The pot of coffee is always on [even after 2 years have passed]. Come on in. Sweet ice tea too.

[ChiefEagles]

Sunny and warm. The Sir Walter Raleigh ground hog [or whatever his stupid name is] will see his shadow. Thent he Tom and Buckeye stuff is to arrive tomorrow. Pam has informed her work, "One flake falls and I'm out the door." She's not getting stranded in Raleigh again. Going tp see Miss Edna today as I was running late getting back from Mom's yesterday. Did gt the load of Christmas trees from ACE hardware to drop in the pond. Manager had loaded them in hhis truck so we jsut drove to the pond and he helped me unload them. Not to go to Home Depot or Lowes and get cement blocks to put on the end of them. Drop them off the front of the boat and they slowly float down and stand up on the bottom. Then all the fishes gather for a party. [:D] Have a good day and God bless all.

[Jim Duda]

QUOTE: Drop them off the front of the boat and they slowly float down and stand up on the bottom. Then all the fishes gather for a party.

Something tells me that the same thing happens to his fi***hat "party" happens to the ladies at the parties he attends...they SCATTER and HIDE! Anyone care to wager if the Xmas trees will improve his catch?

[spankybird]

Here are a couple of pics of the Hyacinth Macaw





It is very sunny in NE Ohio today, so I bet the ground hog has seen his shadow.
tom

[laz 57]

CHIEF sounds FISHY to me?
JIMBO doesn't that smell fishy?
laz57

[Anonymous]

Yep, the groundhog was sighted today. More winter instore for us.[:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O][:O]

[Anonymous]

Hi Spanky, beautiful Mcaw, one of the prettiest birds around.
Friend has a Green Wing
I used to have a yellow nape, it liked me but did NOT like women, Finally sold it and it
chased the wife up a broomstick and they had to get rid of it---
Thinking about a Cockatiel-maybe it would like both of us??

[spankybird]

Hi Expogs6

Welcome to the coffee pot thread.

Cockatiels are great little birds. I have had plenty of them. The males are great talkers. Most of them will favor one person but are good will all people. IMO, they are the best family bird you can have.

If you never meet Spanky, here is a thread with some of his pics on it.
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29047


The ground hog saw his shadow, looks like someone took a shot at him.

http://www.wkyc.com/galleries/galleries_fullstory.asp?id=29664

[ben10ben]

We have Cockatiel by the name of Tucker who has been with us for 8 years now. He definitely favors my dad, but gets along well with all of us. He also really likes small children, and will usually have a mouthful of talking for them as well.

I agree with Tom, Cockatiels do make excellent family pets.

[laz 57]

TOM,
I think it is Varmit season now?
laz57

[spankybird]

QUOTE: Originally posted by laz 57

TOM,
I think it is Varmit season now?
laz57

i belive we missed it [V] He is already back in his hole, with 6 more weeks of snow. [:(] Personally, I would be happy if that is all that is left [:D] [:p]

[Buckeye Riveter]

Okay, we have the hogs predicting 6 more weeks of winter in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and North Carolina , the Chief dumping Christmas Trees into a pond and an indepth discussion on parrots on a toy train forum. Now I understand how Bill Murray must have felt in the movie, Groundhog Day. This is nuts!

[laz 57]

The spice of life BUCK the spice of life.
laz57

[Jim Duda]

Punxsatawney Phil
You can go straight to Hill! (wink)
We've had enough of this shat.

We need some warm sun
So we can have fun
You're giving us all a big fit!

We'll come into your hole
And fill it with coal
You're toast! you fat little rat...

And you won't be missed
'Cause we really are pissed
My helmet will be your new hat!

With all our love,
The fed up with winter Boyz

[ChiefEagles]

Hey Larry. Now you get a video camera connected to your computer and then a train layout connect to the same. Stay down there during the winter and run trains at home and watch them by computer. [;)] Now for the varmits. I have a nice .17 with 3X9 scope that really love to "talk" to them. Off to the Train Lady's. [:D]

[spankybird]

OK just for Buckey, lets all post one pic of a train !!!



tom

[ChiefEagles]

Picture of real trains with power. Not those air polluting coal burners. [;)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by laz 57

Cool LARRY how you do that?
laz57

laz,
Since you asked, here is how it is done:

You need a weather station, webcam, software for the station and webcam, and of course a computer connected to the internet and also a website. My weather station is a Davis Vantage Pro from Davis Instruments http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/stations.asp I purchased the station with the optional software. The software is the key to the whole thing and is fairly simple to use. The station transmits weather data to a console inside my house. The console is connected to my computer. The software gets the data from the console every 10 minutes and automatically writes a webpage which it uploads it to my web site. The software came with a standard weather page, but it can be customized as I did. You need a knowledge of the HTML language to do any customizing. The webcam is done by a separate piece of software that takes a still picture every 10 minutes using my webcam. The weather station software uploads the camera image when it uploads the other data. I also have other cameras inside the house on motion detection software. I can access these cameras through a service called GoToMyPc. www.gotomypc.com GoToMyPc allows you to access your computer remotely from any computer in the world that is connected to the internet. The computer that you are accessing must of course be connected to the internet all the time, which mine is anyways because of the weather station. The way I have described it may seem confusing but it is all pretty easy. After all I am legally blind and was able to do it.

The weather station is fun, but what I think is really cool is being able to operate my computer from 2000 miles away.

[Anonymous]

Hey Spanky-How many Mcaws do you have?
The B&G is beautiful also!
How do you know a male Cockatiel from a female??
They go for about $100 here {hand-fed} and the others are about $60 to $80
Anyway Hi to All!![:)][:)]

[laz 57]

BUCKEYE heres mine.....................
Bowling for junk.

laz57

[laz 57]

LARRY simply amazing.
laz57

[spankybird]

Hi expogs6,

I now only have the Blue and Gold, the pics of the Hyacinth Macaw I took off the internet.

I used to raise many different birds and at one time had over 50 pairs of cockatiels. There are many rumors on sexing cockatiels. Here are the straight facts, Females lay eggs and males don’t. The underside of the tail feathers on females have yellow horizontal strips on it, males are solid color. Now the bad part, all juveniles under 6 months old have strips. The males change at about 6 months to a year old. The males usually will start chirping sooner, but not always. Color dots on the cheeks have NOTHING to do with the sex of the bird.

Now for Buckeye

tom

[Anonymous]

Well, got a Lionel GP30 today, and its a great machine... nice bell, nice 3 chime horn, and its even got a Turbo whistle!

--Chris

[ChiefEagles]

Chris, make pictures and post. [:)]

[Buckeye Riveter]

Larry, that is really cool.

I have visited the U.P. of Michigan several times and have crossed the Mac in the winter months. The only time I have seen ore trains is at Escanaba in 1991.

[Roger Bielen]

There was a program on Georgia PBS about parrots last week. If I remember correctly, the hyacinth macaw is extremely difficult to keep in captivity because of a very limited diet. Even in the wild their range is limited to the area the nut they eat grows in and even becoming less due to logging of the rain forests.

[Anonymous]

Buckeye,
There used to be train tracks about 2 miles from my house which is near St Ignace. They were taken out in the late 1980's and made into a snowmobile trail. It has been a long time since a train has run through there. At one time the Railroad owned a lot of property around there including some property that I own. At one time there was a lumber yard in town across from the tracks and they used to get their lumber shipped un by train. The railroad died out up there not long after the Mackinac bridge was built. I did not move up there until 1986 so I never saw the train up there.

[Anonymous]

Beautiful sunshiney day today and 46 degrees
Dont know about Pa.Phil, or Buckeye Chuck, but no winter around here[:D][:D]
Could always go rock skiing, or fishing. Speaking of fishing heres a picture of one I caught last summer. Dont know how big, since didnt have a tape measure with me. Sure was tired and sleepy after I got him reeled in.



Well enough foolin around...back to layout wiring......Tim

[ChiefEagles]

PETim, sure is a nice one. Bet you didn't lip him. [:D]

[TurboOne]

Hey all you java junkies, how are you doing.

Just wanted to show you what I have done so far.



Here is some CA sunshine for all of you that need to warm up.



take care all

Tim

[ben10ben]

Tim,
Looks great! Why I'm up at this odd hour of the morning to see it is another matter.