Evening all--
Just got back from playing the Fiesta Mass at Christ the King Retreat Center. WHEW!! Outdoors, and a very Gerry-mandered electrical hookup that for some reason kept shorting out the electronic keyboard. Luckily, we had several guitarists that were able to pick up the slack, and a couple of really GOOD Cantors. But all in all, not my most memorable experience--the sky is pretty overcast from that fire to the north of us in Paradise, and since there's hardly a breeze, it was not really comforatable for me to breathe (darned COPD!) As soon as the Mass was over, I piled in the car and came home--stopping at my local Safeway to grab a rib steak and an artichoke. Just finished steaming the artichoke and will put the rib steak on the grill in a little while. The Retreat Center was having a Mexican barbecue, but as I said, I'm not one for Mexican food--all that Cilantro, YUK!--
Jim: You're right about the In Nomine--never trust a Franciscan, LOL! Of course I'M not going to say that after Father's Day Mass, tomorrow, they always gather we dads in the Narthex and have the community pray over us. Let's face it, sometimes we Dad's NEED those prayers! I'm a Third Order Franciscan Catholic who just retired from a Jesuit high school and plays occasional masses for a Passionist Retreat Center. Kind of the Grand Tour, don't you think?
Johnboy--as to the garage--if the door's down, there's three INCHES between the door and the front of the layout. Needless to say, the Buttes and Sierra City get trains through when the door is UP! When I had the door installed, the guy looked at me and said, "You really ought to move the train back." I pointed to the rest of the layout, which extends to the back of the garage, he just blinked and said, "Oh, forget it." I told him that I'd been bitten by the Collis P. Huntington Bug early in life, but I don't think he got the joke.
Flashwave: Sounds like you had a good trip. Take any photos you want to share with the rest of us? And BTW, I haven't bitten on the turntable yet, just got the Creeper and am planning out how to re-rock the Buttes. One project at a time (yah, SUUUURRE!).
I've heard that the flooding in the Midwest MIGHT start easing in the next five days, I certainly hope so for you guys back there. This has been a terrible Spring for all of us, God hope it's over soon. My prayers are with you. There was a special prayer for you at the Mass today, and I'm sure there will be one at St. Francis tomorrow. I've already sent an Intention to the parish. As to the fires out here--the Paradise fire is now at 64,000 acres, and one fourth of the town has been evacuated, but that's of this morning--I'm going to check the news in a half hour to see how it's going. The Bonnie Doone fire in Santa Cruz is under control at 600 acres, and there's still a new one blazing at nearby Monterey that's consumed about 18,000 acres. Luckily the winds have stopped, and the weather report is for declining temperatures and increased humidity from Delta Breezes coming in off of the Pacific. Let us hope.
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
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!
Tom: Between Mom and I? only about 1000. (Like I said, we're getting there) There's no flooding around me, just high water. Really didn't see anything coming back, either. The Ohio was up on the way down, but she was back in her banks around Cinncy as of today. We did drive past a small wildfire. I've got a Firetrain in design for HO, I have a feeling it would be in use out west and maybe everywhere in real life.
ANd beacuse I love giving you more ideas:
-Morgan
Flashwave wrote: ANd beacuse I love giving you more ideas:
Flashwave:
HOO BOY, you build it, I'll BUY IT, LOL!
JimRCGMO wrote: Oh, (former Latin student here) I learned it as:"In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spritus Sancti. Amen."And RRNut, you're getting to be a regular 'lunch date' for those ladies... The track plan looks good - will you have hills, scenic divider or such on the layout (later)? You might need a LHS run like Dick's to increase your rolling stock some (or how much of that do you have now?).
Oh, (former Latin student here) I learned it as:
"In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spritus Sancti. Amen."
And RRNut, you're getting to be a regular 'lunch date' for those ladies... The track plan looks good - will you have hills, scenic divider or such on the layout (later)? You might need a LHS run like Dick's to increase your rolling stock some (or how much of that do you have now?).
Jim: Come on, give me a break, I said I was just guessing. As for the layout, I will never have hills, because we have to put it away, and I'm not sure what a scenic divider is, so I probably don't have one. My rolling stock is as follows:
Boxcars
1x Rio Grande Boxcar
1x CSX Track Cleaning Boxcar
Reefers
1x Pearl Brewing Company Reefer
1x Old Heidelberg Beer Reefer
Covered Hoppers
1x C&O 3-Bay Covered Hopper
1x Pillsbury Covered Hopper
Fuel Cars
1x Dow Fuel Car
Gondola
1x Southern Gondola
Aggregate Cars
2x CSX Aggregate Cars
Cabeeses
1x Northern Pacific Cupola Caboose
1x NYC Cupola Caboose
railroadnut675 wrote: JimRCGMO wrote: Oh, (former Latin student here) I learned it as:"In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spritus Sancti. Amen."And RRNut, you're getting to be a regular 'lunch date' for those ladies... The track plan looks good - will you have hills, scenic divider or such on the layout (later)? You might need a LHS run like Dick's to increase your rolling stock some (or how much of that do you have now?). Jim: Come on, give me a break, I said I was just guessing. As for the layout, I will never have hills, because we have to put it away, and I'm not sure what a scenic divider is, so I probably don't have one. My rolling stock is as follows:Boxcars 1x Rio Grande Boxcar1x CSX Track Cleaning BoxcarReefers1x Pearl Brewing Company Reefer1x Old Heidelberg Beer ReeferCovered Hoppers1x C&O 3-Bay Covered Hopper1x Pillsbury Covered HopperFuel Cars1x Dow Fuel CarGondola1x Southern GondolaAggregate Cars2x CSX Aggregate CarsCabeeses1x Northern Pacific Cupola Caboose1x NYC Cupola Caboose
Dick
Strawberry-Rhubarb pie, both from the garden. AND.........French Vanilla ice cream on top, right from the local farm here.
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
bjdukert wrote: Dick Strawberry-Rhubarb pie, both from the garden. AND.........French Vanilla ice cream on top, right from the local farm here. You are bringing in at least one piece and telling the girls where I can find it,RIGHT???? Duke
mmmm ... mmmm ...... Sounds great! ..... Did Dick have vaniila bean ice cream last year? ....Of course, Duke, you could supply Irma's vanilla. That would top them all.
We had baby back ribs this evening... Wow.
Happy Model Railroading!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening, Chloe - you covering part of Janie's shift? I'll have the roast beef dinner special, please, with a nice glass of wine.
Thanks - that looks great!
Hey, what was that roar and squeal of tires outside? Oh, just Duke on his bike, heading for Dick's place before all the strawberry-rhubarb pie is gone.
Rob, I recall reading an article not long ago that said a lot of model trees aren't big enough (and that real trees often are much taller than the locos), so you probably could use some of those 'HO' trees as just bigger N scale ones. Another tip for you - find a piece of good ol' white foam (one or two inches thick would be good), and as you get the trees painted, stick 'em in the foam. That'll make it easier to keep them in one place until you get to adding the 'leaves' and such, and you can add that, moving more quickly from one tree to the next.
Just saw your post about your MIL - will be lifting the whole family up, Rob. It has to turn for the better the rest of this year, with all the things you've had so far. Keeping you in Lee, that boat getting in the way of the freighter makes about the same sense as those folks who pull out in their car in front of an 18-wheeler (or more , try to cross the tracks in front of a locomotive with a load behind it). I always (as we were taught when I was very young...) "Stop, look (both ways, a long ways down the track), and listen".
BridgeTom, good to hear you survived the ordeal Mass okay. Bet it feels great to be back inside the A/C, too, huh? So, what's a Third Order - does that make you like a distant cousin to the Pope? Seriously, I never heard of degrees of orders for monastics before. But then again, I only grew up as a near-Catholic (Anglican/Episcopalian high church a couple of places). One place where I was an acolyte my last two years of high school, it was so 'high church' that I'm sure they ordered their prayer cards (which we used before coming into the sanctuary) from a Catholic supply house. Before I got into high school, I do recall doing some researching on Episcopal monastic orders with our church's priest. Yep, they do (or used to, many years ago) have monastic orders for some Protestants!
Okay, back on topic with MRR'ing stuff - I got another idea on my work train track problem. If I put a door in place of the windows on one of the enginehouse stalls, I don't have to give up the work train track. I've also been fiddlin' around with adding another entry/exit track from the mainline to the roundhouse. Here's the first version I posted earlier today:
and here it is with the changes:
It might not be too hard to cut the opening on the enginehouse, and I have an old Revell enginehouse that I might be able to use the doors from.
Tom, with the way the weather's been, the Midwest (if they could find a stable track to load on) should send a few trains of tanker cars full of river water, to go out there and have 'em spray it all over those dry or burning areas! We Midwestern Diners will pray for you Californians to get that rain (and us to not get it). I know that they're predicting out crest around Cape to be the highest it's ever been, and some of the towns south of here are getting really nervous. The town of Dutchtown, MO (next exit south of Cape on I-55) was supposed to have a meeting the last part of this week, taking a survey of how many were in favor of a federal buyout of the town. It's not far from the Diversion Channel (which, when the Mississippi is too high, backs up and floods their area), and they've had two bad floods over the past dozen years (or less). Where I am in Cape isn't likely to get effects of the flooding (they've closed the floodgates by the river downtown), since I'm several ridges and a handful of miles from downtown. But there are other things, like the city's water purification plant, which could be messed up. May have to go to bottled water for drinking or cooking if that happens. But we'll survive here; it's the people south of here that I'd be worried more about. The news just now was saying that there was a tornado confirmed in Grandin (small town west-southwest of Poplar Bluff - about an hour and a half to two hours west of Cape) on Friday evening.
Johnboy, good to see you in, even for a little bit. Hope you get cooled off, but not soaked.
Easy, Shockwave, you don't have to have a scenic divider. Actually, a scenic divider is about anything that blocks the view from one side of the layout to another. Could be mountains, a backdrop down the middle (some of MR's fabled 4 X 8 layouts used this), or even having buildings that look like one town from one side and like a different city from the other side. If you have to put the layout away between running times, the 'two-cities' approach might be usable for you. Just an idea if you think it would work for you.
I'd best be finishing up my roast beef now. See everyone tomorrow (on Father's Day).
Blessings and a good night's sleep,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
I thought that I would stop by for one of Jim's RBF's. They always sound good.
Rob, Sorry to hear about your fire. It is such a mess. A friend had a fire in a 3 story house. They lost everything but what they had on. Their cars were in the driveway, but the keys were in the house. His attitude after that was, " It is just stuff". Glad you guys are ok.
Thanks for putting the tape measure in your twig photo for reference. Good choices. They will give you great variety.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Jim--
Just a note. A Third Order Franciscan isn't Monastic (or else I'd be in BIG trouble, LOL!). It's below Religious and Deacon, one who is active in other aspects of the Church (I'm a Music Minister). I don't have to take the "Big Three" Vows, I just have to show up for rehearsals and Mass and play my little heart out. Of course my priest and I were discussing the 'Vows' some time ago, and he said he didn't have any trouble with Poverty and Chastity, but Obedience was one that occasionally gave him FITS! Sounds pretty 'human' to me, by golly!
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning all,
Charter boat inspections are the business of the day for me. I inspected 11 pleasure vessels yesterday under our voluntary inspection program where we offer a courtesy inspection before they leave the dock or the ramp, would have been an easy day, however everyone ran to the store after they failed the safety inspection and wanted checked again. All those collage girls running around the docks in their swimsuits wanting me to inspect their jet ski, gosh, I thought it would never end!
That pleasure vessel was moored at the dock when it was smashed. So I have no doubt the freighter's insurance company will make things right.
My insurance company is State Farm. I pay $500/year for $200,000 coverage on house and contents with a $1,000.00 deductable. You can name a dollar amount for certain items. Once every 5 years my agent and I re-evaluate the replacement cost of some items. The longer you stay with them and the more policies you have with them the cheaper your premium becomes. Unfortunately it doesn't cover my trains for damage incurred by running off the layout, cat attacks, shark bites, or children under 5.
I will say my agent has a sense of humor; every year on my birthday I get a card from his office to pick up my free gift. One year it was a travel mug, one year I got a road atlas, but a couple years ago in my card I was awarded Volcano and lava flow coverage for my home absolutely free and in my yearly birthday card he renews it.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
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
railroadnut675 wrote: How do I make the link to my photobucket Clickable? How can I let people see my pictures without logging in?
Cut and paste your link, then hit the space bar (or the enter key). Thats it! Now it's a hot link!
It turns this.........
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That program at USF paid off!!!!!
I found a thing on the USf computer called omni-file. USF subscribes to omni file, and omnifile gets MRR and Trains!!! With this file I can email my self articles from the magazines for free!*
* I don't get the pictures though, just the articles.
Strongestavailable, in a SOUTHERN mug, please & thank you.
***Lee, couldn't believe your Insurance doesn't cover your trains for damage incurred by running off the layout, cat attacks, shark bites, or children under 5. At least it covers Volcano and lava flow. "Toooooo funny" One of my sisters lives very near to Mount Saint Helens but probably doesn't need it anymore.
Just met the wife at the gate. She is taking care of her dad and already looks & sounds exhausted. She did tell him about the fire and he seems OK with it, but didn't want him to actually see the devastation. Her mom will have tests done on Monday and some kind of surgery there-after. (Free Tip: never go to a hospital on a Friday night, because nothing will happen until Monday) Not much else to say, other than prayers couldn't hurt any.
Looks like it will be a nice sunny day. Off to do critter rounds. Rob
havent been here in a while lol
how iz all?
Army National Guard E3MOS 91BI have multiple scales nowZ, N, HO, O, and G.
Well, happy Father's Day to all of us who qualify. I don't know whether or not anyone's noticed, but the Father's Day card aisle in the local Hallmark store seems to have WAY less "Fathers as Boobs" cards, this year. Now if the TV ads could follow suit-- Got a nice one from my son and his wife--Garfield emulating the perfect Father's Day gift--POWER TOOLS!!, plus a request to be a credit reference for their new car, LOL! Ah, Fatherhood--it NEVER stops, thank God
Hot and dry here in SunnyCal, today. Supposed to be in the high '80's, but that got passed by about 11:00 as I was coming out of Mass. Right now it's toying with 101, and the KCRA TV weatherman is PROMISING that we'll be in the low 80's by Thursday. Gee, thanks. The fire in Paradise is supposed to be contained by tomorrow, luckily there's been no wind in that area for two days, so they have been able to stop it from taking out the town. It's a lot less smoky today--I can actually see BLUE sky--so things should be looking up. The total evacuation was about 6,000 people, but as of this morning, the fire had only destroyed 40 homes. That's a horrible loss, of course, but two days ago, firefighters thought that the entire town of 21,000 people would be wiped out.
I understand that the floods in the Midwest are supposed to drop considerably over the next few days--I certainly pray so. There was a photograph of homes that had been swept down the river in Cedar Rapids that came to rest at the railroad bridge with all of the grain cars on it. Made me blink. Newscasters are referring to Cedar Rapids as the 'new' New Orleans. A terrible tragedy.
Too hot in the garage to work on the Buttes today (dang, I sure hope I can EVER get this project started!! ), but I got a really good hint from one of the guys at my LHS about lightening the dark color of the Cripplebush rocks that's quicker and easier than brushing--so I went out and got some spray Latex flat gray paint and tried a little out on an area I'd started--wow, it WORKS! Highlights and all. I also got several large Bragdon rock moulds to 'fill' between the Cripplebush, and I think once the weather lets me start--like possibly late this afternoon--I can really accomplish some good things. I'm probably not going to post 'progress' pictures, because once I start, I usually just barrel on through until it's finished. But this is such a HUGE project, I'll post some shots as I finish each section. Remember, this section is about 6 feet long by anywhere from 2 to 3 feet high. Hoo boy! Yah, I know--think BIG but maybe not too SMART, LOL!
twhite wrote: Well, happy Father's Day to all of us who qualify. I don't know whether or not anyone's noticed, but the Father's Day card aisle in the local Hallmark store seems to have WAY less "Fathers as Boobs" cards, this year. Now if the TV ads could follow suit-- Got a nice one from my son and his wife--Garfield emulating the perfect Father's Day gift--POWER TOOLS!!, plus a request to be a credit reference for their new car, LOL! Ah, Fatherhood--it NEVER stops, thank God Hot and dry here in SunnyCal, today. Supposed to be in the high '80's, but that got passed by about 11:00 as I was coming out of Mass. Right now it's toying with 101, and the KCRA TV weatherman is PROMISING that we'll be in the low 80's by Thursday. Gee, thanks. The fire in Paradise is supposed to be contained by tomorrow, luckily there's been no wind in that area for two days, so they have been able to stop it from taking out the town. It's a lot less smoky today--I can actually see BLUE sky--so things should be looking up. The total evacuation was about 6,000 people, but as of this morning, the fire had only destroyed 40 homes. That's a horrible loss, of course, but two days ago, firefighters thought that the entire town of 21,000 people would be wiped out. I understand that the floods in the Midwest are supposed to drop considerably over the next few days--I certainly pray so. There was a photograph of homes that had been swept down the river in Cedar Rapids that came to rest at the railroad bridge with all of the grain cars on it. Made me blink. Newscasters are referring to Cedar Rapids as the 'new' New Orleans. A terrible tragedy. Too hot in the garage to work on the Buttes today (dang, I sure hope I can EVER get this project started!! ), but I got a really good hint from one of the guys at my LHS about lightening the dark color of the Cripplebush rocks that's quicker and easier than brushing--so I went out and got some spray Latex flat gray paint and tried a little out on an area I'd started--wow, it WORKS! Highlights and all. I also got several large Bragdon rock moulds to 'fill' between the Cripplebush, and I think once the weather lets me start--like possibly late this afternoon--I can really accomplish some good things. I'm probably not going to post 'progress' pictures, because once I start, I usually just barrel on through until it's finished. But this is such a HUGE project, I'll post some shots as I finish each section. Remember, this section is about 6 feet long by anywhere from 2 to 3 feet high. Hoo boy! Yah, I know--think BIG but maybe not too SMART, LOL! Tom
Video camera+Duct tape+bottom of Creeper=video you can pull pictures from. Just turn off the audio for us young ears.
I should pay more attention. As top of the page, I will pick up everyone's tap this time around, Chloe.
We had a great sunny day here in the Pacific Northwest. It was in the mid to high 70's. We only talked about layout progress today.
Later, Sue
Mornin, an irish coffee please Zoe
Rain showers and scattered thunderstorms will develop south of I-70 today with partly cloudy skies elsewhere. Rain and thunderstorms will move south and out of the Wabash Valley this afternoon making way for mostly clear skies tonight and the arrival of cooler temperatures. Daytime highs today will warm in the lower 80's and cool off in the mid 50's tonight. Tuesday will see mostly sunny skies with daytime highs in the upper 70's.
Wildlife update; Mother got to see the coon last evening, we hadn't brought the cats bowl in yet and we heard a noise, I looked n there he was chowin down. Course he run off the porch, but he just set there at the bottom of the steps, even though I had the screen open. By then Mother was looking out too. He looked at us a bit, then come back up set down n started eating, we didn't hardly bother him standin there. He had to be some body's pet or he's sick. Got to get the game warden called today.
Hope ya'll had a good Fathers day, mine was ok. Heard from the kids and yesterday was the last day of the fair, so Mother only had to be there for 3 hours. It'll be good not having to fix my own supper for awhile. After she got a nap we headed over to Terre Haute for some shopping and a little rail fanning. The first part wasn't exciting, but did good some train pics. First one is INRD at the old Milwaukee yard
CSX#4757 at the old C&EI yard, the engine shed is on the left, not used any more.
CSX#4757 at the C&EI yard
There'll be a few more post in Rail Images later.
Today's funny
A big hulking hooligan walks into a bar, slams his fist down, and yells "Give me a Budweiser, or...!"
Scared, the bartender serves the man his Budweiser. This happens everyday for a week straight, and the bartender turns into a nervous wreck. He asks his wife for advice, and she tells him he should stand up for himself. Easier said than done, he thinks, but he decides to try it. The next day, the hooligan returns. "Give me a Budweiser, or...!" "O-o-o-o-r-r-r... w-w-what?" stammers the bartender. "A small Coke."
Need ta get to some chores done while the 2 little ones are sleeping and there'll be 3 more here bout 8 [it'll be a long day]. Hope ya'll have a gooden and thoughts for all those in need
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Just time for some green tea and honey
Starting my 3rd week of radiation and my throat is really starting to hurt
The honey really helps
Hope every one has a great day
TerryinTexas
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Good morning everyone, it is only59F here this morning, heavy overcast, just like yesterday, and the humidity is 99%!!! This week looks like a stormy week with some sun, humidity, thunder storms every day, some damaging. The heavy rains spreas into New England yesterday, as Rutland Vermont was hit with 9" of rain and flooding. This is going to be a rough Summer I fear unless the weather patterns settled down. Now we have an upper level LOW just sitting and spinning over northern Ontario that is spinning the cold air and clouds down into the U.S. causing all the violent clashes with the hot, humid, Summer air masses trying to move northward.
I hope all the dad's out there had a very nice Father's Day, we had a cookout with our four children and 9 grandkids from age 2.5 to 19 years, and my brother and wife. The weather was chilly, cloudy, but no rain fell.
Today it is off to the dentist in a few minutes to have an upper molar tested to see if the nerve is damaged, or whatever was causing the pain when I bite down on it. No cavity, so I have been on Amoxicillin for 14 days as they want to rule out infection of the nerve. Today they do the COLD test to see how long the pain last when they hit the tooth with cold. If it goes away in less than a minute, the nerve is healthy, if the pain lingers On and On, that will mean a root canal. Another fun day at the ranch.
TERRY: Prayers continue for you good buddy, and I am happy to hear that at least honey works to soothe your throat.
MIKE: Good to see your photos again, and happy to see that you are not in the flooded zones.
SUE: Thanks for the meal, being retired and on fixed income, the meals here at the Diner really help the budget.
ED: OJ prices are going through the roof here, I hope that the profits are trickling down to the producers.
Time to go guys, see you later,