see you all tonight
Gav
Great
after another action packed night(NOT!!!!!! )
WENT OUT TO UNLOCK THE BACK GATE AND WAS BUZZED BY A SEAGULL WITH AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM. great.
another tea please
Evening Gang:
JimCG I wish I could figure out how to retire from retirement. If you come up with a way let me know.
We took the girls to Dallas on the train today. Little Rachel is a real train nut just like her grandpa. She was going toot, toot every time the train did. If any of you get to Dallas try and get to the Dallas World Aquarium it is very good.
Well I'm bushed. I'll try and stop in tomorrow evening.
Good Night All
sorry Jeff
another tea please girls
Found this on page two. Y'all are slipping.
I'll have steak and onion tonight.
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
Afternoon, all:
Holy Cow, Railroadnut posts pictures of his sister's bunny and suddenly everyone wants RABBIT STEW? Sorry, I don't like the taste of bunny. Always reminds me of the time when I was a kid and dad decided we'd raise rabbits. Yah, well--we got a male and a female--Miggs and Floppy-- and after the first litter, Dad was thinking of all those neat meals we'd have until my sister and I looked at him and said "We're going to EAT them?" Dad, really neat guy that he was just blinked and said, "That's the purpose." My sister broke down crying, I just stared at Dad with my big baby blues, he shrugged and said, "Oh Hell," and the neighborhood finally ended up with a whole bunch of pets. We kept Miggs and Floppy, but in separate cages. They were pretty cool rabbits. My sister and I fed them out of our allowance, but that's back when Lettuce was 5 cents a head, LOL!
Anyway, the temperature here is a hot 103 again, but today the air quality was at least unbreathable--KCRA said 'Uncomfortable for those with respiratory problems', which is unfortunately ME. Went out and started work today, but couldn't spend a lot of time there. We're supposed to have a Delta breeze coming in around 6:00, so I'll see what I can get done. Did a little staining on yesterday's granite, but had to come in early. Said the heck with it and watched some LAW AND ORDER reruns on TV. Hopefully I can go out in a couple of hours.
Garry: I think Woodland Scenics has some mountain climbers, I'll check into it. Actually, the Sierra Buttes has a Forest Service lookout tower on one of the peaks I haven't gotten to yet, so I'm thinking of putting one up there, which means I'll have to carve a horse-trail up one of the cliffs. Maybe I'll do that instead. I mean, we didn't have a lot of mountain-climbers back in 1947 around here, LOL!
Flash: How was the game you and your dad went to?
Ed: The Hydrocal is okay--like I said before, I just didn't follow the directions.
Jeff: "Hassenpfeffer" actually tastes better if you use chicken. I think then it's called "Kuchleinpfeffer" or something like that, LOL! But make sure you use fresh-ground pfeffer, the canned stuff is kind of yucky. Really liked that last shot of the park, BTW.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Evening gang
just a tea for now please
Well up to another night of nothing. little cherubs are being well behaved as any damage caused is comming off their deposits and they are bricking it.
I'll be at the counter if anybody needs me
Hello...
Hassesnpheffer or rabbit gumbo may be an improvement over cocoa puffs emerging from the south end of a nortbound rabbit.
I like the pix of the KCS "Sothern Bell" unit, Jeff.
Jerry......... nice layout shots. I can see why you might selct country ham considering the options offered today.
Tom is probably on his creeper. I'm still think he should have 1/87 mountan climbers on that "hill".
Happy Model Railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
railroadnut675 wrote:Hi, I checked out an interesting book from the library the other day. Robert Schleicher's HO model railroading handbook 3rd edition. It was published 1998, but covers EZ track and DCC.Is DCC hard to install? Expensive? Ive been reading...
Hi,
I checked out an interesting book from the library the other day. Robert Schleicher's HO model railroading handbook 3rd edition. It was published 1998, but covers EZ track and DCC.
Is DCC hard to install? Expensive? Ive been reading...
Looks like I have of the page honors. Anybody up for some Hassenpheffer?
Good afternoon All...Its sunny and in the low 80's here....I'll have a slice of Garry's Ky Ham with swiss cheese,Tater salad and a Root beer float please..Thank You...Maybe some Rail Road time this afternoon...Sallie and I caught the old movie Bad Day at Black Rock the other nite its got some good SP passenger stuff at beginning and end....Well I'm gonna take my food and slip overe into the back booth and see who comes in...You all have a good one...Jerry
Afternoon folks!
What's for lunch? Oh, how about some Rabbit Gumbo.....come and get it! LOL
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Morning.
Could you hand me the near empty jar of Penut Butter and a knife? Least until I cease being lazy and actually do something about breakfast.
Today is belated Father's Day Indian's Game Day for Dad and I. Can't wait. Hope he's healthy enough to go. Tdoad we're gonna try the paint scheme again on a F unit. Decided to drop he yellow. And I've got a baggae car that's ready to white for the Freedom Train.
-Morgan
JimRCGMO wrote: PC, that's only the half of it - since we know that truth, we have to decide to use whatever time (minutes, hours, whatever) for the MRR'ing (after required HD list and other 'higher' - or Higher - priorities are attended to... ).To sum it up - we'll never get all the MRR'ing time we want (nor enough space for all we'd like to do with our layout, etc.), so we might as well get done a little bit at a time, rather than waiting for that mythical weekend that is "totally ours for layout work."At least, that's my on that...Shew, I'm tired from all that thinkin' - Zoe, I need a RBF, please!
PC, that's only the half of it - since we know that truth, we have to decide to use whatever time (minutes, hours, whatever) for the MRR'ing (after required HD list and other 'higher' - or Higher - priorities are attended to... ).To sum it up - we'll never get all the MRR'ing time we want (nor enough space for all we'd like to do with our layout, etc.), so we might as well get done a little bit at a time, rather than waiting for that mythical weekend that is "totally ours for layout work."
At least, that's my on that...
Shew, I'm tired from all that thinkin' - Zoe, I need a RBF, please!
The man speaks the truth!
Hook me up too Zoe. My brain hurts now too, and Jim's "antidote" looks good!
pcarrell wrote:Jim, ain't that the truth!
Jim, ain't that the truth!
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Jeff, nice shot today!
Good Morning, Zoe, Ed, and I see Jeff and Bill T. have been in earlier. I'll have some of Ed's famed OJ,
scrambled eggs with some grated cheese melted in, couple of slices of that near bacon,
and a cup of the TH, please.
Thanks, Gav!
pcarrell wrote:I went to the LHS and bought like everything in sight that fit my layout. They like me a lot there now! (Now I just have to find time to build everything and get it on the layout!)
I went to the LHS and bought like everything in sight that fit my layout. They like me a lot there now! (Now I just have to find time to build everything and get it on the layout!)
Yeah, PC, that's the trade-off - when you work a lot, you get more LHS , but you don't have the time while working to do anything on the layout; while if you are off work, you're not earning that LHS money! Hope you get some time in on the layout stuff over the weekend.
Paul, how does one retire from retirement, I wonder?
Jeff. nice photo of that KCS diesel - hard to miss those with that crisp color scheme! What've you got in store for today?
One more day until Friday (and maybe payday, not sure if the deposit'll show up Friday or Sat. a.m. in my bank account).
Last night, I ordered some more Arizona Rocks & Minerals stuff from Caboose Hobbies, so now I get to wait until later today and see how much of it will be in stock, and what somebody else got and beat me to the punch. Not a lot more going yet on my layout until this weekend. I've been looking at Preiser's catalog lately, and trying to figure what other figures I want to get for the layout. Need to find a place with a good discount on those, with the rate of exchange between the $ and the DM, though...
I'll be at the corner booth, getting to my breakfast now.
Blessings and fair weather today for you,
twhite wrote: But could someone answer me a question? How does Hydrocal go BAD? The directions say to let it set for 5 minutes. So how come 20 minutes later it STILL looks like Cream of Potato soup? Sheesh!
But could someone answer me a question? How does Hydrocal go BAD? The directions say to let it set for 5 minutes. So how come 20 minutes later it STILL looks like Cream of Potato soup? Sheesh!
btw, mountains look good.
Regards
Ed
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
twhite wrote: Flashwave wrote: twhite wrote: And now--ON TO THE CREEPER!!Tom Forgive mme for being the nay sayer, but what's up with the streaky puddy look in the center of the pic? There's a couple of seams I notice to where the mold isn't yet flush, right around the tunnel. await color*ducks*Flash--The 'streaky-puddy' look in the center represents a pure intrusion of granite upthrust. Coloring will improve it. It's pretty common up here in the California Sierra, having layered and jumbled granite suddenly interrupted by big, solid intrusions of the stuff. The mold around the tunnel needs some work--as I said, this portion isn't done by a LONG shot, LOL! The gray is a base color, I still have to add darker hues, some 'rust' (lots of iron oxide in these here Buttes) and lighter 'highlighting' to some of the layers. That's why I said that this is a MAJOR project. Tom
Flashwave wrote: twhite wrote: And now--ON TO THE CREEPER!!Tom Forgive mme for being the nay sayer, but what's up with the streaky puddy look in the center of the pic? There's a couple of seams I notice to where the mold isn't yet flush, right around the tunnel. await color*ducks*
twhite wrote: And now--ON TO THE CREEPER!!Tom
And now--ON TO THE CREEPER!!
Forgive mme for being the nay sayer, but what's up with the streaky puddy look in the center of the pic? There's a couple of seams I notice to where the mold isn't yet flush, right around the tunnel. await color
*ducks*
Flash--
The 'streaky-puddy' look in the center represents a pure intrusion of granite upthrust. Coloring will improve it. It's pretty common up here in the California Sierra, having layered and jumbled granite suddenly interrupted by big, solid intrusions of the stuff. The mold around the tunnel needs some work--as I said, this portion isn't done by a LONG shot, LOL! The gray is a base color, I still have to add darker hues, some 'rust' (lots of iron oxide in these here Buttes) and lighter 'highlighting' to some of the layers. That's why I said that this is a MAJOR project.
Huh. Learnd somen new bout rocks. ANd while your at it, your advising me on scenery. SO, thanks.
Nopw it;s time for showers and beds. it;s only almost 2am
Hi mate
I will just letting it stew awhile improves the taste 10 fold
Hello gav....
Enjoy the tea.
fine
lunch it is
glad you had a good raid down the LHS i know what you mean by now finding the time still got kits from the last time i was over not even out the box.
hows the family hope all ok and getting on well
ill be at the counterif anybody needs me
Hello everyone,
I bet the strawberry rhubbarb pie is totolly gone now. Glad I had some a couple of days ago.
Terry ... Keep up your spirits. Radiation must be no fun. Prayers continue for your full recovery from the disease.
Tom ... the montains are looking great!. Sound like the creeper is getting a lot of work. Is it due for it's 3,000 mile servicing yet? The mountains might need some climbers with all their gear ascending one of the steep cliffs. Do they have 1/87 muntain climbers available? Maybe they have one with goggles like the avatar Ryan was using until his Hawaii trip.
It was good to see Darth Santa Fe in the diner. The bachmann Shay sounds like quite a locomotive. Maybe we'll see more of that E6A soon, too.
I did some non-model railroad stuff today. The garagage got its 2007 spring cleaning. So what if I'm a year late with that.
One of our two five-foot black snakes was out today keeping those mice away. The snakes are named Charles and Camilla.
The thread on GN 2-6-6-2's reminds me. I've been tempted to aquire one of the Mantua 2-6-6-2's and make it look like one of the rare CB&Q mallets. Some of Burlington's 2-6-6-2's were used in the Black Hills on the CB&Q's Deadwood branch. That's one of those "round tuit" ideas for my layout. Msot of my model railroad time this year has been for ading to layout itself so far this year. I've not added much locos and cars.
HEY!
What's with you trying for my most TOTP's in a row crown?
Tell ya what..........Ya wanna be like that? FINE! You're buying me dinner!
So I've been like insanely busy at work (with all the storms......I work at the phone company), and school is kicking my butt, and I'm trying to graduate sometime in THIS millenium, that I've had like no time for anything lately! I made up for it today though. I went to the LHS and bought like everything in sight that fit my layout. They like me a lot there now! (Now I just have to find time to build everything and get it on the layout!)
top again
tuck in lads rabbit stew on special
come back P.C all is foregiven
Thats right
get it fed up for later
JimRCGMO wrote: RRNut675, that's one tasty cute-looking bunny! Do you get to help feed the varmit?
RRNut675, that's one tasty cute-looking bunny! Do you get to help feed the varmit?
I can hardly touch the thing while my sister is around, though she lets me hold it. That middle picture is from when the girls let him out in the backyard; he ate some of our parsley