I just realized that I have been on this forum for 5 years today. Man time flys. I want to take this moment of reflection to thank all you guys for your friendship. Every day we we interface wether you post or not to share a bit of our lives with the common thread of enjoying toy trains.
I really appreciate you guys, as always, may God bless you
Jim
Good Morning all
We are so blessed. Think of all the things that had to go right for youto be reading this.
Jim F - That is great news about Char. She is always in my prayers.
Bob - You must of made a good impression.
Need to get to work too
May God (continue to) bless
Bob, good luck. Treat her right and if she is the right one, it will work out.Pappa D., I saw the video on the news about the firetruck in Detroit. When I was on, rule was....always stay off the tracks. Then, when working near the tracks, call and have all trains stopped. Someone didn't follow procedure. We fought a number of incidents near or on the tracks and never had a problem when following SOPs.
Gotta run...I am late already....but then again, they can't start without me.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
PS - Good luck on the 2nd date, Bob!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Howdy guys - got cold again today, but should be warming up again soon!
Chief, glad you are on the mend/meds, take it easy man!
Jack - MAN! What a trip and day(s)! Glad everything worked out in the end!
Not much going on here, back to work today and had a belated birthday party for one of the guys who took off Friday, his real birthday. We all teased him a lot, but the cake was still good.
Wife had a checkup today and needs a transfusion, which was expected. They may start her up on those shots again too. But, her ANC number was up over 2700, which is good. She's a strong woman and really doing well overall.
Tardis is loaded up and ready to go, so see you guys shortly!
Evening. Work session went longer than expected. Those folks get to talking and it can drag on. I had to stop them on some items and tell them we needed to move on. The only drawback to informal type of meeting. I have never required [like some Mayors do] to raise their hands and I recognize them before speaking. I do think it makes meetings go a little longer but then I think it helps for us to come to an agreement in a easier way. We just talk things out. Some of the Towns near by have "knock down drag outs". One is Wendell. Watch their Town Board meetings on TV and it is sometimes like Saturday night wrestling.
$186 in meds co-pays. State "Healthless" Plan. The Senator that over saw the Plan is continuously being suggested as having a "close feeeling" for NC Blue Cross and Blue Shield. They have made a big profit off of State employees. People are investigating since the Senator resigned for a big political appointment. HUUMMM One lady after Town Board said, "You think that is bad, wait until you have Obama Health Care."
Do not have "pewmonia". Also been orderd to rest. So I have only one meeting tomorrow and one Wednesday. If my typing is a "little off", its the codeine.
Popcorn and 11 PM news. BTW: suppose to snohio tomorrow night and Wednesday. Problem for the Yankee invasion. It is too warm to stick in Roseyville. We might get 1" on the grass but none on the highways as too warm at nights. Mom's down east wil get a lot more and maybe up to several inches. Then they say it will be highs in the 50's Friday and going up to 69 or 70 by Monday.
Sleep tight.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Fife - I forgot to ask about the meteor showers. Not sure what you were referring to, unless it was the cold winter. We are heading into a solar maximum though (sunspots).
Read an interesting article on Yahoo snubbing NBC for their ending of the closing ceremonies. "And now for something completely different..."
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Hi All !
Jay Leno will surely broadcast this one.
Amtrak Train Hits Detroit Fire Truck
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/22704631/detail.html
hey thanks guys, what kind of substance should i spray the trees with. and should they get follow up spraying? i do not mean to be ignorant of such things but i really do not know. i was thinking about buying a tank sprayer, you know one of them that you pump up? i know you use some type of oil, but i do not know which kind.
8ntruck iron is not intended for getting rid of apple worms
but probably would work....
pat thanks for the info. i value it as always....
"god bless all you guys" navyjack
Good Evening
Well 38 and brite sun melted some snow but there's a lot more to go. Granny and I went to a funeral home this afternoon to say goodbye to one of our train friends. Stopped for an early supper then granny went to baby sit. Banilla and S J are ready for the thingy to pick us up.
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
We are in the clouds but we're are not picking up frost yet and the data is good, so we are open for business. Will undoubtedly close later due to frost.
Jack - what a story!! Glad you made it home safe and the wife too. I think if I was the power company convoy I would have done the CW McCall thing and "crash the gate at 98, let them truckers roll".
laz - I agree w/ you on the closing ceremonies. It was an amazing olympics. Especially for the US team. And they seemed to cut the end early just to show some program, which of course, I didn't watch anyway.
Chief - hope you are doing better. Rolesville needs you.
My friend and co-worker John just ordered a set of snowshoes for me from one of his surplus web sites. Always wanted to try it and I figured this would be the winter for sure. Thought about getting a pair of newer ones but they look cheesy and are fairly expensive. These are traditional but made w/ magnesium frames. Being surplus they were very reasonable too.
Lining up a second date BTW, could be a new personal best...wish me luck
Cloudy and high 30's today. Good luck to all of you still in the clutches of wintery storms.
Navy Jack - those are pretty drastic tools for ridding apples of worms. You will surely get the worms, and, as a bonus, prune the trees at the same time! I had a couple of peach trees when I was living in Kentucky. Like Pat says, spray the trees while they are still buds.
Didn't win the automated milk car, somebody else decided that they wanted it worse than I did. There will be others....
Work is still there, not much drastic happened while I was on vacation last week. Talking with one of the product engineers up at corporate today. Says that it looks like more new programs are about to be kicked off for us - potential good news for us.
All for now.
rtraincollector Well jack glad your safe and sound after all your adventures. Aw why not a candle lite dinner with the dog
Well jack glad your safe and sound after all your adventures. Aw why not a candle lite dinner with the dog
At least your cooking would be truly appreciated and you wouldn't be ignored when you talk.
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Good afternoon everyone. Well, den is painted and all the furniture and taxidermy are in place. Son asked if a friend of his could come home from school for a few hours, so we have a visitor. The kid's mother was my son's teacher last year. Did a quick clean up as we have too many toys around. I am not making an issue of it or I will hear about having too many trains
Chief, glad you were able to get in to see the doc. Hope you are on the mend real soon.Jack, sorry you are getting hit with such weather. Glad you were able to turn the tides and drop in on the kids. Hope you get warm soon.
Was an interesting day. Went in for the one case. I am still on that diet, so the first thing I am greeted with in the doctor's lounge....one of the interns had made brownie muffins, apple cake, and a caramel cake to thank us for our part in her education. (our rotation is quite popular for the medical students at Medical College of Georgia) Needless to say, I couldn't have any of it. Then, one of the guys in our group was supposed to be back today to do a aortic aneurysm. The trip was a fly fishing trip to Chile....he is stuck there for maybe another week. Perhaps he can do some work while down there. He has often spoke of doing mission work.
I had better go, got plenty of honey dos to attack. Hope folks stay warm and toasty.God Bless,Dennis
Good Afternoon!
Get well Chief!! Take a shot of Brandy with lemon juice, at least you may feel better if nothing else.
Still slightly chilly down here in what should be sunny south Florida. The news on TV said it has been the coldest winter in about ten years for Florida, far as I know it has been the coldest winter in more than 15 years. In 1995 I worked at Wal-Mart in Stuart FL and it got down to the low 30's overnight, now I am 50 miles farther south and got the same low temp for this year. Whoever has the cold weather cannon, please turn it off!
Car battery died in wife's car over the weekend, $30.50 to replace it under warrenty at Wal-Mart. Had to go to the tire & battery department as battery was over three years old.
Waiting to hear about RV sale, the man said they would get with us on the third of March. Going to have yardsale end of month of March.
Also my email don't work! Anybody hear about any up-date for Yahoo or Google? My problem is that I can't locate where to sign in at, the sign in box moved.
Lee F.
afternoon all well its been an interesting day started with no heat then about 10 it started back up by itself no problem since wondering if maybe city cut natural gas to this area for some reason early this am and then turned it back on.
well will talk to you all later have a good day prayers out for all especially chief and his cold
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Wow, Jack,adventure tres grande!
Wandered the South Loop at lunch looking for a used bookstore I just knew was there someplace. Climbed the Dearborn station clock tower when the security guard wasn't looking. It sure is... smaller than I thought but great view.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Happy Pulaski Day Ya'll From Temporarily Clearing Taxachusetts,
Got about 3 inches more of Slurpie overnight plus more sleet and rain. Coastal flooding now, at high tide, here on Cape Ann. High wind advisories continue and a 1 foot storm surge expected. Gloucester and Rockport MA. about 12 miles North of me, hit hard. Compost centers opening a month early for folks to properly dispose of downed trees and related debris. Snow melt and continued precipitation = flooding, bodies of water above flood stage, and dams/spillways giving way. Some downstream evacuations.
This stuff started up last week and by last Thursday we were getting a persistent monsoon, winds gusting to 60mph, and sustained 30+. Lost power for 22 hours, and I was lucky as many are still without power. Trees and power lines are not a good combo. NH crews and many from other locales and states still working 17 hour shifts to get the power back up. Some in my world here close to home in MA still without power, day 4.
So last Thursday evening (before I lost power)...... a normal person listens to the warnings to stay off the roads if possible while this abnormal person decides a wake in Maine for a friend's son must be attended. You should have seen the looks and the welcome I got......."You are an insane idiot, what are you doing here?" Was invited to stay the night up there but had the dog back at the ranch and had to make the return trip.
Interstate 95 mostly empty during the round trip, but those on the road were driving like idiots and not holding their lanes. Evasive maneuvers required loafing along in the right lane so as to only have to defend from the left and making sure speed was adjusted to keep cars away from me. Truckers were doing the same and provided interference out in front and defense from the rear. Got home and the power promptly quit. Spent the night on the sofa with the dog as wifey was still in CA visiting Ray, DougDG, and Don. It got cold in the house! Candlelight with the dog is not romantic. Was tempted to fire up the fireplace, but if I had to leave the house.....
Power outage continued into Friday. Boston Logan Airport Friday night was total chaos, picking up the wife who refuses to use livery EXCEPT for the RockIsland 52 Limo Service. Backlog of flights along the entire East coast. Flights all delayed because of the continued high winds. All these folks endlessly circling the airport in their cars, waiting for their passengers' plane to land. I was smart enough to pick up Ronald MacDonald on the way there so my belly was full while I joined the circus. Security and the MA State Police were forcing the herd to keep moving. Then I made an executive decision while waiting......called daughter and SIL and said wifey and I were dropping by for dinner and some warmth on the way home. Period! Power came back on about an hour before we finally got home, furnace cranking, hot water being restored, cordless phones now working, PC screwed up from not closing down properly, and dog still acting like this was all so much fun, except when he had to go back out in the monsoon with me standing there in my wet weather gear.
Saturday AM early, departed for the trip back to up to Maine to complete obligations up there and attend a get together. You should have seen the long convoy (36 strong?) of NSTAR Boston electric crews in their trucks making their way North to help out with the power outages. They were all stopped and lined up in the right hand toll booth lane awaiting......I don't know what. But if it was to pay the toll and I was the supervisor in the lead car, I would have passed through the booth and given the toll taker the one finger salute.
While I was at the get together in Maine, Chief called out of a deep abiding concern for us Yankees. He knows how miserable and boring his life would be without us and wanted to make sure I was OK. Good to hear his voice, even if it was beginning to turn. Chief, hope your trip to the Doc puts a lid on that nasty stuff.
Sorry if I am about 10 pages behind on the POT. Prayers for those who need them. BTW....DougM, I'll take the dog vomit over dog diahrrea every time. Those wind up LED flashlights that require no batteries are stellar.
Later, gang.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Chief, take care of yourself. Hope your cough is nothing serious. We need you here to fend off all the attacks from the Yankees.
Had a pretty quiet day yesterday. Went on a walk through of next door neighbors house which is up for sale. It is an old house built in 1912. It is as cute as a button. Looks like a doll house. They have it fixed up real nice and I'm sure someone will buy this place soon. Only down side on the place is two big avacado trees that need care and a big hedge around the front of the house that always needs cutting. My neighbor of 34 years who passed away recently used to like puttering around that place. It was perfect for him because he enjoyed it. That house was the only house on this street when built and was the farm house for an orange grove which surrounded the place. My garage was built from wood that came from a barn that was behind that place I am told but my place was not built until 1952. Still hoping for nice new neighbors. I'm sure going to miss the old ones.
Ray
SPMan
Sunny and warm. Off to the Dr. I go. Slept good until 5:30 and Lucy jumped on me. Did the dog thing while wife was getting ready for work. Codeine makes me hungry so cooked breakfast. Then we all went back to sleep until 9 AM. Dr. called and said come in [as I expected]. No County Commissioners but will have to make Town Board. Legal thingy with lawyer so need to be there. Regular lawyer had 8 lb. boy so this fill in one is aware of "conditions". Still neeed to be there. Chat later.
Navyjack - Three ways to handle worms in apples on your trees:
Eat them with your eyes shut --extra protein is good for you.
Cut each apple up into small pieces, removing the pieces of worm.
Or the best way is to spray the trees when in the bud stage.
Pat
RFD-TV --- Rural America's most important network!
He was quite the man, Wes, but his holiday was more in keeping when Chicago was the largest Polish city outside Warsaw. These days I can't see the city affording it. Hope you feel better.
DOUG,
That's where I go fishing for salmon in PULASKI, New York. Named after CASHMIR PULASKI.
laz57
Doug .... he was quite an American hero .... read up on him after your post .... this old geezer learned another important fact .... and my wife thinks my brain is done for .... LOL . Chatting with my buddy RT on the chat this afternoon ... nursing a heck of a lousey cold .... seems me and chief got it .... those darn yankees must have flew over and spread it !!!! GERM WAREFARE !!
Aloha all from a grey and snow-flurrying Chicago where it is Casimir Pulaski Day so of course, the city schools and services are closed today. Love these bizarro holidays complete with paid-days-off. Of course everyone else has to work. Why is Buckeye always greeting our fellow HO modelers?
Good Morning All
Brite sun and 30s today, still have about 4 inch's of snow to melt. Only plans for the day at this time is a funeral home visit, thats two already this year. I hope every one gets well soon and the rest of us enjoy the coming of March, hurray...S.J.
morning men, hope all you guys are fine. we are at the first day(meteorological)of spring. hope all the snow gos away. hope that things get better this spring. boys are concrete finishers and they were hoping to get called back to work. a senator is holding up road bill, and 2000 men will lose their jobs. oh well i guess we will have a full house and everyone will have to learn to eat crappies and corn. well wife and daughter in law will be able to get our garden planted in about two months. thank god we got the property to plant a garden. at least we can provide fresh vegetables to our kids and grandkids. anyone know how to deal with apple worms? have three good trees and every one has apples that get worms on every one. any help would be appreciated. fresh apples would be a godsend for the kids. in short we will have to go back to basics. got plenty of ammo also...357 and 12 gauge..... for hunting of course....have .223 for home defense. got to get the kids away from the habit of smoking. i guess that i worry too much, but lets face it....the kids need us....whether they admit it or not. take care guys navyjack
pat...thanks for the info it is great to have you at my back
Either we are experiencing a meteor shower, or some fudgesicle has gone star happy.
submmbob, your opinion?
Mornin' boys. Hope it's not pluracy (sp?) Chief. Had that a decade or so ago and kept me down for 2 weeks. Get well.
cheapclassics - Well stated. You can say the exact same statements about Ms Patrick's boss (and I've been a jr fan since '97)...
Good morning all,
It is cloudy and slightly warmer in SE Indiana. Snohio is melting. Watched some of the closing ceremonies and "Desperate Housewives". Long day yesterday. Looking forward to work just to relax. Probably long day here as well. Grateful to have job, tho. Chief, get better (replacing a target like you would be difficult for the snohio cannoneers :-) ). I had bran muffins on the dining car for breakfast before sending it on "Points East". TBIL anytime tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
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