Off to the hunt after a busy weekend. Be a rest for me. Back tomorrow night.
Still no word from Ray??????
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Good Monday Morning…..Friday night went out with the BIL and sister for a cocktail, stayed for 2 songs from the band and left. Small venue and amps up to 11 = ringing ears. Yes, they were a good band, just the ears cannot tolerate ear bleeding volume.Saturday, we got 1 portable garage up and the roadrunner now has a dry home. Will try to get the 2nd one up within the next 2 weeks. Jenni’s car goes in for surgery before Thanksgiving, so we need to get it up before then. Saturday night we attended a bonfire with one of the car clubs and that was a great time, it sprinkled most of the night.Sunday full blown rain and wind in the morning, and the garage was stable and dry. Even the blacktop. Should be able to get the Vespa in the garage, the Road Star may be another issue. Jenni’s Charger will just barely get in, but with the vinyl sheeting, we have some movement.Sunday night we ran down to Manahawkin for her niece’s birthday and was home by 10. Weather did clear up at 2 and the Sun came out. Tonight after dinner, will meet up with a vendor I purchased a repainted Blue Comet engine body. It was cheap enough, especially with free delivery.Oh, FYI – Michael’s has O scale Christmas wreaths, they match perfectly for front of houses or businesses, just not “door” size”. We stopped there briefly yesterday.Gotta run out work calls.Prayers for those in need – Roy, nice that the cleanup has begun….
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
Evening folks!
Sunny and made it to 76 today. Same predicted tomorrow.
Finally saw a storm debris cleanup truck late today. Neighborhood is a mess to navigate.
We had a nice dinner for sons 26 th bday at a sushi/Japanese restaurant. Cake at the house after and some time chatting with the kids re final wedding prep. Wedding is just 2 weeks away now.
Spent the day cleaning up a room stacked up from sons move back to the house last Jan. Consolidated the remnants of 9 moving boxes into clothes for Goodwill, trash, and just 5 smaller bankers boxes of stuff he is keeping. A bonus was I found a box of daughters shoes and she took that home after the bday celebration.
Regards, Roy
Morning folks!
40's this morn and headed to low 70's today...partly sunny!
City did a special garbage pickup today since we had none for the past week due to the tornado. In my 25 yrs here have never seen the truck and crew move soooo slooooow...must be on time and a half....
Fall Festival in full swing. Street full of vender tents and people. Already had my first hotdog [mustard, chili and onions]. Photo taken by pretty admin. asst. for PD department. Free hotdogs as long as they last. Last year, 1,500. Now back out to the street. Pretty day. Already 75 degrees and sunny. Enjoy the day.
68 out. Mighty warm for Oct. Fall Festival in front of house tomorrow.
Prayers for those who need it on the forum.
Prayers for CA and the fires. News video showed how windy it was there.
Would love to hear from Ray.
Have a good one.
Good morning all!
44 this am! Snowed in Amarillo yesterday/last night. Constant rain since yesterday around noon. Supposed to rain all day today. Most of the heavily damaged houses have tarps over them. Those with roof damage have tarps nailed to the roofs. Almost all the folks on our street have some roof damage. We only have scraped up shingles where tree limbs and pieces of houses/roofs hit our house. No shingle loss. Ins adjuster shows up next Wed.
DonB - good news re the trees, Chris' car, and your continued view from the other side!
Kev - glad to hear further promising news from your camp!
Banks - prayers for you and your daughters healing!
Buckeye - beware of any get well packages from NC...
Good Morning,Been awhile, We are doing fine out here, Kay got a sympathy card from AARP and a new ID card. But that's been about it, I was thinking about going over to the local office and applying for life insurance.The Santa Ana winds are kicking up again, so the fire threat is extremely high for the foothills and normal areas. SCE has threatened turning off power for some 300k people in the threat area. (Wouldn't be surprised if some disgruntled person sets a fire deliberately out of revenge, hope not but you can't tell).The neighbor to my east has hired a tree trimming service, and are they ever making a difference! The jungle in the back yard is gone! That has taken 2 days! Today they are finishing up on area between our houses and huge tree in the driveway area. As it turns out I found out the city gave them a citation requiring the trimming of trees in the front of their house, because the house was not visible from the street. (I had nothing to do with the cities efforts.) Then to my surprise the foreman told me that the neighbor on our west side told me he was going to be trimming trees for them on Friday! That is great, will be wonderful not having all the fall-out in the pool! I think we will end up being exposed here. Another benefit is there should be a significant decline in the critters using our place as a thorough fare between the two.Finished my awning project, finally. It looks pretty good! Also, got some good news, Chris' car was involved in an accident, (at a dual left turn lane, the car on the right ran into the passenger side). The other driver's insurance finally accepted responsibility, damage estimated at $12k. So it is finally going to get fixed. (Accident happened while I was in PA)Think I going to start working on Chris' old room, repaint etc..Glad to hear Banks and Buckeye is doing well, and continued prayers for Rich's Dad, Doug DG, Kevin's wife, Spanky's wife, Roys families and others.Take care all and be safe!
Don
Home from Human Services Board meeting.
Prayers for Rich's Dad.
When typing on this forum, some stupid add popsup. From this site.
Later
Good morning,
Things are better on The North Bluff! As most know Sandra had two spine injections two weeks ago and that helped some but she still has the bone on bone hip pain. Then they found that cyst on her ovary when they did the spine and hip MRIs and had to do an ultrasound and biopsy on that last week. Like I said, those results came back Tuesday clean. So yesterday they did the hip injection just to help her till it gets replaced. Won't know how that helps for a day or two but as of this morning she seems way better. We hope the replacement can be done before the holidays or at least Christmas. I want to get it done before the end of year and all the Ins charges start over. We are almost at max out of pocket now and those hips are not cheap. So progress on the home front. I spent yesterday afternoon making the tunnel through Ravine 1 large enough for the new Gator to fit through. I had to raise the canopy for the roof of the Gator to clear so I got a heck of a lot of brush for Jim's bonfire.
Prayers and hope for those who need them.
Best do something.
Hello there,Prayers for Rich's dadhome from the hospital without a catheter. The discomfort is much less than the first time.Forgot to mention earlier, daughter and I were about 40 miles apart for our procedures.Not much sleep last night. Time to reclinerize.Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Afternoon. Haircut done. Busy afternoon.
Prayers for Roy and his neighbors.
Great news about Sandra Kev!
No big issues here. We were lucky. Minimal damage here and my 15 yr old 40 yr roof may have to be replaced. About 20' of back fence steel poles are bent about 20 degrees. May try and use the sons Jeep to pull them up straight.
Amazing the number of fences down, steel poles snapped off at ground level.
Our pool guy was able to come and that is almost done. We are pulling bushels of acorns out of the pool and yard. Neighbor ins agent said the billions of acorns are responsible for the hail like roof shingle damage. Neighbors have said all are surprised at the bushels of acorns they are picking up.
Moening,
Good news Banks!
Roy the two weeks after we lost our house in the 1990 Plainfield tornado were the most stressed of my life. It will pass.
Getting ready to take wifey in for her hip injection. Hope it helps her some till it can be replaced. The good news yesterday is her biopsy results came back clean!
Got to get moving.
Sun and 50s today.
Got most of the outside stuff ready for winter. sigh. All the garden vegtables have been et so it's back to store bought.
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
BANKS.....Glad you have done so well with your procedure. Thoughts and prayers for you. While you are on Ebay, would you please find a suitable gift for the Chief. Something expensive. I'll send it to him at Christmas. Preferably live with four legs and sharp teeth.
Roy.... Saw the photos from Dallas tornado. You guys had a big one.
I'm still on the mend. Still can't drive due to me passing out so suddenly and unexpected. Mrs. Buckeye says it is like driving Mr. Daisy. I really don't see the humor.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
Hello there from UPMC Bedford Memorial Hospital.
Roy.....good luck with the cleanup
Doc said rotor rooter went well. The issues were caused by scarring from December's rotorooter. Claims there should be no more problems.
Daghters surgery went well yesterday too and she went home. Found out the day we left for the beach that she was having her ovaries removed today also.
She asked to postpone but they refused. She says no but Mrs and I fear cancer is involved. Especially since they were in such a rush.
Been killing time trying to find something decent on TV, cruising Ebay and Youtube looking for anything interesting.
Hoping to get home today without a catheter. Gotta go Prayers for those in need.
Long day. Got the front room where the window blew in cleaned up of leaves, glass (4'x4' double pane), dirt, etc. Got the yard cleanup completed. Pool is next. Huge debris pile in front of the house as with much of the neighborhood. Most of the debris is from all the big oak trees that were shredded. Most houses here had 3 big oaks 40+ years old, 18'-36" trunks. For some reason city has not started picking up the tree debris and it is now outta hand. Once folks start throwing home debris it is gonna get really bad.
Morning. Rain due but not the Texas thing.
Roy, glad you are OK. Cleanup is a mess.
Mornin' boys. Overcast and 57 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Conductor duties today. This is youngest princess's first birthday away from home. Wifey struggling with this...
Roy - Glad you and yours are ok. Are we ready for 2019 to pass yet...?
DJ - Good news on the Mrs.
DJ - that is great news re Linda! Bet you guz are relieved! I can attest that heavy antibiotics wear you down and really mess with your lower digestive system.
Afternoon Greetings from Tornado Alley - literally!
In daylight, neighborhood looks like a war zone. Police and State police have blocked all entrances to our neighborhood. Have to show ID to enter.
Front window (large) of our house was pierced by a large 4" tree limb that apparently came flying down the street from a tree at a neighbors house several doors away. Big mess and a lotta glass all over the room along with dirt, leaves, water, etc. my trees - nada - no damage.
Thought we were experiencing a baseball sized hail storm from the pounding on the roof and breaking glass (Had this happen in 2004 And it sounded exactly the same). Went out after the storm and saw no hail stones, no damage to sons car in front, but lotta big tree limbs piled up against the front of our house (and the one through the window). Dirt and leaves embedded in everything.
A street and a half over, one house (good friend of ours) was flattened. 6 or so or others have little to no roof. Neighbors with skylights on our block all lost their skylights in round one. Round two was 50-70 mph winds and 3" of screaming rain. So round 2 nailed them with the big roof openings.
Our friend survived the storm in her demolished house unscathed. But she is shell shocked. Just lost her husband 5 yrs ago and his slow demise was draining.
There are no tall trees left. Tops Shredded.
Roofer we know came to inspect a house down the block. Got him to stop here. No peeled shingles but a lot of aggregate loss from the hail, winds, and driving rain. Roof will need replacing. Pool full of leaves, limbs, and shingles. Kids worked on cleaning it out until the leaf bag broke from the weight.
Future In-laws showed up at 7:30 am to help clean up. Nice of them.
Couldn't get in a while ago
ChiefEaglesNo grits on the table. Sad
Grits were already eaten before the photo. Praying for Roy and all in his neighborhood
Morning. Busy afternoon and evening.
Roy got damage from tornado. Not completly but any is enough. Hope all OK now.
No grits on the table.
Banks - Received my mailer. November, no. March, YES.
Hello there,
back from York in time for 430 Mass yesterday
A good day Friday. Mrs and I had breakfast with Mr & Mrs John Fullerton.
Then off to the show. John and I walked Orange Hall before he had to leave for an organ recital his Mrs was participatng in. He was pretty well wupped anyway.
Later found Laz and Mitch.
Since we were the only ones Mrs took the picure. We chewed the fat for a few and went on our way. I doubled back through Orange to take a 2nd look at a couple of things then went to silver hall and tried and buy a Gilbert caboose at a reasonable price. I know the guy has brought three of them to York for at least three years but won't budge on price. By then I was ready to leave. Mrs & I Ate at McD's then to the camper and crashed for a while. Later met a former coworker and family at ROC for dinner. The place was packed. Her daughter lives in York and the rest of the family was in town for her son to visit a potential college.
The return trip yesterday was uneventful. Watching the littlest grandaughters today and trying to get a few things done before Tuesday's Prostate roto rooter puts me out of commission for a while.
My haul from York
Best move on,
Prayers for those in need
PS...........Fife the Altoona show is Nov 3rd. You gona be able to make it???????
Been raining. Spike is now coming to stand and feeder constantly. Becoming my pet. Lots of does. No biggies yet. Too many peanuts on the ground. Not interested in corn much.
Have a good week ahead.
Mornin' boys. Rain and 49 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Wifey returns from Steeltown today. Had dinner at my folks' place, and started painting their sun room.
Record crowds again this weekend at the RR. Stark difference to the nothing burgers of Spring and Summer. Wound up cleaning up vomit on one of the coaches, after nobody else would step up. This bunch...
Hope the Yorkies make it home safe and happy. Miss yuz guyz.
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