Coffee Pot #11 NOVEMBER 2012 SIX years [April 1 is Anniv.] and going strong and its for all to chat. Plenty of coffee and sweet ice tea for all. Come and join us and chat. GRITS for the Yankees

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

KRM

Lehigh Valley 2089

Forgot to mention, it is snowing outside today here in Towanda! Good news for the deer hunters out there. 

Lehigh

I take it you are in Towanda, Pennsylvania not Towanda, Illinois then.

That is correct. I do live in PA. 

I also heard that there was a Towanda, Kansas. 

[KRM]

Lehigh Valley 2089

Forgot to mention, it is snowing outside today here in Towanda! Good news for the deer hunters out there. 

Lehigh

I take it you are in Towanda, Pennsylvania not Towanda, Illinois then.

Ray "

Kev -I've been reading some of your posts on some of the other theads. Careful. Lol."

You talking about the comment on contacting Dean and Jeff? I thought about it to but I think they both take out ads in the mag so I figured it would be ok, It is a shame you have to think about what and how you answer someone who is asking for help.

 Geoege the cat is back from the vet and as I thought he has not recovered as he should of by now. So she scraped the ulcer on his eye to open up the edges so the medication can get into the wound. Hope this works. He goes back in a week. He was not a happy camper in the office  and they were wondering why I had on leather gloves. Good news was they only charged $15.00 for todays visit so I have some beer money now.

 

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Forgot to mention, it is snowing outside today here in Towanda! Good news for the deer hunters out there. 

[sir james I]

A bright sunny 26 this morning. middle 30s for the day.

A good group on the Tardis last night. just misc. chit-chat. I got both toy train mags yesterday, can't tell tell you their names though, might be accused of trying to sell subscriptions. They look like I have some good reading ahead. John hang in there stay safe and get out. A small portion of hash browns, egg and 1 toast this morning. I will make it till Looney Tunes comes on at noon..Oh I might watch the news too it's kinda funny....S.J.

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

KRM

Lehigh, FB=FaceBook

Thank you. 

greenprobe

Sorry, don't have an account, and when I tried to access a page one time, it said that I needed to have one.  

[cnw1995]

Aloha. Sunny and cold today. Posted some photos of my work to date on Ivor's layout in a separate thread. Tell me what you think.

Praying for your friend's family, Chief. 
Ray, happy belated anniversary. Hope your wife is doing better.  
Fife, congrats on the purchase. WV is one of those states I haven't had the pleasure of visiting. Photos of the county are beautiful!  
Bob, great work on those Thomas engines! 

[KRM]

Only time for a sip. Got to take George back to the vet. He is not doing as well as I had thought he would by now.

Lehigh, FB=FaceBook

John, 3 days to go.

Prayers for Chief's  friend's family and AFRay's wife.

Later, have a good day

[Anonymous]

Mornin' Fellas

Probe - Yes I saw the pic, and if you take that on you are crazy...

Chief - Sorry for your loss

Had to mow the leaves last night in the dark since it is to rain today. Don't like doing that because it is very dangerous (can't see sticks and rocks that blew into the yard due to high winds in Sunday). But got er done wihtout any injuries.

Have to get working on setting up the Christmas decorations tonight. Hope to get that done tonight and tomorrow, then be able to rest Thursday and Friday. Saturday there is a show in Timmonium (Fife?) that I hope to make. May take the munchkin if TheQ is proctoring exams again.

[ChiefEagles]

Morning.  Partly cloudy.  Had a sprinkle earlier.  Getting ready to drive to funeral down in the "sandhills" part of the State.

Chat later.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a cold 34 degrees. Snow flurries. Going up to 46 with some sunshine later.

Today is a busy day. I have chores to do and a phone call to make. Busy morning. Lunch and a nap will be nice.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Tuesday.

Chuck

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 50° with 100% humidity. It's supposed to be mostly cloudy with a high of 58°. There's a small chance of rain in the morning.


I'm feeling much better this morning. Still have some minor balance issues. I suspect this cold I have is responsible for that. We had rain last night so it's already very muggy this morning. Start doing anything outside and it's not long before you're soaked.

I have no idea what this day has in store for me. Plans for my future that I don't know about worry me. My father is supposed to be having a couple of Hospice people come today. We'll see what comes of that. He'll also be placing an ad in the local paper for a live-in nurse to care for my mother on a 24/7 basis. Something has to be done as she can't take care of herself any longer.

I may be able to get some work done on the layout today. I just don't know.

[Hudson#685]

Good Morning!

3 Days to go! Just a quick post. Too much traffic in and out of my office.

AF53, Ray, what is up with Cathy. Must have been the cooking with "Old Spice". It won't make your farts smell better.

Kev: Nice Layout

Brent: She is a cutey

Fife: Congrats on the property.

SubmmBob: Good luck with the landlord

SP Ray: Happy anniversary

Rich: Good Luck with the tree sales.

Chief: 3 more days and I will be RETARDED. Can't wait though.

Have a Great Day

John

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

Weatherguessers have us being dull and cold today as well...we might, though, see  few incidents of that weird yellow orb showing up....

I have a dang meeting to get to this morning then it i off to the mall to get some walking/snooping done...

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Lehigh Valley 2089

jeffrey-wimberly

70% chance of rain. Maybe it'll wash some of the dust off my van.

Did someone write wash me on it yet? Seeing that all the time in Towanda.

Nah. They don't waste their time on it. It's over thirty years old. Dogs won't even chase it.

Lehigh Valley 2089

Then again, we take school off for deer season, so I'm not surprised. 

For some reason that reminded me of the driving age here back in the 70's. Twelve. That made sense in a way. There were still a lot of farming families here back then. I know one thing I did quite a bit of was driving the farm truck. It was actually a '58 Willy's Jeep with overload springs and an extended frame with a six foot bed. Rode like a tank! Guess you could say we had a Jeep Wrangler before Jeep even came out with it!

[AF53]

Chief - sorry to hear about your friend. 

Jim - nice. That's something I've been looking at lately.  How about some pics on the operation on the 322ac?

Brent - nice pics. The little ones always brighten up a day.  

Kev -I've been reading some of your posts on some of the other theads. Careful. Lol.

Ray - congrats on your anniversary! 1959 was a long time ago. That's the year my bride was born.

Speaking of my wife, we have been in the er for the past 4 hours. Seems the sonogram shows gallstones. So ill spend a few more hours here until she gets admitted. Gonna be a long night its almost 2:00 now.

HudsonJohn - t-minus 4 days? Can't wait!

Later. I

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

green97probe

Did you see the photo of my potential next project on FB?

Hmmmm...........

Now what do you mean by FB? Sorry, I'm just not familiar with that. 

green97probe

Been playing with the 751 and 717 dump car.  Gilbert definitely had Lionel beat in the log loader department. The 751 is much more fun than Lionel's 164 or 364.

Don't blame you. However, Lionel was definitely in the right state of mind with the Automatic Milk Cars. 

green97probe

The 322AC is nice, but is DOA.

Lovin' my 2020. Had problems with E-unit, quick cleaning freed it up. 

[Anonymous]

Chief,

            Sorry to hear about your friend.

Fife,

         Congrats.  Any plans for a future layout?

Bob,

          Thanks.  Speaking of that 302, I'll post a video once I get home tomorrow.  It's done minus the coupler.

88,

      Did you see the photo of my potential next project on FB?

Been playing with the 751 and 717 dump car.  Gilbert definitely had Lionel beat in the log loader department. The 751 is much more fun than Lionel's 164 or 364.

The 322AC is nice, but is DOA.  Probably just a bad harness, but I won't know for sure until I open it..

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

jeffrey-wimberly

70% chance of rain. Maybe it'll wash some of the dust off my van.

Did someone write wash me on it yet? Seeing that all the time in Towanda. 

Then again, we take school off for deer season, so I'm not surprised. 

[submmbob]

Hello all

Another quiet evening on the mountain. A brisk 35 deg F out there tonight.

Landlord thanked me for sending the pics of the cleaned house and my new mailing address (hopefully where she will be sending the rest of my deposit soon). Looks like this all may be coming to an end finally.

Ray - Happy 53rd!

Chief - those pictures kinda look like the painting in my bedroom, but please don't set up another stand in there... Fair winds and following seas for your friend

JimT - nice find!

Spent some time last night cleaning and repairing these little battery operated Thomas the Tank engine jobs, which are somewhere between HO and S scale in size. My friend's aforementioned 6yr old likes to play w/ them in the dirt and water, which tends to gum up the gears. I repaired one recently and then got a whole bagful of dead ones. Lots of little gears and parts, but fairly easily repairable. Just takes some patience. Plus I have a few donor engines if necessary.

CAUTION: Thomas fans may find the following images somewhat disturbing!

The current 'dead' line:

The parts yard:

And the ready line:

I think I will be able to get 7 operating ones out of the bag of 10 I got. At $12 - 14 apiece this will save my friend about $100. It's kind of like working on a real railroad too, at least shopwise. Early on I had to keep telling myself not to get too crazy on these things. Just get 'em back out on the line as fast as possible since more will be coming into the shop soon!

I also found a pretty good deal on a Marx 999 last night. Was even a better deal since I forgot about some shipping funds I had on account (Thanks JimT!) I promised my friend's kids that I would set up a train around the tree this year and I figure one of these is tough enough to take the abuse. I'll have it drag around the cars remaining from the late Marx windup. Plus, I've always wanted one of these and can have in on display at the new place.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Looks like I'll have the a/c on tonight. Low of 55 and a 70% chance of rain. Maybe it'll wash some of the dust off my van.

Well, I'm still not feeling all that great. I'm calling it a night a bit early. I just can't keep me head up any longer. See y'all tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

fifedog

Well, missed out on cyber Monday.  Wifey and I did purchase 10 acres in Hampshire County, WV.  Now, I need to start considering selling a 13x13 winter layout with a 55 year old cape cod covering it.

congrats bud! don't be a stranger!!

[anjdevil2]

Fife - Congratulations on getting started on your retirement.  That is awesome news!!!

Chief - for your friend.

Got some news that my company donated $1K to my fire dept.  I'm very excited...the check comes tomorrow!!  NEAT!!

Off to bed, no trees sold tonight  

[ChiefEagles]

Long day at the hunt.  Deerr but still no shooters.

From camera of my deep woods stand.  Two different bucks with big antlers.  Left beam on one is non-typical.

 

Dates and times on camera are not correct.  All within a week.

 

Fifey, great.  Now you can begin getting ready to be retarded.

 

Got a call today.  Retired pilot buddy [93] that flew US Navy and retired, started NC's Forest Service air force, flew Air America in Vietman and Cambodia, came back and retired as NC Forest Service  pilot died yesterday,  I have been invited to the private funeral on the "farm" where he lived.  Will go tomorrow morning.  Heard some wonderful stories about his "adventures".  Great pilot.  Outstanding shooter.  "God bless" was always his closing goodbye.   

 

Popcorn and off to bed.

[KRM]

fifedog

Well, missed out on cyber Monday.  Wifey and I did purchase 10 acres in Hampshire County, WV.  Now, I need to start considering selling a 13x13 winter layout with a 55 year old cape cod covering it.

 WOW Cool Fifedog, Take it from me acres are neat but a lot of work and we only have 8.2. We shopped for it for over 7 years. A lifetime dream come true. You can move anything. It took me longer to move the garage stuff than all of the house.

 It is fun doing the build. We plan to down size when wifey is ready to retire. I know I will not be able to keep up with all that this land requires in another ten years.

 Neat, enjoy your dream. I know where you are coming from. Building a dream is what life should be all about. A great place for the Grand Kids to play and grow. Ours love it out here, as for their folks, well it may be something else. For us, Sandra and I have been blessed and had the chance to build something for our family from scratch twice. Many never get the chance. 

 I think Roy is working on something the same too.

[fifedog]

Well, missed out on cyber Monday.  Wifey and I did purchase 10 acres in Hampshire County, WV.  Now, I need to start considering selling a 13x13 winter layout with a 55 year old cape cod covering it.

[Anonymous]

LV2089,

                Sent you a PM.

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

green97probe

Ray,

        Happy anninversary.

 

Flyer overload today.  Grabbed the GPS and took a trip to Toby Tyler's Hobby Center in Pittsburgh. Two cases stuffed with Flyer.  Saw these two and couldn't pass them up.

The 751 Log Loader has been high on my want list for a long, long time.  The fact that he had a 714 to go with it really did it.

The UPS guy dropped off the 322AC as I was heading out earlier, and I have yet to open it.

NOTE: This post is in no way, shape, or form intended as an advertisement.

Hope to score like that in Lionel items with their extensive line of coal related cars and accessories. 

[sir james I]

Ray and wife, happy 53rd

It's 35 and cloudy all day.

As expected we stayed home today so granny could rest. I still have some banilla but need to stock up soon. I will wait for the thingy crew..S.J.

[KRM]

wrconstruction

aaahhhhhh  I spent the day cutting through red tape, pink tape, yellow tape, blue tape, white tape, orange tape, more red tape, some more red tape, and even more red tape, and even even even even more red tape.  All for a measly 12 month DOD contract

I think the Feds own the factory that makes red tape......

After all this I bet we won't get the contract anyway

Too tired for layout work tonight

Ryan

 Ryan,

 Best of luck with the contract,but............................

 If you think that is bad try to get something done with Sprint. 

Just so you know why I am mad at Sprint. This is what Sprint is doing to people in Rural America. I can not call my home land line from my living room with my Sprint phone and anyone else with a Sprint phone can't call our land line. It is by design and is not just here, it is in all Rural areas, see attached link from the FCC.

http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/problems-long-distance-or-wireless-calling-rural-areas

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Had dinner with my parents today at their place. Fried catfish, onion rings, coleslaw, beans, hush puppies. Yes, very diabetic unfriendly but delicious.

I know my parents have been married a long time but I wasn't exactly sure how long. So I asked. Fifty-six years. I wish them all the best but I strongly suspect there won't be a fifty-seventh anniversary. Even my father doesn't think so anymore. He counts every day they have together as special and he tries to make the best of it.