New November Coffee Pot. 10 years old. For those to visit and chat. Open to all. Besides coffee; soft drinks, water, oatmeal and GRITS.

[ChiefEagles]

Buckeye Riveter

TGIF

Ambushed by the Chief this morning.

Yes, you heard it right.  I fell into one of the Chief's most clever ambushes this morning when I went to the computer.  The Chief for years has been training varmints and dogs to chase me down.  This morning he sent one his bees to find me and he did.  I put my hand on the mouse and WHAM!!  I was stung on my right hand. Pulled my hand away and WHAM!!  It stung me on my left hand.  If you see one of the Chief's bees, just slap it with a CTT Magazine.   

 

Home. Raining.  Got wet right at dark down east.  Later.

[AF53]

Good Evening All!

Not much going on here, just work work work. I will be meeting up with HudsonJohn in Brick NJ for a show this weekend, keeping my fingers crossed. Last time we went they were lacking in American Flyer.

Don - Glad things are going good for you. Keep that road to recovery going.

Laz - Duck Dynasty is a funny show.

Later .....

[SPMan]

Banks, prayers for you son's FIL.

Don, good photo of you on the beast at Pomona.  Last I heard they were piling up panel track making preparations to move  the engine.  They have to move the two behind it first out of the way, then roll 4014 backwards, then forward to the left heading for the main line to the North.  Will keep you posted if I hear any more news about it.

Tracked in cat poop this morning and spent about an hour cleaning up. Uh!!!

Where is Chief?  Oh, that's right, he is in his deer mobile or huntingmerink or whatever.

Not many trick or treaters last night.  Same here as Don says.  They go to parties and city parks nowadays so I will have more candy to eat myself.

Ray

[Buckeye Riveter]

TGIF

Ambushed by the Chief this morning.

Yes, you heard it right.  I fell into one of the Chief's most clever ambushes this morning when I went to the computer.  The Chief for years has been training varmints and dogs to chase me down.  This morning he sent one his bees to find me and he did.  I put my hand on the mouse and WHAM!!  I was stung on my right hand. Pulled my hand away and WHAM!!  It stung me on my left hand.  If you see one of the Chief's bees, just slap it with a CTT Magazine.   

[cnw1995]

Aloha. Halloween was rainy which kept down the visitors - all the more chocolate for me! The youngest and I did end up going out but just up and down our block. Looks like today is another grey day - but it's Friday!

[anjdevil2]

WOOOHOOO!!!

PAGE 1 !!

Rainy night kept most of the kids away, but about 20 or so showed up for goodies so now we have leftovers.

Gloomy right now, back to leaving home and going home in the dark....

Back to work -

 

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill............

It is a windy 62 degrees.  Going up to 70 today with some sunshine.

Today is a busy day. Wife is grocery shopping and I am working on project. I will be busy until lunch. Then a nap

Dining car has  Cheerios for breakfast.

Buckeye & LAZ......TGIF

Y'all have a great Friday.

Chuck

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ,

  Busy as a Giant Beaver on Duck Dynasty!  Great show.  Got all the compost dug under and garden fertilized and limestoned.  Got all the flower beds cleaned out and readied for winter.  Seems like outside work is done.  Got a truckload of wood from the Amish up the road for outside fires after pheasant hunting. 

  Went out for Pheasants last Saturday,  MINNIE gal worked great she flushed 3 birds for us but I was in the tall sweet grass and couldn't get gun up and Bro missed them.  Anyway with no training on bird hunting she did great.  Was bouncing in winter wheat trying to find birds where they flew but didn't get them to fly.  We will try again tomorrow.  She was beat on Sunday and slept most of the day.

 BANKS, Big winds your way too?  Glad you got the beans in, farmers here had em in last week.  Now if they only start with the corn?

  DON, CONGAS on the leg, hope all heals well.

CHUCK & BUCKEYE TGIF!!!

 

Stay frosty my friends,

laz57

[Banks]

Hello all,

TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, 2nd post!!!!!!!!!

Windy, rainy 63 here at 5 AM. A little hectic this week but not as bad as last week.

Somebody asked about the Fallen Rider. My last report was Oct 6^th. DIL visited him. He is conscious and has most memories. He still had a tube in his throat so he can’t communicate well. Has very little movement in his limbs.  I’ll find out more tomorrow night as we’ll be attending the annual awards banquet. Thanks for all your prayers.

On that note I have a renewed call for prayer for son’s FIL. The 1^st round of chemo and radiation didn’t shrink the cancer in his lung as much as they hoped. Round two began on Monday. Son say’s it hit him hard.

With the ‘bean harvest complete, son has moved on to corn. Looks good so far.

Roy…….was that you in CTT this month?...............are you getting the floods I heard about on the news?

Great article on Penny’s modeling. Would be nice to see more.

Brent……you’re a brave man to keep the kids alone while the Q was away.

Rain kept the trick or treaters away last evening.We only had about 20. Mrs & I did or standard Fire out front cooking bacon & Sausage on a stick. I did set up the EZ-Up to keep us dry

Train??????? What’s a train????

Best get busy

Prayers for those in need

[dbaker48]

Good Morning,

Been busy the past couple of days, and then I go to post and realize if I post now it will only be valid for a couple of hours before it is dead as a result of the new thread.  So its been a while since I opened one so what the heck.

First hope everyone had a FUN and SAFE Halloween !!!  We didn't have any Trick Or Treaters, not many kids in the neighborhood, and most kids go to the Parks or Shopping Centers.  We dont even have ANY candy, that is UNAMERICAN !  (If I could drive or get to a store that would be solved.)

Spoke with one of the other guys on the forum that I thought was "ticked" at me.  Fortunately it apparently is not the case.  So that was the highlight of my day.

Also went to the VA today, for an Audio test.  Good news hearing is better than average for men of my age.  They had suggested that I have the test because of my Flight Line work during the service.  The only thing is that I have a dificency of the frequency range of women and children[s voices.  I asked the Dr to repeat that in front of my wife, but Kay said BS!

Been working extensively on organizing computer backup files, including photos.  Wow, what a mess that is.  After 2.5 days, I think I am making significant progress.  As a matter of fact decided on posting two pictures in this post.

The first is a picture of Roy when he stopped by for dinner one night in August.   I had just gotten home from the hospital .  It was great to visit with him.  (Did not know that my wrist/hand was broke at that time.)

The second one is of the 4014, being relocated from LA to Cheyenne this month.  This picture was taken when the Chief was here this summer.  (He is not in the picture, because he was afraid to get that close to such a BIGGG Engine).  The UP are currently getting the engine preparred to it can be towed to Colton, CA.  At Colton the engine will be made worthy to handle the balance of the trip to Cheyenne.  The UP are putting down some temporary track to accommodate  the initial movement.  Currently the engine is at the LA Coutny Fairgrounds and will be moved across parking lots to the Metro Link trackage where it will be able to connect with the UP main lines.  (Site of the Winter National Drag Races)

I think it is fantastic that the 4014 is going to be restored and made available for many, many people to see.  Very few people actually get the opportunity to view the engine where it sat.  (Right John F)  As it gets its freedom, I too am looking forward to gaining some freedom this next week.  (Loosing the cast of my leg.)

Found out yesterday that the duration my LOA has been extended to Jan 1.  Sure hope I"m back before then.  Looking forward to a great month, so hope everyone stays healthy for the holidays and all the preparations.