Evening all,
Ran the Franklin around the tree for a bit this evening. Seeing the kids, the tree lights and decorations and smelling the loco smoke makes for good memories.
On the last night shift for this strech. Should not be too bad of a night. Got up around 3 p.m. and it was beautiful out. Hopefully will get to bed by 8 a.m. and up around noon to work on garage. I've not worked on it for almost a week due to work and Christmas. Just about ready for the metal roofing.
CSXect-Good job and keep up the good work.
Buckeye-The coal may come in handy around the layout.
RT-Is insurance going to take care of the porch?
Good night and may God bless
Jim
Good evening on the Pot!
Long day as I had a couple of cases and were going with one man out on vacation today. Mostly urgent findings of a chronic condition....but I digress. We finished up a little after 4 this afternoon and I asked my bride if she wanted to go shopping....you know the answer. We ate dinner at Cracker Barrel and then off to Michael's. Picked up some Lemax items for the layout and then a digital switcher/sound system that plays 20 Christmas carols and has syncronized lights to the music. Originally sold for over $120.00, I picked it up for $15 including tax. Not bad. Also went to Sears and picked up a Craftsman compressor and some air tools. Wife got some ornaments and some clothes.
Well, hope everyone is doing well. I wish we had a train store closer so I could check out after Christmas sales, but none near us.
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Yeah, Yankee weather... definitely Yankee weather.
Watching the Dirty Dozen on AMC. Cool movie. Saw it for the first time when I was a kid. Fell asleep on the couch for 2 hours this afternoon. So I should be wide awake until 2 or 3am...
Got some Yankee weather of our own coming in tomorrow. rain and 2 inches of snow. Just enough to make a sloppy mess. Never seems to be a long enough break in the weather to get the car washed.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Buckeye Riveter wrote: ChiefEagles wrote:Morning. Cold and wet.Would you kindly explain to me why you are cold and wet when you live in a place that never rains and the lowest temperature is 75 degrees?
ChiefEagles wrote:Morning. Cold and wet.
Would you kindly explain to me why you are cold and wet when you live in a place that never rains and the lowest temperature is 75 degrees?
Yankee weather trying to invade the SOUTH.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
EVENIND ALL
Just finished watching my new Harry Potter movie,not sure what the plot was other than someone trying to take over Hogwarts.Liked it thou.
Kurt-the burro crane grinds like a coffee grinder even when it's working right. You could donate it to the "POT" so we could have fresh ground.
I found a power truck for my F3 chassis,I knew I would eventually so thats done and now it runs good.
Brutus- too early for goodnite so we have christmas cookies and milk or ice cream...Sir James
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Just lost 2 pounds this week for a total of 47 so far,off other diabetic med and blood presure med as well doctor wants to monitor them a week with out meds to see if they will be stable enough to not need them.
other than that it has been a typical day for me as wendsdays are my mondays
Afternoon all!
Had a great day yesterday. Friends came over at 4 - great traditional dinner - lots of talking until we all fizzed out about 10 pm. Everyone here slept until noon today. That was sweet!
He-who-is-14 received Guitar Hero III from my sister in Houston, but she got it for the PS3 instead of the PS2. The better half and he-who-is-14 headed out this afternoon and snagged a PS2 version at Wallymart for $10 less than GameStopper or Target. Waiting on receipt from my sister so we can go and get a store credit on the PS3 version.
Got a UP loco and caboose ornament for Christmas. No other train stuff this year. I was hoping that the LCCA would be delivering the #209 Alco pass set before Christmas as originally indicated in all the literature. That was to be my present this year. An e-mail to LCCA and their reply indicates that they hope to ship in January as Lionel is late in delivering. So it will be my late present to myself?
CSX - sorry about the family issues. Prayers for you and your family.
RR - I guess you wanted a new porch anyway? Glad no one was hurt.
Temps here are falling. Rain earlier today and temp now about 41 and falling since cold front went throuh.
Maybe a movie tonight?
Buckeye - didja get yer lump o' coal from the Chief yet?
Regards, Roy
Get weight checked today as they were closed monday. Hope the roast beef&turkey sandwich did not throw me off coarse to bad.
hardley anyone at work today, .........more for me to do
observation.................Lionel Fasttrack is easeir to put together than MTH realtrack how ever I like Gargraves the best its tubular
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
Turkey for lunch today (and most likely the rest of the week). Warm and pleasant here. Mid 40s and blue skies.
Just me and the secretary here today. And I'm thinking of bailing on her and heading home. Or to the hobby shop. Saw a Hogwarts Express for $189. Might get it. But I'm not really sold on it, and it's really not a must have. Seems to be as many unhappy owners as there are happy ones. I might save the money and buy 2 post war 2344 sets.
Just ran Buro, a lot of grinding as it rotates, and and tries to run in reverse. Simply won't run in reverse. This goes back.
Kurt
Good morning all,
IIABSDISEI with temps near 50 today. My wife also gave me a TM DVD of Carail, which we watched last night. It is very good. Everybody had a good time yesterday, and the house is not too big of a mess today. In fact, it looks ok. Some of us played foosball, some played cards, and some of us went for a walk. It was good to be with family. We finished the last of the streusel this morning. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
GOOD MORNING "POT"
Boy this coffee is old, I'll make a fresh pot but someone better drink it or next time I'll just add some fresh grounds. It sounds like most had a good christmas, now to clean up the mess. No train running yet, maybe later.,,,,,,,,,,Sir James
tmcc man wrote:Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I got some movies (Superbad, The Simpson's Movie, The Bourne Ultimatium), XBOX360 accessories (Quick charge kit, wireless headset, cooling fans) and XBOX360 games (Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, Project Gotham Racing 4). I also got a lot of money. I hope everyones Christmas was as good as mine.Have a good evening everyone.
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got some movies (Superbad, The Simpson's Movie, The Bourne Ultimatium), XBOX360 accessories (Quick charge kit, wireless headset, cooling fans) and XBOX360 games (Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, Project Gotham Racing 4). I also got a lot of money.
I hope everyones Christmas was as good as mine.
Have a good evening everyone.
Superbad is hysterical! I laughed so hard, I had tears in my eyes! Lots of low brow humor. Not for the pius among us!
Brutus wrote:PS - Jim and Doug were making me feel a little inferior, so I bought Thomas on ebay, $80 without track or transformer though. Don't really want any more fasttrack or CW80's anyway!
PS - Jim and Doug were making me feel a little inferior, so I bought Thomas on ebay, $80 without track or transformer though. Don't really want any more fasttrack or CW80's anyway!
You got Thomas for an excellent price! Hope he comes with the extra faces. Although we only use the happy one. He has his quirks, so if he misbehaves, let us know. If he runs balky at start ups, that seems to be normal. As he warms up that goes away.
My boys had 2 loops of HO track set up for them while they were at church yesterday. Gordon on the outer loop, UP freight on the inner loop.
Christmas was great. We had guests over for dinner. A lot of work! Now for take out Chinese food New Year's Eve!
Thanks everyone for the prayers and thoughts.
Have been to many different churches.......church "people" can be very odd at times and even down right unfreindly at times. I pop in at 3 churches every now and then the one I grew up in is now mostly old folks their sister church which is much bigger and has a nice youth program on friday nights and the baptist church for bluegrass a small church but very excepting of others and sometimes when I have the time help mom and dad take stuff to the methodist free store where they sometimes volenteer.
Morning!
CSXetc: Prayers for you, and your family.
Brutus: Hope you find the Church you're looking for. We were pretty well welcomed at the candle light vigil we attended at another church. Our Church didn't have Christmas Services.
We had a couple of street people show up at our Church once. Church members went out and brought back McDonalds breakfast for them before they even entered the building. Everyone was a little nervous when they got up to speak in front of the congregation...Turned out they were ministering to Churches, about acceptance, and they masqueraded as street people. I meant to tell you earlier, if you weren't welcomed into a Church at Christmas, you don't need that Church.
Santa left a Fastrack crossing gate and a PRR burro Crane under the tree for me! Crossing gate is a pretty cool accessory. Didn't have time to run the Burro Crane. Now I think I'll be looking for a PW one at the shows.
Neighbor lady (from Russia) gave thumbs up on the pierogies! Whew. Intimidating to cook traditional food.
Spent Christmas day with friends.
Merry Christams and a Happy New Year to all at the Coffee Pot (or is it in the Coffee Pot?)!!
Madge and I both sang two sevices yesterday (at different churches, another story). I got home about 1:15 A.M. from St. Augustine. Madge had been home about 20 minutes. We watched the Christmas Mass from Rome with Pope Benedict XVI, talked, had a late glass of wine and watched a wonderful Christmas program from Belmont College in Tennesse. To bed at 3:00 A.M. (not bad for a couple of Senior citizens?!?). Up early, 8:30 A.M. Madge had another service to sing and I went to an Anglican parish Eucharist. Slept most of the afternoon. Had barbecued steaks, baked potatoes, and wine for Christmas dinner. We leave on the Silver Star for the Big Apple tomorrow nnght. I will post comments about Amtrak sevice on the Trains Magazine Passenger Forum when we get home on New Years Day. Will post again after the first of the year. Did get the disappearing Hobo car for my Polar Express last Saturday.
Mel Hazen; Jacksonville, FL
Mel Hazen; Jax, FL Ride Amtrak. It's the only way to fly!!!
CSX and RT, prayers for you and your families. We watched a bunch of Christmas movies, played family games, and had a pretty good dinner. Would have been great, but the stroghanoff was a little off. Accidently left the sour cream in the bag with the egg noodles and it was all in the freezer! I guess the freezing took all the "fluffy" out of the sour cream, but it tasted all right. :( Oh well, could be a lot worse! Just baked a bunch of cookies, so come on over if you're not already stuffed like me! No trains today, but I've got like another week off work, so hope for tomorrow, right?!
PPS - Sir James, watch at the end very closely and you can see the engineer from the HWX and also a nice shot at the Hogwarts Castle Station and overhead shot of the train steaming away through (I guess) the Forbidden Forest.
Merry Christmas to all!
CSX, sorry to hear of your troubles. Will keep y'all in prayer.
Great day spent with wife and kids. No one else and it was nice. Watched a few Christmas movies, checked out the Trains and Locomotives on Penn. Traction rails. was neat. Got some nice stuff, no trains though. best part was watching kids open their presents and also knowing that they understand the true meaning of Christmas. At 3&5, that is a lot as many adults don't know.
God Bless and Peace to all,
Well the festivities are about over here. Even the kiddies are getting tired. I took a break to check into the forum and see how everyone is doing. Had 12 for dinner today. Six grandkids from 1 to 14.
RT, Sorry to hear about your problem, but as you said, at least no one got hurt & everything else can be replaced.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
Jumijo wrote: Lee Baby!Tom Terrific and the Patriots just got done squishing the fish! The Giants are next!Merry Christmas!Jim
Lee Baby!
Tom Terrific and the Patriots just got done squishing the fish! The Giants are next!
Merry Christmas!
Hey Jimbo,
I don't worry about the fish as they are way past washed up for this year!! May take a couple of years to get Miami back to winning more than one game a season!
Hope that Sandy Claws was nice to the kinder and gave them good presents.
By the way I am not Fritz from the Jazz radio station as I like music like electronic blues and early heavy metal!
Lee Fritz
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
http://rtssite.shutterfly.com/
GOOD EVENING
CSXect-thanks for the review, sounds just like it was described,only without the complaining from those that will never own it.
Brutus-I received the new Harry Potter DVD,The one item I ask for.Expect to watch it tomorrow
Home from the kids and grand kids, love em all but aah the quiet. No train items as I just get what I want whenever. Merry Christmas.....Sir James
Sad news this Christmas brother diagnosed with Alzheimers he is only 51ish, distant relative completed basic training got in a fight with girlfriend and shot himself, 5 other realatives on way to funeral got in a car accident 4 of which seriously hurt ,driver minor injuries, two of emt techs responded were also related I guess that is Kentucky for ya.
Hope all is well for everyone.
Got a train set, 3 train DVD's and a tie clip/cufflinks set with train on them 2 gift cards and a nice shirt.
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