Good mornin', ya'll, and those across the pond,
Wow. The sun still exists and clouds don't dominate the earth. Sunny and 70 now, 78 later. The ocean effect usually moderates temperatures around my place year round. Haven't had to run the a/c much the last 10 days, humidity notwithstanding. That being said, my July electric bill should arrive shortly and it won't be pretty.
MIL July visit coupled with 90 temps = mega bill..... Also, I can just imagine the impact of the putrid (90s and HUMID) day of my granddaughter's b-day party when my wife insisted I have the a/c cranking while 45 people were running in and out of the house. Food buffet was set up indoors/kitchen so heat wouldn't spoil the food. The kiddies were being ushered in and out so they wouldn't pee in the pool, or worse. The men were running in and out, visiting the facilities (couldn't be the beer, could it?) and catching sports scores. Women were doing the 5 trips per hour in and out while grazing and making multiple pottie stops, then kicked the in/out afterburners when the desserts were layed out. Everyone standing in the doorway, yakking with the door wide open.
Chuck.....loved the used transmission fluid comparison to red eye gravy, it was the best, most accurate too. While the crude futures have fallen about 25% per gallon from the peak, gas prices (87) here at $3.75 are down just 8% from the peak. Food prices for the guys who follow it are out of control. Our dog food is up about 20% too! Coffee prices as Chuck pointed out.....well, beer is looking more attractive price wise as a morning beverage.
DougM.....bar cars on the commuter rail here have been gone for over 2 decades here. Everyone would make a quick pit stop in the bars at both North and South Stations here before jumping on a train home. Wonder if the New York transit system still has them?
Laz.....if both you and your wife were laying in the hammock, who was going for the frosties and ice cream? Visiting the dentist, not my favorite activity. Avoiding the dentist, much worse, sooner or later. I still want to have my tooth when I am buried. What's all the racket about pet turtles and disease? I had them for years, no problem, and I am certain as a kid I wasn't washing my hands with disinfectant soap after handling. They enjoyed the bathtub while I was cleaning the tank, mother not amused.
Rich.....I figured you were pouring yourself into a car restoration. Don't know how you squeeze that into your schedule, a labor intensive, time-consuming hobby.
Sir James.....problem with a CT is that while you are trying to stay still and take a nap with the music playing, nurse keeps startling you over the sound system in an urgent voice, asking if you are ok, then starts telling you to lie still in a stern voice. If they don't want you to move, then why do they keep startling you?
Right about now, RaySP is racking up a big "plumber's" bill. At least they are giving him drugs to calm things down.
MikeC.....I get angry when I hear some sports people, even coaches, saying things like "If you do your best but lose, you are a loser." From an early age, I was taught that success is a function of natural ability, persistence and dedication, and blind luck. And I still haven't met anyone who has all 3 at the same time.
DennisD and Buckeye.....re the "eat crow" comments, I wonder if a certain someone removes the feathers and lead pellets before applying his vinegar BBQ marinade.
Ciao,
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
RockIsland52 wrote: John....PM=Private Message. You can shoot stuff back and forth privately to folks on the Forum without posting in a thread. Go to the trains.com main page, look half way down, and there is a line that includes "Private Messages." Click on that to see all the private messages you have sent or received. You can respond from there.Look at the bottom of every post. If you hit PM or Email, you can exchange off-Forum on a post or a thread.Jack,Jack, is it me?Can't see anything, not even a main page that fits, as for PMs or e-mails, there's nothing there.It'all making my brain ache! Am shutting this thing down and going to watch Thomas on the childrens channel.
John....PM=Private Message. You can shoot stuff back and forth privately to folks on the Forum without posting in a thread.
Go to the trains.com main page, look half way down, and there is a line that includes "Private Messages." Click on that to see all the private messages you have sent or received. You can respond from there.
Look at the bottom of every post. If you hit PM or Email, you can exchange off-Forum on a post or a thread.
Jack,
Jack, is it me?
Can't see anything, not even a main page that fits, as for PMs or e-mails, there's nothing there.
It'all making my brain ache! Am shutting this thing down and going to watch Thomas on the childrens channel.
John Baker
Afternoon guys,
Jack a.k.a. RockIsland52, Looks like Texas sort of got hit by our storms. Any way we need the rain that those storms would have brought to south Florida.
Not much else going on here except to get ready for the train show on saturday in Lake Worth(just south of West Palm Beach FL). If anybody from this part of Florida is reading this the show is at the Polish American Club on Lake Worth road near Military Trail, if you need better directions than that email me on here-it goes to my personal email.
Got to run, have to go to work.
Lee F.
Steam Excursion at Blueberry Hill..... http://www.ocsteam.com/events.html
And Chuck says he never sees any trains in his neighborhood.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
RockIsland52, Grits don't have much of a taste by themselves. It all depends on what you put on them. I like to drag a fried egg yoke through them while eating. Black pepper helps and butter. I think in the old days they were used to fill up hungry people when food and money was scarce. Same thing goes for oat meal.
Chief, I'm always ready to talk about vinegar based North Carolina Bar-B-Q. I have the receipe from my brother in Virginia if I ever get up enough energy to tackle the preparation. He used to work for a company that sold Bar-B-Q commercially. I know you offered to check out buying BBQ by mail order and I appreciate the offer but I got sticker shock when I got a price from another rail fan who gave me the name of a place in Kinston, N.C. I think it was "Kings".
Well I have to go now for my test this morning. It's more like afternoon. Check in at 11:00AM and the test starts at noon. Thanks to all for the good wishes. Ray
SPMan
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
ChiefEagles wrote:SPman, Kings was and still is the big Bar-be-que place in Kinston. The word in NC is, Bar-be-que and Politics go together in NC.
Other words that go together in NC
grits - glue
sweet tea - rotten teach
politicians - free food
highways - speed traps
hot - humid
Afternoon all!
Ran the new well car...says it will work on the 31" curves...well...ya, if you don't have a 180-degree 31" curve with a switch...Well car kept clipping the switch, and derailing. Very cool car, but big.
Laz: Sounds like a great night with you and the Bride!
Kurt
Good day at work today, finished up a tough subject and everyone seemed to "get it". Can't wait until tomorrow when things get back to normal for a while. Jack, I let Chief use the TARDIS last week for a few hours - you don't think he got up to something do you? He did have several large bags with him....
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good evening,
Spent another day at the Museum cataloging pictures. Today I worked on negatives, which I have been putting off as long as possible. In order to do it with any accuracy I have been scaning them and then inverting them with photoshop to get a positive image so I can see what I am doing. This takes a lot of time.
Doug, That car is neat.
Chief, Todd's should notice an increase in sales now that you are getting that big check every month.
Buckeye Riveter wrote: Steam Excursion at Blueberry Hill..... http://www.ocsteam.com/events.htmlAnd Chuck says he never sees any trains in his neighborhood.
Buckeye....I just found out that we can ride FREE, if we show them our OTTS membership card. Want to go ??
Chuck
Blueberryhill RR wrote: Buckeye Riveter wrote: Steam Excursion at Blueberry Hill..... http://www.ocsteam.com/events.htmlAnd Chuck says he never sees any trains in his neighborhood.Buckeye....I just found out that we can ride FREE, if we show them our OTTS membership card. Want to go ??Chuck
I thought we rode free, if we showed them our official OTTS Membership cards and wore our official OTTS Shirts with the embroidered emblem. I think I would like to take that ride. I wonder if Wes would like to go, too. Maybe OTTS Member Don would fly out to Ohio. Tom, Doug, Barny, Moe, Curly, Leroy, Doc, Larry, Joe, Chris, Mike, Steve, CSX, George, Roy, daGrump, Stu, Stan, Slats, fife, 88, 89, 90, 92, 10-4, pooch, Brutus, Kurt, Spike, DJ, Cooljocky, Florida Lee, Englishman, Pittsburgh Nick, Melvin, Colin, Sir J, Rock, RT, Pittsburgh Marty, Laz, John, Greg and the whole gang might want to ride. We could ask the Chief....Oh, I fogot. He's not a OTTS member because of that incident three and one-half years ago. Remember the last time the Chief was in Ohio? The day after he left, the State declared a three day holiday for us to rejoice.
Buckeye Riveter wrote: Blueberryhill RR wrote: Buckeye Riveter wrote: Steam Excursion at Blueberry Hill..... http://www.ocsteam.com/events.htmlAnd Chuck says he never sees any trains in his neighborhood.Buckeye....I just found out that we can ride FREE, if we show them our OTTS membership card. Want to go ??ChuckI thought we rode free, if we showed them our official OTTS Membership cards and wore our official OTTS Shirts with the embroidered emblem. I think I would like to take that ride. I wonder if Wes would like to go, too. Maybe OTTS Member Don would fly out to Ohio. Tom, Doug, Barny, Moe, Curly, Leroy, Doc, Larry, Joe, Chris, Mike, Steve, CSX, George, Roy, daGrump, Stu, Stan, Slats, fife, 88, 89, 90, 92, 10-4, pooch, Brutus, Kurt, Spike, DJ, Cooljocky, Florida Lee, Englishman, Pittsburgh Nick, Melvin, Colin, Sir J, Rock, RT, Pittsburgh Marty, Laz, John, Greg and the whole gang might want to ride. We could ask the Chief....Oh, I fogot. He's not a OTTS member because of that incident three and one-half years ago. Remember the last time the Chief was in Ohio? The day after he left, the State declared a three day holiday for us to rejoice.
Yes, I remember that visit by Chief.....It took us a week to clean up the Grits drippings.
GOOD EVENING
Let the Chief ride too, three day holidays are great, and then he probably won't be back for another 31/2 years. I sofa-ed most of the day thou not all, spent some time on the front porch with THE catalog, but that was my trainen for the day. we had a nice morning and some rain this afternoon.gee I might have to start cutting the grass again if its going to keep raining every couple days. I heard from Brutus earlier but can't find him now, guess he has chores.
Well when someone fires up the thing, I am ready got banilla and banilla with orange in it. S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Buckeye,
I tried again.
Ken
sir james I wrote:Brutus, landing area is lit, but yard is squishy from rain,see if you can land on the neighbors grass instead. Can we go back and watch a NYC Hudson tonite?
You got it! I wonder if red-eye gravy would kill japanese beetles?
joetrains wrote: John Baker Sign in and click on forums. Above the listing of the different forums is a line that reads :Active topics/unanswered/Not read/my forums/Private messages Click on private messages and your home free.
Joe, Tried that, got a page that indicated 2 private messages but the rest of it was useless. Any one who feels the need to converse with me o/s the forum please e-mail me at...revo@talktalk.net at least I know that works.
Buckeye Riveter wrote: Remember the last time the Chief was in Ohio? The day after he left, the State declared a three day holiday for us to rejoice.
The train ride sounds great! But the 'After the Chief Party' sounds better....decisions...
Sir James: You got rain??? Bubcus here.
Brutus: You what?????
Need to take a winding out of the 2025 smoke unit, I've been putting off, so I'm off.
Good Morning. A quick stop by before getting my Pt. Been real crazy lately. I heard the Russians invaded Georgia! I just hope they don't mess up too much while they are here. Clean up after yourselves! Have not had a chance to check out the olympics other than a passing story while in the lounge waiting on the next case.
Laz, had a interesting day Tuesday. Came home and family was getting ready for dinner. Wife looks out the kitchen window and a doe was looking in....guess she wanted to know what the grub of the day was. Then, dog was going nuts at one of the front windows. Go to take a look, an owl was in the front yard making a meal of a furry animal. Kind of neat seeing all that. Then the flood gates opened and it rained for two days.
Hope everyone is doing well.
God Bless,
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Morning from beautiful Southern Ohio
Really nice morning. Cool and clear. Like you've said this is the mildest August as far as that goes, summer, I can remember. We've ran our exhaust fan at night instead of the A/C most of the time. Our July electric bill was $69.
Doug - That car was beautiful!
Buckeye & Chuck - Count me in for the steam excursion! I'll get the T shirt washed up.
Dennis- When start showing up in two's let us know.
Well off to work.
May God bless
Jim
Morning. Getting ready for an early meeting. Coffee time to get going. Ohizo had big party because I was there. They are more pleased for me to visit than when the President visits there. Well, a lot of people feel that way.
Later
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a cloudy 62 degrees. Going up to 78 today, with some sunshine and a chance of rain later.
Today is an easier day. Got all the errands run yesterday. I think I will spend some time in the train room and relax. Need to dust a little. I want to run the trains for a few hours.
Dining car is here and it's time for breakfast. Later.
Y'all have a great Thusday.
John Bakeer wrote: joetrains wrote: John Baker Sign in and click on forums. Above the listing of the different forums is a line that reads :Active topics/unanswered/Not read/my forums/Private messages Click on private messages and your home free. Joe, Tried that, got a page that indicated 2 private messages but the rest of it was useless. Any one who feels the need to converse with me o/s the forum please e-mail me at...revo@talktalk.net at least I know that works.
John,
We warned you not to eat the grits! It has caused you to become technologically challenged. I just sent you the same message by email.
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