Mornin' boys. Sunny and 50 along the Allegany front range. Supposed to be dry and 80's all week. Our final day with the Curly Top, and boy did he wake up, shall we say...unagreeable. Five night stay is a new record for him, and we'll hand him off after noon. Yesterday, we hit the hike/bike trail, to nearby Brush tunnel. It was my first foray to WM tracks since I resigned from the Scenic RR...
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Afternoon all!
Cloudy but warm. 90's this weekend - a bit early for that!
Slow couple of days. Low energy. Got the oil/filter and fuel primary filter in the boat changed. There is a secondary filter I just learned about and of course I need a special thread sealer for the change. The sealer is in an auto parts store across town, so have to plan a trip. The secondary filter has never been changed - 2008 boat - but only 400hrs on it - and it runs fine so not worrying about it. PITA to change it. Checked Amazon and it is unclear if anyone has it - and delivery out more than a week.
Daughter and SIL finish the move to their new house tomorrow - they are tired but excited!
Regards, Roy
66 and cloudy. Maybe a slight spit of rain before noon ["unguessed" last night]. Then clearing. No washing house today. Run errands and fill Caddy. We have gas.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Good evening all,
Spent two good days at track. Foyt team did not do well. Wife really enjoyed the Road to Indy races. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
61 and cloudy. Guessers says possible rain. Had a little before I got up. slept "fair to middling". [32nd inch cotton. Southern saying you don't hear anymore]Off to abdominal CT with dye.Only thing left to plant in garden is cucumbers.Have a good one.
Mornin' boys. A little foggy and 50 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. CT is pounding on some kinda Frogger game Grandmom bought, and it sound like a team of carpenters descended in the house. Thanks, Dear....
Bear cubs were here last night and scattered the trashcans for me. Thought they had moved on two weeks ago.
Did get the Williams 10-wheeler repaired, after sodering the frail wire back on its post. Also performed a quick traction tire replacement on Doralee. Really need to do some better wiring on the mainline, and add another power feed or two. I get things up and running, and sometimes my "good enough" ain't a-gettin' it.
Laz gives us Whistle Stop Wednesday, I've been regularly propping up Sunday Photo Fun (ok, not to regularly lately...), now we have Mondays with MartyE.
Morning all
Looks like a progressively warmer week in store. Got a lot done this weekend including the pool deck cleaned, bed washed, grass cut, the pool pump / filter / heater hooked up, and a whole other bunch of spring projects. Hoping to get out of work a little earlier today and get the deck sealed so I can open the pool by Wednesday or Thursday.
Even had time to work on the trains a bit and then run the NKP 765 on an excursion trip...
Stay safe everyone!
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MartyE and Kodi the Husky Dog! ( 3/31/90-9/28/04 ) www.MartyE.com My O Gauge Web Page and Home of Kodiak Junction!
Hey All,
Thought I would drop in and say "HI", nothing going on here, but everything IS good! So no complaints. Weather has been cool here, mostly gray overcast days, (usual stuff).
Glad to see everyone doing good!
Take care all!
Don
Happy Sunday all! I am going to e-file our taxes today.
75 and some clouds. [was sunny earlier] 10:30 Church instead of 9 AM Church. Wifey finally caught on. Its too much of a rush with animals, breakfast and coffee to drive to 9 AM service. Now water some garden. Wifey cooking fresh veggies from State Farmers' Market.Hope all have a great week ahead.
Mornin' girls and boys. Wet, overcast and 55 in the Potomac Highlands. Stuck inside kinda day. We all got a decent night's sleep, so nobody should be on edge. Except fifeMax, whom got a little on edge towards CT, which got his fuzzy butt on his lead. Grand mom has some inside projects for them to do today (If she can stay within the 10 minute window of attention...). Place yer bets...
Speaking of, Derby winner got dusted on the last stretch. The silver hair dude was noticeably absent. Hmmmm...
Would've been nice to be at Dover today. Overcast days are easier in those aluminum stands. Haven't been to a race in a while.
In and out of the train room, and my Williams 4-6-0 had a wire break off on one of the tender pick-up rollers. Tiny wire will be a headache to re-attach...
Youngest Princess wanted me to go with her and her boyfriend to help him pick out some nice threads for an upcoming family function. Kohl's is the only thing nearby, and we were able to suit him up (sports coat,slacks,shirt,shiny shoes, suspenders and even a bow tie), all for a little over two bills. Now she has her "arm candy" for her cousin's wedding.
Chief, I hate to say it but the NRA has been going down the wrong path since Mr. LaPierre came along and started driving the bus down the dark crazy far right road and leaving the hunters and sportsman behind to push fear and lies to soak money out of the membership. JMHO. We will see how it goes. He is just another crook.
72 and sunny. Slept till 8:15. Not as solid as night before but better than weeks.Not much on agenda.Garden planted yesterday looks good as was watered good after planting.Wifey gone to get fresh matters at Farmers' market in Raleigh.Bologna, egg and cheese on hamburger bun.
Some may be interested in this:www.ammoland.com/2021/05/nra-bankruptcy-thrown-out-nra-members-are-the-big-losers/#axzz6uwVsakM5 Enjoy the day.
Good morning!
Sunny and coolish - but headed to 79 today!!!
Did not accomplish much yesterday - babysat the plumber for a vent pipe connection repair.
Marty -
Fifer - sounds like a fun day planned!
Chief - watch out for that bear when you are up in the tree!
Becky - good deal re the trains - glad you are keeping some of the good stuff!
Night 1 is in the books, and it went smoothly. However, our "radar" was on, so every little sound... CT up at 0630, ready to go. We've already spent a half-hour running trains on the carpet. He's gonna help Fifepops dig in the garden, water the posies, and feed the birdies, after breakfast.
Marty - That video was just a tease. Please, sir, may I have some more...?
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
I SLEPT good last night. Fred reminded me of something. Benadryl. At first, lots of energy and then bang. Took two.
Wifey is going to help.
Bear destroyed feeder again. We have a plan. Big pine tree next to it. Going to mount it to the tree 8' off the ground. Bolt top on as bears can climb trees. If she pushes over pine tree, we have a problem.
Have a good one.
Morning all.
Currently 57 in Western PA. Going to the mid 60s so they say with sunny weather all weekend. I guess it's time to clean the pool deck and then seal it. Way over due.
Green tea in the mug and a full day at the office.
A little something from the layout last evening. That guy sleeping by the tracks better be careful...at least I hope he's sleeping.
Mornin' boys and girls. Sunny and 41 along the Patterson Creek cut-off. It is the calm, before the storm. We will be picking up the Curly-Top (CT) this afternoon, for a five night stay. This will be his longest sojourn without his Mommy (OP), so hang onto your hats. He asked if he could "touch Pop's trains" on the phone last night. Grandmom is stoked. Alexis is in hibernation. Even fifeMax seems to be getting extra R&R in preparation.
Penny - Sounds like you've made the best of the situation. And the canoe too? Oh well, you weren't headed to Christmas Island anyway.
V8VegaBecky I guess your selling your trains?
Well...not ALL of them. I'm keeping my favorite stuff in O gauge and 95% of my Standard gauge which boils down to about a half a dozen O gauge locos and the only working Std. Ga. loco I had. Plus freight cars, passenger cars, vintage and reproduction accessories, Plasticville buildings and more.
Since downsizing was forced upon me, and because I had already decided a few years ago to start specializing a bit more, it wasn't too hard to give a lot of it up. When I built Disneyland that put my G-scale out of work at Christmas time. My HO, N and On30 were collecting dust in boxes and there were WAAAAYYYY too many "half of this" and "half of that" items in junk boxes around here.
The only tough decision really was to leave S-gauge behind. That decision got a bit easier when I couldn't get the track off the board without completely destroying it. My locos were so finicky that I had to have my track as close to perfect as possible to keep the locos on the rails. And I decided that mounted trackwork probably wasn't going to be an option in an apartment even if I had some sort of rudimentary train board. So, the S-gauge had to go.
I got a thousand bucks today and he's coming back next tuesday to buy my canoe for another 500.
PLUS!
He's going to try to sell my "THEME PARK" models at a train show in September for 50% of the proceeds! If they don't sell, he will dispose of them which is what I was expecting to have to do anyways. So, it's a chance for (don't say the name, nobody ever heard of any park in California by that name ) to survive on someone else's layout.
Same me, different spelling!
Penny, prayers it went very well in your favor.
pennytrainsTomorrow's a big day. Train buyer coming around 9:30.
Best of luck Becky, if I'm not too late it wishing it for you!
Chief, I use a fractionated oil mix on my cervical arthritis and it has been SUPER in minimizing to eliminating the pain. After I had my "adventure" with some pain killers I swore off them completely regardless of the pain. Being the world's #1 skeptic I tried it to make the better half happy and she almost fainted when I praised the results.
Well my search for a unicorn, a MTH Pullman coach, is being duplicated in a search for a Railking E/F/P series passnger diesel in L&N livery. Apparently they only exist, along with the Pullman coach, in a parallel universe not accessable by mere mortals.
Becky,
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Proud New Member Of The NRA
Good morning folks! A nice sunny day! 70's - aren't cool fronts great?
A couple of 6 hrs sleep per night has me on reduced capacity today.
Not much planned as a result.
Becky - oh a sorta sad day - I need to get back to my list for a similar action with a local train buyer. Intend to have that done by summer?
41 degrees. Fair. Overdosing on Tylenol Authritus.
Off to the farms.
Strange. Dr.'s are scared to give you pain meds and sleep meds. Woke up at 3. Had Tylenol Authritus out waiting. Up at 5 as couldn't go back to sleep.
Later.
Tomorrow's a big day. Train buyer coming around 9:30.
Hey all!
Missed a couple of days - busy and bushed at the same time.
Not much to add....
Chief and others - if you "PASTE" text into this forum for some reason it cannot resolve fonts/etc. I am successful by right-clicking and selecting "PASTE AS PLAIN TEXT". The forum still has trouble with line spacing as this forum auto-spaces new paragraghs at 1.5 lines. Or you can type all your posts in something like MS NOTES, copy and paste - but you will still have the 1.5 line paragragh spacing issue hosing up line and paragragh spacing.
Doc visit was Okay. Gained 12 lb this year, now 212. Most ever for me. I blame the COVID-19 thing and not being able to do anything but eat. All the same BS from him about all the same things for me. But he said see ya next year so that works for me. Did get one new med to replace one I quit taking, go figure! We will see how this one works out. Called pravastatin?
Plenty of gas here and sitting at $3.19 How long, who knows. At least we got plenty of TP.
Same here Chief, never below 1/2 tank is the rule.
Good news on John, boy that is a long surgery.
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