Good Morning, Zoe - I'll have some scrambled eggs, couple of strips of bacon, some of Ed's OJ (now that we know the Valencia tankers are on their way to the Diner), and a cup of coffee, please. Thanks, RT!
Somewhat cold yesterday, but not as cold last night (upper 30's F), and weather's sounding more steady the next couple of days. S'pposed to be mid 40's during the days and just above freezing at night. Currently 38 F with a windchill of 33, so could be much worse than that.
Ed, I'm sure you're glad to get back home. Sounds like a nice trip - even just in terms of friends and layouts visited. We'll look forward to those railfanning pics once you get them uploaded.
Paul, hope you're taking whatever the doctor prescribed for you. You have had the doctor check it out, yes? If not, get your b**t to the doctor's, please. No sense just suffering with whatever it is that you have.
Sue and Mark, the pictures on the news from up your way don't look good at all. Hope your houses are above the water line (and Sue, that your M-I-L's home drains pretty soon). Where are you and Larry heading on your trip?
RT, hope your eBay sales go well. Any more word on that prospective plumbing job you mentioned a bit ago?
Ryan, is that roundhouse made of metal? I am even more impressed if that's true. I never have tried doing one of the metal kits (like the older Suydam ones).
Oh, at w**k, my supervisor said in January I can start seeing outpatient clients four days a week(!). That means only covering crisis and walk-ins one day a week (and therefore, a more predictable schedule and lunch hour)!
Got to get things moved around in the living room and get my tree and decorations up tonight. I'm supposed to meet with a former classmate that I went through the couns. program with a few years back. She went ahead and got her Ph.D. and now w**ks as liason for one of the hospitals we refer to, so she gets to treat for dinner every few months and write it off as a 'business expense'. She also has her own counseling practice connected with her church in Illinois. It's always fun to catch up on what each of us has been up to since last time.
Better get busy on my breakfast before it cools down, and then off to w**k. Prayers for dry land, and for healing and comfort for those in need of that as well.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
We've 4 fresh inches of snow on the ground! And just as predicted, everyone forgot how to drive in the stuff. My 1/2 hour commute took about an hour. CSX wisely decided not to run trains in this mess as the traffic would probably have prevented them from getting through crossings anyways. This should be about it for the snow accumulation though. They're calling for flurries till afternoon and then dropping temps. The weather guesser says a balmy 12 degrees is good for tonight. Yeah buddy, it's getting nippy out there!
Weather doesn't stop the phone company though. I'm right here in my office, same as always.
Did you guys hear about the "Bonnie & Clyde" bank robbers? A couple robbed banks in 4 states that they know of so far. They caught up with them last night just a few miles from here. Pretty wild!
Oh, and Chloe.......pie and coffee please! Thats right, RT's got the tab. No, no, just one piece of pie. Don't wanna rake him over the coals too badly!
So whats going on in your neck of the woods?
Ryan, You can have all the water that you want. Just send me the containers. It looks like the water went down about 4 feet over night. As for the wreath parties, they were a hit. It is alot easier on me when they make their own wreaths. It is fun to gift something to others during the holidays.
Jim, We are high and dry, well, not wet from flood waters because we live on the top of a hill. I learned that lesson growing up on a flood plain. MIL said that they were able to assess the damage, but have to wait for the water to be turned back on to do much. Mud and silt are everywhere.
Thanks for the concern, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Morning folks-just a quick coffee before I hit the train workbench a bit before w**k.
We woke up to about the same amount of the white stuff as Phillip-& I noticed our birds we're making the best of it at the feeder-I caught a few quick & crappy shots through the window.
Wish my vacation started today instead of Friday-I have to deliver large print books today to a few sites. Just hope the roads are cleared a little more by the time I hit it.
*finishes coffee* gotta run folks-have a great day all!
Morning all.
Chloe, just a milk before school.
Not much goin' on here lately thats MR related. I still haven't started on my backdrop.
Jim: I live up on a hill, so I was okay. The major road below us was closed up further north due to Bothell being in a state of ermegency, it was under about 5' of water on monday morning. I heard Soundtransit should be running trains again today.
Sue: So it seems you were on the lower end of the floods. Keep some and send it to Jeff, Rob, or whoever needs it.
Later All.
Mark
Good Morning guys and gals, Chloe, when you get a minute you can rustle me up a western omelette and cranberry juice.have to protect that OJ until the truck arrives.
Well here is an abreviated forecast for the next week for the center of the "GAP" The truckers call Saskatchewan the "GAP' as we don't have any cities the size of Winnipeg or Calgary or Edmonton in the Province, so when they are passing through from Manitoba to Alberta or Vise versa they say they are crossing the Gap.
I don't know why it widened out. You will have to scroll sideways to see it all. Tried to fix, but no cooperation.
Glad to see Fergie is back close to land and will be able to dry off a little.
Really love that Roundhouse, great work, Ryan.
Sue, hope all is well with the in-laws. Great idea to live on higher ground in areas like that.
CnCharlie, looks like I'll be easier on you the next while. Not a great amount of snow forecast.
I liked the info on the Italian Greyhounds, I am a dog nut but wasn't very familiar with that breed.
The tunnel liner looks like they will work, I have the cardstock glued in place, however I think I will design some sort of support for it just in case the cardboard decides to fatigue and lean over a little, it would cause a disaster and I will not be able to repair it without tearing out a section. So will secure that so it can be forgotten.
Well I'm at work so I had better get back to it.
You all have a great week, Blessing & prayers to all in need .
Johnboy out...................
James:1 Verse:5
The "Wobbly" wobbles on without me today........
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
in a SANTA FE mug, please & thank you!
Walked down to the big creek yesterday (Salacoa) and it is flowing now. Our own little creek continues to deliver a small steady flow as well. Guess all we needed to do is buy those huge watertanks to get make this happen. Like our tornado shelter, now that we have one, we will never have any more close calls as long as we live here.
Rob
Zoe, just a root beer float and a BUMP!, please.
Afternoon all,
4" of snow on the ground so far.
Anybody interested in re-motoring a locomotive?
I bought 12 can motors (replacement motors for HO scale locomotives) I only needed 2 so I have 10 brand new motors.
FF-180PH
KN 15 75 15
A woman up here was selling them, her and her husband owned a train store and repaired HO-N-Lionel trains and she was selling off stuff so they could move to AZ.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
refill, please & thanks!
***Paul, sure hope you are past the worst of that bug. Wife went to work in Atlanta only to end up sick. Sounds like what you have. She is going to try driving home late tonight when there is little traffic, as her sister will need the guest room tomorrow for company. She sure has had a rough time lately with all the illness.
Greetings all -
What to my surprise when I came across this on page 1. I knew we were not as close as we were w/ the page count as compared to the CS, but hey... all good things must move on. And so here we are and I have just 1 question... Was anyone every going to email me and tell me there was a new place to go to? Or were you all just going to leave me hanging?
Anyway, I got a few new books the day after Thanksgiving - North American Railyards and one on Early Geeps.
Speaking of MRR / Train stuff.... I think the g/f (Bretagne (Brittany)) is getting me some train stuff for Christmas. Only way I can figure that out, is I am missing a few of the most recent sale catalogs that I have gotten since the week before Thanksgiving.
Well, time for some dinner.
Take care!
//signed// John Powell President / CEO CNY Transportation Corp (fictional)
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
JimRCGMO wrote: RT, hope your eBay sales go well. Any more word on that prospective plumbing job you mentioned a bit ago?
Haven't heard anything yet will call friday when I'm off
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Evening Gang: After taking Mary Ann to her doctors appointment we stopped at Borders Book Store to pick up a Christmas present for one of the grand daughters. I of course sensening an opertunaty grabed Black Adder #4. I've got #1 so only 2, 3, and 5 to go. I'm feeling a bit better, now.
JP: That does sound interesting. My guess is she may be doing just that.
Evening, Diners - Chloe, how about a cup of hot cocoa, please? Thank you.
JP, you didn't find the trail of breadcrumbs that we left you? Yep, if the sale catalogs are missing that's a good sign - you had circled or marked all your favorite stuff before they went missing, I hope. Otherwise, who knows? - You might end up getting one of those Thomas the Tank train sets...
Paul, take care of yourself with the creepin' crud or whatever you have. And Rob, better get your wife to consider tending to her own healthcare needs, too. Now that my ear is finally clearing up where I can hear, we don't want the rest of the troops coming down with stuff.
Found out tonight that my daughter and son-in-law are expecting a baby... (drum roll now.....) BOY! Which should give me an even better shot at getting him hooked on trains early on. Anyone know where I can get an mp3 of train sounds? Maybe I can slip that onto my daughter's iPod and get her to put the earphones on her tummy. Let's see, Thomas is blue, so that's the right color for a boy....
Had a nice steak dinner out tonight, courtesy of a former classmate when I was going through my M.A. program (I think I mentioned she's the local contact person for one of the hospitals we refer teens to for treatment). Good to catch up on what each other is up to - her husky dog just had a litter of pups (6), and she's located homes for all but one of them already. Cute fuzzy little things (she had cell phone pics of them).
Well, I have to finish going through my latest Walthers sale catalog that I got this week, so I'll be checking it out while I finish my hot cocoa at the corner booth. Prayers for healing and a quick recovery for those of us ailing currently.
YIKES, wife is home now, but was pulled over by the cops for weaving. Obviously she wasn't drunk (she never drinks period) and was quite sick, so they let her continue home. Then she falls in the ditch by our farm gate when she lost her equilibrium. If I had known she was in such bad shape I would have met her out there in the first place. Poor thing barely made it in the house with my help and is now in bed. Might have to run her to Doc In The Box tomorrow morning. Making her chicken soup right now.
***Jim, CONGRATS on that future model RRer in the family. I like your thinking.
-Rob
Fergie:
Der John: I concur with 3 though I think a tad more lime shad maybe in order, especially at the high water mark then go darker as you go down to the low water mark.
Johnboy: The tunnel I have that could be seen down easily has the track curve to the left just after the entrance, and I wanted to give the impression that it goes straight on. That's about the opposite of your situation! Here's what I came up with, a scene based on this prototype.
My version ...it's done with a light box with a painted landscape in back.
it would cause a disaster and I will not be able to repair it without tearing out a section.
Here's the long hatch
And here it isn't.
Mark: Thinking about the situation at home you wrote about the other day. You y'all are in our prayers.
CapeJim: Loved the cartoon, thanks! Congratulations on the GP-to-be thing!
BobK: Your truck woes are sounding like the big brother of the trouble I'm having with our snow blower. Done everything I can think of to get it to go, but it's a small engine, and instinctively senses my mother's genes. She was, how can we say, not a mechanic.
Ryan: That RH is awesome. The pit lights could be done with those surface mount mini LEDs. I've lost the URL to the manufacturer, but a Google of LED surface mount miniature, will likely turn it up.
Rob:
Oh, their home is a tall dog house I built for them and it is heated by two red heat lamps in the ceiling.
She has fresh hay, which enhances how she smells!
Hope your wife recovers quickly. As RT says, it may be an ear thing, with the loss of equilibrium and all.
Ed: Welcome home.
But that's what they make hotels for. Even when our daughter and son-in-law came down to visit last year we had to put them up in a hotel in the town.
Sue:
Can we sing Christmas carols with the egg nog?
Paul: glad the cold is yielding a bit. Great thing about retirement is you don't have to go anywhere!
JP: Welcome back! Glad you found your way here. Sorry, but our budget was all spent on mrr supplies, and we couldn't afford to send out ground search and rescue! Disappearing sales catalogues sounds like a good sign. Hope you are right!
That's about it for tonight. all, and God Bless. Prayers for all in need of healing, comfort and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Thanks RT! Took her temp and it is 102.5. She said it was 104 a few hours ago. Looks like a visit to the Doc in the AM is a likelihood. The cop first told her she needed to find someone to come get her. She couldn't reach anyone on her cell phone, so then the cop told her to stop at McDonalds, take a 30 minute nap & have a cup of coffee. Glad she came stait home instead of taking that advice.
Quick story: Last time she was stopped by a cop (for no seatbelt...even though I lecture her all the time about it), the cop saw she was a nurse and after a short chat let her go. Then two weeks later guess who her patient was at the hospital? Wife told this same cop, "I'm sorry I can't let you go like you did me, but I have two shots I need to give you and I'm affraid one of them is really going to hurt".
I started taking echinacea tonight prophylactically. Worked twice before, so sure can't hurt. Rob
der, labs are such a joy to have. Nothing more fun that heading to the nearest creek to play fetch the stick with them until your own arm gets tired. Then that fragrant sent of dead fish they inevitably find to roll in. Ahhh, the joyful life of a happy lab. Sounds like your Rosie is the kind that would rather lay out in the cold than use a heat lamp. If the hay is plenty and dry, she may not need the lamp!?! At her age though, it would be nice if she would accept it during the coldest spells. Have no answer for you. BTW, cool access hatch you made there.
I'm not happy with wife's sister. What kind of sibling would make you drive home (because company was coming the next evening) when you need help even getting out to your car because you can barely see strait? She could have easily died in a car wreck on the way home in that condition. Turns out the cops had all sorts of calls about a "drunk driver" on the highway. Well, going to go lay beside the sicky incase she needs anything.
Good night all. Rob
Snow snow, go away. Or better yet, let the snow stay, just get warm.
Paul- Take good care of yourself, and take a dose of Adder. If he can't make you well, no one can. We have a deputy in our county who could be Atkinson's double, and he is absolutely hilarious. He claims to be of Portugese extraction, but we're not too sure.
Sounds like a lot of illness going around, take care of yourselves and your loved ones.
Been drawing trackplans for the small layout, hope to actually start on it in mid-January. We were going to slap the second coat of drywall mud on the walls of the addition today, but it was too cold, the kerosene heater was not cooperating at all, (and kero is 3.89 a gallon?!?!? It's been awhile since I've had to buy any, sticker shock almost killed me!) and Amyjo had to run up to Bluffton to return some CPR teaching aids she needed for a class on Monday. I wanted to go with her, my LHS is up there, but after fighting with the heater in the AM, I crashed around 1100 and snoozed until 1743! Day was pretty well shot by then.
Gonna draw more plans tonight, hopefully no one will be outside driving around, it's 11F. Too cold to be out. Toooooo cold!
Ed- A 10 car cut of 50 footers should be arriving soon on your RR, just load them with warm air and oranges and ship 'em north.
Evening folks-just coffee again since I'm still digesting dinner from earlier.
Rob-yes definitely take care of your other half-a day/evening like she had, hopefully a good night's sleep will help things a little bit.
If Phil doesn't mind, gonna tack on a boxcar too to send to Ed. It'll be HVS #31597-once loaded, just forward to the CSX-they'll get it to Parsons yard in Columbus, & from there a HVS local crew will set it out at the residence of the HVS CEO. (me)
My workday didn't go too bad, but when Dawn got back from the store, she'd found that Logan (the shepherd/elkhound) had took the garbage bin to task, & garbage was all over the kitchen floor. (we were just getting ready to take out for pickup in the morning.) He heard about it from her big time, & was still apologetic once I got home. So now to be on the safe side, we're now storing the bin under the sink, which should be good as long as the gooseneck connection on the drain stays tight
I better hit it folks-19 degrees here, it's late & my warm bed's calling-nite all!
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Good morning all,
Congratulations (soon to be) GRANDPA JIM! I have a few train MP3's, LOL
Rob, hopefully the Mrs. Feels better and the Doc can hook her up. I've had the same thing caused by sinus not draining properly; safe thing to do is get it checked out. I wish her well.
Der, the mountain area looks good; you did a great job with that hidden track access. I LOVED the video clip; I'll be singing falesnavatoss all the way to work.
JPowell, the same thing happened to a bunch of us, I showed up the morning after and found the doors locked and the lights off.
Well almost time for work, having our "Christmas" pot luck today. I'll be deep frying 2 turkeys and bringing in my world famous cranberry-orange relish. I wish everyone well and send hope and prayers to those on our sick and injured list.
mornin, a ta-go coffee Zoe
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Morning gang,
Cinnamon toast and hot chocolate if you please Chloe..
I think this will be much better than yesterdays effort.
So, again from the Great White North.
We don't even get to normal temps until Monday.
Just on my way to work, will check in Later. The "Wobbly" will catch it tomorrow. (Day Off)
Johnboy out............
The Wobbly is only in "IDLE" today.
Good moring diners.....
My sweet tooth is really bothering me again. I'll have a pecan roll, please, and coffee. Thanks.
Tonoght is local model railroad night. A handful of local mrr's visit each others' layouts, stories are swapped, etc. I need to be ready for that. I was operating the layout last night to get the "bugs" out. I'll do more of that today. Big problem here is the "bugs" don't show up until comaony is here and I'm operating the layout. Doe that hqppen to anyone else.
Der ...... I've enjoyed photos of your layout in progress. The "trick tunnel" is rather clever.
Rob ......I'm sorry your wife had to drive home like that. I'm thinking she should have a cell phone, but if your cell phone reception is like some of ours here, it doesn't work well.
Good to here the progress of the expected new arrvial in Grnadpa JimCG's family.
Johnboy.... I bet you're not running the air conditioner this week.
Best wishes everybody.
GARRY
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