Good Morning All ,
Had Trouble sleeping so I thought i'd stop in for a short time to see how everyone's fairing. Rob glad to see you stopping in. HEY FLO. those biscuits & gravy sure do smell GOOOOOD . I think I'll have an order with home fries and a large diet coke.
Ken- If your like me, the glasses just not the same anymore if the VIN #'s size is the problem you might try a small pocket magnifier to see if that helps, (unless the people are like my dad was, EVERYTHING ended up on the dash board he was a carpenter so all sorts of stuff could be found up in there. ). I think my B&G are ready I'll be at the RC for a while, Will someone pass the hot sauce Please.
Otto
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Saturday, October 29th, 2011!!!
The last Saturday of October. Enjoy it before the Sn*w really flies!!!
-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 Morning Gang!
It is Saturday, October 29th, 2011 and our last day on our tour through Germany, before we hit Hamburg again and return to the States.
Today, we will take a walk through the medieval city of Lübeck, have lunch at the famous "Schiffergesellschaft" and get a last deep breather of fresh Baltic Sea air at Travemünde. Later in the day, we will visit the new Lübeck train station and head for Hamburg.
A few more words to the place we will have our lunch today. Schiffergesellschaft (Mariner´s Guild) was founded in 1401 as a religious brotherhood of seafaring captains of the Hanse. In 1535, the guild bought the house which is now a restaurant with the name of the guild, so we will be having lunch in a place build long before the Mayflower sailed to America, and only 43 years after Columbus discovered the continent.
Enjoy!
Evenin' folks!
Just a decaf for me. I am plumb worn out. My son and i spent almost an hour chasing a little tiny wren out of the house. We tried to cover the bird with a towel and take it outside, but is was much quicker than my son.
The cats had been shut in my bedroom, and I had opened the door in the living room and locked it wide open. Little birdie didn't like the open door..... It is cold outside! It liked to fly into all my windows in the dining room/office area and tried to hide up above my kitchen cupboards. I finally called a friend who lives just outside of town and asked if firemen had any tricks to get birds out of houses? He is an active fireman and former fire chief in the town. He said he would come over. In the meantime we found where the little bird was hiding again and coaxed it into the living room. Then we turned off all the lights everywhere except the living room. It finally flew up and landed on the inside door. Looked outside..... looked at us..... looked outside again. Cocked it's head to the side and looked at us again, dropped straight down from the door and flew out the door making a bee line across the street. It was almost as if the bird thought, Oh, I get it you don't want to eat me......
Hope it finds a warm spot to recover! Poor little guy....
No sooner did the bird fly off, but the friend shows up. He was parking in the driveway just as the bird flew away. I thanked him and said, "I knew you would be able to get the bird out of the house!" I had forgotten today was both my son's birthday, and his birthday. They shook hands and said happy birthday to each other. I wished both of them a happy birthday, then he drove home and my son drove home. Mundane, but THAT's how life is.
Bedtime, I guess. Have to be at church tomorrow morning to supervise the installation of the "new" speaker system for the Social Hall THAT they bought 5 years ago and never installed. In the meantime half of the gear reserved for the system has disapeared and been used for other things (like the amp for it THAT was used to replace the monitor amp for the choir when it went South).
Barry? So why did you call her Dot? She looks worth waiting for, BTW...........
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Time for me to head for the bed. See y'all tomorrow.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Ray: According to John...who I got that from on the other forum..."No.Her name is not Dot."
According to what he said the forecast amount is supposedly the first time ever that there was that amount of snow this early in the year for them...however, if it goes according to the forecast it may end up that their snowfall for the entire winter will be minimal .... the part that is worrying is that there are still a large number of trees that have not even started to turn colour yet..and ..with leaves still on the trees..all that snow is going to take out a lot of limbs...hence taking out power in that region.
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Took my mother into town this evening to Market Basket as she's not supposed to drive after dark. That doesn't stop her sometimes if she figures she just has to make it to a clothing sale at Stage. Anyways she got the vegetables, cheese, meat and fruit she needed and I got $20 worth of rice and pasta dinners and a jar of sliced olives. She paid for it as that was my fee for taking her there and back. Also dropped a letter at the post office then went by Burger King to get a side order of bacon for her poodles. They like the BK bacon but absolutely will not touch the McDonald's bacon. I guess they like the fat. The Mickey D's stuff is lean. Taking the bags from the car to the house was work enough by itself but in the shuffle the BK bag got lost. I searched the car and the area between the car and the house several times, checked where my mother set her purse and coats, yeah you read right, I said coats. The woman's a lizard! It can 75 degrees out and she's cold. I'm hunting for an air conditioner because I'm hot. My father's the same way. Both of my sisters are hot house plants. The hotter it is the better they like it. I finally found the bag with the bacon. It was in behind the right front wheel of the car. After all that exercise I shouldn't need any for the next few days! I'm sore enough as it is. Walking for me is hard work. If you wonder how simply walking can be hard just strap on a fifty pound back pack and put on a shoe with a normal sole (right foot) and a shoe with a sole two and half inches thick (left foot) and try to maintain a somewhat steady rhythm. Add a bad back, sore hips, low energy reserve and nerve problems due to diabetes and meningitis and you're going to be real sore in a hurry. Why the odd shoes? That's to mimic what I have to put up with. My left leg is two and a half inches longer than the right leg. My father is seventy-seven and is in better health overall than I am.
Although they say we aren't in that winter storm advisory, I expect we will get some sn*w on us too!!!
We are ready should the power go out!!! Now that we have the generator the power won't go out!!!! Actually that's not true, cuse my father uses his generator quite a bit. He has a plug into the house and a special control panel from whch he can control certain things in the house,,,like the kitchen, the furnace or the well pump in a rotating way.
We don't have that, and may have to have the furnace installation company come and install some sort of plug we can plug into the generator to run the furnace...
Watching Halloween hoogely boogely stuff. WE Don't DO "halloween". SO our light will be out. In the village of Owego, hard hit where 1300 out of 1600 houses were damaged by tropical Storm Lee's Flooding, they will have a "safe " halloween inthe parking lot of the high school called "Trunk or Treat" and a tailgating party...costumes or not if they were lost in the flood.
Still been a some theft and looting going on in the heighborhoods trying to rebuild after the Great Flood of 2011. Looters are even stealing copper piping out of rebuilding houses! Were I rebuilding., I'd have a alarm installed while doing it. THey make battery operated ones that all you need is the phone line to keep from having stuff stolen off a job site. SHame!
Well, it is falling night here so...:
SHHH!!!
GOOD NIGHT!!!
Sleep Well!!!
I could use a cup of hot chocolate right now....
Barry, yep I see it! her name is Dot huh?
I got home a little before 7PM from the Merit Award judging, mostly because the guy whose models we were judging and I stood outside in the cold and yaked for over 2 hours about various modeling subjects. he is the secretary of the division. Oh, he ended up earning 3 Merit awards for 3 awesome models! Two were entirely scratch built and were absolutely stunning!
Just went into the living room to fire up the wood stove, opened the door to the stove, and there looking back at me is a small bird... looks to be a wren of some kind. Fell down the chimney. My son should be arriving in a few minutes to return the truck. Since he is the Fish and Wildlife expert in the family, I hope he will know what is the best thing to do for the poor little thing. I would put the cats in my bedroom and shut the door and kjust let the bird fly out an open door, but it being night and cold outside, I am not sure it would be able to find a warm place for the night and die of the cold..... Oh well, this type of thing should be in his line of training. I do want to give the poor thing at least a chance to survive.
When I got home, I found I had a call from the guy I buy firewood from. he has my 6 face cords I ordered this year loaded on his truck to bring over. He will bring it tomorrow afternoon. Guess i will be stacking cord wood starting next week.
Apparently, someone on a music forum I'm on is expecting this over the weekend....
...he is where the red dot is....not the one on the left guys!!!!
Evening Folks.
Flo, please.
Just stopping by to say hello. I feel beat to death tonight. My vision or should I say lack of it is causing be problems at work. Seems I have been getting the VIN numbers wrong, but the guys are covering for me. Did my first ticket today and I swear it took me 15 minutes. I do not type well sitting down, standing up and bent over the keyboard is just plain murder.
Saturday I will be working in a store farther away, but it is fully staffed so maybe someone will have the time to teach me somethings. Like how to enter a ticket before the customer dies.
Well Todd we will know Saturday won't we! Personally I will not be listening or watching the game. I need to get to sleep by 9:00 PM.
See you folks later.
Ken
I hate Rust
Evening All,
Just finished with supper and cleanup. The doctor removed the sutures today but I still have a little drainage from one location. Doc says it is not infected and it may continue to drain for another 2 weeks. It does look like I have developed a skin sensitivity to adhesive. It is amazing how much less my back itches with the sutures and tape gone.
One of my new co-workers that runs a day camp for Boy Scouts has asked me to come out and talk to the boys as a hero (military and EMS). Now I am no hero but I am always ready to support Scouting. She was even happier to find out that I am a Eagle Scout. It will happen in the spring.
It was supposed to rain all day but it was just overcast all day.
Jeff- Hope you feel better real soon.
Rob- I am still sending prayers your way, and that is a lot of eggs to use everyday.
Ulrich- You have been a great host this month. I am sorry October is coming to a end.
Ray- That is the neat thing about small children is their unconditional love. Unfortunately they have to grow into teenagers!
I am sending my Pennsy snow plow north to help our northern diners with what is coming.
Everybody have a good night.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Howdy everybody. It's good to see all the Chow Hounds here.
I'm glad Ryan was here. Hope it is not a one-time appearance. ..... There are several other "regulars" who stopped being regular. ... Everybody, feel free to track down the MIA's. The DIner has great food!
I had some layout time today. The gremlins were there too. I had two decoders lose their addresses, and needed to be reset. ..... I recall a sign on my Dad's work bench: "Livin' aint simple anymore. Theys too many gadgets." He had not even seen what we have now. Amazing stuff.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
JR Not that I remember,but they do have some BIG guns as well. I still need to load the pics I have into Photobucket.
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
Good Evening
Had a good day today..got told by manager to take weekend off and enjoy it with relatives..they are coming here tomorrow morning and we will be out and about pretty much the entire weekend..who knows where we will end up...
Chloe, I'll have a coffee and a small turkey dinner please...I'll be at the RC for a bit...
Duke,
Any Confederate tanks there? J.R.
JR If you get a chance while you are at Danville,try to go to the tank museum. That is if you haven’t been there already. I stopped on my way to Apex this year and they do have a lot.
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
howmus Rob asked, "What does coon taste like?" Answer.... Chicken.... Around these parts there used to be people who used to like Woodchuck. My grandmother used to tell me she prepared some at times for the hired help. She wouldn't eat though........ When we would have a cow butchered on the farm grandma would be the one to prepare the tongue for us (my mother couldn't stand to even think about eating THAT!). When I got in high school and started doing most of the cooking at home I ended up being the one who would make stuffed beef heart and tongue and other stuff.
Rob asked, "What does coon taste like?" Answer.... Chicken.... Around these parts there used to be people who used to like Woodchuck. My grandmother used to tell me she prepared some at times for the hired help. She wouldn't eat though........ When we would have a cow butchered on the farm grandma would be the one to prepare the tongue for us (my mother couldn't stand to even think about eating THAT!). When I got in high school and started doing most of the cooking at home I ended up being the one who would make stuffed beef heart and tongue and other stuff.
You're making me hungry! I like heart, tongue, liver, kidney. Steak and kidney pie--yum! My wife doesn't like those things--except liver--and won't cook them any more. Sometimes when we go to a restaurant for supper I'll order liver and onions. Back when my wife used to buy whole chickens with the organs included, I'd go for the heart, liver and gizzard.
Now that I've spoiled the appetite of most of you, I'll let you get back to your diner food..........................
..... Bob
Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. (Captain Kirk)
I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)
Resistance is not futile--it is voltage divided by current.
Looks like Its on me...Tootie made a big batch of cup cakes..Help Your self...Jerry
Afternoon All..Its partly cloudy and 53 here....I'll have a hot dog basket and a diet coke please...Thank You...My Grand daughter team won the tourney last nite came home to watch game 6 of the WS..Wow! what a game!!...Gonna be in the lazy boy at 7:05 for sure tonite...Grand Daughter Tootie is spending week-end with us and my youngest Daughter and her two are gonna be here this week-end too..planning to go Trick or Treating saturday nite...
Tootie and I ran trains this morning..This is a coal drag on the Lost Crick branch and a Wabash caboose hop on the hill headed up to the IC interchange..
You all have a good one...Tootie and Jerry
Good afternoon. It's 52° and cloudy. The high will be 63° and mostly cloudy. There's a 30% chance of rain.This morning I went into town and got my flu shot. They told me it has a tendency to make the injection area burn a bit but so far I haven't felt a thing. I received my latest acquisition today. A Model Power 'Granite Rock' covered hopper. I've already cut of the truck mounted coupler boxes and body mounted Kadee #242 boxes and #5 couplers. It's sure a small thing, standing only twelve scale feet rail head to roofwalk and is thirty-six scale feet coupler head to coupler head. In comparison the Front Range covered hopper I was working on yesterday stands sixteen scale feet and is forty scale feet from coupler head to coupler head. I won't be doing much today as I'm still not feeling well.
blownout cylinder Ray: Exsqueeze me?? That number of eggs would not even support my SNACK!!!! ...actually that does look a little much for a few chickens ...a communal nest maybe?
Ray: Exsqueeze me?? That number of eggs would not even support my SNACK!!!!
...actually that does look a little much for a few chickens ...a communal nest maybe?
ROFL!
I'll have a Turkey Club Sandwich and a Dr. Pepper for lunch...
Got the first obligation of the day done. Picked up Livy at school and took her to the sitters house. I was expecting to get the 3rd. degree at the school. had my little card saying i can pick her up, was prepared to show 10 different photo ID's and such. Got there, went in the office, told the secretary why I was there, and she showed me where to sign the book and to show the card to the teachers in the waiting area. I walked in, took a couple steps and saw Livy waiting. She looked up, saw me, yelled "Papa!" (my family name for grandpa) and ran to me with her arms outstretched. The teacher came over, told me to never mind with any ID, I had been properly identified......
Now I am headed out the door to visit a friends layout and help do the evaluation of 2 beautifully done cars for Merit Awards.
Catch you all later!
Mornin' everyone!
Ich werde ein paar Eier über einfache, Speck und ein douyble Reihenfolge der Sauerteig Toastbrot bitte. Danke!
Nice sunny morning here in the Finger Lakes! 'tis melting the frost on the rooftops quickly....... Don't think the beans will be producing any more.
Rob asked, "What does coon taste like?" Answer.... Chicken.... Around these parts there used to be people who used to like Woodchuck. My grandmother used to tell me she prepared some at times for the hired help. She wouldn't eat though........ When we would have a cow butchered on the farm grandma would be the one to prepare the tongue for us (my mother couldn't stand to even think about eating THAT!). When I got in high school and started doing most of the cooking at home I ended up being the one who would make stuffed beef heart and tongue and other stuff. Rob, the collection of eggs in the photo would make an omelet fit for even Barry.....
Got an email this morning saying two more Scouts are going to do the Merit Badge after my presentation last night. THAT brings the total up to 14.... YES! I get a point towards the Volunteer Certificate (NMRA) for each Scout completing the MB.
I have to leave in a couple minutes to pick up Granddaughter #1 from school. Best get moving!
Good morning, Chloe. Oatmeal sounds good, but I think I will have time for waffles with my coffee, please.
It is great to hear from you, Ryan. We hope that you will drop by more often. Your modeling is topnotch. Your recipes look fun. I am going to add apple to the smoothie so the pumpkin isn't quite as strong. Cooking is like kitbashing isn't it. Here is the photo of the cowboys cleaning up in the pond. Note the horse running off with the pair of pants.
Rob, You have a full-time job taking care of all those animals. We currently don't have any large animals. There are 5 critical fence posts that need replacing, and one that needs uprighting (a friend forgot to put her pickup in gear, and it rolled down the road into it). We got some laughs out of that one.
On November 5, I will be dispatching again. Our friend has a bunch of MR guys from outside the area coming in to operate. We will see if it as smooth as when our regular group operates. Larry is acting as moderator.
Later, Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
The LION has come in for some pastry. Maybe some...
HEY! WHAT'S THIS...
No wonder the Virtual LION has been spending so much time in the city!
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Cederstrand ***Jeffrey, do people eat coons? The others I get, although I would have no interest in dressing any critter these days. Suppose if I was hungry enough. What does coon taste like?
***Jeffrey, do people eat coons? The others I get, although I would have no interest in dressing any critter these days. Suppose if I was hungry enough. What does coon taste like?
Strong coffee in a COLD & SOUTHERN mug, please.
***CN Charlie, there are 5 miniature Zebu cows, 8 Paint horses, 5 miinature horses, 1 dwarf miniature horse, 2 miniature donkeys, 2 indoor cats, 2 fast growing Great Pyrenees pups, 1 extremely old little arthritic porch dog, assorted barn cats, and assorted free roaming guineas, peacocks, turkeys, geese, and yes "chickens". The latter are down to producing 2-3 eggs a day. They produce more than I could possibly eat during summer months though. One day I found this odd assortment of eggs in a barn stall:
Cold rain moving in this afternoon through tomorrow. Need to do a few farm chores today before it arrives.
Rob
Good Morning!! Coffee and a lot of strudel please. Thanks. Mostly sunny, with a high near 56.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a lot of strudel please. Thanks.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 56.
I’ve NEVER been as worked up over a baseball game as I was last night. Ok Cardinal fans, I’ll give you this, that team is determined. Fantastic game it turned out. Just as should be expected from the two top teams in Baseball. It’s too early for me to have a hat on, but if I did I’d tip it. I hope tonights game is as good, but with a different outcome. Who ever wins, deserves it, and whoever loses can’t be ashamed of anything.
RYAN!- Good to see you, sure hope the contract works out. I’ll be checking in with you here sometime in the not too distant future for a transaction of a different nature. Finger lickin rub is almost gone.
I’m ignoring Ken.
As for the shoes (notice I’m not directing this to Ken), A lot can be said for RedWings. I am a Wolverine gut myself. They have a cushione anti-slip sole that is like the best thing since Farrah Fawcett. Those are my winter shoes, as the have a grip sole unlike my boots which, of course, do not. I think, they also have thm in steel toe too. Check the website. I would provide a link but I’m afraid Ken may use it.
Ray just had to be the first. Well, get him a piping hot cup of his favorite Dark Roast on me. Yes, that stuff you keep in the back for him no matter where we go.
Have to get the engine block out of Mom’s (for now) shed. Can’t pick it up anymore. Not that I could pick it up before, but I could get it off the ground. Now it was tough just to roll it onto the dolly. Getting old or just haven’t done much physical labor in the last couple years and well, you know. My engine hoist is out at the farm and probably buried in the back of the machine shed I may go out there and see if I can get to it.
Best get doing some stuff around here before I head out. W**k tonight so I won’t get but the last part of the game. Unless it’s like last night when I’ll get to see most.
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.
Morning All,
Supposed to be around 82 F today with rain for the next 2 days. Getting ready to go to the MD to get the sutures removed.. After that is grocery shopping then bank and getting gas. I volunteered to go to Wally world as most of the list is for work food and spray paint. I really feel for those of you getting ready to get snow. I think my new work partner is going to work out OK. I talked to him yesterday and we see eye to eye on most things, and if not it is only 2 months.
I will talk to you all later.