Starting early. As soon as I get errands done, big trailer hitched [has big pig cooker I have and some furniture] and shower, I'm gone to the lake house until next Monday or Tuesday.
Yesterday was a killer. Fields flooded, trees down and humid. Marked 90% of the farm with purple paint [posted] and with signs. Put up two double deer tree stands. Lots of walking. "Mired up" with rubber boots on a lot.
Prayers for Chuck, Char and the folks up North.
Have a great holiday.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Now RT won't have a reason to get up early tomorrow.
"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
sir james I Now RT won't have a reason to get up early tomorrow.
Yes I do I have to get up at 5 so I can get ready for work and get there on time and thats the earlist I get up period :)
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
But it won't be the same will it...lol
Dinner time at work,
We have been very busy. Today we did not have internet or the company network until the afternoon. The phones will receive some calls and wont let you call out. Power is on and off (I thought we were the Electric Company). My high point last night was when my wife brought me fresh clothes and a few other things.
Mike C, Congrats on your collection.
AF53, One day I will be back to Bayville.
SJ, Brutus and Charlie, Start the Tardis without me. I will ask my wife to transport the banilla to you.
Prayers for Chuck and Char.
Keep Dry,
John
Chief cut us off at 698 posts on the last one with this early start. RT does a better job.
Jack.
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Thanks RI52
I didn't get up early to start them I just started them when I got up that day lol
Good Evening
77 nice out, just came in, spent the evening outside. Read some of CTT. It's getting dark at least an hour earlier than June and the sun is heading south. Had an online chat with Charlie this afternoon discussing the purchase of a new K-Line engine. John saved the banilla so all is well. Fire up the thingy...S.J.
Got up and went to work - got extra work, since a co-worker is out of town - came home and had some supper, and then had a nice chat with the boys. Thinking about getting a 8 foot pole electric trimmer/chainsaw, as I could use it to clear out some of that crap back in my wooded area. I had a nice chat with Charlie and SJ. Missed you, John - hope all is well. Glad we have the banilla, though!
Maybe they could hire a lot of people who are looking for work, give them grinders, and have them clear all that area with grinders and steamers to get rid of those mussels? I'm sure they could figure out a way to move and save the water - if nothing else, run it though a big boiler first? Could just run through pipe on top of black plastic sheets during the day down there - solar energy. I mean to do this at a reservoir, not at the great lakes!
TARDIS is ready, so let's hit the road!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Good morning all,
It is HOT again in SE Indiana. Lots of that great American sport on tap the next four days as I will watch the high school boys play a home game tonight, ref two youth games on Saturday, and watch IU play on Sunday. It does not get much better than that except when I am playing and that league starts next Tuesday. Could use some more rain as we did get a small shower yesterday. All I did is go for a walk last night as wife was too tired from subbing yesterday. Work has been busy. Have to drive today (only time this week). TBIL after the game and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day. Prayers for all who need them.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Mornin' Ya'll From Overcast And A Seasonal 68 Degrees,
Just a quick splash and go.
Continued prayers for Chuck and brave Paula. Hope Buckeye can get some good news for us.
Prayers also for those still suffering from the recent weather event here on the East coast. It is sad to watch the aftermath news coverage here in New England following Irene. Entire towns in VT. still cut off with annihilated roads and bridges and raging rivers. A few hundred thousand desperate customers still without power here in Taxachusetts alone, including about 15,000 in Foxboro MA. just South of Boston about 15 miles. Governor has been in Washington the past couple of days (doing what?) instead of........ minding the store at home, managing/pushing electric restoration, road and bridge restoration, and cleaning up the mess. FEMA and MEMA out of money, unable to fund even the last natural disaster?!?! More Senate and Congress stalemate wrangling in store. Well beyond useless to the last man and woman. Local or national take your pick. Same with party affiliation. In the private sector I wouldn't hire any of them, and if they were on my payroll they would all find themselves unemployed in a heartbeat.
As SJ said, it is getting dark way too early for my liking. This is just about the time of the year that I uncover and fire up the snowblower to see how it is working, leaving me time to get things done/fixed if they need be and avoid the crush of customers who wait until the first dire weather forecast (or later, when the snow is already flying) only to find they have to fall back on their snow shovels.
AF Ray and JoeyD..........sorry about last night. We still are without two every day starters and two of our starting pitchers, the latter of which we won't see play again this season. I don't know how everyone feels about sports injuries, but I don't like seeing teams playing without their best players.
MikeC.........I thought you considered open wheel automobile racing the number one sport.
Banks......sounds like your wife's knee is working just fine. No news is good news.
Later gang.
Jack
Good morning
sun and Hi 80s today.
RI FEMA never got New Orleans rebuilt so what good will they be now? None. The entire money wasting agency should be hit by the delete button. Granny's BBsitting today/tomorrow so I'm thinking BLT but not too sure about the outcome lol. Had a nice chat with Brutus and Charlie last night but we couldn't save the world. Talked trains instead...S.J.
Hello September !
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
Lunch Time!
Progress is being made on the restorations for both electric and gas. The water is receeding in most areas.
Just heard the horn from an engine crossing the road by the shop. There is a small railroad, the Raritan Central Railway that serves the area and industrial complex, (Raritan Center) where our shop is located. It reminds me of a train layout.
Everyone be careful,
Aloha. Sunny and Hot! Successfully got G'ma to O'Hare and the youngest to the doc and back - just bad allergies and can't find sudafed anywhere. The roofers dropped off their gear for replacing the roof tomorrow. Hope it doesn't rain! Hudson, thanks for all your good work restoring power. Brutus, that's a cool tool - I need to cut back branches from a high tree too close to the house - and my neighbor's house. Would that work? I was going to try to climb the tree with a saw. But that sounds too much like a Road Runner cartoon. Just lost out on an Ivor kit from the UK I was tracking. SJ, what K-Line engine are you considering?Isn't this cool? A replica CP engine running at the IRM
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Doug M. it's a K-Line Allegheny that Charlie found on a York dealer website. It is undersized so will run on most layouts. You can see one on video at that other website.
Dinner Time at work,
So far everyone has been working safe. One OSHA though, a dog bite from a frightened dog. All of the potential for serious injury and a dog bite.
Sorry guys no Tardis for me tonight again, but the wife promised to send the banilla. I am still waiting for the lemon ice cream for SJ and me.
Prayers for Chuck and support for Paula and the family. Prayers also for Char and all in need.
Hurricane Katia is waiting for us to restore all electric and gas and then sneak up on us.
Spanky, the shooter was not near your place yet.
Have a great day,
Like HudsonJohn, dinner time at work!
All these problems we are having from the power going out makes me wonder how much would go away if the lines were underground like they are in my area?
Jack - Sometimes I think we are without half of our starters too!
HudsonJohn - Get home soon! Sis doesn't inform me when my packages arrive!!!!
Later,
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
82 now went to 91 today.
Banilla is ready for the thingy crew..
S.J.
AF - they started moving a lot of the electric underground around here after that huge ice storm about 5 years ago. In my subdivision, it was all built with underground utilities to start with and we rarely lose power.
John - take it easy, I hope you are not getting too tired out.
RI-Jack - I agree
Laz - Prosit! Down the hatch, bro. I'll have a couple Miller Lites
Doug - I think it will work nicely for me. If the branches are too close, you can cut them back little by little, I think. We did that when we trimmed down that neighbor's tree a year ago. We only trimmed it on my side, as he thought his side was A-Ok. Well, this year, the tree came down all together after a big storm, and the branches that broke off were all on his side I have a brush cutter too, although it hasn't been run in a couple years. It's gas and should work, as I put stabilizer in it, etc. I'll work on that in the fall, when leaves are coming down and ground is hard back there. We'll see.
TARDIS is warming up on the pad, plenty of time to turn on your beacons guys. Chewy says BARK!
Haven't checked the pot for several days. Just scanned everything to get caught up.
Labor Day is almost here and the temperature is up around 100 again. For somebody who grew up in Michigan, these temperatures this time of year are just unatural.
Not much else going on.
Early TGIF.
IIABSDISEI with temps near 100. RI52, Indycar racing was, is, and always will be number one with me in terms of sports. The comment I made was directed at certain members of the pot (who shall remain nameless) who have a less than lofty opinion of another sport that I enjoy with great intensity. "My" soccer boys won 7-0 in varsity and 1-0 in JV in home games last night. "My" soccer girls lost 2-0 on the road. Stayed way too late last night doing the Sudoku. Work went well yesterday. Wife is working again today. Make money while the sun shines. Fifedog, think they will run the Indy car race in Baltimore this weekend? TBIL and I can drive. Have to get in the regular rotation again. I hope everyone has a good weekend.
Aloha. TGIF! Last summer Friday - with early closing and casual dress. I'll miss it! The roofers cancelled because there's a tiny chance of rain. Oh well, better that than someone getting hurt, but the driveway's full of roof stuff. It's going to be a great excuse to run trains in the basement. Brutus, I'll look around for such a tool. Boy, would it come in handy... Happy Labor Day Weekend!
77 going to 98 for 1 day.
Doug M. better to have your old roofing on than to have a tear down and a storm. It's going to be hot, I'm staying in. A nice chat with Brutus and Charlie last night...S.J.
Good Mornin' Ya'll From Sunny And Crystal Clear Taxachusetts,
The local president of National Grid, our largest electric power utility company, is under heavy fire for taking off on vacation as the recent catastrophic storm approached. Then when the inevitable happened, she said (in an interview yesterday) she couldn't get a flight back because (shock!) the airports were all closed here and elsewhere and all of the flights were cancelled. I think Taxachusetts is down at 80,000 still without electric, but National Grid this morning said they will have everyone in my state back on line by Sunday. Scattered thunderstorms in the forecast for the Labor Day weekend, with Monday forecast as the worst day of the three. I suspect we'll throw something together here and have the usual get-together. But that means I will have to drag back out all of the deck furniture I stowed away before Hurricane Irene. Heard this AM a tropical storm in the Gulf could dump up to 20 inches of rain on New Orleans and the surrounding coastlines. And Hurricane Katia is now on the radar screen for the East Coast.
I spent about 4 hours yesterday mowing, picking up storm debris, and trimming, ran out of the plastic trim line before I finished. DougM and Brutus.......those powered pole cutters make short work of a difficult tree trimming job. I have a manual one that trims with a pincher cutter and also has a saw blade. It telescopes to above 8 feet and is light weight, but it really works well. Bet you could even rent a powered one one at a renta-center to decide electric versus gas powered for yourself, or skip the outright purchase. Once the trees are pruned/trimmed, the pole trimmer might be another power tool collecting dust in the garage for the next few years, your garage or neighbor(s) who borrowed it and didn't return it.
AF Ray and JoeyD......hats off (temporarily) to the Evil Empire for taking two of three on the road from the Red Sox. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. Red Sox left about 4 dozen men on base in just three games versus less than half that for the Bums. DougM......the White Sox are lurking, just 5.5 games behind first place Detroit.
Gotta run. Later Gang.
Lunch Time,
Great News for me. We are being released today @ 2:30. a short day only 8 hours. I thought that we were working 4, 10 hr. days with Fridays off for the summer. Restoration work is going well. Everyone that we could get back is on and the flood victims are the one's that are off.
AF53, Ray, It is tough missing my home cooked meals. I am being forced to eat at Harold's, once at "Peterson's", The Liberty and other eateries. I think that I gained about 6 lbs. Guess who wants to go out to eat tonight?
Brutus, Underground utilities are great, but when it floods it goes down too. Also the lines feding them are all to often overhead lines.
Continued Prayers for Chuck.
Back to work,
Hello all.
TGIF
More prayers for Chuck & family.
Hudson, Thanks for a job well done
Doug, I have one similar to this. It works great. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Remington-10-Electric-Pole-Saw/12176556
Same old same old around here
SS fund calls. I'll try to get back over the weekend
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
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