fifedog wrote:Mornin' boys. Sunny & 80's here in the Mid-Atlantic region. 50% chance of rain all day...we shall see. Nice sweetheart stories everybody. Mine is kinda cut & dry: walked into my neighborhood bank--->it was full service...
kpolak wrote: dougdagrump wrote: Who wants to start the pool as to when Brent's new shed turns into a playhouse for the future "Little Brent" ? He only has a couple of walls up...time for a re-design! More SF, and a bedroom addition for the house. We did that, and my wife and new daughter lived at a friend's house for 3-months, because I didn't finish in time for the baby.Kurt
dougdagrump wrote: Who wants to start the pool as to when Brent's new shed turns into a playhouse for the future "Little Brent" ?
Who wants to start the pool as to when Brent's new shed turns into a playhouse for the future "Little Brent" ?
He only has a couple of walls up...time for a re-design! More SF, and a bedroom addition for the house. We did that, and my wife and new daughter lived at a friend's house for 3-months, because I didn't finish in time for the baby.
Kurt
Good morning all,
It is hot and humid in Hoosierland again with the temps and humidity both in the 90s. It may cool off to the high 80s this weekend?!?!! Doug, that camp sounds like it may be the same one. It was called Camp Louis Ernst. Worked on various projects last night. It rained and cooled things off for a while so the wife and I went for a walk and then later on I went to the YMCA for a few quick "hot" laps.
Speaking of my wife, we met at Hanover College. The first time we met, she was on a date with a fraternity brother. I then started dating her roommate, and I got to know her as well. After the roommate and I stopped seeing each other, I was going to go a high school basketball game with another frat brother. He had a girlfriend, and they wanted me to have a date as well so I asked she who would be my wife to go with me. We dated almost four years and will celebrate 29 years in November.
Just the usual fare on the dining car today. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a nice, sunny 68 degrees. Going up to 93 today, with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. I hope not.
Today, I am taking it easy. The last two days have been busy. Grass is all mowed and shopping done. Time to sit under the big shade tree and rest. I may run trains later today. It is nice and cool in the train room. This heat wave seems to be staying for awhile.
Well, Dining Car has rolled in and is now serving breakfast. Later.
Y'all have a great Thursday.
Chuck
FJ and G wrote:met my soul mate in Seoul while crossing a pedestrian bridge (on a USMC deployment). Asked her if she could recommend a good place to eat (but not soul food)
Did you and your "Seoul" mate end up having filet of sole for dinner?
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
dwiemer wrote:How we met: There I was, on a deserted Island and I found this lamp. While I was rubbing my........lamp, ...By the second dance, I knew I was dancing with my future wife. That is when I called all the others and let them know I was unavailable.Dennis
How we met: There I was, on a deserted Island and I found this lamp. While I was rubbing my........lamp, ...By the second dance, I knew I was dancing with my future wife. That is when I called all the others and let them know I was unavailable.
Dennis
HA! That's rich, Dennis! "All the others". That's too funny! Oh man, you just made my day! ROFLMAO!!! I think I just wet myself!... Sounds like you and the Chief were a real pair of hounds back in the days before electricity!
Oh, death, where is thy sting?!
Jim
Morning Folks. Made a fresh pot. Been reading the stories of how you all met your spouses.
The Mrs. and I have a strange tale as to how we met. You see, I met her in the Summer of '75. If you ask her, she met me during the summmer of '77. Here's my side of the story. We were both working at a summer camp run by the St Vincent de Paul Society in Annapolis, Maryland. I met her during the counselor orientation weekend, the weekend before camp started. We were invited for the weekend to help get things cleaned up and learn the camp rules and routines. I worked the boys sessions. She was working the girls sessions. After boys sessions were over (2 - 2 week sessions), girls sessions started. My wife worked girls session. Camp was such a cool place that after boys session was over, I was there more than I was home. I used to help out with setting up activities, and because it was a charity camp run on donations, there were always broken down appliances and cars, and I helped fix the washing machine and the camp car. The Mrs. was a counselor in girls session. I guess I made such a great impression that summer, that she has absolutely no recollection of meeting me at all, even though, mutual friends remember us being introduced. The next year, I worked both sessions. The Mrs. visited, but did not work. Still no spark or recollection. The third summer, she came and volunteered for two weeks during her vacation. That's when she says she met me. It was on a Saturday night and we went with mutual friends to a place that had a bluegrass band, Charlie's Westside Inn. After her two week visit, she left and went back home to Florida and we started writing to each other. (Couldn't afford the long distance bill as a young teacher) The rest, as they say, is history. It is now 30 years later for her (and 32 years for me) and we've been married for 28 years. The best decision I've made in my whole life was to ask her to marry me.
Have a great day,
Mitch
Bob Mitchell Gettysburg, PA TCA # 98-47956 LCCA# RM22839
Met my better(?) half in the ninth grade, 42nd anniverasry this October. Never thought about it before but maybe that's why I like Halloween so much !
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Proud New Member Of The NRA
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Oh - thanks Brent!
Hey, Doug Murphy, are you gonna get that Lionel Std Gauge Trolley? Man - I think that would be so cool going around the room up on a shelf layout....
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Nick - I liked Hot Fuzz a lot, but I LOVED Shaun of the Dead - that was sheer genius! There are a lot of great British movies.
Chief - I assume you got divorced at some point prior to marrying Pam???
Great stories guys! I met my wife on a blind date that my dad set up. They worked together and she was really into movies. My dad told her she should meet me and invited her to dinner at my folks house to meet me. Well, the only day she could make it for a couple weeks was on my birthday! We didn't tell her it was my birthday. It was pretty awkward, because (1) my parents were there and (2) of course my mom didn't approve since my dad was introducing us. Charlene thought I wasn't interested until I got her phone number when she was getting ready to leave. Then she says she has to go, 'cause she want's to call her dad and wish him happy birthday The rest is history - we got married less than a year later and that was 13 (edit) years ago! Which reminds me - I have an anniversary this month!!!!! Man - you guys saved my LIFE!
It was over 100 today and I heard the heat index was 110. So, of course, I had to mow the lawn. I mowed on the hill to start and just kept in the shade as it was getting later until it was all shade and I was d-o-n-e.... Man, I'm beat.
Oh, just got an email from TRAINZ and the Best Friend of Charleston is on sale/preorder(?) for 7 percent off. Lionel's shipment should be here tomorrow, so this is mainly info for any of you guys who might want it still.
Evening guys,
Hot here today also, 96 so not quite as hot as the Chief's local. Not much train action lately. Stopped in at Barry's and got my new Lionel and K-Line catalogs. Nothing in either that I have to have, so maybe I can save a little money. Problem is I have a ton of stuff ordered from MTH, Atlas & Weaver.
Spent my usual Wednesday at TCA, entered about half, up to page 147 of the Lionel catalog in the spreadsheet for exchange. This gives me a chance to check out the catalog as I go. Sure is a lot of kid stuff in the catalog. Reminds me of catalogs of the 50s. If they can get stores to put this stuff on the shelves, it will sell. Also a lot of sets. Thickest catalog I've seen in a while. Not everything in the catalog is new, but it is a nice catalog.
Met my wife on a blind date, set up by an old girlfriend. 40 years this past May so I guess it worked out OK.
Take care,
I met my sweetie playing sand volleyball with the locals I usually played with. She showed up with a mutual friend, who wasn't interested in her. I checked... We talked a bit thru the afternoon, and she left before I could ask her out...I saw her stopped at a stop sign at the end of the block on the way home, so I pulled up next to her and asked her out. We went for ice cream at the local dairy, and have been inseparable ever since.
Disney Train arrived today...Haven't had time to open yet.
PS Hey where's Grayson?????
How we met: There I was, on a deserted Island and I found this lamp. While I was rubbing my........lamp, a genie appeared and said, "if you don't get off this island, you are going to die!" so....OK, just kidding. Kim was pulled to work in the ICU at a hospital I used to do cases in. I had gone to do rounds and saw her across the desk. Smiled, it was returned, asked someone about her and got her number. Went on a walk as our first date.....we didn't go on another for several months. Then, I called her for Thanksgiving to wish her a happy one and she asked me to the hospital Christmas party. By the second dance, I knew I was dancing with my future wife. That is when I called all the others and let them know I was unavailable.
As for the heat, it was 106 and with the index, it was 117F. So hot, the dog's pee turned to steam and evaporated before it hit the ground. The trees were begging him to visit. I was on the tractor moving some fallen trees and cutting grass....lasted about 1.5 hours and had to stop.
TCA#09-63805
Fife, they do make a surge protector for phone lines. Mine is integrated with the power block that I have the Satallite plugged into.
Brent, if you have a Publix supermarket near you, go to the baby isle or by the pharmacy. They have a card for the "Baby Club" that you send in and they will send you lots of freebies. We also go a Mayo Clinic book on Pregnancy/child developement. Lots of free diapers, etc. Congrats, I hope for the best for you and your bride.
Sturgeon-Phish wrote: Evening all,Hot in Southern Ohio. It was 102 as I was cutting grass. Good breeze off the rivers so didn't feel much hotter than 95 I met the love of my life in 1972 in high school. I was skipping class and met her in the hall as I was heading to the locker room She was from the "nice" group of kids and I figured her for a hall monitor. I started talking with her and really got to liking her and started dating. The rest is "happily ever after . . . May God bless your needsJim
Evening all,
Hot in Southern Ohio. It was 102 as I was cutting grass. Good breeze off the rivers so didn't feel much hotter than 95
I met the love of my life in 1972 in high school. I was skipping class and met her in the hall as I was heading to the locker room She was from the "nice" group of kids and I figured her for a hall monitor. I started talking with her and really got to liking her and started dating. The rest is "happily ever after . . .
May God bless your needs
That is a great story Jim. Glad it has worked so well.
AH, 102, just a little Southern Comfort for yuz giz.
Movie and popcorn time. [got to eat it all up before John S gets home ]
I was separated and having the single life [except two kids living with me in apt, but where there was a will, there was a way ] My wife was my secretary. She knew all about "nice" honeys I was getting around with. One day I asked her to go to dinner with Frankie and I. She said yes. Then didn't show and had some excuse. Next weekend, both kids were to be at their Mom's. Lady [ex-neighbor and old time friend with big b~@#^] called me for a "weekender" and Pam knew it and her. Something happen to one of her kids and she had to cancel at the last moment. Did not tell Pam. Monday at work I acted as if I was "worn" out. Next weekend she came driving up and Frankie and us went to dinner. After dinner, she named them all and said you are not to see them again if you date me. Been together ever since and no, I never saw the others again []had to ask sevral to leave the apt door after that].
Two layers of soundboard down. Later
Jim Fortner wrote: Well, Hot Fuzz was pretty funny but BLOODY! Lots of character actors you've seen before plus Timothy Dalton - didn't know he was in it. Prayers for those miners.
Well, Hot Fuzz was pretty funny but BLOODY! Lots of character actors you've seen before plus Timothy Dalton - didn't know he was in it. Prayers for those miners.
Jim, I'll deal with the trolley wally. That was a real Somerfields supermarket that got wasted...see what happens when you ask where the grits are over here.
Got the floor insulation down in the gamesroom tonight(saved some spare for layout mountain). Floor Screed goes in on Friday.
Have a good evening all
Nick
We met in high school, graduated, she got married and moved. Lost track somehow. I led the life, was engaged 3 times, she was separated, then divorced, we met up again many years later. We went out for 2 years, now on year 18 of a life sentence.....
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
laz 57 wrote: jaabat wrote: FJ and G wrote: Thought for today. The thought just occurred to me that most of us older types who grew up before the Internet was commonly used, somehow met our sweethearts without the aid of Match.com or eHarmony. I don't know how we managed to pull that off?! Here's how I did it. I was at a cookout many years ago. As I was stuffing my face with bar-b-q chicken, I looked up from my plate and saw a young lady sitting in a chair a few feet away. She was wearing shorts and a tank top and looked incredible. So as I was looking at her, she looked up at me. The very first thing I said to her was "hey, you've got great looking legs". She laughed even though it was true and we have been together ever since. That was 16 years ago.JimNice job JIM.Met my wife on AM Middle School Bus DUTY. Met every morning at 7AM. Talked then she asked me if I wanted to go for a run after school? I said I had to get my stuff but yea, drove home got my stuff met her did a nice 5 miler. Been together for 12 years.laz57
jaabat wrote: FJ and G wrote: Thought for today. The thought just occurred to me that most of us older types who grew up before the Internet was commonly used, somehow met our sweethearts without the aid of Match.com or eHarmony. I don't know how we managed to pull that off?! Here's how I did it. I was at a cookout many years ago. As I was stuffing my face with bar-b-q chicken, I looked up from my plate and saw a young lady sitting in a chair a few feet away. She was wearing shorts and a tank top and looked incredible. So as I was looking at her, she looked up at me. The very first thing I said to her was "hey, you've got great looking legs". She laughed even though it was true and we have been together ever since. That was 16 years ago.Jim
FJ and G wrote: Thought for today. The thought just occurred to me that most of us older types who grew up before the Internet was commonly used, somehow met our sweethearts without the aid of Match.com or eHarmony. I don't know how we managed to pull that off?!
Thought for today.
The thought just occurred to me that most of us older types who grew up before the Internet was commonly used, somehow met our sweethearts without the aid of Match.com or eHarmony.
I don't know how we managed to pull that off?!
Here's how I did it. I was at a cookout many years ago. As I was stuffing my face with bar-b-q chicken, I looked up from my plate and saw a young lady sitting in a chair a few feet away. She was wearing shorts and a tank top and looked incredible. So as I was looking at her, she looked up at me. The very first thing I said to her was "hey, you've got great looking legs". She laughed even though it was true and we have been together ever since. That was 16 years ago.
Nice job JIM.
Met my wife on AM Middle School Bus DUTY. Met every morning at 7AM. Talked then she asked me if I wanted to go for a run after school? I said I had to get my stuff but yea, drove home got my stuff met her did a nice 5 miler. Been together for 12 years.
laz57
27 years ago, I met my wife in a bowling alley. She was on a team and I was there with a buddy who bowled. I bought her a drink and that was the beginning of it. ( She is much younger than me LOL)
I stopped at the train store today after work and bought a girl's train NYC boxcar for Julia. I figured it would save me the trouble of making one, and it was 40% off. Also bought some lead weights for some of the lighter cars we have. Saw a great looking HO B&M hopper and it gave me some ideas...
Not much else. Time to run some trains!
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