Hello ......
Just returned from Nashville.
I took a couple of photos from a bridge over CSX tracks in downtown Nashville. Union station still looks good. It's a hotel and restaurant complex now.
Der ... That Nashville & Eastern passenger train looks familiar.
I waited at a crossing for a Nashville and Eastern train, but I could not get a photo. It had an ex-Santa Fe GE unit just like the one Ray sees in his area still in blue and yellow paint Santa Fe scheme.
JR .. When are you to be in Nashville?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Good morning, Zoe, I'll just have a cinnamon roll and a Santa Fe mug of coffee, please. Thanks.
TMarshMorning. Coffee and a glazed donut please. What? Oh yes I guess a Krispy Creme is fine. Better make it three of them, they're pretty small. Thanks.
So JR, I take it that it's not that the whole crew is old, eh? Sounds like you've all been w**king hard lately. Time for some rest, I'd say.
I can see from the comments by CN Charlie, Barry and others on road-painting that I may have some 'figuring' to do on the color(s) once I get started on roads (after I get where I'm gonna have them figured out, that is...).
As for the sound decoders, I've heard some at our MRR club, and I'm not so sure I want all the noise of a couple of locos whining, whistling, etc. Definitely another thing to think about. For now, I'm just looking at some decoders that I can later upgrade to sound (or the ones I can stand to hear going at once...). We'll see.
I'll chill out at the window booth a while before it gets hectic at the office. Ah....
Blessings,
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes with NYS Maple Syrup and a side of bacon to go along with a cup of dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug. Thank You ma'am.
Looks to be a nice day round these parts. Currently 67°F under partly cloudy skies with a high of 70°F later this afternoon. Nice! A day without the air conditioner running!
The plan for the day is to tackle the lawn hayfield next to my house and see if I can finish up the tailgate on the trailer. May even do a bit more on the last turnout I need for quarry area on the layout.
I best get a move on.
[edit] Well it seems lunch will be on me again. No problem - Order up! (Zoe, I'll settle up later, OK? Like the first of the month when I get my retirement money....?)
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Morning. Coffee and a glazed donut please. What? Oh yes I guess a Krispy Creme is fine. Better make it three of them, they're pretty small. Thanks.
Where has the month gone. I think I'll mosey on down and see about attaching the other curb side to the cross brace before I head out. Maybe pick up a bit. I know I've been saying that for quite some time now, but sooner or later it will have to happen. Besides, It's about time for a new layout progress avatar. Don't sit on the edge of your seats waiting or give up anything you plan on doing or watching on TV, I don't know just when I'll do it.
Have a Great Day!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
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Good Morning All,
I'm back from the road trips and back out again next week for the start of another round. This will be the Mt Tremblant,Qc Elkhart Lake, Wisc Pittsburgh, Pa Nashville,Tn leg. Nashville will be a first for me as the 280ZXT has been invited to the Z club national convention. If I can get it going right, it'll participate in a track day as well.
I agree about the MRC decoders. I had a few installed and removed them in favor of NCE's and the Tsunami for the non Blueline locomotives. I kept the non smoked MRC's to use in my electrics if I ever get to them as the hum and buzz they make will be almost prototypical LOL.
We're unloading one trailer today to start the preps for the next race while I sort a couple of other jobs so I'll be back and forth and try to keep up. Mid Ohio was so hot and humid we got back from dinner and I didn't even take the laptop out. Just crashed and slept. I'd say it was old age but the rest of the crew was just the same at the end of the day. CUL, J.R.
TMarshCNCharlie- I'm right there with you on the colors. That is my biggest problem, I know what I want but can't get there if I have to mix colors or decide what they are.
That's the main thing with this one too. I've gone and redid the main road through williston about 3 times and still can't seem to get the colour down----- I have this idea for one road that we have here that has a slight pinkish colour to the concrete---do we have that colour anywhere in here?----noooooo
Hello---
This morning is a cool one--we are sitting at 11C going to a high of 17C today---in the mix of sun and cloud A nice sunny but cool next few days are in our forecast----
Going to have to get my eyes checked today---time for ye ol' droplets placed in me eyes and walking around half blinded by the light----sunglasses will be the name of the game here--
I, too, need to get into the traiinroom and actually DO something--- maybe today I will-----
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Good morning all,Not much going on, just going to try and catch up on posts.
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Rob,
If you add sound to your wife's Bach 2-8-0, bite the bullet and get a Tsunami. I have factory installed Tsunami in my 2-8-0 and it is by far the most realistic steam sound I have heard. The MRC decoders sound quite good but they don't have a good relability reputation and the motor control isn't really great. I have been tempted to try a Loksound but can't justify buying any more decoders.
CN Charlie
Mixed nuts & fruit, please.
***TSFan, that would be a cool loco to have. Must admit I would repaint it in Union Pacific Greys, which would not sit well with some folks. But it would better fit my roster.
***CNCharlie, remind me to go with MRC for my wife's Bach 2-8-0, when the time comes. At least you learned what not to do next time.
Started on the wife's smaller ferris wheel tonight. Long ways to go and will need to do a little soldering and pick up some slower drying glue before finishing it.
Lots of heavy rain and thunder boomers here tonigh. "HURRAY" The tank up at the house went from below half to almost full. Hopefully the tank at the barn will have similar results. Power went out 3 times and some branches crashed down on our roof. Will check it all out in the daylight.
Have a good night all. Rob
Wow Robby, the vehicles and trees really added to the area. It looked good before but now it looks fantastic.
John- your scene is looking great too. Now I really DO regret not getting in the trainroom. Maybe tomorrow.
CNCharlie- I'm right there with you on the colors. That is my biggest problem, I know what I want but can't get there if I have to mix colors or decide what they are.
Well, like I said, tomorrow I'm gonna try to get some RR stuff done. It's my day off. Sorta. After unloading the truck I'm done except for the stuff I should do around here. Oh and I gotta see Mom. And a tree I guess, ought to be trimmed up off the driveway and another off the roof. I need to pick some Rhubarb, the Berry patch still needs tended too, and alot of weeding needs to be done on the south side of the back porch AND something else that I'm sure I forgo..... oh, the side of the house needs washed off of mold. Hm. maybe less time in there than I thought. Oh well, I don't have to do it all tomorrow.
Prayers for those in need.
Good Evening Diners!
A toasted cinammon bun and a large cup of Ray's dark roast please Chloe.
It has been a while since I was last in but I have tried to keep up with all the posts.
Not a lot new up here, just constant bailing what with all that water Johnboy keeps sending our way. Ok, we give up, please stop and may the Roughriders beat the Bombers in ever game. Actually I sincerely hope the Bombers lose every game from now until eternity. I am rather riled as are all our neighbours with the new stadium plans. Oh,oh that soapbox is creeping towards me.
Not a lot new on the RR front. I have just finished installing a Digitrax SDN144PS decoder into a Bachmann decapod to replace the MRC decoder. To say I'm shocked at the abysmal sound out of that thing is an understatement. The chuff sounds like a very small jackhammer. There is only one whistle choice and the volume is very poor. I used the N scale decoder as that tender is small but I put in a larger speaker. I am tempted to post my opinion on the DCC forum but as it is Digitrax I likely would start a flame war. Sad to say but the MRC sound blows it away. The motor control is better but I have removed the tender shell, and the Digitrax in preparation to re-install the MRC. I feel like I have just thrown away $50. Say what's that box I'm standing on.
Layout progress has been slow as it usually is this time of year. I'm slowly working up to getting the water poured for the harbour. I have to paint the harbour bed and likely will spend a lot of time trying to get the colour right and fully expect that I won't. I'm not good at mixing colours. Too bad Rob is so far away.
We finally have some grass in the backyard. The grass area is small but for some reason it largely died off over the winter. Our options were to re-sod and have to pay to get that done or try something else which for us was Scott's EZ seed. That stuff is amazing. The grass started growing in a week and is now even filling in a very heavily shaded area where we haven't had grass for 3 years. It is an expensive product but a fraction of the cost of a re-sod.
I'll be back in again soon as I start holidays on Thursday. Hurrah!
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Decaf coffee, please.
***Der, nice progress there. Your layout is coming along well.
Ran some errands today (Inlaw stuff).
Discovered a mallard duck with 4 teeny tiny ducklings in the smallest pond near the barn. She must have been sitting on them completely hidden this whole time. Cute little things.
Cheers! Rob
jeffrey-wimberly galaxyAin't Holmes a great guy? "Do it right the first time" "Thats not to code". "tear it all out". WE wish we had a house with problems just so we could call him and say "come fix it right, please"....By the time we buy a house and do work on it by a contractor who "messes" it up, he and his show will be long gone. Maybe not. Mike Holmes is really a great guy. If I was going to have somebody build me a home he'd be the one I'd pick.
galaxyAin't Holmes a great guy? "Do it right the first time" "Thats not to code". "tear it all out". WE wish we had a house with problems just so we could call him and say "come fix it right, please"....By the time we buy a house and do work on it by a contractor who "messes" it up, he and his show will be long gone. Maybe not.
Oh, Id start with him if'n he was available to build me a house....
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
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Jim........The road is going to loop around the gas station, once I can find the right buildings. I was planning on putting a hotel in that area, and maybe a few other businesses. That's why the road isn't finished as well.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Hello Diners from a soggy Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. We had a 13th. Anniversary of our arrival on the Shore celebration lunch today. Philly Cheese-steak - it was just wonderful, and I followed mine with a Blueberry Crisp and ice-cream - took extra precautionary insulin to speed the plough! Kris had the Chocolate Mouse with whipped cream. Her mom had Chicken Fingers and ice-cream with Maple Syrup.
Very slow progress on the layout as many chores and inside outside projects have got in the way. Kris repainted and re-organized the sun porch, which meant the treadmill had to be moved - and the only place for it was the mud room - so long as the shoe and dogfood storage units were re-configured. Of course that also meant re-painting the wall behind where the aforementioned units stood - and naturally the other shelves in the mudroom had to get a coat to match....you know how it goes....
I have been able to get the card building mock-ups that covered the upper level return loop replaced with a re-positioned hotel, two apartment buildings, and a row of stores. You last saw those mock ups like this, with the hotel stuck out into the street. Now that scene is thus. with the hotel, minus roof billboard, set back, and two appartment buildings replacing the mock-ups. The rear of the new buildings looks out over the East Sydney yard lead and the RIP track. You can see where the return loop runs through the buildings. They have to be placed exactly to avoid fouling rolling stock and I'm using sidewalk sections to act as stops, which seems to work quite well. The row of stores I had to design site-specific as I went along, and the cladding is from at least 4 different buildings on the CD I bought for this project. Next up is the re-make of the card section on which the office towers sit - I'm thinking solid walls like a parking garage (not the see-through kind) sections of brick between concrete piliasters. Shouldn't be too hard, just time I don't seem to get....
Keith: You wondered if I would be able to identify your scene...and even before you brought in the Stargate portal thingy, I was thinking that the place looked sort of Pre-Flood Atlantis. Am I close? - the resolution wasn't that terrific, but given the time lapse, it's hardly surprising!
I've been keeping an eye on the various joys and difficulties here "through the window". Be assured, you're on my prayer list. Thanks for the inspiring layout and other photos.
TTFN
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Cheeseburger and fries with gravy and Dr. Pepper for me Zoe.
Just got home form the Dodge dealers. They replaced several vacuum hoses coming from gas lines. Truck is now running smoother..... Got home and walked in the house quickly to avoid the pouring rain we are getting right now. We got about a quarter of an inch of precipitation over night. Now we are under a flood advisory for a storm heading right towards us THAT is dumping around a half inch in less than an hour..... Oh, and according to the weather service the watering need for the area is Very High...... yeah, Right!
Good reason for me to disappear into the layout rooms....
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Coffee, please.
Great layout progress pics, guys!
Cold Mountain is already much better today. Will likely turn her out tomorrow. Whew!
Toothache driven insomnia last night. Going to be a long day.
Have a good one, y'all.
Rob
JimRCGMO The local grocery store might have some NY wines, but likely only the bigger companies. Heck, I don't think they carry Taylor (whose Tawny Port was one I would have a glass of a decade or two ago). I just looked online, and was wondering - is the Pleasant Valley Winery connected with the same vineyards that Taylor owned previously?
Well Jim, Taylor has been owned by Coca Cola for many years now........... They call it New York State Wine only because by law it needs to have 10% New york grapes. 90% is brought in by truck from California these days.... Not much local about it anymore. Widmer who used to make a wonderful Lake Niagara has been consumed by the very big Constellation Brands (Once upon a time based in Canandaigua, NY). Constellation Brands is #2 or #3 in the biggest creaters and marketers of Rot Gut Wino Wines. Remember Wild Irish Rose Wine???? Used to be the quickest way to get drunk for less than $2 back in college....... Didn't like it then and wouldn't touch it now. That goes for basically all their wines. I have been to some high clahss fancy dancy wine tasting thingies at thier Canandaigua offices. Yuch! Nothing they had is anything I would consider drinkable. My late FIL used to do some plumbing over at the plant many years ago. They would sometimes give him a case or two of some rot gut they called wine. He once gave us a case of it. We opened one bottle and took a taste. Then it (and all the others) got poured down the drain........ The great NYS wine is from small, independent wineries. BTW I always get the 2 states abbreviations mixed up Misery is one they do mail order to. Although a case is best i best for shipping costs....
Take care!
Hi again, Zoe, I'll have another coffee in the CAW mug, if it's not still in the wash in back, please. Thank you.
howmusJim, sorry, but I don't think you can find any of the Finger Lakes wines in your grocery stores...... Can't even find them in our grocery stores here in NYS. There is a push to get a law allowing our grocery stores to carry NYS Wines. Wineries will ship wines when allowed. I think there are 6 states where they can ship the wine. Unfortunately Montana isn't one of them.
Ray, I'm actually in Missouri (MO), not Montana (MT). Yeah, I would've been surprised if our local place carries Finger Lakes wines (and not sure I could justify the shipping costs for the one bottle every few months that I would consume). The local grocery store might have some NY wines, but likely only the bigger companies. Heck, I don't think they carry Taylor (whose Tawny Port was one I would have a glass of a decade or two ago). I just looked online, and was wondering - is the Pleasant Valley Winery connected with the same vineyards that Taylor owned previously? Wow.... Hey, good imagineering on placing that Tortoise motor!
Robby, the town looks even better with those trees and scenicking. Are you still figuring out how the left side road - past the cement plant - will go (left across the track, or more straight back across the old mainline)? Ah, the fun of 'adjusting' as we go, eh? I've been trying to adjust the road arrangement on my small layout too. Don't have the space I'd like (unless my cars and trucks were in iNvisible scale, maybe).
Zoe, could I have a cinnamon roll, please, and a refill on my coffee? Thanks.
No MRR club meeting tonight (called on account of the area isn't air-conditioned yet), so might see about putting some kits together. Got my vehicles counted/listed yesterday; decided that other than a fire engine or two, I probably have all I need in vehicles for now (and a while).
I'll be chatting with Robby at the counter, about road designing and other fun civil engineering stuff.
Jim in Cape Girardeau (Missouri)
Lunch!! Just a quick stop.
Ray.......The yard is really coming along.
Here's a few pictures of my "ready mix" area. I added a few trees yesterday, and finally painted the "median" yellow.
Zoe just a blueberry muffin with lots of butter and a big cup of dark roast coffee for me in a FGLK mug. Please and Thank You! I'll go sit in the front booth and watch all the switching going on in the yard.
Went over to my son's house last night for a fantastic Roast Beast Dinner with his wife's family and my Granddaughters, of course. Came home and got a bit more done on the small yard at the limestone quarry. Have one more turnout to make for the area, then on to creating some buildings and the quarry itself.
The Tortoise will be inside a building, BTW. Couldn't install it under the layout as the track below it is right where the turnout points are. Figured after looking at all the possibilities THAT putting it inside a building and a road over the pipe containing the throw bar would be the easiest way to go. Yes, the building will be made removable so i can get to the Tortoise if necessary....
Ran a loco and a few cars through to make sure it is functioning properly too.
Jim, sorry, but I don't think you can find any of the Finger Lakes wines in your grocery stores...... Can't even find them in our grocery stores here in NYS. There is a push to get a law allowing our grocery stores to carry NYS Wines. Wineries will ship wines when allowed. I think there are 6 states where they can ship the wine. Unfortunately Montana isn't one of them.
Welp! I have to get the truck over to the dealer to get some parts replaced today. Sooooooo, I best get away from the computer and get to work finding other things to do.......
Good Morning, Zoe - I'll have couple of scrambled eggs, 2 strips of that near-bacon stuff (trying to eat healthier, sorta), wheat toast with blackberry jam, glass of Ed's OJ (better email him to send a couple more tankers up from SOTB), and a CAW mug of coffee, please. Thanks!
TSF, yeah, I remembered the Dr. Who part (and even that the TARDIS is sort of some time travel thing, right?), but forgot its name. We don't have any station locally broadcasting it. (I dropped cable a while back; didn't like what they wanted to charge me for the few channels I would actually want to see) Thanks for filling in my ignorance (now there's a gaping hole to fill...)
Todd, I have something like that, and my 'train room' right now is the middle section of my living room in the apartment, so it's kinda staring me in the face most of the time. I have little no real excuse for my general level of inactivity, I'd guess.
Jeff, I'm sure you could teach us all a few lessons on how to "live below our means" (and maybe a few state and federal governments as well...). Hey! Where'd this come from?
I see that Barry has sent us some of his 'Dull Day' weather in Cape Girardeau today. We had some rain and a thunderboomer or such around bedtime last night; lulled me off to sleep like a lullaby... Possibly some rain before lunchtime here, then I think it's heading up Barry's way so his backyard lake doesn't get too low of a water level.
Hmm, I wonder if our local grocery store's 'beverage' department might carry anyb of those Finger Lakes wines Ray and others were mentioning? Probably not, I'm a-feared, and the odds of my getting to upstate NY aren't real good for this year.
And just got a call to go see somebody, so Zoe, can I have a go box for my breakfast? I'll down the juice and get a go cup on the coffee, please. Thanks!
Hope to be back before long and see what else is happening in your world today.
Mornin. Payed my bills and now I have to go to the Church and pay theirs. Out of their money of course.
My PLAN, is to return, do the touch ups on the yard then hit the trainroom for a bit before w**k. We shall see. Brenda has been after me, (gently though because she knows what I'm busy doing) to get the pressure washer running and knock the mold off the north side of the house and mx up some Malathian..., Mialathon, -thin....,Mialithian..., however you say it, to stop the invasion of the Japanese Beetles from feasting on her Blackberry bushes. I've seen a couple so time to spray.
Rob- I wonder how much those people really have to pay on HGTV to get their houses fixed. I have a good project for that fix it up to sell it show........
Morning guys!
yucky weather including chilly days ahead, may be nice for cooler weather, but with it is rain, too.
MAybe get some flowers o plant in the raised planter out front. Dunno.
jeffrey-wimberly I wish I could just go to the shoe store and get my shoes. It would make life so much easier. But those days are long gone for me.
I wish I could just go to the shoe store and get my shoes. It would make life so much easier. But those days are long gone for me.
Jeffrey I am a pre-diabetic who hopes never to get there. However, I, too, cannot walk into any old shoe store and just buy any old shoes either. I have a very wide foot, 5 inches across which requires a 4-5 E{ EEEE, or EEEEE} wide shoe. Most shoes do not even come to the "wide" width. If they do they are usually a 3 E {EEE} wide and can still be very uncomfy on my feet pinching them. I now tend to shop at only one store about a 45 min drive away or order online toget the proper width I need. It was the same with finding the $45 pair of winter gloves at the Windmill farm/craft market---the gloves were wide enough for my wide hands too! BUt $45 WAS expensive. I wear out slippers as even the "wide ones" are still only 3 E. I break the side seams as my foot hangs over the edges of the sole.
TMarsh Do any of you ever get the chance to spend a good amount of time in the trainroom, WANT to get in the and do stuff, but just can't bring yourself to get in there? Even if Holmes on Homes isn't on. ( I like that show)
Do any of you ever get the chance to spend a good amount of time in the trainroom, WANT to get in the and do stuff, but just can't bring yourself to get in there? Even if Holmes on Homes isn't on. ( I like that show)
Ain't Holmes a great guy? "Do it right the first time" "Thats not to code". "tear it all out". WE wish we had a house with problems just so we could call him and say "come fix it right, please"....By the time we buy a house and do work on it by a contractor who "messes" it up, he and his show will be long gone. Maybe not.
TMarsh Now I really do regret not going into the trainroom.
Now I really do regret not going into the trainroom.
Don't we all when we don't get a chance?. Reduces stress. Keeps us out of trouble. Gives us something constructive to do. The Other halves know where we are. WE're not drinking, smoking, doing drugs or chasing after other women while down there on the train board. We are creative and industrious. What miracles trains do!
Cederstrand Luke warm water, please. (bad tooth ache)
Luke warm water, please. (bad tooth ache)
Lukewarm water with salt in it swished around frequently will help till you can get to dentist.
JimRCGMO Galaxy, I thought for a minute there that you were just "sorta-cleaned-up" cussing there, with all that 'frickin' and 'frackin'... I'd agree that when it starts messing up (sorry, TM Fergie) the drinking water, that's too far gone.
Galaxy, I thought for a minute there that you were just "sorta-cleaned-up" cussing there, with all that 'frickin' and 'frackin'... I'd agree that when it starts messing up (sorry, TM Fergie) the drinking water, that's too far gone.
Well the fricken fracking is a reality. I suppose the phrases "fricken fracking" and "don't frack with my water" COULD be considered "cleaned up" swearing term, and believe me there are many who feel stronger words should be used, but are still true none-teh-less. Fracking lends itself to such use. I am at the PA border where in PA there are more weeds than people with wide open lands, but the companies drilling there and fracking the Marcellus Shale are leaving behind polluted ground water and "set fire to it" ground water for those who live there and or who stupidly out of greed agreed to lease their land for the fricken fracking. The companies don't care and cheaper to pay penalties than do it right the first time. It is in our own back yards. ALso both the rents for apartments have gone up 3 fold so peeps down who lived there all their lives there cant afford rent anymore, due to workers moving in and taking over, and property values have spiraled due to workers buying property, or the lease $$ on the land or the HOPED for royalties once the fricken fracking wells start producing good quantities of nat gas.It's a mess and I hope NYS decides to permanently band fracking here. WE already have brownfiled/contaminated properties here from teh industrial age of last century. ah well, no pun intenddend I must stop this rant for now. MAkes me upset...
Well guys, have a great day wherever you are, whatever you do
Hello and good Morning to you--
We be under those dull skies this morning with the 30% chance of showers---hopefully somethng rainy this way falls--we've seen lots of dull---no rain
Today is go to LHS and pick up orders from Walthers day---should be able to do SOMETHING in the trainroom this week---sometime---
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and a toasted breakfast bagel please----I'll be at the RC for now---
***Todd, that happens to me almost daily: Desire for hitting the train room, but seldom energy to do so. Did manage to go test run the wife's (now detailed) loco on a 3' section of track recently gleamed. Hey, it's something, right!
Had to bring Cold Mountain (horse) into the barn this evening. She has a hurt front leg. Gave her some Bute and will check on her tomorrow. Took some effort to bring her in and two other horses got by me and spooked my wife. Although growing up on horseback, she has been afraid of them ever since taking a kick some years ago. That is very sad to me to give up on something you once loved because of a single bad incident.
Have a good night y'all.
OK, just got back from WPF. Now I really do regret not going into the trainroom.
I'll have an Iceberg lettuce salad with some cherry tomatoes, bacon crumbles, some fresh mushrooms and some shredded Mozzeralla cheese and a few of those garlic croutons with Western Dressing please. Oh and a glass of sweet tea too thank you.
Barry- Yep, I got the yard mowed. Sorta. I still have to get around the berry patch with the push mower, but the rain came and I quit. I'll hopefully get that tomorrow. I NEED to rake the grass that is laying on the ground up and get it out to the big grass pile by the lake before it kills out my grass. It has in one spot already, but time is not on my side this year.
Jeff- Far from being an expert on Diabetes, I am, however, aware of the foot problems and the probable outcome. Though since I've "known" you and hearing of your problems it doesn't sound good, but for what it's worth, I'm still praying that you are one of the fortunate ones who escape that part.
Well, (it took 4 tries to get the letter "W" typed instead of the "Q" or "E") I made it downstairs with the intention of going into the trainroom and relaxing. I made it to the TV with my glass of Tang. At 9 pm, 3 hours later, I went into the trainroom and cut and attached two cross supports for the rounded ends of the boulevard. Actually only one end of the support on each end piece. I want to let them dry good before I bend the arc.
Do any of you ever get the chance to spend a good amount of time in the trainroom, WANT to get in the and do stuff, but just can't bring yourself to get in there? Even if Holmes on Homes isn't on. ( I like that show) That's the way I was tonight and a few other times too. I always regret it later, like now.
Funny story about the Tang. This morning at 4:30 am I awoke with a dry mouth and thirsty as all get out. Probably from snoring like a caveman if the truth were known. I was exhausted last night. So I get up and think "Lemonade sounds fantastic". So, I get the pitcher out and get in the pantry and get the can like plastic container of Country Time Lemonade. Original, not the Pink stuff. I think Country time is about the closest thing to lemonade you can get without squeezing lemons. My opinion, you may not think so, but I wouldn't say you're wrong even though I'd know you are. Anyway, I grab the thing and measure out the amount of powdered sugar and artificial flavoring stuff, mix it up, fill a glass with ice, pour it, give it a bit of a swirl and take a big swig. Tastes funny. Then I notice the mixture isn't as much yellow as a pale orange. Hm, I didn't know the stuff would go bad. Take another swig. Not bad, just doesn't taste like lemonade. Then I look at the can like plastic container for a dies on date and I then notice the container is orange and says TANG on it. No two products should have the same unige containers. Irregardless of what it says on the label or how differently they are colored. Some rummy will get up in a half sleep stupor and get 'em mixed up. So, I'm getting through the TANG and then I'll make some Lemonade when that is gone. I hope. I don't really want to have to drink another two quarts of TANG.