Monday, August 07, 2006
Good morning all buddies and budettes! How about some Go Lean Crunch with fresh blueberries and strawberries on top for breakfast starters.
We joined the local YMCA this weekend and enjoyed a few hours at the pool for starters. I swam about 8 laps in the indoor lap pool, and boy do I feel it this morning. We hope start a regular exercise routine and begin getting back in shape and loosing some weight too.
Ben finally got a bow this weekend and I showed him how to shoot target archery, he did fairly well for having only been exposed to archery on two brief occasions at Cub Scout camps a few years ago. The beginner’s 15 lb. bow is a start, and he did hit the target most of the time from 10 and 15 yards. After he gets the hang of it we will have to get a bigger target for the 30 and 40 yard range. (Does anyone really read my ramblings in this forum?)
I reorganized the train room this weekend, making room for the next phase of the benchwork construction and sub-roadbed/roadbed construction. Also made some purchases for scenery and painting, got some patching plaster, Portland cement, and plaster of Paris, tempera powder paint colors, and some India ink. I am going to attempt to follow Joe Fugate’s scenery techniques. I am considering making a small diorama to practice the techniques first, and then apply what I learn on the diorama to the “real deal” later on.
Trolley Rob, Yep, retail and food service industries are very similar in hours of operation, very few service industry folks get to work “regular” hours.
IndySon, the 24’ X 32’ train room should be more than enough to keep you busy for some time! But I wish I had a space like that, my train room is only 15’ X 16’ and I still have plenty to keep me busy.
Inch, I skipped the mowing this weekend, worked on the inside chores on Saturday. Nice pics you got there, are the peanuts ready to pick?
PC, that is more rail fanning than I have done all year, so you are still way ahead! Nice pics as always! The grain mill photo essay is great, I have a Walther’s grain mill kit still to build, and those photos will come in handy when it is time to put it together.
back Cheese3! Glad to see you made it back into the CS!
Steve, here’s hoping you have a swift recovery! Glad you here the procedures went well!
Scott, I saw the fish on a pickup hitch on the highway home from work one day a few months ago. I am not sure where you can find one, but I could research it for you! Good luck with the home front issues!
Happy Birthday Lisa P!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Alex
Hi Gang: The day has been going all right so far. I have the maintanance cordinator for the morning. It's a nucence job really. All the big mangers are here during the week so this is kind of redundent.
Lisa. Hope that you have many more. Is hubby going to get you some train stuff?
I'm going to head out now. I've still got some things to check out in the park. I'll stop back in this evening.
Jerry, I have been doing a little work on the module, although probably not as much as I should be. But I’m slowly chugging along making a little progress here and there. Out last show was back at the end of April, and out next show is coming up at the end of September. So I’ve been working on having a significant chunk of stuff done between now and then. I’ll have some progress pictures to post sometime in the next few weeks, and then of course from the show in September.
Noah
Well hey there y'all.
Alex: Market lights? I don't know...They shouldn't be too hard to do. I was thinking about getting a pair of white flags however. Not quite the same, but hey, they both go on the smoke box of a steamer.
Inch: Loved the "Why Parents Drink Joke." That was hilarious!
Happy Jack: Yeah, I haven't heard anything from anyone. So I think I might just get the car painted or decaled when I can. I'm not using it for any profit purposes. Strictly private/recreational. No money (except mine for the job) involved whatsoever. And ya know, all great heroes need an arch rival. I'll be the Pennsy, you be NYC...And then we'll become a comic book before long. And in the last chapter, we combine our efforts...And go bankrupt.
Steve: Glad the surgury went well. Hope you make a speedy recovery.
James: Man, you are having one helluva time with that eBay guy, aren't you? Just hold to your stand. It's not like you rigged the camera to break after a few days of ownership. He tested it, he knew it worked. It would be my guess that he did something to it, and wants to be a about it.
Ryan: I have not seen the wiggling fish hitch cover. Sounds almost like that Big Mouth Bass thing that sang on the wall. If you have a link or anything, I'd like to check it out.
PC: I post at; Trains.com, NTRES, GrandMarquis.net, NScale.net, Rails of the World, and sometimes Bachmann.
Adam: Welcome to the Normal club! Since I may as well be in Sykesville as a resident soon enough again, I can help you with your layout if you need/want any!
Okay y'all, here's the thing. I'm not sure how much I will be doing on the forum for the next few weeks. Family problems have ensued, and as of now, it looks like I need to prepare for a move back to Sykesville. I've been waiting for this, and it's finally going to happen...Or so it seems. So, if I don't post for a while, I'm just in a transition between two places.
Talk to y'all later.
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
Lisa -
Happy MRRing
Good morning to all, Woke up to rain here, I had planes to help neighbor with her bushes but if rain doesn't stop I'll need to work on it another day.Looks like I may get to work on my train after all. Looks like I miss out on a lot when I miss a day here but my Sundays are so full with church and family that I don't have the time to check in.
Jim in Cape, good to meet you and don't worry I make my our oppions about others and so far everyone has behaved themselves. I definetly find I am in the minority( as a woman modeler) but I've always been a tomboy so nothing new. I'm not sure now that I'm 40(today) if I can still qualify fpr the term "tomboy" but... Yes I have a heater in the shed but last winter I was in the dining room so I'm not sure how cold it might get. This is actually my 3rd lay out, we bought a train(HO) for my son Owen's b-day last year so I started out with a 4x4 layout very boring, so I build a table in the dining room and had a great time all winter, come spring Tom(my husband) banished me to the shed. With having to clean it out , rebuilding the table, ect. and the heat my newest lay out is going up but slowly.
That's it for now.
Mornin all, coffee n acouple of Bill's doughnuts Zoe, since I'm buying this round.
Hot with a chance of thunderstorms today, Mothers sick, think she's got the same bug the kids had the other day, n I'm not feeling the best. Hopefully I'll not have any kids today.
CHEESE, good to hear from you, can't believe you'ed be changing scales too the dark side.
RT, thoughts n prayers for you n yours, hang on to the good times. Enjoyed the photos, how much weight you lost, you look some thiner.
PC, that mill would be great to model, but I don't have room right now. Maybe when I hit the lottery n gets my dream layout.
PAUL, another proud redneck here, and we live in two trailers stuck togaither. Got a 78 ford truck in the front yard [don't run], and a pile of pallets and junk.
STEVE, I think you have looked better, hope you gets well soon.
JIM CG, the trains aren't that close [I use a little zoom ], and we're use to hearing them, so they don't bother us most the time. Every so often they sound like their coming through the house for some reason
GUMBY, liked the joke, good one
JAMES, don't know bout down your way, but here, he's waisting his time in the court house. Just don't tell him every thing you've told us, best to keep him in the dark with your plans.
DER, thanks for the pics, it would make an interesting model
Not a lot planned for the day, gotta a DVD burner for the computor yesterday to put in, and work on the shed some. Need to get it done this week, so We can get some pellets on the summer prices. May post a couple pics from Mattoon later on. Hope ya'll have a good day
inch
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Good Morning all.
Nice sunny day today though I work from 2 to 10 pm. Gloria is progressing well. She has surgery coming up at the end of the month for repair a hernia which is causing a lot of pain, once that is completed then we should see good progress. Thank you all for your kind words.
Good to see the CS is still very active and attracting many new faces. A warm welcome to all of you and keep on coming back.
I heard from Polar bears that Fergie is still up there, they sent this photo of their feelings
ATTENTION ALL HO USERS
I call a meeting to formulate a plan to get Adam to see the light and pull him away from Nearly Invisible scale.
RT - Nice pics. Hope you enjoyed your vacation.
Paul - What? No Trailer? Would that only make you a "wannabe redneck?
Steve - Wish you well on your recovery, Hope you get better soonest so you can enjoy a pint on me.
Jim in Cape - Good to hear from hear and from your , always inspiring.
PC - Thanks for the pics, many of them are copied to my screen saver. Keep them coming.
Well That’s it for now. Hope You all have a great day
Good morning ! from Indiana.
08-07-06
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
HEdward wrote:I've really got to check in on here more often.
Hi all,
Inch/Jerry: I'm thinking there needs to be some clouds too, might be a cold front come through soon. I was thinking of air brushing them?!
Paul/ Jim: Little curves? Sorry I'm a bit slow today, you mean smaller straights and more curves? I used the "Easy easements" article in Model Railroader to add easements on all the curves.
der5997: Thanks for the compliment!
Steve: Get well soon, sounds like it would bring tears to your eye's!
OzJim: Where does this guy get off?
Nothing much else to report, back at work. Moday here in Oz already!
Regards,
Nigel
rtraincollector wrote:Now I think is time you report this guy to ebay for harasment and threating you . This is getting out of hand. I think you need to get your parents involved in this. Should he take this to court I would point out it worked when he bought it and he had it for 10 days before he started complaining. Anything could have happened in that time either by accident or whatever you sold a good camera in complete working order when he came and got it. If he checked it out in front of you point that out. If you have receipt offer it to him again thru your parents. The main reason I say thru your parents and get them involved so he can see he's dealing with more than a kid.
Now I think is time you report this guy to ebay for harasment and threating you . This is getting out of hand. I think you need to get your parents involved in this.
Should he take this to court I would point out it worked when he bought it and he had it for 10 days before he started complaining. Anything could have happened in that time either by accident or whatever you sold a good camera in complete working order when he came and got it. If he checked it out in front of you point that out. If you have receipt offer it to him again thru your parents. The main reason I say thru your parents and get them involved so he can see he's dealing with more than a kid.
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
Good evening folks. We are hosting grandchildren again. Our granddaughter has brought her goth friend, although, thankfully she herself has worked that through her system. So they are all tenting again. The friend is spending most of her time being “pale and interesting”, which is very funny! Also, super polite this time around, thanking us on every occasion, even for “letting me use your wash room”. (…and the alternative is???? )
Was able to get a small rail-fan episode in. The plastics factory I mentioned a few weeks ago has this filling stand down the spur from it.
and the factory itself sees the end of the spur, at the bins. My attempt to model any of this will not be as complex, but it sure gives me ideas!
Nigel: That’s some impressive trackwork, never mind picture quality! http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h134/ngartshore350/Model%20Railroad/Backdrop01-01.jpg
Adam: Welcome back,
put a wood floor in the train room and i have started the benchwork for a new N scale layout. Thats right you heard it I am switching scales!!!!! Im soo excited i cant wait to get some track laid.
Yeah! One more Normal person! ....Paul, resistance is futile![
CapeJim:
" style='width:30.75pt;height:34.5pt'> Paul’s comments on the nice curves on that end of the layout. Even if it isn’t prototypical, it still looks better to my eyes with some curve to track (unless it’s a siding, and even then...)
Hoople:
It sucks being a 11 year old on a budget right now.
OZJim: Good for you! Don’t back down to this jerk.
As for the roads, I’m having trouble getting the “right” look too. Way too dark, most of the times I repaint. Ah well, one day I’ll hit it, and fall over with surprise! I’ll probably also not have made a note of the paint mix. Not that that helps, as even if I start out writing down a formula, I generally just keep adding a dash of this, and a drop of that until something useable turns up, and the formula bears no relation to reality.
All seems quiet out in the yard, so it’s probably safe to get to bed.
Goodnight all, and God Bless. Prayers continuing for all in need of healing, comfort, and peace.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Hi Gang:
Steve: Hope that you get to feeling better soon. I'm glade that you had it done. It sounds like that could have really messed you up in time.
Oz: You hang in there. It's good that your folks are standing by you. There's a tree on my sons place by the Brazos river that was used to handle a few folks like that jerk.
We had a thunder storm move through while we were in town eating. It rained hard for a time. I thought for sure that we had gotten some rain on our place but when we got about 4 miles from home the ground was dry. No Rain. It did cool off for a while but it will be up in the 100s tomorrow again.
I guess I'll head for bed. The flea problem is solved for now. I went down in the basement for awhile and no bites. Now to get to MRRing, I hope.
See you all tomorrow.
Just had to rib you on that a little adam.
well heres more pics for you all from my trip to Manhiem, PA.
Adam Thompson Model Railroading is fun!
Cox 47 wrote: Hoople...How about some pictures of your Cripple Crick?
Hoople...How about some pictures of your Cripple Crick?
Hope your recovery is smooth and quick will be thinking of you.
heres a couple more pics for you all .
Howdy Folk's, good to be back but it's a very fast moving place, hope i can keep up.
just got out of hospital today so i'm feeling pretty crap, i had the cheek, forehead and back of the throaght sinus's drilled out as they were full of diseased tissue, they took the 5" long inflatable packings out today and what a blood bath we had, kind of like drowning, not nice.
As for the kids layout i just got all the snap track together into something that fit the space and nailed the stuff down, all the buildings are second hand from a guy on the East Lancs railway, it was a case of placing them in whatever position fit best and working round them
It takes for ever to up load these pics to photobucket seeing I'm on dial up but heres the first one anyway . yes I was supose to be on vacation and they put me to work LOL