TMarshGuess I’ll slide over here with Eric and Barry. See if we can’t figure out all the worlds problems.
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Mornin. 2 scrambled eggs, sausage patties hash browns and a1couple of biscuits with blackberry jam and a cup of coffee please.
Weather today should be a nice toasty 19F so it looks like a short sleeves and sandals day!!!
Well gotta go help mom today. More stuff to move. She’s trying to pack a lifetime into an apartment. Taking the wife with today in case there is any heavy lifting.
Guess I’ll slide over here with Eric and Barry. See if we can’t figure out all the worlds problems.
Maybe I’ll ask if Barry knows the three rules of plumbing
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Good morning. It's 60 and cloudy. The high should be around 50 and it looks like there's a chance of rain. Didn't get much done yesterday. Just did the laundry, worked on the car a bit and speed matched a pair of Athearn GP38-2's Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 1/24/2009 Wind Chill: 61°F Humidity: 94% Dew Point: 59°F So Far Today High: 61°F Low: 57°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 5mph S Now through 09:00 AM CST January 24, 2009 Through 9 AM...spotty very light rain showers or patches of drizzle will continue to develop and move east across the region. Most of this activity will be found across the southwestern third of Louisiana. Rainfall amounts will be just a few hundredths of an inch in most locations. Today High: 52 Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Much cooler. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight Low: 38 Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly cloudy after midnight then becoming mostly cloudy late. A 20 percent chance of showers in the evening. Colder. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Morning---Boy, is it quiet in here-hello Eric. Chloe can I get 3 eggs over easy, hash browns, sausage and a coffee please---tnx---
We will see a high of -13C with a windchill of -25C today with a mix of sun/cloud. Tonight we will have partly cloudy skies with a low of -20C and slight wind. Tomorrow will be sunny and cold
I'll be heading into the basement and start work on the basement bathroom----in a bit----have a good'un people-----------------right now I'll join Eric here and watch the trains
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Morning Zoe, still kind of quiet here I see. I quess Saturday mornings usually are. I'll have some eggs scrambled, bacon and toast. Oh, a decaf too. Thanks. Gee, how 'bout that!! After all that pie eating there is still some left! What's that? Someone keeps sneaking in pies? I'll be darned. I'll be by the window... watching the world wake up.. life starts another day.
Trains and cats, what's not to love?
Eric
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Well we got everyone but a few out of the house---going a few doors down, others are staying overnight and leaving first thing in the morning------
So we are going to sleep ourselves----Have a good night peoples
Well I'm back from having supper with my sister...... She was in one of her "I'm going to ask you a question and then interupt you with something totally irrelevant before you finish one sentence" moods. We went out to restaurant that we both like and I ordered the small Prime Rib........ "Oh I'm sorry sir we just ran out of the Prime Rib". GRRRRRRRR So I had the fish fry instead. I was all ready for the Prime Rib, but the fish fry is always good there.
So I want a big piece of apple PIE to make up for not getting my Prime Rib and putting up with my sister interupting me before I could finish even one sentence! I came home and worked on a line pole for a while and took a few photos for WPF.
Have a great night all and prayers for all in need!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Flip; The oddest thing up here is that there won't be a cold/frost/bad storms/blazing sun thing going on and we'd STILL pay higher prices for stuff up here
'Spring' has been spending the evening calling and coming up here to schmoooze along my head---so I type with a decided tilt to my sitting position---typing around the cat while he's purring into my ears----we are talking one very happy cat here---
Chloe, can I have a chamomile tea and a BlueberryPIE!!!!!please-----
Robby- Big deal, a page and a half. I'm 15 pages in3 days ,behind
Th,Th,th,thanks for the co,co,cold weather. Good reminder of why I live in Fla.. Gonna be in low 70's sat. , and mid 70's sun.. Next week shold hit 80.
Crops are damaged.Higher prices in offing.
Flip
jeffrey-wimberly ewl01 blownout cylinderIf little ones are a concern just close the door between train and cat. I'll have to fix the latch, they seem to have figured out how to open the door to the attic It's an old house, the latches don't always catch. Time for some rest. Thank You, and Good Night. Eric Years ago my mother had a Siamese that would jump up and grab the knob and turn it and open the door.
ewl01 blownout cylinderIf little ones are a concern just close the door between train and cat. I'll have to fix the latch, they seem to have figured out how to open the door to the attic It's an old house, the latches don't always catch. Time for some rest. Thank You, and Good Night. Eric
blownout cylinderIf little ones are a concern just close the door between train and cat.
I'll have to fix the latch, they seem to have figured out how to open the door to the attic It's an old house, the latches don't always catch.
Time for some rest. Thank You, and Good Night. Eric
LOL!!! We had a cat---'Baby', a 25lb part Bobcat that could open doors just like that! It also would knock 'Putsy', the chihuahua 'from hell' as we kids called it, into the opposite side of the room with a backstroke from its forepaw!
Evenin everbody. Ah supper! On to Ryan’s menu. I believe I’ll have……one of each! And yes the assorted pies also. Oh and a small diet coke please.
Eric- Sorry about your Father. Did I understand correctly your Mother is stronger? I hope so.
Jim- oh, no, no, no, You see I only had 2 locos that were not from the seventies, and they were both Bachmann. Not that I have anything against Bachmann, as some people do. One is a Spectrum and the other is a standard. They both are good running and strong pullers. I have had no trouble with either. Shoot I have AHM and Tyco that are what 30+ yrs old and the still run, NOISY but run good. OK let me have it on the brands. (Oops I forgot where I was). Anyway imagine my giddiness when I get an Atlas DCC equipped, yes I looked, good running as good as, if not, new locomotive for $30.00. With ditch lights that work etc. We haw. I’m used to a light that gets brighter the faster it goes and says “look in the cab! Nothing!” Yeah I suppose the ditch lights would not be as impressive to you, (unless……maybe…. I’m seeing Back To The Future here) .Considering the luck I have with MRR purchases over the bay, Yup, this is better than pre-sliced bread for me. It appears they did run the thing but on carpet. I pulled enough carpet fibers out of the axles to weave a floor mat.
Joe-THREW OUT TRAIN STUFF!!!???? Holy Shamoley!! NO PIE FOR 2 DAYS!
Yes I have a big old lighted magnifying thing-a-ma-jig to see HO!
Tom- Congratulations!! I hope the rain continues as long as needed. And the line between enough water and flooding and mudslides is not crossed.
I’ll just set over here in the corner and if anyone wants a sample there will be plenty. They have big portions here.
ewl01blownout cylinderIf little ones are a concern just close the door between train and cat. I'll have to fix the latch, they seem to have figured out how to open the door to the attic It's an old house, the latches don't always catch. Time for some rest. Thank You, and Good Night. Eric
JimRCGMOMe too, Joe! Oh, on your N scale, before you throw it out, you maybe could ask if any other Diners (who model in N scale) might want it (like for postage or such). They might be able to use stuff that you or I have not a lot of use for (being in the grand and glorious Home-Oriented scale...)
None of it ever worked anyway. And the stuff I got rid of today was misc. stuff. Most notably, the cork that snapped with the slightest bend.
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Looks like I am a page and a half behind. I will have to catch up again.
I went into work for about 7 hours today. Hey its something for now, plus I still get unemployment.
I will try to catch up tomorrow.
Everybody have a good night.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Eric:
My four-footed furries are very prone to HO, so I'd hate to see what they might accomplish with N. But then in my case, I'm talking about a Maine Coon (18 lbs) and a Norwegian Forest cat (19 and gaining), both of whom are slightly larger than your average miscievous feline. Spooky, the Maine Coon is very prone to picking up Cabeese by their coupulas and carrying them off, and Remington, my "Wegie" keeps looking at my Yellowstones with a gleam in his big green eyes. .
So beware your four-footed companions, especially if they seem to like 'collectables,' LOL.
And continued prayers for your parents.
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, Chloe - I'll have some of that ribeye, but make mine done medium, please,
and with a glass of wine, thanks!
Packers#1 Well, my 4x8 is now officially history! Just have to go ahead and take it apart. I think I can make some space for a new layout in my bedroom. I just need something smaller in a climate contolled room.
Sawyer, do remember, that if you do an around-the-walls layout (up high enough that you don't hit your head on it when you sit up in bed), that 4X8 wood could make (depending on how wide) from 12 to 32 linear feet of base for the layout (splitting into narrower strips than 4 feet wide/deep). Also, you might want to take a look at Iain Rice's books on layouts for room-size or smaller spaces - Mid-Sized and Manageable Track Plans, or Small, Smart & Practical Track Plans (both books are from Kalmbach). Be careful, because Kalmbach also has a book whose title is close to the Mid-Sized... one, which is newer (but not by Rice, but someone else). Rice has some track plans in those books which are designed for building in your bedroom - and still being able to use the room for sleeping, studying, etc. Hopefully, those books can give you some ideas to start with. Hope your team does well this weekend and Monday!
ns3010I was only kidding!
Me too, Joe! Oh, on your N scale, before you throw it out, you maybe could ask if any other Diners (who model in N scale) might want it (like for postage or such). They might be able to use stuff that you or I have not a lot of use for (being in the grand and glorious Home-Oriented scale...)
Ray - I hear ya on telling time by the minutes it takes (having grown up in St. Louis County, myself). Of course, sometimes we have to adjust for the traffic pattern/flow, right? Enjoy your dinner, sounds yummy!
Eric, the wine is fine (if I may make a small pun...). The twins (and Vinnie...) make sure that no minors 'imbibe the bubbly' here in the Diner. This is a family-friendly Diner, after all - well, except for those occasional parties on the weekends... I will add your Dad's pneumonia (and Mom's ailments) to the prayer list. Garry, is the chapel car still on the next track?
Tom - yeah, now you like that rain, but when the mudslides start creeping down into your backyard, you'll be singing a different tune... Hopefully, it won't come to that, though. And we'll be watching to see if you're posting every day over the weekend, to make sure those felines haven't tied you up (so they can pick the locks and play with all your Yellowstones). I hope your friend doesn't have model trains, or Wiezl may go back home having learned some 'new tricks'...
Need to do some more reading on DCC this weekend, so I can figure how to separate the blocks on my existing two sections (and later, on the others I have yet to build, when I get more territory for the RR). I have at least 2 Kalmbach books on wiring, plus emails from a couple of Diners who've given me some sage suggestions. Also would like to talk with our MRR club electronics guru Kevin, but that'd be Monday night likely. I also will work some more on my Walthers modular warehouse, and my Roberts Printing kitbash. Maybe check my paint supplies and see what I may need to order to replentish it. Yep.
Think for now, I'll just kick back in the window booth and sip my wine while I watch the evening switcher finished up its run. Ah, the weekend...
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau (where the temp is 41 F and dropping)
ewl01 That's the only thing with N. It's hard to see the small stuff, well all the stuff. It's mostly all RTR anyway. This will cause trouble with the 4-footed furries. They're intimidated by the HO but N are like mice... WE'll see, I'm stopping at the LHS tomorrow, he has a HUGE selection of motive, rolling and track. Like I said before I might go with snap track type, it will be quicker than laying flex track. Thanks for the good wishes, i'm just getting tired. Eric
That's the only thing with N. It's hard to see the small stuff, well all the stuff. It's mostly all RTR anyway. This will cause trouble with the 4-footed furries. They're intimidated by the HO but N are like mice... WE'll see, I'm stopping at the LHS tomorrow, he has a HUGE selection of motive, rolling and track. Like I said before I might go with snap track type, it will be quicker than laying flex track.
Thanks for the good wishes, i'm just getting tired. Eric
If little ones are a concern just close the door between train and cat. 'Spring' isn't much of an issue because he is still a little skittish around moving trains----and the few times he went around with a car/loco/whatever in his mouth he tended to be going around protecting/hiding his 'little ones'. Oh well, one tends to play it by ear----
Dern, I just checked. we gotta play Mt. harris tomorrow, then we turn around and paly the older st. Johns Team Monday. And our 2nd biggest guy (I'm the biggest) is out for 3 weeks w/ a high ankle sprain he got playing soccer.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Eric; We'll pray for your father----it's never easy that's for sure---My two sisters and myself had to do the juggling thing when mapa both were ill at the same time---
I'm still in N scale----I'm just using more powerful Magnification
to see what I'm doing-----
Afternoon all:
RAIN!!!!
Yes, for two days now. Delicious, wet, soggy RAIN!! And more predicted until Sunday or Monday. And a snow level that is supposed to drop to 4,000 feet this evening. So far we've got about two inches of the wet stuff here in the Valley (okay, it's a slow rain, but what the Heck), and it's pouring up in the foothills. Storm warnings in the mountains.
Now I know that doesn't sound particularly inviting to you guys who have been putting up with those terrible Northwest and Northern storms, but believe me, out here in SunnyCal, it's a Godsend. Right now I'm looking out the window and watching the stuff drip out of my flooded gutters and grinning. And evidently SoCal is getting whacked with it also, so I hope their reservoirs--such as they are--are getting filled up. Of course, I also hope they are spared mudslides.
Jeff: If you've got six inches of clearance with that big tanker of yours, be happy. I worked for the Forest Service during the summers in Truckee when I went to college, the second year I was there, they got this brand-spanking new International-Harvester tanker unit that was so tall we had to have the Engineering Crew come up and heighten the door on the tanker barn. Man, climbing into the back of that baby gave me Acrophobia, LOL! Funny thing, it gave us more trouble than the old Ford tanker we had originally.
Just had a cat walk across the keyboard. No, not Remington or Spooky, but some strange little black and grey female that I am baby-sitting for a buddy of mine while he looks for another apartment. He arrived this morning with a cat-carrier and before I could say "Let's find a room to keep her in," let her out. About 7 furry little pounds of sheer CUTE! Spooky just stared, Remington took out after her, she jumped around, they've been playing ever since. Her name is Wiezl and she's a little cute furball. Anyway, I'm "Daddy" for a while. My buddy says she's a 'Lap Cat' and likes something called "Goopy Tuna." Evidently it's something that is put out by the same brand that Remington and Spooky crave.
Anyhow, right now I have three cats charging around the house. I really don't think that Spooky is amused, but Remington seems to be having a ball. Picture to follow, if I can ever get them to slow down, LOL!
Best to all, prayers to those in need.
Hoo Boy, I see dinner's on me. Flo, I'm in a Brats and Sauerkraut kinda mood tonight--you know, the kind that's been cooking in good German beer and sweet-hot mustard with lots of bacon and onions and potatoes most of the day. Everyone else, order up whatever you want!
***Eric, sorry to hear about your Dad's pneumonia. Perhaps it's a good thing he was seen when he was and it can now be promptly treated. Sending healing thoughts their way.
***Sawyer, if your eyesight is "youthful", then N is cool. These days, I'm beginning to wish I had been collecting HO all my life instead of N. But who knew I would ever have a "train room" to run something as hugely oversized as HO?
While I'm here, I'll have a large slice of that Chocolate Cake, please & thanks.
Rob
Eric, sorry about your parents. It never ends...
Sawyer, I think you're wrong. Today, I finally threw out the rest of the N stuff that I got two years ago from my uncle. Since I got it, it's been in boxes under my layout.
Ouch, that sucks Eric.
By the way, just you wait, N scale will hook you, and you'll forget about HO
Let's see, it's 7:30pm. I just came back from the hospital where my mother is.... Except, now my father is there too! He has had respiritory issues for a while, well the Dr. at the rehab checked him out after I left this morning and decided there is fluid in the lungs. After seeing mom, checking in, writing to you people and going back to the house, I walk in and my sister says "Guess what happened to Dad".
It seems he has pneumonia........
Chloe, I think I'll have a nice rare rib-eye with mushrooms and onions some mashed taters, and choc. cake. Hey, can I bring a bottle of wine in?
Oh yeah, trains.... Um, Was it Terry with the scratch built? Now that's art!
Thinking of n-scale to get something running while I make big plans for the HO. I have a few n grain cars from a diorama I built a while back with the Walthers mill. All I need is engine and some snap track.......
Well, just got done with dinner here, but I'll take a slice of
chocolate cake
with vanilla icing, of course.
So, how's Friday been ya'll?
Well, I got started on the bathroom reno, just in time for friends to show up.
Anyhooooo----the layout work will have to wait. I'll probably be done with reno in time for---wait for it-------------TA DA!!Monday---just in time for w**k and missing putting up WPF progress shots of my weathering and stuff---GGRRRRRR!!!!
Can I get a refill of coffee, please? And a slice of Lemon MeringuePIE!!!!!please, Chloe.
JimRCGMOBesides, PC will figure that as just more available for him, right PC?
You are a VERY perceptive man my friend!