Good morning.It's 77 and cloudy here. The high will be around 90 and there's a chance of thunderstorms.It's cool and wet here this morning with more rain on the way.We got a little under a 1/4" yesterday while Alexandria got 6" in one hour. Know what I'd be thinking if we got that much here in so little time? I'd be thanking God that it wasn't twice that in one hour!. My father is home today so he can take care of my mother. That gives me a day off. I'll have some time to go through my videotape collection and sort the ones I don't want anymore and toss them out. That'll make room for my rapidly expanding collection of DVD's.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 7/22/2009Heat Index: 83°FHumidity: 93%Dew Point: 75°FSo Far TodayHigh: 77°FLow: 75°FRain: 0.20"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 6mph SSENow through 11:00 AM CDT July 22, 2009 High: 90 Through 10 AM...scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue to move southeast at about 25 mph across northern parts of the area. Gusty winds, frequent lightning and heavy rainfall are possible with some of these storms. Isolated rainfall rates of up to 1.5 inches per hour are possible. Additional showers will continue to develop along coastal waters and move inland across Cameron and Vermillion parishes.Today High: 90 Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Southwest winds around 5 mph.Tonight Low: 72 Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around 5 mph.
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TMarshPhilip- I forgot what I was going to say but I'd already typed your name and I didn't want to waste the effort.
My neighbor is an older gentleman with alzheimer's, and he likes to point out the bright side of his condition. He notes that he can never seem to stay mad at anyone for very long now........can't seem to remember why or that he's mad. He also points out that there's no such thing as reruns on TV anymore.
Have you seen any reruns lately?
Morning folks!
I hot cup of green tea please, some Oat Grain Cheerios with blueberries too Chloe! Thanks!
Ray, you got that right about the stories and memories. Also, sounds like you getting some good progress on the layout too!
Garry requested some Po-Boy's in the diner again! "Ohhhhhhh.......if I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner......."
.........oh.....okay.....here goes.....
Hot Roast Beef Po-Boy
Hey Todd, funny story and you can tell the Italian restaurant lady she is free to use that recipe on any of her menus as long as the CCR site is mentioned somewhere or somehow.
Jerry, that 4-8-4 almost looks like a Southern RR paint scheme!
PC, yup, just like peas an carrots! The Oscar Mayer weiner vehicle makes it to NOLA every year for the Mardi Gras parades, and they give out those little weiner whistles too!
Dick, we need some of those PowerPoints with photos of all the modeling you been doing of late!
Hey Bob, less than 3 months and counting to Apex or Bust!
Thoughts and prayers to all those in need, health and recovery!
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Good Morning All,
Yeah that's right it's all PC's fault - honest Vinnie I just want to sit over here in the corner and have a coffee and a blueberry muffin - really. I have no idea where that pile of corn and empty challanges came from.
Ulrich - hopefully some oppourtunity will show up. If the bank is nervous at least you have their attention and they will be inclined to work with you. I've heard that saying that when one door closes another opens.At any rate we're all pulling for you.
Gotta run - lots to do again today as the rest of the crew is back from Wisconsin. Catch ya later. J.R.
Good morning...
You can blame PC for all of the wiener jokes. He posted the link. ...OK,, Ok, I know. You never sausage nonsense in the Diner.
Ulrich...prayers for your eventual economic recovery. I hope a little humor in the DIner cheers you up.
Cheers everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning
Time for me to get up and at 'em. Got some more client interviews to do so here I be sitting here telling you that we got rained on last night and we are going to see more rain today folloowed by more tonight then tomorrow and so on and so forth. Highs around 25C and lows around 17C. Otherwise---sticky and mild
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PC--Didn't anyone warn you that that ball and chain steering came out of an old 1915 Stutz? It'd likely make the poor thing liverwurst----oh----nevermind
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Chloe, I'll have a coffee and an Orange please---I'll sit with Ulrich at the RC and cheer him up---
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/
Good Morning,
Janie, a mug of decaf and a toasted bagel, please. I´ll sit at the RC to see who drops by...
It is a warm, but grey and overcast day. Did not sleep well, too many bad thoughts in my head. Silver wedding anniversary coming up and still no money in sight. Bank is getting uneasy about it... Don´t know where this will end.
How to get out of this depressed mood?
OK, Double RBF. Slow night at work not many people came in. Mostly pizza take outs.
Jerry- What can I say about the locos. Maybe they don't know the difference. Good news about the cable though.
Rob- I might be into some of that drying savings after all. I ran it this morning after cleaning the vent tubes and the dryer itself of lint. Brenda came home and the thing doesn't work. Again. And what do you mean "I'd have a couple of weeks"???????
Philip- I forgot what I was going to say but I'd already typed your name and I didn't want to waste the effort.
Garry- (groan)
Grayfox- I sure hope the guys that sent your sprue 12 aren't the same ones who sent Jerry his locos. No telling what you'll get. Maybe 2 sprue 6's.
I'm going to get out of here before the shut us down for all the corn bein tossed around.
Prayers for those in need. Oh what the heck, for those not in need too.
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.
JR, I think the brakes work well.........once you toss the anchor out!
Heartland Division CB&QIt could have been wurst.
Good Evening Dick, no one here but us fools. Glad you're getting some MRR time in - how is the layout itself doing?
Ok Ok I'll move along Vinnie - jus leggo the shirt you'll rip it.
pcarrell Gerry, that was BAD!
Gerry, that was BAD!
It could have been wurst.
Good evening, Tuesday is just about history here, still raining, 0.85" today, humid, sun tomorrow by noontime, the gardens sure need some sun.
Built another 2 cars today and started on a Branchline kit, boy those kits from Branchline are really detailed! I had to install the brake lines, the pump, the 3 way valve , etc on the undercarriage. Very impressed with detail of Branchline kits!
Tomorrow the missing Sprue #12 should be arriving in the snail mail, then the truss bridge project will continue. At least with this rain, I have had a chance to get MRR action.
The motherboard and processor chip is also due any day now, so the Computer build will continue as well. Quad processor i7, triple channel RAM.
Who ever said that it is boring in retirement???
Time to hit the sack,
Missing in action:
Fergie, Luc, Ed, Duke, Bill North, Snoah, Flip
I've had almost 40 years experience with a ball and chain and it's not all it's cracked up to be. Besides where is my unfair advantage ? I'm not sure I'd want to find the limits cornering in a 10ft high hot dog. At least I'm pretty sure it wouldn't end up on it's roof - there isn't one. Also I'm pretty sure it uses worm and peg steering if not a honkin' huge rope. What happens when the worms get loose and start eating the weiner? Never thought of that eh?
Awww, c'mon JR........it's not all about power and aerodynamics! There's handling too, and with the factory equipped recirculating ball and chain steering!
PC... I hope your insurance company does not see you hot dogging.
(mumbling indistinctly) I dunno man - I've seen the drive train on that thing and I think I'd have a better chance on the Amana Fire Engine. J.R.
Whaddya say JR.....You and me, hot laps at the Indianapolis 500 track, me on my bike, and you in the weinermobile!
You're a pretty good racer, right? And a true racer will race anything, right? (C'mon, ya got aerodynamics on me, BIG TIME!)
Think ya can take me?
Don't be a weiner PC - find a bike buddy please. Perhaps that ride in the rain was a bit too long, no? J.R.
So far, I've not had anybody to ride with. I've got a few friends that have bikes, but we haven't been able to get together and ride yet.
Today, my lonely riding days came to an end! I have a new cruising buddy!
As Forrest Gump would say, "We go together like peas and carrots", don't cha think?
Been busy today. Had to show my mother how to use an insulin syringe this morning. Then she wanted to go to Wal-Mart for a few things (few bags full of things), then to Dollar Tree for a few things (few bags full of things), then to Dollar General for a few things (few bags full of things). Then we came back home and guess who had to carry a dozen bags into the house in the rain? Yeah, me! I went into my father's office to make a phone call and lo and behold the phone didn't work. A quick check showed that none of the phones (12) in the house worked. That's about par for the course. The AT&T repairman was at the house yesterday to fix the line in the office as it wasn't working. The 10 other phones in the house were working. Now none of them are working. My father's really ticked off (boiling mad would be a better description). While I was at Wal-Mart today I picked two wide screen Indiana Jones movies. The Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Temple of Doom.
Good Evening
Had 6 very interesting interviews with clients who spent a lot of time talking about the ol' steam days--a few worked for the TH&B up here in the 50's and 60's. I was dang lucky I took my recorder with me!!
Well, I's be heading to the trainroom for a bit, Chloe, can I get a coffee and a blueberry pie please? I'll sit at the RC a spell----
Coffee in a SOUTHERN PACIFIC mug, please.
***Todd, the wife's layout is 50's-60's, including 40's, steam era, also a few items of modern era, plus....OK, it's whatever she wants.
Wife & I both saw the Doc today and it was a good thing we did, I guess. Wife's molar is abscessed so it's antibiotics followed by a tooth extraction when the infection subsides. OUCH!
Doc looked at my ear and thought it looked like malignant something-or-other and if it was, I'd have a couple weeks. After futher examination, he felt it could well be from something else and gave me some prescriptions to deal with it. He thought it looked very painful (it's not that bad) and warned not to use Hydrogen Peroxide, (which I'd already tried the other day). Interesting visit.
All for now. Y'all have a good one.
Rob
Evening All ....Its cloudy and 75 here Posta rain tonite...Just stopped in for a double RBF....Cable guy just left He says cable to our apartment was miss labeled...Phone and internet seem to be better and picture on TV is better than its ever been..Now hopefully I can get Hoveround on fixxing my power chair it hard to set anything up with them without a phone or one that only works sometimes..
I had a B-man N&W J that I picked up in a juck box deal with no valve gear..I had hoped to fix it but could never find parts so I sent it back to B-man...They sent me a GN 4-8-4 I had also sent the a 2-8-2 they sent me another 4-8-4!! and to top that the engine is to big for my railroad!!
When it rains engines it pours!...You all have a good one...Jerry
Thanks for the good luck guys. Hopefully I will know something tomorrow afternoon.
Todd...........I agree. I did get a Railbox today, and they do good abou 85% of the time. I faded it today, and will work on it tomorrow after the interview.
I guess I better go, I hear some thunder!!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
TMarshSawyer- sounds like you need a sleeping bag instead of a bed as much as you've moved lately.
Sawyer- sounds like you need a sleeping bag instead of a bed as much as you've moved lately.
well, I'm not moving into the attic for another year or two, and there is a possibility that I will end up being in my room until college anyways. it's all about the money to make the attic into a room.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Double cheeseburger and sweet potato fries with a Dr Pepper please.
Just stopped in to see what's happening.
Jeff-I like the gon. Actual loose loads always look better than the cast ones.
I see we still have some job hunting going on I hope things pan out for both.
Robby- Marketing genious I'm not I guess. I would have really thought that lightly weathered boxcar would have sold fairly quick. Like I said earlier, it's a shame the roadnames narrow your potential customers down so much.
Ryan- Speaking of Monique, I don't know if you caught the post while you were on "vacation" where I mentioned I tried the Crawfish Monique recipe with Shrimp instead. It was a huge success! Yes I gave you credit though it was tempting to take credit. The lady who runs the Italian restaurant in town mentioned she would like the recipe, (a friend of mine runs the bar and we took him a sample because he loves shrimp and he offered her a bite. Yep A bite. Not even a small second bite.). I just smiled and said it's not Italian. She said "but it's got pasta". I told her I'd check with the copyright holder.
PC- Still
Ulrich- I'm glad for your good news, and hopefully the cause won't be bad either.
I never heard of the air freshener trick before. Do you hang it in front of the intake or shove it in the carb? I just don't see that cardboard tree being good for the engine. ROFLMAO. Oh, oh, oh, I think I pulled something.
Chloe, big dbl. cheeseburger with bacon and a tall glass of Dr. Pepper please.
Well guys, today is three months for me and my girlfriend. And I get to spend it rearranging my room because everyone in my family doesn't want to give that space up until I go to college. so I'll be moving out in a year or two to the attic. However, my layout will be staying in there. So now I have to completely move everything except my shelves to get my layout where I want it. The good news is that now I don't have to contend with the window. Bad news is it might be shrunken to a 10x6.5 layout instead of 12x6.5. This might not happen, and I'm gonna fight till the bitter end to make sure it doesn't.
Hello everybody...
Ryan... Some wedding!.... Feel free to bring some po' boys to the diner again....
Ray ... The scenery looks great!
Jeff ... I like the scrap gon.
Ulrich ... I hope the nerve problem gets solved and corrected soon.
I completed building my new sleeping car and it is now in service on my Twilight Zephyr.
I'm glad you all liked the GN videos. Again, I like the ride in the dome car. There is nothing like the experience of riding in the dome.