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Re: RE:COFFEE POT #8 August 2011 for all to take a drink and chat. 6+ years and going. Plenty of better coffee and sweet ice tea to drink. Plenty of GRITS and Cheerios for the heart.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:29 PM

Brutus Happy Anniversary to you and Char.

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Posted by dwiemer on Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:52 PM

Good afternoon everyone.  I am wiped out!  Had a early heart to do, then picked up kids from school and dropped them off at sitter's house as bride and I had to go to the Fox Theater in Atlanta for the premier of Courageous.  It was a nice affair put on by the Cathy family of Chik-fil-A fame.  finally got to bed late last night and then woke up to head south this morning. 

Brutus and Char, happy Anniversary!

Hudson, stay safe.  We had a Georgia Power lineman get killed working on some high lines when he got zapped.  I know you guys take precautions, but things can happen.

Hope you folks up north are safe through the current storm.
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Posted by wrmcclellan on Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:43 PM

Afternoon all!

Happy Anniv Brutus and Char! Sorry about the ticket. Sometimes they just have it in for ya!

100 here and climbing. Send some rain if you wish.

Son is filling out on line college apps. Daughter starts back at the local college tomorrow. Hopefully it will keep her out of trouble.

Lazy day. Slept in. Had breakfast (pigs in blankets Dinner). Staring at TCM - wife taking a nap. NASCAR and football tonight.

Have a great afternoon all and youz giz on the eastern seaboard stay safe!

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Posted by RockIsland52 on Saturday, August 27, 2011 2:18 PM

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BRUTUS AND CHAR !!!!!

By the way, I'm sure most of us have had lapses in our registrations or inspection stickers.  But we didn't get caught.  Surprise  You got caught because you look like a known criminal type.  Smile, Wink & Grin

Well, the rain has already started here, will continue on and off the rest of the day and the evening, continue throughout the night, and will pick up the pace in the morning.  I think this rain is unrelated to Irene because it is coming in from the Southwest.......but not from Texas!!!!!  Sorry Roy !!!  

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Posted by Hudson#685 on Saturday, August 27, 2011 2:54 PM

Greetings from the Jersey Shore,

Mandatory evacuations 1/10 of a mile east of me. So far heavy rain and some wind. My son and I have duty at the Fire Dept. tonight. Then I am on call for work.

The Garden State Parkway is closed Southbound from Exit 98 to let emergency vehicles pass and to make all lanes Northbound for evacuations. I do not ever remember them doing this.

Spanky, They already opened the Pompton Plains Resovoir. You know where that leaves Wayne. Lucky you are on the high ground. If you want shoot me your address up there and if I am working up there (Lately they have been sending me South - Lawrenceville ) I can check it out.

AF53, Ray, Safe trip. You know where the 2000 GPM pumper will be parked tonight with the chain saws ready to go. The "New Birch Street Substation". All of the comforts of "home".

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BRUTUS AND CHAR!!! Gift

Prayers for Chuck, Char, Ray and Everyone in need.

Everyone in the Hurricanes Path Be Safe.

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Saturday, August 27, 2011 3:03 PM

Happy Anniversary Brutus and Char!!!  Wishing you many more.

Neice in New Bern, NC where there appears to be some damage from the hurricane. 

 

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Saturday, August 27, 2011 3:39 PM

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Happy Anniversary Brutus and Char!!!  Wishing you many more.

Neice in New Bern, NC where there appears to be some damage from the hurricane. 

 

Downtown New Bern flooded.  Wind has pushed the water in the Pamlico and Albermarle inland.  Historic Bath flooded too. 

We have lots of big and little limbs down all over the yard.  One big one hit the edge of the house and bend the gutter.  I can fix.  Will take a month of Sundays to clean up.  Still better than Fran and Floyd.  Miss Dorothy [widow black lady at the pond lease] is 87.  Having a party for her today.  No power.  Progress Energy trying to get someone to come.  Will only take a few minutes to get her back on.   

Few trees down in the Town.  A few power outages.  I feel really lucky.  Pond is full and going over spillway.

Hunters Haven was really busy today even with the storm.  I mounted the Nikon Rimfire BDC scope on my new used H&R .22 Mag yesterday.  Really looks good.  Never been a Nikon fan but I'm now impressed. 

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Posted by sir james I on Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:45 PM

Good Evening

 It's good to read that everyone is ok so far. Wishing all of you the best, guess no power would be the hardest part. Hopefully no one will receive major damage. Happy anniversary to Brutus and Char. We'll have banilla early while it's still frozen..S.J.


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Posted by submmbob on Saturday, August 27, 2011 6:47 PM

Back at work for a few days.

Hope everyone back east is staying safe from the hurricane.

Continued prayers for Chuck and family.

Congrats Brutus and Char!

Hope the back is better SPRay.

Saw some more of those tan car carriers on the UP again. They look smaller than usual.

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Posted by dougdagrump on Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:05 PM

Afternoon All.

Continued prayers for Chuck & Paula, Char and the Easties in Irene's path.

Happy Anny to Brutus & Char, with many more to come.

Had a bit of fun at the museum yesterday til I ran out of gas about 2:30 and had to leave. Since I travel light of late the featured performers, from my roster, were Thomas, Percy and James with an assortment of their freight cars plus Annie and Claribelle. The Hogwarts Express saw a bit of runtime as well.

We dodged a bullet here this afternoon, 99* dry & windy and a brush fire breaksout  on the hill behind us. Fortunately the fire dept was on the scene really quick and got it knocked down before it was able to spread to much or do any significant damage.

The munchkin was here for the night last night so we drove thru "Cruising Grand" for a bit to check out the streetrods.

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:46 PM

Evening all

Happy Anaversary Jim & Char - appreciate each other!

Chuck and Paula, offered prayers for you during Mass this evening, and will continue withe the Divine MErcy Chaplets and Rosarys.

We had our first Football game this morning.  Gabriel starts offensive gaurd.  We won 20 - 8.  Monday we're working on fundamentals again.

Good night and may God bless

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Posted by Hudson#685 on Saturday, August 27, 2011 9:39 PM

Good Evening from Station 20,

My turn for communications duty.

Irene is approaching with heavy rain, the wind is picking up and tornados have been south and west of us. Trees are down and roads are flooding. In another 15 minutes I will be back to the road. Desk duty over.

Brutus and SJ, I guess that i am missing the Tardis.

Be Safe and Careful,

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Posted by MichRR714 on Saturday, August 27, 2011 10:06 PM

Happy Anniversary to Brutus and Char!Thumbs Up

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Posted by laz 57 on Saturday, August 27, 2011 10:25 PM

Hi GUYZ,

  Prayers for CHUCK and PAULA hope all is well.  CHUCK come on gotta here what kinda day you are havin so I can plan mine.

Ran a nice 2 miler with my gal MINNIE then did another 2 mile walk with her then took her close to home to chase wabbits in the corn field almost got one tonite. 

Watched movie UNSTOPPABLE was on edge of seat pretty good agree with the three star rating.  After movie went down and ran trains just like a TRAIN NERD would do.  NO PILE UPs and NO I didn't have to stop a run away.

Listening to IRENE as I type,

Stay frosty and dry,

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Posted by laz 57 on Saturday, August 27, 2011 10:27 PM

Happy ANNIVERSERY,  BRUTI and CHAR and many more!

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Posted by Brutus on Saturday, August 27, 2011 10:36 PM

Prayers for Chuck & Paula, Ray, and Doug.

Thanks for the congrats guys - as a special gift, I was able to bring Charlene back home tonight and she is doing really well!  The biopsies were all normal for the digestive system, but she had some GVHD with her skin reaction, which is getting better.  We waited all day for them to make a decision.  They were going to keep her another day, when I went to the hospital at 4.  We appealed to them and they finally called the doc, who ok'd her release today  About an hour and a half later, we were in the van and headed home Yes.  She has doctor appointments on Monday, but her lab numbers are fine.

Jack - Char had a similar theory.  To pick out my truck, the cop must have been checking me out already, right?  Maybe he liked my truck, or just was impressed with how I handle my rig?  Laugh

Man - what a roller coaster ride.  She would get out Saturday.  Then it was going to be Friday.  Finally on Friday after waiting all day, they said noooooo - tomorrow.  Then today, they were saying well, she is fine, but looks like tomorrow???  If she is fine, why tomorrow?  So stressful.  They kept setting new lines in the sand and dangling the hope closer and closer, then snatching it away, and for no good reason.  We are going to take some time before Monday to decide how to specifically and politely explain that some people have a lot of knowledge, but absolutely no sense of the human element or comprehension of the pain that their words can cause.  We are just so happy she is out now - wow!

TARDIS is ready and we have lots of goodies, so turn on your beacons!

 

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Posted by Brutus on Saturday, August 27, 2011 10:41 PM

PS - John, sorry we missed you.  Stay safe out there!

PPS - LAZ - BTW, huge congas on the table saw and goodies!  What kind of saw?! 

PPPS - Chief, Char said thanks and "will do!".  Thumbs Up

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Posted by laz 57 on Saturday, August 27, 2011 11:06 PM

BRUTUS,

  The saw was a ridgit model TS2424 1.  Heavy die cast top,  made in USA, 10 inch table saw.  Not quite like I have at school a Delta Uni saw but it will do for me now.  For the low low price I can not complain.  I tested it out on a 3/4 inch piece of oak and cut real good.

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:14 AM

Morning.  Sunny and less humid.  Limbs and leaves everywhere.  Lord blessed us as no power outage and no real big damages.  Down east, another story but not as bad as some storms.  Yanks, hope it is not bad on yuz giz.

Watched Unstopable at the lake house earlier this week. 

No word on Chuck.  Prayers.

Later.

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Posted by John Bakeer on Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:22 AM

Day started with lots of wind in sunny Stockport.

Bi-carb' fixed it though!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by fifedog on Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:03 AM

Mornin' boys.  Mornin' English.  Still pretty breezy and gray here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Looks like the leaves I would've had to rake in November wound up all over my neighbor's house.  Still plenty of branches for the Fifepup 2000 to gobble up.  Otherwise, Fifedom dodged a bullet.  Only lost power from 0430-0700 hours.  Just a teeny bit of water in the train room (which also has the sump pump).  Fifepup, who works at our local grocery store, said it was a great week to own DEER PARK stock!

We have 4 local news networks here, and they all follow the same tired and predictable formats when it comes to storms.  Irene is simply a fat, slow-moving sow of a storm with a lot of rain to dump.  It was certainly no Isabel, although the media and government types certainly tried to hype it up as such.

I am sounding grumpy, aren't I...?

May drive down to dock and check on yatchet later this afternoon.

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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:59 PM

Hi GUYZ,

  Good Nite IRENE, Good nite IRENE, I'll see you in my dreams!

  WOW guess something was wrong with the forum?  Just got on.  We lost power here in Millersburg from 5-9AM.  All ok here save for a few trees falling down.  Maybe our school will call a 2 hr delay?  Boy I'm I hoping.

  Gonna watch final of the LL World Series that is played up the road about 50 miles from here in WILLIAMSPORT, PA.  I wish the team from Clinton Co., Pa. got in?

PRAYERS for CHUCK and CHAR.  Get well soon,

Stay frosty,

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Posted by sir james I on Sunday, August 28, 2011 1:16 PM

Early afternoon here.

73/77 today with sun.

It was a nice morning but I missed the pot. I just finished adding some fuses to the layout. Charlie suggested I should because of the newer engine electronics. Granny's driving me nut's trying to get thing's done before the 12th. And on we go...lol

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Posted by cnw1995 on Sunday, August 28, 2011 2:38 PM

Aloha from a pretty day - looks like Irene wasn't as bad as feared. I saw convoy after convoy of utility trucks heading east on my jaunt to drop off my daughter and visit another college with my middle boy. Made it home in record time - no traffic anywhere - still it was a long day. Off to a play with my wife tonigh.

John Baker, those Beeps are nice. They were even nicer when they were cheaper too Big Smile. Hope you had a good anniversary, Brutus. I remember pulling in behind my wife's car when we were dating, and noticing her tags were 2 years out of date! Guess they kept sending the notices to her father. Back then, the state let me update them for her - can you believe that - I had the registration, wasn't the owner, no ID, not even related to her. LOL.

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:05 PM

Afternoon all!

Forum was down for maintenance this morning - at least that is what the message I got said.

105 here right now. Thought about taking the boat out but it is a bit too warm to mess with it today. Besides, the son has homework he is working on (can you believe that?) this afternoon instead of waiting until 11 tonight to start. He is applying to colleges and I think he is motivated (about leaving home Bow).

Glad you easterners (so far) did not get hit too bad by the storm and Fifer - hope the yatchet is OK.

Brutus - that is great news about Char. Got to be hard to have to always expect the worst and I am certainly happy it has been going your way! We will keep those prayers coming regardless.

Will keep the prayers and positive thoughts for Chuck and his family.

John Baker - good to have your regular posts again. Always nice to have info from our far east coast.

Our lakes are going down pretty seriously. Cannot pump water from the largest reservoir here as zebra mussels have been found there and they are trying to keep them out of the rest of the reservoirs here. Say they can pump in the winter when the mussels are not reproducing. The northern reservoirs pump into the lower reservoirs closer to Dallas. They also have a problem where the water temp in a couple of lakes used for power plant cooling is getting too warm and they are having to cut back. And the good news is a new La Nina has appeared in the Pacific so we can expect the dry weather and drought to continue into next year. So the Pacific cools and we overheat - is there a net zero effect here?

Have a great afternoon all!

 

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Posted by submmbob on Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:07 PM

Beautiful day up here on the hill.

Continued prayers for Chuck and Paula.

Glad to hear Char is home!

Sounds like the hurricane could have been worse, but prayers for those in it's path.

Buckeye - nice pictures of the cog! Going to have to check that out someday.

Been finding I get tired up here lately. Think I am still re-adjusting to the altitude. Doesn't happen back in Tucson. The 2 months + I was away from the 'scope was the longest time in the 9 years I've been here.  May have to switch back to "leaded" coffee while I am on the mountain.

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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:37 PM

Thanks Bob.  More photos of the cog railroad and Mt. Washington can be seen on my webpage.  The cog was a fasinating ride especially back down the mountain as the brakeman really had to work.  There is so much history around Mt. Washington and the White Mountains.  I hope to go back soon.

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Posted by fifedog on Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:00 PM

Yatchet was just fine.

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Posted by sir james I on Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:05 PM

Thumbs up fife.

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Posted by dougdagrump on Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:55 PM

sir james I

Thumbs up fife.

So long as he don't change his handle to "Fifedagrump". Grumpy  Smile, Wink & Grin

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