quoting Jeffrey:
My niece's brother-in-law (17) has convinced himself that he's getting a truck for Christmas. She went out today and bought a Matchbox monster truck. She attached a surprise to the bottom of it then painted it dark green and wrapped it up. I so want to see the look on his face when he (#1) unwraps it and (#2) when he turns it over. That should be PRICELESS!!
I took drums in elementary school and SOOOO wanted a drum set...so my parents got me one for Christmas....a miniature one!
Turned out I couldn't play drums very well. after all.
EDIT: Christmas dinner is on me: HAm, Rice pilaf, Asparagus tips and candied carrots!
-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.
Merry Christmas Folks!
Have a few things to wrap yet, but that is about if for the day.
See you all later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Good morning.
Well we got a WHITE CHRISTMAS!! About a inch or so fell. Opened some gifts, and of course got some to return also!!
I hope everybody has a good morning!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS
"Rust, whats not to love?"
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!
The drive is shoveled and the coffee is going down nicely. Just sitting here waiting for the extortionists to bring over the Granchillin.
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 Afternoon,
Petra and I feel slightly on the low side of moods, as Christian had to leave so early this morning. Well, aside from that, it has been a bright and beautiful day - a picture book Christmas day!
Those icicles are more than 3ft. long!
I am going to rest in my favorite chair now, watch some stupid old movies and think about the good old days.
Hope everyones Christmas is a great one.
Ulrich- 20 years from now , these will be the good old days.
Flip
Good Morning All!Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes other then Santa was pretty good to me and the Ham is slow baking in the oven..I was going to bake it yesterday but,decided to wait till this morning where it would still be fresh and moist with pineapple juice-I hate dry ham so I bake mine in pineapple juice and baste every 30 minutes.Comes out tender,moist and melts in your mouth..I add the pineapple ring the last 30 minutes and garnish with cherries.I gotta stop watching Rachael Ray and Paula Deen. I shall have a cup and look over da forum.Merry Christmas!
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Just a BIG mug of chicory coffee for me. I need something to ratchet my eyes open this morning.
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Afternoon all!
Merry Christmas once again and for the next 11 days!
Just popping in to say hi between Breakfast at my son's house and Dinner at my sister's house (Rock Cornish Game Hnes and Rice, bread stuffing, winter squash, and other goodies. I then may have a 3rd. big meal and go back over to my son's house where his MIL is preparing the Christmas Ham...... With all the trimmings I bet!
Ulirich, it may be small, but you have a beautiful home!
Santa has been good so far to everyone around here. Hope is was to each of you. Gotta run, need to get the squash packed for the festivities at my sisters.....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning/afternoon/whatever it may be where you are. It's 42° here at the present time and won't get much warmer as the high today will be only 47°. It will cool down more towards evening and the low will be around 26°. No family festivities yet as we're holding off until my father gets home from work. That will be about 2:30 (central) then the mad dash to the tree will begin. Well, they can dash and I'll follow along at my top speed of 2 mph. I've been keeping busy this morning getting my cameras ready, making sure the batteries are charged and that they have good cards in them. I've also checked out the tripod and find it to be in good order. I must remember to take a small flat tip screwdriver with me so I can easily mount one of the cameras to the tripod. I so want to catch the look of surprise on the face of my niece's brother-in-law when he unwraps one of his gifts and finds a toy monster truck then turns it over and finds the real surprise on the bottom of it. The keys to a real truck! His jaw should hit the floor with a resounding thud. Until later, enjoy your Christmas day.
The smell of ham will be wafting through the house shortly.
No trains for Christmas. Brenda and I decided one gift of modesty. We have most all we need and want. Well, that’s not exactly true,need yes, want NEVER!!! But buying for each other at Christmas is getting extremely hard and to forgo the fake smiles and to use space for things we really have no use for, we decided to just tell each other what we want, get it and wrap it. I asked for and received one of those halogen work lights on a tripod. Actually two lights on one stand. My others have no stand and I often wished they did. Now I have one. She wanted insulated bibs, and already was out in the snow with Grandson Anthony throwing snow at Missy who….. ate too much egg casserole for breakfast and was letting everyone know it. Hey, I told Brenda it was too much but noooooo! Gassy thing she was. I got so bad and often, people were becoming red faced from laughing. Hopefully the ham smell will over ride the….. Other smell. I also got her (Brenda) one of those Pizza Pizzazz things. She has said in the past she thinks she would like one of those. Yes, she glared at me for breaking the rules, but it’s Christmas and she deserves something nice and new to cook things on for me.
Larry- Sounds like you have the same recipe as my wife Brenda except she also uses brown sugar.
I guess that doesn’t make it the same recipe does it.
Ulrich- I very much agree with Ray. You do have a beautiful home. Um, do you really need the table? I mean, nice space and lighting for a corner layout.
I have located my tripod and like Jeff, I think I’ll check out how it’s held up in the trunk of the old Roadrunner all these years. Should be OK
Best get going before Petra comes looking for me with the rolling pin after that table remark. I’m going downstairs to reacquaint myself with the train room.
TTFN
Merry Christmas All!
Afternoon/evening
Hope you all got what A} you wanted for Christmas; B} What you needed for Christmas.
The smell of the christmas ham is wafting through the house should be done in about 1 hour. Rice pilaffe, asparagus tips and candied carrots will round out the meal.
for Christmas {in case you haven't read my "trains under the tree" thread is:
My haul from Santa and My Other Half {MOH}:
Locos: DCC OnBoard Chessie GP 40 {I have wanted for a long time}; and a DCC OnBoard D&H GP38-2 {MOH and mine intials are "D" and "H" so we have begun collecting "D&H" stuff- which is nto easy as not a popular fallen flag...
RRCars: C&O and B&O BOx cars {B&O and C&O and CHessie and CSX are my nromal runs}; and A B&O Gondola; and a D&H Boxcar and D&H COvered hopper. I am sure there are mroe D&H stuff in my futer {if we can find it.}
So 2 locos and 5 Cars, good enough for me!
MOH {who is into trains also- N scale}- got:
Loco- Kato GG1 {wanted desparately since March and I bought it way back then before they were out}
RRCars: A wanted Santa Fe Overton set, and open air tourist passenger car {both thought to be "key-yute" [Cute]}; several freight cars....including-you guessed it- some D&H!!!, flats, tanker and such; and several {about 8} Pennsy passenger cars to haul behind the GG1! {the GG1 did also see freight service}- so about 25 RR cas in all; and a signal light; and a dozen winter trees for the under-the-table-top-tree-Snowy-christmas-scene-layout with both HO loop and N scale loop that MOH wants to creat-we are working on a new board for the layout now.Next year will be better.
Quite a haul for BOTH of us! from each other and santa claus.
I also got some big and tall clothes. Much needed. I have a weight gain problem with my medications and I'm all belly. But the Big stufff is short and exposes the bottom of my belly, so We've ordered the tall versions in the 2XL and 3XL versions to hang down over my belly and cover it nicely. The tall versions are naturally longer than the bigs, and hang down further, plus the 3XL dress shirts will tuck in my pants and stay tucked in! Onlyest thing is the 3XL dress shirts are STILL to small to button at the neck on me for a tie. WIll have to get extender buttons as I am also all neck. A 20 inch neck doesn't quite do it without strangulating me. I also got a king size catalog in the mail and one in the package of shirts we orderd. I see some more ordering in my future.
well I best go and attend to basting the ham
MOH got a few clothes and a european Swiss Army made travel "purser bag" an over the shoulder affair that holds mega amounts of stuff, ideally for travelling. I have one I call it my "man purse" {nope- not affraid to carry one with allt he medications and stuff I have to carry with me}, and MOH liked mine so much that MOH was jealous and wanted one too! SO I got 3- One for MOH and two as backups incase zippers fail or such. I used to have a "belly pack" as my "man purse" but they are hard to find {TIll I found one in the King sized catalog} to carry my stuff and medications in.The Swiss army made ones should last for years and years, but we had trouble finding them to begin with so I bought the extras. LOVe LOVE LOVE it. Actually found them at Target, of all places.
Have a great dinner y'all!
This Gentlemen, is what I'm faced with.
Never leave the trainroom unattended for too long or the "I'll just set it here for the moment" issue will raise it's ugly head.
I had an enjoyable Christmas day. I got a 2 ton jack for my van along with a pair of 2 ton jack stands (my nephew says I can just leave those with him if I don't have space for them. Yeah, right!), a new jacket, just my size, small tent. A pair of seat covers for the van. I really needed them. The seats are so threadbare that the foam is showing. I also got a new (to me) camera tripod. It's been up in a closet at my parents place for the last 25 years and they decided it should go to someone who is going to use it. It's much heavier than the one I've been using. My old one will flip over in a light breeze. This new one won't. It cost like $35 at Wal-Mart in 1985 and is heavy enough to do curls with.
TMarsh This Gentlemen, is what I'm faced with. Never leave the trainroom unattended for too long or the "I'll just set it here for the moment" issue will raise it's ugly head.
Gee. And you have more room and a much neater room and a much bigger room than I do. Anything and everything in the trailer that we don't know what to do with and doesn't have permenant home gets 'set here for just a little while" in that room and never gets moved. Instead stuff gets piled on top it. First trick is to actually get into the door of the room! {I mean it...the dehumidifier with a fan sitting on top it actually resides in the doorway!}
*sigh* to have that much "space" and "neatness".
EDiT: I see top honors again EAT Up_ HAm dinner, rice pilaf and asparagus shoots for everyone! WIth big fluffy rolls!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
Wow... show's you all how long it has been since I've been in and actually read older posts. I see Flip was in today....
After my sister went through my room to straighten it out my room is in far better shape than that!! But then, you should have seen it BEFORE!!! It was double that !!! Mind, i still have stuff in there but it is organized stuff--instead of just plopped stuff
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I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Prayers and Blessings for all.
Was a pretty nice Christmas here as well.
I gave Sue the electric can opener this mourning to help out with making the Christmas lunch. (we ate at 1:00 PM) and while I sure she rather had jewelry she seemed pleased. Perfume on the other hand is going back, and I am fine with that. I just wanted to giver her at lease two things for Christmas.
Seems Adam my daughters boyfriend told Sharyon about the small cars I used on the layout. She bought me a Johnny Lighting Super Bird and a 69 440-6 pack Super Bee, pretty cool. She all so gave me a nice dress shirt, new watch and $25.00. All so wood train that wheels where made with button's, well I could have done with out that.
Sue all so went the Hot Wheels route. Now I am pretty picky and the cars have to look somewhat real. She bought me a 69 GTO Judge that is all jacked up in the back and slammed in the dirt in the front with what would have to be a 25-71 Super Charger that is 4 feet over the roof! God awful looking thing and I love it because she tried! Later she told me she paid $5.00 for it at a flea market and bought it because it has the blower. It is a first edition from 2003 and still on the card, I am going to check to see if it is collectible before I open it.
Sharyon's boy friend Adam works at Guitar Center and has been in a few bands. I had to sell my Gibson 335 and Gibson Less Paul to make ends meet 2 years ago. Sue had been missing have guitar's in the house so I bought her a cheap one from the local pawn shop. Better than nothing and that is all I can say about it.
Adam came across a POS Less Paul that the company he works for would not take in trade. Head was busted off, fret board was trashed and it had holes in the body. He has restored it and except for a Epiphoine head unit looks all most new. With the new figure board it plays great. Only thing missing is the pick guard and it is on it's way. It is a blond sunburst with tiger wood strip wood, looks a lot like my old one.
Old one and young me!
Adam all so took the pawn shop guitar to redo the neck, it was bowed so badly you could shoot arrows with it! Next he s on the quest for a better amp for us. I had to sell the Costume Full Stack Amp with the 250 watt head. One I still have is practices amp and sort of sucks.
See you all Sunday, time to Rock!
It's 39° (28° wind chill) right now and we're expecting a low of 26°. Tomorrow will be somewhat cooler that today was. The high is due to be 50° and the low 23°. In simpler language it's gonna be cold. Fortunately there's no sign of rain or worse yet, snow. I know where I'm gonna be tomorrow. Right here by the heater! I set up the new tripod to see how it looks. That's a big metal monster that is. It's so big I can't spread the legs all the way open inside my trailer. It was designed to hold a 10 - 20 pound video camera. The heaviest of my cameras will be like a feather to it and I can use it with my old Olympus camera with no concern of it tilting. The tripod mount on the Olympus is way off center as if it was put in as an after thought. On my light weight tripod it would tilt several degrees no matter how I tried correcting it. On this one it sits level and the tripod won't vibrate in a 15 to 20 mph wind because it spreads open so far and the legs have cleats to help keep it from shifting. I like this thing.
Evenin' folks!
Zoe, just a decaf.
I am officially stuffed! Had a huge Breakfast at my son's house. Kind of a tradition we have started several years ago. Only thing different is the MIL was the short order cook for all of us. Let's see, eggs over easy, bacon, sausage, home fries, OJ, Toast, English Muffins then before we opened our presents, we opened up a bottle of Pear Mead..... The Double Gold Medal stuff! There were already sveral of the reletives from my DILs side of the family already there by the time I left to come home, feed the kitties and repack the car with firewood, baked squash, and presents for her. By the time I arrived my son and his family were already there. A bottle of wine was opened and them we sat down to backed Rock Cornish Game Hens, rife Pilaf, stuffing with cranberries and raisins, the squash, and a tasty salad. After the presents were opened and the little ones had managed to completely tear apart my sister's house, we left and came back home to Geneva... I then unpacked the car, gave the kitties some treats and headed back over to my son's house again for Christmas Dinner #2. Ham with all the trimmings, baked beans, corn, potaoes au graten, fresh baked rolls, Sweet tea and several other choices of beverages, and piles of pies, cookies, fudge, and other deserts to choose from...... Then!!!! i was invited down cellar to witness and document the annual family free for all known as the opening of the presents! MY G*D! I have never seen so many presents in my life. Basically it would be major over kill for me, but is their family tradition. My Granddaughters got probably 30 toys apiece today..... I will get to the photos i took tomorrow. I was sent home with a quarter of a pecan pie and several other goodies.... Sure glad the doctor doesn't have me checking my blood sugar on a daily basis........ I don't want to know!
Santa was very good to me today. Got a pile of little odds and ends from Micro Mark (from my son), a tee shirt stating I am well blessed by having to adorable granddaughters! Very true! Pound of dark roast coffee beans from My Son's MIL, the usual calendar with photos my sister has taken this year (all the photos are of Bhuton from the trip she took a couple months back), A metal Train Whistle Sign (the W sign) that is currently in the back yard of one of her neighbors.... I have to take it down and get it to my house. And she got me a Mohawk Buffalo Horn Rattle made by the Father of an old friend of mine who is a Mohawk person. She and her husband work at Ganondagan the site of the old Seneca Nation. I have known them for 20 years or so and have watched their beautiful Children grow into adults over the years. They used to do presentations for our schools Outdoor Education Program for many years and we just hit it off. Really a very nice and special present. Beautifully hand carved and beaded as well.
My son was thrilled with the chain saw, and very excited to get the generator to use in emergencies (that was to the whole family)..... Got his wife a new Crockpot to replace one that had decide to stop working this Fall.
Jeffrey, glad to hear you got a sturdier tripod. I trust you will find a good home for the old one! I know there is someone you know who might still get some use out of the old thing....... So is your nephew still able to sit up and breath....???
Good to hear so many of you had a great day. Merry Christmas.... Day 2! Turtle doves anyone?
Later!
howmus Jeffrey, glad to hear you got a sturdier tripod. I trust you will find a good home for the old one! I know there is someone you know who might still get some use out of the old thing.......
Jeffrey, glad to hear you got a sturdier tripod. I trust you will find a good home for the old one! I know there is someone you know who might still get some use out of the old thing.......
jeffrey-wimberly howmus: Jeffrey, glad to hear you got a sturdier tripod. I trust you will find a good home for the old one! I know there is someone you know who might still get some use out of the old thing....... Do you know somebody who might possibly benefit from it?
howmus: Jeffrey, glad to hear you got a sturdier tripod. I trust you will find a good home for the old one! I know there is someone you know who might still get some use out of the old thing.......
Do you know somebody who might possibly benefit from it?
Nope, but I bet if it still usable, someone down around your parts could use it..... maybe give it to a second hand or good will store.....
Stuffed. BUT I cleaned up dinner dishes and kitchen for Brenda. Yeah I know. Two of the Grandsons and the Granddaughter with the dog all waiting anxiously for their gifts. Missy has never had a treat THIS big before!
Stuffed. BUT I cleaned up dinner dishes and kitchen for Brenda. Yeah I know.
Two of the Grandsons and the Granddaughter with the dog all waiting anxiously for their gifts.
Missy has never had a treat THIS big before!
I did get a little done in the "not as bad as some peoples" train room. Hopefully I will get more done tomorrow.
Galaxy- I know the room you have. Before I brought the layout home from Mom’s house, I had just that room you have. See, when we put up walls in the basement 14 years ago, a room was built with a train room in mind. It was smaller than this room, but only because when the layout came home and was found to need more room, perfect wife allowed me to remove a wall. You can tell in the picture by the carpet, no carpet line. Anyway, that room became the room you describe. After all I didn’t have a train yet, so I can just set this stuff here. For a little while.
Ken- Sadly, in the early eighties, I too had a pair of shorts that short. Thankfully, no pictures.
Yes Jeff, how did your nephew deal with the “surprise” ?
Evening, I'll take a couple of doses of "night medicine," if VINNIE isn't around and watching...
Just back from a house fire. An old farmhouse, with many rennovations well south of town. It's still standing. The second floor is completely gutted. The first has a lot of heat/smoke/water damage...and the rooms that were "spared" are messed up as we had to pull most of the ceiling down. I wish I could describe to you, how...surreal...it is to stand in somebody's living room, full of smoke, water pouring down from holes in the ceiling/floor above; and to see their Christmas tree, backlit by the red, white and blue lights of the fire apparatus outside.
As soon as I got home, Rerun met me at the door and promptly jammed his tongue in my ear. A warm puppy dog tongue never felt so good.
I'll be in a corner booth, cogitating for a bit.
If you would, raise a glass or lift some thoughts for those who are on-duty and/or wearing pagers this sacred weekend.
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
TMarsh Yes Jeff, how did your nephew deal with the “surprise” ?
Decaf Coffee in a SNOWY SOUTHERN mug, please. Yup, it's been snowing here in northwest Georgia for Christmas. Hope everyone has had a wonderful day. Rob
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
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