Coffee Pot #3 MARCH 2013 NINE 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 Yanks.

[KRM]

Ryan,

 Don't worry about it. Your cash aint nothing but trash. "Steve Miller".      Better you spend it than give it to someone else.

 Packed up my (NEW) blue stripe passenger cars tonight and put them away, nothing but problems and issues with them. What junk Lionel sells, won't even run over lionel switches. Think I will start looking at MTH and Williams stuff, Can't be worse. $350.00 + down the toilet.

[RockIsland52]

Happy Easter, y'all.  Easter eggs are colored and we pigged out on ribs for dinner.  Grandkids are now homeward bound to wait for the Easter Bunny.

Buckeye......there actually are three Princess Pams.  Chief's, mine, and I can't remember who else is married to a Pam. 

Ran the Dr. Pepper Express 4-4-2, the U.S. Navy NW2, and the 2046 Hudson for the little ones for about an hour with a combined consist of postwar and more recent cars.  Unlike LAZ, a few car derailments as the three year old Gabriella keeps trying to stick her fingers in the passing box car doors.   Maximus hung out with us to watch the action and take in some petting and scratching from the little ones.

CECIL B. DEMILLE'S THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IS ON ABC, won best picture in 1956 and I think 7 Academy Awards and is considered one of the greatest movies of all time.  I watch it every single year and have done so for 55 years since first seeing it at the movies.  Digitally remastered, it is more spectacular than ever. What a cast!!!  Edward G. Robinson, John Derek, Yvonne DeCarlo, John Carradine, Vincent Price, Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston. 

Moses is gonna take Pharaoh Ramses II's boys and their horses for another swim!!! 

Jack

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good evening.

Well, the P-38J Lightning is 100% assembled. To be decorated for Dick Bong's Marge P-38J. The 40 kill Pacific theatre Ace.

Next up, the Me Bf 109.

Night everyone.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I landed a good score today on Ebay for five packs of Kadee couplers. Two packs of #147 underset shank Whisker couplers and three packs of #119 SE shelf couplers for one portrait of Andrew Jackson. I was looking for an FP7 that had a low price on it but it looks like somebody beat me to it. Went down to my fathers place today for dinner. Chili dogs. We watched Wheel of Fortune afterward then I headed back home.

Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

[sir james I]

Temp is 51 now. the hi was 55

I guess in a couple months the dog sled will be put away till labor day. We went out for lunch and a few errands but I still got my nap. No banilla for me tonight I gotta get rid of about 3  winter pounds. I will wait up for the thingy...S.J.

[RedfireS197]

Jake,

          Ryan hit the nail on the head. Get out there.  I didn't do much of anything outside of school during high school, and am regretting it eight years after graduation. Spent my free time during my senior year drooling over the brochure for the upcoming 2005 Mustang when I should've been...nevermind. Won't go there here.

Kev,

         That's exactly why I quit buying modern Lionel.  Too many quality issues.  That, and I feel like they sold out people like myself when production was moved out of the USA.

[submmbob]

Hello all

Gordon Lightfoot has a song that goes "I'm on my second cup of coffee and I still can't face the day". I think I'm on my third and just waking up here. The weather is anything but ideal, but we are still collecting photons.

Kids hauled in "fire truck" [actually an insult, a Cub Cadet mower with fiberglass body over it, not a John Deere], MIL's meal of bar-be-qued chicken is eaten and back at home.  Full and tired.  Think I will snooze, watch TV and look through new Micro-mart catalog.

Chief drove an International! We'll make a Farmall guy out of him yet! They put in the two 'extra' cylinders for a reason

Seriously, if I ever have a need for a riding lawnmower, I'd like to find a Cub Cadet.

Ryan - your feline friend is looking better! One of the guys at the house who is into those motorized bicycles is trying to get me to put one on my 'new' one. While they're interesting, there are times where I like to not have to deal with an engine and I can use the exercise. 3 Corvair engines are plenty to deal w/ anyway.

Kev - I have a Williams by Bachmann NW2 switcher. I was inpressed by the construction and it runs well. The only MTH product I have is that snowplow. I've heard of enough problems w/ their engines that so far I've shied away. That said, I'd love to find one of their Railking Y6B's some day.

Well the Mt. Graham Boiler Shop is currently set up to be a shipyard. My project I needed the glue for is an old Sterling kit of the Charles W. Morgan. This is something I was given over 30 years ago and started but never finished. It's a rather small solid hull model, but I decided it might be interesting to put it together finally. I have shipbuilding in my blood anyway. Both my grandfather and great grandfather worked at the  Bath Iron Works and another great grandfather (4X) ran a shipyard in Kittery, ME in the early 1800's.

Interestingly enough, they are doing a lot of work on the actual whaling ship in Mystic, CT right now in preparation of relaunching her on the 171st anniversary of the original launch. Next year they plan to sail her to a few local ports. I've been following the reconstruction work on their website occasionally and it is fascinating to see.

Time to find some breakfast.

[Brutus]

Howdy guys - long day started with nothing much going on.  Ran up to the store to do an exchange on my headphones that was under warranty and was there over an hour while they typed away on their machines.  I knew I had the warranty and it was good, so it was just a matter of time.  Grabbed some dinner and then found out my daughter took the last of my sinus medicine for allergies.  I had to run out and get some more, then got a call from my wife and then some friends wanted to catch up, so never made the thingie tonight.  Tomorrow night I'll be at my folks' house until late as well.  Oh well - hope all have a great Holiday!  Happy Easter!  Loop-D-Loops and banilla will be in order shortly!

[Zero Export]

Good Easter Morning

its a brisk 36 here, but the birdies are just a chirping away.  good sign the heating season is about over. 

going to dads for mid day supper. I dont know know if he knows whats going on on the home front or not.  He talks to the wife daily. so  I'm sure he does.  apparently she is going too.  My father thinks she is just the greatest thing in the world.   So I'll never here the end of what happening. And how I "let the best thing that ever happened to me go"   what ever, he dont have to live with her. 

Truthfully, If it wern't for this probably being one of the last Easter's for my 90 something Grandmother, I probably would just stay home

Dysfuntion Junction, HERE I COME!!!!!!!

Ryan

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good Easter morning everyone.  

Heading up to grandmother's later today, and will try to get the Me Bf 109 parts soaking this evening. 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

Happy Easter to All

It is a rainy 44 degrees. Going up to 50 today with rain all day.

Today is an easy day. I plan on relaxing and enjoying the day.  We are having a nice baked ham for dinner and watching a ballgame on TV this evening.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Easter Sunday.

Chuck

[submmbob]

Hello all

The Morgan as she sits on the stocks:

The actual ship looks a bit like this right now, minus of course, the giant toolbox...

Happy Easter!

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

Happy Easter!!

We had sun and a high of 58F here yesterday...gorgeous day was had by us'uns...

Get to do neighbourhood BBQ this afternoon..provided we do not get rained on....

[KRM]

Good Morning

Happy Easter!!

May you all have a wonderfull day with family and friends.

That was a great e-mail to wake up RT, Thank you.

[sir james I]

Temp is 43, cloudy now, clearing later.

He has risen

S.J.

[MichRR714]

Happy Easter !

Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia!

[Hudson#685]

Happy Easter Everyone!

John

[RockIsland52]

Happy Easter to y'all.  I am presently looking for the loosest-fitting pants I own to accommodate my planned gluttony at the daughter and son-in-law's this afternoon.

Spent some time looking for my 4 missing automobiles from my postwar auto carrier.  The youngest granddaughter is the usual suspect.  All 4 are missing!

Maximus is great to have around.  This morning I let him out to chase off 9 Canadian geese that decided to have breakfast in my back yard.  Maximus 1, geese 0.  Those suckers can strip the lawn to a nub and leave behind an incredible amount of droppings.  

I am sad to report that the wifey has found a new entertainment center that she really likes (console and lighted hutch). Please send $$$ to the Rock Island 52 Relief Fund.

I need to get the interior of the SRX detailed.  Those cashmere-colored rugs, even with the floor mats, look like doo-doo.  Very impractical color when you have dogs and grandchildren.  A black interior would have been my first choice but I couldn't locate a low mileage certified pre-owned vehicle with the exact color choices and options I wanted when I was looking.

Later, gang.  I wish all of you a blessed day.  

Jack    

[SPMan]

Happy Easter to all.  Have a wonderful day.

Ray

[Zero Export]

Good Easter Afternoon!!

I survived Dysfunction Junction today. 

Typical Wet, Damp cool Easter Sunday.   Just gonna Veg out the rest of the day.  Got the wood stove going just enough to keep the dampness out of the air and the chill off.

I saw above Rock Island mentioned an entertainment center.   Who was that a Christmas that got bamboozald by the furniture company on the entertainment center and had Christmas all screwed up? Did they ever get it resolved.   I recall as frustrating for that person it was, the posts about it read like a page out of my book. 

Ryan

[AF53]

Zero Export

if your looking for anything in particular, let me know, and I'll see if he has it.   this has / had almost one of everything. and he's blowing this stuff out

Ryan - I just sent you a PM.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good afternoon. It's 56° here and very wet. There's a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 8pm.


It's going to be a while probably before I'm back online full time. My computer died last night. The processor popped and on it's out it was kind enough to short out the main board. Fixing it will likely cost more than buying another computer. Thing is many of the systems I see in the stores have a bunch of cheap stuff in them and come with stuff on them that I don't need. I've seen some that are nice looking and have a good price but come with cheap memory sticks and slow processors. A good example is this computer I'm using right now. It has a halfway descent main board but it's hog-tied by a slow dual-core Celeron D processor. It runs at only a quarter of the speed that mine did and photo pages take a while to load.

See y'all the next time I'm online.

[KRM]

WOW, hit 63 degrees today.

Sandra & I  hope you all had a great day. We did. We staid home and I core airated all of the grass land on the prop. About 3.5 ac.  I won a replacement for the ALCO 218, bad body but it was sold as a 218 but looks to be a 204. Fine with me. I have a perfect 218 shell for it.

Later.

 

[rtraincollector]

AF53

Ray - I just sent you a PM.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Evening..

We are actually getting some sun right now...good day here all told...

Spent the day outside BBQ'ing up some ribs and other such delectibles for the neighbourhood adults while the kiddies were enjoying their easter delights...

[sir james I]

Temp is 56, sun and 65 today.

We spent the afternoon at the house of # 2 son. A fine Easter meal and good company. Banilla will be ready if anyone still has room for more food..S.J.

[sir james I]

I forgot.   Chief wake up tomorrow starts a new month.

[ChiefEagles]

Happy Easter.  Wonderful day.  Wifey and I went to Early Church and Sunday School in the rain.  Sun came out at 11:30 when we arrived at the Golden C [Fred met us as his Wifey is in Boston doing a REB raid on Jack's area.  Her nephew lives there now as a REB spy on Jack].  Shirt sleeve weather.  Going to get Yankee cold by middle of the week.  Well, not that cold.  Came back and reclinerized for 4 hours.  Then Wifey and I ran an errand and rode Wiley, Finn and Lucy through  two neighborhoods.  

Now to watch Blue-Ray Lincoln and have popcorn.

Notice that Buckeye has not posted today.  He is sobbing as the Easter Bunny did not leave him an Easter basket.  He has been a bad boy.

Thanks SJ for the reminder.  I had just thought of that.  Will start a new one now so everyone can jump on after midnight or now if they want.

Have a great month of April [got to make an appointment with CPA to do taxes ].

Later   

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

IIABSDISEI with temps in the 50s.  Mass was not crowded at 11:30 this AM.  Sat next to cousin and her family.  Oldest daughter was down with her family today.  Ran trains, played Jurassic Park, and had an Easter egg hunt for the grandkids.  It was a good day.  TBIL and I can drive.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[wrmcclellan]

Happy Easter all!

Had a great day. Both kids joined us for church and then for a nice late lunch.

Spent the afternoon relaxing.

Have a great evening all!