Good Morning from the Jersey Shore, A beautiful, comfortable morning, looks like another good day.
It has been a busy last couple of days and I did not get a chance to be on the Pot. I see a lot went on. Having Fridays off for the summer is great. I spent the whole day yesterday working on my son's 1984 Ford F150 4x4 as he went to play paintball and took the Explorer. I told him to go and that I would change the hoses. As I looked the truck over, 1 thing lead to another and I did a complete service, including making a new battery tray and hold down, plus flushing the cooling system. When he got home he could not thank me enough. I know this truck well. I bought it new and it has almost 300,000 mi on it. Another busy day today, my daughter asked me to help her move mulch/woodchips today. She has about a 4 yard pile that someone dropped off for her.
Navy Jack, My thoughts and Prayers for your neighbor. I wish him the best in finding a job and getting his life on track. You are a great friend and neighbor. I am fond of the RS3 also. I have a "couple" myself. The Sea Shadow is cool. I am sure that this current administration had a lot to do with it. Yeah, Right.
Mike C, Congratulations on the Grand Daughter. May she be healthy and have a happy successful life. With Soccer, encourage the girls for next year. I hope your visit with your HS friend went well.
Rich, Good Luck with the move. Keep on Truckin.
8N, Thoughts and Prayers for your Wife and Father in Law's recoveries. About the house chores, do like I do. Run around and do them real quick about an hour before it is time for her to come home.
Bob, Glad that the surgery went well. Enjoy the Corvair Club and your trains.
Jim, Congrats on 32 years of marriage. I am right behind you.
SJ, Good news about granny's recovery. You were not lazy about trimming, just side tracked and you wanted the "grass to stabilize before trimming". Yes I was in the Union for 30years before going into management. I have used and heard them all.
Papa diesel, Sounds like a great trip. It is perfect if there are no break downs.
Green97probe, Jim, Good luck on the job hunt. Keep a positive attitude.
Harold, You have great kids to be proud of. I would cherish that gift for the rest of my life.
Brutus, Glad that you are feeling better.
Chief, That drive home was a gift from nature and nature tellig you that your car needed a washing. Glad that you made it home safe.
Dennis, Enjoy your wekend. Sorry to hear about the firefighter's son's death and tragic life. It makes you reflect back on your life and be thankful.
Fife, I know West Marine quite well and I believe they have a battery sale going on. Some of their prices are good others are high. That little voice to stop in and check on Fifeygramma, i had that Wednesday with my Mom. I am going to spend a night or 2 a week there for a while. Something does not seem right. I am using the excuse that I am on call at work and she lives closer to the shop.
Chuck, Dining Car arrived. Bagels and a smear for breakfast and then sending it South.
Thoughts and prayers for all in need.
Have a Great Day,
John
Dennis, I just saw your post. The violin teacher seems like a great and interesting lady. It is a shame about her son and it is great that you are trying to help. We have a similar problem in our family with a nephew. He was away in rehab last year. He came back, continued consouling, but went right back, at first he had us fooled, but it came out. He is constantly stealing from his family and guests when they come over as well as perscription drugs. He has 2 other siblings and the other 2 want nothing to do with him. He has not worked in a few years and between rehab and a 1/2 effort going to school, ( he goes to school because if he did not he would be kicked out of the house) he just hangs out and does almost nothing to help his parents. He is 28yrs. old with no future of drive. He flunked out of college his sophmore year and barely passed his freshman year and that was years ago. He has worked in retail stores and as a waiter for the time up to 2 years ago. His parents and my wife have done everything to help him, but nothing works. He promises that he will stop and go to rehab, but he fakes it and does what he wants. My thoughts and prayers that they both will see the light and turn their lives around.
Good morning all,
Pretty fine looking morning today, but I know it is going to be very hot later on. I don't have any set plans for the day. The 7y/o son and I need to get haircuts, especially since I return to work Monday. These last three weeks off have been great. I may swing by the one very small hobby shop in town (mostly sells RC cars and planes) to see if they have any Woodland Scenics turf shakers. I want to finish the scenery part of the layout airport soon.
Dennis - Since I am in the Air Force I have been very fortunate to live and spend much time overseas. My wife and I both love to travel and see new things. We do not like planned tour groups because they can sometimes pack too many activities into a short amount of time. Something like a Holy Land tour will be doing exactly that - trying to get you the most bang for your buck. We are more adventurous and prefer to find things on our own. However, I know when you're strapped for time, those group tours can be beneficial. We used to live in Germany and were only about a four-hour drive from major European sights such as Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Belgium, etc, not too mention many other lesser known places. It was nice to go on weekend trips and move at our own pace. Right now we are considering a trip to Bavaria this Christmas. In Israel, security is everywhere and I actually did not feel threatened or in danger at all. The people were very friendly and most spoke English. If you decide to go let me know, I can answer many questions for you.
See you all later,
Joe
dwiemer - I've seen this scenario more times than I care to talk about. Your lady friend needs to put that parasitic child out of her life, before he ends hers (by stress, or by his own hands).
Morning all
Cheerios for breakfast, morning prayer complete, animals fed, and I am off to work on tearing off the garage roof. It is overcast so it should not be too bad. I work in the heat with my job as the process building stays > 90°F all the time.
The whole drug abuse issue is so sad. I dare say there is not a family who is not directly or knows of a family where this plague has hit. The victims are everywhere. Part of my daily prayer is for those victims. The drugs changes the person, and the drug becomes the center of their life. You must still love the drug addict, but our love is acted out by not “helping” in the typical manner, but by letting them fall and be broken. When they are broken, not when we think they are broken, can progress in coping with the addiction begin.
Fife – Good idea to listen to those little voices, especially when it is doing a good thing. It is your guardian angel. There has been lots of times when that little voice has led to good, or kept me from getting hurt. Hey Brent, no just kidding.
May God bless
Jim
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Good Morning
Overcast and 70s today.
I'm spending the afternoon with Charlie, he is coming by to help my slightly shaky hands swap out and NJ switch machine. Then we are going to play with some trains with the guy we drove to York with. John you were right the grass hasn't stabilized yet. lol. Home made sausage gravy and eggs for breakfast, yummy...S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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John, I have seen and heard a number of cases where drugs are rampant in the restaurant business. For anyone struggling with such an addiction, that is not the business to be in.
Joe, Jim, Fife, thanks for the thoughts. Ultimately, I think it is going to come down to "Tough Love". One other thing about her son, he has had some kind of back injury, so he is on disability and has nothing to keep him away from the bad influences.
Navyjack, Are you related to a Ed Virgin? We had a LT. by that name on the fire department in NJ. Real good guy. I am sure he is long since retired.
Check back later,Dennis
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They did the surgery as outpatient, so unless there had been complications they were not planning on keeping me. She said my liver and everything else in the area looked fine. The bile duct test was normal as well.
Woke up at 5AM feeling pretty sore. About 8 hours w/ no meds. Doing ok right now, but have to watch the movements. Your gut muscles are involved in everything. Just "throwing a wiz" can be a challenge.
My friend who has a VW repair shop has some Vanagon seats for me for the Corvair. Nancy and I will go take a look at them today. If I end up buying them, she will load them in her truck
Hope everyone has a good weekend
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Bob take care of yourself and dont rush into anything. Sounds like nancy is a good friend.
Dennis neighbors went through some hard times with their son.They lost some friends because they refused to believe it was their son who stole from them. Once they realized the problem they had to throw him out for him to clean up.His mother took him to his meetings every week and really kept on him.It took awhile but he has turned out ok.I wish your friend well during this difficult time and will remember them in my prayers.
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
rich your doing good I'm trying to remember as did that trip many times but think your about 3 hrs from dc been a long time. Best of luck rest of your trip.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Good afternoon all,
It is cooler and cloudy in SE Indiana. Got the yard mowed and the trees along the property line trimmed. Did housesweeping as well. I had bran muffins on the dining car for breakfast. TBIL anytime. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good afternoon all, I have been going nuts yesterday and today trying to figure out a problem with my MTH DCS TIU. It is hooked up to two loops of track. One of the loops has stopped working and is getting no power through the TIU. I am using a PW Lionel ZW transformer temporarily while my MTH Z4000 is being repaired. The power does seem to get through once in a while. Once it did and I ran a train in conventional mode around the loop a few times. I thought I smelled some hot wires so I shut everything down. I'm afraid there might be something wrong with one of the TIU channels. I have been getting some hints from folks over on the DCS forum but so far I have been unable to solve the problem. I hope things will work better when I get the Z4000 back.
Meanwhile, best wishes to those of you who have real problems.
Navy Jack, I have not seen the Virginian cars you speak of. No doubt they are nice looking if you don't care if they are prototypical or not. Incidentally, the real Virginian Railway only ran one passenger train each way back in the 50's between Norfolk and West Virginia. The train consisted of a pacific type 4-6-2 steam locomotive and three cars usually. They were baggage/mail and two coaches. It was all heavyweight equipment in Pullman green color I think. At least I remember, they were a dark color. The N&W paralleled the Virginian in a lot of places and carried most of the passengers. The Virginian train was sort of an accomodation train used for company deadheading and a few passengers along the line. They did carry some mail however.
Ray.
SPMan
thanks for the info ray. the cars i am looking for are not prototypical and are yellow and blue and lettered shenendoah express. they will go with a williams ep-5 i have(also not prototypical) lettered for virginian also same color. my little world i guess. bob it was great getting a call from you. i may be related to an ed as i have lots of relatives on the east coast, mostly in the maryland area. when my dad came home from the war, unfortunately he was very secretive about his family. i know that they came from bavaria and that they were not nazi, so they left germany. he joined the army air corps in ww-2 and fought the japs. we was a gunner in a b-25(the wolf pack) port moresby new guenea(spelling)? wes are you getting my e mails or am i goofing up? thanks navyjack
Just got a call from a big birdie and he told me to say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DON !!!!!!!
dbaker -
Just got off the phone with Rich. 95 is driving him crazy in Virginia, so he's gonna drive on thru to NJ. Told him I will host a Mid-Atlantic region Coffee-Pot Symposium in August. It's a done deal, just need to pick a date. Talking a little burger and dog action on the grill as well.
Good Evening from the Jersey Shore, 71 and a chance of Thunderstorms.
Move wood chips/mulch with my daughter and son in law. Took most of the day. Later I took my son to pick up some items that he needs for the NJ State Police Youth Week. He is excited.
SJ, Maybe tomorrow the grass will be stabilized. It is almost time for Banilla.
Dennis, You are absolutly correct about drugs in the restaurant business. My nephew said that he really escalated his use when he worked at the last restaurant. The owner of the restaurant had a 0 tolerance for drugs and I found out that they fired him for it. He worked there about 3 years. He said that they are there also. He was caught with 2 others and they were all fired.
Harold, Last week my brother in law went with my son and I on our trip to Lancaster, PA. We talked about his son's problem and that is their next move. They can't trust him at all. They are afraid if they throw him out he will get worse and wind up dead. He is for throwing him out but my sister in law is hesitating.
Bob, Glad to see that you are getting around. Take it easy so that you don't hurt yourself. Good luck with the seats.
Rich, Keep on Truckin.
Fife, A Coffee-Pot Symposium sounds like a great idea. I would like to meet some of you guys.
dbaker, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Thoughts and Prayers for all in need.
Happy Birthday Don! Hope you got something for the layout, too!
I've got two cousins, brothers, who both got caught up in drugs. They tried moving back in with my Aunt JoAnn as grown men - I mean like in their late 40's. One did straighten out, but the last I heard the other one was still living in a car with a dog and bathing in people's swimming pools, etc. Growing up in the 60's and 70's I saw a lot of kids get into drugs and end up dead or totally screwed up.
Rich - God Speed. Be careful and take lots of breaks, that's a long haul.
JimSP - You are a hard working man. God bless you and your family.
John - you're a good guy to do all that work on that truck. Wish you lived near me
Okay guys - family touched down and all are safe and back home with me now after their vacation. Having some hassle with the leave bank for my wife, so we'll get additional documentation from the doctor asap. The guy who should have had this all taken care of back about July 8th completely dropped the ball, which will cost us in stress, time and money. Reminds me why I get aggravated at some of the people at work who blow off stuff until it's really old, then pawn it off on others (including me). They aren't just affecting their co-workers, but there are real people with real problems out there who are getting hurt by that behavior as well.
Tardis will be ready shortly, so you all turn on your beacons as we have peach, pee-can, banilla, and RT made brownies for us as well. I'll bet there is some zuchinni bread somewhere too. Pat might bring his famous lamb fries, too Jack's dog loves 'em! Guess we will be missing Don tonight, but all the other regulars (all you guys on the coffee pot) - we'll be along shortly!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good Evening All
A geat afternoon of toy train running with Charlie and friend Dennis. Pizza for supper.
Beacon is humming, banilla, butter Pcon, and peach is ready...S.J.
Big Happy Birthday goes out to Don. Hope you have a good one out there and that the only fire in sight is the one on the candles on your cake.
Got two CD sets from Amazon in the mail today. Both from Broadway plays, one Phantom of the Opera-original cast, the other was from Les Miserables-London 10th anniversary cast. I had seen both and had great musical production....want to share a little culture with the kids. I know it is not every one's cup of tea, but we like it.
Speaking of cup of tea, I ordered one of the billboard reefers with the Lipton Tea on the side. My mother was an avid tea drinker (think it was required from those who were born across the pond). Anyway, as a tribute to mom, it will hold a place of prominence on the layout.
Big storm coming through here, I will get going. God Bless,Dennis
Ooops forgot Don
Happy Birthday Don! Did you have to get a burn permit for all those candles? Hope you get some thing nice for the layout.
Hello all,
Back from the beach!!!!!!!!!!
6 hour trip took well over 8 due to a couple of portable parking lots.
Last time I was in Chief's Mom was not so good More prayers for her.
I'll catch up tomorrow (I hope)
Prayers for all that may need them
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good evening folks,
Well, I didn't get everything finished on the layout airport today as hoped; too many other things came up. An important one - a quick nap on the sofa. I guess the early wake-ups with the baby are catching up with me. I did cutout the foam tunnel portals I plan to use on the entrances. Because of the size of my entrances I am unable to use Lionel or other manufactured products. I am planning to paint the foam pieces and either give them a stone finish or ground cover finish. If anyone has any tips I'll gladly accept them.
Sir James - Had pizza for dinner as well. My wife makes it herself, dough and all.
Dennis - The wife and I saw the Phantom on Broadway back in 2004. We both enjoyed it very much. My parents took my siblings and I to shows when we were kids to expose us to different things as well. I'm glad they did. I already do the same with my kids - my 7y/o son and I watched Lawrence Welk on PBS this evening.
Happy Birthday dbaker!
Good night,
fifedog dbaker - Just got off the phone with Rich. 95 is driving him crazy in Virginia, so he's gonna drive on thru to NJ. Told him I will host a Mid-Atlantic region Coffee-Pot Symposium in August. It's a done deal, just need to pick a date. Talking a little burger and dog action on the grill as well.
Don!!!Fife - sounds good, let me know when.
Worked on the project today. I had forgotten that I had to put additional screws in the deck boards and The Q reminded me last nights and since it was really nice this morning I knocked that out. Also painted the new piece of moulding. Hope to get that and the crown moulding hung tomorrow when we get back from the family reunion....
Evenin' All.
Long two days, I'm pooped. Long crazy day at the museum yesterday but even longer and crazier today. They had a big Museum B'day bash today that was highly advertised including cake and all kinds of stuff. People were pretty much elbow to elbow from 11am til 5pm, the dogs are really barking. Now, to get ready for "free tuesday".
ChiefEagles ModelTrainman Leave trains.com for four years and it really changes! Hello, everyone! Morning all. Early trip to groomers.
ModelTrainman Leave trains.com for four years and it really changes! Hello, everyone!
Leave trains.com for four years and it really changes! Hello, everyone!
Morning all. Early trip to groomers.
Chief, After your "dip & clip" do they put a blue bow in your hair ?
Mike, Belated congrats on the newest princess.
bob & 8ntruck, & a speedy but not overdone recovery.
Rich, Safe travels & always look forward.
Dennis, Just love "Phantom", Michael Crawford is superb. One of my other favs is "The Rainmaker".
Well I'll be, I thought it was a big fire out around Palmdale. Must've been all those candles on Don's B'day cake.
from one old geezer to another.
Time to kick back and put the feets up.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Happy Birthday Don!
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
DON
I looked up "Oldest California Geezers" in the Guinness Book but couldn't find your name. Hope this one was special.
Jack.
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
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