Aloha - snowy snow overnight - more today - hope to get out there later to clear the driveway. Wow, Fife, glad youngster and mom are doing OK.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Mornin' boys. A bit of excitement in fifeworld the past day. New grandson decided he was done, and left the station early. Both middle princess and little engineer are doin fine, however he has to stay in the shed a week for finishing touches.
43 and light rain which is moving out. Off to work for the County.
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Good evening all,
Finally got the last item accomplished that I needed to work entirely from home. I have no need to ever go back to the office and I do not plan to do so. After a certain point in time if it would become an issue, I can just walk away. That is a great feeling. Lousy weather today. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Steven Otte Hello, folks. Forum admin here. I had to step into this thread to clean up a spot of nasty behavior. This is a warning that continued deliberate antagonism toward other Forum members (including cries of "But he started it") could result in moderation, suspension, probation, and/or banning. To your corners, gentlemen.
Hello, folks. Forum admin here.
I had to step into this thread to clean up a spot of nasty behavior. This is a warning that continued deliberate antagonism toward other Forum members (including cries of "But he started it") could result in moderation, suspension, probation, and/or banning.
To your corners, gentlemen.
He started it when he punched me back!
Too much rain here today. I hope everyone else is more dry.
I never saw a TV show or movie for All the Creatures Great and Small but the book was marvelous!
The funny thing is the Yorkshire countryside didn't look that good in the first go-round! Seemed like it was always overcast and threatening rain!
We're especially having trouble getting used to the new "Tristan." The old one always came across as a mischevious little boy, this one we want to punch! Seems like smarmy wise guy!
Flint, no I don't but Wifey watched it back then. I'm guessing the young vet will marry the farm lady, the brother will marry the pub owner's daughter, the vet will marry his house keeper and the farm lady's little sister will become a vet [unheard of back then]. I love the English country side.
anjdevil - You may want to concentrate on adding more light in the attic. Remember the single fixture fluorescents at my old house. It took six of them to fill the layout with light. It'll put eyes on the trains, and no one will be looking to the rafters. Check out Mouldy Raspberry on YouTube. Similar situation in an attic.
Roy - Good news on the downgrade trend. Do watch out for any rolling snowballs.
Good afternoon - a little late - work was busyShort weekend again, before too long, I'll be making it a day longer.Saturday completed my cleaning of the house, I'll swab the decks tonight. Set up my new home off in my bedroom, just need to fix the desk and I'll be done and then setting up my monitors and such.Saturday night my Princess came over with her BF and we had dinner at a new Mexican place - which they enjoyed. Afterwards, we went to Jenni's and played with the PS1. It was a good time.Sunday Jenni and I ran some errands and made it to the Train Attic - got 2 shelves up over the layout - I'll try to post a picture later - so that is progress. I now have some room on the storage tracks on the layout. I can put more rolling stock off the floor and on the layout. The shelving also made for installing the LED lights I bought so that worked out as well.I have my $100 e-gift card and another $100 card from Home Depot so I have everything in place to buy the ceiling tiles and get started on putting them in between the trusses in the attic. Hopefully it will stabilize the temp up there a little better and it will look a little better as well.Calling for 3" of Snowhizio tonight and right on cue, some genius in the state capital ordered to brine the roads yesterday morning - yeah, that was smart.....typical.
Hang in there Roy!! You got this - Prayers Continue !!
Nice work, Fife!!
Going back to the job - always busy, lately...
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
They're predicting rain around here instead of snow, which suits me fine.
I like snow at Christmas time for tradition's sake, but after Epiphany I'd rather not have it, thank you just the same.
Say Chief, do you remember the "All Creatures Great And Small" from the '80s? We're watching the new one ourselves and enjoying it, although it's kind of like coming back to the old neighborhood and everyone you knew is gone, if you know what I mean. Taking a little getting used to!
Morning/afternoon all!
Better today! Yesterday not so bad! On the downhill finally?
Have a great day all! Thanks again for the positive support! Makes my day easier just knowing!
Regards, Roy
Afternoon all.
Not much planned for today, need to do a bank run then home, may do some more deconstruction.
Hope all have a good day.
46 and rainy. Now guessers say not as much rain as earlier guessed.Cooked stuffed sausage butterflied and biscuits. Cleaned kitchen and especially the gas range top. Sat in den with Wifey and watched news and the All Creatures Great and Small DVR's from PBS. Now to get moving and do nothing. Work tomorrow.On the vaccine side. Now since I have Thursday appointment with WakeMed, State and County are trying to set me up. Interesting. BTW: Friend Fred is not interested in getting it.
Steve, thanks.
Couldn't get in CTT yesterday afternoon. ? Guessed they were running billing and server busy.
Have a good one.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Good morning, gentlemen... (woof)
Flurries, sleeties, and slick road conditions in the Potomac Highlands. Fine by me, I've got nowhere to be. Going to try and stay in the train room. Didn't have anything in the "can" for SPF this week. Need others to contribute.
cnw1995 - Everything Americas Cup is on youtube. The best segments are the ones between 25-30 minutes long, by americas cup. Day 3 of the round-robins was the best racing I've ever seen, up to the capsize. If you have the time, watch the December match races first, which include the Kiwis. BTW, nice to have you back in house.
Aloha. Looking to get snow later today here - first real storm of the year. I think it will miss Kev but we may get 5 inches or so. Glad to be working from home still. I'll still have to clear things as everyone else who lives here has to get to work tomorrow.
Fife, I have been watching the America's Cup here and there - it is tough to find on TV and online - but very exciting - some of those boats are 'flying' at 50+ knots.
I got a kick out of all the liveries for the Acela. I may try replacing my conventional controlled Percy to make up a new Ivor (the old British television show Ivor the Engine is the theme of my layout) that would use Lionchief. I have to look more into what Lionchief requires power-wise on the layout
A few years back MTH came out with a "Cardinal" assortment of passenger cars. I was raised Catholic myself, but quite honestly if you looked up the definition of "Good Catholic" in the dictionary you won't find my picture there. On the other hand, that MTH set kind of brought back the old "Home Team" spirit.
But I never saw it for sale anywhere so didn't lose any sleep over getting one.
Here it is, in case anyone's interested:
http://www.themetrains.com/cardinals-train-m-mth-o-gauge-model.htm
That $2,000+ price tag on the Lionel version? Nope, can't afford it.
Mike, I hear you, my grand daughter got a Frozen gift from her other grand mother for Christmas and like asked us???? frozen is so un-cool. Hard to try to live off of the trends.
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Quiet days lately. Miserable weather. I spent Friday looking at Lionel's new catalog. I wonder what they are thinking. Most of the "sets" have some sort of promotional theme (Star Trek, Harry Potter, Frozen 2, etc.) and maybe one new railroad oriented one. Even the Legacy Line of sets are pretty obscure. I am Catholic and I would not be the least interested in the Cardinal set. I think the most obvious example is the Polar Express Acela set at $2500 and expansion set at $1000 more. There is one small ray of hope. The page of 6 box cars with electro couplers does present possibilities. I hope everyone has a good day.
Thanks cnw', we appreciate that.
Flintlock76 Take a shot of bourbon when you come in man, works for me! They say alcohol's not supposed to help when you get cold, in fact they SAY it makes things worse, but I don't know, seems to be otherwise in my case.
Take a shot of bourbon when you come in man, works for me!
They say alcohol's not supposed to help when you get cold, in fact they SAY it makes things worse, but I don't know, seems to be otherwise in my case.
Alcohol widens the blood vessels near the skin, which allows core body heat to leave quicker, the heat dissapating from the skin makes the person feel warm.
So, it is bad to have alcohol in your system if you are going out into the cold, or already out in the cold, but a shot once you get in out of the cold, might be a good thing.
I was going to snowblow the driveway this afternoon, but the wife had other ideas. I did get it done this evening. Maybe I'll start taking down one of the Christmas trees this evening.
WOW,, Good to see Doug!!!!
Finished up the plumbing project yesterday just to find out the softener had a leak in the drain line so that kind of killed the whole idea. Today I took it apart and found some hill rod plumber installed the wrong O ring and it did not contact the outsine port with no pressure so it would leak out anything in the drain line but would seal under pressure??? Go figure?
So all is fine now and working, I will not post a bunch of pictures or waste your time with any more on that. It works for me......
So the UK virus strain is in IL and 24 other states, 30% worse for (death) and so easy to get??? So what do you guys want to call it??
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cnw1995 - Have you been checking out the America's Cup?
Aloha. Cloudy and cold.Supposed to be snowy this week. I'm glad I'm still working from home. Speaking of working, I wanted to avoid doing some reports and other office work that I can't seemt to get to during the week so I decided as yet another distraction to tackle my login issues here - and voila! Fife, your and Mrs. Fife's inspiration to decorate the train room sounds wonderful.Flint, my condolences on the loss of your dog. They are sure members of the family. We currently have two - a puppy and an older dog. Along with two cats who don't get along with the puppy. Wrangling them is like doing so with young children but worth it!Glad you're getting the vaccine, Chief!DJ, I wonder if something is going on with the alternator - I'd forgotten that is what went bad with our Saturn wagon - and some other odd electrical issues.
Hey Spank, if it ain't the China Virus then what is it? It didn't come from Sweden. Or the Ukraine. Or Madagascar. Or 'Nam. Or Elbonia for that matter.
I wonder if the alternator's going on the Saturn? If it's the original that could be the cause of the battery issues. Saturn's haven't been made in quite a while now. Lady Firestorm had a Saturn and liked it, but when the transmission started acting up it was going to cost more to fix it than the car was worth, so, good-bye Saturn. The starter may be going too, Lady F had to have that replaced about a year before the tranny started to go.
Late magazines? Lady F only got her "Good Housekeeping" and "Better Homes" mags yesterday, two weeks overdue. We still haven't gotten the "Readers Digest" and my latest, action-packed edition of "Railpace" hasn't shown up either.
February's "CTT" I got last week. We all know about the USPS so no point in my going into it again.
I too did not get my Feb CTT. I called cust svc (Texas ?) on Jan 15. They told me I would get replacement in 10 working days just like they do each time it happens. Can't reall understand why it should take that long. Of course one time it took a month and a half. Almost cancelled over that. Wayne
Joe, This is the recipe I use for wings and it is great, just wonder how it would work as an overnite marinade then done in an air fryer w/o have to cook in the sauce.
Maple Chicken Wings Recipe | Food Network
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