Good morning. It's 66 and mostly cloudy. The high will be 82 and there's a 50% chance of thunderstorms today and a 60% chance of thunderstorms tonight. I hope it's more than just a thunder and light show.Well it's the first day of a new month. My SS check hit the bank last night so I'll be out paying some bills and getting the first load of groceries. I'll also see if I can stop by Walgreen's today. They have 4 gb SD cards on sale for $13. You know, it's amazing what technology can do today. I've already checked my bank balance and paid 4 bills and I haven't lifted a phone or even left the house yet. If I still have the energy later, and nobody thinks up something for me to do, I intend to get started on rerouting the wiring on the layout. It's a big job but somebody has to do it.
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Good morning at a more reasonalble hour!
I went back to bed and slept more.
fec153 good morning, all. Darn, it's chilly here. 58* right now. Going up to mid 80's Like the new area-NO HUMIDITY!!! Seems all we do in mid Fla. is perspire.nine months of the year. Flip
good morning, all. Darn, it's chilly here. 58* right now. Going up to mid 80's Like the new area-NO HUMIDITY!!! Seems all we do in mid Fla. is perspire.nine months of the year.
Flip
CHILLY? CHILLY? Try 31* here! THAT"S CHILLY! HIgh today in the 40'S! I'd love a 65* day about now! It's "unseasonably cold here". I do perspire 9 months out of the year here in NY too, but I'd like a little warmth! Of course wait til JAN_FEB_MARCH maybe you will get colder temps like last year too...not that I wish it on you!
WE went to Disney WOrld in Feb of '02 and waited til the temp got up to the 70's {It had been very chilly there in central FL.then too- in the 40s-50*'s}, as I told the other half {who had never beeen there} that there was NO WAY I was gonna walk down MAin St USA in the MAgic Kingdom or the WOrld SHowcase at EPCOT in a WINTER COAT! I used to go every feb during the late 80's early 90's to visit Disney and my Grandmother who lived an hour away, and the temps were always in the low 70's then, but before this "global warming" crap.
Robby P. Well I'm off to school to take some pre-tests.
Well I'm off to school to take some pre-tests.
Well, GOOD LUCK, nay, the BEST OF GOOD LUCK to you Robby P.!!!
LSWrr I hope everyone had treats and no tricks this weekend. Dorothy (my girlfriend) was admitted to the hospital last night for breathing difficulty. Nothing serious but the doctors wanted to run a few tests just to be safe. Hopefully she will be released today. The new diner location is great, but where are the air conditioning controls? I think we may need to attach a refer unit to the end of the car for us northerner’s to sit!
I hope everyone had treats and no tricks this weekend. Dorothy (my girlfriend) was admitted to the hospital last night for breathing difficulty. Nothing serious but the doctors wanted to run a few tests just to be safe. Hopefully she will be released today.
The new diner location is great, but where are the air conditioning controls? I think we may need to attach a refer unit to the end of the car for us northerner’s to sit!
The diner was a Trick to move, But a Treat to be here in AZ!
No tricks at my house even though we didn't and don't ever treat. We don't "DO" halloween.
for your GF! SHes on the list.
The air conditioner has been set to keep the diner at a nice temp during the day and a little heat for those cooler desert nights auto-control temperature sensors have been upgraded to the diner for everyone's comfort year round any where just like a personal private RR car!!!
Isn't the view out the diner window beauteous?
Soon off to other halfs Drs appt.
DOn't forget! TOMORROW get out and VOTE!
Have a great day everybody
-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.
Good Mourning Arizona
Flo, just coffee again please.
Not sure what is going on at my house but everything alive but me blew chunks last night. Sue blew, Tiff blew and Shaddy blew 4 times.
Well if it is warm where we are in AZ then we are not near the Grand Canyon. I was there in February one time and there was a foot of snow.
Driving test Not counting the Army I have taken 2 of them. When I first got my license when I was 16, it was in my 1968 Road Runner. Mon was still driving the car, did not talk the parents out of it till I was all most 18. Car was still stock and had the hubcaps on it.
Second test was in my 69 Charger. When I moved to IL I got stuck in Springfield MO for months looking for and training a Mgr for the shop. I still had a Indiana License and it expired while I was there, so I got a MO license.
Vincent I would still like to see what we could work out on the Pearl car. I am half blind anyway.I have 9 now and would like to get up to around 15. You could all so keep any metal wheels and Kadees if you have installed any.
Train Front Starting to get the hang of the Atlas track planer. Working on a plan now that leaves the storage room where it is. First main is all 36 inch turns, 2nd main is all 34 inch. All so think about only 4 main lines, not the 6 I originally wanted.
I have not been able to come up with away to make the files in to JPG's so I can post them here on the site.
Plans for today
Get the gas heater working out here in the Garage, it is getting cold out here.
Clean out the garage so i can bring some of the patio plants out from the family room
Install new lights for the garage and the plants
Install the knobs on the folding doors
Install the base board I got painted
And, do a BBQ for the wife if her stomach is doing OK today.
See you for lunch.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good Morning, I hope everyone had treats and no tricks this weekend. I went to the Medina Fairgrounds train show Sunday for the first time. I picked up 12 new metal signs for the train room, one PRR K11 Livestock car, one Lake Superior and Ishpeming 40 foot boxcar, and 6 shakers of ground cover. I think this is one of those shows the serious HO or N scale hobbyist can miss without causing any great harm to their hobby unless they are overwhelmed by boredom and just want to get out of the house for a few hours.Dorothy (my girlfriend) was admitted to the hospital last night for breathing difficulty. Nothing serious but the doctors wanted to run a few tests just to be safe. Hopefully she will be released today.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Took my drivers test in1951 for learners permit. Used my dads '48 Nash Ambssador. Three on the tree with O.D. It would do over 60 in 2nd very quickly.
Hope all doing well. Prayers and Blessings.to all.
Good Morning Folks!
Just a cup of coffee please.
Hope everyone has a Great Day!
Steven
Good COLD morning. Right now its 29 degrees and the high will be about 58.
Well I'm off to school to take some pre-tests. That's always fun!!!
So I will pop back in later this afternoon.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Good morning!
I am up very early in this new time zone,,,,even for my own time zone!
Took two naps yesterday to catch up on sleep so now I'm awake very early.
35* here now, and posta b around 42*-45* today. TIme for a winter coat here...but not in AZ! SOmeone suggested it be moved to Az so when I moved it before the site got bogged down and really slow like it has been...I decided to second the motion and get some warmth.
beautious AZ!
well we have to get up soon any way. other half has an early Drs. APpt. so we'd be getting up in a half hour anyway. Other half likes to have 2 hours to "veg" and "waken" before getting ready to go somewhere and I have gotten used to the proceedure too. maybe that Why I am up so early.
Going tothe train show at Syracuse State Fairgrounds WHoo Hoo! WOn't be able to buy much of anything, but can look and drool.
Well i better go start some coffee ro something i want to go back to bed now!
later
Good Morning!
Yaawn - I am still sleepy!
Janie, where are we? Arizona? Nice place!Get me a big mug of coffee, dear, will you please`?
I fell asleep while I was watching the train night on TV. When I woke up, it was 3 am and I just crawled into my bed. Staying up that late is not good for old men like me, no sir!
Galaxy - good choice of yours, it is a nice place. Thank you for moving the Diner so smoothly to the new location. I do hope that some of the MIA´s will find back to this place.
CUL
Evening all.
Galaxy, thanks for taking care of the move. Finally, somewhere warm, but not humid.
I'm likely going to a friend's house tomorrow after school to do a project, so I don't know if I'll make it in. I'll catch up from the last few pages of the old Diner and this one next time I'm in.
Later!
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Good evening folks!
Ooooooo, I like the new view outside.... Grand Canyon huh? Always wanted to visit.
Flo, is the coffee ready? OK just my decaf I guess and whatever Barry is having.
In the Finger Lakes region, the temp will get down to 31°F near morning tomorrow. I guess we moved the diner just in time so we didn't have to break out the Winter coats. Didn't have many Trick or Treaters tonight. Probably only about 15 and THAT includes my two granddaughters. Were they ever wound up!
Manet didn't know exactly what to make of them...
Grandpa got big hugs from both of them before they left.....
I got the s**w blower running, let it warm up a while, and then changed the oil in it. I think the oil is 6 or 7 years old..... Forgot just when I bought it, but the oil has never been changed. It needed it. I put in 10w-30, and gave the pull rope a yank, man, what a difference. Have no idea what was in it, but it sure should start easier now. I also took delivery of 4 face cords of firewood today. THAT is half what I have ordered from the guy. My son will be getting about 2 face cords from me for his small wood stove at his house. Guess what I will be doing for the next few days...... Wood stove is lit here right now.... Warm in here.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Evening.... wow, NY to AZ in what seemed like the blink of an eye...
So TODD is "contemplating" his navel... Hmmmm, picking out the lint? No, thanks anyway, I don't need to see THAT...
Bucket of coffee please 'n thank-you.
Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, Operation Boo Burgers 2010 went off without a hitch. A very tired Rerun is currently snoooooooooozing. He didn't get his nap this afternoon, so is making up for it now. He'll likely get up in time to go to bed. A few years ago we got him a kids play tent, in a camouflage pattern. He loved it! Now, the mesh "windows" are shredded and there is a large tear where his front paw went through last week. Darn squirrels, bunnies, etc. walking around outside his window... So, we searched for and got him a new tent this evening. It's a little smaller, garish colors, but it also has a tunnel he can use. He's made one trip through it, but doesn't seem overly eager for a repeat trip.
I honestly can't remember the driving test I did for my learner's permit. I DO remember the one I took to get a "Class D Chauffeur's " license, required for driving ambulances or any vehicle up to 16-passengers. The DOT gal looked like... well, I can't really describe her, other than I found I kept sneaking glances to see if "she" had an Adam's Apple or not... The term "Butch" doesn't even come close... Anyhoo, I kept getting warnings to keep BOTH hands on the wheel...and I kept drifting above the posted speed limits. I passed with one or two demerits, warnings, whatever, to spare. Funny thing was, when I WAS driving ambulances for a living, I only had a regular operator's license. My boss in Creston never asked. Oh well........ I've since gone back to the regular operator's license. Renewing THAT only requires squinting at the mis-aligned vision test, looking for the blinking lights in the peripheral vision test, and swearing to God and man THAT I'm not a mental case (yet). Oh, and cutting a check for the renewal fee (much less than for the fancy-schmancy Class D). The last time I took THAT test (May), an elderly gentleman of very advanced age came in behind me. While waiting for my new license to print, I had the scary fortune of watching him try to figure out the vision test, etc.
IF they gave him a license...I'm staying OUT of Tipton, Iowa. Picture Mr. Maggoo driving...
I remember some of my high school driver's ed classes, mostly Chris Burger hitting a pedestrian in downtown Cedar Rapids, in a crosswalk. A girl in another section destroyed the transmission in the Driver's Ed car. Apparently (per the survivors) she was on I-380 which traverses across most of Cedar Rapids. The instructor told her to pass the car ahead of them, so she quite naturally put the car into "Passing" gear.
Yup.
At 55 mph she moved the shifter from "D" back through "N" AND "R" right into "P"!!! It sounds like they came to a VERY fast stop. Our classes were early morning, before school, so she would've been up on "the super slab" in rush hour traffic.
I think I'll have a seat at the freshly polished RC (thanks GALAXY!)
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Whew! Talk about dizzy. That was a quick move. Sitting in the diner staying away from a very disappointing World Series, thinking WOW would I like to have taken my driving test in a 70 'Cuda. Disagreeing with J.R. in that the Imperial isn't large, it's HUGE. But giving him that the station wagon was huge-ER.(by only 15/32 of an inch IIRC) Contemplating my navel, when POW! the door was locked and zippity bang here I am in Aaaaarizo-o-na.
It is a dry heat.
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.
Hey!! I like the new digs!! And it's a dry warmth too!!
Been quite busy of late at w**k--and it looks like I'll be stuck in the office this week as well as my weekend on-call next weekend--we have refresher courses I have to teach now---
My railroad has been relaid again and now I'm doing the scenery around it ---again
We are supposed to go to 20F tonight for a low---so we be all cuddled up in here
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and a lemon maringue pie as well please---i'll be at the RC for a bit
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
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Hello all,
That was Some TRICK to move the diner here, but what a TREAT it is to be here:
And welcome to warm and sunny.....
ARIZONA!
It's a dry heat.
Thought we'd give in to the request it be moved here and get some warmth we did'nt quite get in Upstate NY!
Happy November everyone!
{-> goes to polish the rivet counter and the outer walls of the diner to make them shiny!}