Home. Finished by 2:55. Stopped by Northern Tool and picked up my bench grinder [I am going to try and fix the old one. bet brushes.]44 and a little breeze. Did wear heavy coat.Later.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Morning folks!
Doin' ok after #3. Met briefly with radiation doc after the treatment. I am getting shot with PHOTONs! wowzers! Beam me up Scottie and hold the photon torpedoes! #4 today, every day at 1:45 pm. Glad to be checkin' 'em off!
Got a good night sleep for first time in last couple months - due to exhaustion and various pains...it was welcome....
Anj - coffee table layout looks great! Nice job!
Regards, Roy
Good Morning!!!Took the night off - was in bed by 10.36 now and up to 25 MPH winds. too cold too early for me - a dusting of snow due tomorrow morning.Line/Exec meeting tonight - THIS should be fun...... Robert's Rules will be with me and the by laws, not like last month. Time to rock the boat.....
Thanks, Flint!! Jenni did most of the work, I supplied the track work and the trees.....don't get her started on my tree stash....LMAO!!!Off to work - check back later
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
Flintlock76 ChiefEagles Remember Pearl Harbor. Everyone cries out "9-11" but forgets pearl Harbor. Indeed! But you know how it is Chief, if you didn't live through the event and have no first-hand memories of it it may as well have happened 100 years ago. There are exceptions of course, but in a few years those born after 9/11/2001 won't give it much more thought than the Battle of Gettysburg. Sad, but just the way it is. I wonder how much thought they give to Pearl Harbor, and how much the US's place in the world changed permanently after it?
ChiefEagles Remember Pearl Harbor. Everyone cries out "9-11" but forgets pearl Harbor.
Indeed! But you know how it is Chief, if you didn't live through the event and have no first-hand memories of it it may as well have happened 100 years ago. There are exceptions of course, but in a few years those born after 9/11/2001 won't give it much more thought than the Battle of Gettysburg. Sad, but just the way it is.
I wonder how much thought they give to Pearl Harbor, and how much the US's place in the world changed permanently after it?
I wasn't born then but will always remember that day and honor it. Most veterans do remember and honor military dates and happenings.
Nice N and Z scale Christmas layouts 'Devil, and with the tree lights behind they look downright magical!
Flint, I believe part of the issue is that many parts of our so called intellectual society blame all of the world's ills, past and present, on us. Enuff of the soapbox.
The Christmas layout in the garage is slow going but getting there. We plan on the doors being open on the 22nd and the 23rd for maybe 3hrs each nite. Trying to decide if we will pick up some candy canes to give to the visitors, I guess that would fall into the "carryout" category.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Proud New Member Of The NRA
V8VegaOur drunk with power govenor has shut eveything down again.
I probably shouldn't say anything not having a dog in that fight, but I hear there's a lot of push-back out there, including from the law enforcement community. I watched a video last night with a California sheriff, he laid out the push-back reasons very forcefully and succinctly, and in a calm collected manner. No wild man revolutionary he.
So true Flintlock!
And Remember the Maine!
LP usage here is way down Chief. Okay with me. They are talking high 50s later in the week. I am sure we will pay down the road.
The deer seem to have won the fight over the weekend. None of the guys got anything but cold.
Made a early trip to Walmart to avoid the rush, seems other are catching on as well. Way too many there for 8:15am.
Banks, that is a lot of people you know who have paid the price of COVID. Prayers for them all!
Best get.
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
ChiefEaglesRemember Pearl Harbor. Everyone cries out "9-11" but forgets pearl Harbor.
Remember Pearl Harbor. Everyone cries out "9-11" but forgets pearl Harbor.
42 and misty rain. About to stop. Rained good earlier. No snow for us. Up in VA and west. Cold air rushing in behind this for a few days. Natural gas usage was about 1/3 of last years for Nov.
Not much on agenda. Maybe Train Box as messy and cold.
Hope all are safe and well.
Hello there, Roy......train looks nice, continued Prayers.DIL's aunt died from Wuhan.Mrs has a friend from grade school to today who's husband is hospitalized with it. Another friends sister died. Still no luck hunting. Haven't been out much.Got the pressure tank changed. Winter is here. Highs below 30 for a couple of days. This AM is annual eye doc and chiropractor at 3 for both of us. Best get toit.Prayers for those in need, those affected by the fires, hurricanes and the end of this pandemic.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
ChiefEagles Snip, we are 99% southern lobloy pine. Only a few hardwoods. Bet you have lots of deer as they love accorns.
Snip, we are 99% southern lobloy pine. Only a few hardwoods. Bet you have lots of deer as they love accorns.
The current crop is "popple" (an evergreen used for pulp). We wait until the county forrester (or someone like that) says we can harvest some. Father and Mother in-law planted a lot of popple years ago. 1/3 has been harvested. The farm is mostly trees with a few small hayfields. I think the planted trees only make of half of the total woods.
Some great wx we've been having lately. Last night we had a light dusting of snow, but it is gone.
Thanks Roy for keeping us informed!
KRM Been shotgun season this weekend and I see a guy in orange
Man, did that trigger a memory!
Back in the mid-Eighties I was pheasant hunting (not peasant hunting!) with a friend up in the Walpack area of Northwest New Jersey. We were half-way up the side of a mountain and stopped to take a break. Sitting on a large boulder we had a great view out over the valley and saw hundreds of guys in blaze orange moving through the fields. It was like an invading army!
"Jeez, look at THAT!" Charlie said.
"Yeah," I replied, "Now I kind of know how those guys at Bunker Hill felt when they saw all those people in the red coats coming at 'em!"
We didn't get anything, by the way. The only thing I came away with on that mountainside was a small rock with sea-shell fossils imbedded in it, which was an interesting find in it's own right. Imagine, there we were at several hundred feet above sea level and here's a rock that was once part of an ocean floor. Makes you think.
If it wasn't for bad luck,,,,, Friday I went to cut a wild hair out of my nose and clipped a blood vessel! WOW what a bloody mess. Took 45 minutes to get it to stop. The cat thought I was checking out and for a bit I thought I would have to go to the hospital. But after bleeding all over and applying pressure twice for 15 minutes It stopped. Been trying not to touch my nose ever since. Be careful out there! I never thought about COVID at all when I was bleading all over the bathroom.
Chief we call that yellow pine. Nice trees.
Nice Roy,
Fife, ours has been up for a week. I ran away when wife and the kids started to put it up.
Weather has been too warm for this time of year. We have not had a day with highs only the 30s yet. I will take it. Been shotgun season this weekend and I see a guy in orange about 30 yards off the southwest corrner of our place above the ravine has a tree stand. Glad I saw him. Jack sits back there and hunts so it is good to know there is someone else there. One would think the guy would stop by and say so but nope! Stupid is !!!!
Best get, be safe!
cheapclassicsRoy, gots to love the Standard Gauge!
I concur wholeheartedly! I wish I had the room (And the wallet!) to indulge a bit of it myself.
I saw these folks at the WGHOT show in Chantilly VA last year. Even though the video's from a year earlier at another location this is what they had, and let me tell you, the video really doesn't do it justice, you just had to be there! Stunning!
Here it is, "Party like it's 1939!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4JNaaGvO-U
Good morning all,
Roy, gots to love the Standard Gauge! Finally got upgrade to work on test system Friday! Next week hopefully for production. Once the problem was resolved, it took 12 minutes to run!!! Go figure. Lots of other good news. Ran the gas out of John Deere finishing off the last small patch of leaves. Did a 3.4 mile walk Saturday outside in under an hour (hopeful but doubtful we have the Mini in May). Found a set of building bricks I thought I had lost. Found a really good COVID mask I thought I had lost (front seat of Escape, again go figure). Christmas tree is decorated and most of wife's village is in the bay window. Watched not one but 2 entertainng matches of the English Premiere League yesterday (one was recorded). Got to Mass early enough to get "my" seat in church ( yeah, I know it is kind of stupid, but the moment added to the general upward trend in my satisfaction level). I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
50 chilly degrees and that is in the sun. Rain coming again tonight and into tomorrow early.
Both of us are being lazy today. Got the birthday meal for Wifey's cousin at 2:30. Hoping restaurant will be almost empty. A little uneasy about the eating out thingy now. NC setting records and Gov. sitting on his hands. Youngsville [a town just north west of us in Franklin Co.] made national news by having their Christmas Parade and violating Gov.s rules. Nothing done to them. Make rules and don't enforce them. Means they are worthless.
Hoping all will stay well.
Mornin' boys. Wifey told me to get the tree up today, so I'll talk tomorrow.
Roy - Lovely set.
.77 inches of rain. Two big pour downs after midnight. Sunny and windy. 53 degrees.
Have a safe and good day.
DJSpanky we have no idea if this is Covid related or not
Maybe, maybe not. I lost two friends this year and it wasn't COVID that killed them. There's a lot of things out there that can "Carry you off," as my late mother-in-law would have said. A lot of people seem to be forgetting that.
ChiefEagles ... Pondering the sale of 31 acres of timber. Good price but not the best. Waiting for call from CPA. She may be the game changer. Don't have to sell. Will really not mess up my hunting as plenty more woods to hunt. It is the oldest timber. 40+ years old. ...
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Pondering the sale of 31 acres of timber. Good price but not the best. Waiting for call from CPA. She may be the game changer. Don't have to sell. Will really not mess up my hunting as plenty more woods to hunt. It is the oldest timber. 40+ years old.
I just read this, my wife partly inherited her dad's tree farm.
While not directly managing it, it is an interesting business, such as; years of negative income and then one year of positive income, and back to years (decades?) of negative income.
Hunters are allowed, but only if they contribute to the upkeep of the property, and don't screw or nail into the trees for their blinds.
About 20 years ago, my Father-in-law planted a number of oak trees, knowing fully well that they will be ready for harvest several generations beyond his lifetime.
wrmcclellan anjdevil2 Your radiation suit looks pretty cool - you could also be Radioactive Man...... I like it!
anjdevil2 Your radiation suit looks pretty cool - you could also be Radioactive Man......
I like it!
anjdevil2Your radiation suit looks pretty cool - you could also be Radioactive Man......
Flintlock76Considering that rig they're going to suit you up with you might wind up looking like Maria the Robot from that old silent sci-fi film "Metropolis!" Stay stong and hang tough Roy!
Stay stong and hang tough Roy!
That is precisely what I look like! Except I ain't shiney....
Day 2 under the belt!
Partly cloudy and 54. Did not freeze last night. Banana tree leaves show that the freeze did hit. About time. Rain tonight but gone tomorrow early.Not much on agenda. Seems good. Trip north to Louisburg for stuffed sausage for my adopted Daughter. Her family gobbled it all down while she was down there during Thanksgiving. Grab me a fried tenderloin biscuit at Biscuit Station there. UMMMMM May try getting some turnip greens [cooked] at Carley C's there too.Hope all have a happy and safe day.
Mornin' boys. Overcast and 36 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. Visiting with FifeMom today. I will decorate the tree for my folks. More progress in train room, including another Kinkade inspired scene. Will post some pics on SPF.
anjdevil - Hope you're feeling better.
Good evening all,
Another busy day at work. Lots of conference calls and training. Not the best time of year to do this. Wife stayed another night at her sister's so it was quiet at home. Most cloudy today. I hope everyone has a good day.
Good evening from a cloudy 35°F Southern Ohio,
Ready for the weekend. Still busy at work and plugging along on the kitchen redo. Kids want to start decorating so we’ll start that soon.
Roy – Wow, is right! You’re continually in my prayers
Spank – The storage you added is impressive
Rich – Hope the stones come out ok
May God bless you and you families
Jim
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