Hey all.
Got an e-mail from a friend who was a pilot in the Air Force for well over 20 years. Attached was a link that brought back a lot of memories of days, nights and weekends working on aircraft on the flightline and/or hangars making sure they were ready for the next days sorties.
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/avibaozona5
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Proud New Member Of The NRA
Afternoon all!
83 at noon and huuuuumiiiiiid. ugh. Bring da dry heat!
Success at the tax appraiser. Got the market value lowered 35K where many are seeing 35-50K increases. The foundation and "no updates" since 1977 convinced them to actually lower It. I turn 65 in Oct so several of the 5 taxing entities will freeze my tax rate at the now reduced 2017 level. Now I know the process I will go back to keep the market value down unless we decide to fix this place.
Fife - loved the "beard"!
Dougnotta - good luck for the next step on the surgery
Regards, Roy
fifedog Mornin' boys. Pheewwww...made it through the weekend. It was a labor of love, that's all that can be said for our Christmas in July event. Had a short blurb on the local news as well. Came home, ate some meatloaf, and pretty much collapsed onto the big comfy couch. Roy - Here's 1 for you 19 for me....
Mornin' boys. Pheewwww...made it through the weekend. It was a labor of love, that's all that can be said for our Christmas in July event. Had a short blurb on the local news as well. Came home, ate some meatloaf, and pretty much collapsed onto the big comfy couch.
Roy - Here's 1 for you 19 for me....
FIfe ....what happened to the link. Saw it earlier but didn't take the time to watch
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good evening all,
Quiet day at work. Not feeling well all day. Did some errands tonight and picked up granddaughter after practice. I hoped everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Framers got here today. Two windows above will be gone for roof peak. One moved to close to the bathroom window. Walls tomorrow.
Goodnight.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Found Fife in SPF
Mornin' boys. Hazy & 70 along the Patterson Creek cut-off; calling for later. Wifey and I took a pretty drive through Deep Creek Lake and Garrett County yesterday. Stopped off at Christmas Challet, and picked up a Dept56 curved creek beds, which mate up nicely with my canal set. Wifey picked up some black bear decorations for the basement "bear den". Oakland has the best Lowe's, and we picked up 2 more shelves for the bar area. Yeungs and wings at Patrick's in Cumberland.
Good day, for sure.
Roy - the beard often feels like I walked through a spider web, yuck.
Banks - the kids were all great, and in a relaxed atmosphere, they really opened up with Santa.
Good Morning from a humid 85°F Southern Ohio,
Last night we signed a contract with a Contractor to frame up another garage on the property we just moved into. The place has a 24 x 24 garage but my truck (a crew cab dually) just barely fits in it and I’ve still have not moved my tools from the former home to here yet. We’re going to build a 24 x 28 next to the existing garage. They anticipate starting in mid-August.
My Bride is directing the girls and their 4-H projects and the competition is this Thursday. There is nothing quite like taking it right to the wire. The oldest girl’s quilt just needs the binding attached and the youngest is finishing up her project book and all will be done.
The Broiler chicks are growing like crazy and since the rabbit litters did not work out the animal part of the fair will be scaled back this year which is good. We’ll see what next year brings. We do want to get a breeding buck New Zealand rabbit after the fair just for meat production.
Roy – Congrats on the meeting with the appraisers.
Chief – It is exciting to be building.
Mike – Hope you’re feeling better
Break is over, may God bless
Jim
Morning all!
Will hit 97 today. After the warm winter our summer so far has been normal or below normal temps. Temps will hit 100 Sat/Sun and humid. Ugh. 17 is the avg for 100+ degree days. Just 2 so far.
Phish - nice about the new garage. Wish I had room to build a shop.
Chief - so that is going to be Pam's she-cave, closet? Doubles the size of the house!
Mike C - feel better soon!
Fife - sounds like a nice drive!
Had a nice call with Don B last night until the wife told me time to grill the salmon! Came out perfect!
Dennis, It is abandoned now but it was the same when they still lived there two years ago. White trash.
I told the wife the first time we saw the place back in 2004 that we would not have to worry about keeping up with the neighbors.
The heat is back on for us the rest of the week with 90s and plenty of humidity.
Don't have 300 miles on the new Colorado yet but I do like it so far.
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Humid and I missed the lawn cutting guys. Gonna wait till just before sundown then cut it. 90 tomorrow so it will be today. We are city folk so property must be maintained or if a letter from the city doesn't do it, they will have the violation done and add it to your tax bill.
S.J.
To clarify...example. your lawn is full of weeds, some things need painting, a gutter is loose,ect.
You get a letter with 30 days to fix or if you need more time they will work with you providing progress will be made. I hope that helps clear up my statment.
"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
Did just enough to get through day. Did nothing but sleep when I got home. Did not walk today. Hot hot hot! Thank you all for the "get better" wishes. I hope everyone has a good day.
Morning all. Have DR. appointment today at 1. Took truck to dealership so they could instal the new media center. Mine was the buttons were sticking. They were just going to take it out and have the old one cleaned but it was so expensive by time they paid to have that done and shipping both ways, that they just replaced it. I got a bunch of Super O track in that needs some serious cleaning. Got 9 switches in, none worked. So there fine if you want them as manual switches ( well except two which want to go one direction once you add power to the track. ) not sure how hard it would be to repair them. I believe unless you had some special tools it would not be worth it, and even if you did not sure it would be worth it once you bought the parts.
Other than that not much going on.
Talk to you all later
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
Howwwdeee !
If I might channel the spirit of Minnie Pearl.
Had planned on being at the museum this Friday but it don't look like that's gonna happen. Sure be glad when we can get some of this "stuff" squared away.
Getting so bored here that I even started to clean up the train room.
Spent some time looking thru the J. Seacrest offerings on the Stout Auction website. So far the bids seem to be awful low but everything is 2 rail so even if you won with a low ball bid it could cost a bundle to convert to 3 rail.
Gonna be a somewhat crazy few days around Sandy Eggo. The racing season opens at Del Mar today and Comi-Con previews tonight and officially opens tomorrow. Lots of strange folks walking around town.
Gotta run, later all.
Evening all!
97 today. 96 is normal. Next 5 days or so bring 97-99. Sunny
Spent last week and this week of my part time work finishing up two projects. These will be my final projects and then they will cut me loose. These are US Govmt filings so there will be a review period and possibly some minor follow up that will require a few additional hours. Kinda sad - 22 years at this place but time to move on! And all my time will be my own - right youz retired guys! - hmmm - can't hear you jumping in on that??
Dennis - it's tough - I have lost 3 good friends this past year.
Spent the day at home and rested. Went over for playoff game tonight. Only had 11 show up. We lost 3-0. Left leg popped again so I was pretty ineffective. Unless the "sidekick" plays again next summer, I am done. Weather is hot. I hope everyone has a good day.
Roy - Some horses aren't made for pasture... Retirement was overrated in my case. Find something to do that makes you happy.
Good Morning from sunny 77°F & 83.5% humidity Southern Ohio,
I was really busy at work yesterday. By the end of the day I was covering for 3 supervisors. We did get a lot done and one of the tasks was a job we did for the first time and had been planning for about 4 months and it went off without any issues.
The girls had their 4-H judging yesterday. They feel pretty good about how they presented their project and interviews. They will get their results this evening.
Try and stay cool and hydrated today!
May God bless
Roy as said in my other post at the other forum, I'm enjoying retirement, But Fife is correct, Find something to do that you enjoy. Don't become a couch/chair potato. I started to then got myself moving and feel better now than I have in years. ( Physically ) Mentally still messed uped
Morning all. Not a lot going on. Already did my Meds, breakfast, and bike ride.
No real train news today. Need to get into my garage as thats where my dremal is, but the door is a pain in the tail to get open most times, once in a while it's fine. But that is rare. need to either get doorway cut into it from the storage room side ( which I want to do ) or replace the door. Not sure thou if I want to replace the door or close it in. leaning towards closing it in, but need to get the walk way between the storage room and the garage side cut open first.
Hope all have a good day, Prayers for all in need.
99 today and humid so it will feel like 183...
RT & Fife - thanks. I have been giving this a lot of thought. No real plan yet.
Phish - always satisfying to have a plan work out to the best! Congrats!
Working on a refurb of a South Bend 9a metal lathe I picked up last year.
Back to work. Quiet today. Mowed yard tonight. Less than 2 hours, which is good. Granddaughter has ballet performance after work tomorrow. Grandson has baseball game Saturday. Going to be hot. Got CTT today. Good issue. Roy, a metal lathe....Wow! First factory I worked at had people who could turn flange engine bearings on a lathe. People did craftsmen-like work. Probably a lost art now. I hope everyone has a good day.
TGIF!!!!!
Mornin' boys. Might be your Friday, but it's my Wednesday...
Had to turn off the news. OJ; who cares?
Lots of foreign power in Cumberland yesterday. Big line of UP leading a CSX freight through the Narrows, and a Canadian Pacific engine on the head end of a CSX coal drag coming off the West End. With CEO Harrison, might be the look of things to come.
Sun and 90 today.
Our 2 year old Delta kitchen faucet sprung a tiny leak in of all places, the spout. It has a lifetime warranty, the package arrived yesterday with a complete in box new faucet. Not much for quality but their customer service was great......This time.
84 already. Sun blazing. Revised forecast, 100 today.
TGIF! Fife, happy Wednesday!
SJ - I have had the same luck with Price-Pfister. PF also had great phone support when I could not locate a stem that had changed from a 10 yr old bath faucet (same faucet still manf'd today, but the stem was different). They looked in the files and found me the old style PN and I got it off Amazon.
Mike C - quiet days at work are good days!
Hot outside. Granddaughter's ballet performance was wonderful. Her eyes light up and she has a smile as big as all outdoors. Tired. Long day, but quiet day. Tired of being sick. I hope everyone has a good day.
Mornin' boys. Mostly cloudy and 71 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. I was a bachelor man for past 2 days, as Wifey was attending a funeral for her uncle back in MD. Middle Princess had her soon-to-be fiance in tow as well, and even though he met the family, he still wants to marry her. Me and FifeMax held down the fort, and didn't make any messes (ok, I did leave one of the cushions on the outdoor set in the rain...). Really starting to miss the youngest princess.
Progress continues daily on C&O 1309. Hope to have that 2-6-6-2 on the mainline in September. In the meantime, our two GP-30s continue to do yeoman service. WM 734 is off-line for its mandatory FRA breakdown and rebuild, and is waiting for the big steamer to roll out before she can be rolled into the big shop. Our shop force does awesome work.
Hello there, been another busy week.
Think i might have missed a birthday. Belated congratulations.
Don....sounds like something I might do
Rich.......good luck with your new freedom.
SubBob......bummer on the rail.
Fife.........Mrs and I are gonna be in Cumberland on the (I think) 22nd. Maybe we can get some pitza together.
Phish.....how old are the meat chickens when you kill them? Last we did some several years ago were huge by 9 weeks
Roy......I did get a 3 jaw chuck but not Stars. Found a vintage Craftsman on the Bay really reasonable. Also got the hand crank gear. Got stymied trying to get the carriage off to install it weeks ago and haven't gotten back to it. I'll be looking for advice when I do
Trying to get some stuff done before being disabled by Mondays rotator cuff surgery. With help from grandson and SisIL got some trees trimmed flowers weeded and garage rearranged to get everything in. Garden is looking better than it has in years. Deer found it the other nite despite deer repellent son put out. Topped about a 3rd of the maters. Gonna ask Mrs hairdresser friend to save hair for us. Heard that's a good repellent.
Young drag racer I mentor managed to break his ankle woods riding last weekend. A plate and 7 screws later he's on the mend. Going to his HS graduation party tomorrow PM. His racing season is over.
Grandson's season continues today if the predicted storms don't show up. Today should be race 5 but due to weather it's no.3 Even a built-in rain date was washed out.
Son made some really nice 2nd cutting hay this week, I raked it for him Wednesday evening. Most of it is spoken for. Guy is supposed to get it today.
Best get the day started.
Prayers for those in need
Banks - D'atris Would like to get up to that theme park, s/e of Altoona, before summer's end.
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