CLOSED////////The Coffee Pot is still on and over 3 years. Here we gather as friends with trains.

[Buckeye Riveter]

Somehow I missed the reason given for the deletion of the old coffee pot?   Was it because it was getting too sticky talking about grits?  Or was it the promotion of sweet tea, a known cause for tooth decay? 

[tmcc man]

Good morning everyone,

I already had my breakfast, M&M's. It's going to be rainy and cold here today.

 I am in the process of designing an N-scale layout, which will be on a door. The reason that it will be on a door is because there is more room for expansion, if I can get land grants. I know that I will be running primarily Lehigh Valley, Reading, CNJ, PRR, Chesapeake&Ohio, N&W, and NYC on the layout. I will post pix when I start building it.

I hope everyone has a good day.

[ChiefEagles]

Somehow I missed the reason given for the deletion of the old coffee pot?   Was it because it was getting too sticky talking about grits?  Or was it the promotion of sweet tea, a known cause for tooth decay? 

Too many lame brains in Ohizo.

Now off to my breakfast of country ham biscuits, eggs and grits [my wife cooked breakfast ].  Later

[zwbob]

Good Morning and Happy New Year. Its gloomy outside and I'm getting a nasty cold. Been on vacation since the Thursday before Christmas. Don't go back till Wednesday. I kind of fell out of the old coffee pot, lets see if I can post more in the new pot. Time to start counting the days for the K-line club engine to show up. I payed for it in October 2004. I hope its worth the wait. The inlaws are coming over for dinner today(Pork, dumplings & sourkraute. NO GRITS). Oldest daughter going back to PA after dinner, youngest one home for the rest of the week. It was nice having them home for the holidays. Have a good day.

Bob

 

 

[laz 57]

HI GIZ,

  Fist day of my 50th year, ouch?

   Rainy here today might go out hunting with flintlock if weather improves or stay at home and put some lights on the layout?

All have a good one. 

laz57

[Anonymous]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

I toned down the greetings for all those bloodshot eyes this morning.

It's a balmy 45F with nary a snowflake in sight here in Gormley.  I ain't complainin' tho.  Usually by now you can hear a Ford rusting from 40 feet away. 

  Time to tear down the tree and put away the Standard Gauge stuff.   That's the signal it's time to get back to working on the attic if I'm ever going to catch up to Chief.  I'll try taking pictures of the progress and post them here ...just don't expect any jackrabbit results.  I have to build a room first before I even think of benchwork.

I'm glad the Coffee Pot is back without any major Starbucks changes.   And no Mocca Soya Latte at $7.95 a cup either!

Bruce Webster

[fifedog]

Mornin' everyone.  Spank, can you please pass the sugar?  Just another day for me; gotta be at work at 1430 hours. HAPPY NEW YEAR, just the same.

[Jim Duda]

Duda's 2007 Resolutions:

• Hold off on any lawn mowing until Feb 14, 2007
• Find a hairpiece that makes me look like Bill Clinton
• Get new teeth that won't stain from drinkin' too much sweet tea
• Be the first guy in Texass to wire up TMCC II
• Lose 40 lbs so I can push my snowblower better
• Eat more grits than ChiefieBoy does for breakfast (without pukin'!)
• Keep my post count less than 1000 at the end of the year
• Post something train related...

Best Wishes to everyone for the VERY BEST of new years!

[zwbob]

Laz, Keep me posted on that 50 stuff, I turn the big 50 in June

 

Bob

[mitchelr]

Finishing my second cup of coffee (Community Dark Roast) and having some quiet time with the dogs on the couch.

Now that is a real cup of coffee.  Made a journey to Texas and Louisiana about 3 years ago for a wedding.  First time I had ever had Community Coffee.  The Mrs. and I bought about 4 lbs of the dark roast to bring home with us. If I close my eyes tight and breathe deep I can still smell the aroma.

Mitch

[gwg50]

Happy New Year To All You Guys. Wishing You all the best. Gary

[wrmcclellan]

Well Happy New Year y'all,

LAZ and ZWBOB - don;t worry - the fliers from AARP will start coming soon and alert you to all your ills and needs to plan for Medicare gap insurance! If you do not join, they send an 800lb (he seems to have gained weight over the holidays?) bear to help you see the light.

Watching the Rose Parade - really spectactular floats this year with the nature theme.

BTW - great Year in review article by Dave Barry in yesterday's newspaper. The most relevent quote applying to the Coffee Pot members is that the nations interstae highway system marked it's 50 th b-day last year with 47,000 miles of high speed roads connecting 157,000 Waffle Houses, including the one down the street from SpankyBird's house!

Have a great day all!

[1688torpedo]

 Ah!   The famous (Willoughby Waffle House") Roy- Now you done it. Willoughby will now be invaded by Rebels just waiting to try out the Waffle House in a Northern Climate. I can see the Parking Lot filled with Southern Corvair's just waiting to try out the cuisine there. Thanks a lot! Take Care.

[MartyE]

Duda's 2007 Resolutions:

• Hold off on any lawn mowing until Feb 14, 2007
• Find a hairpiece that makes me look like Bill Clinton
• Get new teeth that won't stain from drinkin' too much sweet tea
• Be the first guy in Texass to wire up TMCC II
• Lose 40 lbs so I can push my snowblower better
• Eat more grits than ChiefieBoy does for breakfast (without pukin'!)
• Keep my post count less than 1000 at the end of the year
• Post something train related...

Best Wishes to everyone for the VERY BEST of new years!

 Jim

 I think #6 is really going to make #5 hard to achieve.  Chief luvs his grits. 

 

Happy New Year!  Sitting in the airport in Charlotte. 

[cheapclassics]

Good afternoon everybody,

It is cloudy and cooler in SE Indiana with temps dropping into the 30s today.  No SNOW except maybe for a few flurries today.  I can leave the snowblower alone for a while longer.  We stayed up really late this morning, and I should have posted then  Wow , we are up to three pages already!  It is good to see so many people on the new "pot".  We got up around 10 AM today.  We may watch some movies today as we are not into college football very much.  I want to wish all on the forum a HAPPY NEW YEAR!  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Brutus]

Feeling tired - let the kids stay up and ended up getting to bed about 1:30.  Luckily, no work today!  Can finally get to my layout, so will probably get something done today.  Here's to a great year!

[RR Redneck]

Howdy y'all. I am not doin anything today, work on my little N scale layout 25"x48" and continue trying to find a way to build my O scale self layout. I might go out to the ranch today and put some corn in my deer feeders, but I am still not sure if I want to drive out there today.

[ChiefEagles]

Glad to see Duda has his old humor with him.  Marty, wave as you fly over Roseyville headed Nawth.  Dozed as I watched a few westerns.  Now on the way up to do more work on layout.  Still rainy or I'd be sawing away.  Seems all are checking in.  Think I'll call Skyray and see if he is OK.  Jim A sounded better today.  Later.

[Locomotive681]

Hi every one just got ate a big bowl of grits I HELP CHIEF get grits into New York.

 

[Anonymous]

Happy New Year everyone!

Penn State lands Big Ten's first Win in 2007!

Finished taking down the Christmas layout this morning

Father-In-Law has offered his basement as the staging area for next year's Christmas layout!  LOL!  Construction begins in two weeks - pictures to follow.

[Locomotive681]

Why isnt my avitar working? HELP

[jefelectric]

Happy New Year everyone.

Slept late this morning then took down outside Christmas decorations and stored them away, then watched Penn State beat Tennesee.  When I finnaly got around to the Pot it already had three pages.

Also took my Christmas train off the layout and stored it away.

Laz, Think of it as starting your second half century!

zwbob, That sounds like a PA New Years day dinner.

Enjoy your trains,

[RR Redneck]

With the exception of my Polar Express Set (which I run year round), all my x-mas stuff is back in its boxes or up on the shelves for next year.

[Anonymous]

Well, it's better, but it still ain't good yet.  In order to post, I have to completely disable my firewall, even though I have told it to trust this site one hundred percent.  But it is better than it used to me, at least I can post by disabling the firewall.

Drinking some Cafe Bustello Cafe con Leche, or Cafe con Lecher as I used to call it when I was younger and feistier.  Got a ham hock boiling for the collards, and the black eyed peas and hog jowl are already.  The brisket just signaled that it was ready, so let me test post this and see how it goes.

Happy NEW YEAR all you guys.

Doug Johnson

Miami

[anjdevil2]

Happy New Year ALL!

Had my Dunkin Donuts coffee & crossaint.  Here in the Northern outpost of Florida it is dark drizzly and 70, very humid.  Waffle House rules, just keep them grits fer someone else, PLEASE!!!

We'll dismantle the Christmas stuff on Saturday, the traditional end of the Christmas season, then try to find a new home for the Pemberton & Hightstown railway.  The wife is hinting the garage, as I'm seriously considering selling off the car (and those related parts) and ALL the Hot Wheels.  Something to mull over the next short work week!

[Buckeye Riveter]

Penn State lands Big Ten's first Win in 2007!

Congratulations to all Penn State Fans!       Did Penn State take that Lion sound effect with them to the game.  That is the most obnoxious stadium sound in football and really the opposition.

Why isnt my avitar working? HELP

It is working just fine on my computer.   

Many years ago the Turbo Train pictured in your avatar was running across Northern Indiana during summer "snow" season.  There is about a two week period in Northern Indiana that the Cottonwood trees just "snow" their seeds.  The seeds are attached to white "feathers" as they float through the air resembling snow.

As the Turbo Train crossed through NE Indiana, it powered down and made an emergency stop to clean the intake screens clogged with Cottonwood snow. 

[Locomotive681]

Penn State lands Big Ten's first Win in 2007!

Congratulations to all Penn State Fans!       Did Penn State take that Lion sound effect with them to the game.  That is the most obnoxious stadium sound in football and really the opposition.

Why isnt my avitar working? HELP

It is working just fine on my computer.   

Many years ago the Turbo Train pictured in your avatar was running across Northern Indiana during summer "snow" season.  There is about a two week period in Northern Indiana that the Cottonwood trees just "snow" their seeds.  The seeds are attached to white "feathers" as they float through the air resembling snow.

As the Turbo Train crossed through NE Indiana, it powered down and made an emergency stop to clean the intake screens clogged with Cottonwood snow. 

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Thanks a bunch Buckeye I would like to get the ohio state set go Buckeyes!!!

[ChiefEagles]

"And Mom and Dad [and some on this forum] will be glad when school starts again."

Off to Inlaws for dinner.  Got some work done upstairs.  Later

[GregM]

Wow!  Took a long time to get caught up.  Had three/four pages on the old pot to read and this one is already up to four pages.

Buckeye, condolances to you, your wife and family.  Losing a family member is always difficult.

Laz, Turned fifty a few years ago, hardly remember it now.  Memory fades fast, I think I'm 53. As for getting primed, there are pills for that. 

Been a busy day.  Took down Christmas tree and other decorations.  Seems that takes longer after 50 too.  lol

Here is wishing everyone in the pot a "Happy New Year."

[c50truck]

Happy New Year to one and all.

Just stopped in to see if my avatar was working. Took some advice from the “Hints for newcomers thread”, and am updating my profile. I will also be taking Thor’s advice in that thread regarding how we come across in writing, to heart.

Here’s to a great new year.

Rod L.