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Posted by Robby P. on Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:05 PM

Good evening guys and gals.

Cold one tonight.  Calling for a 30% chance of snow showers tonight and the same tomorrow.  Saturday will be 1-2 inchs. 

Thanks for the comment on the Railbox.  Working just doesn't give me the time like I use to have.  Its selling right now for $50, and I hope It goes for more Mischief

I am wanting to really work on the layout some more Saturday.  I will try to get some shots of what I have done this weekend (WPF).

I probably won't get on tomorrow, so everybody have a goodnight, and a good day tomorrow.

Robby

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Posted by C&O Fan on Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:00 PM

gear-jammer

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Terry,  I wondered if it was sage brush.  Did you have to stain it or is it actually that color.

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No stain Sue that is it's natural color

I love the rough shaggy looking bark

Tell Larry to drive Safe !!!

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:50 PM

SilverSpike; You will have our prayers that is for sure.

Howmus; These pieces were backordered for a long time, lol!!

As for PITA wye, well...Whistling

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:45 PM

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Jeff

Glad your getting you eyes checked Sad you had to loose your glasses though

I needed a new pair anyway. Those old ones were 5 years old and were showing their age.

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Posted by CNCharlie on Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:44 PM

Good Evening Diners!

Another frosty evening in Winterpeg- about 3F but as we like to say here, it's a dry cold. Lot of difference that makes!

Ryan, sorry to hear that the docs haven't found out the cause of Monique's pain. I can appreciate your worry and hope she is better soon.

Jim, as to the cause of the fog on your windshield in the morning, I get the same thing when it is damp and around freezing. I think it's caused by the slightly warm air from the heater hitting cold glass which then fogs. If the car is really warm then the air is hot enough to clear it. I've had the same issue since my car was new 9 years ago and there isn't anything wrong with it. Actually my car runs best when it is about 0F. The suspension tightens up nicely, the few squeaks and rattles disappear and it does have a great heater. I guess the Swedes ought to know how to build a car for the cold.

As to the RR, I am still plugging away at the ballast in the yard but need a few more ground throws and indeed more ballast to finish. The yard started out with 4 sidings but now has 8. I like to think I did it in a prototypical fashion as I just added them as needed and space permitted, not to a track plan. I haven't run the trains much for the past 4 months as the sound still bothers my wife as she can't help but think of her Dad's little layout even though she never saw it run and indeed he didn't have sound locos. I like to use the horn/whistle which is a lot on a 4x8 with 2 level crossings so I try to only run it when she is out.

Speaking of my wife, she really had a bad bout of food poisoning or some type of bug yesterday evening. Today she has just slept and is very weak. If still that way tomorrow I think a trip to the doc will be in order.

I think I'd like a nice cuppa, tea that is and a buttered scone please Chloe. Join me in the back booth if you have the time.

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Posted by gear-jammer on Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:08 PM

Well, it is dinner time.  I made a big pot of oxtail soup.  Would anyone like some?  If someone makes fresh cornbread,  we will have a meal.

Terry,  I wondered if it was sage brush.  Did you have to stain it or is it actually that color.

Garry,  No gremlins. Everything ran smoothly.  The thought of using computer software to plan a layout just blows people away.  And of course, the main question,"When will you have it finished?"  My response of course was, "Never."

I am looking forward to finishing the riverbottom this weekend.  Larry won't be home until late Saturday.  We always backseat drive each others projects.  Two heads are better than one.  They sent him up to Prince George, and then 100 miles west.  He will reload tomorrow morning in Prince George.  He said that a blizzard is coming.  Sounds cold to me.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, December 4, 2008 6:39 PM

Hello everyone...

Looks like we get to scroll back and forth to read the posts again.

WOW!  PPC is "berried" in that pie! Smile,Wink, & Grin

Ryan.  I'm sad to learn about Monique's health issues. Prayers for her. thanks for posting the excusrian train photos; they were enjoyable. Your avatar is an improvement over the ski goggle avatar you used several months ago!

Rob....... Hopefully the new meds control the insomnia. Zzz Perhaps, completion of the house will help, too. I'm sure that's a worry.

Robby .... That's an outstanding weathering job on that Railbox car.

Sue ... I'm glad teh guests enjoyed the layout. Hopefully the model railroad gremlins were absent.

I'm continuing my layout expasnion. Eventually it will include the city of Heartland. I am reading about streetcars because I want to include some of those. The Bachmann Peter Witt trolly sounds like a good product. Also, both Bowser and Con Cor say they will release all new PCC streetcars soon. I have looked at many old color pictures of trolleys, and there were many colorful ones in their day. There were a lot of different designs of street cars, too.

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Posted by C&O Fan on Thursday, December 4, 2008 6:36 PM

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Terry,  I love that tree.  What did you use for the trunk?

Sue

Thanks Sue It's a piece of Sage Brush

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Posted by Cederstrand on Thursday, December 4, 2008 6:36 PM

Conversation today driving back from Lowes...

Wife: "I want a model of the Ice Train."

Me: "How would that work on your steam era layout?"

Wife: "I rode the Ice Train in Europe and I want one on my layout. On my layout, I am God and If anyone asks, I'll say it's running on a parallel universe."

Me: "Whatever you want to do dear."

So guys, the cheapest price I have found thus far for a ICE/Bullet train (just the powered A & dummy B unit with one car) is around $60. Anyone know where I might find one cheaper?

Got another fan up today, not much else.

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Posted by JPowell on Thursday, December 4, 2008 6:07 PM

Evening Gang!

Flo - Just a glass of water w/ lime in it, please? Thanks!

J.R. and Ray - FGLK has some real friendly employees too. About 5 1/2 yrs ago, I was at one of the LHS' here near me and on my way back home, decided I'd do some railfanning around a company called Solvay Paperboard (in the village of Solvay at that). While I was driving on the service road at the plant, the FGLK crew was waiting for the plant guys to finish loading a car (not sure what with). I was talking to the engineer when the conductor came over and told him the plant was ready for them to switch some cars around. They then proceeded to ask me if I wanted to join them while they did that. I did, and was onboard for a little over a hour while they did switching there. Talk about being on 'cloud 9' what a fun time I had w/ them!

Well gang, time for me to check in on the up and coming CFO - Julie. She was a little under the weather when I last spoke with her about 2 hours ago.

Take care!

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Posted by gear-jammer on Thursday, December 4, 2008 5:36 PM

Good afternoon.  I will have a RBF please.  The ladies just left, and yes, I was asked to exercise the locos.  The F7's were a hit.   I think the 40+ cars added to that.  One of the gals is a rafter and she thought that the riverbed has  potiential.

Terry,  I love that tree.  What did you use for the trunk?

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Posted by galaxy on Thursday, December 4, 2008 4:23 PM

howmus

galaxy
Really? where? Near Binghamton? Near Elmira?

 

Halfway between the two.....  Waverly.  Taught k-6 Vocal/General Music there for 11 years.  Also taught out at Chemung School (part of Waverly System) during that time.  Probably my best known students were Todd and Bret Bodine.......... 

howmus- I graduated from Owego-Apalachin, raised in Owego and now live in Apalachin {that's ap-ah-LAKE-in for those who don't know- NOT that app-ah-latch-ia stuff lol}.

Small world.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Thursday, December 4, 2008 3:30 PM

Afternoon ladies and germs. We had to take this thing called a MAP test today, which basically measures how much you're progressing in school or something, I forget, but anyways, the career counselor was running it, and for reading after the test, I brought my MR issue. And guess what? He's planning some extra little classes or something, I forget what exactly, and he was considering maybe doing model railroading, and so I might get too teach something for it (or help an adult, IDK). So I probably will, if a few things fall into place. 

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, December 4, 2008 3:08 PM

galaxy
Really? where? Near Binghamton? Near Elmira?

 

Halfway between the two.....  Waverly.  Taught k-6 Vocal/General Music there for 11 years.  Also taught out at Chemung School (part of Waverly System) during that time.  Probably my best known students were Todd and Bret Bodine.......... 

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by C&O Fan on Thursday, December 4, 2008 2:25 PM

Afternoon All

Jeff

Glad your getting you eyes checked Sad you had to loose your glasses though

 

Ryan thanks for posting the picture sure is a beauitful shot

 

I just finished building a City Classics Kit of a Railroad Street company house

It was a fun kit for about $18

It can be configured several ways

with or without the side addition  and the small adition can also be placed on the back of the house

my only negitive is that they only give you 2 sets of stairs

I haven't fastened the addition to the sideas you can see from the large gap

i just placed it there so you could get the idea

All in All a nice kit

 

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:43 PM

 The eye exam went OK. My vision is a bit fuzzy right now and I'm having some difficulty reading the text on the screen. I would go to a larger text but I can't read the drop down menu. lol. The kicker of all this is I have to go to Alexandria on the 10th and have my eyes dilated again so they can look for ruptured blood vessels due to diabetes. I hope it's a very cloudy day on that 60 mile drive back home.

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Posted by Cox 47 on Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:26 PM

Good Afternoon....Its sunny and 26 here posta drop into mid-teens tonight...There was a head-on out on "New" 40 this morning havn't heard any details...I'll have a nice thick slice of Garry's Kentucky ham with Swiss,tater chips and a glass of sweet tea please...Thank You

Still havn't got any railroading done but I did sleep better last night..

Ryan...Thanks for posting GSMRR photo thats a great shot...

JR...I agree John Allen inspired most model railroaders in the 50's and 60's...Some of the photo spreads and old Varney adds that He made will hold upeven today...

Robby...Wow that is one fantastic weathering job!...How about some tips on how you did it?

You all have a good one...Jerry

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Posted by SilverSpike on Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:02 PM

 

RYAN: Afternoon Chloe!  What's on tap for today?

CHLOE: Nutin' much, jest feedin' the fellers and Sue ya know!

RYAN:  How about some of Ed's fresh squeezed please!

CHLOE: Comin' rite'up!

RYAN: Thanks!

JIM: 

JimRCGMO

Ryan, enjoyed your GSMRR blog (and all the pics. Those GP9's (low or high nose) keep on going, don't they? Yeah!! Did Ben enjoy himself a lot on that?

 

RYAN: Thanks for checking them out Jim, and glad that you liked em! Ben seemed to have a good time, we were laughing and talking most of the time. At the NOC stop 1/2 way through the run we were skimming stones from the bank of the river, we both enjoyed doing that together.I still need to upload some video action from the trip, might post that up by tomorrow.Here is another photo from the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad as the GP9 leads the train around the bend following the Nantahala River.

 GSMRR Rounding the Bend

 

I just got in the mail the Painting Backdrops book by MR and the Multi-Level book too, just started reading up on the Backdrop book. Now I have some things to change on mine! Banged Head 

I've been kinda quiet around here lately about dealing with Monique's health. Just asking for your thoughts and prayers to continue for her health problems to get better. She has had a CT scan and two ultrasounds and between the OBGYN, which ruled out any reproductive organ issues, and the GP with the diverticulitis she is now seeing a GI specialist to determine what is causing all the pain on her left side. Another ultrasound is scheduled for Tuesday. It has been a month now with this recurring pain on the left side.

Thoughts and prayers continue for everyone who is in need, health and recovery!

 

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Posted by galaxy on Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:00 PM

howmus

Galaxy I was in my first teaching job in the Southern Tier of NY during the 70s Oil Embargo and remember it too well.  Our school had a few "Cold" days and then moved the intermediate school students into the Jr. - Sr. High school for several days.  What a mess that was!  Especially for a music teacher - no books or other materials, no piano, and classes scheduled all over the place.  Just me and my guitar!  Kids thought it was a blast.  We lived in a Mobile Home (high class trailer......Wink) that was easy to heat.  We still kept the heat in the mid 60s at home.  Tough with two small children. 

Really? where? Near Binghamton? Near Elmira?

LOL the {trailer} house we live in now is, of course, also high class! ....lol with just enough room for 3.5 x 5 ' HO layout Wink In the 70's I  lived in a regular ranch house with large basement. If only it wasn't so full of stuff, and 10 miles away, I could turn the old O/O27 4x8x12 layout from my childhood at my fathers basement into a nice HO layout. But, alas,....

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, December 4, 2008 12:42 PM

Afternoon everyone!

Flo how 'bout a bowl of the hot vegetable beef soup you got on the stove and a cup of dark roast in  a Rochester and Genesee Valley Museum mug.  Yeh the one with LV 211 on it would be great.

Sue how's the layout coming along?   I'm still contemplating that "dusting the track" thing.........  I hope to get some work done on my layout, uh, ............... as soon as I find some time!

blownout cylinder looks like Santa arrived early.  Nice haul.  Have fun with all of it!  I'm still waiting on Walthers Out Of Stock to send some ordered items to my LHS for me.

Jim sounds like you have water leaking somewhere and hopfully it isn't antifreeze from the cooling system.  I would get it looked into ASAP........

Galaxy I was in my first teaching job in the Southern Tier of NY during the 70s Oil Embargo and remember it too well.  Our school had a few "Cold" days and then moved the intermediate school students into the Jr. - Sr. High school for several days.  What a mess that was!  Especially for a music teacher - no books or other materials, no piano, and classes scheduled all over the place.  Just me and my guitar!  Kids thought it was a blast.  We lived in a Mobile Home (high class trailer......Wink) that was easy to heat.  We still kept the heat in the mid 60s at home.  Tough with two small children. 

I am starting to get caught up on the "should have been done yesterday" list.  No sooner got out of the shower this morning than my son calls to tell me the child seat won't fit in the truck and I need to pick him and my granddaughter Olivia up and take her over to day care.  His wife's car is in the shop for a new clutch so she has his car and he has my truck for a few days. 

I have to start getting everything together for the RIT Train Show this weekend.  Lakeshores Division, NFR, NMRA will be having a Modelers Corner at the show (if everyone that is supposed to be there can be....)  If any of you attend the show, stop in at our table and say Hi! 

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by gear-jammer on Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:58 AM

Good morning, All.  I am going to sit in this back booth and enjoy my coffee and cinnamon roll.  Anyone care to join me to discuss layout progress?

This afternoon the ladies from work are coming out to build Christmas wreaths.  I still need to clean off the layout and vaccuum before they show up.  Last year they wanted a demo so that will mean dusting the track, too.

Sue

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Posted by JimRCGMO on Thursday, December 4, 2008 9:54 AM

Hi, Luke - some of the GT Expos can be good, but your best bet might be to ask other train people or your LHS(es) how past ones can be. I don't know about major manufacturers being there (you might, with being in a larger area, but then again the companies may be cutting back on their ad funds for stuff like that). What you want to check is - how much will admission be (and gas $ to get there), and set yourself a dollar figure that you want to stay within (so as to not overspend and be totally broke for months after). You may find some bargains, but get there early and allow time to go through any booths that have your scale stuff and things that are interesting to you. Know about what the cost of a new item (if it's still in stock with Walthers or Athearn) is, so you don't wind up paying full retail for an item (that you could've got through your LHS or at a discount online). Take a list of your current rolling stock, etc., so you don't do as I have a time or two, and buy what turns out to be a duplicate unnecessarily If there are back issues of MR or RMC or other RR mags that you want, take a list of those issues you want (sometimes you can get a really good deal on back issues that they don't want to haul back home).

Hopefully, somewhere in all the above may be something to help you with your question. Wink

 

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, December 4, 2008 9:34 AM

Ha!!! I got mail. My LHS actually sent me my Proto 'N' GP18, 2 50T low boy flatbed trailers and a crawler with ripper. Now I save up for the 20 or so hoppers...Whistling

I'm still trying to configure PITA wye...Sigh

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Posted by New Haven I-5 on Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:45 AM

 Good Morning!

 Just popping in for some of ED's OJ.Big Smile Just wondering is the Great Train Expo is any good? They're going

to have one at my local fairgrounds and was thinking about going. Also, do they major distributors there like

Bachmann, Broadway Limited Imports, companies like that.

 

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Posted by JimRCGMO on Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:39 AM

Good Morning, DIners! Zoe, I'll have a couple of waffles with syrup, glass of Ed's OJ and a cup of coffee in a D&RGW mug, please, and thanks.

Paul, that Clark Gardens offer sounds like being paid for the kind of stuff you do a lot of anyway. Hope you get the office set up (at least in a temporary fashion.

Rob, it's the weird creative types like us who come up with the 'out-of-the-ordinary' explanations for stuff (Kind of like Calvin & Hobbes...)Whistling  Hope you sleep okay with the medication (long enough for your body to catch on that that's how it's supposed to work Wink) Yeah, I'd say they're not done if the commodes and sinks and plumbing aren't in and hooked up yet. Well, unless you have an outhouse a not-too-far run from the house, that is.Oops

Blownout Cylinder, careful - Vinnie may be watching the pies (and you don't want to cross Vinnie...)!

PC, is that going to be your new avatar pic, after you shrink it down some? Smile,Wink, & Grin

CN Charlie, you're having a real winter up there (and please, puhleeeeze keep it up there!). I hope you have a log stove (and abundant supply of logs for same). Shock What've you been up to lately on your layout?

Lee, good to hear that your checkups went well at the doctor. You need a healthy body to cope with your weather up there lately, eh?

Galaxy, hope your 'day off' is a productive one (and that you can get a little MRR'ing in). 

We had rain/slush/something last night in Cape G., and this morning the car had ice drops on some of the windshields. One frustrating thing is, I noticed that the car - when I started it up, turned the heat and windshield blower on - is tending to have 'fog' on the inside of the windows(!). I could keep an old t-shirt in the car for wiping it off, but I wish I could track down what's causing it and eliminate the fogging altogether. Anyone know what usually causes that? The car before this one had it, but it had some problems with a leak or bad seal around the front windshield, and this is a much newer car than that (so I would not expect it to have the same thing). May have to ask my dealer's repair guys (the car's about due for the regular maintenance, anyway).

I'll be in the front booth for a bit, having at my waffles.

 

Blessings,

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Posted by galaxy on Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:12 AM

Morning guys, I'll have a big mug of Hawaiian Kona Sunrise coffee in B&O Capital Dome mug. And a hard boiled egg and cheese sandwich, and my glass of fiber, hmmm tasty.

Today we have decide to take a "day off" from doing anything. My other half suggested it, and I couldn't agree more or less. While I enjoy a day of doing nothing but resting, we have some things to do.

So, maybe while he takes the day off, perhaps I will get the oil changed in the van {overdue}, the inspection on the van {due}, and finally get the new wood for the xmas tree layout, so we can put the tree up.

Picked up an ornament of a moose for friends who are "moose crazy", and found some crystal snowflakes for us as our ornaments to ourselves this year. I like crystal or "sparkle" type ornaments that bounce the lights around and shimmer. Each year, we each find an ornament that strikes our fancy to add to our collection. Last year we couldn't find one, let alone two, as we thought them all "crappy". {what do you expect from the chinese?} The year before we went to nearby Corning Museum Of Glass {CMOG}. There besides the museum they have a back shop where, with help from a professional, you can blow, shape, mold glass into various selected items. So, at CMOG, we actually got to blow our own xmas ornaments!

Well, a cold front is supposed to be moving in. Awaiting notification of HEAP award so we know how much energy we can use to keep this {trailer} house warm. As for now, every time I hear the furnace kick on, I hear ka-ching ka-ching as the dollar signs go by my eyes and ears. One of us likes it cooler than the other. Liking it cool, and saving energy. Guess who? I sweat to death at 70* and above. Thank the great articulated 4-8-8-4 designers that we have natural  gas for heat.

I grew up as a teen during the 70's oil embargo and when gasoline went from $0.20 to $1.00/gal home heating oil did too, and we had oil. At night we kept the heat at 55* f. If you were cold, "throw another blanket/quilt on your bed" was my mother's answer. I was the first one up and allowed to turn the heat up to 58*. Then when my father got up he turned it up to 60*f, where it stay. Mother's answer to being cold was "put on another sweatshirt, sweater, or wear your robe. Put on another pair of socks and wear your house slippers." We all had afagans crocheted by mother and g-ma to snuggle under to watch TV. Nowadays they have those fleece throws. ONly on bitter bitter cold days/eves {like the tens, maybe the teens} would the heat go up to 62*f . We often had "cold days" instead of snow days at school because the schools did not want the expense of firing up the oil-fired boilers to heat up the school for the day on bitter cold days. They kept it heated at about 65*f during the school day. Again, wear warm clothes was their advice.

Oh, my, I digress. 

Good luck Jeffery with your eye exam. Hope you can find a reasonable pair of glasses. 

 

Have a great day everybody

 

 

 

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Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.

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Posted by pcarrell on Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:08 AM

Pie?

What pie?

I don't see no pie!

Philip
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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:58 AM

A good morning to everyone from us. Right now I am working on attempting handlaying a wye on our RR.

Our weather is forecasting lower temps in the afternoon with an 'incident' or two of sun... maybeWhistling

Back to the wye...Smile,Wink, & Grin

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I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...

http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:35 AM

LSWrr
Jeff good luck with the optometrist, do you have a VA or a VFW close to you?  Several of us Active Duty donate our gently used glasses to be cleaned/sterilized and given to veterans.  It saves them over $100 on eyewear.

We have a VFW here but although I'm a veteran I'm not a veteran of a foreign war and so don't qualify.

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Posted by LSWrr on Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:28 AM

Well for some good medical news: I finished up my physical yesterday afternoon. Everything passed with an A+ however my calcium was 10.6 MG/DL and the target goal is 8.6 – 10.2, Doc chalked it up to just recovering from bronchitis.  My LDL = 94 and my HDL = 44.  My eyes are good to go as well.

Jeff good luck with the optometrist, do you have a VA or a VFW close to you?  Several of us Active Duty donate our gently used glasses to be cleaned/sterilized and given to veterans.  It saves them over $100 on eyewear.


Lee

 

BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret)
 L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes

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