Lee: for you on your surgery. I hope all goes well.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Chamomile tea, please.
Ordered the tractor today. Will be delivered Sat.. Sure have a ton (makes that "tons") of work for it ahead. First priority will be removing a huge tree now leaning on a wood fence. Then I'll start moving stumps further away from the powerlines for burning. After that, pretty much any direction you look still has down trees, branches and roots to tackle.
Having a very down day today, Can't seem to shake it off. Guess this is to be expected. Rob
Stourbridge Lion Jim, Based on changing Global Warming patterns we are scheduled to get Wetter AND Hotter and on average I would say that is turning out to be true. We keep setting High Temp records and the seasons seem to be shifting a bit each year. Right now its 53F and Mostly Sunny. This is Winter right?
Jim, Based on changing Global Warming patterns we are scheduled to get Wetter AND Hotter and on average I would say that is turning out to be true. We keep setting High Temp records and the seasons seem to be shifting a bit each year. Right now its 53F and Mostly Sunny. This is Winter right?
LION Does not believe in Global Warming.. Weather patterns have shifted this way and that for millennium, who is to say what is normal. LION will tell you that once upon a time (long before man-made anything) the polar ice cap was EXACTLY six miles north of where I am now (in southern North Dakota).
Neither Coal or Oil caused it to move. But to keep on topic ☺ coal and oil here move on BNSF!
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Cederstrand Having a very down day today, Can't seem to shake it off. Guess this is to be expected. Rob
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
Good Evening
Another snowy, somewhat blustery day for us..another 2" dribbled on to our driveways here..tomorrow will be rain's turn...
Rob: Hope the tractor works out for you.
As for the global warming thing...how did the last ice age suddenly end? Hmmmmmn?
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/
Good evening sports fans!I know what you guys are thinking! What did I get for Christmas. It is a short list but a pricey one.New shoes. Just a pair of good running shoes, none of that Air Jordan stuff for me. New clothes. 2 packs of socks, 2 packs underwear, 2 packs T shirts, 7 pairs of pants, 10 pullover shirts, 6 button down shirts.New tires for my truck!Walmart gift cards! 3 of them! $75 each!2 sheets of 4x8 3/4" plywood and a ton of 2x4's, 1x6's, 1x4's, enough screws and nails to put the world back together, more ez track to go with what I already have.18 Bachmann freight cars, 1 caboose - painted, not lettered.2 Bachmann gp9 locos, DCC. I can run them with my old Bachmann DCC controller.I have no idea who got the train stuff and wood. My mom and dad are not saying a word about it. All they say is I have plenty of time to worry about college. I need to have some fun first.
Got the vehicle castings primered. They look like they all just came out of the first stage at the paint shop. Next step will be to hit them with the latex paint of which I have many, many colors.
Lion: This is a concrete statue standing in front of my parents home, of which you can see a small part. The lion and pedestal are two separate pieces. I don't know how much the pedestal weighs but I know the lion weighs over half a ton! It's steel reinforced concrete with an iron core. It's been there over twenty years.
Hello Fellow Dinners!
Flo, yes thank you dear, I will have a
Rob we all understand why you have your down days. We are just thrilled that you are posting again. Looking forward to see the new tractor. Are you painting again? Plus, would you post some pictures of the layouts? Love to see some.
Lee Hope all went well today.
Work Front Today was pretty much uneventful except one customer that was a ***. (can I say that?) He was not my customer, and I had no idea which car was his. Whole time we worked on his car he stood in the show room. I was up front and had 3 customer waiting at the desk and phones went nuts, had 5 lines going.
I could not find Tim (seems him and a teck went on a parts run?) and Bill was on a mandatory confreres call so he could not help. Took me 15 minutes to clean out the calls and the 3 people that where waiting. By that time Bill made it up front and that when the guy spoke up. Said he stood there for 15 minutes after his truck was pulled out and was not helped and he wanted the number to the customer complaint line?
Bill apologized, and gave him his oil change for free (used my employee number) and gave him his next oil change for free. (again my number) I all so apologized and explained that I did not know what vehicle was his and with him waiting in the showroom the whole time I did not think anything with him standing there. (one of my customer and he knew each other and stood in the show room and gabbed for half a hour). He told me "it was not your fault, you where busy". OK, I was thinking to my self then why did you complain? Plus most people would have said something like "My truck is outside am I ready to go?"
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO he just stood there so he could complain later! Who ever came up the saying "The Customer Is Al-wise Right" never ran a business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I have to be in at 8:00 AM Friday, so I am going to eat.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
cudaken Who ever came up the saying "The Customer Is Al-wise Right" never ran a business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who ever came up the saying "The Customer Is Al-wise Right" never ran a business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, Ken the guy who came up with that saying DID indeed run a business....one that he inherited from Grandfather and his father and walked right into a CEO position guaranteed by the family business who NEVER, EVER worked the front lines with the actual customers!!!!
If you get a chance watch "Undercover boss" where bosses{CEO's} go undercover on the front lines of their companies and "work inthe trenches" with the 'slaves". Was funny to see the CEO {and family inheritor} Of White Castle Burger chain. He worked with one gal who siad she walked into work everyday and said "is today the day I get fired?" He said he NEVER had to worry about that..inheriting the family business his grandfather built from the ground up, and wondered how anybody could work under that constraint?. Oddly enough, the lazy one he SHOULD have fired {and she KNEW buy the look on her face she was in toruble in the CEO's office before he walked in} was the lazy woman who was a supervisor and walked off the line when the line went awry, Shoulda fired her. Oh well. She got A HUGE second chance to save her job.
Have a good night's rest...
-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.
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
blownout cylinder As for the global warming thing...how did the last ice age suddenly end? Hmmmmmn?
Barry .... Is that the result of removing the "W" from a BMW?
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Rob ... Our trip to AZ is about a month away, and we will fly to Phoenix and rent a car there. I have flown a lot of places, but I have never liked flying. When I was a kid, an airliner crashed very close to our house, and about 80 people died. I still recall the explosion as it crashed. Most were killed right away, but a few laid on the ground moaning for their final minutes. It was awful. ... So, I avoid flying when I can, but sometimes I do it anyhow.
Jeff ... Evidently, Sundown Shops has an SP F7B to work on soon.
Well, we're drivng to CIncinnati tomorrow.
Have a good New Years Weekend everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&Q blownout cylinder: As for the global warming thing...how did the last ice age suddenly end? Hmmmmmn? Barry .... Is that the result of removing the "W" from a BMW?
blownout cylinder: As for the global warming thing...how did the last ice age suddenly end? Hmmmmmn?
That was supposed to be a streamliner car built in 1923..a Persu made in Germany by a Romanian engineer Aurel Persu...http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/1923-persu-streamliner-12319.html
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Garry: Have a safe trip tomorrow....
Another view of the thing..
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me... I'll go sit in the back by the stove for a few minutes.
Barry, very interesting vehicle there! Rear engine I would suspect, and a bit ahead of its time..... I wonder if any remain in museums?
I did some last minute shopping for a dish i will be bringing to my son's house for New Year's Eve party (Beef BBQ, old family recipe my Mom got out of the Sunday Magazine insert many decades ago). Good stuff! Did a wash and headed over to the layout for most of the day. Got one turnout finished and installed on the layout, put together another THAT is just waiting for the ties to dry and such to be glued to the turnout and then installed. Cut another hundred or so ties from stock and stained them. Hopefully tomorrow I will get a large chuck of THAT area in place and wired. Still waiting on some items to finish up the Power House by the Quarry and finish up the area of THAT as well.
Hope Lee made it through his procedure without problems and will check in here tomorrow.
Prayers for all in need. Tomorrow I plan on having an omelet for breakfast since there are 6 geese a laying out in the pen......
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Heartland Division CB&Q Jeff ... Evidently, Sundown Shops has an SP F7B to work on soon.
This is how it looks now:
It's the third unit in this all-power F3A-F3B-F7B permanently mu'd lashup:
Good Morning!!!
Today is Friday, December 30th, 2011!!!
Only 2 more days of 2011 left!!!
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning,
Surgery went well; I have to go back on Wednesday to have the stent removed. Doc pulled a 4.5mm stone and a 2mm stone out of me. I’ve lost 14 pounds since December 19th, not water weight either, I’ve been drinking 100 to 160oz of ice water daily. Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning!! Coffee and a waffle and bacon sandwich with butter and maple syrup please. Thanks. Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 51. Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 21 mph becoming west northwest. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Funny, last night the local weather guessers said sunny today.
Good Morning!! Coffee and a waffle and bacon sandwich with butter and maple syrup please. Thanks.
Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 51. Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 21 mph becoming west northwest. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Funny, last night the local weather guessers said sunny today.
Let me get this straight. Young man, who obviously isn’t going anywhere because his truck is being used, sets idle while allowing Jeff, no ankle to speak of, no meds ‘til next year Jeff, carry a sofa. Not push.., CARRY!…….. Kids.
Glad you’re doing well Lee. How’s your Mom? Could you spare the 14 lbs, or are you on a mission to find it again? Me, I’m still looking for the 40 lbs I lost a year ago. 30 more to go.
Well, things didn’t progress as well yesterday as hoped. I was left alone, but through a series of little things going not wrong, but not right (shakes head), I didn’t get the living room done after all. I should get it done today as I am to the fireplace. Once I get the front fitted it’s just two small spaces on each side an I’m done. I think I’ll blow off a few things that need done so’s I get a earlier start on the floor. Gotta w**k this evening and if things go as they have been this week, it’ll be a busy one. Ya’ll have a Great Day!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
JEFF: My parents also have a LION in their front yard...
Morning
Dull and dreary day today...rain to fall on our'n heads later on this morning
Got to get some stuff bought for the New Years get together tomorrow night..that means buying even more stuff that will sit around all month.....then off to check out the LHS and see what is new...and since Rapido is going to make my GMD1's see if I can't throw in a pre-order there as well for 6 of them...heeheehee
Flo, I'll have a coffee for now please..I'll be at the RC for a bit...
Good morning, Chloe. Just coffee this morning, please.
I had an implant to replace a lower molar placed on Wednesday. It was easier than having a filling. The worst part is the liquids and soft food for a week. Everything is white. My diet has been yogurt, cottage cheese, & mashed potatoes. They said to lay low for a few days, but I am finding that hard to do. I find oral surgery with no bleeding a bit odd.
Lee, Glad to hear that the stones were removed. You should be feeling better now. I hope that the stones are not a reoccurring event.
Well, today, we should be on the final leg of painting the kitchen. We may take a break before attacking the entry & hall. I am so sick of plastic on everything.
I need to get back to working on the cyclone on my wood working shop.(layout)
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Ray: According to that one website I posted the Persu Streamliner is in a technology museum in Bucharest...
Lee: Glad to see you back! I know you won't miss that pain.
Good Morning Modelers!
It's currently 34F and Sunny heading for near 60F. Another long weekend ahead and then the long gray winter months from there Time to head to that "W" thing that pays the bills...
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
Good morning. It's 43° and mostly sunny. Foggy this morning. The high will be 68°.I got a first coat of latex paint on most of the vehicle castings last night. Today I'll do the same with the remaining castings then get started on painting in details like grilles, lights and windows. Last will come a layer of weathering and rust.No outside activity is scheduled for today. I'm still hurting from yesterday. That was some serious work for me and I hate moving furniture. A member on another forum said he had to take some pain meds after reading my post from yesterday. Guess I was a bit too graphic.
Columbian roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Jeffrey, that's a cool lion. And unless Marius Pudzianowski lives across the street and decides he wants it for his yard, your folks don't have to worry about anyone wandering off with it.
Thank you for the kind words, folks. Much appreciated. Still in a funk today, but it will pass in time.
Train Front: Been seriously considering selling off a couple of my vintage passenger car groups (U.P. & SantaFe) to put towards a fancy Fox Valley Hiawatha sets. When I was a pre-teen, I tried to model and cast a shell for that loco and didn't do to bad. Never solved how to make the wheel arrangement functional though. Anyway, that would leave me with just 2 site seeing tourist trains for the volcano run. The other being my favorite, the Kato Daylight set.
Tree removal fella is here as I type. Brought a couple guys with him to help move a pile of old limbs, no charge. He knew of my health issues from when he was here previously. They brought a walk behind bobcat thing which makes short work of it. Mighty kind of him and his buddies to do that for me.
Rob
Mornin'.... Ah, yeah, I know it is afternoon, but I couldn't onto the site earlier..... I restarted Firefox saving the open sites, and it still said it was going down a deadend street to get to the Kalmbach site....??? I finally removed the tab, then quit Firefox, restarted, and oipened a new tab... Came right in... I dunno?
Zoe I'll have the Goose egg omlet since those 6 geese a laying are still at it.... Some sourdough toast with lots of real butter would do nicely, and don't forget the dark roast coffee!
Lee, glad you are home and feeling better!
Jeffrey, I like the lion statue! Lion, yours too....
Barry, I clicked on the link after I posted last night and did see the car is not only preserved, but still runs! Cool!
It is 38°F and sunny here in the Finger Lakes today. High will be in the low 40's. I did light the wood stove a while ago. Should keep the other furnaces here from coming on at all today. I need to make more firestarters for it as I used the last one today. I use old candles from my sister and paper egg cartons I have collected over the last year. Melt the wax in a double boiler, and pour it into the egg cartons. They are great, I get a half dozen starters from each one, and cost me nothing....
Hope to also get some quality time again for the layout!
Later!
Afternoon Fellas,
I'll have a toasted Ham & Cheese!
Rob, congrats on the tractor!
Barry, Love your pix!
Jeffrey, hope you feel better
Everyone, Have an Enjoyable New Year!!!
It snowed here! About an inch, it is still warm so I need to go shovel to expose the sidewalks so they melt off. It sure is better that 8+ inches & almost 0 out like most winters at this time..
Take care & Happy New Year!
Here is all gone to slush and gunk...
Apparently, however there is now the idea that we may be seeing all kinds of snowsqualls the beginning of next week..
Chad: Thankee...