For what I need, Harbor Freight fills the bill. I have gotten a few things from them which have worked out fine ( drill press, Radial Arm saw, Framing nail gun etc )
Evening all. Not a lot going on here today. Been riding a bicycle daily now for about a week. Averaging about 4 miles a day. ( usually in two different rides) Just taking it easy not trying to run any race. Been enjoying it actually.
Hope all having a good weekend
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Good evening all,
Sprayed weeds behind garage again. Took scrap to recycling place. Got $8.00. Wife helped me spread mulch around landscaped area. Went to mass. Started to watch Indy 11, but they were down 4-1 and I gave up on them. Listening to Indycar race. Munoz out, but Daly can do no worse than 11th as 11 are already out. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Evening all!
Nice day today. 90. Breeze.
Don - your faucet experience is identical to anything I do. I am happy that I have 3 HDs, 2 Lowes, and 2 Ace's within 1-5 miles of my house. I know where everything is in all of them (By necessity). One Ace near me has the best selection of American standard and metric bolts/nuts in SS, blackend, zinc, hex, socket, Allen I have ever seen. An entire aisle, both sides.
Mike C - good deal on your run!
RT - glad the bike riding is going well. I really need to get back into some regular exercising.
Harbor Freight is my friend. If you know tools you can tell which ones will work and those that won't.
Ray - that is some report on what is going on in your world. Great!
Regards, Roy
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 68 along the Potomac HIghlands. S'posed to hit 91. Gotta be at the yard by noon for today's run.
dbaker - That's a nifty idea about the stickers, but I would be inclined to hand them out as the little engineers exitted the train... Pizza prints are bad enough on the windows...
Howdy all - haven't been on much the past few months as leading a large project at my client has been nearly all-consuming. Not much in the way of trains (as there seems not to be in the summer months) but I have picked up a new hobby: learning about tube amplifiers. I'm about 2/3 of the way through building a guitar amp from scratch and it has been a good exercise for the brain. At some point I'll have to merge the two interests for block control or something...
IT consultant by day, 3rd generation Lionel guy (raising a 3YO 4th generation Lionel Lil' Man) by night in the suburbs of the greatest city in the world - Chicago. Home of the ever-changing Illinois Concretus Ry.
And for those in the Chicagoland area, in case you haven't heard: the regularly scheduled Wheaton train show (the "world's largest monthly train show") today had to be cancelled for the first time in my lifetime. More info at http://greatmidwesttrainshow.com/the-june-11-show-has-been-cancelled/
Sun and 90 today.
We had our annual outdoor modular club meet/BBQ yesterday. Da chief would call it grilling but BBQ is shorter. I'm tired as I went early to help setup but it was a good meet with some guest invited that we would not normally get to visit with. No we are not snobs they come for the outdoor event. Many of them are invited to our regular meets.
S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
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JT, I saw that about the train show.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
A really nice warm day today. The missus and I just hung out all day.
Great NASCAR race/finish today. And the last 14 laps stayed under the green.
Going to a friends house tonight to watch the Pens/Preds game 6 - go Preds!
Grandson's birthday parties today. Watched F-1 race and taped US-Norway match. Turned on AC first time for the year. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good Morning from beautiful 73°F Southern Ohio
We got moved to the new house and sleeping there since Friday. The kids have been a great help unloading boxes and putting things away. The dogs are getting used to the new sites and smells. The new house does not have internet access yet so I’ve not had access to post or read emails or forums. The provider inspected the existing system and the existing system won’t handle the newer hardware. We’ll see if that is fact or fiction.
The new place is great. I had to replace the fill valve and flapper on one toilet and found the toilet shut off valve did not work so replaced it too and yes it took 3 trips to the hardware store. Luckily Ace hardware is less than a mile away.
The movers moved all the furniture and appliances and that was the best money I’ve ever spent. They did a great job and were amazing. We moved the rabbits Saturday but still have the chickens to move so that should be interesting. The Coop/run comes apart into two sections so theoretically we should be able to move it ourselves. At 14 Gabriel is as strong as a man and is a great helper. At the rate he is going he is going to be stronger than I was in High School and I set several school records that stood for several years.
Time to get back to work
May God bless
Jim
Morning all!
Warm, humid, partly cloudy and 87 today. Real humid...
Phish - glad the new house move in is going well!
Hot for us. 94 today. All the snow has melted.
Geez I even took a shower.
Just plain hot here.
I had to have the plumber add Freon to the shed AC and it was $130.00 for about 30 minutes of screwing around. No wonder I try to do everything myself first.
Hey Happy Monday....
Having a software failure and the phone have been ringing off the hook...took 2 weeks to do the roll out and they stillscrewed it up - go figure.
Found my electrical issue in the 48 year old Ammeter, would still run the car but not charge the battery - so I took it out of the loop, hooked up a voltmeter and runs like new now. GO figure - 1 month and countless tests - finally done..
Phish, glad things are MOVING right along....
MikeC - last time I ran I did 1.5 miles in EXACTLY 13 minutes. Trust me, I'm out on that happening ever again. And that was for the firefighter fitness evaluation.
OK, gotta go back to work, I'm not retired yet....HA!! retirement? I'll die at my desk at 12 noon off the clock...you watch and see....
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
Howdy All !
Still around just haven't been posting. Trying to get some things done after having been away from home for so long. Dealing with some of the CHF issues so haven't had much energy to do hardly anything. Got a phone call from Frank(aka Chief) and a short time later from Don(aka Shake-N-Bake) checking up on me. Thanks for the concern guys.
Later all
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He's alive. I sent an email to da Chief, and he said he was going to get in contact with Don. Well it looks like it worked
good to hear from you.
Almost no activity at work today. Warm for walk. Spent time with granddaughter tonight. Trying to get stuff together for financial review. Have spent so much time trying to get other stuff done, financial paper work is complete disaster. I hope everyone has a good day.
Mornin' boys. Sunny & 69 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Today I'm officially "breaking ground" on my new layout. My goal is to have at least 3 platforms up by sundown. Once they are in place, I will have a better gauge of how much of the room I have left to use. Have a feeling this won't be my only layout project this year. Big Boss knows I'm a 3-railer (as is he and a couple others on the crew), and apparently has something in the works to be displayed at Canal Place.
Wifey and I took a ride up to my folks' place to visit with nephew. He "helped" me pull in a bass out of the big pond there. He was good as gold on the train, but was acting up for his parents yesterday. My BIL has an engine he wants me to take a look at, but couldn't tell me what it was.
It was great to see the 21 in Victory Lane.
Dougnotta - it was also great to see you posting again.
It hit 94 yesterday and very humid. Did a lake run as water was nice and flat.
Today's weather is a repeat of yesterday. Humid, very humid
DougnottaG - thanks for the update - stay on the mend!
Fife - nephew was hoping you would take him back to the train, and good deal getting a layout back in progress!
Anj - congrats on finding the issue with the RR ammeter - who'd a thought it?
Again, Just plain hot here.
Greetings from the Heartlands where it's HOT & windy. We did have a wet spring and couldn't turn off the faucet, now we can't buy a drop of rain. All the crops look incredible but there is concern if we don't get at least some rain soon.
I do enjoy reading about all the ideas that include upgrading and building new layouts. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to the basement trying to figure out how I could incorporate wider radius curves, I've even laid out track and at times it just seems overwhelming. The line I used to use with our kids is "be happy with what you have" -- I think I need to follow my own advice.
Jon
So many roads, so little time.
Evenin' boys. Well, got them 3 platforms up. Next will be stripping down the North Pole layout and putting new benchwork under it. I'm anxious to get trains running again. Now I need to hit the shower to get all of this sawdust off me.
jonadel - This effort is all about simplicity and beauty. After a dozen years of modelling Winter, I'm going Spring. No grades. No command control. Marx signals. Half Lionel tubular track, half Atlas Industrial rail. 3 independent loops, and perhaps an American Flyer S loop. And lots and lots of 4-4-0's.
Anjdevil2, 1.5 miles in 13 minutes, that is flying! Quiet day at work again. Rain during the day kept temps down. Proud grandfather here has to report about grandson's baseball game. Grandson was on the mound when the batter hit a screamer right at his head. Grandson snagged the ball like he did it all his life. Should be on ESPN Sportscenter tonight! One of those moments that make being a dad and granddad all worthwhile. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good Morning from beautiful 71°F Southern Ohio,
It is to get up into the high 80’s and be humid later today. Still working the move. Started getting my books in bookshelves, two boxes done, nine to go. I started swapping dishwasher from old house with the one in the new house. It is only a few months old and my bride really likes it. And I’m planning out the move of the chickens and the coop for this coming weekend. Once the chickens are moved the need to go to the old home place every day eases up.
The man who bought the Marx New York Central set I put in the school auction wants another NYC set, and it is just what I won on ebay a few weeks ago so he will get it.
The girls had a couple of friends from school for an overnighter last night so I guess we’ve had our first “guest” at our new home. With our stuff now being unboxed and placed it is really feeling like “home”.
Fife – The AF “S” loop is a great idea
Quite a mess in Alexandria. Prayers for the victims.
Mike C - that's nice you got to witness that catch!
Phish - glad the move is coming to a successful conclusion!
Fife - are trains overriding boats?
June 14th. It's FLAG DAY, get em out there.
All is well, I am enjoying summer.
Mornin' All.
Prayers for those wounded/injured in Alexandria. The usual mantra has already started after something like this happens.
On a lighter note, check out this story: http://myconnection.cox.com/article/world/10dd39be-510d-11e7-86ab-1918c9673d06/ . Why does it take so long for others to recognize the potential for model/toy trains.
S.J. for Flag Day :
Later all.
Good afternoon,
Yes Flag day!
We got a goose killer yesterday afternoon and got a much needed inch of rain in about 15 minutes. So today is is very hot and humid. Bet the corn will shoot up a foot today. So now it is raining again. Just makes the humidity worse. Summer storms are a hit and miss here. Just down the road they only got .3" yesterday and we got 1.1" here.
Glad the move is going well Jim!
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