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

[ChiefEagles]

Exterminator lady came by.  Sprayed and guaranteed no more Yankees here in this house.  Now if I can get her to spray along the Mason-Dixon.   Actually the bugs were coming from wife's massive flower and shrub gardens.  Trying to move in for the winter. 

John Bakeer.  My buddy I went to visit has had Bentleys and Rols for years [had a Silver version in 1997].  Sold his last one several months ago.  He now drives the sporty little Caddy with the top that goes down in the trunk.  One of my daughters had a Triumph Spite Fire.  Had to work on it all the time.  My farm tractor is a British Leyland.  Same engine as the MG A.  Never given a bit of trouble.

Now time to eat.

[Jumijo]

NO, NO, NO.......
RC, yes alternative cola, however Coke and Pepsi were typically  8 oz bottles, and the RC was 16 oz, for the same price.  (Unless of course you went with a quart bottle of NEHI soda for about 5 cents).  Was very popular, however not easily found anymore if at all. 
Moonpie had a marshmallow creme center, between the two large chocolate cookies.  It too was a good deal they pie was 4 or 5 inches in diameter, and about 3/4 inch thick. 
When I was a kid you could purchase both for less than .25, maybe 30 cents.  15 cents each.

AND THEY WERE GOOD !

Can still find Moonpies.

I took a shot . . .

Who here remembers Burry's Scooter Pies? Those were gooooooood!

[wrmcclellan]

Morning all!

Coudy here. Low 40's this AM and headed to high 50's, maybe low 60's today. For once we are having a real autumn here for the first time in many years.

Kevin - we fished on Bird Creek which is south of Anchorage on the way to Whittier.

My son casting away. Everyone around us caught something - 3 foot long and up. Fun to watch these guys carrying their catch out draped over their shoulders.

We did not ride the ARR. Prices were very very high per person for a short trip and due to the reunion we were sort of confined to the local area. We did see a lot of ARR equipment in Whittier. We drove through the ARR tunnel to Whittier. That was fun.

Have a great day all!

[dbaker48]

I took a shot . . .

Who here remembers Burry's Scooter Pies? Those were gooooooood!

Jaabat..  Your response was fine, except the tummy ache part.  But being a moonpie connisier (sp?) with the appropriate physic (again sp?)  I had to respond.

[GregM]

The only "pop" in our house when I was growing up was RC.  Didn't know what 'Coke" tasted like for years.  I can't tell you how many cases of empty bottles I lugged out to the car over the years.  I am pretty certain they were 12 oz bottles not 16 oz.  First 16 oz bottles I remember were for Pepsi.  Haven't bought RC in years.  I drink lots of Bargs rootbeer (and caffeine free) Pepsi these days.  Makes a lot of sense don't it.  LOL

[GregM]

Dr John,

Pictures are on my "To Do" list but it may be awhile.  Only have a test loop set up right now and don't want any photographic evidence of all the junk piled around.  If I manage to get the Christmas layout setup this year the A5 will be one of the engines that runs on it.

[jefelectric]

Good afternoon,

We had no trick or treaters last night, at least 3 years since any have come to our door.  Used to get 20-30 each year.  I think it is the aging of the community.  There are a few young ones that I know of but apparently they do not trick or treat.

In my last day of babysitting the GDs, about 4 hours to go.     It is nice when they come & nicer when they go (after 3 days). 

The youngest does like to watch the trains run, the older has lost interest.  Think we will head down and run them a while this afternoon.

John, RC is Royal Crown Cola, similar to Coke and Pepsi.  I will let someone else explain Moonpie.

Have been pretty fortunate regarding vehicles over the years.  Worst was an MGA in the late 50s, I'm sure John Baker can relate to that.  There was a bumper sticker popular back then that read something like this: 'BE AWARE THAT ALL PARTS FALLING OFF OF THIS VEHICLE ARE OF THE FINEST BRITISH MANUFACTURE'  May not be the exact wording, but you get the idea.

 

 

[Brutus]

Colder this morning.  Having a party at work so I stopped and picked up Krispy Kreme doughnuts for my team and an extra box to take home for my kids!  Need to get back on my diet, as I'm starting to stretch my belt a little!  I ate about 10 of those "bite size" Almond Joys last night.  No Kit Kats, though.  RC and Moonpie - I've had it and it's good.  Also, put a handful of salted peanuts in your bottle of Pepsi Cola some time - YUM!  Another drink I used to like was Yoohoo.  Don't think I've had one in 30 plus years though.  One British import I like is Wheatabix Cereal - very good!  I'm a longtime anglophile with a degree in English Lit, so it is very enjoyable to read your posts, Mr. Bakeer!  Please keep us up to date!

[cnw1995]

Yoo Hoo was a great fizzy chocolate drink.

John's Honda is known as a Fit in North America.

[dbaker48]

I had this MG Midget, with the dual side draft carbs.  Drive for 50 miles, stop adjust and balance the vacuum on the carbs.  Drove that thing from Long Beach Cal, to Corpus Christi TX.  (Visit my grandfather, had to put the top down so he could get in).  Upon return the car "DIED" took 3 weeks to get it going again. 
Sure had fun with it.!  Traded it for a bread truck.  (53 Ford, had an accordian school bus door.  Painted green on the outside, orange inside with a bright blue ceiling.  Registered it as a "house car", as oppossed to comercial truck.  Found an abandoned sofa at a goodwill box, put it in and took the truck to DMV.)  Used the truck extensively for beach parties, etc.

[Jumijo]

Notorius oil leakers, those Brit cars, no?

[Blueberryhill RR]

Two words...............

 

COCA - COLA ( COKE )

and

Chevrolet

[Jumijo]

Two words...............

 

COCA - COLA ( COKE )

and

Chevrolet

Amen, Chuck!
My 1997 Chevy has 138,000 miles on it! Oil change this weekend.

[Dr. John]

Yep! RC and Moonpies are hard to beat. I also like to pour salted peanuts into an 8 oz. Coke too - great combination!

[Buckeye Riveter]

I also like to pour salted peanuts into an 8 oz. Coke too - great combination!

You forgot to add the grits!  

 

[Brutus]

Well, I'm partial to Pepsi Cola because we grew up on it.  My great-uncles on my mom's side owned Pepsi Cola Bottling in Bloomington, IL.  My Nana (grandmother) got free Pepsi delivered in cases of glass bottles her entire life, including after the last brother died when his tractor tipped over on him in a ditch.  He was mowing the lawn for the hospital.  I do like Coke, though!

What was the root beer that had a picture of a hillbilly on the bottle?

[Anonymous]

 heard this the other day at the VA Hospital, it was all the buzz.

They had an old gentleman with cancer on one of the floors who had been there a while as he had no family and was evidently about at the end of his suffering.

He liked to sing with the radio thru the day. He listened to a Christian station and had a pretty fair voice.

Monday night he began about 2 AM to sing ocapella ( by his self)some of those favorite hymns many of us grew up on.

His voice was strong and clear and could be heard all over the floor for the longest time.

After a while I guess he went to sleep when they game him a does of pain killer.

When they came in the morning for his vitals at the end of the shift he was gone.

Man, not only if I could face death with such confidence but live life with such strength of conviction and bear so well the pain and suffering.

It made me ashamed of my many short comings.

 

I may have flavored this for a better read but not by much, it is how I head it in the lab pretty much.

[Brutus]

Good way to spend your last day on earth, singing His praise! 

[ChiefEagles]

Sleeeeeepy.  Got to get packed.  Flight is at 2:15 but things to do before I leave tomorrow [around noon].  Turning cold as I speak.  Yanks trying to raid us Southerners but we will drive them back.  It will warm back up.

PEPSI, born in the Carolinas.  Use to run around with twins, Sue Sue and Lou Lou [no joke].  Their Granddad owned the Pepsi franchise in Eastern NC.  RICH KIDS.

Later.

[dougdagrump]

Chuck,

I thought that was Hot Dogs, Apple Pie And Chevrolet. Make mine a shake or a malt, maybe even a float.

We had quite a few "Trick-Treaters"  last night but not as many as the past couple years. Went thru about about 12#'s of candy with very little left over.

Spent the day as the babysitter so grampa is pretty pooped tonite, don't know how John can keep up with two wears me out to keep up with one.  

[dwiemer]

Been a wonderful day.  Finished with work early and came home to do some layout work.  Put some plywood down to start laying track.  I got just about the entire first level done.  I did have to do some adjusting with my plan, but it all worked out.  I had to elevate part of a loop as it goes right over another loop so I will actually have a grade.  After I get the elevation adjusted with risers, I will start placing foam sheets down and then start with the second level which will be passenger.

The highlight of my day was getting a phone call from a friend whom I used to work on the F.D. with many moons ago and have not spoken to in a LONG time.  Funny how you have friends who you know from one context and don't find out some interesting things about them till years have gone by.  Anyway, this friend has since divorced and remarried.  Sounds like he did well on #2.  While he still works at the fire department, he does electrical engineering and also was a silent partner in a train store.  I never knew he was into O gauge trains, but is very heavily and now we have something in common to carry our friendship into the sunset days.

Anyway, cherrish the friends you have and as mentioned earlier, go out singing His praises.

Dennis

[Blueberryhill RR]

Chuck,

I thought that was Hot Dogs, Apple Pie And Chevrolet. Make mine a shake or a malt, maybe even a float.

We had quite a few "Trick-Treaters"  last night but not as many as the past couple years. Went thru about about 12#'s of candy with very little left over.

Spent the day as the babysitter so grampa is pretty pooped tonite, don't know how John can keep up with two wears me out to keep up with one.  

Doug....Back in the 70's, the Chevy Plant where I worked had an Open House to the public. They set up tents and gave everyone a Baseball , Hot Dog , Apple Pie and 40 % discount on a Chevrolet. Lots of people were there. You remembered the song.

Chuck

[ChiefEagles]

Chuck,

I thought that was Hot Dogs, Apple Pie And Chevrolet. Make mine a shake or a malt, maybe even a float.

We had quite a few "Trick-Treaters"  last night but not as many as the past couple years. Went thru about about 12#'s of candy with very little left over.

Spent the day as the babysitter so grampa is pretty pooped tonite, don't know how John can keep up with two wears me out to keep up with one.  

Use good clothes pins and hang them out on the clothes line.   A good set of shooter's ear plugs helps too.  Had a buddy that had two rowdy kids.  He would sit and watch TV and they were tearing up the world and loud.  He seemed to block them out and never heard a thing.  Bet Jim A and Dennis W can tell us about that.  Doug M's are getting too old for that.

[jefelectric]

Spent the day as the babysitter so grampa is pretty pooped tonite, don't know how John can keep up with two wears me out to keep up with one.  

Doug, Its not easy, wouldn't want to do it as regular thing.  With two it is mostly being a referee, cook and dishwasher.  Wife took me out for dinner tonight after we turned them over to Dad.

BTW any of you guys from South of the M/D line remember a soda called Cherry Wine?  As a kid living in NC it was my favorite, probably a local thing, never heard a anything of it after we moved back to PA.

Almost forgot, I actually won a few things on ebay tonight while I was away.  The prize is a new MTH H3 PRR Consolidation.  For those that don't know what an H3 is, it was the main freight engine for the PRR back in the late 19 century.  It is a premier engine that listed for 699 in the 2004 catalog new, I got it for 450 and I know the seller, a first rate dealer.

[Dr. John]

John, do you mean "Cheer Wine?" It's a soft drink still sold in parts of the south. I haven't seen it in Alabama though. Often see it in parts of Tennessee and North Carolina when traveling through the Smokey Mountains.

[AKKevinT]

Midnight and still working in the office. Now time for a short break.

Roy: Nice picture of Bird Creek fishing. Thanks for sharing them. It is kind a wild scene there when the fishing is hot-N-heavy. It is a fun spot since there is always something happening with some one along the creek. Further down around Kenai there are some place where the combat fishing is beyond intense it is crazy. I usually don't fish there.

I try to get to Valdez for the Silver run out in the Valdez Arm and fish reds in the Copper River Canyon. Red salmon are mighty fine any way you serve em. I really like to smoke as much of it as I can– it goes great in the winter with a cheese, crackers and some ice-cold coke!

Glad you enjoyed the Alaska experience. The train is pretty spendie even on the short rides. Do you have a return trip planned for Alaska in the future?

A couple of weeks ago my wife won a round trip for two on the ARR to Denali Park from Fairbanks while attending a dinner of some type. If I behave myself she might ask me to go with her!

SODA  SELECTIONS: On the topic of soft drinks since I grew up in the Florissant Missouri there was a lot of Pepsi bottle caps flying around. They usual ended up zinging me in the side of the head. So I know they were popular because the side of my head was always red and stinging.

I always liked Dr. Peper growing up– it seems like in the '50's and '60's it had a fruiter taste than it does today. Any one else recall it that way?

Well, I better get back to work on our proposal. Looks like the last night of working until the  chicken start moving around. We are close to final draft stage! Anxious for this part of work to be behind me.

Good Night and Good Morning,

Regards from the freezer!

Kevin T.

[dwiemer]

Spent the day as the babysitter so grampa is pretty pooped tonite, don't know how John can keep up with two wears me out to keep up with one.  

Use good clothes pins and hang them out on the clothes line.   A good set of shooter's ear plugs helps too.  Had a buddy that had two rowdy kids.  He would sit and watch TV and they were tearing up the world and loud.  He seemed to block them out and never heard a thing.  Bet Jim A and Dennis W can tell us about that.  Doug M's are getting too old for that.

Chief, we wrap them in velcro and stick them to a stucco wall.  Actually, Kim keeps them tame for the most part and if the noise reaches Dad's threashold, I yell and send them to the corners.  Ricky can really behave when he has something he wants to do, but must act right first.  Lia is in the throws of potty training, so we can't get on her too much.  She really is a good girl and doesn't need much disciplin.

dennis

[John Bakeer]

We have a drink 'Vimto' a bit like Cola but without the fizz.
Nothing here near to moon pie, it sounds too loaded with calories for its own good yum-yum.
-2 last night, cold clear day, good sun should dry the ground a little.
We are going to Chatsworth house for our annual Russet run to walk through and kick the fallen leaves, take pics. of the trees in their autum glory.
I am not an old man (68) but I have had to see a lot of good friends go to the big C. I only hope that when my time comes I can face it with the same dignity as they did.
Going into hospital tomorrow to have my RHS pinky straightened. The landlady of my local pub has obtained a special left handed pint pot for me to use during my convalescence.
Kevin,
I (and a lot of other guys) once spent 72 virtually sleepless hours commissioning a new precision casting facility which we had designed and built on the run. Rolls Royce had sold a load of aero engines based on carbon fibre techology (untried) which failed. we had to put this plant together to cast the turbine blades in titanium alloy. We had it producing in 16 weeks from scratch (no comuters then). You have my sympathy,.Glad I'm now retired.

[John Bakeer]

Sorry,
'Computers' not much comuting in those days, we all lived close to the job.

[Jumijo]

Use good clothes pins and hang them out on the clothes line.   A good set of shooter's ear plugs helps too.  Had a buddy that had two rowdy kids.  He would sit and watch TV and they were tearing up the world and loud.  He seemed to block them out and never heard a thing.  Bet Jim A and Dennis W can tell us about that.  Doug M's are getting too old for that.

Chief,
You've been to my house. The kids are quiet and behaved - OR ELSE! They are little monsters with my wife, but when I walk in the room, all you can hear is their heartbeats and an occasional gulp. But to be honest, they do get loud and rowdy from time to time. After a while, one does tend to block it out. I'd go crazy if I didn't.

I did some more work on our "completed" layout last night. More bushes, repainted some rocks, etc. Looks much better.

We may have had our last warm day for some time time yesterday. The rest of this week is expected to top out in the mid 40s. Gosh, I hate looking at the winter from November. I'd much rather look back on it in May!

Chief again,
Have a safe flight and a fun trip! Say hey to Frank53 for me!


Jim