Hello all
Getting ready to head home soon.
RT - I agree w/ you on that it's often the dates have some personal meaning that one remembers. How about April 19, 1989, which was the date of the USS Iowa turret explosion in which 47 sailors died? There is a distinct possiblity I went thru training w/ someone on the ship. When I volunteered on the ship a few years ago getting her ready for display, I learned the turret had been sealed up since then. I had to routinely pass by the barbette while doing work on the foredeck. Each time I remember getting quiet and contemplative.
On my way to work I also ride by the new USS Arizona memorial on the mall in front of the student union. They have a life size outline of the ship on the ground and have constructed an area near the bridge where there are placed medallions w/ the name and rank of each man lost on the ship. In the center is replica of the ships topmast where one of the original bells rested.The actual bell is mounted in the tower of the student union. The mast has a US flag on it and is lit at night. Every time I pass by this in the dark when things are quiet I think of the events of Dec. 7.
Time to pack up.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Town Board last tooooo looong. AGAIN!!!! Be glad when two Commissioners are gone. They will be after next election in the fall.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever test came back positive. DR. thinks the meds I took got it. He hopes. OH Well.
Good night.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Evening All,
RT, You are spot on!! Nothing at all to be ashamed of!
There are many, many days of significance. Unfortunately, if you were to ask, I doubt that very many people would even know what VE Day, or VJ Day is. Or the difference of Memorial Day, and Veterans Day.
I would like to think the comment that was made wasn't of malicous intent.
Ray, I totally forgot about the meet last Sunday. That is a great deal on the signal Bridge.
Bob, The USS Arizona memorial sound really awesome. Hoping we will go to the Gem show in Tucson next Feb.. Would like to see that!
Chief, You need to be careful with the RMSF, your body is going to build an immunity to the medication. Hope it clears up soon.
Plumbing work tomorrow, replacing kitchen fawcett. UGH !!
Don
dbaker48 RT, You are spot on!! Nothing at all to be ashamed of! There are many, many days of significance. Unfortunately, if you were to ask, I doubt that very many people would even know what VE Day, or VJ Day is. Or the difference of Memorial Day, and Veterans Day.
Don your right very few know the difference between Memorial Day, Armed Forces day, and Veterans day.
Armed Forces Day = Day to thank out active military
Veterans day = a day to thank our veterans
Memorial Day = a day to give thanks/honor who have given the ultra sacrifice to give us our freedom.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Morning all!
Another sunny day and very warm - low 90's. Actually enjoying it.
Thanks RT!
Regards, Roy
rtraincollector dbaker48 RT, You are spot on!! Nothing at all to be ashamed of! There are many, many days of significance. Unfortunately, if you were to ask, I doubt that very many people would even know what VE Day, or VJ Day is. Or the difference of Memorial Day, and Veterans Day. Don your right very few know the difference between Memorial Day, Armed Forces day, and Veterans day. Armed Forces Day = Day to thank out active military Veterans day = a day to thank our veterans Memorial Day = a day to give thanks/honor who have given the ultra sacrifice to give us our freedom.
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Sun and 70s today
Todays errands are done so it will be a goof off afternoon.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Good to know everyone is awake.
Good talking to Roy today. Best of luck working through the medical stuff.
Brent your right on what our kids are and are not learing.
Your right, RT, my date is Aug 28th 1990. The day of the Plainfield tornado. Lost 27 people two were friends, one who had been my roommate for 3 years, 500+ hurt 1,100 homes taken. Like a war of a sorts. I did not sign up for it that is for sure.
Got my hairs cut, all of them.
Your right Don, the comment that was made wasn't of malicous intent.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Thanks Kev for the advice and your experience with signing up for Medicare. Fun discussion. Off to a doc appt....lessee - we were talking about Medicare....
Hello there,
watching grandson play baseball again. He is Home team and they are up 3..0 top of the 4th.
Busy at work and home. Son finished planting Saturday. Been having a lot of rainy days but little rain. Making hay is behind.
Phish...good luck with the move.
Gotta go catch he!! from endo doc tomorrow.
Game over. Won 1 to 3. Just finished some Famous Hand Dipped Ritchey's Ice Cream.
Time to go.
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good evening all,
Busy day at work. Won our game 3-2 tonight. Played all 50 minutes. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Morning gang!
Sunny, seasonal, 90 today.
Summer here,
60 heading to 80 today and mid 90s by next week. No rain.
Got a Refrigerator Car No. 6482 WOB off the bay for that Sears set I have. Mine had melt or maybe glue marks on the top. I am trying to get all of the missing boxes for the set. Still need boxes for the DL&W Work Caboose, Pipe Car No. 6511 Variation D, Cattle Car No. 6646 Variation B, and the Automobile Car No. 6424 Variation A: TURQUOISE & YELLOW cars, once I get those boxes and I will have them all.
Just laying low the rest of the day.
Hey, Dudes, quick stop over.
No rain today, may see some sun later.
Jon!! Hey, nice to see you...please don't sell the bike...lol!!
County Fireman's meeting last night, no FD meeting tonight since they wouldn't let me off....even thought I told them 2 months ago....wtf??
Electrical gremlins in the roadrunner, looks like Saturday is the day to work on it. This is starting to crimp up my weekemds.....like, why now??
Definitely planning on Cumberland, Fife, and I'll let you know, for sure, maybe in August. Right around 9/11 run time. (Shanksville to Cumberland is a nice ride..)
Back to the rat race....
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Roy, I tried that number today for CTT but it was out of service.
Ray
SPMan
Good Evening from beautiful 72°F and sunny Southern Ohio,
Tomorrow is moving day with the movers doing the big stuff. I took this week off to get ready for the move and we're all ready. I got the bedrooms painted, the gas line for the dryer and the dryer exhaust vented properly, put up 4 ceiling fans and moved a bunch of boxes. I also planted several perennials we bought cheap at Lowes on the discount rack. My bride has been busy boxing up then unboxing. We've had a few meals prepared at the new house. Yesterday was soup beans and cornbread and tonight was beef and noodles. As I was working on one of the fans I heard a rustle out the window and two deer were weeding for me.
Don – Plumbing jobs are usually three trips to the hardware store.
Good Night and may God bless
Jim
A trip to Toledo's Hollywood casino today. Yeah we lost as usual but not much. Less than a tiger ball game after parking ect. Twas a perfect 75 degrees. A beautiful day.
Busy, productive day at work. Nice weather for walk. Went to see Wonder Woman tonight. Good movie. I hope everyone has a good day.
TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!
Morning all. 78 degrees and cooler for a few. Next week's forecast is 100+ heat index. OMG
Rich, bummer on being off.
Kev, understand the missing of friends and the storm.
Chores and steaks with in-laws tonight.
Back of house has no bricks. Removed and wrapped with Lowes wrap. Windows and all. Utility room is the empty tomorrow and Sunday. Destroy Monday. Footing for new addition Tuesday.
Hope all have a great weekend.
Good morning, Went from cold and wet to hot and dry?
Farmers need some rain. ( so do I ) Oak trees have a leaf drop from the cold and wet. They should be okay but look kind of sick now.
Jim, good luck on the move. Good that you are getting the heavy work done for you.
Chief, any pictures of the construction? Sounds nice.
SJ, bet ther was more action where you were than there would of been at a ball game to.
Nothing much else going on.
Good morning all!
Surprise t-storms here this morning and widespread gentle rain. It's good.
Celebrated daughters bday last night. Had a great time and good weather for sitting & dining out. Family, friends, and her buddies present.
Ray - I just tested the number and it is working. Now that most companies have converted to Internet phone service, we experience more "outages" due to Internet & server problems. Here is the number again. Give it another try!
tel:877-243-4903
SJ - nice outing you had yesterday!
Phish - glad the move is going well!
Chief - keep a wary eye on those contractors!
Banks - TGIF!
Mike C - thanks for the WW movie report!
Anj - good luck on the RR electrical prob...
Evenin' boys. Sunny and 70 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. My little nephew was my special guest on today's train. I let him give the "All Aboard" call up at Frostburg. Nice moment.
NASCAR truck race in Texas today, Roy have you beed there? It is close to where my friend Gene lives. Neat place.
KEV - I have been to the track for several events but never for NASCAR. There are only a couple of ways in and out of the facility and my days of spending 4-6 hrs getting out of a parking lot to then slug it out on packed highways are long gone.
My son and I have taken rides in a NASCAR lower series car for 3 laps around the track. That was worth the price.
Very quiet day at work. Did a 5K tonight for local BB/BS fundraiser. Set my best 5K timed pace ever with 13:58 miles and a 43:18 time. Started about a half late which did not help my mood, but gave me extra incentive to get done. Foyt team hit bottom today as both cars are in the last row!!!!???? Ugh. Double Ugh. I hope everyone has a good day.
Alls well here, got the plumbing work done! Was nothing more than a simple kitchen faucett. It only took me 1 1/2 days for a 20 minute job. (Like the Chief says seems like I always make stuff a major deal.) Bottom line is the the house has all copper plumbing, and the two valves have different fittings. The new faucet had 3/8 compression fittings. The old had 1/2 FIF fitting (pipe threads). The hot valve had 1/2 fif, the cold valve had 3/8. Unfortunately their location requires a 12" connection cable. So ended up with 6 trips to 3 Hdwe stores. (ACE was the winner) Needed connection hose with 3/8 comp x 1/2 comp fittings. No one had them. Lowes suggestion was a 1/4 ice maker hose with 3 adapters on each end! I was extremely concerned about cracking the valve from the wall connection. FINALLY was able to get 2 adapters at valve end and 3/8 by 3/8 compresion hose and it works with no leaks.
Dennis, I would bet if chanel 5 stopped broadcasting all those pursuits there would be less of them.
Anjdevil, Good luck chasing the gremlins, that can be a REAL challenge.
Phish, That is a lot accomplished in a short time on the house!
Chief, I can't imagine the "kids" are enjoying all the activity.
Roy, I've attended races at Phoenix (2), Rockingham (1), Fontana (6), and always taped the races. Then I could watch them later. Home was always the best. For many reasons! I enjoy the "bull rings" the best.
Fife, Sure can appreciate your day with the nephew on the train. I did the same with mine. The kids were always the highlight of my day. I made up some stickers with pictures of the engines, and would give the kids a simple question and reward them with a sticker. It became quite popular.
Hope you all have a great week-end !!!
Don, I don't feel so bad about plumbing bills when I hear those stories of what happens when things go South. I ran some trains today for a change. Got my old Santa Fe 2900 4-8-4 out on the main for a work out. It ran badly until I cleaned the track and pick up rollers on the engine. It is missing 3 out of 4 rubber tires but still runs good. That's the engine I spent a fortune on having it practically rebuilt just to replace a broken gear. Now I have enough in it to have bought a new one. Oh well, live and learn. Did the same thing when I rehabilitated an ACL E-6 diesel set. I'm through trying to save old engines now so when they die, I will just park them. I should have enough engines now to last longer than I will. Picked up a chicken and pasta casserol from Costco yesterday. Enough to feed at least six and I am only one. Ate some tonight and refrigerated balance. Will eat some more tomorrow and freeze the rest. Got some Italian squash and yellow crooked neck squash to cook tomorrow. Have to stay home for a while and cook. I have been living it up eating out too much. Neighbor gave me some things out of his garden. A cucumber and some tomatoes. Cucumber was OK but taste was not as good as I thought it would be for home grown. Tomatoes were OK though. He promised me some avacados when they come in. They are pretty small right now though. Probably be mature in the fall. Grandson finished his second year at U.C. Irvine and is coming back home for the summer. He has to bring some funiture from an apartment he shared with other students. One kid is stuck with a couch that he can't find a home for. My grandson has a summer intern job with Northrop/Gruman where he worked last summer. They asked him to come back again. He needs to get a car for transportation and a drivers license. For now he is taking public light rail trains to work which takes a long time to cross the whole width of L.A. Looking forward to visit from my own kids this weekend.
been a long week.
. Lots planned planned for the weekend. Gotta work up more of the garden. Mrs and SIL are going to put in more plants.
Found a gas station in Altoona selling ethanol free gas and bought some yesterday for our small engines. I'm a little skeptical so I'm going to test it.
Son cut hay yesterday to square bale for us. Last evening I mowed the last section of pasture the cows haven't been in yet. Gonna bale it for daughter's goats.(Chief didja ever hear from Pat?) Between garden and a graduation party this PM I'm going to work up Mrs flower beds so I can get the bulbs in..
Tomorrow is my turn to deposit the collection. After that I'll help son bale hay if it's ready.
Won on the Bay yesterday some vintage metal figures.
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Best get the day started.
Prayers for those in need.
Dennis, Harbor Freight is all over the place. I consider their stuff okay for the guy that will not use it everyday. I just picked up a set of 24 transfer punches for like $10.99. That is cheap but I only need one size and only going to need to center punch 6 holes.
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