Good evening all! Very productive day today at work and it looks as though the weather will be good for work the next couple of days.
First and foremost for Chuck.
JoeD - Sounds like you're having a good time at the inlaws. Krispy Kreme tried to establish itself here in Ocean County a few years ago but I believe Dunkin Donuts was just too much for them.
Roy - I heard about the weather breaking for you on the radio this morning but I had no idea it was close to a record. What say yee boy's? Let's go for the record! Who's with me?
SJ - Knock wood but it looks as though your Tigers are locking up the division soon.
Nite all!
Ray
Bayville, NJ
Life is what happens to youWhile you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Good Evening
82 now, high 90s this afternoon.
Clusters of storms all over the place since early evening. It stopped the Tigers game for awhile but glad they got to finish. They were down 8-6 bottom of the 9th. With a triple and 2 homers they walked away with a win. Banilla is ready..S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Good evening all,
IIASBSDISEI with temps at 100. Reffed two games this morning. Very hot. Had water breaks at the 15 minuter mark. First game was a blowout 11-0. Second game was more interesting. Local team was tied 1-1 at half, fell behind early in the second 2-1, rattled off 4 straights to make 5-2 and held on to a 5-3 win. Wild and wooly. Came home and collapsed in chair. Got up to do sweeping for wife, and went to 4:30 Mass. Going down to Bloomington to watch IU soccer and visit with kids. Some good news in Indy car. AJ's team rallied from a first day 21st quick time to grid 14th and Swiss Miss is starting 12th. Will Power (who else) is on pole. Princess is 25th (she can't leave soon enough). Watched "Nine" last night. Interesting movie. I hope everone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Back at work for a few days. Have Monday off due to the holiday. Rained pretty good up here today.
Running the Hardwood Floor Central on a regular basis now.
Think I saw the UP's SP Daylight locomotive on the end of a train yesterday. Like that paint scheme.
Thoughts and prayers for Chuck and those back east.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Good afternoon Y'all! Running a bit slow today...been one of those weeks. Joe, I got in touch with Dr. John to get his OK to share information, I will pass that along to you. You will like him...real down to earth kinda preacher. Laz, congratulations on breaking in the new pit and also the start of your final year. I am sure it will be a good one for you. Just watch that all the admin folks don't try to hit you up for free labor to do projects around their houses this year....wait till next year and charge them!Rich, perhaps if your Governor had a different letter after his name, NJ might have gotten more assistance? Just Say'in :-)Roy, caught your picture in the "other mag" that I got recently. Congratulations on being held in such high regard. They wouldn't let an amature be on such a project, or be filmed as part of such a team! Good luck with those low temps. Perhaps the AC will only run 23 hours of the day now!Well, I was finally able to figure out the video security system for the house. Will install in the next few days. Most of the cameras will be easy, one will be a bit more difficult. This may be a good time to make a storage closet out of a "hidden space" in one of the guest rooms. I have to gain access to this area by cutting the wall anyway, so perhaps I need to chat with the wife.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Afternoon all!
Kind of a lazy day today. Wind is picking up in advance of the cool front coming tomorrow. Today may be our last 100 degree day this year. If so we will not break the all time record of 1980 - will be one day short.
Brutus - the Remington I have is electric (10 ").
LAZ sounds like a nice evening to start your fall season.
Continued prayers for Chuck, Char, our east coasters, and now the Gulf Coast..
Enjoy your holiday weekend!
Regards, Roy
Good Morning,
Drying out here at Exit 8....looks like the Feds have denied our county of FEMA funds....go figure. We opened the main road through town Thursday and had a work detail last night. The firehouse needs to be redone due to the water/flooding. I was MIA last night, I took a nap @ 7 PM and got up at 10 AM....
Have a impromptu party later today at my friends house, of course the whole family will be there...
Hudson/John...Thanks for keeping the lights on...
Prayers for Blueberry & Paula, Char and those in harms way both here and abroad.
8 days till 9/11.....
Rich
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
Good Morning
79 and 90 today, stuffy, a hard to breath day.
Fife police officers looting in the USA, no couldn't be. Oh yeah it could, now they can take your hard earned stuff without even having a search warrant. Yep land of the free. I better shut up before I get booted. No plans for the day, waffle with homemade applesauce for breakfast...S.J.
Mornin' boys. Cloudy and sticky here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Still dealing with my infection, which will keep me from driving to Richmond for my cousin's wedding...which may cause a stink...which will add to my misery...
cheapclassics - I am a racing fan. The course they have laid out is not viewer/traffic/business friendly. I may cruise up the Patapsco on the yatchet to check out the big money boats that will be there. It would have been cool to moor out and watch the race along Light St, but the barriers are too high, and the cars sit too low...
RockIsland - The way I understand it, the remnants of TS Lee should help thwart off Kat around Thursday. Still can't get over the situation in Vermont. Haven't seen any footage of police officers looting televisions like after Katrina...
jonadel - Kudos on your layout pic. I look forward to reading your upcoming article.
Time to wash fifey's whities.
Chuck
Howdy guys - well, I got off early and put the family on the train to KC. They get off at Lee's Summit and my in-laws pick them up there. They had a pretty good ride, except my daughter had a bad headache and stomach issues. I guess she got motion sickness on top of everything
Roy - the one I was looking at was electric, which I think would make it lighter? I'll check it out one of these days. I don't need it now, so it can wait.
Nice chats with SJ and RT on the phone and then SJ on messenger. I somehow changed my user account files on my laptop to hidden? I managed to undo it, but that's a first
Got a package from Charlie Ro - the two Halloween cars I had ordered. Very neat I like that Jack-o-Lantern car a lot.
TARDIS is ready and Mike can drive! We've got Chex Mix, Banilla, and rootbeer, as well as Old Mills, Miller Lites, and a few Sam Adams. So let's hit it boys!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
I'm still in Broken Arrow at the in-laws house. Today was the wife's birthday. We ate at The Cheesecake Factory for lunch and a local Mexican place for dinner. I bought her a ruby ring she picked out. Ruby is our kids' birthstone; all of them were born in July. She already has enough jewelry in her birthstone.
Jack - The family will stay here in Broken Arrow while I'm in AL. The wife might come down for my graduation. I'm glad the Yankees won that series in Boston. The Yankees won tonight and your Sox lost so we are back on top.
Good night,
Joe
Another late night tonight and back to work in 9 hours.
Brutus - Like you we almost never loose power, just when someone down line takes out a pole.
DougM - Our casual dress Friday runs year round. It is nice.
RaySP - Don't over do it with your back. The downside is far worse and long lasting, but you know that already. Try and do the things you enjoy most, like runnin' the trains!
Jack - Nice to leave Fenway in one piece. It's been a scary place for years. Now you have to tangle with Texas while we're playing the BlueJays. Just love the sight in my rear view mirror (Just stay there now, OK?)
Where's Traindood??
Have a nice and quiet Labor Day weekend whilst I labor away!
Hi GUYZ,
Well WIFE and I had first fire of the new school year and had chicken and corn and OL MILs tonite all is good with da world. Nice nite and we had good conversation of the weeks events. Came in ran trains for an hour NO PILE UPs again all is good wit da world. Tomorrow got to go to Lowes and pick up fencing and start to cover propane tanks.
Stay frosty BOUYZ,
laz57
86 now, was 97 this afternoon.
I stayed inside today, AC has sure spoiled all of us. With granny away BBsitting I just goofed off. I too had a phone call from Brutus we rode together for awhile. Banilla is ready, fire up the Tardis...S.J.
It has been another slow day here. I finally got out to do some grocery shopping for dinner tonight. I had a hard time walking around the super market. My back is only good for about 10 minutes of that and then it starts hurting. Still on the muscle relaxers which is OK if I don't do much.
More prayers for Chuck and his wife. Hope that him making it this far is a good omen.
I did run some trains this morning and that felt good. Operated the layout and listened to CD's for about 2 hours. I probably over did it. Lately I have been running four trains at one time with two on each of my double track main. Keeps you on your toes to avoid rear in collisions.
Haven't heard much from Chief this year about his tomato crop. Must be doing poorly without enough rain. Of course the hurricane probably dumped too much water all at once.
Cooking up some snap beans and red potatoes tonight to go with some Coho Salmon I picked up at the market today. Having lemon meringue pie for desert.
Have a good labor day week end,
SPMan
Evening all Prayers still going out for toots.
Talked to Brutus a little earlier on the phone all seem well, well kinda seems his daughter was a little out of the weather.
Not much going on here still just doing day by day it going fine. Only doing about 8 hrs ot a pay period ( = 4 hrs a week)
Hope all have a good weekend I'm off sat and sun but have to work Monday but basically its = to double time as I get paid for the holiday and also get paid for the day of work.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Afternoon Gents and Happy Labor Day weekend!
I have had one of the 10" Remington Pole Saws for years and I will comment that is is handy but it is also top end heavy. It is too heavy to hold out to one's side. Thus (at my age anyway) I am only able to use it when on a ladder holding it nearly straight up to maintain balance - so one can only cleanly cut limbs that stick out to the side. I also tend to scar up the bark around the cut area if not real careful. I use the saw more off the pole than on.
If I need to trim branches (but I contract this out now since my trees are rather large) again - I would get the chain saw attachment for my Craftsman weed wacker (that has changeable shafts). The chain saw assembly is much lighter and one has the motor to balance the saw head. Just my .
Another hot one here (100+). Supposed to start cooling down this weekend if one calls mid/hi 90's cooler. The bad news is as it cools down the humidity goes up so it is just as bad.
Continued prayers for Chuck, Char, and others in need.
V8 Dennis it was Charlie who wanted the Allegheny, I agreed to go in half with him. I did have some issues about the shop selling them and the fact that K-Line was gone. He wisely decided to wait for a Lionmaster or scale one to come along some day.
Good afternoon everyone. Been a long week with lots of big cases. I am tired! Had a dinner engagement last night and so it was late night and early morning. Waiting till time to pick up the kids. SWMBO has a list for me to get to also. We are awaiting the mail delivery as my wife has a new phone coming in, and I have that security system that is supposed to arrive.
Hope folks are doing well and that Chuch is mending. Will keep them and others in my prayers.God Bless,Dennis
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
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,
John
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.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Good morning
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.
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!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Good morning all,
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.
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.
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!
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