TMarsh G- Your meds were kicking in. Who is with YOH on thinking who is messing with schedule? Is the GM with Your Other Half, or is she the one messing with the schedule?
G- Your meds were kicking in. Who is with YOH on thinking who is messing with schedule? Is the GM with Your Other Half, or is she the one messing with the schedule?
I DO have some GOOD drugs..but they don't really affect me in strange ways..except maybe make me sleepy.
The new Dept manager thinks the Store manager is playing withteh schedule and she will confront him on it!!!
-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 All...Its cloudy with lite rain..temp is 41....I'll have coffee and Christmas cookies please.Thank You...Looks like I'm gonna be rolling cookie dough for Sallie's cookies this morning...Not much going on the layout till after Christmas...But Sallie is working on some new scenerey...She calls it Gift bag scenery...if it catches on she may do write up for Model Railroader...
Merry Christmas from the I&S and Illinois Central!....Sallie and Jerry
Coffee in a SOGGY & SOUTHERN mug, please.
Tree: My neighbor had looked at it and after much contemplation, opted not to try pulling it off with his trackhoe. His dad's old monster trackhoe might have stood a better chance, but it was sold some years back. He said "hire a pro". I'll wait for other estimates.
One idea that ran through my brain was to drop it, let it do it's worse to the structure, then hire a couple local fellas to repair the damage. Bet I could have that done for less than the cost of tree removal, considering I am still going to have to repair the damage already done. Especially if I did much of the work myself.
Sheetrock mud is drying nicely around the (HO) layout junk piles. Might be able to start painting and covering it up this evening. Rob
Bah Mu-bug.
Morning Folks.
Flo, cup of Coffee and a rope please.
I am off today but wish I was at work, the customers are less demanding than Sue. But it is the season to spend, even if you cannot afford it. Plus, with it being my day off, she wants me to do some running for her? Wasn't that the reason I bought the second car, so she could do the running?
Any one ever cook a Turkey on a BBQ grill? Out oven is broken and I like to have turkey this Christmas.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have a short stack of banana buttermilk pancakes, side of bacon, and lots of dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug this morning.
Currently 31°F under partly cloudy skies here in the Finger Lakes. High will be 34°F, but all told a nice fall day....
Rob, what ever you do with the tree situation, please make sure you can do it safely!!! I have had way too many close calls in my lifetime with trees. The worst was one where I got knocked out of a tree by a branch that split. Came down destroying the aluminum ladder I was on throwing me into a stand of saplings. One of the saplings split and tore up the outside of my right leg a bit. My wife took one look at it when I got home and drove me to the emergency room at Robert Packer Hospital where she worked. It took 4 stitches and 7 butterflies to to close it up. (The nurse that checked me in asked if I tried to saw off the wrong limb? My wife thought that was a whole lot funnier than I did at the time!) I hobbled around for the next few weeks..... I have also had a few trees that were down decide to roll as I was sawing them (thought they would go the other way). Managed to just get out in time! A man who lived North of here wasn't as lucky last August. The downed tree rolled and pinned him. When he didn't answer his phone for a few days, his son came looking for him. He had been dead for a while, and they figured he didn't die right away! Play it safe!
I need to finish the recording today and make the label and CD cover for the lady.... She will need it in her hands by tomorrow to be able to get it out to some relatives before Christmas.
Guess I best get to w*rk!
Have a safe day all!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning. It's 64° and quite wet. The high will be 71°. There's an 80% chance of strong thunderstorms this morning decreasing to 50% this afternoon.Wet and raining here this morning! I woke up to thunder this morning and could hear heavy rain pounding down on the roof. I'm glad the roof had been fixed and covered with an overroof after it got ripped up by Rita in 2005. FEMA paid for it as there was no way I could afford the materials. Back to the present. It's been raining all morning, heavy, light, heavy but never a break with one thunderstorm after another going through. I have a weather radar link on my forum that gives me quick access to the radar map for this area. It shows more fun stuff coming. Well, grin and bear it I guess. I did more work on the Stoney Mountain castings this morning. There was quite a bit of flash on the white pieces that had to ne sanded off. They look much better now. I'm not sure how friendly the resin dust is but I'm not taking chances with it. I'm making sure to vacuum up any and all dust and debris. The castings are mostly car and truck bodies from the 40's and 50's. A bit old for my layout but you work with what you have. Of the car bodies, there's a 1950 Buick Super Sedan, 1947 Buick Roadmaster Sedan, 1950 Buick Roadmaster station wagon, 1950 Chevrolet panel truck, 1951 Nash Ambassador, 1937 Studebaker pickup, cab of a 1948-50 Ford COE truck, the front and cab of a 1950 Chevy truck, front, and cargo box of a 1937 Reo open box truck. There's also some assorted pieces. A steel liquid storage tank (2.5" wide by 1.5" deep), some assorted crates and tires.
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Hello everybody.
Rob ... More thoughts about the tree and the shed. ... It's too dangerous to take down the tree by yourself. If friends can help with proper equipment while being safe, that is an answer. .... Another approach is to take down the tree and the shed. You should ask yourself if you really need it. ... If you use it to care for your "critters", do you really need the critters? ... If you need to keep the critters, can you find an alternative to this old shed for that? ....... Just some questions for thought starters.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Veggie plate and a coffee refill, please.
***Garry, I thought about removing the tin and even some of the lumber that the tree would hit if I cut it and then dealing with repairs after removing the tree. I do use that shed, especially when floods come. Although it looks old in the photos, that is just old siding put on a relatively new shed. The framework is in excellent shape, except where the tree is crushing it of course.
Got some errands done. Still have some farm chores ahead, after I rest a bit. Not much to report on. Rob
If you've wondered how much paint I have on hand this will give you a pretty good idea. In this location there are fifty half pint cans of flat and satin latex paint. Most are mis-tints and with the small amount I use in any one project they'll last a long time.
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/
It has been one of those days...
Last coffee refill of the day, please.
***Jeffrey, are all those paint containers half full or half empty?
Finished the farm chores. Will need to brave the mud tomorrow with a bale of hay for the big horses. Perhaps it won't rain anymore tonight. Mighty muddy out there.
Will be in a corner booth awhile, resting up again. Rob
Cederstrand Last coffee refill of the day, please. ***Jeffrey, are all those paint containers half full or half empty?
Checked myself into the emergency room last night suffering from kidney stones, I’m home now trying to pass them before tomorrow afternoon’s doctor’s appointment.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
LSWrr Checked myself into the emergency room last night suffering from kidney stones, I’m home now trying to pass them before tomorrow afternoon’s doctor’s appointment.
Evening Folks.
Flo, Beer Please.
Nothing to really say, odd for me. Going to stare out the window for a while at the RC counter.
Ken
Good Evening All,
Getting ready to head home and then on to the museum tonight. Not sure if I had a productive day or not what with trying to get parts ordered from France and all. Sometimes I think I'm in the middle of one of those MontyPython skits "Silly English person- go away or I will be forced to taunt you again." Ah what can you do?
Rob - not to drag it all out, but one real issue with dropping the tree even where it is is the balance point is way up above the roof and it will kick up (and possibly roll) if you do cut it loose. We know you need the building and we know you don't want to pay a lot, but when you're tempted to do the job, just repeat this handy mantra "no good will come of this".
Ken - another brilliant day at w..k eh? Hang in there, anything on the horizon new job wise?
Lee - hope you recover all right. Sounds painful. Don''t they ultrasonic those now?
Jerry - love yournew scenic technique. Could be good for the cover of MRR this time next year. Be sure to give the missus full credit or you'll never hear the end of it.
Todd - Is maybe Brenda getting back at you for the year you got her a vacuum cleaner for Christmas? You did at least get to put a ribbon on the compressor, right? How would it look with a string of coloured lights? (Probably too much for the circuit breaker and then you'll be doing rewiring as well - ask me how I know - just like a new bathroom means a new ceiling just below when the leaks takes it down).
Time to head out - enough frivolity for one day. CUL, J.R.
jeffrey-wimberly LSWrr: Checked myself into the emergency room last night suffering from kidney stones, I’m home now trying to pass them before tomorrow afternoon’s doctor’s appointment. OUCH! You have my sympathy! I've had only one but it was the size of an almond. Somehow they got it broken up.
LSWrr: Checked myself into the emergency room last night suffering from kidney stones, I’m home now trying to pass them before tomorrow afternoon’s doctor’s appointment.
OUCH! You have my sympathy! I've had only one but it was the size of an almond. Somehow they got it broken up.
I'd be passed out by now!! Not good at all!...take care ...
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Good Evening
Quiet day today..tomorrow will be the day o chaos and mayhem as we do the turket buying and al else..all I can say is that I am glad that the Christmas present buying stuff is dealt with..
I'll just have a coffee for now please..I'll join Ken at the RC for a bit.
Evening All,
Still at work tonight and nothing much going on here. My son called me and my loco is in. Unfortunately I get off at midnight tonight and have to be in first thing tomorrow until 4 PM, so I can't test it until tomorrow evening.
Lee- Hope the stone passes quickly.
Jeff- That is a heck of a lot of paint.
Everyone take care of yourselves.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Hamburger patty smothered in onions, please.
***Lee, wishing you the best. Yikes!
The-bayer came through with the part(s) required. Just came up from running trains. Hooked up a pair of Dash 8-40BW's (BNSF & SF) to the new (N) CMX cleaning car and pushed it around the outside tracks. Had to make an adjustment to the car when the flip up metal bar kept coming loose and shorting things out. That done, no further issues. Then, transfered the CMX car to the inner tracks where a pair of F7A Bluebonnets took over. The car cleaned the tracks great, just like it's big (HO) brother did for the HO layout. Didn't realize how much I have missed running trains until tonight. It was rather therapeutic. Need to do this more often.
Time to eat dinner! Rob
Curt Webb Jeff- That is a heck of a lot of paint.
OUCH!!! If kidney stones are anything like gallstones, you've got all my sympathy. I've had gallstones and they were a new level of hell. But, as someone once said, this too shall pass.
..... 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.
I did some work on the resin castings today.
Evenin' folks! Happy Hanukkah!
Janie just a decaf, and maybe a slice of the pumpkin pie as well (sugar was great at 109).
Lee....... OUCH! I have had three kidney stones, and I DO NOT WANT A FOURTH! When I had my first one I was dating a lady who had two children and one kidney stone in her lifetime. She said she would much rather have a kid than pass a kidney stone!!! I managed to pass all three by myself. I couldn't believe something the size of radish seed could cause THAT much pain. They say it is worse than a heart attack for pain. The urologist and I tracked the problem for me down to working in the sun all day at Boy Scout Camp, going to the "Roundtable" and eating a few hand fulls of peanuts, not hydrating enough, and then going to bed..... about 3 AM I felt like someone had shot me in the side...... Mine were the common type, Calcium Oxalate. All I can say is drink, drink, drink... Your best bet to pass it on your own. And don't take any codeine for the pain, tough it out (if you can). Codeine shuts the kidneys down........
Jeffrey, the vehicles look great!
Barry, don't think I would want to climb under that car and do anything...... Wonder why they are lifting like that?
Finished the CD today and gave a copy to the lady who ordered it. She gave me a call mid evening and said she loved it and it is great. So I just have to burn 5 more for her and do the labels, insert, etc. I also spent a bit of time downstairs in the train rooms. Have another siding in place, and the last one has the ties glued in place. I will finish THAT area tomorrow. Hope to get it wired up as well.
I got a nice response to the nastygram I sent to Walthers a few days ago. I placed an order with them only because they had a part in stock I need to keep going on the powerhouse.... Guess what didn't get shipped. All the other thing I bought came but not the one I absolutely needed. Got an email today apologizing saying the parts had just arrived and were in the process of being put in stock but were not yet on the shelf when i placed the order. They now have a small stock of them and do I want them to ship them out with no shipping charge? I answered in the affirmative!
Hope you all have a great night!
Chamomile tea. please.
***Jeffrey, nice work on those autos. Especially like the blue and dark colored ones.
Have a good night all. Rob
Good Morning,
If the stone is 4mm or less they want you to try and pass it on your own, mine is right at 4mm according to the cat scan. In 1998 I had 6 stones move at once shutting down my left kidney so I was in surgery in less than 24 hours having them removed and to re-start the kidney. This is way too close to Christmas for this to happen, I had travel plans. So now everything is in limbo. I have a high amount of calcium in my blood stream. Good thing is I’ve broken very few bones over the years, bad thing is I’ll be high risk for kidney stones for the rest of my life.
Jeff you did a nice job on those cars.
I’m going to hold out as long as I can before taking another Oxycodone-Acetaminophen…
Good Morning ! from Tipton IN.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning Gang,
I am slowly getting out of the doldrums, thanks to Petra pushing me a little. What would I do without her? I owe her so much. I wish I could buy her a little Christmas present - well, I have put some money aside for that. I will go looking for something sweet for her today, just as a little thank you for bearing with me in such bad times.
I´d also like to the opportunity to say thank you to all of you. The warm welcome you´d given and the friendship which has developed over the time means so much to me - more than I have words for. Without that friendship, and the gracious gift from the "mail box buddies" I most likely would not have survived this year, with all its challenges, health, ailing parents.
As Christmas is rapidly approaching, let me express my best wishes to you and your families. May you have a wonderful and heart warming time!
Blessings to all of you!
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Wednesday, December 21, 2011!!!
{Yes already!!!}
Only 4 more days til CHristmas!!!
jeffrey-wimberly If you've wondered how much paint I have on hand this will give you a pretty good idea. In this location there are fifty half pint cans of flat and satin latex paint. Most are mis-tints and with the small amount I use in any one project they'll last a long time.
SPRAY CAN rembrandt???
NA!
looks more like the "half pint mis-tint" Rembrandt!!!