Well, today was one of those days! Went into town to get my drivers license renewed. So I had to go by the bank and withdraw some money for that. They don't like checks and debit cards for license renewals. So I get bto the bank and swipe my card at the ATM and enter my PIN. Not accepted. Maybe I entered the numbers transposed. Last two numbers where the first two should be. So I try it the other way. Not accepted. By now I'm getting pretty irritated. I swipe the card a third time and enter the number exactly as it should be. Not accepted. One more time! I enter the number and just for good measure I slug the machine. ACCEPTED! Gee, all I had to do was ask nicely and threaten to turn it into scrap! I got my money and headed for the OMV. On the way I dropped off a list of meds at the pharmacy. Got to the OMV (edge of town) and took a number. There was already a pretty respectable crowd there. My number was H14. G79 was being served. Shades of the army! Hurry up an wait! So I wait. Time creeps by. I strike up conversations with some of the others there to pass the time. Well, my number finally came up. H14. I went in and answered their questions and aced their little eye exam. Got my photo taken and they actually did a half descent job of it this time. Last time I looked like something that had sneaked out of a high security prison. On this one I look kinda like Adam Savage from Mythbusters. Got out of there and went to get gas for the van. Got to the station and the pump didn't want to work right. I put the nozzle in the filler neck and the instant it started pumping the filler nozzle turned off. It did this several more times so I had to hold the handle up halfway to get gas to go in. Took a while to fill it up. From there went to pay some bills then went on to the pharmacy to pick up my meds. Not ready yet. So I wait. Finally they're ready. I pay for them then head to Wal-Mart. I was looking for a parking space close to the store when I was startled by a load bang and the the sound of high pressure water hitting the bottom of the van and the ground. The smell of anti-freeze and steam coming from under the hood told me what had happened. It was one of those 'OH CRAP!' moments. Well there were no open spaces on that row but I spotted one on the next row so I very gingerly drove to the top of the row and turned to the next row and got cut off by some lout in an SUV who then proceeded to drive so slow he could have taken up squatters rights. I saw the open space getting closer and the lout was edging toward it. There was enough space for me to squeeze through and get the space first and I did it. No way was I burning up my engine because of him. Once he saw the steam blowing off like Old Faithful he didn't have much to say. I looked under the front and saw the problem. The lower radiator hose had blown and had a three inch long tear in it. So I went to customer service and called my mother and told her I needed a ride to get my groceries home. I didn't have them yet but I would by the time she got there. A fast driver she ain't. It take me fifteen minutes to get to town. The same trip takes her over half an hour. Must be a new slow speed record for the Pontiac G6. So I get my groceries including two gallons of anti-freeze/coolant and soon after I get out of the store she shows up. First stop was home to put the perishable stuff including meds away. Then it was back to town to get a new lower hose and a set of clamps. Back to Wal-Mart to repair the van while my mother went to Stage to do some shopping of her own. New hose fit like a glove. New clamps didn't. They were just one size too small. The old ones weren't bad off so I used them. Made sure everything was tight then dumped in the two gallons of coolant. It wasn't enough and I knew it wouldn't be. I took the two containers to automotive (other side of the store) and had them filled willed water then went back and dumped that in the radiator. Still not enough. So another trip to get the containers filled again. It took just over five and a half gallons to fill it up. I knew that radiator was big but man! Looking down in it I can count three cores and that's just what I can see. There's room for a fourth core and probably is one. But it took me longer to fill the thing than it did to replace the frikkin hose. Finally got back home a little before six and I am wiped out.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
It's 53, a wet gloomy day. We needed the rain but gee it could have been warmer. I'm not complaining, it beats a winter day by a 1000%. I will wait for the chat guys, hope I can stay awake...Yawn....S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Today Christina turned 10 months old...This is how we 'celebrated'
Sunny and about 70 today. Last night's rain did not amount to much.
My batch of flatcars I won on Ebay got here today. Turned out to be a Penn Central, a L&N, and a Northern Pacific MPC era or newer cars and a very nice 6414. The 6414 has bar end trucks and almost looks new. No loads on any of them.
All for now.
Happy first day of the month!
Brent - sweet!
SJ - glad the surgery went well!
Banks - for your friend
Jeffrey - quite the adventure today.
DougdaG - glad you are doing good!
LAZ - Red Solo Cup - It's time to Party!
Jon - good one!
RT - skunkin' the Chief! on the first post!
Chief - you buildin' a layout or a Garden Center????
Very nice day here today. Doing cleanup for the grad party Sunday.
Have a great evening what is left of it!
Regards, Roy
BTW - we watched the Hatfields and McCoys miniseries on History Channel. It is quite good and worth seeing.
Hello all
Back at work for another week. Receiver installation and testing is done and we are back to normal observations.
Kev - got the package. Will be working on it this weekend.
Got this from my buddy in the bay area and thought you guys would appreciate it. The USS Iowa going under the Golden Gate. Put tears in my eyes.
Still catching up on the May pot. You guys sure can type.
More later.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Mornin' boys. Mornin' English. Clearing and 61 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Had some twisties roll through our area late yesterday afternoon. One was reported in Brent's neck of the woods, but seeing his post answered my concern. Watched a supercell pass north of Wifey's work, which apparently caused significant damage 5 miles north of Fifedom. I'm lucky; don't even have a limb to pick up.
submmbob - How old is that pic?
laz - you may be retired, but I certainly don't see you slowing down. I figure I have approx 700 days 'til I hang'em up myself.
jonadel - Just echoing everyone else. Nice to see you posting again.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....
It is a cool 56 degrees. Sunny. Going up to 72 today with sunshine.
Today is a busy day. I have an errand to run and a bunch of chores to do. Then, work on a project. Lunch and a nap will happen.
Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Saturday.
Chuck
Wishing a happy birthday to my good friend David Parks. He's nineteen today.Good morning. It's 68° and sunny. The high will be 92 and it'll be partly cloudy.Nothing special on the schedule today. My blood sugar level this morning is sixty five so I have to get that up or risk passing out. I'm still hurting from all that happened yesterday so I'll be getting lots of rest today.
It's 55 with a little sun. Detroit's Grand Prix race is today so hoping they can run without delays. The Tigers, not doing very well.The first half of the season is usually their best. The Wednesday night church kids are going to a place called the Bounce House so granny will be gone for a few hours today. Oh what should I do while she's gone. Always something to worry about. ....S.J.
Morning...
We already went to a church sale and got some more plants and a few other things...and a couple of old rr books...
It is rather cool out there though..only 46F and feeling more like 42F because of the wind. Oh...and rainy...
The rest of today will be spent doing an oddment of things..dang HD list ...and I might even get a chance to run some trains.....
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Konbanwa,
The baseball team had its last game this morning. Everyone did well and has greatly improved from our first practice. I wish the season was longer so the kids could keep getting better but unfortunately it’s not. After the game the team moms set up a quick party for the team at the bowling alley which gave me an opportunity to pass out the trophies to the kids. We took care of our chores this afternoon and then went to an end of season baseball party for the entire league. It was a good time and the kids watched The Sandlot. It’s now about time for me to get some sleep.
Laz – Congratulations on the retirement. I’m sure you will fill your days with plenty of worthwhile events.
John – For my theme I will probably pick railroads (Lehigh Valley and Reading) which would have been in my hometown years ago. However, RMT keeps having great sales which are persuading me otherwise.
Dougdagrump – I am a budget operator as well. It’s hard to pass up good buys when they appear but I’m still hoping to get the Reading passenger cars that should go with the locos I picked up for a great price about a year ago.
Brent – That is a great photo. Those moments fill your heart with an almost unexplainable feeling of joy and contentment.
Sayonara,
Joe
Hi GUYZ,
Beauty of a day here. Ay 34 this morning I did a nice easy 2miler just out a mile to the stop sign and back. Enjoyed the sun and the newly planted corn and soya bean fields. Quite and just the sound of my breath made this an enjoyable run. Today got nephews graduation party.
TANKs for all DA CONGAs GUYZ.
SUBBOB, nice pic of the IOWA.
ROY, we watched the HATFIELDs and McCOYs last nite too. Part 1 on demand, gonna watch Pt2 tonite. Very well done. Brutal at times but wow.
CHIEF, Nice yarden. I just got my tomatoes in this morning. You're eating them already?
FIFE, I'm not trying to slow down. WIFE has too many things for me to do.
JONADEL, I still can't get over that you had an Ol MIL QUART. NICE.
Stay frosty,
laz57
fife I would bet that pic was from the other day when they where moving her as she had to go under the golden gate bridge to get to her final rest spot.
Well got up this am and tried the good engine ( or what was ) and couplers, engines sounds, crew talk, Tower com, break squeal, engine revs all worked the light for forward motion not light for reverse yes train movement none either direction tried a reset same story this engine worked fine till I took the RC2 board out to try on another tmcc board to see if that RC2 board was bad ( which it is) I'm thinking the other tmcc board is also bad but thats another problem one problem at a time lol.
Not much else going on here.
Looks sunny outside as haven't tried to go outside yet. starting to get warm here in den so guess need to turn A/C on. Suppose to be high of 82 today 89 tomorrow.
Well talk to you all later hope you have a good day
Jeffery hope your day is better than yesterday
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Morning on the hill here. Looks like it will be a quiet weekend.
Fife - RT said it, she was going under the Golden Gate under tow to her new home in the LA area just a few days ago.
LAZ - almost there!
Banks - prayers for your friend
Joe - I tend to buy on a budget as well, but have a theme in mind. I have developed a rule where I try to spend no more than $100 at one time on the radios or trains. That means I'm getting things which I have to fix, which I like of course, and probably no Vision Line locomotives in my future. Whenever I have diverged from this rule it just doesn't seem to work out.
Well on the list for today is fixing Kev's smoke unit and maybe installing the new pinion gear on the 1664. Finally got a halfway decent coat of paint on the baseplate of the ZW so I can assemble it. Vow never to buy another spray can of paint. I'll use the airbrush of my detail auto sprayer.
Aloha .. SJ, glad you are c-free. That's interesting about the interurban tracks. Roy, I'm so glad for you and your son. Speaking of teens, I drove to Cedar Point amusement park to drop off my boy for his summer job - his sister's already there: 7 1/2 hours there and 5 1/2 hours back is a full day of driving in the rain. But always love chasing the NS main line into Chicago. Laz, the countdown continues....
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Lunch Time:
What started out as a rainy day, became a nice day. Too bad I have to work, but my count down is 181 Days.
Laz: Break out the Red Solo Cups. Almost ready to join you.
AF53, Ray, I will be home tonight. We have to open the new package.
SJ, You need some lemon ice cream.
Joe, I kinda miss the kids' sports and other activities. Enjoy and cheerish the time.
Enjoy the Day!
John
Good Afternoon
Well, the place looks pretty active today
We have been trying to actually get some cleaning done here and found a few things that we need to get rid of...get to do that later on ..again.
Might as well finish off the grocery thing for next week or so tomorrow as well...
As I said yesterday, I got my drivers license renewed. My new license photo:Yeah, it's got about as much appeal as a road accident.
Good evening everyone. Hope I wasn't missed, or mentioned and not responded to. We were in Florida, in Traindaddy's neck of the woods. Took family to LegoLand, and also to some shows and shopping at Downtown Disney. We had a villa that was fantastic and took a few days to relax. Funny thing, we have been waiting for our LOA, letter of approval from China. Last time, we went to Florida and it came, so we tried it again and both came for our kids. We should be heading there in the near future.
Regarding the Iowa, I saw the same photo. I believe the photographer was up getting some positioning figured out for the Golden Gate celebration, when he sees the Iowa coming under it. It was supposed to happen a few days earlier, but a storm delayed the trip.
Jeffrey, my license actually does look OK, but that is because the photo is 10 years old...they keep using the same one.
Well, gotta get some rest and recover from all the fun and driving.
God Bless,Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Home!!! Off to graduation cookout. Got another board meeting to attend. Elected to the Ponderosa Property Owners Assoc. Board of Directors.
jeffrey-wimberly As I said yesterday, I got my drivers license renewed. My new license photo:Yeah, it's got about as much appeal as a road accident.
Hey, I saw that photo in the Post Office yesterday.
Later
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
It's 72 now. Sun but windy. We have 2 teeny tiny tomato's on 1 plant, only time will till if they make it to the bacon. John I do have a little lemon ice cream left, so maybe later instead of Banilla..S.J.
ChiefEagles Hey, I saw that photo in the Post Office yesterday.
Great news, Dennis!
Glad you got some time to relax Dennis. LegoLand is a fun place.
Dennis great news you going to be able to meet up with Joe while your over there? That is so fantastic I know you all are really excited.
Evening all not much going on here actually will be glad if i can get back to work Monday. I'm so bored here lol. I want to but all depends how my back and right side feels about 1/2 way thru the day. Its still tender but if I can put up with it at work where it isn't hurting to much I will probably let my DR. know but will continue working if he thinks its okay to do so. ( that the rubbing isn't making it worst or something.)
Ran my 4 GP-9's tonight up on the shelf layout did a short video and took a pic of them all sitting there lit up. Will post in SPF.
Waiting for the Tardis crew listening to some music on the computer. Also watching some auctions end nothing really selling but its not your really desirable items either lol.
Well talk to you all later/tomorrow
Time for me to call it a night. Received a package today from Ohio. I'm now the owner of three Caterpillar 315CL excavators and two Caterpillar D5M bulldozers. See y'all tomorrow.
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