Aloha all. Nice fun weekend; daughter's graduation party went off well. Spent a nice day at the beach with g'ma and youngest. Back to work tomorrow. Got to find someplace to work whilst they replace windows in my office. Doing college paperwork. Beacon is lit. Brutus, hope the back is better!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Went to the doc's office today for bloodwork. Originally they wanted to check my blood sugar after fasting and then have me go eat a fairly high carb breakfast, but after last week I wasn't sure what the plan was. Went and ate a "normal" breakfast w/ some carbs. I wasn't quite the basket case that I have been, but they hung on to me for a bit. At least they got to see it in the act and that I wasn't making this up:) I also dropped off a framed picture of the 'scope that I have had for them for some time. They have been very accomodating of my crazy schedule over the years and thought it was the least I could do. Kristin (my doc) said it was a fair trade for waking her up in the middle of the night last week.
They want me to take a class sponsored by one of the local hospitals. The more info the better. Went to the Monday staff meeting to catch up on stuff w/ work. Didn't want the engineers to think they could ride roughshod w/ my 'scope:) It will still be a bit before I get back, but at least it looks like that will happen at some point.
I'm doing well enough this week I think I might start some minor stuff on the MG engine. No heavy lifting yet, but at least get some stuff started. When I was going to work last Monday I saw a GT of similar age in the exact same color. I was floored. Only other GT's I've seen in town are owned by the guy's at British Car Service. Looked pretty good on the road.
Hope everyone has a good week and prayers for all those in need.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
I went out to the property Sunday to recover the memory cards from our trail cams. I immediately noticed damage to the bird feeder. As I guessed..."Bart" as I call him has been back. Take a look at this big boy. You can also see my father in I sizing up the damage..
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
That is one healthy looking bear!-
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Good Morning
We're getting the cloudy day with sunny periods today and a high of 2c. Getting clear tonight and 10C for a low-----weekend shaping up to be wet--
Got a bunch of out of town work, then, if'n I'm lucky, might get some pix---
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
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Good Morning all from beautiful Southern Ohio
A clear 65°F this morning and very pleasant out. I have been crazy busy getting the new to us camper and our 96 truck ready for vacation. New brakes and tires this weekend are on the list.
Everyone be careful out there
May God bless
Jim
Good morning all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 80s. Rain may hit later on. Was glad to drive the Tardis after helping everyone on. We have gone from the "Wild Bunch" to the "Walking Wounded". I practiced with "my" soccer girls last night and then went to the YMCA to do weights. I also did some Second Life. I got trash together for pickup today and I hope they take everything (sometimes they do not empty the containers completely). Beacon is lit and I will be driving today. Has any one heard from Brent and Susie-Q? The 22nd has been here and left. Lots of work facing me today. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
One of my former students sent this link. It's not three rail and probably not O Gauge but impressive, none the less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA&feature=player_embedded
Mel Hazen; Jax, FL Ride Amtrak. It's the only way to fly!!!
Good morning
A beautiful day going into the 70s. No rain till friday which will give me time for the mortar and cement repairs to set. I am up but moving kinda slow, got to keep going and get this done. All have a very nice day...S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Aloha! It is beautiful this morning. Going to drop G'ma off at the airport and continue in to work. Should be a long drive. Then a full-day and class tonight. Looks like her flight was just rescheduled a bit later. Wonder why? Oh well, have a pleasant day everyone.
Chief, glad to hear the wallaby has been nabbed. Thanks for the invitation, but I was on call and not able to make it.
Been busy around our house with work and children's schedules. Hope to get some track time in tonight. Son has been on me to do it, but his list comes after Momma's list.
Waiting on a friend's baby to be delivered today. They induced last night and now we just have to wait.
Hope everyone is having a great day.
God Bless,Dennis
PS: Check with your payroll folks for those still working. They have changed the tax structure so that health insurance can no longer be taken with pre-tax dollars. Some will get a bit of a surprise if they don't have enough taken out.
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MORNING!!! Did I sleep late. Got meeting in one hour. Shower and shave and go to Town Hall. Then to restaurant up the street for good seafood. 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
Blood pressure back to normal ... setting up new system ... installed a 37" monitor .... head glowing in the dark ... LOL . Man they are larger in the home than they look in the stores ! Busy as the devil .... internet provider down and extremely slow for 2 days ... lousey antietam cable company sucks .... am ready to try verizon .... anyone have it ?
RRCharlieOne of my former students sent this link. It's not three rail and probably not O Gauge but impressive, none the less. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA&feature=player_embedded
Great Video! It is hard to picture 800 trains and 150 push action buttons. I especially liked the moving ships, airplanes, trucks, cars, Etc.
8ntruck - My advice is to take five and have a big bowl of grits and a glass of sweet ice tea.
I am back to 99%, so this week I will be bush hoging, spraying and moving cows. I am now two week behind, but that is the way it goes.
Have a great one, and remember:
The wise farmer says: Most of the stuff people worry about ain't Never gonna happen anyway.
Pat
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ChiefEagles Did anyone get invited to Jon's open house? After all we have done for Jon. Bet only Yanks were invited. I know he did not offer grits and sweet ice tea.
Did anyone get invited to Jon's open house? After all we have done for Jon. Bet only Yanks were invited. I know he did not offer grits and sweet ice tea.
I was invited and it was a great open house. T-bone steaks with fresh Iowa sweet corn was served outside under a big shade tree on a table that had to be 50' long. He let me run his trains and just before I left for Ohio, he handed me one of his highly detailed and expensive locomotives and said, "Here, I want you to have this." (Obviously, the Chief could learn some lessons in hospitality from Jon.)
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
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Good Mornin, Ya'll, from Cloudy and Raining Taxachusetts,
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Buckeye RiveterChiefEagles Did anyone get invited to Jon's open house? After all we have done for Jon. Bet only Yanks were invited. I know he did not offer grits and sweet ice tea. I was invited and it was a great open house. T-bone steaks with fresh Iowa sweet corn was served outside under a big shade tree on a table that had to be 50' long. He let me run his trains and just before I left for Ohio, he handed me one of his highly detailed and expensive locomotives and said, "Here, I want you to have this." (Obviously, the Chief could learn some lessons in hospitality from Jon.)
My goodness Buckeye, you have way out done Pinocchio! You will need a wheelbarrow to keep your nose off the ground!
Jack - Congtats on the Grand Daughter.
LawsonFarmsRR I am back to 99%, so this week I will be bush hoging, spraying and moving cows. I am now two week behind, but that is the way it goes. Pat
Guess I will have to pack up a big bag of "matters" and travel north. Use my farm boy skills and help my buddy catch up on his chores. Bush hogging and cows use to be some of my chores as well as tobacco, cotton, peanuts and corn.
Now to go back to the house and take Burg to the vet for his annual checkup. Later
ChiefEaglesLawsonFarmsRR I am back to 99%, so this week I will be bush hoging, spraying and moving cows. I am now two week behind, but that is the way it goes. Pat Guess I will have to pack up a big bag of "matters" and travel north. Use my farm boy skills and help my buddy catch up on his chores. Bush hogging and cows use to be some of my chores as well as tobacco, cotton, peanuts and corn. Now to go back to the house and take Burg to the vet for his annual checkup. Later
You and your "matters" are always welcome. Good help is hard to find. And our "matters" are still green. Might even find time to run a train or two.
All thread members are welcome, including Buckeye. Y'all come! Here?
Looks like another warm humid day here for the Ol' Pueblo. We are getting some buildup over the mountains already so we may see some rain today. Nothing much on the medical schedule except continue w/ my "fuel-injected diet" (sans carbs). I do have to look into that class or Kristin will force me to eat that stack of pancakes.
RRCharlie - cool link. I remember seeing a lot of layouts in the 70's when we were in Europe. Holland had some fantastic outdoor layouts using LGB stuff I think. None of the other vehicles (car, ships, planes, etc.) moved though, so that was pretty neat. The Germans do like their trains. The only HO stuff I kept was the few pieces of Fleischman stuff I collected. The RailBus pair is my favorite. Wonder if this has ever been made in O?
Pat - good to hear you are back up to speed. Too bad you are on the other side of the country. I'm not much of a farmer, but I'd be happy to tinker on anything that need's fixing.
Jeff - Congrats on the granddaughter!
May wander over to the hobby store later. Of the few things he had a few months back was a couple of new switches that were going cheap. Could definitely use another left anyway. The box of misc used track I found on the FleaBay was all rights (7) except one. Was thinking about trying out some of my layout ideas on the floor. I'll need to solder up some of the wire to the switch operators. Gonna have to get somebody over here to move the Hammerland off the workbench. It's a bit over the 50 lb limit. What we tube guys refer to as a "boatanchor" (Fife - lemme know if you need a spare).
LawsonFarmsRR Buckeye Riveter ChiefEagles Did anyone get invited to Jon's open house? After all we have done for Jon. Bet only Yanks were invited. I know he did not offer grits and sweet ice tea. I was invited and it was a great open house. T-bone steaks with fresh Iowa sweet corn was served outside under a big shade tree on a table that had to be 50' long. He let me run his trains and just before I left for Ohio, he handed me one of his highly detailed and expensive locomotives and said, "Here, I want you to have this." (Obviously, the Chief could learn some lessons in hospitality from Jon.) My goodness Buckeye, you have way out done Pinocchio! You will need a wheelbarrow to keep your nose off the ground! Jack - Congtats on the Grand Daughter. Pat
Buckeye Riveter ChiefEagles Did anyone get invited to Jon's open house? After all we have done for Jon. Bet only Yanks were invited. I know he did not offer grits and sweet ice tea. I was invited and it was a great open house. T-bone steaks with fresh Iowa sweet corn was served outside under a big shade tree on a table that had to be 50' long. He let me run his trains and just before I left for Ohio, he handed me one of his highly detailed and expensive locomotives and said, "Here, I want you to have this." (Obviously, the Chief could learn some lessons in hospitality from Jon.)
(fingers crossed behind back here) I find it that I would believe what ever he says and that if he said that jon gave him an engine I believe him (fingers uncrossed now and brought back out front for all to see)
Evening all off my soap box now (buckeye did that sound good enough?) hows all doing had today off and it was just one of those days that all seem just not going straight. But all seem fine now as I'm home
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Afternoon all, the whole day here has been all about Michael Jackson's funeral. Wall to wall coverage on TV. My oldest son was involved in a traffic accident this morning on the way to work thanks to the Jackson mess closing freeways and causing rubber necking and inattention by drivers near Forest Lawn Cemetery. My son was side swiped by a guy who also damaged two other cars so badly they had to be towed. The guy had no license, no insurance and did not speak English. My son has a new car but has $1000 deductible on the uninsured motorist part so he will have to eat it.. The California Highway Patrol told my son that they would be giving a citation to the uninsured motorist. A lot of good that's going to do. The guy will probably not pay that either and head back to whatever country he came from before they collect the ticket price. I told my son to send the bill to the Jackson estate. They caused this mess to start with. They decided to have their funeral procession at the height of the rush hour on the 101 freeway between the Jackson home in Encino and Forest Lawn in Glendale. Great planning! Sorry for the rant.
Ray
SPMan
Don't blame you Ray. I'm sure it was holy mess out there today. Sorry to hear about your sons incident. hope he had a better day the rest of the day. I guess the best part is he was fine as you didn't say anything about any injuries. I would be thank-ful for that.
Not to much happening finally got an engine I took apart about 6 months ago to replace the smoke unit in it back together today ( just laziness on my part) Man did I pay for it thou as had a time getting all to fit right. it didn't want to go back in right and forgot to put bulb back in it but that should be easy just 2 screws but that will be later lol
Hope all doing fine today. Prayers out for thouse who need them
Pat if I could get the time off I'd come up and bush hog or something to help you out just to get back into doing some farm work. But there not letting any new leave be aproved and try to talk those already aproved out of it if they can were so short right now.
Buckeye forgot to mention the warm home made apple pie a la mode. It's a midwestern thing, not sure they would understand the menu in Caroliner. It was a wonderful day, hope Buckeye is enjoying that new Premier loco, thanks also to the rest of the crew for attending--what a day
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Did go by HobbyTown and lighten them of one switch today. (Oh, and I needed rights, not lefts, good thing I looked). First "new" piece of equipment I've bought. As I suspected was O-27 and 27" radius and had been on the shelf a few years so the price reflected as much. Was a little disappointed that they no longer use a light, but I guess it uses less power. I was impressed the directions included a modification to power it separately. Not too many new things anymore that tell you to go ahead and cut this, tape that, and solder the other.
So now I have 3 working lefts and two rights. One of the old 1121's was slightly damaged and missing enough parts that it may be just parts itself. I found some interesting 4 X 6 O-27 layout designs online that I want to modify to 4 X 8. At leat now I can start playing around. How many switches can the RW-110 run w/o causing issues? I have another smaller trans I could hook up if necessary.
Ray - too bad about your son and all the hullabaloo. When I was in field camp the OJ thing went down. We had gone into town for the day off and since we had been in the field for the last month or so were actually interested in watching TV. All the stations were showing was this slow motion escort of a white Bronco. Too bad they won't just leave this stuff to the family.
And now for something completely different: what's the best way to season an iron frying pan? I know someone (most likely someones) in this group knows...
Jack, congratulations on the grandchild. I know she will be loved so much. Glad Momma and baby are well. Now, don't spoil her too much....like that's going to happen Oh, go ahead, you know you'll love every minute of spoiling her!
Ray, sorry to hear about your son's incident. At least he is OK and not hurt. I personally don't like all the spectacle over this person. He was talented, but his character flaws are too great to deserve the honors.
Bob, in order to season a cast iron pan, We would thoroughly clean the pan, completely dry it. Then, take Crisco cooking grease (not the oil) and with a paper towel, smear it all around the inside of the pan with a good heavy coat. Then, cook it down in the oven for about 30 minutes at 300 degrees (If memory serves me, but you may want to check time/temp on the NET). Afterwards, wipe it clean with a paper towel and you are done. You don't want to clean it out with soap and water in the future, unless you repeat the seasoning procedure. Also, you can take some cooking oil and coat the outside to prevent rust if you ever use it outside. If you keep this up, they last for ever.
Well, we took the kids to a indoor playground that has all kinds of inflatable slides and rides. Was fun. We then went to dinner with some good 'Ol Southern BBQ with some friends. Great time had by all. Look forward to a nice quiet night.
Good evening
Jack-Congrats to you and the family.
Another perfect day weather wise. Mid 70s.
Waiting for the Tardis, banilla on ice...S.J.
Jack congrats to you and your family.. what a blessing!!!
Chatting with the Tardis crew right now from an undisclosed location :)
Evening All,
Have not been around for a week or so. We had a wonderful visit to Bar Harbor, Maine. Had lots of lobster and took a nap almost every day. Now that's a vacation. No trains while on vacation. Saw a train shop on some of our travels called Maine-ly Trains but it was closed.
Congrats to you and your family Jack.
Take care,
Mitch
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
Mitch - sounds like a great vacation - love the scenery!
Ray - prayers for your son!
Jack - Big Congrats (again)!
Back is a lot better today - went to work, but wife had some van trouble so I took off early and took her to some appointments. Dennis, you were right and they are going to put her on Procrit or another therapy to cut down on the number of transfusions and help prevent iron overloading. One good piece of info we learned is that if the transplant is successful, she should actually lose all the scar tissue in about a year or so? They said it is actually collagen? Learn something new every day it seems. HLA testing done for wife today, as well as a lot of other lab work. Waiting for word that insurance will pay for her sister(s) to be tested - it's a problem, because it's our insurance and we want it to pay for them to get tested. With the 2 sisters, we have about a 45 percent chance of a match, so wish us luck!
Love the wise farmer sayings - hope you get some help, Pat! Sounds like a lot of work. I am glad you are so far on the mend
I finished a book I have been reading on model railways (from England) and have another by the same author that looks promising as well.
Nice talks tonight with RT, 8nTruck, Charlie and Sir James! Actually twice with Sir James, as I called him while I was waiting on someone earlier - glad to hear you got all that brickwork done!
TARDIS is ready, so let's get going
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Got kidnapped on the Tardis tonight when it materialized in my neighborhood! Interesting chat with all on board.
Pat - grits and sweet tea? Where I grew up, one did not start a batch of ice tea with simple syrup, and grits is the system to tell how rough your sand paper is :)
As long as we are on the subject of regional food, who can correctly describe a tin roof sunday?
Not much else going on.
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