COFFEE POT AUGUST 2018. Is now 14 years old. We lift our coffee cups up to Bob Keller who stuck with us through thick and thin.

[sir james I]

Sun and 92 for today.

I'm hoping this will be a better week for me than the last one was.

S.J.

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

Nice day at older daughter's place.  Their AC is on the fritz so it was warm, but still a nice gathering.  Got MR and Trains today and they look interesting.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[robmcc]

 

Evening All!

It's been a few days.

I too had some water issues last week. I had some soggy carpet in the basement after a nasty storm. It's mostly my fault I didn't get the gutters cleaned out and it looked like Niagara Falls on the side of the house! Needless to say, I ended up having to rip out a section of carpet. Ugh..

I bought a scanner a week or so ago and it's been great to have for my "Trackside Adventures". Sorry, Drew! It's kind of funny with the similarities between railfanning and fishing. The best catches are usually early in the morning or later in the evening, it takes some patience and you never know what you're going to get.

Have a good one and prayers.

Rob

[ChiefEagles]

Morning.  Slept late.  Wifey cooked breakfast.

Being lazy.

Where is Fifey?

On the OGR thingy.  When we started this thing, we tried there and got deleted and told no.  Fine.  So I drop by now and then to check Buy and Sale.  Crazy rules there.

Banks, sorry about the flooding.  Lots at my farms too per radar.  We soak in fast there.  No tobacco this year but bet the tobacco on other farms may have some drowning.  It can't taked standing water.

Have a good one. 

[wrmcclellan]

Morning all!

Sunny - of course - high 90's - low hoomidity so it has been a pleasant week.

Found 2 other sprinkler heads not spraying well, so replaced them as they were an old style that do not work well anyway. Under a big tree so had lots of shade!

Banks, sorry about the water issues but glad there was no damage! Prayers for your daughter! Good deal re the black walnut tree!

Brent - glad things are moving along, albeit with challenges. Did you ever get the porch on the Philly house fixed?

MikeC - Ernie Pyle museum, that sounds very cool! 

[rtraincollector]

Wake up !! Morning all. No plans today other than some chores around the house. 75* going to 86* and cloudy. Not calling for rain but bet we get some. Just relooked at it, says 0% chance for rain but calling for thunderstorms 7 PM - 8 PM. LOL

No real news at present, Hope all have a good day. Talk to you all later

[Banks]

Hello there,

interesting day. Rained most of the night and a deluge this AM. Daughter called telling us about water on the roads, creeks out of the banks etc.

I decided I'd best go home and check it out. (About 1/2 hour) Glad I did. In our house water came up the floor drain in the furnace room, was just to the door to the family room and went back down. I keep it plugged but had it out for some reason and never put it back.

Water in the big house  (Mom's ) was about 2 inches deeper than last time. About 4 inches into the washer and dryer . I'll let them sit a week or so before trying . They were OK  last time.

.Thankfully the drainage work son did a couple years ago is working. No mess in the barn.

Son had water flowing through his basement but no accumulation. The creek overflowed both side into the soybean fields.They are probably done for.

He all so had a tree fall and block one lane of the road in front of his house. We got it cut up and off the road with the tractor and the help of a passer-by with a bigger chain saw than son's.

Son offered to pay him. He wanted no money but offered to give  $100 for the logs. They were black walnut. We drug them to where he can get them with a logging truck and he said he'd give son half of what he gets.

Got back to campground about 130 and watched it rain the rest of the day.

Daughter had additional testing today but I didn't hear when her next appointment is.

Best get to sleep. Need to head home in time to clean up and go to the drags tomorrow  (If they're not rained out again)

 

Prayers for those in need

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

Sometimes a day turns out to be better than expected.  Went to spend the day with Lucas.  We went to Dana, Indiana to see the Ernie Pyle Museum.  Expected to spend a half hour there at most, but wound up spending almost 2.  Very fascinating exhibit.  Wife even bought one of his books.  Not only that but there was a very large grain operation there with its own diesel moving grain cars all over the place.   We ended the day at an Italian restaurant in Clinton that was a bit pricey but had very good food and service.  Get to ref a U-10 match of that All-American sport early on Saturday and then to older daughter's place for a granddaughter birthday.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[ChiefEagles]

Brent, at least you are not doing the work.  So.  We don't worry about you losing an arm or leg.  

[KRM]

Well it is official, The AC has a catastrophic system leak requiring replacement!!! Too big for sealant repair.    $2500 later and a week of hot days ahead.     Hope to get it Monday or Tuesday.  I figured so much as fast as it went bad.Now,,,where to get the money??? 

New PC SJ, nice. I hate Windows 10 and all the hang ons. Doubt it will last near as long as your old one.

Roy,,,Vista,,yep, what is that???

Brent, sounds like your week is about as good as mine has been.

Dennis, I can't bring myself to replace our last dog. She made it to almost 15.

Our neighbor is not doing much better. He has a 2015 Dodge 3500 dulley that is under 60K and it has a bad death wobble that no one can find what is causing it. So he is looking for a replacement truck today. Dodge pretty much just blew him off but took his money everytime he brought it in for them to just say there is nothing wrong with it. Why they say, Get out of Dodge!! 

[ChiefEagles]

Rain again.  Suppose to clear out this weekend.  Be drier and hot next week.

Have a good one.

[lion88roar]

Mornin' Fellas

A couple weeks ago Christina had her first sleep-away camp with the GSA. When we got home from dropping her off TheVPQ noticed the hardwood floor behind toilet in the powder room was black and warped (layers were separating). I took a look and found there was a very slow leak coming from the supply line connector at the toilet tank. Called my contractor buddy to come remove the floor, install a transition from the entry way into the powder room and replace a damaged board in the entry with one from the powder room. When he was done he said the underlayment felt paper had saved the subfloor, and it looked like the leak had been going on for many years. Well... aint that fun!

I got the new tile floor laid last weekend, replaced the wainscotting, and contractor came back and did the chairrail cap (he does excellent inside corners),  installed the new toilet and hooked up the pedestal sink... there was an issue with the drain, which I addressed yesterday - only to find the faucet is leaking from the inside where the hot water valve is (and no they don't make replacements any longer) so off to get a new faucet tonight and hopefully put an end to this upgrade.

Banks - prayers for your daughter

[wrmcclellan]

Morning folks!

High 90's as usual!

Dennis, we know what you mean. Having a young dog is not in our future and we travel a bit - boarding has gotten very expensive. You might consider an older rescue dog that is calmer.

Got the busted sprinkler repaired - had a glitch with some concrete from the street curb base that I had to break out to complete the repair - so my time trial was blown - why the original installer smashed the piping into the curb is beyond me.

SJ - new PC! Nice! Mine is 10 yrs old...Win Vista! The old timers here will recall when I first got Vista! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh....it got stable after the third service pack and still works fine. Vista is so old the hackers are not old enough to know what it is!

[sir james I]

Sun and 90s today.

Got a new laptop, same brand but 8 years newer so gotta learn some things anew. 

S.J.

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

Much quieter day.  Went to see where younger daughter moved to.  Brought some of her stuff that was our place as well.  Checked out a couple of places where she lives for train possibilities.  Not much luck.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

 

[wrmcclellan]

dougdagrump

I guess the bright spot of that is my barber shop costs will decrease considerably. 

 

 

Naaah, speaking from experience, you're just subsidizing the guys with hair!

[Firelock76]

rtraincollector

 

DJSpanky

Howdy all!

Real shame to hear about Bob. I understand why things like this happen, but like so many other stories I've heard, it sounds like they handled it very badly.

Been MIA for a while, figured I'd wait until the August pot got started before posting. The last few weeks things have gotten very crazy at home with the MIL's mental health. Still ongoing, hopefully it will start stabilizing soon.

Just ordered this from Grzyboski's for Corey's birthday:

He likes to run holiday trains (Halloween, Thansgiving, Christmas), and we have 5-6 or so cars for Thanksgiving. This may be my last train related gift for him: he's turning 13 and I fully expect his interest to wane as puberty kicks in. Hard to believe I'll have 2 teenagers in the house.

Have a good one! 

 

 

Spanky, even with chasing girls and hanging out with the guys I still kept my intrest non stop so far, and I'm 63 now. So maybe your sons will still keep the interest. Having holiday trains as an interest may keep in the model railroad interest

 

Spanky, tell Corey that nice, big colorful toy trains can attract members of the opposite sex just as well as a nice car can, maybe even more!

They attract them even more if said young ladies get to run 'em!

I have it on the best authority.

[dougdagrump]

Banks

Hello there,

Thanks for daughters prayers. She met Oncology team yesterday. More tests to be completed Friday before full treatment is determined. Hopefully radiation and no chemo. Treatment tentatively beginning early September.

Prayers for those in need

Banks, The drugs they have me on has turned my hair and eyelashes a bright snowy white. Not to mention that it has also thinned out a bunch, I guess the bright spot of that is my barber shop costs will decrease considerably. 

[Banks]

Hello there,

Thanks for daughters prayers. She met Oncology team yesterday. More tests to be completed Friday before full treatment is determined. Hopefully radiation and no chemo. Treatment tentatively beginning early September.

Relaxing and finished a book started at da beach. Rained all morning but having a reprieve before more rain this evening. Starting another book later.



Think I'll have a nap before starting the new book.


Prayers for those in need

 

[KRM]

Good afternoon guys, been busy:

We had two of Russell's kids yesterday, Kids were trying to wear out the dirt bike and Gator all in one day.

Well I heard the AC running last night as we turned it on in front of the coming heat wave but when I went to take a leak I noticed there was no air moving but the fan was running. So I checked it out and seems the A-coil is frozen up. So that sucks!!! Darn thing is not yet 12 years old. They replaced the a-coil when it was on it's second year for the same stuff.

Man Can't catch a break. So there I sat at 5:00AM wide awake!!! 

There were some factors that may of added up that caused it to freeze up.

•  it got very cool last night after I turned it on, restricting compressor exchange function.
• the filter, although it don't look that bad had not been changed since Dec of last year, restricting air flow over the coil
• Sandra had four vents up stairs shut. restricting air flow over the coil
• the basement vents were also shut but I do that every year. restricting air flow over the coil
• So I am not sure but will try it again.

Just had it checked last year and all was good, so who knows. They are calling for low 80s today and tomorrow then 90s for the weekend so if it is screwed up I need to find out today or tomorrow.

So I thawed it out and was running just the fan to dry it and will give it another shot latter when it warms up.

 

Maybe I will get lucky,,,,,,,,,,,,NOT!!  

 

Well the rest of the story,,,12:40PM after further review,,,yep,,,it is dead. Low on gas charge. So something is leaking! Got a guy coming out tomorrow.

Nothing left to do but to   in my

 

[dbaker48]

Good Morning,

Just got back from a trip to Laughlin NV.  Had a great time!  Didn't break the bank, but had fun.  Saw a couple of shows, did some sight seeing, and enjoyed the Colorado River.  Of course the area has grown quite a bit, and I think you could practically walk across the river using the jet ski's as stepping stone.

Went to Oatman, AZ, where wild burros stroll up and down the streets with the tourists.  Unusual!

So see what I can get into now, good to be back home.

Take care all and stay safe!

[ChiefEagles]

Morning.  Hot, humid and chance of thunderstorms.

See we have some "old" CTT folks drop by. 

Have a good one.

[wrmcclellan]

Morning all!

High 90's today and sunny!

Found a busted lawn sprinkler this morning. Gotta let it dry out and dig it up to repair. I repair lawn sprinklers like the Christmas Story 'old man' repaired flat tires. Time me! 

[Banks]

Hello there,

posting tonight from the campground at Blue Know State Park. Getting away for a few days.

Thanks for the reminder about the poison ivy smoke.

Welcome to MartyE. Stop in more often.

Good night all.

Prayers for those in need

[wrmcclellan]

Evening all!

Only 97 today. Same on tap for foreseeable future. Maybe a day or two at 99. Low hoomidity!

Slept in this am and woke up nauseous. Did not shake it til noon. Took it easy for the day.

[MartyE]

Best wishes Bob!

[Penny Trains]

All my best wishes to Mr. Keller!    Don't be a stranger! 

8ntruck

Banks - stand upwind from the poison ivy while you are burning it. Breathing the fumes is not good.

Uck!  That happened to me about 15 years ago!  One of my neighbors was burning yard waste including either poison ivy, oak or sumac and I ended up in the hospital with 98% of my skin covered in hives!    Lots of cortisone shots and calamine lotion!

[Firelock76]

"Semper Fi"  to you Bob, you WILL be missed!      

[cheapclassics]

Good afternoon all,

Been doing yard work, but wanted to get on first page if possible.  Finally dried out, but going to get hot.  Ugh.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[rtraincollector]

DJSpanky

Howdy all!

Real shame to hear about Bob. I understand why things like this happen, but like so many other stories I've heard, it sounds like they handled it very badly.

Been MIA for a while, figured I'd wait until the August pot got started before posting. The last few weeks things have gotten very crazy at home with the MIL's mental health. Still ongoing, hopefully it will start stabilizing soon.

Just ordered this from Grzyboski's for Corey's birthday:

He likes to run holiday trains (Halloween, Thansgiving, Christmas), and we have 5-6 or so cars for Thanksgiving. This may be my last train related gift for him: he's turning 13 and I fully expect his interest to wane as puberty kicks in. Hard to believe I'll have 2 teenagers in the house.

Have a good one! 

Spanky, even with chasing girls and hanging out with the guys I still kept my intrest non stop so far, and I'm 63 now. So maybe your sons will still keep the interest. Having holiday trains as an interest may keep in the model railroad interest