PAT! You been a bad boy again - that's why we like to make him the designated driver!
Sitting in the recliner with a pillow in my back - haven't hurt it in a while, but this is what it feels like alright. Advil is helping. Need to get up and stretch it out again in a little while. Oh well, wasting a day off. Might work on Thomas later, if it feels better. I think I might run extra wires for a possible lantern - could control it with the headlight control in tmcc, which would be cool too - stealing an idea from Doug Come on Advil....
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
rtraincollectordbaker48 Greetings All !! First, BRUTUS, I think you better start mainting a roster or at least a headcount of how many get picked up in the Tardis! This morning went to get some Chlorine, and there were a couple of strange white pickup trucks in the driveway and out front. Came back and a couple of hours later the Sheriff was at the house, with lights flashing! Ended up bringing some older guy out, put in handcuffs and in the back of the car. After 20 min. or so, got out of the car, finally Sheriff took him away. All I could see was a white Tshirt, ball cap, and jeans. Was anyone dressed that way on the Tardis? I've been trying to look out for you guys, but you gotta get out of there before Sun UP! Don that sounds like Pat. Ever since he had that week with the wife gone hes been getting wilder and wilder every night I know shes back but when hes out there with us at night hes been doing crazy things and seem he did come missing the other night. So thats where he disapeared to.
dbaker48 Greetings All !! First, BRUTUS, I think you better start mainting a roster or at least a headcount of how many get picked up in the Tardis! This morning went to get some Chlorine, and there were a couple of strange white pickup trucks in the driveway and out front. Came back and a couple of hours later the Sheriff was at the house, with lights flashing! Ended up bringing some older guy out, put in handcuffs and in the back of the car. After 20 min. or so, got out of the car, finally Sheriff took him away. All I could see was a white Tshirt, ball cap, and jeans. Was anyone dressed that way on the Tardis? I've been trying to look out for you guys, but you gotta get out of there before Sun UP!
Greetings All !!
First, BRUTUS, I think you better start mainting a roster or at least a headcount of how many get picked up in the Tardis! This morning went to get some Chlorine, and there were a couple of strange white pickup trucks in the driveway and out front. Came back and a couple of hours later the Sheriff was at the house, with lights flashing! Ended up bringing some older guy out, put in handcuffs and in the back of the car. After 20 min. or so, got out of the car, finally Sheriff took him away. All I could see was a white Tshirt, ball cap, and jeans. Was anyone dressed that way on the Tardis? I've been trying to look out for you guys, but you gotta get out of there before Sun UP!
Don that sounds like Pat. Ever since he had that week with the wife gone hes been getting wilder and wilder every night I know shes back but when hes out there with us at night hes been doing crazy things and seem he did come missing the other night. So thats where he disapeared to.
Darn that clone of me! He needs to be reprogrammed, if I can ever catch him. My wife didn't believe it either.
Pat
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Morning. Light showers around. Getting ready to "do" Town Hall, County Commissioners and then Town Board tonight. Pam stayed home today to rest up and the kids [dogs] are so tired, they are sleeping away. Lucy did not get up until after 8 AM. WOW Hope all have a great week. Later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
sir james IGood Evening Sun and low 80s today. Spent the afternoon with # 2 son at his house. Should have stayed there. An hour after we got home wife says "dishwasher door won't close" What happened? I don"t know. It warped all by itself I guess. Well banalla is waiting so come on by. Oh bring some tools...S.J.
Good Evening
Sun and low 80s today. Spent the afternoon with # 2 son at his house. Should have stayed there. An hour after we got home wife says "dishwasher door won't close" What happened? I don"t know. It warped all by itself I guess. Well banalla is waiting so come on by. Oh bring some tools...S.J.
The fact that small kids (and not so small kids) use the door like a chair could not have anything to do with it! Right?
Morning guys....
Another glorious 4th has come and gone. We had a great time at the Landing, I read all 4 of the books I purchased (Command & Control, Benchwork, Layout Plans & I think last months OGR) to pass the 4 hour time frame ‘til the fireworks. Paid $10 to park DOUBLE what it was last year and if you didn’t have a parking pass (like you came in EARLY), you received an invitation to the Judge’s Chambers for $25. The parking lady was going to give me a summons, but I showed her the pass clearly visible on the dashboard and said sorry and left.
We got home and the AC was out. A long HOT night it was. The AC tech came, replaced a capacitor and by 10 AM Sunday, we had cold air again. $300 lighter, but chillin’!
Redid the entertainment center Sunday so now I have HD with 5.1 Surround and got the DVD player to work. Now that the AC is on again, I’ll have to wait for that BluRay I wanted.
Nice dinner of chicken and rice last night.
Was told by SWMBO, that I’m changing rooms, so that the guests will have their own private bath, which means more real estate for the CNJ&S. Track plans already drawn up and being modified to have a rail yard included.
Good to see you Mel...!!! Train shows this weekend in Deland and next weekend in Orlando. Sounds like road trips to me!!!
That’s all the news for now, prayers for all that need ‘em.
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Good Morning
Sun is shining 70/80s all week. I got the dishwasher door closed but it's leaking in one corner. Maytag or not I guess it will have to go. I'm not paying a repairman to come and tell me to toss it. Enjoy your Monday...S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Mornin' boys. Mornin' English. (Psssst...we're sitting over here now...)
Gorgeous and 66 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Really comfy. Unlike what the rebs are dealing with all across 'Ol Virgeen-yah...
Good morning all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 80s. Dbaker48, that could not have been me as all my T-shirts (that I wear) all have soccer themes to them. Chief, you think you have beef with CTT and their contest? I am a contributor and do you think I even come close??? :-) Correction on Dale Coyne's win yestereday. It was his first in 558 attempts. That is a long time. I ran the Alaska set a little last night. Wife and I watched some old MASH episodes on ION as well. Shows are 30 years old and still timeless. I had bran muffins on the dining car for breakfast before sending it to "Points East". Beacon is lit and a roster sheet will be posted so all can be accounted for before the return trip home. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Morning all time to rise and shine and get ready to head to work I'm about to get out the door in about another 10 minutes or so.
Have a good day talk to you all later
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Hello--
We got our last show off without a hitch---140 people showed up and the youth group got more $$$ into its coffers. THEN a t'underin' boomer came through with hail and monsoons attached. NO mention of the dang thing until AFTER it showed up and even then-----a 20% chance of a shower-----D'oh
Got some work runnin' around to do this am----
Have a good one---
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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We had a great week-end, Chris had a bunch of kids over for a pool party and Bar B Que, and swimming. All had a good time.
Spent today working in the train room. Fixing problems, redoing some wiring. Last week picked up a small 2 cu ft., refrig., perfect for the train room. Immediately had a problem. Watchdog signal was very intermittent! Took a while to figure out what the deal was. But it was all do to changing the manner I power up the layout. Changed the sequence of Powering up and the problem was gone.
Been fighting with some infra-red sensors, boy are they a pain! Think I will go back to isolated rail.
Later.
Don
Safe to return home again. Sidney [Wallaby] captured by Roseyville PD. The dragnet went for several days. Escapee dodged PD several nights. Finally captured near Mayor's Mansion. PD has stood guard over Mayor's garden and especially his prise tomatoes.
Really had fun yesterday entertaining about 20 folks at the lake house and all went on the pontoon boat [the envy of Fifey]. One hour of fireworks at the lake. Actually diffrent sets going off at the same time. Frankie ran the jet ski [Roy, I will show you a photo of it and on the side it reads "Jet Ski"] towing everyone in the tube. Lucy in her life vest swam from float to float visiting. Me, I ran errands and etc by golfcart. Then grilled a large number of hotdogs and diced onions . Today, cleaned up after the crew in the misting rain. Drove home with two exhausted kids [dogs]. Sat down to a dinner of Eastern NC pork bar-be-que, slaw, boiled potatoes and fresh garden ripen tomatoes.
Now to discuss the CTT sweapstakes. I never get a call. I see the Yanks won most of the prises. NC did hold down the fort for the REBS. One good consoling fact was I did NOT see an OH in the list.
Now off to bed. Busy day tomorrow. County Commissioners and then Town Board.
Glad everyone had a happy and safe 4th. God bless all.
I hope everyone had a good 4th of July. We finally had some nice weather up here in New Hampshire , still feels more like fall than summer..
Finally finished all the air returns in the basement - had to redo a piece of drywall that broke last time, then another piece that bowed out due to the spray foam I used to insulate around one of the return boxes - I hadn't screwed the bottom of the piece in place and it just pushed out! Live and learn, I guess. Then, I fixed my daughter's bed with a couple brass angles, but my back started hurting so I called it a day.
Thomas project - I thought about putting the tmcc board in one of the passenger cars, but you can see in there. I guess I could cover them with something there too. Either way, I will have to decide exactly where to put the tether. If I come out on a corner, I can avoid the face, but will then go into the opposite corner on Thomas' rear to keep it "in line" between them as much as possible. Hmmm - decisions decisions....
Good evening all,
It finally got sunny late in the day in SE Indiana. NEWSFLASH! Team Green and Team Red do NOT win at Watkins Glen. Justin Wilson, driving for Dale Coyne Racing, won going away as Coyne got their first win in almost 500 races. John Bakeer should be happy as it was one of his countrymen that won the race. Very bad day for Foyt racing as they were punted on the first lap of the race. Princess was 11th. I had the regular fare on the dining car for breakfast. Beacon is lit for tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Hello
Got the trimming, weeding, cutting, refinishing and cleaning done. Now we are preparing stuff for tonights fireworks display. There are already people out at the sports field where we did last nights display!
gotta rush off and get things done------have a good evenin'!!
Busy couple of days here. Had Friday off,so I got an early start on the normal weekend chores and project.
Spent Saturday enjoying the holiday festivities. Started with a trip to the farmer's market, then a stop at the coffee shop, then walked down to the courthouse and claimed a section of curb to watch the parade drink the coffee and eat the goodies from the farmer's market. A little light rain started with the parade, but nobody seemed too upset by it. Went to the art show after the parade, out ot lunch, car show at the fairgrounds (behaved myself - didn't enter mom's minivan in the burnout contest!), home to string trim and edge the sidewalks. Fired the grill up for dinner, then got a call from friends about going to the dirt track races. Shut the grill off and off to the dirt track. Good program, even if I had to pick bits of track off of my chili dog. Next time we spectate there, we're going to sit in the bleachers on the pit side of the track - they are cleaner, as they are on the entrance into turn four instead of the exit of turn one where the bleachers on the spectator side of the track are.
Noticed my wife and I made the picutre on the front page of today's paper - we can be seen on the curb in the background behind the Model A that is the subject of the picture.
No train activity. Just waiting on a package of bits & pieces from Train Tender.
A belated happy 4TH.
Prayers for those in need.
Back to work tomorrow. Got to keep Social Security solvent, ya' know.
Bob, best wishes on getting your blood sugar etc. under control. I have recently been diagnosed with high triglycerides (500) and the doc has put me on meds plus diet and exercise. I have been sticking with it for about a month and a half now. Hope it is doing some good. 4th of July food sort of wrecked my diet but I'm back on it today.
Ray
SPMan
I made it to the party and we were able to catch the fireworks as well. My legs actually did pretty good, but I'm still avoiding stairs. I tell you this is a heck of a time to start dating someone, but at least she is a surgeon, so she understands a lot of this. And no, I didn't pick her up when I was in the hospital, this was already in the works.
After getting home last night I was feeling fairly tired, maybe the blood sugar is going the other way now. I haven't started testing my own yet, but I think that's in the cards. The small amounts of carbs that seem to have set me off are surprising to me, but I guess this is not so unusual. Until we can do more tests next week, I'm staying on the doctor's diet as that does seem to work for the most part.
Clear but hot and humid today. We are in full swing monsoons for the beginning of the season. If any of you guys got the dream-plan-build DVD it's worth checking out. Some very basic stuff regarding tips and such, but the layouts are awesome. Really enjoyed the interview with the guy who set up an O-gauge Norfolk & Southern layout, and actually rode a Y6B as a kid. The stuff legends are made of.
Well of to church. Everyone have a good weekend!
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
sir james I The house still smells like gunpowder from all of last nites illegal fireworks. But I did notice there seemed to be less than past years so I think the economy had a lot to do with that. S.J.
The house still smells like gunpowder from all of last nites illegal fireworks. But I did notice there seemed to be less than past years so I think the economy had a lot to do with that. S.J.
Around here there were more "home fireworks" than I can remember in previous years. At one point it seemed like a couple neighbors were engaging in a little "dueling fireworks." Watched the North Canton fireworks from neighbors porch. Trees are getting too big to watch from the deck.
Going to go to family reunion today, need to get on the road, couple hour drive each way.
Sun and 70s today. I waved the diner train right through the station this morning, Still feel full from yesterday. I did not eat a lot of any one thing, just a little of most everything. Groan. The house still smells like gunpowder from all of last nites illegal fireworks. But I did notice there seemed to be less than past years so I think the economy had a lot to do with that. Well everyone rest today tomorrow is monday again...S.J.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It's a cloudy 65 degrees. Going up to 75 today with rain most of the day.
I am taking it easy today. Ballgame this afternoon and I will watch it in the train room. Need to do some dusting. Other than that, not much is new here.
Great Nascar race last night. Tony won in the last lap. That will go down in history, as a video.
Dining car was here and we had the usual for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Chuck
Mornin' boys. Mornin' English. Overcast & 68 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Nothing planned for today, which is just what the doctor ordered. Things ran smooth last night, even though our fire department insisted on running baws to the wall on a shed fire, right through the most congested area...
Aloha all. On way to church - bride is in a drama and I am on camera one too. She's not feeling too well. Hope she makes it through. Just one service today. Brutus, why don't you try Annie or Clarabell instead of S.C. Ruffy - roof comes off - lots of room. Maybe you don't have them.
Rained most of yesterday but cleared in the eve. Beautiful today for the daughter's party - and parade and fireworks - don't know why the town does them on Sunday but this year it works out.Finished re-setting up the layout last night - just in time. Hope to trouble-shoot things later before guests arrive. I noticed a wire had ripped out of the bottom of my modern semaphore. Hope I can open 'er up. Happy Fifth!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
dwiemerBob, sounds like you need a good endocrinologist to straighten out the diabetes. Can be hard to nail down. Things as mundane as Orange juice can have a big impact on your triglycerides and sugars. Good luck with it.
Don't be surprised--if you start checking your own bloodsugar that certain foods do funny things to it--I've had 1 chocolate bar do zilch to the bloodsugar yet a tiny orange make the bloodsugar fly into the next galaxy. Bananas tend to do the same dang thing.
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Set up some more fireworks with the neighbour last night. Ended up with about 100+ people show up for it---more $$$ for the neighbourhood youth group----anyhooo--
Got sunshine this morning----and a high of 24C. Getting cloudier tonight and tomorrow back to a 70% chance of rain-----we seem to be also looking at a few days of this ---again
Going to get mor weeding done in the Veggie patch. Then a privet bush needs more trimming and then some floor work in the basement------
Have a good one people-----
Good Morning everyone. Was a nice 4th here as we went to some friends who have children our kids age. They are from the same church and he is with Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. Just kidding for all the Marines out there. Anyway, it was a nice day with plenty of swimming and some good food, topped off with good company. Got home last night and everyone crashed.
Today, I am on Camera 1 which is the main one for the service. Then, tonight, we have the "Freedom Fest" at the sports park. That is the place that was built with proceeds from the movies and from extra giving from the church membership. It is a park open to the community and has soccer, baseball, football, tennis, equestrian, ect. Today, it is being opened up for a full fledged celebration of the blessings we have in this great country. Plenty of military presence as well as fireworks, etc. They are looking at about 10000 people to come join the fun. The weather is supposed to cooperate, so it should be a good crowd.
Bob, sounds like you need a good endocrinologist to straighten out the diabetes. Can be hard to nail down. Things as mundane as Orange juice can have a big impact on your triglycerides and sugars. Good luck with it.
Have a blessed day and week ahead,Dennis.
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Just a quick "flyby" - neat stories, thanks for sharing guys! Well, after the storms ended around noon, my son and I did the shopping and didn't get home until about time to go to a party at my brother's house. Wife lasted a couple hours before we had to come home. I picked up some wire, shrink-tubing, and a new soldering iron today too :) Also some thin plywood strips and some aquarium gravel. I will try and wire up Thomas and S C Ruffy tomorrow evening with a tether. What would be a good "wire nut" to keep the tether from pulling through? Maybe just a tiedown pulled really tight on the inside of the holes?
TARDIS is ready, cloaking device is working and ready to fly - see you guys in a few minutes
Happy 4th Guys... Hope everyone had a great day!!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful day today in Northern Michigan......
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Oh boy food galore, had a planned meal with friends, got home and the neighbor had a yard full of people and handed two big plates of food over the fence. Sooooo no banilla tonite, but those of you who want some may dig in...S.J.
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