Good Mornin' Agin' From Crystal Clear But Low 40s Cape Ann Taxachusetts,
We have Blueberry Hill weather here, and it is glorious.
The wifey and I have too much on the schedule. I was unable to get over to the Beverly airport to see the Collings Foundation WW II vintage aircraft that flew in here for the weekend. While I have attended many times in the past with family, I ran out of time. I keep thinking of the B17 that crashed and burned about 40 miles South of DougM, last year was it? There are only a few of these warhorses left that fly. The new puppy Raven is chewing up way too much time and attention.......worse than having a child. At least with a newborn you can put a diaper on them and they don't chew up everything they can get their teeth on.
RaySP......this neck thing with your wife has been hanging on for quite a while. I pray that it either clears up by itself or the Docs come up with something.
Boston sports fans have a lot to cheer about. Both the Red Sox and the Patriots are on fire. In baseball, Chuck's Indians are still in it and SJ's Tigers will win their Division. Fife's Orioles have collapsed at a most inopportune time, but they did very well this season.
I am off to do some yard work, put away some of the deck furniture for the Winter, and then make space for the air conditioning units in the basement. I don't want to hear the wifey harping me asking why we have to wait until the snow flies before we do this type of stuff.
Jack
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
The Tigers lost yesterday as the tribe was winning. The magic number for a first place lock is down to 2.
But a bright spot yesterday was a win by the Lions. I watched the win but still got my short nap in.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Aloha. Nice quiet weekend. Hopefully nice sunny cool Fall-ish Monday. Jack, mmmmmmm SuperDawg! The Collins Foundations B-17 and P-51 were here a month ago. That B-17 crash a few years ago was unfortunate. But no one was badly hurt. http://www.flightjournal.com/blog/2011/06/14/ww-ii-b-17-crash-lands-in-oswego-illinois/Laz, Bears!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Morning all. Sunny, breezy and cool. Had to take Wiley to the Vet for a booster. Like children. Off to walk early today. Got a "scope" job tomorrow and the prep starts at 5 PM. Don't want any "accidents" on the sidewalk.
Shake and Bake is loosing parts one at time. All on the left side.
Buckeye, prayers and good luck.
Later.
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Don, sounds like Knotts is falling apart without you.
Chief, good luck on the roto rooter job.
Buckeye, prayers for a good outcome on your procedure.
A little warmer here today but intense heat is over I think.
Went to church alone yesterday as wife was complaining of neck pain. It was better in the afternoon.
Train meet at TCA this weekend which is advertised as having an auction this month. Suppose to bring a quality item to sell. It would have to be something I really don't care about because those things never bring much cash unless it is very rare piece.
later,
Ray
SPMan
Doctor was late so I got some extra snooze time in the prep room before the lipotripsy this morning. So far so good.
RockIsland52 BUCKEYE.....I hope this procedure works and that your doctors get this sorted out. Lord knows they have had enough time and opportunities. With your travel schedule, you must get paranoid about the next bout. Good luck. JACK
BUCKEYE.....I hope this procedure works and that your doctors get this sorted out. Lord knows they have had enough time and opportunities. With your travel schedule, you must get paranoid about the next bout. Good luck.
JACK
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
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A nice sunny, high 70's day today. Too bad I was doing my part inside a building to keep the SS fund solvent.
Anjdevil - thanks for the explanation about the fire department equipment naming conventions. Thinking about it a bit, the great grandfather of the modern pumper was a horse drawn steam powered pump - makes perfect sense to me now.
All for now.
Good evening all,
Got my reffing schedule for the youth tournaments. Depending on when the high school girls play their first round game, conceivably I could be involved in a soccer event every day from October 1st thru October 10th except for Friday the 4th. Wow! Soccer paradise. Work went very well today.
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Evening!
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Hope everything WORKS OUT ok for Buckeye and the Chief! (If the Chief offers up a new DVD to watch, you may want to stand clear, it could be more personal than you expect.)
Went to the VA eye Dr today, got skin issues either removed or biopsied. Results and stitches out next Monday.
Realized today I have finally struck bottom on my health/recovery issues. EVERYTHING IS IMPROVEMENT FROM HERE FORWARD. Two factors convinced me of this.....
First, no more NEW Dr appts scheduled! Only follow-ups to previous ones, for progress checks . Second, got home from VA this am, and had urgent call due to excess coffee. Then realized I had a new challenge in maintaining the cleanliness of the impacted area. Specifically, the concern was protecting the floor while standing on one leg, using the wrong hand, and only one eye! Result was SUCCESS! NO SPILLAGE RIGHT ON TARGET!!
(Chief, Good luck with thoose "chalk" shakes, especially while walking your 2 miles!)
Don
No chalk shakes. Some clear grape tasting dishwashing detergent. Off early tomorrow AM.
Seen a photo of the Shake and Bake's "eye" surgery. Should not have deleted from phone and posted it. The black eye tomorrow AM will be even better.
Sleep tight.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill...........
It is a foggy 42 degrees. Going up to 70 today with sunshine.
Today is a busy day. Wife is grocery shopping and I am doing chores. I have a small errand to run. Put everything away and have lunch. Then, a nice nap.
Baseball game tonite. Go Tribe.
Dining car has rolled in with Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Tuesday.
Chuck
Shaved, showered and dressed by 6 AM. Then another round of drinking. Must be Dawn as it cleans real good. Arrival time is 10:30 and procedure time is 12 noon. This is ridiculous times. No solid foods since yesterday at 7 AM. Guess my walks and this will really drop the weight. Wifey and I plan to make up for it. Olive Garden right after. Can't do that when on the diet. Figure this has made it OK for once.
Have a good one.
Good Morning
Great sunshine and a bit chilly out here..43 going up to 68 today
Got some time today to run some trains...tomorrow will be weekly operating sessions...heeheehee.
Have a few new tools for the floor installation which is going on. My favorite thing right now is someone...ern...is now having 'second thoughts' about the floor.... So, I am telling her that this was the floor she wanted..this is the floor she is going to get If'n I get called 'cheap' because I is using this for her floor...I will just say I am 'cost efficient'.....heeheehee
So, also, since it is my birthday, I will get this done...later...
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...
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Aloha. Cool and sunny in the city. DJ's post reminds me I gotta remember to get my flu shot too. Nice TARDIS ride last night with SJ and Brutus. Watched a few vintage Star Trek shows online. Looks like it will be a productive day. With the cool weather, I'll think more of the layout - about how to best go about making a 'Goose'-like rail truck for Ivor (called Juggernaut in the show).Good luck today, Buckeye
Happy birthday BOC!!!!
Hey Chief......does your medical insurance cover the HAZMAT crew that has to come in to the health care facility to clean up after your procedure is over? Or is that considered an out-of-pocket expense that you get to declare on your income tax return?
Don....... "Guess what day it is???? Anybody????" Yup. Hope they don't saw off your hand in the process.
I'll bet Chuck and LAZ are having some behind-the-scenes strategy sessions on how they will approach SJ on the MLB playoffs bets. But I suspect SJ is just to clever for their scheming.
Later gang. Puppy poo patrol calls.
Jack.
dbaker48 Good Evening! ......Went to the VA eye Dr today, got skin issues either removed or biopsied. Results and stitches out next Monday. Realized today I have finally struck bottom on my health/recovery issues. EVERYTHING IS IMPROVEMENT FROM HERE FORWARD. Two factors convinced me of this..... First, no more NEW Dr appts scheduled! Only follow-ups to previous ones, for progress checks . Second, got home from VA this am, and had urgent call due to excess coffee. Then realized I had a new challenge in maintaining the cleanliness of the impacted area. Specifically, the concern was protecting the floor while standing on one leg, using the wrong hand, and only one eye! Result was SUCCESS! NO SPILLAGE RIGHT ON TARGET!!
......Went to the VA eye Dr today, got skin issues either removed or biopsied. Results and stitches out next Monday.
Don.........I never read POT posts to my wife. I figure she does not know the cast of characters or their history and simply would not "get it."
However, your post was different. I explained to her your "unretirement" responsibilities as a train engineer at Knotts, your snafu, and then let her read the above post of yours.
It cracked her up totally, picturing your dilemma.
Don, What day is it indeed! I love that commercial with the camel. Funny story about your bathroom problems. Not funny for you though, I'm sure.
Chief, by now your procedure is probably over and you are in dreamland. Hope you are awake in time for the Olive Garden tonight. When I get that procedure, I usually sleep all afternoon but knowing you, you will probably be out walking dogs, hunting, feeding deer, digging up garden or mowing grass. Enjoy your day after the unpleasant part is over.
I thought we had almost got through the hot weather without a brush fire near us but our luck ran out yesterday afternoon. A fire started in Azusa Canyon which is only about 5 miles West of me. It was almost dark by the time they were making water drops. I don't know lf they did anymore overnight or not but they were at it again after daylight. Water dropping helicopters have been flying over my house between Azusa and Puddingstone Lake to the Southeast of us a few miles to get water. The prevailing wind has been blowing smoke and ash over our way and I can't walk today because of poor air quaility since I have COPD breathing problems. We have some ash on our cars and in the pool but not too bad so far. I think they have a handle on the fire by now. I hope so.
Olive Garden by 1:15. Cleaned out all the pasta and then left. Figured I earned it as not eaten since yesterday at 7:30 AM.
Doing fine. Will probably do 2 miles late today.
OH! All OK with "test". Tough to get old.
Just waiting for something to pass down the chute.
BUCKEYE.......follow the Chief's lead. Prime your system with a few beers. He used pasta, different "chute." :-) JACK.
RockIsland52 BUCKEYE.......follow the Chief's lead. Prime your system with a few beers. He used pasta, different "chute." :-) JACK.
Angel hair spaghetti with meat sauce and sausage. Followed by the same with meat balls. [never ending pasta bowl] "Plugged" it right up.
Just finished two miles.
I played very well tonight. All good touches, no goals allowed. We still lost 1-0. Did not hear how high school boys did. Girls had night off. Work went well.
Chief, I knew that procedure wouldn't slow you down.
Brush fire in Azusa seems to be under control all though I have no confirmation yet. At least the skies are clear of smoke which was my main concern at the moment.
Blown out,
Ran trains a little this morning. Ran a 5 engine consist of ACL power. I had three F units, one GP7 and an SW1 switch engine. The lead F unit has had all the electronics stripped out and all it has is a reverse unit so I ran the switcher in the consist to get a working horn. Works pretty good.
Son who lives with us came home from trip last night from Austin Texas where he saw a car race. Have to figure out what we are going to do about dinner tonight. If it were just me and grandma, I would probably just have soup and sandwich. I'm gaining weight again anyway. Got to do more walking and less eating.
ChiefEagles RockIsland52 BUCKEYE.......follow the Chief's lead. Prime your system with a few beers. He used pasta, different "chute." :-) JACK. Angel hair spaghetti with meat sauce and sausage. Followed by the same with meat balls. [never ending pasta bowl] "Plugged" it right up. Just finished two miles. Sleep tight.
We always thought you where full of it, but now thanks to you we know it
Evening all not a lot going on here. Jack I chickened out and pulled it befor it got a bid left the southern set up there but just couldn't let the 2365WS ( 736 set)
Well just relaxing now. Getting ready to call it a night. hope all had a good day. And we all know what tomorrow is
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Evenin' All !
Still around just not enuff fuel in the tank anymore to keep up with everything. The "Betterhalf" and I have both been fighting the crud for the past week or so, mine seems to finally be backing off but not for her.
Chief, Good to hear that everything came out good. Mine is scheduled for January.
Now, hopefully Buckeye's results will be good as well.
Don, . Enjoyed the chat the other week.
Got the halloween module installed on the club layout, Monday we will be putting up the other halloween decorations.
Jack, on the new pup.
Later all, maybe it won't be so long in between posts.
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CHUCK,
GO TRIBE 5 more to go.
DOUG M,
DA BEARS!!!!!
Stay frosty my friends,
laz57
Good Morning!
0 !! WITH SOME LUCK GET THE ARM CAST OFF TODAY !!
Glad to hear other procedures went well. Buckeye"s still in suspense?
Early appt! ..........................
later
It is a sunny and cold 44 degrees. Going up to 72 today with sunshine.
Today is a busy day. I have a few chores to do and a bunch of paperwork to finish. Then, I can do some reading. Lunch and a nap.
Howdy LAZ.......Good to hear from you.
Baseball today. Great game last nite. GO TRIBE !!!!!!!!!!
Dining car has Cheerios for breakfast.
Y'all have a great Wednesday.
Good Morning...
Nice and chilly out...only 35 out right now...supposed to get to 70 later on though, in the sunshine!
Well, we had the floor talk and she now sees it MY way....heeheehee...
Anyhow, got stuff to do, people to see, things to clobber together...have a good one!!
Don: On the arm cast being taken off today...YAY!!! Now, on the 'one bad eye'...ummm...what you do to get that?
Aloha from another sunny, beauty of a Fall day in Chicago. Hang in there, Buckeye. Good news, Don! Happy Belated Bday, BOC. Hope you enjoyed it. Bears! Just a few more days of White Sox misery.I've gotten a few of the Yat Ming fire engines - they are beautifully done and inexpensive.
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