BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning
Sorta kinda sunny right now--with the clouds and a 30% chance of showers back for the afternoon---evening--tomorrow-----highs will be in the mid 'teens until the weekend when we will be rainy, windy and 10C for highs
I's be having a somewhat lazier day than I've been usually been getting. So today will be spent in the trainroom actually getting somewhere with the layout! This afternoon a few of my friends will be coming here to do a run through OP session----see if the bugs show up!
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and some toast/jam please---I'll be over at the corner booth with Jeff.
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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Good morning. Just coffee please. Maybe a glass of Eds OJ. I just got up. I'm not feeling exactly chipper this morn. Kinda achey (sp?) and slow. If I looked like the S.L.O.W., then I'd be fine but that's not the case.
Today: Partly sunny, with a high near 70. South wind between 7 and 13 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. South wind between 9 and 11 mph, with gusts as high as 15 mph.
Looks to be a good corn drying day today. Farmers will be happy.
I need to mow the yard but would just rather work inside on the RR. We'll see what happens.
Have a Great Day!!!
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. Its warm today, well 65deg. Thats better than last week of 40degs.
Not much planned today. Maybe make some trees for the layout, and cook some dinner later for the wife. Shes been in a "funk" lately. ]
Hope everybody has a good day.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Mornin' everyone!
I've been catching up on my sleep. Didn't even roll over and look at the clock until 10AM. Flo I'll have a nice hot bowl of Cream of Wheat this morning to go along with a pot of dark roast coffee for my FGLK mug.
I have a whole day of "finish up those projects that I started last Spring that I never got done" ahead of me. Looks like another day without precipitation so I will most likely spend it getting the rest of the final lawn mowing done, picking up and putting away, storing things, and maybe even some time in the layout room tonight.
Currently cloudy and 54°F (We're havin' a heat wave...... Tropical heat wave.....) with a high of 58°F sometime this afternoon.
Todd, hope you get feeling better as the day wears on. We don't need anyone else on sick call here in the diner. (Good pun BTW.....)
Jeffrey you don't want any more infections! Good luck at the dentist.
Hope you all have a great day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning All,
Back from Atlanta which went well if somewhat cold and too rainy. Just catching up on loose ends, chasing a 40 ft open trailer so we can transport a pole from the Croton Harmon yards to Danbury, trying to resort the shop and tidy up. Move debris in the yard and put the Focus together enough to roll it around.
I'll try to drop in around lunch time and catch up a bit. CUL, J.R.
Good Afternoon,
well, the sun is getting prepared for bedtime over here - much too early for my taste.
I am feeling a bit "queasy" - undefined, not really well - just like Todd. Hope you did not send whatever you are coming down with to me... Zoe, make that a mug of chamomile tea for the both of us, please.
Went to the garage to have my fur lined boots , eh, winter tires installed, but that´s about all what happened today. The weather is still nice - signs of a cold winter to come.
Jeffrey - it is about time to shed that habit of acquiring all those kinds of illnesses a freshman in med school has to learn about. GET WELL, please! Haha, come to think of it, first your foot, now your mouth, so it´s foot & mouth disease....
A good day to everyone!
Good Morning..Its sunny and 50 here..posta get up near 70..I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ and toast please...Thank You..
Good luck with tooth Jeff..you sure are having a run of tuff breaks..keep you chin up!..
I am down loading some plans for a small country store I want to build..I been running some coal trains...
You all have a good one...Jerry
Found out that I can't get the tooth pulled today. The dentist is booked solid all day but they have me down for 8:15 tomorrow morning. Later today The Vernon Home Health nurse is coming to change my dressings and I'm expecting a new shipment of home iv antibiotics today. All that today then the dentist tomorrow and two doc appointments Thursday. No rest for the wicked I guess.
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Good Morning, Zoe. I'll have a bowl of oatmeal with raisins and cinnamon, please, glass of milk and some coffee in a Santa Fe mug, please 'n' thank you.
Mreagant, what are the ingredients in Portugese soup? Sounds like your wife had her hands full with the wee ones, all right. Nice thing is, being able to send them home at the end of the day when she has five at once. I don't know how Moms with multiple preschool age kids at home manage it.
Yeah, Jeff, probably best get that molar taken care of, especially if it's busted.(Ouch!)Let's see if we can get it where you don't have to go to a doctor for a while, okay?
PC, thanks for the encouragement on my Texan. I'll just get the frets done for how, and maybe later I'll see about any pickup installation. I've played pretty much for myself the past several years, anyway.
Sawyer, keep at it, as Mreagant said. It sounds like you have a good attitude about your playing, too (another good thing to have).
Lee, your prototype sure has a lot of creeks along its route - any of them actually have water, or how many are dry half the year, I wonder? Thanks for a few more possible names, too!
Hey, sleepy-eyed Ray - I guess I shouldn't mention that we're supposed to hit 71 F (22 C) this afternoon, should I? (currently 56 F/13 C, and sunshine). Good luck on plowing through your list today.
Todd, hope you get some MRR'ing in today - how long does it take you for mowing your yard? And I think it was you asking about those 34' (Harriman?) coaches - go to Horizon Hobby or Athearn's site for a link to Roundhouse's. They may show if they have those in production currently.
G'Morning, Ulrich - good to hear you're having some pleasant weather (for now). Fur-lined boots, eh? I'm betting that it may not be too much longer until Calif.Tom (being not far from those mountains near him, Sierras, I think) may need to be sure his car has the sn*w tires on it.
So far, w**k today has been better than yesterday, but it's only been a couple of hours here. I'm hoping for a lunch away from the office. Co-worker gave me about 2/3rds of a carton of Pepsi (her son came to visit over the weekend, but didn't drink that many, and she and her hubbie don't touch the stuff), so I have a couple in one of those little fridges in the telephone operator's office (across the hall).
I'll join Jeff and Barry in the corner booth to have my oatmeal and chit-chat a bit. Hey guys!...
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Stopped by for a quick coffee, Chloe, then off to work. Two more weeks and we will get back to the layout.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
For Jeff,
I see you answered my post in another forum about using e-z track. I thouht i had noticed from some of your earlier pictures, that you used e-z track as well. But your more recent ones, it isn't as easy to notice. Thanks for your response. I am going ahead and using the e-z track I already have,
colesdadI see you answered my post in another forum about using e-z track. I thouht i had noticed from some of your earlier pictures, that you used e-z track as well. But your more recent ones, it isn't as easy to notice. Thanks for your response. I am going ahead and using the e-z track I already have,
JimRCGMOSawyer, keep at it, as Mreagant said. It sounds like you have a good attitude about your playing, too (another good thing to have).
Yeah Jim, I'm gonna keep playing. Hey, long as I get the ball it's all legal.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
mreagantSawyer--I was a soccer coach for a number of years and I urge you to keep after the ball; hard tackles and confidence are a winning combination. Getting demoralized is part of the game too, but getting over it while you can do something about it is what it takes to win.
Sawyer--I was a soccer coach for a number of years and I urge you to keep after the ball; hard tackles and confidence are a winning combination. Getting demoralized is part of the game too, but getting over it while you can do something about it is what it takes to win.
Thanks. Like i said, if I get the ball, it's all legal, haha.
the thing that put the shot to the gut was our goalie made the first mistake he's made all season. Oh well, I think that's the first time we've just given up. We've got another game tomorrow; a chance for redemption, hehe
Evenin' folks!
Flo I'll have a chocolate brownie, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup and a dolup of whipped cream on top. I'll go have a seat at the Rivet Counter.
Got a few things accomplished today but had a few interruptions as well. My son called late this morning to say he was going to take his boat out on the lake and he would be over in a few minutes to pick it up if I was going to be home. Later this evening there was a knock on the door and a certain young lady that I know and adore walked in. She made a bee line for the computer.....
I guess she wanted to send an email to mom who was taking little sister Emily to the doctor's office for a flu shot...
I suggested we get out Thomas to play. She got very excited and said, "Gampa hurry!" Thomas got put together, torn apart, put back together. We ran both Thomas and Lady, had to fill up Thomas with water from the Water Tank (he was thirsty...)..... Then she ran off to pick on Manét and Blackie for a while. They are still not quite sure what to make of her. Blackie runs away after she pets him for a few seconds. Manét will sit and let her pet him but tries to hide his head under the pillow. I think they both have 2 year old girls pegged pretty good.
Grandpa had made some brownies (had to use the gas grill to bake them), so Olivia got a glass of milk and a brownie. She is at the age where she is starting to understand more about family. I told her that the little metal cup she was drinking from was her daddy's way back when he was her age. She looked at it and gave me a big grin. Yep, this Grandfather thing is really hard to take......When her Mom came to pick her up, she ran back to the table grabbed her brownie and then decided she didn't want to go home. "No Mommy Stay at Gampa house!" She finally gave me a big (wet) kiss and waved bye, bye....
Packers#1Like i said, if I get the ball, it's all legal, haha.
Sawyer back when I was in High School (when dinosaurs ruled the Earth) I used to play intramural soccer (we didn't have interscholastic soccer). If the opposing team was a player short, the coach would play on the other team alway opposite me (I was a fairly good and rough player). My favorite thing was to "go for the ball", miss , and nail him on the shins..... He would end up on the ground holding his leg and screaming, "the ball, Howard! Go for the ball! Not me!". I used to pay for it in gym class..... It was worth it!
Milk, Chloe.
My father and I are close to finishing installing the coal stove. We just need to figure out how to get the air out of the pumps. Also my sister just called and told us that she wrecked her car. That's all I know.
Oh, I completed my trestle.I'll get pics when I find a sd card.
See Yall!
Ray, and that's why we have shin guards. I've chopped a couple guy's ankles this season, just a half-step behind them and so missed the ball and whacked their ankle. Got the penalty, but it wasn't intentional, so didn't get the yellow card.
Packers#1 Ray, and that's why we have shin guards.
Shin guards..... We didn't have no sissy shin guards.... Of course we didn't have spikes on our shoes either........ I had developed a good move where I could take the ball away and get the opponent in one smooth move. After I took out a couple of the kids on opposing teams they backed off from me, that's why he would come in and play opposite me. Only got a penalty a couple of times..........
Cleaning out the store room I found an old computer speaker system that I was saving to recycle. I had thought that the sub woofer on it was burned out and had bought a new one for the G5. I was about ready to finally chuck it as our landfill will no longer take stuff like that for recycling and noticed that the sub woofer volume had been turned all the way off. Took it down to the train room and hooked it up to the DVD player I have down there, and........ It works. So now there is a good speaker system to use when I am playing some Dream, Plan, Build DVDs down there while w**king on the Railroad.
Evening, Chloe - how about a hot fudge sundae, please, with a D&RGW mug of coffee? Thanks!
Packers#1Yeah Jim, I'm gonna keep playing. Hey, long as I get the ball it's all legal.
And so long as the refs don't spot you, Sawyer! And will that be redemption, or revenge?
Jerry, I missed your post right before mine - that's a lot of coal loads there. Your mine foreman must be working the miners to the bone there!
Jeff, sorry to hear of the delay on your molar pulling; would've been better if you could have rolled more of your appointments into the same day and save a trip. Ah, well.
Hi, ColesDad - and welcome (back) to the Diner (I have seen you in here before, right?).
Ray, it looks like your Olivia knows her way around the 'puter pretty well - how early did you start her on that? Yeah, I know how hard it is for you to endure your 'Gampa' duties, hee hee... And as for your earlier soccer days, it sounds like you haven't changed too much, eh? Thanks for giving me an idea - I've been having some problems with the 'sound out' jack on my laptop, so haven't used my Altec Lansing speaker set (subwoofer and two smaller tweeters) for a while. Think I may hook it up to the DVD player perhaps. Might drive the downstairs neighbor up the wall if I start it up on a Saturday morning, though.
Rob, I didn't recall hearing - do you know when you and your wife will have your CPAP machines and start getting better sleep at night? Soon, hopefully.
Lovely day here today, and it's still 57 F at quarter till 10 p.m.(!). More of this great weather tomorrow; now, so long as we don't wind up paying for it in February or so...
I'll check if Ray or Nik.n did any doodling on the RC placemats while I finish up my dessert and coffee. Prayers for good doctors' visits, MRR projects going well, unkicked shins, and a good rest of the week for you Diners.
Blessings,
Good evening, Chloe? I think JIM has a good idea there...I'll also grab a hot fudge sundae with a cup of coffee in the CNW Iowa Division mug please 'n thank you...
Well, looks like it was another busy day or two here in the Diner...think I'm caught up.
SAWYER: I saw your discussion about a "new era or not." I was gonna add to it, but decided to take the advice of The Pointy Haired Boss (Dilbert). "When you see a pot of crazy, it's best not to stir it."
But, what the heck, I'll say my piece here. I've seen a lot of opinions offered lately since Athearn officially declared the blue box kits dead. It's a new era, to my warped mind, for a variety of reasons: fewer people entering this strange hobby, far more "limited run" production, and continued economic issues/cheap overseas labor/limited production facilities (everybody using the same Chinese producers). Personally, I think Athearn's decision sucks...but then 8 of the 9 projects (in various stages of progress) on my table are blue box products that I've taken the knife to, repainted, or otherwise kitbashed/customized. I've got at least 3 or 4 other blue box cars which will be stripped/repainted eventually as more appropriate Intermountain (kit) hoppers are obtained. I'm much more apt to hack up a kit rather than buy an RTR item...so one of the more enjoyable aspects of the hobby for me is quickly fading. Sooner or later, the prices on "theBay" will go up as people suddenly realize they are selling "collectables" and "rarities."
On a side note, The LHS in Cedar Rapids still has McKean kits on the shelf, with the original 1980s price sticker still on them. Last time I bought one, the clerk was confused...it didn't come up in the computer when he tried to scan the non-exsistant bar code all current merchandise has. He didn't realize the box car had been sitting on the shelf (through three locations) since 1988. Anyway, yes SAWYER, it is a new era.
But, it's all a matter of perspective. I suspect there was turmoil when kits started coming in that new-fangled plastic instead of metal and wood.
In other news and views, I met a genuine Hollyweird celebutard...I mean, "former TV star" yesterday. Anybody remember "The Wonder Years?" Well, the guy who played "Wayne," the sadistic older brother grabbed a 6AM flight from LA to Iowa to appear before the Johnson County Board of Supervisors. They were having a public forum to help them decide what to do with a partially destroyed historic bridge. He apparently spent time on the bridge in his younger days, has family in the area, and also sees it as "a potential 'location'" for future film making. I'd been tipped-off the guy was gonna be there, and had to Google him to figure out which charecter he played. At the meeting, the dude ended up sitting next to me. My brush with greatness, I guess. After the meeting, the local lawyer who recruited him asked me to take pictures of the actor/producer with some of the supervisors. OK, fine, what........ever. Good PR move for me/the paper, I suppose. Now the supervisors have a picture for their scrapbooks. "Wayne" flew back this morning, probably to do lunch with Spielburg...at least that's what the lawyer kept saying "he has lunch with Spielburg, he has lunch with Spielburg."
Yippee. I had lunch with Rerun today.
Speaking of, I think he's about ready to ask me to take him out into the cold and damp for his nightly "chores." Ah, the price of Doggy Daddyness... I'm sure it doesn't compare to "Gampa-ness" 'eh RAY?
JEFF: I hope they get that tooth fixed-up quick for you. I suppose a string and the doorknob are always an option...
Yep, I'm getting "the look." So...time to yield the floor.
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Got some showers this morning, followed by clearing skies---high at 17C. It currently is sitting at 11C with 95% 'humidity'
I'm doing some Honey Buy things---like the groceries, and the bank stuff and the basic buy stuff and the ------is there a LHS anywhere?----we'll see
Jeff: Hopefully the 'tooth doctor' gets everything out'n there--
Ray: I can remember playing minor hockey with no helmet----maybe that might explain a few things--
Chloe, I'll just have 3 eggs over easy and toast/jam as well as a coffee please----I'll be over at the RC for a bit---
Good Morning,
lunchtime in Germany - Zoe, I´d like to have a bowl of that hot ´n spicy chili and a RBF to wash it down, thank you.
Slowly, the red tape seems to untangle, all the papers we need to rent the flat are with us now. We only need to get the landlord´s signature, but he is on holidays... November 1st we are supposed to move out of our house, that´s only 10 days left... I am getting a bit weary about the whole issue. Petra tries to cheer me up, but with not much of a result lately.
Jeffrey - I hope your not mad at me, joking about foot & mouth disease. No offense meant!
There is a post with a video of a civil war layout - gets a big from me.
We are back to normal fall weather now, that is foul weather - lotsa wind and the odd shower. One of my anchestors must have been a bear - I feel like moving into my den to hibernate.
A good day for all of you!
Good morning, another nice/sunny/warm day. Kinda getting spoiled with this weather. I believe next week we are back to the 40's!!!
I solder some rail yesterday, and man what a difference!!!!!!!!!! The engine runs better, and I am very happy with the results. I still gotta do some more areas, but that will be later. I also made about 12 trees. Maybe some more today.
Good morning, Chloe. Just coffee today, please.
Hey, Ray, I like your secretary. I bet that she is a lot of help.
Zoe I'll have the Eggs Benedict and lots of coffee, dark roast, of course, in a R&GV mug. I'll be in the front booth watching the switching going on outside.
gear-jammerHey, Ray, I like your secretary. I bet that she is a lot of help.
Help.....? Ah, oh yes, lots of help....... I went and emptied the trash on the G5 last night to take the photos off the card and can't stop thinking that I should have checked what might have been in there before I did that.... She is a busy, busy two year old and flits from one thing to another every 5 seconds......
Ulrich sounds like you are close to being finished with all the paperwork. Hope you can get the needed signature soon. Good luck!
Barry? Helmet? What's a helmet?? Maybe that's what happened....
Since the layout judging is scheduled for next Monday, I have to start budgeting my time to make sure I have everything done and the way I want it. I am going to try to get more of the skirting done and up on the parts that aren't getting judged just to make the whole layout look a bit more "finished" and I have to clean rail make sure all little odds and ends are put away, etc. That in addition to the usual stuff I do this time of year for a couple community groups.....
Guess I best finish my coffee and get to w**k. Catch you all later!
"Coffee Please~"
Morning all... Jim,Barry,Jeff,Ray and Maddog! and anyone I missed.... oh.. and Phillip.
Jeff, by the time you read this.. well you'll be back from the Dr.'s Office/x rays. I hope everything is just fine. You should have warned me about that movie. Flags of our Fathers is not.. NOT a morning movie to watch and work on the layout. Not that you recomended it, but .. today.. I'm into more of.. Dream Plan Layout.. or the Sound Of Music. AS far as my layout is concerned.. I'm still working on re-enforcing the ramps. I said to Jeanne this morning... 'And even after I get the bracing done, there is still more building to make for industries and roads..a very long time til I get there' No need to race to finish.. but every day.. I'm working on this.. hoping to find some .. some daylight as to the next step. Good thing I'm still having fun. I just can't wait for the real fun. Whatever that might be.. ah.. the landscaping.. lol.
Bye for now Keith
Sir MadogJeffrey - I hope your not mad at me, joking about foot & mouth disease. No offense meant!
Went and got the tooth pulled this morning. WHAT A RELIEF! One thing, if a dentist ever tells you 'this won't hurt a bit', grab onto something and hold on tight, cause it's gonna be a wild ride. Now, for the visit to the dentist. I arrived a little before 8 am so I was right there when the doors were unlocked. I filled out the necessary paperwork, the stuff you have to do when it's your first visit and you have no insurance. It wasn't long before I was called for my turn in 'the chair'. The dentists assistant got me ready and took an X-ray so the dentist would know what he's dealing with. OK, front lower molar on the right side, cavity there and big abscess. I could have done without those last three words for now I knew this wasn't going to be quick and easy. Now the dentist enters the room and has a look at the tooth first hand, as if there'd be something there the X-ray couldn't tell him. Who knows, maybe there was. He then picks up a curved wicked looking tool with a needle on it that could be used to drill for oil under Mt Everest and proceeded to put it in my mouth and before I quite knew what was happening he pushed it down between the tooth and gum, not once but several times. He pulls it back out and leaves the room for a bit presumably to work on somebody else while the numbing agent did it's work or maybe to have a good laugh, who knows which. At this point the right side of my face feels like it's sliding off my skull. I tried to say something but my tongue wouldn't move. It was at this time that I discovered my mouth was hanging open and I tried to close it but couldn't. It just hung open feeling like a limp noodle. A few minutes passed and the dentist reappears and taps the offending tooth. OUCH! It's still a mite sensitive. In goes the oil exploration needle again then he disappears for about five minutes. When he returns he taps the tooth again. I can still feel it a bit but it's not a sharp pain anymore. Now he picks up something that looks like a largish pick and peels the gum away from all sides of the tooth then grabs his extractor (pliers by any other name) and says 'now this won't hurt a bit' and grabs the tooth and hauls back toward the ceiling. I tell you what, there weren't enough places on that chair for me to grab hold of as I'm being hauled up off of it. Now while he's hauling upward he also twists the pliers from side to side then there's a wet pop. Suddenly the pain from the tooth was gone and I fell back in the chair wondering if the side of my face had hit the floor yet. I checked and found it still securely attached. Then they showed my the tooth. I could see why he needed the big long needle. That thing had roots some plants would kill for. Total cost of the procedure, $102. Well worth it in my opinion.
Morning..Its partly cloudy and 59 here...I'll have coffee and toast please...Thank You...not much going on here on Pearl street...jJeff glad you came out of dentist OK..
I gotta get off my duff and get plaster work done on DJ's pond...
You all have a good one..Jerry