JimRCGMO We didn't get as much yesterday as what I was expecting from our "100 percent chance" forecasted by our weather gurus (but I'm not that disappointed...). Jeff, your r**n must have just gone east from Louisiana this time.
We didn't get as much yesterday as what I was expecting from our "100 percent chance" forecasted by our weather gurus (but I'm not that disappointed...). Jeff, your r**n must have just gone east from Louisiana this time.
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Jim this cough can't go away fast enough.
Good Afternoon!
I woke up this morning with a bad case of arrhythmia, so I had to spend all morning at the doctor´s place, hooked up to an IV bag with something I could not identify. The heart rate is better, but now I feel funny in my head. No MRRing or w*rking on the boat today...
Jim - the kit is definitively not one of the shake-the-box kind. It is not overly complicated to assemble, but you have to take your time. It is a fun project, though.
Going to retire to the sofa - I am not feeling well.
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Good Morning, Zoe - I'll have a glass of Ed's OJ, a blueberry bagel and a Rio Grande mug of coffee, please. Thank you, Ma'am!
Hope (in the U.S.) everyone's starting to adjust to the time change and was able to rest okay last night. I tried to not do my usual bit of staying up too late doing stuff (that really could wait...).
Todd, good luck with "The Twins" and your tag team match (except, without a team member for your side)! You may want another "ace in the hole" besides the grouting one. Curt's idea sounds good (if I were the one in your position, which I'm not) Maybe you could quote Sue as someone you "read about online" who did the tile thing - and regretted it? Good to hear that Ziva still has a few more days to show up with your (cough...) birthday card, too.
Ulrich, your boat sounds like a project or so that I've tackled - pace yourself and don't think too far down that road (yeah, I remember, definitely do not get in a rush...)! Sounds like you are doing the craftsmanlike thing and taking your time. Excellent pics of your locos in the modules - they are great for showing off your locos, all right!
Garry - a good reminder for us about the earthquake and tsunami anniversary.
MoeLarryCurly4, hope you get your 'bug' gone ASAP!
Well Galaxy, I guess Rob was your lightning rod tester for you (and he didn't get bleeped!).
OzJim, on your bridge(s) support, what about a trestle in that spot? Wouldn't be too involved to make, and it may give you some options for lining up your bridges.
Hey, lookee, everybody - Bill' T.s photo shows that Snap-Track is prototypical!
Our weatherguessers are saying that by Thursday or so, the wet stuff will return. None of the drippy-drippy this morning (moved across the river to Garry's neck o' the woods), and it's supposed to reach the 70's (F) today and tomorrow and likely the day after that. Shame I'm at w**k these 3 days - prime painting weather for me! Ah, well, "tomorrow will be another day" (as somebody said...).
And w**k is... w**k. Heard talk that the upstream bunch is thinking of having our two people who cover the office in daytime, to also cover our outlying counties (where none of us are familiar with the roads or where things are...). (Good Lord, deliver us!)
I'll settle in here at the window booth and see what trains are going by this morning.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape G.
Good Morning!! Coffee and scrambled eggs with sausage gravy and an order of hash browns please. Thanks. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 74. Breezy, with a south southwest wind between 14 and 22 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. I’m really enjoying the photos being posted. Thanks for the effort. It makes me “homesick” so to speak. I really feel the urge to get back into the swing of things. It seems something always comes up though. Curt- Actually, though it’s a royal pain, the plumbing is not what I’m not sure of. It’s the actual tiling and building of the shower that’s got me hesitant.
Good Morning!! Coffee and scrambled eggs with sausage gravy and an order of hash browns please. Thanks.
Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 74. Breezy, with a south southwest wind between 14 and 22 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
I’m really enjoying the photos being posted. Thanks for the effort. It makes me “homesick” so to speak. I really feel the urge to get back into the swing of things. It seems something always comes up though.
Curt- Actually, though it’s a royal pain, the plumbing is not what I’m not sure of. It’s the actual tiling and building of the shower that’s got me hesitant.
Cutting and pasting Sue’s comment on too much work to keep clean. This comes from another woman and should carry more weight than a man. I think.
Jim- No word from Ziva yet. Must have gotten sidetracked. Probably busy. Besides my Birthday isn’t until Sunday so she has time to surprise me yet.... Well, the two stores across from each other does have it’s disadvantages, but they spin into advantages. Like I didn’t have to drive back and forth across town to look. After a while, you will kinda get to know what you would get from either store. For instance, I get what construction lumber I need from Lowe’s simply because it’s inside and I get to pick and see what condition it is before I buy it. Menard’s is buy the ticket and then head out to the yard and get it then find out there is only pretty much scrap there until the restock shows. Except for smaller boards and some fancy boards. Also when I had to match trim, the size at Menard’s was not the same, but at Lowe’s it was. They often do that. But in general, for like items Menard’s is usually cheaper. Oh and the waitress thing, it’s worth it.
I too have the supermarket. I’m thinking of turning it into an auto parts store. Just a thought.
Barry- Yes I know what you mean about the multiple stores and the "let's see what so and so has" effect. They claim to beat others prices, but like the big computer stores, they never carry the exact like item. It’s nice to have the selections though so as not to have to settle for something you really need but don’t like completely.
Well, today I have to do the weekly bookwork for the Church. Had the fish fry Friday so that means I’ll have to drive to town and pay the fish bill to the meat place. While I’m there I mmay just stop off at Arby’s (no affiliation) and get a Reubin sandwich I see on TV. I will not be sucking 1000 island dressing through a straw though. Just not my bag man.
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.
good morning...cough....cough... hack...
Chloe, I need to do a quick check in and out before the power goes out. High winds with light rain. I will have coffee in a NP mug to go.
Sue
Top of the page. I buy.
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Mornin'....
zzzzzzzz...gesnufflesnort....uh? wha?...oh...I'm awake..wellll...kinda....
Did not get much sleep last night...beleagured beakus kept me awake all night with stupid songs running through my head....
Going to be somewhat rainy and drizzly today...high of 65F forecast today....
Got some more stuff to do today for floor wars, London ON division, part...mmmm..can't remember....namely a few woodtrim things need got and a few more nails for the dang trim....
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/
Galaxy,
You are always in bright and early, I guess you're a morning person? By my Calculations It is just before 6am when you posted...
Always wondered...
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s
GOOD MORNING!!!
Today is Monday, March 12th, 2012!!!
Keep Smiling all day long!!!
Enjoy your day!!!
-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! from Tipton IN.
NE Interlocker (NS Ft Wayne IN)under construction around seven years ago.
I worked on this project as a Construction Gang Signalman.
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Afternoon folks. Monday night here.
JIMCG: I agree The pier there is more or less temporary. I plan on getting a smaller strip of timber or taking about a third of the current one off.
I ended up starting with the hydrocal last night, but ran short, so I'm going to try pick some more up this week. I got 95% of the river banks covered but there is a few patches I need to re do.
I'll check back again later.
Cheers.
It's a late sign-off for me. One of the storms passing through earlier knocked out the cable service to this area so everyone out here who has cable internet was off line until about a half hour ago. That was around 5:45 pm. Anybody needing rain water for anything, get your tank car down here. Rain is forecast for the next couple of days and after a short break it looks like we're in for a week of rain from the 17th to the 23rd. The lake is already overfull and water is roaring over the spillway. I can hear it from here and the spillway is almost half a mile away.See y'all tomorrow.
Evening Dinners!
"Groaning Sound as I sit down" Flo, Beer please.
Good Thing We Closed At 6:00 PM! Did not get out till 8:24! Slow in the morning but got busy after 3:00 PM and stayed that way! Again I got the Nut jobs that wanted 4 tires for $400.00, but the cheapest tires in there sizes was $125.00 plus installation and taxes. Or the Lady that had tires installed by Auto Tire 2 years ago and wants to sue them because they did not make her get a alignment, she never rotated the tires, has a bad tie rod end and wants 4 tires that are $185.00 each for $265.00 for all 4 installed? I all so took care of 2 of Keith's customer and gave him the sale. Mean while Dave and Larry where taking in tickets they got paid for. Well, the prices of being a Good Guy I guess?
By the way, that is my Charger when it was used in a TV ad for Gateway Raceway Complex a few years ago. The 01 was a static decal.
Dang I am beat.
Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Just a decaf for me Janie. I'll go sit by the stove and warm up a bit.
Was a nice pre-spring day here in the Finger Lakes Region. Temp got all the way up to 64°F today. Sunny and mild. Going back down to 38°F tonight. Too lazy to go light the wood stove.
Didn't even visit the layout rooms today..... Had a good time at the 3 stooges get together.... Talked about some history of the Canandaigua band program. Learned a couple things I didn't know from the other two and also provided a couple of things they didn't know as my dad was on the School board in the early 60's. The original band uniforms (WWI style) were purchased by the local Rotary Club as a gift to the school in 1936. Rotary had started the band actually around 1930 and it was taken over by the schools in 1936. The Rotary club actually paid the salary of the first Band teacher in the district (half time teacher) for the first few years of the program. Those same uniforms were still in use (I wore one) for marching in 1964, the year we graduated from Canandaigua Academy. They were finally replaced in 1965..... They were used for a long time! We hated them as all the other schools had new ones and we thought ours were just plain dorky!
We enjoyed a great steak dinner (first cookout of the year) from out host, and continued to chat for a couple more hours.
Barry, glad your operations went well! If nothing bad happened, you must have been running solo......
Hope all of you have a great night, and prayers for in need!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Evening
It has been something of a productive day...I got home in the early afternoon and did discover that Audrey had a small HD list for me..mostly outdoor backyard cleanup..I did not mind as I was out in the sun and enjoyed every minute of it.......the scenery looked very good....
Oh..and I got to run my trains again tonight...and no accidents, derailments, head on collisions, gone to ground thingees occurred .....
CN. PM sent....
Todd: Audrey knows of only the Home Desperate down this way...she does not know about Copps Buildall, Lowes, Woollatt, or Cashway Lumber stores...otherwise I would be hiking on a weird and bizarre quest for one lousy sink.....
Good Evening, Flo. I'll have a bowl of the beef stew and a RBF, please. Thank you!
Inch, nice pic of that IC Alco there, too. On your viaduct, if that was a NYC one, I'm not very surprised that it's still standing now. Sharp-looking grandson there that you have.
Todd, how's the cleaning up for Ziva coming along? And have you told Brenda yet? Hope your return trip on the sink went well... (You're right though, that would be quite nice of Ziva to drop by your place) I'm trying to figure out from your account of the 'Brenda' trip whether it really IS an advantage to have both Menard's and Lowe's across from each other - well, I guess since you got (you did get it, right?) the stainless sink after all that, it w**ked out okay. (Except for the Chinese waitress deal...)
Well (getting a little fill-in this afternoon from the sky), I may not qualify for Lee's RSA group - when I went and checked my inventory, I was a fair bit under 200 total (even if I did order some MRR stuff lately that had 3 or 4 covered hoppers in the order). So maybe at some time this year I may be able to join up.
Lee, you do have a good variety of RR roads in your collection there. I'm still deciding whether I can justify how few of the big Eastern RR's that I have (3 or fewer each of New Haven, NYC, C&O, Rock Island, MoPac). I do have a CP boxcar, though... But then again, I could rationalize it by my CAW being a small bridge line between two Western RR's, so we don't get much coming out way from 'back East' (as my grandmother used to call it).
Garry, please keep those photos of your downtown area coming - I am loving them! Nice job (and thanks for the tip) on that little 'supermarket', too)!
Galaxy, I'm sure that you and your OH are about grinnin' ear-to-ear, with getting THAT furnace paid off without any interest! Every 'little' bit helps, eh?
Rob, glad to hear the family get-together was a fun time for everybody (maybe, except for your sister missing her first plane back). Verde Grande RR? Alrightee! I bet that's an Arizona (or at least Southwestern) RR, right?
Ulrich, that (Bluenose?) ship of yours is looking great (and way to go with scoring the bargain on the paint, too)! Bet it will look even better when you have it painted and done.
Jeff, is that the same baggage car you had posted (with less rust) quite a while back in here? Man, that is REALLY weathered!
Ken, glad you were able to catch a breather from w**k for even one day. But hope you made some commisssion from your extra day in.
Barry, good that you have a wife who knows what to look for (for you) at the neighborhood sales. Hey, now you went and posted that 'rustic' Echo Lake building, and I have a hankering to built that... Of course, the stone for the chimney and all will be a bit interesting (unless I try to carve it out from POP, and even that will be new territory for me...)
Johnboy - on those chains for your flatcar load, are the ones A-Line makes too big? I have bought some of those (but haven't got them out to try with some of my flatcar loads yet).
OzJim, will your pier between those two Atlas bridges be thinner than the wood you have in there right now? If you can figure how to trim it a little thinner, that might help you place the bridges the way you want. (Just my of an idea...)
VegaV8, I'm not sure that I would ever say that our government (lately) makes sense. 'Nuff said...
Well, I'd best be heading for home now. Will try to catch up on the rest of the (currently) 2 or 3 pages of posts tomorrow, hopefully. Prayers for those still adjusting their sleep to the 'new' time (but as was said by Ken, it'll be good to have a bit more daylight after I get off w**k tomorrow), and for the rest of us in need (for various parts of our lives).
Blessings,
Anyone need some rain? Come and get it! I got plenty! It's pouring down here. My satellite dish has blacked out four times in the last ten minutes. Good thing I didn't have anything important to do outside.
Stourbridge LionJust back inside from Spring Cleanup work with a 3-day forecast of 70+ days coming.
Good Afternoon,
A beautiful day here, about 50F and with the sun the snow is melting fast.
Barry, I will be in London Tuesday and Wednesday. Perhaps we could get together for a coffee on Tueday evening or Wednesday evening. Send me a PM.
CN Charlie
One last coffee refill, please.
***Hey Galaxy, ever seen Josie and the Pussycats reading from Puss in Boots under a pussywillow tree in full pussywillow bloom with the song What's New Pussycat playing in the background? Just wonderin'.
Somehow got the rest of the hay put out. Having some painful (male) health issues today. Should heal/pass with enough rest, I hope.
Rob
Hi all
did the laundry, dishes and some spring cleaning.
Opened up the window and door for fresh air to come rolling in on a day in the 60*s and getting warmenr the next few days gotta love it!
Now, Nuts, I have to also get the A/C ready to run! Not because the days are that hot, but because the trailer heats up that much on warmer days. ANd now with my oxygen generator creating extra heat in the BR, we wil have to soon get the window A/C back in there as soon MOH will start complaining about the heat at night too.
The Pussywillow is in full bloom..hopefully the censor won't block that word out. Other trees are starting to bud early. This could be damaging to other crops this summer though wihtout the hard freeze of winter to help.
Well, dinner will be salmon over rice and asparagus tips that we were supposed to have last night.
The extra daylight hour will be great, have t o adjust the timer on the hall lights so they don;t come on so early now.
OK, who's idea was it to not only add an extra work day into the schedule last month and now subtracts an hour out of my weekend!!! Just back inside from Spring Cleanup work with a 3-day forecast of 70+ days coming. Hope all my MR friends have had a great (even though shorten) weekend!
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
Calling it a day for today. A few more minutes at the idiot box, then it´s nighty-night for me!
See y´all tomorrow!
It was such a beautiful day here in Pittsburgh, being in the low 60's and quite sunny. Much too nice a day to sit indoors. So we grabbed the camera and went to one our railfanning sites. We were there for about an hour and a half and caught 6 Norfolk Southern freights. Two intermodals and four mixed freights. I feel really fortunate to live so close to the NS main coming in and out of Conway Yard. It's not always that busy, but early Sunday afternoons seems to be a good time. I read others who post from areas who only see one or two freights a week, and they usually run at night. I guess I'm spoiled with all the railroad activity around Western PA.
Getting ready for a nice dinner of Delmonico Roast, baked potatoes, whole kernel corn, and a nice bottle of Reisling from Seneca Lake. Then butterscotch pudding for desert. That's all going to kick the blood sugar up a bit, but it will be worth it.
Hope everyone had a nice weekend. If your not retired and have to go to work on Monday morning, please don't slam the door on the way out of the house as some of us are planning to sleep in.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Afternoon,
Getting ready to leave for w**k. MOH has been quilting all day. I couldn't help myself and completely finished the dirt road section. I will take some photos Thursday after I am on my weekend and everything dries. I think it goes well with the coaling tower.
MCL4- Hope you feel better real soon.
Ulrich- Those photos look real.
Everybody take care and have a good day.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
***Ulrich, superb pics there.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Still have the dang bug....
need oilrig to clear sinus just drill right there.......
hop everyone has a better day
Let us all be mindful today is the one year of Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster. Prayers for about 19,000 who perished.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Guten Abend!
The sun is slowly setting on this side of the Big Pond - supper time is ahead of us. It´ll be just sandwiches tonight, we have to go easy on our food spending this month.
I painted the hull ( bottom part) in a glossy red color - those new water-based colors are darn good! They cure in about an hour, so the hull now has 3 layers of red paint on it. It´ll be more sanding tomorrow to smooth it out a little. Once the whole boat is painted, I will give it a spray coat of glossy clear lacquer. Still a long way to go - when I look what I will have to do to install the rigging ...
I also toyed around with my camera, just because Sue likes some of my pictures. Here is today´s harvest:
My friend later came over earlier this afternoon - he brought 3 battery operated LED lights with him, which I fastened to the upper board on the shelf as layout lighting. There are not that bright, so I will need more of them. You have to place one about every foot. At less than 1 $ a piece that´s quite OK.
It´ll be ham and cheese on toast for me now, so CUL!