for the spring quarter... maybe that will bring cheaper tickets?

Also, some advice from experience.  Cotton snow may not be as realistic as plastic powder snow, but the stuff gets all over the place (thanks to the cats).  Ill be using cotton for next years christmas layout.

[Buckeye Riveter]

Postwar...The Buckeyes were cheering for the Mountaineers last night.  My daughter, a graduate of WVU was on cloud nine.  BTW, the hot fashion item for a Buckeye to wear is an Appalacian State T-Shirt.

haha yea I have one of those.  Got it when some friends and I went out to buckeyeland to watch the illinois game .  Somehow spending 250 for 20th row in the north endzone was still worth it even though they lost.  If all goes well Ill be tranfering to OSU for the spring quarter... maybe that will bring cheaper tickets?

Also, some advice from experience.  Cotton snow may not be as realistic as plastic powder snow, but the stuff gets all over the place (thanks to the cats).  Ill be using cotton for next years christmas layout.

Postwar...Not only do you get cheaper tickets, but one of the guys in our office just sold his ticket to the BCS Game in New Orleans for over $700.  He bought doughnuts for the office today.

Manamanah...How's my bridge doing these days?  Is that your house at the top of the photo?  Are the pine trees out on the ice to the island.  And those Southern guys whine when the temperature hits freezing.  Whimps!

[magicman710]

Evening all.

Yankee weather is getting worse. Right now it has to be at least 25 Degrees. Waiting for it to snow....

 

[ChiefEagles]

Wow, look at all the new Coffee Pot "drinkers" we've got.  Isn't this great?  Glad tos ee so many faces.  Been on phone on Town Board business all night long.  Got newly elected Board member who thinks it is all about him.  Is he in for a big surprise.  He should have caught on when I put him at the last desk in the Commissioners row.

No trains tonight.  Shot my plans.  Well, tomorrow.  Grayson, ignore those Yanks.  They don't have blood, they have ice water.  Later.  

[jonadel]

Buckeye--

It is over, the winds are blowing strong out of the west towards New Hampshire, good riddance.  I don't mean to sound like a curmudgeon (like the Chief) but my goodness, the amount of money spent here has been incredible. Clinton and Obama have each invested $20 million, Romney $7 million of his own  and it just goes on and on.  Huckabee will win on the Republican side but he's going to be a one hit wonder.

I went downtown this morning as it was a beautiful day and I took some shots of the media trucks from all over the country, just crazy.  I may enter a few of them in a competition next summer, we'll see how I feel in a few weeks after I've sat on them.  I've got too many hobbies but I enjoy every one of them

My wife was having lunch with a friend in a food court this noon and Obama came through surrounded by the press and security, his wife came over to my wife and apologized for the comotion they were causing.  She was extremely nice about it and felt bad.

Once every 4 years for the caucus is just about right.

  

[sir james I]

EVENING,

It's about 15 degrees. Is winter almost over? trains ran well today had four going but too much noise so two was better.

Brutus I have more, a few at a time ,hot chocolate sounds good then bed.

Good nite Chewy,,,,,,,,,,,Sir James

[Brutus]

We need a scoop of banilla each, see ya later - TTFN!

[Northwoods Flyer]

Good evening gentlemen,

I appreciate the information on how to post a picture to my signature.  I will have to work at that one.  I would like to post some pictures of my collection as requested but so far I have not been able to figure out how to do it.  I thought I remembered a thread some time ago that gave directions on how to do it, but of course I didn't copy it and now I can't find it.  There isn't even anything in the Faq.  I've fiddled around with the option given in the posting section, but I can't get anything to show up when I copy it from my stored files either.  So will someone take pity on the newbie once again and give me some help? 

Thanks again,

 Greg

[dbaker48]

Evening All -- Real busy day !

We have these rain storms coming in, so....

- Cut the lawn, (yard) more weeds than anything.

- Cleaned up all the backyard and blew out all the drainage areas along the side of the house.

- Cleaned pool

- Got new windshield wiper blades on El Camino

- Pulled weeds from back flower bed.

Sounds like I'm winterizing, huh ???

Also took picture of river bed directly behind us, so will have a "dry" picture and a "flowing" picture in a couple of day.

Are you ready Doug ???  Here it comes !!!!! 

Chris spent the day snowboarding up at Big Bear today, and Kay worked the office.

Worked in train room, have ZW's all wired in, with circuit breakers on each circuit.  Major achievenment.

 

Greg - To post pictures there are many ways.  But what works for me is Shutterfly.com.  

- Format pics, in jpeg format.

- Open Shutterfly, and create an Album, then add pictures to the album.  This is easily done via the Browse.

- Then click on the pic, right click on the image and select "Properties"  using Ctrl-C, copy the address.

- Then in the post or place you want the image to appear, enter the following without quotes.  ".

And your picture will be there.

(If anyone has a better method please post the info)

New Topic --

I am really ticked, I will explain tomorrow, need to check some information before I go off half cocked. 

[dougdagrump]

Jon,

With all that "Hot Air" I'm surprised you have any snow left up there, on second thought maybe that's why the east is supposed to warm up this weekend. Just think how good the corn crop will be this summer with all the BS that has been spread .

Don,

Cleaned the pool today ? You realize that will make it the target of every stray leaf in the neighborhood.

My preference was always Mountain High before my knees went bad. Before they started overselling the facilities it was great, guess that's what happens when you have to many bad snow seasons in a row. Has Chris ever tried June or Mammoth Mtn ? Only one word to describe them during the week, WOW.

[kpolak]

Jumijo:  Just read article.  Very nice!

Kurt

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cold and clear 14 degrees. Going up to 38, today. No snow.

Today, I am taking it easy. I have a few things to do around the house and then I will relax and run trains, this afternoon.  I have to start cleaning the train room again.. Dusty cars.

Dining car is ready for breakfast. Be back later.

Y'all have a great Friday.

Chuck

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys. It's cold.  Got my TCA Newsletter yesterday, and fifey's wifey made her things-we're-gonna-do-if-you-expect-me-to-hava-good-time-at-this-train-convention-thingie list...Hope I actually see a train in June...

jonadel - Did you get your carcass to the caucus...?  Actually, Mr Huckabee is kinda growing on me.

dbaker - Yes, Don, please wait 'til you are full-cocked.

postwarman07 - cats would lose that battle here.  Boy, fetch me your NERF cannon...

[cheapclassics]

Good morning all,

Roads were clear so I drove the truck.  For once, I have no idea what the weather will be, maybe sunny and in the 30s.  I finished the latest Trains magazine and went back to the Monon book I got for Christmas.  Tried to go to bed early last night and could not sleep.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Anonymous]

to all the new posters on the 'Pot'!

Chief - looks like we're going to have to do some expansion soon... we should probably start the paperwork so the funding goes smoothly!  Of course we could probably do the work ourselves for 1/3 the cost since we seem to have so many handy fellas around now!

Have to get a project done today at work... actually just enhancing a project I have been working on, the users got their first look last week and had a 'eureka' moment.  They 'forgot' to include a few 'minor' features that are make or break... when the meeting was over I met with the development staff and one of them asked 'how can a minor feature be make or break?' I've often wondered this myself, but I told him in the minds of the user, anything is minor that is not a core component - say adding multiple addresses for one customer vs only one address.  They don't realize that inorder to do this it requires changes to the database and to all the customer screens, etc... our job is to get it done so we can move on to the next project.

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Morning all,

Beautiful cold (15F) in Southern Ohio.  Blue sky with snow covered hills, looks like post cars!

Starting my 7 days off.  Going to Columbus to pick up bride at airport the classes tonight and Saturday.  Hopefully Lowes will not mess up my order again and the sheet metal for my garage roof will come in so I can get it on while I am off.  It is to warm up next week.

Don-Your "to-do" list sounds out of season to me!  I wish I was doing the roofing in your weather than what we have here.

Glad to see new posters to the pot.  Looks like Greg is an American Flyer fan!!!!

Got to go

May God bless

Jim 

[sparky]

Morning to All from the front range of the Rockies. The coffee is mighty good today. Hope the weather people are a little closer today. Finally getting out of the teens, supposed to be close to 50. Maybe I'll be able to find the Christmas decorations under the snow this weekend and get them put away.

Hope everyone has a good day!

 

[spankybird]

. . . .

Greg - To post pictures there are many ways.  But what works for me is Shutterfly.com.  

- Format pics, in jpeg format.

- Open Shutterfly, and create an Album, then add pictures to the album.  This is easily done via the Browse.

- Then click on the pic, right click on the image and select "Properties"  using Ctrl-C, copy the address.

- Then in the post or place you want the image to appear, enter the following without quotes.  ".

And your picture will be there.

(If anyone has a better method please post the info)

. . . .

Don the way you discribe works well, If you are using IE 6 or IE 7, then you can make life just a little bit easer.

Assuming that you have already uploaded your pics to shutterfly, Open two windows of Internet Explorer, One to the CTT forum and one for shutterfly.

In the shutterfly window, select the pic you wish from its album.

In the second window of IE, open the CTT forum and post a reply.

Now back to shutterfly, place your mouse over the pic, right click it, and select 'Copy', now switch back to the CTT window and place your mouse in the post area and right click and select 'Past'. Your pic should appear in the CTT post area. 

 

[jonadel]

Don--the crops should do VERY well this summer with all the methane gas still in the air, if we could bottle that fertilizer residue we would all be billionaires!

 

Fife--I did drag my caracass to the caucus, it's an excellent exercise to have your voice heard and I'm grateful for that.  It will be interetesing to see how Huckabee will do against McCain this Tuesday, I would doubt that it will be a mandate for Huckabee. It should be a fun run up to Super Tuesday, hope it makes these long winter months go faster.

 

I am grateful to the citizens of Iowa who stood up last night and said "enough is enough" in both parties.  Change is needed, I pray that it will happen.