Elliots Trackside Diner IV, Under New Management!

[NS Luc]

It was fun being a baby boomer... until now. Some of the artists of the 60's are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby Boomers.

They include:

Herman's Hermits--- Mrs.. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker.

Ringo Starr--- I Get By With a Little Help From Depends.

The Bee Gees--- How Can You Mend a Broken Hip.

Bobby Darin--- Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash.

Roberta Flack--- The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face.

Johnny Nash--- I Can't See Clearly Now.

Paul Simon--- Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver

The Commodores--- Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom.

Procol Harem--- A Whiter Shade of Hair.

Leo Sayer--- You Make Me Feel Like Napping.

The Temptations--- Papa's Got a Kidney Stone.

Abba--- Denture Queen.

Tony Orlando--- Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Fall.

Helen Reddy--- I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore.

Leslie Gore--- It's My Procedure, and I'll Cry If I Want To.

And my favorite:

Willie Nelson--- On the Commode Again

[jeffrey-wimberly]

JEFF: We had to replace our liner in 2004 after 17 years. This time we opted for an even heavier gauge material, and it is rated for 25 year. Instead of losing all the water like the first liner change back in 1987, they brought in a HUGE water bag and pumped the water into the bag. That bag held 19K gallons of water!!!!

Your pool is slightly smaller than ours. The last time we filled it the fire dept used a 2,000 gallon tanker. The truck made thirteen trips leaving with about a 1,000 gallons still on board on the last trip. On that we calculated that it holds around 25,000 gallons.

 

My list of things to do today:

Get two new tires for the car.
Get aforementioned car inspected.
Renew driver's license.
Pay bills.
Get groceries.
Make trip to HJobby Lobby in Alexandria.
 

[JimRCGMO]

Good Morning, Zoe - yes, I'm sorry I didn't stop by yesterday afternoon or evening. I'll try to get by more often. (Did the others' tips make up for what I wasn't here to chip in? ) I'll have a cup of the TH and some of the breakfast buffet, plus a cinnamon roll, please. Thanks!

CN Charlie, you raised a good point - why haven't you & your wife entered the yard in the neighborhood beautification contest? Sounds like she does a great job on the yard (photos later to be posted?...)

BridgeTom, that sounds like one great day with your former students - and even more amazing that the Big Engineer kept the trains from derailing or messing (TM) up. I'd say they must have learned a few things from your tutelage. Now, if your creeper bridge will arrive from MicroMark, you'll be on top of everything, huh?

Looks like Fergie is a bobbin' on the briney seas, with all that ice. Hope you get calmer seas on the way back home, Fergie.

Rob, good that you (finally!) found TinyToons' lost shoe. I don't think she'd like that pink color, and besides, it'd probably wear off as she was walking all over the meadows on it.

Without starting up anything, one thing about the oil futures is that those of us with retirement/401(k)/mutual funds may also be contributing to the problem, as the people directing those funds love it when oil futures go up. If they'd invest in something other than the oil futures, we could afford to drive (now and when we retire, for us non-ORF's)... My - and yes, I know there are other oil futures speculators

out there who also aggravate the price problems....  

Paul, how's the eye going? To track your drops, you could mark on each week "drops - 2/day" or whatever the dosage is supposed to be, to help you keep track of the number for that week. How's the house trim coming along?

Way to go, RailroadNut675 - that is awesome work on the SAT (now, just keep your grades up, and you may get some nice scholarships for college on top of those honors).

JR, I will be for things to get settled as is best for your whole family in all that house biz with the adjustor crew. I know the smell of wood smoke is bad enough in a building (and much of any stuff that was in the building - had a fire years ago in the same block as my photo studio and some stuff years later still had some of the smell if you were close enough). I'd second the comments about smoke cleanup places - but get recommendations from others who've used them before you sign up with one.

Inch, that serves that leprechaun right. Good joke!

PC, that Vette looks the right color for this year's Chevys! A few months back, I pitched a slot car that I had built (from clear plastic shell kit), but hadn't run in quite a while. I think (if memory serves me right) that it was a Cobra in blue with white racing stripe. 

Jeff, on those WS people at Hobby Lobby, remember to check the HL website to see what their coupon is - it might be one of those "40 percent off one item" ones! The park's looking very good. Will they have a softball diamond added in one corner?

RT, great to hear you're up and running at the new job (and moved in). Will look forward to hearing more when you get the time.

to the Diner,K4Driver! Fill us in about your layout (photos are welcome, too!). Which wood kit do you have? Older Campbell kit, or something else?

Johnboy, cute joke! Go for those brownie points with the CFO.

And to the Diner, George! I see some of the others already greeted you. So, do you have any paycheck left, with working in the LHS? I probably would be too tempted if I was in one 8 hours a day... Oh, don't know if the others warned you or not about getting the TOP (top of the page) - since you're new here, we won't give you the bill. Usual is, if you get TOP, you get to buy the (virtual) food and beverages for that page. So we'll just let PC cover it, since he volunteered...

Colby, best wishes on the lifeguard job - you should be able to manage that, I'm sure!

Luc, good to see you in again, and those lyrics are funny!

Well, my 11:00 is probably here, and I need to go check. Will be back later today.

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

 

[twhite]

Morning everyone: 

Another balmy day here in SunnyCal--supposed to be a little warmer here in the Valley today--high 70's, low '80's.  That Low front that's been keeping us civilised is supposed to head East the next couple of days (get ready for thunderstorms in Colorado, you guys) and be replaced with a High that should have us in the mid-90's by next weekend.  I KNEW it was too good to last, LOL! 

Luc:  Loved those song titles.  I RESEMBLE some of them.  Funniest for me: FIFTY WAYS TO LOSE YOUR LIVER.  Guess I'll have to stop digging into the Communion wine, LOL!

George:  Welcome to the diner--the food's really good and there's LOTS of it.  If you're feeling brave, have Zoe whip up one of her Cornish Pasties for you--you'll be eating it for days!

John:  Still laughing about the Catholic gasoline.  Gonna try that one on my very cool buddy Sr. Margie down at St. Francis this weekend after Mass.  She'll get a HUGE kick out of it!  I'd tell you one that she told me a couple of weeks ago about some midgets at a Monastery but I think the moderators would delete it.  Yup, it's THAT kind of Catholic Joke.

Well, got some bad news and good news yesterday.  My other Train Cat Lowell has been acting kind of listless and drinking a lot of water lately, so I took him to the vet for a checkup.  Seems that Lowell only has about 80% of his kidney function (he's 15).  This is the gray Maine Coon who listens to Mahler a lot and likes his catnip smuggled in from Santa Cruz.  That's the bad news, the good news is that with proper medication, he should live out the rest of his years in comfort (Maine Coons usually live to about 20 or so).  So, new diet, meds, an occasional trip to the vet to get re-hydrated--the bit.  Hope it all works, he's such a mellow little guy and a real buddy. 

Well, time to go out and continue my re-forestation project.  Those hills are starting to look nice and green, by Golly. 

Have a great day, all. 

Tom

 

 

[Cox 47]

Good Morning All...Its sunny windy and warmer today we turned the A/C on for the first time as the caregiver is doing some cooking for the week-end....I'll have a diet Coke please...Thank You...Got decals on one side of NKP outside braced box car..I taped the decal sheet to some cardboard and hit it with some Mat medium spray and it worked the old decals held together and didn't go to pieces..I wish I would have tryed that when I decaled the NKP caboose..

JR..I wish I could figure out how to work in a off line storage area...I could cut a whole where I have the mirror but tracks would have to fold down[or maybe up] when not in use..I have also thought about a upper level where my sliding work table is now but it would have to be a pretty stiff grade to get up there..

You all have a good one...Jerry

[Flashwave]

Good Morning. What? It;s afternoon? But I just got up! Don't listen to Ferg, he's just truying to sucker out of a tab. Your the first flreshies to not get stuck unknowingly with TOP honors in a while. Record is 5 pages in a row. Just so you know. Also, we usually change to a new diner between now and 150 pages. Mods don't like us killing the server. Go figure. 

Since last I was in, I';ve managed to poke a few more holes in my Trackmobile. Most of them I want. lights look good in her, and I haven't even gotten them powered yet.

[JimRCGMO]

Afternoon, Zoe -I'll have a root beer float, please.

 

Thanks! And thank PC when he stops in, since he's covering the tab.

Not a lot more going on for me today - my 11:00 didn't show up, and I had one phone call since then. Everybody else must be outside enjoying the weather before the rain gets here tonight, I suppose.

I've been working some on a lesson on financial matters for our next section in the singles group. Definite example of 'Do as I say, and not as I did in the past...' or like Dick's signature that he uses. Never can tell, I may learn as much in preparing the lessons as the rest of the group.

Looks like it's been quiet in the Diner today - not a lot of people in (except for Duke, snoring in the back booth - I'll try not to wake him up). He's almost louder than the jukebox is...

Want to get a bit more MRR'ing stuff done over the weekend, after I get the lesson for next weekend ready. Got wiring to do, that kitbashed Roberts Printing building to finish up the basic walls and structure, and a few hundred other projects I wouldn't mind getting some w**k done on...

But for now, I'm going to sit down and get a start on the RBF.

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[Cox 47]

B.....U.......M.....P.....Where is everbody?.....Jerry

[grayfox1119]

Wow what a day....I am beat!!! I am so dry ...I'll take TWO root beer floats...quick Zoe before I pass out from dehydration. I tried to roll the huge boulder that I dug out of the yard, but that was an exercise in futility because it had two very flat surfaces. So, being alone this afternoon, I decided to use my son's old GTO hood that I kept for this very use. I sprayed the shiny side with Sears lawn mower bed "no stick" for grass, then used a crow bar to get the boulder onto the backside of the hood. I tried using the lawn tractor in low gear to pull it...no go, not enough weight on the rear wheels. Soooooo, it was time to use the Explorer. That worked like a charm, and I pulled the stone right to the waterfall construction area in the back yard.

JERRY: Where is everyone? Just you and I in the Diner. But...it "is" Friday night and most of the guys are out "howling" at the moon.

JEFF: I guess you are still working on that check list for today.....I hope you got to the LHS though.

CAPE JIM: I would be quite surprised if any 401K admins engaged in Futures Trading. That is VERY risky business, you can lose your shirt if you don't know what your doing, and even those that "do" have experience los big time at times. Options and Futures are NOT for 401K's. The best things to invest in right now are Commodities. Gold, Silver, Tin, Copper, Aluminum, etc, oil, gas, fertilizer, etc. Just look at MOS, MON, POT for instance, check their graph for the past year or two...amassing !! China is buying all the fertilizer it can get it's hands on from Canada.

Later,

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I accomplished everything on my list today. I got two new tires to replace the two that I've been using to leave 20 foot black streaks on the roads. That was $115. I got the car inspected, $10. I paid my bills, cable, electricity, car insurance. That was $218. I got the groceries I need right away, $49. I'll get the rest when my food stamp allotment comes in on the third.  I went to Hobby Lobby in Alexandria and picked up $76 worth of stuff there. A Bachmann Flatcar, a jar of fine gray blend ballast, two boxes of hand-made Life-Like green shade trees and three WS Scenic Accents packs of figures.  A1832 Moms & Kids, A1829 People Sitting and A1869 Baseball Players (kids playing baseball). Lastly, I just renewed my driver's license from the comfort of my home by renewing online. It only costs two dollars more than going to the OMV office.

[sleeper33]

morning all just a tea please girls

looks like youve been buisy whilst ive been away will try to catch up but i doubt i will

well ill just be here drinking my tea

Gav

[georgea]

thank's to everyone wecoming me to the diner . JR and PC - the car is a 1974 Dodge sport coupe  all original except repainted and put on a new vinyl top . have owned since new , has only 51,000 miles on it . has the very reliable engine - slant 6 .

[sleeper33]

Oh well

 first post in 10 days and get top

 well tuck in everone its on me

Gav

[Flashwave]

 

PC is probably in his basement gettin soggy. We just weathered the first of the storm. It;s his turn. Little rain, lots of light, nothing major. G'night.

[Paul W. Beverung]

Evening Gang: The base board project was going well untill 30 minutes ago. I had gotton a new filter for  the vac that I have hooked up to the router table. I got one piece of base run through and was on the second when I smelled that smell that says a motor is cooking. I hoped that it wasn't the router ( a good Porter Cable ) and finished the run. When I turned off the vac I knew that it was the clupret. Since I got it for nothing several years ago it wasn't a great loss. Tomorrow I'll get a new one. I wounder if Sears will give me a refund on the filter? One can try. So that's how the trim job is going Jim. 

We found a crack in one of the new tiles today. I called the fellow that did the install and he's coming by Monday to take care of it. According to Hardy Backer there should be an expansion joint when there is an "L" change in the room. He didn't put one in where the crack is. It runs through the tile and across the grout joint to the opposite wall. I guess the pros need to read the instructions.

Needless to say no MRRing today. Unless you count taking a bit to read some of the new MR. Daisy the dog is in bed, Mary Ann is getting ready for bed and I still have to do the eyedrop thing.

I'll be back tomorrow.

Good Night All

[pcarrell]

PC is probably in his basement gettin soggy. We just weathered the first of the storm. It;s his turn. Little rain, lots of light, nothing major. G'night.

We just had some NASTY storms pass through here!  A tornado passed about a mile south of here, and we had golf ball sized hail.  We also had straightline winds of 70mph.  The local weather station had over 8000 cloud to ground lightning hits in a half an hour (!!!), and most of the lightning was cloud to cloud!  You could've stood by a window (not advisable) and read the paper with the lights off at 11:00pm!  We lost power three times too.  So far I can see that our huge tent is ancient history, as is most of our lawn furniture.  I'll wait till morning to see if there's any damage to the house itself since the weather is still a bit "unfriendly" out there.

Oh well, I'm off to watch the skies as the next wave is about to roll in!

[pcarrell]

Things have settled down tremendously now.  The house looks OK from what I can see.  We'll see what the morning brings.

[eeyore9900]

Evening folks-just a quick coffee before bed.

Phillip-glad you made it thru unscathed & hope you stay that way! I've been monitoring the weather here on & off all nite, & see the leading edge of the mess is almost here. They just issued a tornado watch to for the counties SW of here, but not us so far. I'm "up" on the weather situation, & we have a good bunch of tornado sirens here in town, so we should be good.

Better hit it-nite all! 

[wetidlerjr]

Good Morning from Tipton IN !

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning from the Sportsman's Paradise.

It's 70 degrees and sunny here, kinda like an apology for the rain we got yesterday that the weather guesser didn't see coming. The high today will be in the low 90's and it will be partly cloudy unless the weather guesser ends up with egg on his face again.

Today's Weather for:      
Sundown, LA  71446-6114      5/31/2008

Wind Chill:  68°F
Humidity:  98%
Dew Point:  67°F

So Far Today
High:  71°F
Low:  67°F
Rain:  N/A"
Rain Rate:  N/A"/h
Gust:  4mph SSW

Today  High: 92    Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Light and variable winds becoming south around 10 mph in the afternoon.    
 
Tonight  Low: 68    Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.

[GMTRacing]

Good Morning All,

    I'll have a regular and a plate of scrambled eggs, bacon and rye toast from the buffet - thanks Bill.

PC - PM'ed you yesterday per your request did it go through? Glad your home came through the storms in one piece. Do you folks need to consider tethers for the lawn furniture or are you all participating in a neighbourhood furniture swap program? At any rate glad you're all ok.

Jeff - nice B&W pic. When I did film I used lots of balck and white and still prefer it for prints.

Gavin - welcome back how was your holiday? Is there any building left standing or are your little dears standing in a pile of rubble?

Lots to do today - I get to sit the dog here at the shop as the CFO is taking a much deserved break today for the Ct Seniors Softball tournament. I'll try to drop in by and by.    J.R.

[JimRCGMO]

Good Morning, Janie - I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ (we still have some left, right?)

 

stack of waffles with some Maine maple syrup,

 

and a cup of the Tim Horton's, please.

 

Thanks, doll! Yep, I think it's still Gav covering, awfully nice of him.

Good to hear that our Ohio and Indiana neighbors (PC, Mitch, Flashwave and all) made it through last night. Lee, how about you? Now, we just need to hear from Garry, RT and our other Diners south of the Ohio River, and we'll have most of the Midwest Diners accounted for.

Jeff, sounds like you had a fairly busy day, with all your bill-paying and shopping. That online  license renewal is something that I wouldn't mind if Missouri would add.

Dick, sounded like your yesterday is a good day to recover from! - and Paul, yours as well! But Paul, if I read you right, you did get the rest of the baseboard moulding routed before the vac gave up, yes?  

I went out for dinner last night, and then swung by WallyWorld. I had one of those coupons for a digital TV converter box, and picked me up one - only ran about $10 more than the coupon. The picture is now much improved, and I get some other local channels that I didn't have before (I have chosen not to get cable, long while back) - including a couple of local weather ones. I think there are one or two stations I used to have on analog signal (up around 105 or so) that don't appear to be there. At least the remote worked with the first code I put in for the TV brand - that's better than a lot of remotes I've had!

Supposed to have possibility of isolated thunderstorms today, and a high around 88 F (30 C) this afternoon. I noticed the humidity yesterday afternoon/evening was up some - it's 82 percent RH now.

Better be getting to my breakfast - got laundry waiting in the car to go do. Everyone dodge any storms today, and may your power not go out, so you can get some MRR'ing stuff done.

 

Blessings,

Jim in Cape Girardeau 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Here's most of the items I picked up yesterday.

Two boxes of green shade trees.

Three packs of figures.

Satin pins and tulle (material used for wedding veils) that will be used in fence construction.

I also picked up a new Bachmann Silver Series flat car.

Not shown is a jar of fine gray blend ballast.

 

[pcarrell]

Well, I found my tent about a 1/4 mile away......it's ruined, no big surprise.  I found all of my lawn furiture too....or whats left of it.  The house appears to have no damage at all.  Thank You Jesus!

JR - Gotta run right now, but I'll check on the PM later, OK?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeff, sounds like you had a fairly busy day, with all your bill-paying and shopping. That online  license renewal is something that I wouldn't mind if Missouri would add.

Man, I was busier than a pair of jumper cables at a hillbilly funeral yesterday. That online license renewal saved me about an hour and a half. It only took five minutes to complete. It's just a simple case of entering g the information, paying the fee and printing the receipt.

[Flashwave]

Things have settled down tremendously now.  The house looks OK from what I can see.  We'll see what the morning brings.

The Lightning was the worst of it here, It all swung North and South of us. Lots of praying, setting up "bubbles" with His help, and hugging the much loved teddy bear. Course, we soent alot of the storm on the Deck...  Mom had the HAM radio, and we were listening to the Spotters chatter about the clouds. They said they were seeing all kinds of cloud forms, some were as close one could get to a Tornado without the rotation. Glad to hear your okay.

Hows the East Coast surviving our Leftovers?

[GMTRacing]

Good Afternoon All,

    No weather dramas here yet though I did secure our storage container and all the vehicles in the yard plus checked the house this morning. The contents adjustor shows up Monday but I'm thinking a lot more survived in the master bedroom than they think. Oh well, back to w..k lunch is over.  J.R.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Hello everybody ...

There's a lot going on I see. I have returned from Nashville briefly. I had medical appoints yesterday, but go back again Monday.

I posted some pictures of cabooses in WPF.

happy Model Railroading.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

I got my new computer mainboard today. Opening the box was an eye-opening experience. That sucker has a LIQUID COOLED CPU! The cooling unit is bigger than my fist. The processor is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3GHZ Dual-Core in an AM2 socket. The board is a MSI K9N4 SLI with DDR2 800 memory and uses the Nvidia eForce 500 SLI chipset. This thing is supposed to be super fast! The primary reason I got it is because it supports up to four IDE devices as well as four SATA devices. I'm starting it off on one GB of RAM. It's expandable up to eight GBs.

Now I just need the time and proper physical condition to install it. In other words, I have to wait for a time when I don't have the shakes.

[Cox 47]

Afternoon all...Its sunny and hot here..we dodged most of the storms last nite they went just north of us..I'll have a diet coke with extra ice please....Thank You...I started to rehab a couple more cars yesterday...You all have a good one...Jerry