Slaw dogs rule! I like all beef with sourkraut too.
Chief, thanks for the prayers. We can use them.
Ray
SPMan
Chief, Ticks are horrible here this year. I've had a couple on me already from just mowing near some tall grass. If I walk in the woods they are all over me. Skeeters are pretty awful too.
Been busy here with the kids, and yard work. Did finally get my pontoon put in the water up north. Water level was finally down so the darned thing would not float unto the dock when I'm away.
Charlie a.k.a. MichiganRailRoad714 (Charter Member TTC)
chief I'll take some of those dog's but hold the slaw please never cared for slaw period.
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Morning. Hot and humid again. Was starting outside to mow [mine and two neighbors'] and till garden [grass growing both places] and TV 11 calls for an interview at 10:45. Messes up the morning. Delays much needed chores.
Glad Shake and Bake household doing better. Good to hear from Roy. Prayers for Ray and wife. Rest of the crew is still kicking, I see.
Well, $.99 hotdog day at the grill [red hotdogs, not those all beef things]. All the way [mustard, chili and onions] with slaw. Ummm
Have a good one.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
wow Don that is to remarkable you see every thing comes back around. Great pics.
Morning all. Just getting up time to eat and get going, looks like more rain today but thats fine with me.
Talk to you all later
Good Evening All,
Some interesting stuff going on! Dennis good luck with the ladies! That is really cool.
Ray, Sure hope things work out for you. Those vacations sounds really great. My dream vacation is a river cruise in Europe going down the Danube.
Surprised Fife has anytime for posting, with his yachet and all. Lots of envy here.
Glad the Chief found the issue with his back. That could have been disastrous. Hope the lunch worked out well.
Spent most of the day in the train room, Made some progress. Noticed the Big Boy had a thrown tire, found out another one was missing. Got them both reinstalled and tested, withOUT taking the whole thing apart. Was really neat watching it run around the layout at 2mph. And it ran perfect!
Since, I did well with that, the Cab Forward has a burned out bulb in one of the marker lights. Been that way for a couple of years. Been trying to get a replacement, anyway found some 14v bulb, and went ahead and installed it. So far its working, will hopefully get some replacements as soon as Lionel is back in the spare parts business.
Then Kay received this picture from a relative in Wisconsin, it was taken in 1955, when they were here on vacation.
What is so neat is, that the man in the white short sleeve shirt standing next to the boiler is her Grandfather. The guy walking toward him is Kay's Father, and HE is carrying Kay when she was 2 years old. The engine in the picture is #41, which is the engine I drive, and fell off of.
Needless to say I was shocked!
Don
Evenin' All.
Finally getting around to the Pot. To many doctors to see of late, guess that comes with age. Did have a good run at the museum on Friday at least. Walked thru the Farmers Market here in town, block off part of main street every Tuesday, and picked up some really good beefsteak tomatoes. They definitely weren't hot house grown.
Joe, Seems like just yesterday you guys were on your way "to" the Land of the Rising Sun.
RT, Curtains, now your neighbors won't have anything to see when you run your trains.
Get well soon Chief !
Later all.
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Evening all.
Quick check of Pot activities. Pretty quiet. Typical for summer.
Got some rain yesterday. Enough to water the grass a bit.
Daughter is moving to new apartment. Arranged it all herself. Real proud of her for that. Son helping her. I did not have to do anything except offer a little advice.
Take care everyone. Chief - watch your back!
Regards, Roy
Hmm a lot happening I see first and most we have VegaV8 chasing 3 women from his church, Chief got his wound repaired , Joe & family will be heading back to the states in 18 more days Fife dog is having fun it looks like,I finally got my room painted and the new drapes will be in tomorrow so I can get some privacy again lol. Hope all are doing well not much happening here tonight just relaxing. Tomorrow heading to Flea market to get the non train related items and take to the auction house up the road. Probably will bring some of my other train sets home also like the campbells train set by K-Line, The Girls set by Williams( didn't really want to sell that one anyway) The remake of the NYC train set ( on fence about selling it anyway) If the G scale set doesn't sell may just put another shelf up this one will be above the mantle in the train room as I have one G scale train set there on the mantle so I could do another just above it and put this train set there. Both are Bachmann and PRR one has green engine with the tuscan red cars and the other has the black engine with Green cars so may switch engines around seeing that way I could have the green engine and cars together and then the black engine with the tuscan red cars. Makes more sense to me lol. sell the curve track on ebay and trash the box as it is in good condition at best.
The shelving I have there I will put in this room and Donna's plant room in my room will put trains I have for sale on them in donna's room just organise that room some as she has boxes and plastic containers just sitting on the floor. It will help. Theres 2 in there already so will add 2 more and because I don't have the room I will put 2 in here as I have the desk and small filing cabinet in here with mini fridge on top so not a lot of room and want to get my rocking chair back in here
Hope all have a good night and great day tomorrow
Good evening all,
Joe, even a loss to Germany does not eliminate the US. The best scenario in that situation would be for Portugal and Ghana to tie. There are other ways for the US to advance with a loss, but that is the best way. Work went well today. Lots of needed rain. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
PS 15 pages in 24 days is a long way from when 4 to 5 pages would be done in a day.
Chief, glad to hear that you had something done for your wound. Prayers for quick healing.
Been laying low for the past few here. Too hot to do anything outside. Parks are too hot and ocean is too far for a round trip during the day without hitting rush hour traffic or driving back at night which I don't like. Took a dip in the pool yesterday but didn't stay in long.
#2 son is going away on another trip to Oregon this weekend to visit a friend so I won't get much help out of him this week. Older son has been coming over to visit his mother for the last two weekends which is a help to me. We went to foot doctor today for regular visit and was uneventful. We go to prevent ingrown toe nails.
Might go out to eat tonight with church friend at a cheap place. He has some coupons. We are tired of high prices at restaurants because we eat out a lot and tired of paying the big bucks for no value. Friend is going away with his family this week on a trip to Colorado for vacation. He has been traveling a lot since his wife died. He has been to Paris, Hawaii and now the Rockies. Must be nice. I think his kids were picking up the tab on his trips.
Still no progress on getting my expenses organized and listed for the financial planner but I have to do it. My heart just isn't in it. Sometimes I just feel overwhelmed. Hope tomorrow is more productive.
later,
Evenin' boys. Sunny & 84 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Was at the range all day qualifying with our newly issued FNS-40. Good weapon, although a bit hard on the hands. Buying my old SIG-2340.
Some of the goodies I picked up at the train show were an uncatalogued Lionel 7312 stock car, a Marx 74 semaphore, a 4-pack of TM videos, and "dress-up" pieces for my 1862 General. The Marx "blade" is in great condition, and is more scale-sized than Lionel's 151.
Morning all. Back from Dr. and had wound reopened. She massed the heck out of it. Said she thought it was from the big bruise internally. I had healed too fast inside where internal stiches were. Needed to reopen and heal. Original incision was 4 inches long. Unhealed is only one inch. Results, back bandaged up tight again.
Yesterday was not too bad heat and humidity wise. Had a good breeze yesterday afternoon. Wind does blow across those wide open flat fields. That helps. Bear had hit only one feeder. Replaced it with 55 gallon drum converted with reinforced driven in the ground legs. Top has band with bolt. We'll see. Sprayed all the shooting lanes with Ranger. Not a lot of spraying to do as Ranger kills it all. Been sprayed for two years in a row. Stuff really works. Friend Fred had purchased a Polaris 500 4 wheeler. Made hauling corn and backpack sprayer deep into the woods a lot easier. Results last night. Only 6 ticks. Deep Woods Off and a special clothing spray helped.
Mayor stuff rest of the day and night.
Have a great week ahead.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
Good Morning, Joe.........It won't be long now, for your move.
It is a sunny 72 degrees. Going up to a sunny 86 today.
Today is an easy day. I have a few chores to do and a small project to work on. A delicious sliced turkey sandwich for lunch and a nice nap.
Cheerios for breakfast on the dining car.
Y'all have a great Tuesday.
Chuck
Konbanwa and Ohayo Chuck,
19 more days and we'll be on a plane to Hawaii. The past two days were somewhat busy and I ran out of time to post. The weather is warm and it still rains almost every other day, but the rainy season should be over soon. I have only 11 days of work remaining and still quite a bit to finish up before I leave.
RT - Congratulations on winning the gift card.
Mike C. - I'm glad playing the soccer game made you feel better. After the US loses to Germany you will not have to worry about the World Cup for four more years and can then focus on American sports.
Sayonara,
Joe
It is amazing the difference 2 hours can make. My mood has been less than cheerful the past few days as anyone here can testify. Tonight life is all better. I got to practice and scrimmage with "my" soccer girls....in the rain. If you have ever played a sport on a warm summer day in the rain, you know what I am talking about. You do not sweat, the ball slows down, and you just have....FUN!!! Yes, I am still upset the US blew a round advancing win, yes, work still created a vacuum today, but for 2 hours I did not care. It was wonderful! I hope everyone has a good day.
Morning all, hows it going. Nothing planned for today, Getting ready for breakfast. The other day I won a $100.00 gift card for amazon so I got a renewal for CTT and since I just repainted my room/office got some curtains ( it needed them all I had was a mini blind in there. ) Now waiting for the curtains to come in so I van put it up and everything looks right. I also need to got o the flea market space I have and get some shelves I took there since I'm closing down after this weekend and put two of them up in the room. Will go Wednesday so I can bring back some other junk ( not train related) and take it to the auction house. for next Tuesday nights auction. bring some of my train sets home. and maybe my extra wood I have in there.
Will talk later, Don hop you and your wife are doing well now and ray hope your wife is doing well also prayers for all who need them and for the rest of you all that you won't need them.
Another weekend down the drain. Mowing Saturday morning really took a toll on me, and the grandkids were too tired out from all their week activities to be in a mood to spend time with the grandparents. Of course everyone knows what happened today so it will be 3 games and done for US. I hope everyone has a good day.
Afternoon all. Sunday School this AM [who is that stranger?] after a long time away. This afternoon, lunch with Frankie [SRT son] at Carolina Bar-be-que and Chicken. Good eastern NC pork bar-be-que, slaw [yellow with mustard], brunswick stew, boiled potatoes and sweet ice tea. Topped off with corn sticks [fried long thin cornbread]. UMMM Good !!!!
Now to run some errands.
Off early tomorrow morning east to the farms to service deer feeders and spray shooting lanes. Going to sweat a lot so taking lots of bottles of water. Towing 4 wheeler to help haul corn and etc. deep into the woods.
Have a great week.
Good Morning from Blueberryhill.........
Good Morning, Joe........
It is a sunny 72 degrees. Going up to 80 today with sunshine.
I will spend a few hours in the train room today. Need to do some dusting and run trains. Relaxing day. Ballgame this afternoon.
Y'all have a great Sunday.
Back home from Golden Corral working since 8 AM on Camp Corral donations outside in the heat and humidity. Lost weight I'm sure. Made the goal so 50 kids go to camp free.
Now out the door to SIL's for cookout.
Later
Mornin' boys. Overcast here in the Mid-Atlantic region. I will be heading up to the Great Scale Model Train Show @ Timonium, in a little bit, because I needs me some trains! Graduation party tonight for the neighbor gal.
sirjames - Happy birthday, belatedly speaking.
Roy - Hope you get some relief soon.
88 - Is the Q all better? That sounded like a terrible ordeal.
Banks - Sorry, I missed the wave. Have a nice time.
It's been somewhat of a busy day. I spent most of it rebooting our two laptops; it was time to refresh them so they would run faster. The only other errand we did today was take care of the grocery shopping. We got rid of our backyard fence today. We didn't charge for it, except the people that wanted it had to take it down themselves. It only took them about three hours.
Chuck - I'm glad you liked the photos.
Roy -- Mother Nature is a fickle gal, we just went through two years of drought and this week our kids in NE Iowa have had 8" of rain and that's after an average spring of moderate rain. Here is central IA we've had about 4" of rain this week, the crops look amazing. Sadly, in NW IA thousands of acres of cropland are now flooded.
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Evening all!
Busy end of the week.
Been pretty warm here but not as hot as it could be.
Drought here is taking a toll on the house. Ground subsidence is so bad the foundation piers installed years ago are holding the outside edges of the foundation up but the entire center of the house is sinking now. They say it would take 10+ years of normal rainfall to replenish ground moisture. Lakes 60- 70% depleted. It is very bad here. No end I'm sight. My back yard is 4 inches lower than normal.
Have a great weekend all!
Don - glad to hear the good news!
Busy day with Wifey shopping. Big pour down late this afternoon. Might get more from VA headed our way. Garden growing.
Today is better. Thank you for the support. It has been a long week, but the weekend is here. Went to see "How to train your dragon". Good movie. Lots of rain here today. Will have to mow Saturday. Grandkids coming down, but no trains for them to run yet. Maybe one of these days I will have a place for my trains, but not sure when. Is it Sunday yet? I hope everyone has a good day.
Dennis I once won a complete marx train set with free shipping for $0.99 I could not accept it the guy was selling for another in CA. I told him to keep it and relist in in oct or november ( it was like august) I just threw the starting bid on it to make the guy feel like he was getting a bid as he was kinda a new guy. He said he would honor it if I wanted it and I said I just could accept something you ended up paying me to take thats why I list at the lowest price I will accept.
To me any car is worth $10 if its in good shape. The trucks are worth that in most cases.
Morning all. Not as hot and still humid. Did get a short shower yesterday afternoon. Need more rain. Maybe today.
Golden Corral is have a "poker run" tomorrow for the final $$ for this year's Camp Corral. Helping with the admin part tomorrow AM until 4. So far, enough $$$ to send 50 kids to camp.
Wifey home today. Run errands together.
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