Good evening all,
Very quiet day at work, but did get one task completed. Raining at noon today. Watched Blue Bloods. Good episode. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Hello there,
Another busy fish fry. 818 paid through the line.
Wupped. Had a shower, a hot tub soak now a glass of wine before crashing.
I did get to say hello to a group of former coworkers who came to support our school.
The local tv station did a segment on our "Seafood Buffet" this evening. If I can find it I'll post a link.
Bed is calling.
Prayers for those in need.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Good Afternoon from windy 50°F Southern Ohio,
I’m off and there was no Station of the Cross at the Elementary as school was closed due to the flu, and now afternoon Mass at the high school as school let out early.
I washed the truck and worked on the layout. Bride is at the nursing home with her mom, youngest at track practice, the twins have tennis and baseball practice at 5 pm.
Spank – sounds like a good workout
8n – I found out my bride’s phone can give me coordinates, I should have known!
Fife – After Lent the colors will be White for the Easter Season, then back to Green
Heading to the basement to work on the layout some more
May God bless you and your families
Jim
Afternoon folks!
Cooler but beautiful today. Sunny - finally can see the sky!
Gonna go out and enjoy it!
Regards, Roy
Morning. 73 and cloudy. Showers and Tstorms possible.
Doing ride along with female PD tonight.
Walked with the kids at school this AM. Took Wifey to Sam's.
Later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
seems like spring might've sprung. Snow almost gone, even in the shade, the oak tree is almost bare. Robins returned en emass the other day. I even saw a pair of cardinals at the feeder, a rare occurrance here.
Been doing some cleaning and and sortn in the town house basement to make room for the ensuing plumbing work. Wondering why I stashed some of that stuff instead of chucking it years ago.
Last evening nephew put Tahoe on the lift to explore the gas odor thats been getting stronger. Found a badly rusted fuel line. Just now ordered a prebent fuel line set
Spent a couple of hours on fish fry prep yesterday and today. Now for some house stuff before the fun begins. Last week started with a bang. 701 paid. about 100 over the 1st week average.
Best get to it.
Prayers for those in need
Mornin' boys. Sprinkles and 63 this morning along the Patterson Creek cut-off, before the "front" comes through. Did my legs/torso workout yesterday, taking displays and lights off the train at Ridgeley. Everything tightened up on me last night. Woof.
Phish - What colors follow lent, Sir?
Chief - Have fun with the kids today.
FYI - Michael's has a big 50% OFF sale this weekend.
Really windy today. Was following a guy on the highway that was towing a single axle box type utility trailer. He caught a gust of wind that almost knocked his pickup truck and trailer off of the road.
Stergion Phish - The Garmin I just got gives lat/long coordinates to the 4th decimal place. It also has a position averaging feature that refines a waypoint position by taking multiple fixes at least 90 minutes apart (reads different satelites, I supppose). When I was doing this on the various corners of my property, the Garmin would report that it was improving the position of the waypoint by anywhere from 8 feet to 30 feet.
All for now.
Quiet day at work. Went to see Captain Marvel. Excellent flick. Well worth the money. Lots of windy weather here. I hope everyone has a good day.
Busy day. Hit the 80's today. Got tomatoes from Lowes, HD and Walmart and put in greenhouse. Repot tomorrow and grow them big before transplanting.
National Walk To School Day tomorrow. Out early to walk with kids.
Good late morning from an overcast 63°F Southern Ohio,
Over the past few days finished powering up the loops, got the spur lines down on the layout, and got an idea to do a little revising of the layout to include using my 790 Trainarama. It will help hide a window over the layout a little.
I’ve been running two trains on the layout adjusting the track and ensuring the runs are straight. So far all is running well. I took the bottom off the 22090 and snugged some screws that mount the coil to the body and it is a bit quieter. I’m going to put the transformer on some dense foam to see if that helps too. Eventually the transformer and control buttons etc. will be mounted in a panel/box which will make it even quieter.
SJ - Our daffodils are starting to bloom, some of them are the ones I planted just a few months ago.
8n - I’m going to see if our Garmin will do coordinates.
Got to go.
Good morning all!
Well 50's for next several days - this is spring in the south???
Happy PI Day! all together - '3.14159' - all hail the Unit Circle!
Another cuppa joe!
Just checking in.
A hi of 60 today will give us a breath of spring along with the chance of storms this afternoon. Also the spring bulbs have popped up through the ground. A sign of new life.
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
Hey there,
Not much going on here. About the only thing I did today was try to crack a deal on this. To build it out new as equiped it would be more than 17K.
They came down to $13,200, only question is do I want it that much??? It is about a 3 hour drive from here to see it so I would like to just take the cash and trailer with me. Would be a nice day trip for the wife and me.
https://www.lawnpower.com/search-equipment/Dubuque-Iowa-2018-John-Deere-XUV590M-%5B3341223%5D/#detailanchor
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Evening folks!
Got some heavy rain early today.
Cleaned out gutters. Son assisted. Got truck smog inspected. Tomorrow may go get the registration sticker vs mail.
Son and I hit some brew pubs this evening. Had a good time.
Watching some Netflix.
Quiet day at work. Good walking weather. Got license tags on vehicles tonight. Local cinema has 10 screens and none have Captain Marvel. May have to go out of town to see that. I hope everyone has a good day.
Back home. Drying out down east and here. Disking land everywhere. Got a lot done at farm. Deer enjoying feeder corn [photos].
Back from delivering Mrs to work, not sure what the day will bring.
Definitly proud of all the grandkids
Roy......to insert a photo from shutterfly I have to open the photo full size, selecting it from an album won't work. Then right click and choose Copy image location. Then in the insert image box right click and paste the link. You also have to put something, anything in the alternate text box or the image description depending on which forum. Not sure why but that's how I do it.
Something interesting I noticed at the Everett railroad.
Best get on with the day.
Cloudy and drizzle just about all day.
Went to Oklahoma City with the robot team last week for their first compitetion. We ended up being ranked 43 out of 63 teams after the qualification rounds. Kind of frustrating, as we were doing much better than the ranking - in most of the qualification matches, we scored either the majority or all of the points. Turned out well, as we got picked by the #2 seated team when it came time to to choose the alliances for the finals. We made it into the semi finals before being elliminated.
Been spending time this week with the robotics team thrashing on improvements for the robot. Hopefully, we will get the new parts finished and on tested on the practice robot before packing up for the Kansas City meet this weekend.
Sterggeon Phish - I bought a Garmin 64S. It is their previous generation of GPS units, so the value for the price is pretty good. It uses both the US and Russian satalites to pick position. The stock map pckage is not great - it only shows the major roads, but better map packages can be loaded. I haven't taken time to figure that out yet. It also gives altitude both by correlating location against the topo map and by reading barametric pressure. The altitude accuracy is something like +/- 20 feet.
If you get a 64 SC, it includes a camera. That would be handy to document your landmark is once you find it.
About all for now.
Had buys day and night. Out early to Edgecombe.
Roy, you may be in for some bad weather. Turning to bad blizzard in plains.
Later
A good day today - party sunny and 60's.
Banks - great pic! Congrats!
Been busy...
Evening all from beautiful Southern Ohio,
I finished powering up the inner AF track on the layout. So far so good. I need to do some lableing and tidying up some wires before adding accesories.
Fife - Purple is good for Lent. As far as the ties go it may be a bit before I need them but I'd be glad to make more for you too.
Good night and may God bless you and your families
Good day at work, better than expected. Weather for walk was nice. Did a little work on the HO layout tonight. Made more progress than expected. Got the May CTT today (early edition). Wife's sister was here and we played card and board games tonight. All in all, it was a good day. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good evening,
Got into the 50s today so I serviced the Husqvarna mower and ordered new Oregon Gator blades for it.
They say it will hit 60 Thursday but then back down for the weekend. :-( Maybe the snow will all be gone by then?
WOW I checked out a new Hyd suction filter for the JD 3203 and they want $84.00+ WOW. Must be that green and yellow box?? I need to change that and the antifreeze now that it has over 650 hours on it and go to synthetic oil on this change. Maybe next month?
Not much else.
Banks, nice picture and I would be proud of her as well!!!
Hello there
Ubered Mrs to work, helped son load a beef for butcher then Mass. Got some house stuff to do then working on the bathroom.
Forgot to mention yesterday while we were in Lancaster Saturday grandaughter placed 1st in solo, 2nd in the trio and 3rd in solo strut at a twirling competition. There is talk of them entering the state competion later this spring.
Fife.....south facing bulbs are popping up everywhere, north are still under snow.
Best get on with the day
Mornin' boys. Will be spending my day at the RR office, not in the train room. Spent yesterday with Ms. Kelly. Made a visit to my folks' place, then on to Tractor Supply, for red mulch. There, Ms. Kelly fell in love with a weaping willow sappling, which came home with us, as well as a rose bush. Spread the mulch, and planted the new greenery. Hopefully the yearlings leave the tree alone.
Did do a little model railroading yesterday. Since I'm modeling Spring on my layout, I have to "exercise" Christmas from some of my ceramic buildings. With a fine brush and PLUM colored craft-smart acrylic paint, I covered all the red ribbons on my churches with purple (right phish?). I also turned all the ornaments on the ceramic evergreens, to pinecones, using med brown paint. Voila!
phish - If you're going to make some AF ties, I'd love to purchase a handfull from ya.
A gray and drizzly day, but ok. Son and I are enjoying the spring break trip. Picked up steaks and grilled them tonight. Enjoyed a nice Cabernet with the steaks.
Banks - nice trip and nice find!
MikeC - not sure if I understand your question. From my experience, you have to register for the convention in order to register for individual 'events' at the convention - which I think you are referring to are actually the tours. The forms I have for 2019 conventions allow you to register for the events and the tours on the same form, and the TCA/LCCA conventions I attended in the past allowed me to register for the conventions and tours on-line. Separately, prayers that Lucas finds a path through all this.
Fife - on layout progress!
Quiet but good day at work. Wife finally felt good enough to cut hair tonight. Needed it badly. For those keeping track at home, Lucas' divorce was final late last week. Sad end to a long story that should not have gone that way. Maybe some day he will find some happiness. Took his sister a long time to do.
On a totally unrelated note, is there any way to register for individual events at a TCA convention? The website seems to indicate signing up for only the convention itself. Thanks in advance for any help.
I hope everyone has a good day.
Good Morning from beautiful 60°F Southern Ohio,
It is beautiful today. A little windy, but very nice.
I’m off work to assist my bride after her colonoscopy this morning.
I’m working on layout wiring a bit on the inner loop. I added some small sections to the outer loop to take care of a few places where the loops were too close together. Ran both the loops at the same time. It was good to fill the train room with smoke! Before I set the roadbed and track I want to run the trains for a bit to discover and fix any bugs.
Fife – you did well. I’ve been looking at the Marx accessories signals and I’ve got a switch tower and Girard Whistle to go on the layout. The wood ties reminded me I’ll have both size (3 rail and AF) to make/aquire.
Buckeye – My bride is both the legal power of attorney as well as medical power of attorney, so she could just tell them to take a hike, but she is trying to keep all happy and that is hard to do when their natural inclination is otherwise. Did I ever tell you guys I got the cream of the crop?
Mike C – Good job on the time!
Morning. Sunny and 68. 70's yesterday. Nothing on agenda for a change.
Fifey, sounds like a good day you had.
Hope all have a good one.
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