Good day from beautiful sunny 80°F Southern Ohio,
Next project; a chicken coop. Grandson going to raise chickens for a 4-H project. I’m ok with it because I’ve been toying with having a few laying hens for a bit. Besides it gives me a good excuse to buy a pneumatic stapler. Looking at a Hitachi N3804AB3 18gauge ½ to 1 ½ capacity.
Ray – When I was on assignment out of town for a year and after work came to where I was staying and it was just me, it was weird. Quite a change for the hustle and bustle of home with kids and wife so I have a notion of what you’re saying about being lonely. Try and stay active and have purpose for each day.
Kev – got a pic of the bridge? I love restorations. Maybe I’ll post some restorations over the next few SPFs
Rich – a ’70 RoadRunner?!?!?! That is the car that I went over 110mph the first time with! Like with so many things the first time is most memorable. 383; 440, Hemi?
Don- We're going to be visiting youngest daughter in LA in a few weeks
May God bless
Jim
Phish, here is the bridge and it's new location. I used CastBlast paint on it.
Now for the next restoration,,, The south side of the house re-stain. Want to help??? The neighbor's old lift will make it go good.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Sturgeon-Phish Don- We're going to be visiting youngest daughter in LA in a few weeks May God bless Jim
Jim, If you have the time try to squeeze in a visit to the museum down here in Sandy Eggo. I'll give you the two bit tour.
This Friday we start the new Summer hours, open an hour earlier and on Fridays we will be open til 8pm. Needless to say this old geezer will be hitting the road for home at 4pm. We will be having a 4pm crew change.
Kev , Like the shelves.
Got more running around to do, later all.
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Good evening all,
Early post as we are going to see Civil War tonight. Work went well except when pain two was being unbelievably inconsiderate to all today. Should be relatively quiet the rest of the week. Weather was good today for walk. Soccer league starts tomorrow, but thunderstorms may postpone the match. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Evening all. Was a good day today we went to Aiken again but this time was a run for garden soil and plants ( HD) for the flower bed along side of the house. 17 bags later the 4'w x 8'L x 1'D is filled. Wife has already put the 23 plants we bought today but wants a few more.
Then we went to Wally world and got a few things, I picked up a couple of cans of Paint ( sray paint) I found one a shade of yellow real close to what I needed for my 607 and 608 passenger cars. I'm doing one right now as a test ( thanks to Kevin sand blasting me two 607's ) I'm trying to do one in green with yellow trim. ( apple green ) and the other is blue with either silver ( which my others are ) or white. I have to find a apple green in a spray can somewhere and the shade of blue is being challenging so may have to go with something close. ( think I need to bring one of each car with me the next time I go paint searching. . I've taken some pics as this is going along and pland to show some when done. Fun project just doing it very slowly hoping to get it right the first time. The biggest thing is getting colors I can live with. Will see.
Hope all are doing well and prayers for all in need.
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Evening,
Banks, Sorry about your Mom, prayers for her and your family!
Kev, Those are some great looking shelves! Like the arrangement.
Sturgeon, A trip to LA, heh? Sounds great, what city does your daughter live in? Would be great to get together, when do you think you will be coming? You can email me at dbaker48@live.com
Don
Phish and Doug in Sandy Eggo (or close to it), thanks for the moral support and good advice to stay focused. I'm getting a little better at it day by day. Today was a great day for Helen. I had lunch with her and stayed for a while and my son and his wife had dinner with her. She had seen the hair dresser at the facility and she looked better than she has since she got there. Also another family friend dropped by for lunch too so all in all she had plenty of company today.
I had dinner tonight with a friend from church. Maybe I'll run some trains tomorrow.
Good night all, tomorrow is already here.
Ray
SPMan
Good morning from sunny Ohio where in a few minutes it will start to rain again.
Jim....Go see the museum in San Diego!
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Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
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Hello all
Counting down the last couple of hours before I go find a pillow and then drive home later. Blasting ZZTop to keep me awake. After 80+ hours in 7 days you tend to get a bit tired:)
Kev - I like the bridge. Looks just like the one I have
SPRay - glad to hear you're in good spirts and the wife is doing well
Working on the Charles W. Morgan model project again. Looks like I'll be able to step the masts soon. Started this when I was a teenager and then it sat in the box for a long time (32 years). Been working at it on and off (like most of my projects) for the last couple of years. Who knows how long it will take me to complete the rigging!
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Aloha. Sunny and pleasantly hot. Finally. Thunderstorms may wreck our weekend though. Jim, that's a fine pneumatic stapler! We can't (legally) have chickens in our town. A big row about it a few years back. Kind of silly. Buckeye, sounds like something I would say! M
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Morning all, 71* at present going up to 87* so its getting into summer here. Going to stick around here today was going to go to Aiken today but got a call this morning that the V.A. clinic has a appointment for me to get my eye checked tomorrow at 1 P.M. so that works out better and I get mileage from the V.A. for going .
Will check Home Depot for a green and a blue I will be able to live with. to redo the cars I know this may mean redoing all of them but if that's what it takes that is fine but doing these two first to see what type of job I can do.
Hope all having a good day. Take care all will stop in again later.
Well I dude it. Went in the basement and flipped the power on for the A/C. It was 87 yesterday with 80s all week. Of course they tossed in the chance for T/showers each day. The new modular layout is ready for our June club meet. 3 loops now with a 4th to be added later with 96 inch curves.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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Good day weather wise. Pain two was gone most of the day and pain one left before noon. Closed the month with no drama for once. Got CTT today, but did not read it as I had first soccer match of the season. It will have to get better because we lost by double digits tonight. It was ugly. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good day from beautiful Southern Ohio
Kids officially on summer break now. I called home and they slept in a bit.
Kev – the bridge looks great!
Buckeye – “Unknown potential” Oxymoron, recent past, near future, government intelligence.
Doug – I’m going to order the stapler off Amazon. I’ll report back on how it works
RT – I’ve had good luck with the Krylon paints to find matches. An interesting or useful sticky might be a a key or chart listing the rattle can color numbers for various restoration color matches, the different shade of green and reds that Lionel, Marx and of course, American Flyer used.
Mornin' boys. It's a Southern Ohio kinda day in the Mid-Atlantic region. Finished my work around Fifedom, so I think I'll go hand out on the yatchett for a while.
Stay foamy.
Jim I have found some real close matches and when you consider the trains I'm trying to match are 75 years old +/- a year and how much they may have faded in all that time I think I might be real close to the original. If I have to redo all of then so be it. I'm at this point enjoying it even with some boo boo's as a whole there looking real good. I have some other projects I want to do this year also that's not trains but will be nice when done. ( metal lawn chairs from the 50's/60's )
Was an easy day today went to Aiken for eye appointment because I'm diabetic. but first went to Home Depot to look at paint in spray cans and a couple of other things, then to Golden coral after DR. appointment then to Lowes and finally back to Home Depot for more items ( found my paint with better closeness at Lowes) any way got more Flowers at Home Depot and a few at Lowes. Bought 4" x 4" x 6' pressure treated to make a hand rail to the front porch not one there also got a 1" x" x 8' and a 2" x 4" x 8' all pressure treated to do the job and also some 1" x 4" x 8" for more shelves here in the train room. So I got myself some jobs for the next few days lol. Hope all have a great Memorial Day Weekend and Thank a vet.
Pain two was in rare form today and lived down to her reputation in fine fashion...ugh. Walk got rained out today. Did get yard mowed tonight as not much rain in hometown. Tomorrow starts a very hectic weekend. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good morning,
72 clody, will only get to 76 today with in and out rain.
Dr. apt at 9:45 to get biopsies on these marks then Jordan this afternoon and night.Think I will give him a ride on the lift.
Mike, I sometimes wonder what rating pain 1 and 2 give you?? Man I don't miss working!
Good morning all,
Kevin, you do have a point. I suppose I could ask, but I know I do not want to hear the answer. One of these days, I will walk away from this job. It is a ways away, but hopefully, the time will pass soon.
Bright sun and 78 degrees. I'm lovin it.
I got a PW Erie Alco set from a friend. Cleaned, lubed,and running. Even the horn works, they usually don't.
TGIF
Evening all I will put pics in Sunday Photo Fun of how far I have come from the begining of the restore of the two prewar Passenger cars. Need to get a couple of things to finish them up ( piece of glass and a Brayer ) so I can letter/number them.
Other than that not much going on here today. wife is finally going thru the boxes in her closet. lol. Been a quiet day which I enjoy.
Hope all have a good weekend
A very good day at work. Completed a project that has been a long time in progress. The end result worked very well. Our newly hired director quit after less than a month on the job. Had a nice lunch with a coworker as well. Lucas and his intended were down for a visit today. Niece's wedding is tomorrow and of course the 100th running of the Indy 500 is Sunday. Hope the weather cooperates and the race is safe and AJ's team wins. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good evening all, my oldest son tried out the newly opened expo line yesterday from L.A. to Santa Monica. He also rode from Azusa to downtown L.A. before transferring. It sounded like a horror story. It was standing room only most of the way and a lot of dirt bag characters were riding on the West Side. One guy was smoking a joint on the platform and daring anyone to say anything about it. My son had to walk about a mile from his stop to his workplace because the connecting bus failed to stop and pick him up. The story sounds like the movie "Trains, Planes and Automobiles". It took about 3 hours plus each way. He is back to driving now for a while until they get the bugs out of the system. I don't think I will be taking that trip on it to the ocean either for a while unless I go on Saturday.
Hello there,
Belated TGIF on a 3 day weekend! !!!
Lots o stuff t do. Taking mom to "Decorate" graves soon. Got to be back early to head to dirt drags.
Tomorrow after Mass we'll get to any we miss. Loads of yard work after that. Monday will start with Mass, a Picnic then who knows.
Best get moving. Remember those who gave all........
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Nice day, 77 going to 86 with a good breeze and some clouds. Picked up Grand-son #3 about 24 hours ago he is 33 months old and full tilt or sleeping.. So that don't leave much time for anything else. When he gets up from his nap I will take him home and when I get back I will take a nap. ;) Holiday party tomorrow it his other grand parents house. Saves us the mess.
Power was out for three hours yesterday evening so the gen set got a good workout. It needed new gas anyhow so this helped drain it down some.
Morning all boy was yesterday rough I caught something. Weak, ache, chills . now I'm up as slept most of the day and that must of been what I need but now I'm sweating like a pig the feaver broke I guess. I actually have a fan on me now lol just barely but enought to move the air.
I started the sunday photo fun with my rebuild of a couple prewar passenger cars. Still more to go but thats a start plan to add some more pics later if I can get out to the garage as there calling for rain all day.
Hope all have a good day talk to you all later.
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 64 in the Mid-Atlantic region for now, but it looks like Bonnie is here to wreck the holiday for us east coasties. Cookout over in-laws later. Wifey making her eggs.
rt - Get well.
KRM - A Generac is an attractive "conveyance" on our home searches.
Morning to all. It has been a while since I have posted, probably not since the York meet. I have only about 23 work days left before I retire. I had 8 1/2 vacation days that I needed to use or lose. I'm a dedicated employee, but I am not a fool, so I'm not going to give away vacation days. I am taking off all of next week and a couple of three day weekends. It will be sort of a test to see if my better half can stand having me home full-time. We haven't done much for the first three days off other than go to a community celebration and go to some yard sales. The heat and the humidity have been brutal the last three days. I think the weather is going to cool down a little bit in the next few days, so I might be able to get out into the garage and the train room. Cleaning out the garage and working in the train room are two of my major projects as I retire. My wife's sisters are coming for a retirement celebration in the end of July, so there is a lot of prep work to get ready for their visit.
Today will be a major race day. Hope to watch Indy and the Coca-Cola 600.
Take care,
Mitch
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
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