Heartland Division CB&QUlrich ... I like the fire truck, and best wishes with the election. When is election day? What is German word for landslide election victory?
Garry - Election Day is September 22nd. Starting coming weekend, i won´t be home at weekends till then, touring our state, campaigning. A landslide election victory translates into "Erdrutsch-Wahlsieg", which exactly means that.
Good Morning!
It has cooled off a little during the night, so I could find some sleep. Good! I need to catch some rest before the hot phase of our campaign starts.
Zoe, coffee and a cinnamon roll, please.
There seems to be a change in attitude in the news coverage in the leading newspapers. They start to get a little friendlier. I have a hunch that they are now jumping on out bandwagon, as recent polls are constantly rising.
Lots of w*rk waiting for me, so I better move on!
Have a good one!
Sir Madog MIA´s I´ve been thinking of: OzJim Am I missing some? Wherever you are, whatever you do, here´s a for you!
MIA´s I´ve been thinking of:
OzJim
Am I missing some?
Wherever you are, whatever you do, here´s a for you!
Gidday All, OzJim posted in Weekend Photo Fun July 4-7, where unfortunately his Intermountain cylindrical hopper had taken a dive to the floor. I take it that his newish job in freight forwarding is keeping his "nose to the grindstone".
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD TUESDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Tuesday, July 30th, 2013!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
Do you have a 'skid row' on your layout?:
Meaning:
A squalid district inhabited by the impoverished and destitute
Origin:
Quickly:
It is known that 'skid row' is the part of a city where the dregs of society and low lifes live. The term 'skids' are Ramps and platforms made of heavy logs for use by the lumbermen. During the great time of lumbering, a lot of the workers lived in shacks all in a row near the camp. This row was often compared to the 'skid' of the camp. As lumbering declined, the homes did also. Soon, 'skid row' represented any group of homes that were in poor condition and where the low lifes lived
The more informed version:
This American expression came into being in the Great Depression. Residents on Skid Row evokes imagery of someone who was slipping down in society - 'on the skids'.
These skids weren't just figurative though, they did exist. In the late 19th century there was an expansion of the logging industry in the USA, especially in the north-west states, and millions of trees were felled to supply the building trade. Large tree-trunks were hauled, either to sawmills or to the nearest road, river or railway, along tracks made of greased timbers. These were known to loggers as 'skid roads'. The 1880 Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Region refers to these:
"... lumbermen had cut 'skid-roads' on which logs were drawn [etc.]."
Where the first such Skid Road was is uncertain. It can be strongly asserted that the first such was in Seattle. There was, and still is, a Skid Road address in Seattle, as there are in quite a few US cities. Evidence that the Seattle Skid Road was the first can't be proven. Such vehemence is often associated with phrases that are linked in people's minds with a particular place, e.g.'cock and bull story' or 'local derby', etc. In general, these owe more to the need for tour guides to tell a good tale than they do to actual fact. Also, it's not sure how these forest tracks came to be associated with the down-market locale of people who were living on the breadline. It could well be that, due to the unreliability of employment in the timber-felling trade, loggers hung around on the skid roads hoping for work. This, combined with the 'sliding down' imagery and the fact that skid roads leading to town sawmills or railways were built 'on the wrong side of the tracks' is surely enough to link skid roads with the bottom end of society.
The alteration from 'skid road' to 'skid row' came later and was well-established by the 1930s. The lexicographer Godfrey Irwin defined it in American tramp and underworld slang, 1931:
"Skid row, the district where workers congregate when in town or away from their job."
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
I found another nice shot of Riomaggiore station.
This is a view from one tunnel portal to the next. Just two tracks and an abandoned one, platforms on the left and right side, plus a couple of those charming (and slightly decrepit) Italian buildings. Would make a spectacular show layout!
Good morning,
Not much going on here the fear of sequestration caused an increase in work and projects at the house have been keeping me busy the last couple of months.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Jeff,
I had that game on my Comadore 64
Right now my game is Battlestar Galactica Online. It has a few more visual clues for the targets
Morning all!
Coffee to start with please...milk and Splenda would be perfect.
galaxy...and here I thought that 'Skid Row' referred to that band from the 1980's . Incidentally, were they not from the Seattle area? In all sincerity, your posts are always insightful.
Sir Madog...that is indeed an interesting looking station and would make for a great diorama .
Cool here today which is a blessing. Much easier to be out and about when you are not in the sweltering heat.
I have the Walthers Cornerstone bulk transfer conveyors kit (HO Scale kit #3519) that I am trying to figure out how to fit into my layout. I have mostly agricultural industries so I am thinking fertilizer or perhaps different grades of sand or gravel or soil. I model the modern era, but surprisingly I have no open hoppers or gondolas on any of my rosters . So, it looks like I need to find a few fairly inexpensive open hoppers or Gons.
Anyways, I hope all have a great day!
Happy modeling.
Don.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly."
Good morning, or at least it was good until I got to work. Nothing horrible, but the weather outside was really nice and walking in the door for the day was not what I wanted to do.
The tooth I had pulled last Friday left a chasm, but it seems to be healing up nicely. I never took more than Ibuprofen for the pain and swelling, leaving the Tylenol-with-codiene unopened. Glad I didn't need that. Still on Amoxycillin for another week to get rid of the nasty infected area they found beneath the tooth.
I've been playing a somewhat older game called Pharoah. As you may surmise, it's about ancient Egypt. It's a strategy game, mostly based on building a successful economic system through agriculture, mining, manufacturing and trade. And don't forget to placate the gods, or you'll be in trouble.
Down in Mooseport at the far end of Beaver Street, this is the closest my town of of Moose Bay gets to having a "skid row."
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and a couple slices of breakfast pizza please….ummmm, one ham, one …bac…no sausage. Thanks.
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy, with a high near 75. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Barry- I’m hesitant to start or make a list because we’re bound to inadvertently leave a name or two off and I don’t want to make anyone feel…..unwanted or forgotten just because we forgetful folk let a name slip our minds for a second. Like Ulrich’s left of J.R. and I know he in NO WAY, meant for that to happen. He remembers him as well as anybody. It’s just we can’t think of all at once and well, I just don’t wanna get J.P. mad (though he does stop in from time to time) because I may need a firefighter. Shoot sometimes I have to think for a second what my WIFE’s name is. But I too was under the impression Lee was having some health issues too. I guess that’s why I’m more concerned.
Hey scratch that…..
LEE! Glad to hear from ya. You had several of us worry warts a bit concerned.
However, any one can have health issues suddenly appear or accidents. So, out of kindness for us all, please try to pop in ever couple weeks or so even if just to say “Hi guys,still ok just busier than all get out. Be back when I can.”
HEY! I guess I speak a little German. Alternative. I didn’t know that was German. Wonder what it means over there. Anyway, Ulrich- I thought you lived in Germany. The truck says “Deutschland”. Where’s that? I can’t find it on my globe.
Galaxy- I know someone who had bad headaches, not sure if migraines, but caused by many things too. He had his wisdom teeth pulled and headaches went with them. Just a thought to ask if you still have wisdom teeth.
Welp, yesterday, after getting started on my day at the crack of 8 am and wo*king until almost 7pm, after aaaalll the other things required and a couple unexpected things for the restaurant, I got a good solid 4 hours in on the apartment out of a planned, and needed, 8 to 9. No wonder this is taking forever.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
(sticks head back in door) Nice picture Mr B....
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Good MorningKinda cool out here this morning, but we will get to 73 later on....and we are sunny!Got a bunch of basic buy stuff to do later on as well as some Home Despot shopping...we blew up the vacuum cleaner this morning...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Good morning. It's 74° with 97% humidity. It feels like 81°. The high will be 95° with plenty of sunshine. It will probably feel like 103°.Nothing much planned for today except to stay in where it's cool. I may go to my fathers place later and work on his tractor. He got a new fuel filter and battery for it and installed them. Problem is nothing happens when he turns the key. I'm thinking it's one of possibly three things. The starter relay is bad. The safety fuse is blown. The ignition switch is bad. Of those three replacing the fuse would be the easiest. If it's the relay I have a replacement that I got for the Peerless. If it turns out to be the ignition switch he'll have to get a new one to replace it.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Morning all,
Glad to see Lee posted and all is well with work the culprit. I suppose work, and lots of it, is a lot better than having none like so many are facing.
Lots of work for me today. Work around the house that is. There's about 7 loads of wash to do, with the first load put in around 7:30 this morning. There's also the front & back yards to be mowed. I've fot the trimming done already, but the grass is soaking wet from a heavy dew last night and needs to dry out some. I also got some weeding done in the flower beds. If only my flowers grew as well as the weeds...
Hope we hear from some of the other fellows who haven't posted for some time. The wife just asked what I was doind, so that means she thinks it's time to be doing something else. So have a great day everyone.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a side order of bacon, and lots of dark roast coffee to start the day please.
Barry, thanks for sending me a bit of sunshine for a change... At the moment I can actually see some shadows outside! Current temperature is 67°F with a high of 75° later this afternoon. Windows are open and the fan is on.
The Chimneysweep will be showing up around 1PM today to install some hardware cloth around the wood stove chimney vent. So far I have had 6 dead sparrows this summer in the stove. The cats used to alert me when one would get in there, and I would put the cats in the bedroom with the door closed, then open the door in the living room. Usually the bird would fly right out the door as soon as I opened up the wood stove. They must be getting old I guess.
About the same time my son will be showing up with granddaughter #1. She will be visiting grandpa while #2 is at the dentist for a checkup.
After she leaves I should go out and get the lawn started....
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Morning / afternoon All.
Currently it is 69 with an expected high of 92.
Not much happening here, Today is another w**k day, and then a w**k meeting, so no modeling for me. Still need to make my lunch, and do a few things before heading out, so best get at it.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
Got my fathers tractor fixed. Just a simple 20amp fuse. Took only a minute to change it out. Took almost forty-five minutes pulling the battery and battery box out and putting them back in. Got the fuse from the old Peerless tractor. You know, it's been sitting for over a year and the battery is still hot.
Hi Mike !
Lets see. Fergie was in two or three weeks ago, Der John "E"d me last weekend. I "E"d Paul last week and Dick and I E each other two to four times a week.
Anyone want an easy way to "shuck" corn?
Prayers and Blessings to all
Flip
TMarsh Galaxy- I know someone who had bad headaches, not sure if migraines, but caused by many things too. He had his wisdom teeth pulled and headaches went with them. Just a thought to ask if you still have wisdom teeth.
Todd: My wisdom teeth were surgically extracted at age 17 by Oral surgeon Dr. Payne. No kidding. They were impacted something fierce and would never erupt o n their own. I have a very small mouth. I have very few of my natural teeth left..only 5 left on the top and missing 7 on the bottom, hence the need for the new bottom partial they are making me..
When teh barometric pressure changes I can get them.
I have been under stress lately with the medical stuff, so maybe that too.
Took the prescription stff for the headache but still have to go see my psychatrist tonight {hes a night appt guy} Can't drive so MOH is driving me. The scripts make me to drowsy to drive.
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Good Evening...Got the bass redone, needed better pickups and restrung as well...thing is an 8 stringer so it can be a bit more moolah to redo....aaaarrgh. I also managed to get in some time to run some trains around and, believe it or not, get into planning a garden RR set up....
Evenin' folks!
Janie, a nice cup of decaf would really be great right now....
8 string bass??? Hmmm. I've played a 12 string guitar but my classic only has and needs 6 strings... 8 string Bass???? My old Bass only had 4... I've seen them with 5. Gonna have to think about that for a bit I guess.
No word on my iMac yet... The Chimney Sweep arrived a couple hours late, but made the change on the chimney in just a few minutes. He said to give him $25 and he would be happy. I gave him $30 for the heck of it.... Hopefully it will keep little birds from fluttering to their death in my stove. Poor things!
Had granddaughter #1 over for about an hour early this afternoon. She wanted to see "Papa's" model railroad so we spent most of the time down in the train room. I showed her how I do scenery. I think another year I may have a helper to get some things done. That would be cool! Her little sister had a good checkup at the dentist and all of them stayed for a while after they got back from the dentist. #2 starts preschool this fall. Both of them are growing like weeds.
I raked the dirt and evened things up for the area in front of the fence (towards the road), got some good grass seed and a bale of straw today. Lawn is now planted in that spot. Also puttered around getting some stuff put away here and have almost finished making a Model T Ford pickup Truck for the hillside I have been doing. Should have it done tomorrow. Only a bit more scenery to do before I will be finished with that area. Can't yet tell you why, but the next project needing to get finished is the Blacksmith's shop. Got an email about it today from a friend. It has become a priority!
Prayers for all in need! Good to hear from some folks who haven't been in here for a while... Later!
8 String Bass?
howmusThe Chimney Sweep arrived a couple hours late, but made the change on the chimney in just a few minutes. He said to give him $25 and he would be happy. I gave him $30 for the heck of it.... Hopefully it will keep little birds from fluttering to their death in my stove. Poor things!
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Other than getting my fathers tractor running today was fairly uneventful. There was one thing that made me jump. A chicken hawk slammed into one of my windows. I thought at first it was terminal for the hawk but it got up, stumbled around a bit then flew off going about as straight as a drunk driver on a texting binge. All my windows are Lexan so there was no harm there.Well, time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Yeah, Jeffrey, all he did was wrap the opening at the top by the cap with some hardware cloth I had left over from the raised bed garden project.... I cold have done it myself, but I don't get up on roofs anymore! And my son has my ladder at his house.
8 string Bass?
Good evening. I'll have cheese and crackers. I brought some Wisconsin cheese to the Diner. So enjoy some!
Ulrich ............ I bet you have a great "Erdrutsch-Wahlsieg"!
Lee....... I'm very happy to see you again. .... We hear a lot about the sequestration. Only DC would use such a big word for budget cuts. Uncle Sam should tighten his belt even more. Can't keep running trillion dollar deficits. I can't say I agree with the choices made for budget cuts however. .... Lee, keep your chin up, and please include the Diner in you busy schedule. .... Jeff sometimes posts his LSW hopper cars, and I think of you then. Hope Dorothy is okay.
Mike (Inch) ... Thanks for commenting. Our schedule was very full. Good times were had by grandkids.
JimCG replied in an email. Said to say hello to each of you. He'll post here soon he says. He's been busy, and I'll let him say what he has been up to when he gets here.
If anybody has time to update Ulrich's list of MIA's, it would be appreciated.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
8 string bass same one I have.
Nice, Barry. We have bass at the lake but not like that.
The Diner is in Michigan for another day. Here is a rebuilt GTW GP9 in Michigan.
morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!!
Today is Wednesday, July 31st!
Just for RAY!!!
Lets 'FACE the Music':
Accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions
Quick Origin:
When one has an unpleasant situation, one simply grins and bears it and deals with it. This is what a soldier who was being discharged dishonorably had to do. He was given his walking papers, then forced to walk through the ranks of his fellow comrades while instruments played a march for ousted soldiers. The ritual wasn't fun, but the soldier had to deal with it directly. Thus, he had to 'face the music' (instruments playing) along with his fellow soldiers. Someone might have to face a bad situation that he had no just cause in
The in-depth origin:
The phrase 'face the music' has an agreeable imagery. One can feel that one can picture who was facing what and what music was playing at the time. Regrettably, the documentary records don't point to any clear source for the phrase and often we are at the mercy of plausible speculation. There was, of course, a definitive and unique origin for the expression 'face the music' and whoever coined it was quite certain of the circumstances and the music being referred to. Let's hope at least that one of the following suggestions is the correct one, even though there is no clear evidence to prove it.
A commonly repeated assertion is that 'face the music' originated from the tradition of disgraced officers being 'drummed out' of their regiment. A second popular theory is that it was actors who 'faced the music', i.e. faced the orchestra pit, when they went on stage. A third theory, less likely but quite interesting none the less, was recounted by a member of the choir at a choral concert in Sheffield. It relates to the old UK practice of West Gallery singing. This was singing, literally from the west galleries of English churches, by the common peasantry who weren't allowed to sit in the higher status parts of the church. The theory was that the nobility were obliged to listen to the vernacular songs of the parishioners, often with lyrics that were critical of the ways of the gentry.
It may help to pinpoint the origin to know that the phrase appears to be mid 19th American in origin. The earliest citation I can find for the phrase is from The New Hampshire Statesman & State Journal, August 1834:
"Will the editor of the Courier explain this black affair. We want no equivocation - 'face the music' this time."
Almost all other early citations are American. Sadly, none of them give the slightest clue as to the source, or reason for, the music being faced.
Good morning, Barry, our old vacuum cleaner died last week. I bought a Dyson ball, for pet hair. I’m completely disgusted that the old vacuum didn’t pick up everything this Dyson does.
Tom, it was more of everyone trying to hurry up and get their projects started before sequestration. I’m not getting furloughed but the general public still had it in their mind they needed to get things done. You would be surprised how many bridges are getting rehabilitated, replaced, or built this year.
Flip, Fergie haunts Facebook more than he does the diner I’ve been keeping in touch with him there.
Garry, Dorothy is doing ok; she has been working 9 day weeks since spring so she is a little worn out most of the time.
Good MorningEverything is dull here...we seemed to have found another dull bucket for our viewing pleasure here... Today will be another one of those file work days...they found a rat's nest that needed cleaning out ...apparently... Later on I may see about picking up some books on garden railroading and see what kind of landscaping mayhem we will need to do here...
Garry: I love different sorts of scales, so this bass is a very good one to work with. No sense in being Koi about it....I'm just doing this for the halibut....
Coffee and a nice helping of S.O.S. please. Thanks.
A chance of drizzle before 10am. Areas of fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 79.
Galaxy- Ya I guess I do remember now that you mention it you didn’t have wisdom teeth. Or at least someone has a story nearly identical to yours. Oh well, just a thought. Guy I know has an infection they were blaming on a wisdom tooth and the weather and various other things brought on headaches. Brenda would get bad earaches until she got hers removed. Dr. Payne…..I really think I’d a looked for another dentist. Did you at least ask if there was a giant plant named Seymour somewhere?
Whew, glad I don’t live in Ohio. I know the time change and all but 9 day weeks?! Well you know on second thought, I might get more stuff done.
Oh pet hair. That’s right Lee has a Lab. (shakes head) I tell you what we have a Lab so I know what he's talking about. And we have a Kirby. 2 in fact. We also had some others at the same time throughout the years, hand me downs like her Grandmothers brand new Filter Queen and Mom had a Fairfax, that we inherited, as well as her favorite vacuum that she just loooved when we got married ( some water thing. Can't think of the name now) it came with her instead of a dowry. They've all gone away, but the Kirby's stayed. She's even used others when she used to clean houses. Nothing even comes close to those Kirby’s. Carpet guy told me a couple years ago, adjusted right, a Kirby’s the best vacuum on the market for your carpet. I’ll not disagree with him, nor will I stand and say he is right. I just know that personally, I have found no better vacuum but we’ve never had a Dyson so at least one that is excluded. And no I don’t go by the black cloth thing. I could suck through the tube and show I pulled stuff with a black cloth. Ask ‘em to try that with your vacuum after theirs. But first say, If there is no dirt at all, then I’ll buy yours, but if there is any dirt, lint whatever, then you give me yours for free. No I didn’t buy them from the salesman. Bought the downstairs one used from the Kirby repair place, paid $200 for it back before we’s married, and the upstairs one was a gift from this guy she used to clean house for. He said he didn’t use it so she could have it. Shoot it’s like what 12 years old now? Say’s 2001 all up front of the handle so ya. (sits back and shakes head) Man time flies. Got a third too, Mom had this one from the late fifties I think. It still works and works great. It’s just got that old hamper thing where you dump on a piece of newspaper. Messy. The other have removable bags so…well, enough with the vacuum stuff.
Welp, it looks like it’s gonna happen. I’m a gonna make it. All I have to do today is pick up the stove and front door, install them, then clean out some junk and put down some underlayment and tile a 4x11 room. I should be cleaned up and outa there today barring any changes the boss lady has, a little after noon if I leave right now and I am. She very well might too. She’s so nice though…, she always just smiles looks up (she’s like 5 foot even and about maybe 90-95 lbs) and says , “oh Todd, you’re gonna hate me but could you..(insert project or change to project here)? I just think it’d look nicer. Don’t you?” She’s usually right. And she makes some killer bread and butter pickles.
Coffee...strong if you please...and an orange juice.
Kinda under the weather here today. I think I caught something with the recent change in the weather from HOT, to rainy, to cool, and back. So, I will just sit over here so as not to give my cold to anyone else and listen to the banter.
Have a great day!