Morning all. Grey and misting here. Cooler. Good virtual workout with Laz. Hope today is better for you, Buckeye. Great tip about the tape, Chief, I was trying to get a tiny part out of an old vacumn-tubed radio - using the wrong tool, but I'm going to try the tape idea tonight. That Magma Weaver engine sure sounds interesting. More move-work at work today - wandering the innards of a renovating skyscraper is fun. Gosh, Mitch, you guys are sure in school a long time.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good Morning
Sun is shining, maybe 75 today.
Bill T. Weaver should have the parts you need, if not P&D hobby in Fraser Mi. will. It would be a good idea to order the gears that hold the chain as they crack under stress. P&D has a better gear that he had made for them. We use to change them before shipping, didn't want them coming back cracked. Well no big plans for the day, guess I'll just see how it goes.
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
Home from north North Dakota last night, long day of driving (603 miles) and unbelievably boring, we have absolutely crossed off North Dakota as a place to live in spite of really cheap taxes. It's a very good place to visit for two nights .
Now planning final details of our bike trip to the Blackhills in less than two weeks. My youngest son and I will leave from MPLS for about 5 days of glorius riding, very relaxed with only two big mileage days and really not that bad, 469 miles the first day and maybe just a little more on the last one, we'll see how bad he wants to get back to see his fiance.
Saturday night there was an EF tornado one mile north of our home, lots of limbs and branches to pick up today but fortunately no damage, that's a little too close, glad we were gone
Lots of good photos on SPF this week, thanks to everyone who posted.
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Afternoon all!
Well it is finally over. The last guests have departed and the helium is waning in the balloons. My daughter graduated HS last night, walked the stage, got the diploma, and is ready to go to nursing college in the fall. She has a summer job secured and all is well. Get to do this again in 3 years with the youngest. That is about how long it will take me to recover from the past week. Forgot to mention yesterday was also the daughters 18th B-Day - so we got the double wammy.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Regards, Roy
Good Morning,
Had an early morning Dr. appt., everything OK, just a couple of follow up tests. Minor annoyance they now charge $2 to park. And no one knows who initiated it, other than the property manager. I expect will see all kinds of this stuff soon! Received notice that the sales tax rate going up in LA county, to 10.75% effective 7/1.
Hope every one has a good day and a special wish for family and friends with health concerns !
Don
Good Afternoon everyone. Well, wife broke a tooth yesterday, so had to make an appointment to see the dentist this morning. From getting called in last night, I got a whole 3 hours of sleep before I had to take care of the kids while wife was out. Just hope that tonight I don't get called in and it will be an early to bed deal.
Saw an interesting site yesterday, had three Georgia Southwest engines on a consist with a GM demo unit that was decked out in grafitti. Then, coming past the NS yard this morning on my way in, were two CSX engines heading up a freight out of town.
Well, gotta run. Hope it is a good one for Y'all!
God Bless,dennis
TCA#09-63805
Minor annoyance they now charge $2 to park. And no one knows who initiated it, other than the property manager. I expect will see all kinds of this stuff soon!
Yep, known as inflation, I am guessing that by the end of the year we will see that nasty monster start creeping up.
Bill T.
Morning all! Well it's morning here.
Greetings from Sunny AZ! Helping my Father around the house. He found a gas blower in a yard sale, and it's having ssues when it warms up. Read online it may be the diaphram in the carburator that pumps the fuel. I'll try the carburator, and if that doesn't solve it, it's out. Shop is $75/hour. One half hour just to diagnose, and a new one is $150.
Nice drive here from MI. 3-days of 12+ hours of being on the road. I have new respect for the truck drivers. Instead of taking I-40 (Route 66) across, we went from Kansas City, MO west thru all the rural areas. I saw more graineries than I could count, and a good deal of trains! Interesting stuff!
Brutus: Sorry we didn't have time to stop by for a visit, Dad wanted to get home.
Kurt
KURT ! Good to see you .... missed you here ....
Eureka ! The Goose is back and runs like a champ.
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Hi Guys,
Cool up here in frozen north I call New Hampshire. 50 degrees right now and drizzling I call it "Dank", its been a cool/cold spring well so much for global warm- ing. Laz 57 I salute you if you run/bike 10+ miles a day. Me; I get tired driving my car that far !
LawsonFarmsRR A quick cop of coffee and a few words while waiting for my son to arrive to help with some farm chores. My son and I are allergic to poison ivy, oak and sumac. A few years ago my wife insisted we get the shots for the poisons. I was skeptical, but was surprised when the shots greatly reduced the chances of getting it. Shot is good for 7 years. Mitch - I have a friend that believes if he worries enough about something when it happens it will not be as bad as he thought it would be. Seems to work for him. Chief - I like the "table mussle" explanation. Sounds better than Dunlap's Disease. RT - I seem to have a Yankee worm in my computer. I type the letters g, r, i, t and they come out e, g, g, s.The wise farmer says: Always drink upstream from the herd. Pat
A quick cop of coffee and a few words while waiting for my son to arrive to help with some farm chores.
My son and I are allergic to poison ivy, oak and sumac. A few years ago my wife insisted we get the shots for the poisons. I was skeptical, but was surprised when the shots greatly reduced the chances of getting it. Shot is good for 7 years.
Mitch - I have a friend that believes if he worries enough about something when it happens it will not be as bad as he thought it would be. Seems to work for him.
Chief - I like the "table mussle" explanation. Sounds better than Dunlap's Disease.
RT - I seem to have a Yankee worm in my computer. I type the letters g, r, i, t and they come out e, g, g, s.
Pat
sorry Pat I sent the yankee virus in that last email to you. It changes all refferance to grits to eggs ( notice both have S's and G's in them . )
Evening all doing well today just a boring day. So it was slow and long.
Will post more later.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Afternoon. Thunderstorms all around us and no rain here. Massive storms down east where Mom lives. Now under a flashflood warning down there.
Great, Doug W is chasing his goose.
Kurt, chasing his Dad's gas blower.
Eggs and GRITS are a great match. They go together like a horse and carriage.
Dennis, best to Kim.
Serviced the 4 Runner this afternoon. Put a battery in my truck [battery was 7 years old this past March]. Worked up all the garden and "sidedressed" it hopping for rain. Mr. Big [groundhog has not appeared as had .17 with me]. Resting up now. Big explosion at ConAg plant in neighboring Garner NC where mainly Slim Jims are made. Workers in hosptial. Three still missing. Plant employeed 300 workers.
Chat later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Chief, hope they find the folks missing and that they were just not there. Most times, if they haven't been found by now, it is not good. As for Kim, gave her some happy medicine, so she is either fast asleep or bouncing off the walls.
RT, got the email, but like you, I don't have wide enough curves. (planned it that way or I would have purchased a lot more engines). Thanks for thinking of me though.
Well, I am about whooped. Wife has a new friend that she worked with in Vacation Bible School last week. Nice lady who has two kids about our children's age and her husband is a real nice guy. He is a logistics officer with USMC. He won a auction for a fishing trip to the gulf coast for six people for 3 days and 2 nights. Invited my son and I to go. That sounds like we are going to have a great time. This will be the first time I have gone Red fishing. Most importantly, it will be a time to spend with my son.
Brutus, still keeping your bride in my prayers. Adding whole family as everyone gets affected. Remember, we serve a mighty God and nothing is too big for Him.
Well, I had better get to bed. Never know when the pager will go off again.
God Bless,Dennis
Whew !
Sure glad that Chief wasn't dis-lexic when he said I was "chasing his goose".
Good Evening
A beautiful day in the 70s.Too nice to be indoors so I cut the grass. Did a little train running this morning. Granny Is watching the Red Wings but they seem off their game tonite. Not over yet.
Banilla for everybody, belly up to the rootbeer bar. Brutus I am ready for the thingy...S.J.
Evening all. Bride out cavorting with local celebrities. I'm holding the fort. Searching the skies for the Tardis. Where are you, Brutus? George, I used to love camping in NH - Lake Conway. Thank goodness LA taxes will finally creep closer to Chicago's, Don. Congrats on the trip, Dennis. I get to go to multiple White Sox games - one tomorrow and one Thur - with my boy.
News flash on computer. 2 found dead. No word on third one as of yet. Not looking good. Doppler Radar shows red all around Roseyville and we do not have a drop. ????
Now on the serious side. Brutus, I want the truth about wife. She had a lot of serious tests. Then suddenly you do not say much. I'm being nosey but the POT is for support as well as teasing and etc. I have been personally worried about her. I remember her in prayer all the time.
Well, I'll go outside and see the lightning and maybe get rained on. [I hope]
Good night all.
Evening all!
Warm one here today - mid-90's. Summer has arrived.
Chief - how would a guy who is "all wet" know if it is raining outside or not?
Vacation over and back to w**k tomorrow.
Hope all have a great day tomorrow!
Congrats on your daughter's accomplishment, Roy! Prayers for Mrs. Brutus.
Howdy guys - first, big congrats ROY! Boy, I'll be you are relieved now! How did all that construction turn out, can't remember, or is it still going on - I know how these jobs can just drag on forever!
Nice chats with Doug, RT, and SJ tonight. Tardis is about ready, just taking on "Fuel" for the trip (Old MIlls and Pretzels, check.... Sam Adams, check... Banilla? Hmmm - got a regular supplier we can hit along the way....) Mike should be ready to go by now, right? Need some of that Bread man!
No trains today, but did read some in Trains magazine.
Chief, my beloved wife is feeling pretty well today. Had her weekly test and her anemia is still bad, but not as bad as last week so no transfusion this week. It's been about every 3rd week now. Next Tuesday we will see the head of the department at SLU Hospital that does bone marrow transplants. We are going to shoot for the remission/cure route on this. She has idiopathic myelofibrosis which is a condition where her bone marrow is turning to a kind of scar tissue. She will get chemo/radiation, then the transplant, and then some weeks in the hospital due to immune system suppression. She will then have to be in a very clean house (we have some work to do!) for up to a couple months - perhaps up to 6 months. When the doctor decides her immunity is up to it, she will be able to go out again. The idea is that her bad bone marrow will be replaced by good bone marrow.
I have gotten a lot of great emails from you guys as well as chats and posts here and I know that your prayers and good thoughts are helping us and getting us closer to being well again. God will see us through this and everything to come, I know that is true
Right, well, I am done crying - Tardis is ready - be there in a minute! Keep Watching the Skies!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Thank you Jim. Now keep us updated. We walked through it with Lucus on a daily basis. Mike C use to keep us informed. We are here for you and the wife. No one will tire of hearing. We all love you. God bless.
Brutus...One of the not so good things about being a "newbie" is sometimes learning about issues that others that you do not know are going through. This is the case with reading about the issues that you and your wife are going through. Even with not knowing you, I totally sympathize with all you are all dealing with. It is great that you have a support group like the crew here on the "pot". All I can add to what I am sure has already been said to you is hang tough, be there for your wife no matter what, and regardless of what comes at you both...keep the faith. If you do these things, the rest will take care of itself.
My continued prayers go out to you and your wife and other loved ones that share in your fight.
Ken
Jim,
I cant say anything that would be any better than the Chief or Ken has previously stated. But you ARE part of this family, and one of the old birds. So you must keep us informed, we care, and need to know. Hopefully, we will be able to "share" some of your discomfort and may be able to help in some way. I'm pretty good at cleaning walls, wish I could be there to help.
Prayers will definetly continue! Let Char know we care!!!
After all where would the Tardis be without you???
Morning to all.
Put on a fresh pot. No trains last night, went out to dinner kind of late and then reclinerized while watching TV.
Brutus - prayers for your MRs. and your family.
Roy - congrats on your daughter's graduation and 18th birthday.
Doug/CNW1995 - You are right about us being in school late. We have lots of professional days built in our calendar that lengthen the school year. We always seem to finish the end of the second week in June.
LAZ - Enjoy your time off. When you get mulch, could you spread a load or two at my place?
Have to get moving, lots to do at work. Last full day with students.
Take care,
Mitch
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
Morning.
Brutus: Prayers for your Bride and family. Hang in there. I owe you a phone call.
Hello all. I've been trying to keep up.
Brutus , looks like you've got a haul in front of you. My prayers will continue, keep us posted.
Has Jack's grandchild been born yet?
Congratulations to Roy and his daughter.
Not a lot of time lately. Preparing to take the annual trip to the Beach at Fenwick Island, Delaware. If there is time I will visit the train show, sponsered by The Delaware SeaSide Railroad Club, in Rehoboth on the way home on the 20th.
Prayer for all who need them.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good Morning from beautiful Southern Ohio
Last night my bride and I went to look at a truck camper we saw on ebay. It is very much what we have been looking for and time will tell if it says in our price range.
Kurt – Good to see back
DougDG – I’m so glad your goose is better
Jim F – You and your bride are in my prayers for healing.
Need to get to work
May God bless
Jim
Bob Keller
Good morning all,
It is rainy in SE Indiana, but there should be "a window over Terre Haute" so we can get the game in tonight. Jim, what the Chief said below is so true. The support from this forum is incalcuable. Lean on us. Lucas told me one time he could feel the prayers.
ChiefEagles Thank you Jim. Now keep us updated. We walked through it with Lucus on a daily basis. Mike C use to keep us informed. We are here for you and the wife. No one will tire of hearing. We all love you. God bless.
I did weights and soccer juggling at the YMCA last night and then did some practicing with the high school team. I had the regular fare on the dining car. Beacon is lit for after the game, but be careful of the stormy weather. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
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