April 2020 Coffee Pot. 16 years old [April 1]. Bacon and Country Ham to smell up the kitchen. Some Eggs and Hot Coffee.

[dougdagrump]

Don, That idiot needs to get 20 years for what he did plus another 20 years for being so dumb. When you run out of track you ain't going to get very far.

Conspiracy theory idiot. 

[ChiefEagles]

Rolled out early to feed kids.  Found some hidden in trailers that had not been fed.

Here is my partner with my truck full [including back seat piled high].  100 bags of 4 meals frozen.  Microwavable.  We ran out.

Now R&R.  

[lion88roar]

Evening Fellas

Been rather 'interesting' around here. With TheQ working from home and being on conference calls I have learned a lot that is not being said to the public. All I will say is there where things done back in January that saved over a million American lives, and had our CDC and NIH infectious disease experts been allowed in to assist this most likely would have never reached beyond Wohan province. Sad the whole world is paying for one country's arrogance.

Got word yesterday that our patio project is moving forward and so are the closet organizer projects (both start on the same day... lol). TheQ also asked me to order the planation shutter for the office window, apparently her working from home has resulted in her realizing the curtain is about shot (brought from old house) and the office gets rather warm in the afternoon... hmmm, funny I mentioned these points in October. 

Don - that is crazy! and not surprising it isn't on national news.

Fife - prayers nurse princess and her husband stay safe!

Chief - that's a lot of good work there!

Buckeye - nice work!

Roy - ditto

Rich - good to hear your mom is doing better. Keep her safe! 

[Flintlock76]

Thanks for that bit of insight Lion88', I could ask for more details but this isn't the place.  

[KRM]

Good morning, Cloudy, gray and wet,,,again! 

Don I saw that on the news here,, what a nut job! 

Good to hear from Brent.

Good job Chief!  

55 today and tomorrow, then 70s, I am ready.

[wrmcclellan]

Ok, how is it 55 in Illinois and 41 here? Kev, DougM, and SJ - quit leaving the refrigerator door open! Dark, gray, and yes! Rain this afternoon!

Brent - glad the house is progressing!

[rtraincollector]

Roy your in the wrong part of the south. 64* going to 76* today

[sir james I]

We have sun and expecting Hi 50s today. Mayhaps a little rain late. Our entire cable bundle went out yesterday afternoon and was still out when I went to bed. People using this service to work from home were out of luck. I have to say it in a nice way here..lol

S.J.

 

[KRM]

wrmcclellan

Ok, how is it 55 in Illinois and 41 here? Kev, DougM, and SJ - quit leaving the refrigerator door open! Dark, gray, and yes! Rain this afternoon!

 Roy, it is a "northern" conspiracy!!!!  

[ChiefEagles]

Morning.  Cooked sausage biscuits.  72 and sunny.  Suppose to warm each day through next week.

Brent, don't saw your leg.   Always good to hear from you and the family.

Off to Grandson's birthday.  Burgers and hotdogs.  Don't tell Wifey chili is deer meat. 

Hope all stay well. 

PS: changed font size.  My regular size I use was stacking line  on each other and some were bold. 

[KRM]

Happy Birthday Dennis,,,    

[dougdagrump]

Considering where all our toys come from I thought that this was very appropriate.

[Banks]

Hello there,     
       Learning to deal with the craziness. Had to pickup online orders at HD and Lowe's yesterday. Got there at 6AM. HD limiting to 100 people in store. My pickup was just inside entrance. Had barriers to keep cashiers away from customers Made me go the length of store to exit. Place was full of employees but no customers. 

Lowe's  was deserted as well, so deserted I decided to pick up some plumbing parts I need, didn't get within 1 feet of anybody except the lady that gave me my preorder and checked out my stuff. Stopped and got 15 gallon of no ethanol gas ($2.49 reg $2.09) and home before 8

Stole this of another forum
A young man came from the parking lot and tried to cut in at the front of the line, but an old lady beat him back into the parking lot with her cane.

He returned and tried to cut in again but an old man punched him in the gut, then kicked him to the ground and rolled him away.

As he approached the line for the 3rd time he said, "If you old codgers don't let me unlock the door, you'll never get in there".

Best move on

Prayers for those in need and this pandemic to end soon.

[fifedog]

Wifey and I put in several hours beautifying Nurse Princess estate.  She loved it when she got home from her shift.  After dinner, we finished watching Season 2 of Mindhunter.

In the train room, I finished two separate "garden" scenes.  They take about 4 hours each to complete.

FifeMax is getting a bath today.  Ruh-roh.

[rtraincollector]

Happy Birthday Dennis. Hope it as good as it can be with what all is going on. 

[wrmcclellan]

Happy Birthday Dennis!

Banks - good one!

[Flintlock76]

Happy birthday Dennis!  

And don't worry, nobody looks as old as Joe Biden!

[dougdagrump]

Anybody got little ones who would like a bear hunt ?

https://time.com/5809613/bear-hunts-coronavirus/

[Buckeye Riveter]

Good evening from Jelloway Creek,

Happy Birthday Dennis!  Wishing you many more.

Grump...The video of Pluto the talking dog is one of the funniest posted. Did you know that is Doug Murphy's dog? 

Chief...How's the back? Thanks for feeding the kids. How do you hide a trailer/

Don...Yes we saw the locomotive wreck on the news, plus I somehow saw it on a website.

Brent... Thank you. I saw a very detailed cronological order of events associated with this virus, not the one published by the NYT. December 10th was the first time someone in China started to feeling ill. I know it was not on my radar at Christmas, but when I departed our cruise in late January we started to hear about the virus situation in Washington.

Fife... Prayers for your nurse and her husband. Is FifeMax beautiful now? Were you injured?

Rich... Glad your Mom is doing better. 

Banks... You forgot to say that Mrs. Buckeye now needs a new cane. 

 

 

[dbaker48]

Good Evening,

Happy Birthday Dennis! , hope your doing OK and getting all the necessary supplies.  Just be careful lots of crazyness going on.

Heard today that Mexico shut down the Corona Beer plant in Tecate, as it is nonessential.  I can't imagine what is going on in Mexico!  I worked in Tijuana and the Otay Mesa for a couple of years.  Those folks dont have anything to begin with, dont know how they can prepare and care for those stricken. Going to be sad!

We spent the day pulling weeds at MIL's home, she's still in an assisted living home, and calls Kay a couple times a week not knowing where she is or why.  She is in the best place for her safety, and dont know what will happen when she is released.  

Word is that the Queen Mary may be convereted to a Medical facility, the Long Beach Arena is being set up as a triage center.  Also numerous food distribution centers are popping up.  Its interesting the cars going through the lines, Range Rovers, Prius, new pick-ups, big SUV's, makes one wonder!

Nascar is having another of there "simulated" races tomorrow, this one is at Bristol.  The broadcast commentary is rather comical, I find it very comical.

Fife/Doug, prayers for your daughters and families, it takes special people to do what they do, even in the good times!  Its got to be tough for you guys with the concerns!!

Chief, you partner is very attractive lady, just be careful and keep yourself safe!

Looks like we have more rain on the horizon, sounding like it could be significant, we shall see.

Take care all!!!

 

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

Happy birthday, Dennis.  Our county is on level red in terms of emergency status.  Driving me nuts.  All the food places are closed for drive thru as well as dine in.  Only grocery stores and gas places are open and then from 5 AM to 10 PM.  I need a signed piece of paper with me at all times so I can leave the county to go to work.  Ugh.  Even in WW II there were not this type of restrictions.  Speed limit was 35 MPH and tires and gas were rationed, but you could still travel where you wanted to go.  Did get to watch the Indycar Iracing event.  As I said after the first one, it is not the real thing but it will do until the real thing returns.  Brent, what the Q told you I can believe.  I have some reasons to think the same way.  I mowed  Friday night.  I edged, trimmed, picked up trash and cut up as much honey suckle as I could today, which was very nice weather wise and was so bored otherwise.  Normally I would be watching "real" football and training for the Mini.  Normally.   Did get MR and Trains today so not a total loss.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[fifedog]

Mornin' boys.  Partly sunny and 41 along the Patterson Creek cut-off.  Bird feeder was on the ground at 0500.  Had to screw the bracket back into the tree.  

Thanks for the thoughts on our nurses.  Middle Princess unhappy with some of our family who haven't adhered to the Woo-han orders.  If they only knew how sad the outcome is for some of those stricken down...

Buckeye - I came out of the Maxie-spa unscathed.  He was a good boy for youngest Princess and me.

cheapclassics - I tried to watch a little i-racing, but quickly lost interest.  I have developed a guilty pleasure of watching Die-Cast racing on youtube.  I particularly like watching the old Hotwheels red-lines.   

[ChiefEagles]

Beautiful day.  Sunny and warm.

Happy Birthday Dennis. 

Grandson had limited guest birthday party.  He is a little spoiled. HUMM

Fifey, did you have a bear visit?

Sounds like all are doing OK.  Stay that way.

 

[rtraincollector]

cheapclassics

 Our county is on level red in terms of emergency status.  Driving me nuts.  All the food places are closed for drive thru as well as dine in.  Only grocery stores and gas places are open and then from 5 AM to 10 PM.  I need a signed piece of paper with me at all times so I can leave the county to go to work.  Ugh.  Even in WW II there were not this type of restrictions.  Speed limit was 35 MPH and tires and gas were rationed, but you could still travel where you wanted to go.  

Mike C. from Indiana 

I understand you frustration, but during wwII we were not in the midst of a major epidemic, major difference. Personally I wish the whole united states would go to that, especially places like NYC Where it really needs to be done to contain it. 

[KRM]

Started out sunny already cloudy. Should get to high 50s later.

I start the day by reading the news on the internet from sources I trust. Takes about ½ hour.  Then the rest of the day it is just noise.

 

My sister works at a Walmart and the other day when it was nice out, she said whole families with their little kids were running all over the store acting as if nothing was going on. Coughing, hacking, picking their noses, and touching everything.  How stupid can people be? Menards has posted NO Kids under 16 years old in their stores. I like the idea of senior hours but don’t want to get up at 5:30 AM to get there. The play book seems it is being written as we go along, no reason to plan ahead. 

 

Mike, funny that one of the states that waited to shelter in place now will pull you over if you’re not. We can still move around but then we live in a very rural area but I have not heard of such a thing anywhere else yet either. Since I am retired, do I write my own note?

 

As for Iracing I am with Fife on that. I watched it last week and it just don’t work for me. I would rather watch old Gunsmoke shows.

[wrmcclellan]

Morning folks!

Gray and 50. Not supposed to rain today with exception of some spitting here and there. Rain area wide tomorrow...

Not much to report. Temps in 40's and raining yesterday, did not feel well due to allergies/lack of good sleep, so made a fire in the brick lined hole in the living room and watched either TCM or YT videos. 

[sir james I]

More clouds than sun 40s today.

Our church service was live on FB so we got to watch that. Not much else as we are staying in.

S.J.

Dennis I hope you were able to enjoy your birthday. We were locked in for my wife's BD and our 61st anniversary.

Today is our twins BD's, #1 son was born in1963 and our daughter was born in 1969.

[Flintlock76]

Happy anniversary Sir James!  Married 61 years, quite an achievement!  You've got myself and the wife beat, we've only got 43.

Folks, if you're self-isolating (Who ain't?) here's a couple of YouTube channels you might find interesting.

Curious about tanks?  Here's one called "The Chieftain," hosted by Major Nicholas Moran USA, who describes historic tanks inside and out with a good sense of humor and a charming Irish accent.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp4j9Y9L6jie44iZroCb99A  

And here's one called "Mark Felton Productions," hosted by British historian Dr. Mark Felton.  He's got some amazing stories from history, especially from World War Two.  I don't know how he digs these stories up but it's one entertaining channel!  Amazing, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCKvREB11-fxyotS1ONgww 

A great way to pass the time if you're stuck at home like most of us! 

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

Thanks for all the comments.  I live in a southeastern Indiana county that has had a lot of cases.  Still, I am not sure what is the appropriate response.  Weather was cooler and cloudy.  Wife and I did a jigsaw puzzle.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Banks]

Hello there,     
       Beauty of a day, spring is way early. Daffodils are almost done, cows are just about done shedding.

Interesting incident with FedEx yesterday. Got a text at 230pm that my new laptop was delivered. Checked all around, nothing. Called Best Buy who confirmed with FedEx it was delivered to my front porch at 130PM. I said no.  Another was to be shipped with a signiture required. About 7PM while closing up the house Mrs found it on the front porch. 

Didn't do much today. Watched a movie and helped Mrs put out a few Easter decorations.

A question. I'm planning to dump my DSL Internet which means I'll lose my email address. What  free provider is a good option?                               
Prayers for those in need and this pandemic to end soon.