York1Liberal, Kansas
Now there is an Oxymoron if I ever heard one.... LOL (Sorry, I couldn't resist!)
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Oooppps! Serves me right. Top of the page! Lunch is on me today!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning everyone. I don't feel like eating breakfast just yet, so I guess I will just have a cup of black coffee to start the day.
I ate cereal for dinner last night, I just did not feel like cooking.
Saturday is the Monday of my work week. It is a good day to start the week with. The store is a little slow, and the customers are mostly homeowners. The atmosphere is usually pretty nice.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Good morning
SeeYou190 Good morning everyone. I ate cereal for dinner last night, I just did not feel like cooking. Saturday is the Monday of my work week. It is a good day to start the week with. The store is a little slow, and the customers are mostly homeowners. The atmosphere is usually pretty nice. -Kevin
Good morning everyone.
We do that sometimes Kevin, have breakfast for dinner.
If I'm lucky it's scrabbled eggs and sausage but if it is cereal, and I'm lucky enough, I have a banana to slice up to replace some ever so needed potassium.
Home Depot and Menards have been my morning stop for well over 30 years as I am quite familiar with them.
I wish you a great Monday-Saturday to start your work week today
https://youtu.be/TTizsZVuqE8
Guys like me have always appreciated Guys like You taking care of everything when we stop in
TF
Track fiddlerI wish you a great Monday-Saturday to start your work week today.
TF: I answered your question over on Weekend Photo Fun.
Thanks Kevin
I read that and it warmed my heart
Remember when I told you guys I would come back and show you the winning scoreboard?
Well here it is, and we are all so proud of him and his Team.
That Is My Grandson!
I will travel wherever I need to see him succeed just like he has!
Can you see the Brotherhood here at the start of the game during the National Anthem?
What really intrigued me at the game was even when the opposing team member got hurt, my Grandson's team kneeled down on one knee until he came off the field.
Talk about some Brotherhood on a Team
I am so proud of my Grandson
John
BroadwayLionThat is why they are stealing catalytic converters!
Correct!
The average converter contains between 3 to 4 grams of rodium, with converters on bigger SUV's, they contain as much as 8 grams.
Rodium price per gram today is $491.91. Go ahead, do the math.
Mike.
My You Tube
howmusOooppps! Serves me right. Top of the page! Lunch is on me today! WinkBig Smile
Bless this bunch as we crunch our lunch.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
mbinsewiRodium price per gram today is $491.91. Go ahead, do the math.
LION has sixth-five 1000 gram bars in the lowest dungeon in the castle of him.
You gotta get past the dragons and the manticores first.
mbinsewi BroadwayLion That is why they are stealing catalytic converters! Correct! The average converter contains between 3 to 4 grams of rodium, with converters on bigger SUV's, they contain as much as 8 grams. Rodium price per gram today is $491.91. Go ahead, do the math. Mike.
BroadwayLion That is why they are stealing catalytic converters!
The ash trays in the Minneapolis Government Center are pure sterling silver and your not allowed to smoke inside anymore so why do they have them?
They are completely removable to empty and kept shined like a whistle besides the occasional spit of gum or wrapper because no one's using them anymore.
But only a criminal thinks like that you catalytic converter conversationalists
I've gotten stuck with the job of stacking nice dishes before but didn't happen to have a heavy duty pillow case at the time and don't care too much for strolling down the halls anyway...
BATMAN Princess Elizabeth appears to be lifting the train out of Peers, Alberta, headed for Edmonton.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Attuvian1So we get to the sleaze ball metal processors that turn them for what must be a sizeable cut. No reputable business would do that.
When I lived in New Orleans, an auto parts store opened down the street that had a sign out front, "We Buy Used Batteries".
One morning, I went out to go to work and turned the key on my 1978 Dodge pickup. Nothing. I got out, opened the hood, and no battery.
I got a new battery, a very heavy chain, and a heavy duty padlock, and I chained the hood shut. A couple of days later, I came out in the morning and the chain had been cut. The new battery was missing.
What bugged me was that the auto parts store had to know they were buying a brand new battery from the idiot who had taken it.
Over a couple of years, I lost batteries, rearview mirrors, a spare tire, and believe it or not, lug nuts. Not the tire or wheel, just the lug nuts!
Luckily, we lived just a block from public transit, so I could still get to work at the school on those mornings.
York1 John
Good evening
Wow! That sounds like a string of bad luck and I thought it was bad when my trailer got stolen twice.
I'll send you a picture later because it isn't going to get stolen any more...
I replace my battery every 4 years Faithfully and rotate it to the Mustang that's kept in a controlled environment.
It gets really cold in the Winter in Minnesota and my jumper cables are used to help other people now instead of me
How's that new bridge over the road coming along John?
TF, welcome back.
I haven't started my next bridge. I don't know what's wrong, but I'm working on other things, and I can't get up the enthusiasm to start the new bridge.
I think part of my problem is that the first bridge I built took so long and I was faced with so many "do overs" that I am reluctant to jump in again. What it will take is just that I'm going to wake up one morning and make myself start cutting some plastic.
Inspiration needed!
I read you loud and clear John.
That's the way it is with those Custom Bridges but taking a look at the last one you built was a chin dropper
I got to tell you I was envious of your bridge deck on that one that you did such a admirable job on
The last one and the next Custom Bridge you build will look nothing like any bridge that anyone else has
That's the Enthusiasm and the Incentive to build your inspiration on John!
POST HOG!
I thought you might get a kick out of this one John.
I'm working on finishing up my 8th custom bridge on the layout and working on my three removable mining modules.
I have a steeple mountain similar to that one in Scotland with two gulches on either side and working on plans for a makeshift mining Bridge.
I'm trying to design something makeshift looking cuz I think it will look cool.
Don't know but it looks like fun to build and I may make two, or might come up with another idea for the other Gulch on either side to thread the eye of the needle!
Very neat looking bridge, TF! Talking with you is making me want to give the bridge a try. Busy with things the next several days but will get back to the layout by Wednesday.
I'm typing this on my phone and I don't like it!
Hi Everyone,
Brunhilda, coffee with cream, please.
"Kansas is a state much like Nebraska. The people are a little defensive about the state because many people living on the coasts either ignore the plains states, make fun of the farming people, or just look at the states as a long boring problem when crossing them.
If you travel through Kansas, you will find a different kind of beauty in the rolling wheat fields, and you will be amazed at the friendly people." -John
I echo that sentiment wholeheartedly. Kansas is an interesting place. The eastern part of the state saw much bloodshed as a result of the Kansas- Nebraska act. The slave staters in Missouri and the free staters (Jayhawkers) were shooting each other right and left during the 1850's. Kansas finally came into the union as a free state on January 29, 1861. Then there were raids by the Cheyenne, Pawnees, and I think to a lesser extent Arapaho and Sioux (as they were called then) in the central and western part of the state until 1868. My great-great grandfather homesteaded there in 1870.
The first time I went through Liberal, I was moving to LA. In the early 70's SSW acquired the Rock Island trackage from Tucumcari to KC. That gave SP a direct route for their fruit trains to the northeast. That started my fascination with SP which was re-enforced when I lived in LA.
Edit: I copied and pasted the pic of the Liberal station. Uuuhh! I think I did it wrong.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
I forgot to mention one thing about Kansas. Kansas University has a super human invincible basketball team that are feared by all!
Seriously, The inventor of the game Dr. James Naismith taught at KU and they have a very big basketball tradition.
Good morning, diners. No breakfast in the diner today -- it's donut day. I'll have just coffee.
Jim, KU's basketball program is amazing. If you want to see and hear one of sports' most amazing traditions, go to a KU basketball game (if you can get a ticket) and watch and hear the Rock Chalk Jayhawk chant. They have a quote from Teddy Roosevelt calling it the greatest college chant he had ever heard.
When we took my daughter to Kansas State University, we were amazed a the rivalry between KU and K-State. They truly don't like each other.
It's a very cool morning out here in flyover country. 44° to start the day. Feels refreshing.
I hope everyone has a great day today.
How about something fun? I used to take students on a canoeing-camping trip on a river with rapids. There were areas on the calmer parts of the rivers where "tanking" has become popular.
People pack a lunch, a cooler with adult drinks, and pile into a cow tank to slowly float down the rivers. We even have people come from other states just to experiece something they don't often see elsewhere. It started as a joke -- a way to poke fun at ourselves and our rural heritage, and it has become a fun thing to do.
York1 I hope everyone has a great day today. How about something fun? I used to take students on a canoeing-camping trip on a river with rapids. There were areas on the calmer parts of the rivers where "tanking" has become popular. People pack a lunch, a cooler with adult drinks, and pile into a cow tank to slowly float down the rivers. We even have people come from other states just to experiece something they don't often see elsewhere. It started as a joke -- a way to poke fun at ourselves and our rural heritage, and it has become a fun thing to do.
Track fiddlerI'm working on finishing up my 8th custom bridge on the layout and working on my three removable mining modules.
If I want a bridge I'll go to the dentist!
York1There were areas on the calmer parts of the rivers where "tanking" has become popular.
That actually looks like a lot of fun.
I llove it when kids holler in church... 'cause I am too old to do it for myself!
BroadwayLion If I want a bridge I'll go to the dentist!
Sounds better than a root canal or a tunnel. Unless your dentist has Narrow Gauge to better suit your fancy
It's time for Sumore Bacon Kids! An afternoon BLT or two sounds utterly delightful to me
https://youtu.be/z-11zoVnHSQ
Remember as Ed pointed out though, You must have tongue in cheek to make it sound just right
Just sumore old guys still having fun
Track fiddlerI'm trying to design something makeshift looking cuz I think it will look cool.
I don't know. I think that drawing looks like an adult diaper.
BroadwayLionI don't know. I think that drawing looks like an adult diaper.
Loaded.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BroadwayLion Track fiddler I'm trying to design something makeshift looking cuz I think it will look cool. I don't know. I think that drawing looks like an adult diaper.
Track fiddler I'm trying to design something makeshift looking cuz I think it will look cool.
Yeah it does, now that you mentioned it
You've got to give it some credit that it has the (Super-Hero Belt), to keep it up from sagging when it gets full though
York1 I'm typing this on my phone and I don't like it!