Lee, it's called the Red Jacket Trestle. It's just south of my hometown of Mankato MN.
Tom, I'm afraid of over doing the trees my self. Thanks for the advice.
Evening all:
Nothing on the MR front from SunnyCal, but it's only the second week of May and already we're in dangerous conditions from the Drought--Santa Barbara is about 300 miles south of us, but the fire down there is devastating--over 14,000 people evacuated, nobody knows how many homes are lost yet, and it's heading toward the downtown area. To add to that, Mission Santa Barbara, one of the oldest (1740 or so) Franciscan Missions is in the path of the flames, it's one of California's really UNIQUE historical monuments (several of the Priests down there are good friends of mine).
If this is happening out here in May, I can only think of what the rest of the fire season is going to be like. Late Spring rains have turned the vegetation up on the hills into a veritable jungle, and as soon as they dry out (which will be fast, during our hot, dry summers) the fire situation in this state is going to be absolutely EXPLOSIVE! Today in the Valley, the temperature was almost 90 degrees with a hot, dry wind, so the drying out is going to be really rapid.
Okay, we may be the land of the Fruits and Nuts (mostly "Imported" from other states), and we put up with the nickname "Shake and Bake", but in reality, this is one of the prettiest, most geologically varied states that I can think of. I'm 5th generation, and pretty largely, I like the place a lot. If I didn't, I'd have moved elsewhere, for all of the faults (not earthquake) the state has inherited. But it's really sad watching us start burning down this early in the season. My prayers to the people of Santa Barbara--a really BEAUTIFUL city--and what they're going through down there. I'm not normally a 'downer', but I have a horrible feeling that what they're going through now is what the rest of us up North may be going through in another month or so.
Okay, I've got that off my chest, and pardon me if I sound a little dejected right now.
On the positive side, Jesuit phoned. They need me for this year's Baccalaureate Mass in two weeks. So I'm going back SOONER than I thought. Like next week. I hope they're as ready for me as I am for THEM, LOL! Talked to Fr. Wanser today, he said he's going to tell the Liturgy Workshop Choir tomorrow that "Doc's coming back, so SHAPE UP!"
Hm. My reputation 'precedeth' me. Should be fun, LOL!
Well, just needed to get that off my chest. Sorry if I came on a little 'down'.
Corey: I was thinking about it--don't smother the bridge approaches with trees, BTW. Just a few trees below the tracks and a neat forest above them should give the impression. I say this from experience--one of my bridges was just COVERED with trees below the roadbed, and it really cut into the scene. I ended up doing a lot of pruning. Just a thought. Dang, those bridges of yours are terrific!
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!
galaxyThat is the problems I've been having lately with my 98 Grand Caravan. I love it, it was paid for when I bought it, but lately the money I have put into it I could have bought something newer. It has been $500 dollaring me to death. I suppose I will keep it and run it into the ground, but With the money dropping into it all together I coulda bought a newer used one.
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Hi guys!
I could really use a glass of wine, but I know I will have to get that in the club car. {Hey maybe setting up a lovingly restored club car would be a nice addition to the diner. Maybe I should do that}.
blownout cylinder jeffrey-wimberly I made a temporary repair to the cars power steering line. I now believe that it was the high pressure line that got damaged as it has has a metal core of flex tubing. It was ruptured right at the point where the rubber (with metal inside) line joined the metal tubing coming from the reservoir. The best I could do is cut the fitting off and work the hose onto the tubing and clamp it with a hose clamp. It'll have to hold until I can get it to a repair shop. If one thing don't go "foof" something else will----I had a period last fall wherein every dang thing that could fall off, short, dangle, drop off, and what-all-else would do just that---it was definitely a pain in the dupka
jeffrey-wimberly I made a temporary repair to the cars power steering line. I now believe that it was the high pressure line that got damaged as it has has a metal core of flex tubing. It was ruptured right at the point where the rubber (with metal inside) line joined the metal tubing coming from the reservoir. The best I could do is cut the fitting off and work the hose onto the tubing and clamp it with a hose clamp. It'll have to hold until I can get it to a repair shop.
I made a temporary repair to the cars power steering line. I now believe that it was the high pressure line that got damaged as it has has a metal core of flex tubing. It was ruptured right at the point where the rubber (with metal inside) line joined the metal tubing coming from the reservoir. The best I could do is cut the fitting off and work the hose onto the tubing and clamp it with a hose clamp. It'll have to hold until I can get it to a repair shop.
If one thing don't go "foof" something else will----I had a period last fall wherein every dang thing that could fall off, short, dangle, drop off, and what-all-else would do just that---it was definitely a pain in the dupka
That is the problems I've been having lately with my 98 Grand Caravan. I love it, it was paid for when I bought it, but lately the money I have put into it I could have bought something newer. It has been $500 dollaring me to death. I suppose I will keep it and run it into the ground, but With the money dropping into it all together I coulda bought a newer used one.
Well saw my Dr. today. he doesn't have the results of the carpal tunnel in his possession yet. He still seems to think the wrist splints, vitamin B-6 and shots in the arm will help before we move to surgery. I can understand reluctance for surgery, but until he sees for himself the results of the test...........
As far as the cholesterol....well it is very high. He started me on a cholesterol reducing med. And my weight...i need to loose at leasst 20 preferably 40 pounds. He told me no pie, cake, chocolate{I don't often anyway}, no cheese, no processed deli meats, no potato chips, or potato period, no salt {I don't add anyway}, no mayo, no this, no that..... I told him...."Thems fightin' words" and put up my dukes at him! He laughed and about peed himself. He said, of course salads, veggies, fat free this fat free that...
Well I had better go have a salad with fat free Kraft Vidalia onion vinegarette on it......
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Jeff, While you're limping off to get the pressure hose fixed try not to hit full lock or for that matter turn the wheel too much while the car is stationary as that puts the max pressure through the line and even clamped it can blow off (don't ask me how I know). J.R.
Got the work all done for today--now I go in early again tomorrow to finish paperwork for today! Yeehaw!!---or summat---Now I'm home and having a purrrmotor with me by the 'pooter
Jim-What you just described I'd see as simple caution-----hope the mess(ooops) straightens out
Chloe, I'll just have a coffee for now please---
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...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Coffee in a large UNION PACIFIC mug, please & thanks.
Jeffrey wrote: [Some of my layouts were so complex that I sometimes lost sight of the goal of this hobby, to have fun and instead became a slave to the layout. I finally decided that I'm not in this to build a masterpiece but rather to have fun. Working on the layout is my way of working out my day to day stress, not adding to it.] ...Well put and worth reminding myself daily as progress and sometimes obstacles arrise on the wife's (and my own) layout(s).
***Corey, could you make a Time Machine out of spare parts and just go back to the exact day you want to model that trestle after?
Wife now tells me she wants her canyons mostly tree covered. Might have to rethink how much energy I want to put into the parts that won't be easily seen.
Had to pick up some new barn boots today, as I've grown tired of removing wet socks after twice daily rounds. Cost me a whole $11. not bad at all.
Hope everyone is having a great day.
Rob
Cederstrand***Sawyer, just remember school, soccer, and girlfriends are fleeting, while model RR'ing lasts a lifetime. (but do enjoy those other things while you can)
***Sawyer, just remember school, soccer, and girlfriends are fleeting, while model RR'ing lasts a lifetime. (but do enjoy those other things while you can)
Well, school sticks with you a while because how well you do in school can set the tone of your life (what job you get, etc.). Good advice though
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
The GE now has visors!
Afternoon All...Its cloudy and 62 here but not raining anyway....I'll have a pork burger,onion rings and a diet Coke please...Thank You...Spent most of morning Cleaning train storage out..Found some stuff I thought I lost..LOL..Visiting nurse came says leg looks good..be glad to get the staples out..You all have a good one..Jerry
Afternoon everyone!
Home for lunch between rehearsals of the choruses. Tonight is the concert. Should be fun. The fun involves the fact that there will not be a reahearsal with all the instruments so I am guessing that the placement of the choral mics will work for the concert........ Microphones have trouble knowing which sound is the chorus and which sound is the trumpet player..... Very frustrating to turn up the choral mics and have the band get louder instead. Ah the fun of being the soundman.
BTW, Philip I don't think I added my congratulations on the BS degree. So Congratulations sir!
Damp, cool rather icky day here in the Finger Lakes but we do need the rain. It has been misting all morning...... little tiny droplets of water that isn't really rain and not really sprinkling either. Just enough to have to run the windshield wipers every couple of minutes or so. Currently 56°F with a high today of 62°F later. Tomorrow is calling for some thunder showers at times. I am going to have to find a time to start mowing the lawn between showers as it is getting high again.
Hope you all have fine day!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
TMarsh PC:I got the Majors, Leadership & Ministry and Business & Ethics, but ya lost me on the Minors!
PC:
Put simply, Systematic Theology is just a systematic breakdown of the study of God. It's breaking down various aspects of God and studying them individually. Cosmogony is the study of the origins of all that we know and see.
Cory,
What bridge is that again?
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
I've added all the extra little details that came with the SD24. The endrails, ladders, horns and visors.
Good morning!
Since Jeffrey is kindly buying, I will have the short stack pancakes and some coffee. Been having a hankering for pancakes, but fattening.
jeffrey-wimberly ... The only thing I have in common with the government now is a check.
... The only thing I have in common with the government now is a check.
Yes, Jeffrey, I, too, and am very thankful that for folks like us on disability it is there, and I hope it continues to be there!
JimRCGMO Galaxy, will be keeping your doctor's visit in the morning in my prayers - hey, maybe all they need is to strap a 9v. battery and some leads on the back of your hand? We could hope! Hope your car stuff gets figured out and fixed at minimal cost and time for you.
Galaxy, will be keeping your doctor's visit in the morning in my prayers - hey, maybe all they need is to strap a 9v. battery and some leads on the back of your hand? We could hope! Hope your car stuff gets figured out and fixed at minimal cost and time for you.
Thanks for the prayers Jim. Will post after I see Dr. this afternoon. I hope he has the results of last friday's tests to talk about along with my blood work/cholesterol.
Well, got the van partially done. The a/c/heater blower was only $112 fix. Far cheaper than it could have been at $500. I had the tires rebalanced for another $40.00. BUT the brake rotor is warped and I will definitely need 4 new tires SOON. One has a slipped belt in it they say. Shoulda had them change out the spare {nows a time to think of that. I got out of the a/c/heater blower on the cheap side, but new brakes and tires YIKES!
I see some folks here are gettin' themselves that thar fancy thang called an "ed-u-ma-kay-shun". Contrats to those who have endured the years of study. Since I have a total of about half a college "ed-u-ma-kay-shun" I can say for a fact that I am an educated idiot. I have some education, but perhaps was an idiot to quit!? Wouldn't do me any much good now, anyhow.
Well, I had better go now.
{Whew}
Well, it isn't the dashes that make the post do that thing, the colon does the same thing. Except for reply to Rob
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.
Mornin folks, biscuits and butter with fresh Rhubarb... cooked down.... sauce.... like.. stuff. I don' know what you call it, it was just what mom made and perfect wife does too please. Oh yes, coffee too thanks.
Mom grocery day today, so not much will get done today "round hyar". A friend of mine who owns the "lounge", (our town can't have a "bar"), is bowling on Wednesday nights. He usually waits on the tables by himself and tends bar Sunday thru Thursday because they are busy, but not so busy that one person can't do it. Fridays and Saturdays they have 2 waitresses. They get packed. Thursdays have been picking up and I usually tend bar for him thru the rush, and now I'm, filling in on Wednesday's so he can bowl. I get tips when waiting tables, I do when I tend bar, but in Williamsville, the bar clients are slim, even on weekends sometimes. Most is served to the eating customers. Bar patrons are usually just his friends who sit and chat for hours and only have a couple of beers. Not too profitable. Any Hoo, with the tip money I have a bit more for Toddland (of which I'm king) and since it's Momday, and I'll be in the area anyway.......FLHS here I come!
PC:I got the Majors, Leadership & Ministry and Business & Ethics, but ya lost me on the Minors!
Rob: I think you'll like the joint compound.
Jim: Yep, Badmouthing, even if it is not necessarily badmouthing but just explaining your side of the event to co-workers, usually gets reported back to the "supervisor" in a twisted not exactly accurate version. Best to keep quiet like you said, lick the wounds and let it pass. No I don't think you're paranoid. It wouldn't surprise me if your assumption is correct. However being as how there is nothing in the computer, you can laugh at the wild goose chase this guys on. As soon as his ego heals he'll move on. (assuming, of course, it is your "supervisor" and not some innocent event like you described)
I had never heard of the start your day thing until I overheard a friend telling someone in response to a "how do you do it" type of question. I tried it a few years ago and by golly it works! No, doesn't take every problem away but it sure helps deal with many things that I recall used to upset me a lot more and I seem to generally happier. Now if only it worked for the phone.....
And why do we celebrate Cinco de Mayo? We have more need to celebrate Texas Independence day. Tex-Mex is better than Mexican food, in my opinion, and the beer is better. Soooo...... New national celebration!!! Mark your calenders folks because soon, a day off. Now to get the government involved and a few equality groups to see when we will celebrate to make it convenient and profitable.
Nittany: Odd how a simple statement turns out so long isn't it. I have that same problem.
Barry: Sounds like your crimals and judiciary system is just like ours. You may want to suggest a different approach.
jeffrey-wimberly.....I'm not in this to build a masterpiece but rather to have fun.
Amen to that!
Well best get a move on. Have a Great Day!
Well good morning everybody. Its sunny/rainy today. I need to cut some grass, but its to wet.
The plan for today. Wire up the lights over my dock, and maybe start to weather up a CSX boxcar I have. I had another 40' boxcar, but someone forgot to put the bottom (part for the wheels/couplers) in the box. Its a old Athearn kit. I got it at the hobby store. Oh well, I guess it can just sit.
Not much planned other than that.
Jim, that would be nice.
Everybody have a good one.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
JimRCGMO......And I'd bet that your degree must be from a church-related college......
A place called Crossroads Bible College. Maybe someday I'll make it to a bigger school, like Southern Seminary or Dallas Theological Seminary, but for now, this works! As for a party.....it's not necessary. I'm just doing what I'm called to do......but I appreciate the thought.
Good morning folks. Sorry for the continuing talk about the trestle. I am so excited to share it with someone other than my wife!
J.R. ,
One problem I'm running into is I know how the area looked one hundred years ago, and how it looks right now. What I don't know is how it looked in the late 1940's. The vegetation is quite grown around this area now. I don't have my own picture, but this one is off of a Trail website.
This is my own picture taken from what was the old bridge abutment in late fall.
Pretty soon here I can take my own pictures of the time of year I want to model.
Good Morning All,
It was 67F when I stepped out the door this morning, still raining but at least it isn't freezing cold. I'll have a regular coffee and a Danish please.
No MRR stuff again but I have been catching up on my reading. One of the bennies at the museum is the library discard bin that has occasionally had such goodies as Mainline Modeler and Fine Scale etc. Not that I have the skill of those folks but the ideas are great and thinking things through should help once I can start up again. To that end we have another meeting ith the insurance adjustor today and I have another doctor appt to see if I can finally ditch my "moon boot" and get back into work boots. The foot feels good, the toes are all knit back up so wish me luck.
Jim - It isn't paranoia when you find your 'puter messed with in the morning - just prudence. For sure reporting the startup anomoly to the IT folks is prudent anyway in case someone was hacking on your work position, no? Either way you need to keep alert and as they say in the old country "Illegitimus non-carborundum".
Corey - belatedly - the bridges are going to be gorgeous. I don't think you have too much vegatation on the embankment though the photos show a trimmer bank. For trees you can also look into the armatures Bachman just released - looks like a lot of trees with the wire coated trunk for not a lot of money. With some ground foam, lichen, etc. You should be able to get a good variety.
As usual gotta run. No sooner sit down than the questions/issues start in the shop. Catch y'all later. J.R.
Good morning. It's 74 and cloudy. The high should be in the upper 80's and it will be partly cloudy. Yesterday I worked on getting the SD24 and U30C ready for the installation of their decoders. I have one decoder coming in the mail and I have another (Bachmann) around here somewhere. The SD24 will get the DZ125. Had a derailment on the inside loop. Naturally it's at the back behind some structures. This means lifting out the park so I can use the access hole to get to it. Haven't fixed the car yet as the ditch is still too wet. I hope to have that done before Monday.
TOP honors! Order up. Today's Weather for: Sundown, LA 71446-6114 5/7/2009 Heat Index: 78°F Humidity: 94% Dew Point: 72°F So Far Today High: 75°F Low: 73°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h Gust: 7mph SSW Today High: 88 Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight Low: 70 Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
NittanyLionThe more I planned my layout turned module turned diorama part 1, the more it became apparent that the bulk of all my structures would be scratchbuilt or kitbashed. I wish I had made an effort to figure out a place on this section to fit a non-original structure so that I could re-cut my teeth on something less intense. But the lure of the prototype calls too strongly.
Good morning--After getting OOPS'ed out last night and considering that I had to be up to go to work early this morning I went to sleep---only to get a headbutting--MMM-MMeh?-Meh?-from 'Spring'. Someone tried our backdoor again---Yeeesh!!--I go around our house and find lady down the crescent apiece doing the same thing. A few other people show up with a couple of police officers---they caught the bugger----same idiot who was released "ON BAIL" for doing the same dang thing not too long ago.
Weather here is going to be a bit moist. Everyday with chance of rain/t'underboomers with a bit of sun mixed within. Temperatures will be anywhere from 20C to 14C---by Sunday---6C? For a high?
NittanyLion More oddly, my thirst/lust to someday have under the table motors for the hands off switching action drove me to acquire half inch foam (quarter inch wood, half inch foam, 3/16ths cork = less than one inch). Which apparently is extremely hard to find in spring. As fellow northerners know, foam comes in quite the variety much to the consternation of our southern brothers who lament the lack of any foamboard. We can get three quarter inch foam, one and a half inch, whatever! This is the tradeoff we get for living in the Rust Belt, I guess
You're right about THAT one. I love the stuff--especially since the thicknesses do ---in N scale, anyway-equal enough height differences to make shaping very easy. A couple of 1/2" slabs will make for a decent sized hill and dale scene.
NittanyLion The more I planned my layout turned module turned diorama part 1, the more it became apparent that the bulk of all my structures would be scratchbuilt or kitbashed. I wish I had made an effort to figure out a place on this section to fit a non-original structure so that I could re-cut my teeth on something less intense. But the lure of the prototype calls too strongly.
The more I planned my layout turned module turned diorama part 1, the more it became apparent that the bulk of all my structures would be scratchbuilt or kitbashed. I wish I had made an effort to figure out a place on this section to fit a non-original structure so that I could re-cut my teeth on something less intense. But the lure of the prototype calls too strongly.
Dioramas are just as necessary as anything else---they become part of the learning curve---and if you have a building --scene--or what have you--that doesn't quite fit where else to put it but on but a diorama?
Chloe, I'll have the breakfast special with the eggs up and multigrain for the toast please and a bucket of raw caffeine as well---I'll be by the corner booth.
After months (year) of going into the shops and being "oh look I need a 72' centerbeam flat car," despite not actually needing or planning on needing one, I decided enough of that. Flush with more tax return dollars than sense, I made purchase of a precut 2'x4' plywood sheet (2'x3 13/16' so close there Lowe's better luck next time) and glued some foam down on it. Oddly, somehow I'd managed to mangle up a 4'x8' of foam into enough odd pieces from stillborn diorama or module ideas that I didn't have a piece quite large enough to be transformed into a 2'x4' sheet. Not sure how thats even possible. More oddly, my thirst/lust to someday have under the table motors for the hands off switching action drove me to acquire half inch foam (quarter inch wood, half inch foam, 3/16ths cork = less than one inch). Which apparently is extremely hard to find in spring. As fellow northerners know, foam comes in quite the variety much to the consternation of our southern brothers who lament the lack of any foamboard. We can get three quarter inch foam, one and a half inch, whatever! This is the tradeoff we get for living in the Rust Belt, I guess.
Nevertheless, track has been pinned down, lines of roads drawn on, the foam core board mockups placed. The hill hasn't been built yet. That's tomorrow's day off fun. But in my eagerness to get doing SOMETHING rather than nothing, I began my career first kitbash ever. Now, this is only the third anything I've assembled in the last 10 years. So my first such effort and my first attempt ever at working with sheet and strip styrene has made me quickly realize I'm 1) lacking several important skills and 2) several important tools. #2 can be rectified at an alarming rate, with infusions of cash. Working within three miles of two hobby shops is beneficial, living within easy driving distance of two more (one is largely N, but things like paint do have a tendancy to be multi-scale material) does come in handy. A little square would be nice right now, as well as something to make sure my measurements are, you know, accurate and correct. Oh and one of those metal sheet deals with the magnets, that would be hot. A NWSL Chopper would be fun, as well as something like a wee table saw for sheets. No, a CNC one that even a chimp could use that would be nicer. Anything to help me square up these foundations. Although that CNC thing would probably cost too much and then I'd just stare at it, lacking the monies to buy anything to cut up with it.
One of the sides, that will not be visible because its next to a building, was the sacrificial lamb in an effort to use Squadron putty. The green one. In the future, I will only use the stuff outside, because that smell while clearing up the stuffy allergy nose, may be what is fueling this increasingly verbose treatise on what I did tonight. In my youth, I rarely attempted to putty seams. Large quantities of paint often were employed in this manner. That Testors gloss enamel could be used to bind broken bones, when used in that many coats. I'd used the white putty that Testors puts out (do they still make that) and occasionally it worked but it did shrink fiercely. The green stuff I tested tonight was less than satisfactory. I will attempt another coating of it tomorrow, outdoors, and paint it. So far not that pleased and will seek other means to fill seams. And there are many that need it, through no fault of my own, I'm convinced. Any suggestions? I'm going to bend the ear of my brother tomorrow. He is an armor modeler and undoubtedly has knowledge I wish to gain. His work is quite good. (He's not all bad; he's got a pre-war K-4 and seven or eight passenger cars on a very long shelf)
Now I understand why you people have this thread. Someone to yammer about this stuff to.
Holy cow this ended up really long. I don't want to cut it down, out of the novelty of its length.
Thanks for all the great suggestions. That website looks particularily promising, too.
Played around with some joint compound with a wee bit more success than the tile adhesive, but still not at all satisfied with results. On my own (N) layout, I plan on carving the canyons directly from all the blue and pink foam. The wife's canyon, because it's mostly that soft blown insulation, it doesn't carve, rather it tears away in chuncks. So if you're wondering, that's why I'm needing another approach for hers.
Thunder-Booming outside now, time to shut down the puter.
Good Night all. Rob
Good evening, I made it to the LHS today, picked up a few items: A wood coaling tower kit, ME Steel Viaduct Standard bridge, a Bowser GS Gondola, A Centralia Car Shops B&M Caboose, an Accurail panel side Hopper kit, a 1955 Ford F100 pickup truck, a 1955 Ford F100 Panel truck. and a great new book " The Coming of the Train" Volume 1 1870 to 1910 which covers the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington and Deerfield River Railroads in MA.
We had a great Buffett lunch at the Steaming Tender in Palmer, Ma, very quiet day for Railfanning however, the Recession has really cut the rail traffic badly here. There was only one train on the mainline in the 2 1/2 hours we were there, a doubleheaded GP40-2.
JERRY: Hope your leg is on the mend, be careful , your not a Spring chicken you know. :)
JIM: These days, in particular, one must be extremely careful at work. Having worked in industry for 53 years, I have seen just about everything. Great bosses, real bad bosses, and every kind in-between. There are times that you absolutely must "zip it" even if you feel you are right.The truth will eventually come out anyways, so learn from these experiences as any wise person does. A very wise person once told me when I was about 24, arguing with irrational people make it very hard for those observing to tell who is the real idiot; it made a lot of sense to me then and still does today. The three "R's : Respect for God, Respect for Others, and Respect for Yourself. Hang in there Jim, prayers for you buddy.
VINCENT: Sorry to hear about DUKE, been there 5 times, and never is any easier, they become like family for sure.
Heavy rains and possible TS's due here tonight and tomorrow, so it finally looks like I can get back to the layout. HOWEVER, tonight as I was just finishing some work with the old Wheel Horse lawn tractor, something failed in the manual transmission. It was locked up and killed the engine. I finally was able to get the xmission into Neutral and pushed it all the way into the garage. So now I have another problem to fix. BORED in Retirement? Are people NUTS !%$$#$$$# ????
See you guys tomorrow,