Good afternoon...another beautiful day here, 68F and 30% RH, wind is 8 mph from the NW. We are getting a lot of work done outside, this si the earliest that I can very remember getting so much done in mid April. This will help big time with being able to do more MRR action. Class V fire hazard day here today and all over northern New England and upstate NY.
MIKE: I have seen plenty of honey bees here, they are all over the forsythia flowers which are out here now. I think all the rain that you guys have been having is keeping them away.
CN CHARLIE: Good Lord, more snow?? The weather patterns have been screwy this season for sure. Hopefully the warmer weather will return to the Canadian plains real soon.
PAUL: I saw the weather channel last night, and it sure looked bad in your area, we are gratified to hear that you guys did not get the severe weather that hit your neighbors.
Wildfires are still breaking out around here, but we are due for some rain on Saturday night and more substantial rain on Tuesday which should eleviate the danger for a while until things green-up. My neighbor over the hill to the west had her brush burn rekindle this morning, company 1 had to come down and put that out and rake over the ashes. If that fire had reached the high voltage tower line clearing and the woods beyond, it would have come straight for my property to the north. I have the brush cut back and a 3/4" hose line all ready to go during this high hazard alert.
TIFN
Afternoon.....Its clouded up here warm with rain posta come in latter....I'll have onion rings and a diet coke please...Thank you...Painted some dummy signals this morning but thats about it..
Mike...No were not going up to Rockhome either..Gas prices and to near the end of the month..Hope the cut backs don't get Deb...Sallie is wondering if it got Her sister's boy who works at the south plant..I was wondering about Russ at the north plant?
You all have a good one...Jerry
Lee Page 12,center column at the bottom is the DCC and page 13,left column at the bottom is the DC.
Inch Good thing the CFO wasn't on the mower when you saw the snakes and hope things work out at her work place.
RT Sounds like you are half way there and now if only the VA will get going on their part.
That's about it
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
Talk to you later
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
Coffee, please & thanks!
Wife did not have her tooth removed today. Instead, she was refered to a surgeon. Yikes!
We dropped in on that 4nscale. place. As my wife had described, there were two people working away on computers. The store is unmarked (no sign at all). They do not work on trains, have no layout, no test track, just a mini warehouse. I did get to handle some models, like the Athearn Bigboy and some Intermountain units. Wow, those are some mighty nice looking models. The wife was very impressed with the looks of the Bigboy and asked "How much does it cost". I said, "Don't ask!" and then looked at the fella and said, "Don't you tell her!". He didn't say a word. (I still want one)
Nicest thing was how into looking at stuff she was. And now she wants to see some huge snow-capped mountains on my N layout, which I explained would be difficult on a door size layout. She then said, "Well, you can always expand it, right?"
And then we discussed her own HO layout(s). The one with the Dewitt Clinton will be her farm & redneck-ish theme layout. She has all sorts of ideas for it. Her Circus/Fair stuff will likely become part of a separate "Christmas display". Combining all that on a single small HO layout might be difficult.
Onlinetrains. just refunded my money for the track I ordered. Seems the order that went with my payment didn't show up. That explains why my track hasn't arrived. Might just go buy from the locals afterall. Paying tax though makes them more costly.
It should rain tomorrow, as one particular neighbor (we call him "Bales In The Rain") cut his hay fields yesterday and has already begun baling it today.
Going to band a couple billy goats...OUCH! Have a good day all.
Rob
Well, I';m heading to Cinncy for a Transfoermers Convention. So I'll be out until Tuesday. Monday is a funeral, we lost Grandma to Congestive Heart asnd Dymentia. It was time. She's much better now.
-Morgan
Flashwave: Sorry to learn about your grandmother. In Cincinnati, the museum in the old Union Station is worthwhile because of its large, highly detailed model railroad depicting the city circa 1950. Also, Golf Manor Hobbies is a good shop.
Inch metioned snakes. We have a pair of black snakes here about 5 feet long. We call them Charles and Camilla. They keep away the bad critters, and they don't bother us at all. A house is being built on the next lot, and one of the workers was about to kill one of them. Shelley saw it and told him not to do it. My wife saved the snake's life.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Been there/DSidi that/plan on going back. Dad lived there for 6 yrs, lodda commute. Thanks bout Grandma.
Hi all
Lee run your 0-6-0 as soon as you can! My one without DCC runs like a watch, the one I just got with Dcc and sound has a bad catch in it and stops dead but only at slow speed. Also make sure you put the traction tires on it, without them it only pulls about 10 cars on level track and thats with metal free rolling wheels! Like to know how MR rated it at 20 cars without them
Hi gang
1 large mug of tea please
hows things with all?
Flashwave my thoughts will be with you and your family on monday sorry for your loss
Rob is banding billy goats what i think it is if so yes indeed ouch!!!!!!!!!
all the little angels are out on a fancy dress barcrawl and the organiser is already in my bad books. so quiet night NOT.
OH well i'll be in the corner booth drinking my tea
Gav
One last coffee for the night, thanks!
***Flashwave, very sorry to learn of your grandmother. From your post, it sounds like it may have been a blessing. Never easy to lose a loved one though.
***Gav, you got it right. Nothing but "wethers" here on Cederstrand Farm as of today. No more future kids, unless they're already in nanny ovens.
Going to go run that Shay some more tonight while taking photos of the vintage Berkshire for the-bay. Haven't decided what else to offer up yet. I kinda like what I have left, but then there is still that Proto 0-8-0 (I need it to help out with future switching), Kato GS-4 with 10 car set (to look pretty), and ofcourse that Athearn Bigboy (just cause it's cool). Dang! (The NEW Berkshire is now at the PO, will pick it up tomorrow )
FLASHWAVE: Very sorry to hear of the passing of your grandmother, our thoughts and prayers are for your family.
Today the fire danger is at the highest level, Class V , and over 1000 acres are on fire in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 400 more acres caught fire today alone! Fire crews are very busy all over the area. Relief should arrive here on Saturday night and next Tuesday with moderate rainfalls. Last year we had over 7" of rain in April, this year less than 1".
Later,
I'll have some steak and onion with lots of Tobasco.
I seem to have jangled the nerves in my neck while cutting the grass today, so I'll just be taking it easy for a while.
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
thta sounds nasty jeff
take it easy. By the way how did the course go?
sleeper33 wrote:thta sounds nasty jeff take it easy. By the way how did the course go?Gav
Good Evening, Chloe! How about a cup of coffee and a nice slice of (where's PC? Is he anywhere nearby? Shhh!) butterscotch pie!
Thanks!
Nice evening - still about 71 F after dinnertime. Had a brief bit of rain today, but not much (one-half inch or less).
CN Charlie, guess you could work on a snowman there. What's your usual latest snow your way?
Gav, hope your "li'l angels" come in too buzzed to cause any fuss tonight. Do you get hazardous duty pay for your job? Maybe you should.
Rob, good to hear that the Shay is smoothing out for you. I need to get my (HO) MDC Shay looked at by one of our club members (who has better troubleshooting experience than I do). Some of the linkage is out of whack and needs to be re-aligned/adjusted. Your wife and FIL get to run around with the Marshall, huh? Nice! But I hope your wife doesn't have to have anything elaborate (or expensive) done for her teeth. Of course, that'd be away from her HO scale empire. Hmm... with the interest she's been showing, you might find that more space becomes available for both your layouts. (Hey, we can hope, right?)
Alex, hope you get to feeling better soon. No fun, I'm sure.
Mike, I hope Deb's job stays right where it is, and that they know they have a good worker in her. That whole re-organizing/downsizing stuff is a pain in... well, you know where! And hey, I didn't know you went to one of those places where they handle the snakes![;)]
Colby, I'm proud of you for still working on your homew**k even when you might be tempted to goof off 'cause it's vacation. How long until you head back for classes?
OzarkBelt, we'll look forward to seeing what you did with the layout changes.
Hope all of you Diners with dry-and-dusty ground around you get some rain to soak things down and reduce any fire risk.
Flashwave, sorry to hear about your grandmother - I would second what Rob wrote. Hope your trip goes well.
I'm still waiting for my rustic stone walls (eBay win) to arrive. The Post Office tracking system doesn't update very quickly, it appears. Still shows the package as having arrived at the seller's post office ready to ship...
Just started reading through the Realistic Layouts 4 issue that I got last weekend. From just a quick scan, it looks like there'll be some quite useful ideas for buildings in there. (Do I really need more buildings?...) Also got the Walthers sale catalog from the p.o. box yesterday, and gave it a quick glance last night. Sooooo tempting!
for those ailing and in need of comfort, healing or peace (or all of the above). Think I'll have a refill on my coffee and another slice of the (butterscotch pie), Chloe. Thanks!
Blessings on your day-before-start-of-the-weekend,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
JimRCGMO wrote: Gav, hope your "li'l angels" come in too buzzed to cause any fuss tonight. Do you get hazardous duty pay for your job? Maybe you should. Jim in Cape Girardeau
theyre allright for the best part. No I dont get hazardous pay infact I work 10 hrs and get paid for 8 hrs 45 mins because the company insists we get 1hr 15 min break!!!!!! yea right
Jeff Exellent result good for you
Eveing Gang: I'm not at the meet tonight. There isn't much going on anyway.
Flash I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. Our best to the family and you.
Rob I think that you had better run, don't walk, to the HD and grab a couple more doors. After a comment like that from my wife that's what I'd do. As for your other problem. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions.
Since Dick is buying I haven't had a really good steak in a while. Set me up one of those big sirloins ladies.
I spent an hour or so out in the shop trying to mix up a batch of box car red. I used a red and black from Tractor Supply. Its machinery enamel. Anyway I came up with a pretty good Tuscan red instead. Then I did a swatch of there red oxide primer and it's a good look for the box car red. So I'll use both to break up the monotony.
Mike I hope that Deb's job is safe.
Well I guess I'll head for bed.
Good Night All
Garlic Mashed Potatoes with Steamed Veggies and a tall glass of Cool Water, please & thank you.
***Jeffrey, CONGRATS on your test results. Not surprising.
Finished listing the vintage Berkshire, Yard Goat and EZ Track. Was thinking perhaps I had better go ahead and order one of those Proto 0-8-0 locos right away. That way I can take a pic of it next to the vintage 0-8-0 before that one is sold & shipped. (how's that for reasoning)
Will be eating in the corner booth. Just ignore my snarls & growls...I'm REALLY hungry.
Just heard
Wesley Snipes's been banged up for tax evasion!!
the IRS sounds evil
Holy cow, I just tried to use my CC and it bounced...ohh oh, I see why, TOP....steak dinners tonight...ohh well , that's how it goes, sometimes your the windshield, sometimes your the bug. Eat up ladies and gents....speaking of ladies, where has Sue been lately??
The weather has been so nice up in Nova Scotia that we haven't seen hide nor hair of Luc, John or Fergie....where are you guys !!!!????
Ohh oh, there goes the scanner, fire call , another brush fire....this ones is only a mile away......it is going to be real tough around here until Sunday.
Later guys,
Hello everybody ...
Yeah, where are those Nova Scotians?
Rob, you picked one of my favorites: garlic mashed potatoes.
I finally have the paint and weathering looking okay to me on my Highlands station.
Ryan ... My son has been working for U of I in Champaign, Il, but his new job there is at Duke U. It's computer stuff.
Shelley and I are not happy because a good friend learned she had cancer yesterday. She and her husband are church friends of ours. SHe will have major surgery in a few days. Also, I'll mention my heart acted up again a couple of days ago, and also I'm having surgery at end of next week.
Good night all.
Garry
sorry to hear about your friend and yourself good luck to the pair of you my thoughts are with you both
see you all tonight
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning all,
Flash, sorry to hear about Grandma,
Garry, I wish you well on your surgery and sorry to hear about your friend at Church.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning, Zoe. Just a go cup for now, heading for the office soon. Had an uneventful on-call last night (only one informational phone call).
Supposed to have a cold front move through this afternoon/evening with some wind and rain. Likely the one heading east to water down all of Dick's dry spots around him (and others).
Garry, sorry to hear about your friend, and will be keeping your heart and your surgery in my
Rob, I'd Paul's suggestion of the HD run (or else, at least, check around your place for a couple of large sheets of wood that would be suitable). You want to plant the idea that 'of course, since you like the idea of expanding our layouts...' and stake claim for the train territory expansion. Track and other such can follow as the funds permit.
Best get myself going. I'll check back later. Oh, Jeff, forgot to congratulate you on your ace-ing your course (naturally!).
Blessings,
Good morning, 60F here today under clear skies once again, this has been a great spell of fantastic weather, but very dry. Class V fire danger today, the highest there is. The guys are tired after fighting fires all day yesterday and last night.
HAS ANYONE HEARD FROM OUR NOVA SCOTIANS ?????? Just because someone (un-named) ate all Fergie's butterscotch cream pie is no reason to shun the Diner.
JimRCGMO wrote: Supposed to have a cold front move through this afternoon/evening with some wind and rain. Likely the one heading east to water down all of Dick's dry spots around him (and others).Jim in Cape Girardeau
The only problem is Jim, the atmosphere is so dry here that as the moisture laden clouds move east into NY state, they all dry up before they even hit the Berkshires. You can watch the clouds on satellite view and see them evaporate. Now they say we won't get the rain expected on Sunday, it will take until Tuesday to saturate the air enough to get rain instead of Virga.
In the meantime, firefighters 20 miles north of us fought fires all along the former B&M tracks. A pile to RR ties caught fire along with all the brush.
JEFF: That gave me an idea for your layout, how could you model a pile of ties along the tracks on fire with firefighters? The equipment and personnel is easy, but how to show fake flames would be the interesting part with some fake smoke. A small backdrop "might" work.
Time to get get the ears lowered, see you guys later,
Worst case of insomnia in a while. Not a total loss though, as I did manage to buy the FIL a used #9 golf club this morning on the-bay. I can lock the horses into the front pasture and take he and my wife to the back pasture to "practice".
Having the wife's blessing to expand my door-layout actually doesn't help, as I have no place for it to expand to. What was going to be my train room remains packed with the parents stuff. Oh well.
Going to go lay back down for awhile.
Morning, coffee n a short stack please ZOE
Partly cloudy skies will be around for the first part of the day today before scattered rain and thunderstorms move in this afternoon and evening. Temperatures will stay warm topping out in the upper 70's near 80° before turning much cooler for the weekend. Rain and thunderstorms will exit the Wabash Valley tonight as temperatures fall into the upper 40's. Saturday looks to be partly cloudy and pleasant with temperatures topping out near 60°. The coolest air within a few weeks moves in Saturday night as temperatures drop in the upper 30's. Sunday stays cool with scattered rain moving back in and daytime highs staying in the upper 50's.
For you folks needin rain, I'd send ya some if I could. Farm work finally started around here on the rollin and sandy ground, but some of the flat lands are still a little heavy yet.
FLASHWAVE,
Sure sorry to hear of your loss. We'll keep ya'll in our thoughts.
Thanks all for the best wishes on Mother's job. Things are looking better for her now, she cornered the plant manager, and he told she was one of them they were planning on keeping, because of everything she could do. Right now she's the service center manager [dealing with rich folk on their yachts, wanting something free], asst. human resource, bookkeeper - payroll [or nobody gets paid], asst. comptroller. She also does a lot their paper work for overseas and military shipments. That's just at the south plant, she worked at the north plant for 8 years and there's not much she can't do there either.
JERRY
Mother said as far as she knew Russ is still at the Tellacom, and there's only been one let go at Marine so far, and he was a temp.
DICK,
I'm not the only one whose notice the lack of bees. I'm beginning to wonder if that sudden hive disappearance, that's been in the news hasn't hit round here in some places.
DUKE'
No, Deb wasn't home, but I still heard about when she got here. I was also reminded "THAT I WAS NOT TO CATCH ANY WHEN THE KIDS ARE HERE"!!! Guess a 5-year-old grandson tried the catch one yesterday and when his mommy ask why. He said, "grandpa does it ".
So, I'm in trouble again, oh well. Guess I'll have to teach him how to do it right next time.
As far snakes, I've always caught them. We use to turn'em loss in the barn, corncribs and out buildings growing up. We even turned them lose in the crawl space under the house. Mom didn't mind as long as they stay out of the inside. Bout the only place we didn't want them was the chicken house.
Now Deb's a completely different story as far as snakes. I can't keep any round here.
Heard some more bad news from Casey. Seems Casey Tool an Die has been sold and moving overseas. I think they had bout 80+ working there, making metal parts for light fixtures.
A thought for the day; Not matter what the news media says, we are not in a recession, it's just a slight economic slow down.
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The new Berkshire arrived. Other than a broken front coupler and the fact it will only run in reverse, I might have commented on it's great looks. I won't mention who I bought it from until I know how they are going to handle the refund. I'm very disappointed! Rob