Morning Coffee !!!
Good morning again,
Well, well
{groan}
We had the roofer come to look at the trailer roof..he discovered the furnace people "sealed" the roof jack {chimney] to the roof with only regular silicone caulk! Wouldn't /couldn't/DIDN'T hold! He sealed it up with tar gunk. We need a new roof-overlay.That's about $3,600.00 but we should be able to get through the winter with his repair. Now to get the furnace people back out top fix the furnace as I tried to fire it up the other day when cold in AM and it would only "Click" and not fire. I DO hope it isn't because of the bad roofing job they did when they installed the new furnace!!! I MAY have to take them to small claims court.
The roof condition has naught to do with the furnace people, but if the leak caused furnace failure, then I would have a case, I think...they caused the damage by not sealing the roof with correct materials. The roof IS 30 years old and heat/cold can wear on it. We had it sealed again last year AFTER the furnace people were here, BUT the seal coating is only to protect the metal from rusting, not to prevent leaks. A new roof-overlay will cover us for another many years. Since we would like to buy property, I don't relish putting more money into this one!
The plumbing was replaced 10 odd years ago, now the furnace last year and roof this next summer.We also have to have the proch "siding" re-done as the nasty storm's hail shredded it! About $450 in labor alone to redo it..plus materials. We need skirting to be redone too. It never ends..was the vehicles $1000.00 -ing us to death, now the house is. Can't get ahead for being behinder more!
The prayer candle is lit, but we have to go out today to do things, so it will be down for a few hours.. supposed to be nice weather, good for the tar to seal and settle before the rains weare expecting Friday night/Sat morning.
Well, off to the day, I guess.
-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
We are having some warmish, muggy days back for us'uns...84F feeling like 95F today as well....
Today is picking up a bunch of laundry related stuff and a few new things for the studio....
Have a good day!!
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 morning. It's 69° with 100% humidity. There's a fair chance of rain. The high will be 88°.Storms passed through last night. Not much rain but a lot of noise. Looks like we may get some rain today. I really don't feel like working on the layout today. There are no projects to work on so I just don't see the point. I have a Bowser Roadrailer kit but that would take all of about twenty minutes to put together. What then? I have nothing to use it with. It's just one of those things I have for possible trading material. No news on my mothers condition. In that respect no news is good news.
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
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a couple eggs sunny side up, sausage, and some sour dough toast to go along with my dark roast coffee this morning. Oh and make sure you give everyone a refill on their coffee as well.
Happy? You bet! Over the last 21 hours the solar panels have produced over 17 Kw of power. My average daily electric use year round is around 19 Kw. The meter down cellar was spinning backward at a good clip this morning when I checked it...
I will be going over to my son's house a bit later to load up the wood splitter. It will be delivered to the Museum on Saturday so they can get the fuel supply ready for this coming heating season... Since I started bringing it out every fall about 4 years ago, they haven't ever had to use Kerosine in the big pot bellied stove to heat the Depot office when people are out there working. We always have a lot of wood that either comes down or should be taken down along the ROW so I does help the bottom line.
Little by little I am getting all the items needing to get done this summer finished. It was good to see the RR ties get loaded up into the garbage scow yesterday. I need to rototill the old garden space and start putting together the raised beds for next years garden. I may also get a rock to put in the hole left by the Blue Spruce I had taken down. I plan to circle the rock with blocks and have a raised bed to grow strawberries in there.
I, like Jeffrey, have run out of materials to get much more done in the layout room, so I guess I shall occupy my time with some of the other stuff needing to be taken care of.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Afternoon folks.
Flo, Diet Dew Pleases.
Just wanted to stop by and say hello. Spent two hours on the phone talking with Paul from GA. He is just getting into trains and spent some time explaining some things. Real enjoyed talking with him.
See you later, Ken
I hate Rust
Had a bit of a concern this morning. It was time to change the dressing on for lack of a better name my foot when I noticed it was bleeding more than usual. In fact it was bleeding like a stuck pig. Those of a squeamish disposition will want to stop reading now. All others continue at your own risk! Your sanity may be in question or you may discover a masochistic tendency you didn't know you had. You've been warned. A quick examination revealed a bit of bone sticking out of the wound. I cleaned a pair of needle nose pliers in alcohol and went in after it. A bit turned into a piece of shattered curved bone an inch long and almost half an inch wide. Got it out of there and cleaned up the site then bandaged it up. It stopped bleeding fairly quickly so there doesn't seem to be anything else cutting up in there. If it starts up again I'll get it checked out. Looks like I'll have to limit my activity for a while. Those of a squeamish disposition may continue reading at this point. Went down to my parents place to have lunch with my father. I had to turn down a trip to the nursing home due to the aforementioned problem. I'm definitely not up to any long walks and anything over fifty feet for me is long. I'll be down there again this evening for dinner. I had just a little bit of train related work to do. A tank car turned up with a locked wheelset. Somehow a bit of ballast got wedged between a tread and the cast in brake shoe on the truck. It was quickly popped out with a small screwdriver.
Ray, I'm seriously jealous.....especially when my garage gets sunlight on the roof all day long!!
Like to make all that light pay for itself someday!
Karl
NCE über alles!
jeffrey-wimberly Had a bit of a concern this morning. It was time to change the dressing on for lack of a better name my foot when I noticed it was bleeding more than usual. In fact it was bleeding like a stuck pig. Those of a squeamish disposition will want to stop reading now. All others continue at your own risk! Your sanity may be in question or you may discover a masochistic tendency you didn't know you had. You've been warned. A quick examination revealed a bit of bone sticking out of the wound. I cleaned a pair of needle nose pliers in alcohol and went in after it. A bit turned into a piece of shattered curved bone an inch long and almost half an inch wide. Got it out of there and cleaned up the site then bandaged it up. It stopped bleeding fairly quickly so there doesn't seem to be anything else cutting up in there. If it starts up again I'll get it checked out. Looks like I'll have to limit my activity for a while. Those of a squeamish disposition may continue reading at this point. Went down to my parents place to have lunch with my father. I had to turn down a trip to the nursing home due to the aforementioned problem. I'm definitely not up to any long walks and anything over fifty feet for me is long. I'll be down there again this evening for dinner. I had just a little bit of train related work to do. A tank car turned up with a locked wheelset. Somehow a bit of ballast got wedged between a tread and the cast in brake shoe on the truck. It was quickly popped out with a small screwdriver.
What happened to your foot?!?!?!
Samuel A. Kelly
I can draw pictures with my keyboard!
-------- ( It's a worm)
sakelWhat happened to your foot?!?!?!
Ugh. Sorry to hear about it.
sakelUgh. Sorry to hear about it.
Good Evening..
Audrey and I are seriously looking at the solar panel idea for our place now....heeheehee
We had a lovely day today...all of 84F feeling like 95F ....nice and muggy...
Going to be a rainy kind of day tomorrow supposedly...high? ... 68F?
Anyhow...got some things to finish off here then off to...g'night!!
Time for me to call it a night. Had dinner with my father tonight. We got quite a bit of rain, don't know how much yet. Wind is SW at 4 mph gusting to 21. I have to be at my parents place in the morning to meet the repairman for the a/c unit. Condenser coil needs to be replaced. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf for me at the moment.
I picked up the wood splitter at my son's house with the help of my son and granddaughter #2... She climbed up on the trailer and basically got in the way (her way of helping). She was also talking non-stop the whole time I was there... She was very happy to be helping "Papa"! I didn't mind her getting in the way and did watch her for safety... Had to make some deliveries and pick up a few things around town and then just hung around the computer here until I had to go to a camp properties committee meeting tonight. Nothing at all got done on the layout today except I picked up another bag of ballast at the hobby shop while I was delivering some announcement sheets for the NMRA there.
Oh-oh! looks like I have started something.... Karl and Barry, in NYS Solar is surprisingly affordable at the moment. First the price of the systems has dropped considerably in the past few years. The total installation cost for my system is $16,870. NYSERTA, a NYS energy research and development agency gets funds from every Kw of electricity (It is about $3 per month on my bill) sold in NYS. In part, because of the work of this agency, the cost of electric here is now lower than it was just 5 years ago... I applied for and received a grant of $6,480 from that source ($1.50 per watt). There is also a Federal Tax Credit in the US (non-reimbursable, meaning you have to be paying that much in Fed taxes to qualify) of 30% of the remainder of the cost. For me that is $3,117 that I can take off this years taxes when I file next year. For residents of NYS there is another 25% tax reimbursement as well. I don't qualify for that as my retirement income (all I live on) is not taxable in NYS. So for me my total cost for the system is $7,273. If I was still teaching, it would be all of $4675.50. Now before somebody gets all bent out of shape, the Tax credits are exactly the same type of thing big oil and coal get all the time. It is only recently that individuals can qualify to get these credits.
Karl and Barry, check out what is available where you live to see what the cost is.... It varies from State (and country, of course) to state... For us here in NYS it helps the utility companies be more profitable as well as lowering the cost of electric. Very much a win - win situation! The times of day when solar is producing the most energy, is exactly the time of day when the power companies are purchasing the most expensive electricity from the least efficient and dirtiest power plants and they get to sell the excess power we produce at full profit. Everyone using electric benefits, and I hope no one is against creating clean, renewable energy that doesn't have ties to the middle east...........
OK, off the , just my ! Now I'll be quiet and go drink my coffee.
Hope everyone has a safe and pleasant night! Prayers for all in need.
Hi All
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Well work was a pain, so all was normal
Ray, if the solar panels happen to make more power than you used, do you get a check from the electric company?
Jeffery With the one foot being such a useless mass of flesh, why was it not removed? Heck I all most had to fight to keep my toe.
See you all later!
Ken
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
Today is Friday, September 14, 2012.
Pennsylvania RR bridge in Richmond IN built 1902-03.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Morning Coffee in the Diner
GOOD MORNING!!!
Smile, and Make someone's day!!!
Smile, and Make YOUR day, too!!!
We know there is no such thing as a free lunch, SO:
there ain't no such thing as a free lunch - you never get something for nothing - now a common business expression, often used in acronym form 'TANSTAAFL', the first recorded use of this version was by Robert Heinlein in his 1966 book 'The moon is a harsh mistress'. The general expression 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' dates back to the custom of America 19th century bars giving free snacks in expectation of customers buying drink. American economist Milton Friedman, who won the 1976 Nobel prize for economics, did much to popularise the expression in that form and even used it as a title for one of his books
So, eatup and enjoy PAYING for your lunch!!
Gonna be a dull rainy day today...high of 70F expected....
mmmmm...that reminds me...fall cleaning project number 34...remember to go after all the cobwebs behind my effect racks....eeeeewwwwwwwww.....
Ray: Hydro One has a pretty good program up here as well...gotta look into this one a little further...
Good Morning all,
66F, 78% Humidity, HI 68F, Scattered Thunderstorms
Ray, electric meter running backwards at a pretty good clip sounds great to me. It sounds like it’s time to convert everything from natural gas to electric and add solar panels to my house!
Jeff, that sounds completely miserable.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning!!!
BBQ rib platter with potato salad, coleslaw and baked beans with molasses please. Oh and a Dr Pepper too thank you.
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 74.
When Jeff warns you if you’re squeamish I know what he’s gonna say. Learned that last time, or was it the time before. Anyway, needless to say I was prepared for what was to follow.
Haven’t done anything to speak of on the shower for what, a couple days now due to “other things” and today appears to be a repeat. Yes, “other things”.
Ya’ll have a good 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, Diners. I would like a large coffee and a cinnamon roll, please, Chloe.
Ray, I am excited to see how you do in the winter. Are you further north than we are? Does the panel heat the water, too?
Tomorrow I leave on the ladies climbing trip. We are not roughing it. We have a view of Grand Coulee Dam from our hotel room on Saturday. There are six of us going, so it will be a lot of fun.
I will try to check in on Monday.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
cudaken Jeffery With the one foot being such a useless mass of flesh, why was it not removed? Heck I all most had to fight to keep my toe.
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Good morning. It's 70° and mostly cloudy with a fair chance of rain. The high will be 88°.I'm at my parents house this morning waiting on the a/c repair guy to show up. He's supposed to replace a condenser coil on the system in the east wing. I'm on the far side of the house in the west wing where the a/c is working beautifully. He's supposed to know what door to come to. Looks like the weather is going to be wet and rainy today so no outdoor projects for me. Later I may get some work in on the layout. Depends on how I feel then. If it's how I feel now I may just go back to bed. The dizziness has returned and my ears are ringing. Hopefully it clears up. No more trouble with the Athearn tank car yesterday. The GP9F's got a good run.
Morning Gentlemen
Just in for a cup of coffee and a hello. :-)
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
Morning folks,
Currently 59 with an expected high of 92 humidity 45%.
Stopped at the hospital yesterday before and after work. Wife still has some bleeding and did a red blood cell scan last night when I was ther to see if they could find out where. Have not heard anything on that yet.
Wednesday, I did weather some rail. It did not come out as good as I wanted, but it is better than the shinney stuff. I may try Jeff's idea of using household latex paint. At least I can get that locally, instead of driving 50 miles to the closest hobby shop, which is a Hobby Town, and they do not always have a lot of rail road stuff.
I have a closer today, so a stop at the hospital before work. I should get home around 10:30 tonight, then I open tomorrow so I need to leave here by 7:30 A long few days for sure.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
Hello all
Blue skies and cool weather here in Va. Nice day to have an outside job. Great day if you have a garden railroad : ) . Which I dont : ( . Oh well , maybe next year.
Started the day off the wrong way. Had to fire a crew of eight men. Sad thing, made every effort to correct the condition but they refused to perform the work correctly even after eight wornings , calls to their supervisor etc... Hate to do that especially in this econimic times.
Jeff - I have a friend who just had his left leg amputated. It was run over by a bull dozer (OUCH ! ) and to my cmplete astonishment he said they have a computer in the leg ! He had to go to a special place to learn to walk with the leg (two or three weeks ) but any way he is much happeir now. He is off just about all of the meds and seems to be happier. I hope the insurance/medicaid thing can be turned around for you. Living with conditions like that are miserable.
Gotta go to prepare for a meeting with my boss.
Ah..., Hmmmmm, Afternoon folks! I started to say good morning several times only to interrupted. Son and daughter #2 stopped in to oogle at the roof... He had just come from the Barber shop, reminding me I needed to get my ears lowered again myself before museum duty this weekend. By the time i got home from the barber shop it was time to feed kittie cats and myself lunch. Zoe, I just need a coffee refill for the moment.
Ken, yes it can be done that way I believe. However, my understanding is it would just go against the total Utility bill (I get Natural Gas from the same company). There should be 3 months of the year where I should be producing more electric than I will be using (June, July, and August).
Sue, I think I might be just a little South of where you live (Trying to recall exactly where you live....). The amount of sunshine in this part of the world is considerably less than in the Southwest Dessert, but still plenty enough to make the thing work in my favor. During the winter months it will produce less electric because of the shorter daylight hours and the angle of the sun. This array should produce about 70% or slightly more of my total electric needs over the course of a year. To get the grant, the roof has to be within a SSE to SSW position and can't have much shading at any time during the day from trees or other buildings. Therefore not every house is a good candidate for them. MY roof came in at 84% of the available sunshine. It has to be able to use a minimum of 80% of the sunshine at that spot to be allowed.
Barry, Lee, and others, if you are thinking in terms of Solar Power, do a lot of research!!! Every installation is somewhat unique. Contact experienced and trustworthy companies for quotes and do the math to see which matches your needs the best. I could have gone with a more powerful system and paid less than $1,000 up front for a lease... And then paid thru the teeth later on or saddled my kids with some hefty payment after I die. Not what I wanted to do, so what I have seemed to be the best fit for my needs.
My son invited me over to his house for a fish dinner tonight. Son was about ready to pull out of the driveway when the Code Officer drove in. He stopped by to tell me the Fire Marshal doesn't need to inspect the installation after all. He said that is for businesses only. If my house burns down... Oh well, too bad (grin)! So all he still needs to do is just walk through all the places used for the installation too say he has seen it after the independent contractor does his inspection. then NYSEG needs to check it out, change over to a new meter, and it is done.
YGW, never a fun job to fire people... I have had to do that working for the Boy Scouts on a couple of occasions. At least they were being let go for their own doing. My son at Argonne Labs had to let go over 100 employees due to downsizing. He was devastated to have to do that to people. When it gets so it doesn't bother you, it is time to do something else!
Doubt I will do much on the layout today...
Catch you all later!
yougottawanta Started the day off the wrong way. Had to fire a crew of eight men. Sad thing, made every effort to correct the condition but they refused to perform the work correctly even after eight wornings , calls to their supervisor etc... Hate to do that especially in this econimic times.
Well the a/c repairman came while I was putting together my morning post. He replaced the condenser coil and did a couple of other things my father wanted done. Total was $1400. Glad that's not my house. I took a look at the electric bill one day. My bank account screamed and fainted! The repairman left shortly before 10:30 so I returned home. Turned on my computer when I got here and discovered I had no internet service. A quick call to Suddenlink on my cell phone revealed that there was an outage in the area and that it would be corrected soon. Internet service was restored about 11:30. Had to change the dressing on my foot as I was leaving a trail. I feel better than I did earlier so that's a plus. I may get a little layout work in later. There's always something that needs to be done.
Hello and happy Friday!
Ray ... Your new system is impressive, but I am wondering about your comments. Government funded over half of the investment, but you say that is okay because energy companies get over half paid by the government for their investment costs. I'll have to read the financial statements for the energy companies more carefully. No wonder government debt is sky high.
YGW ..... Sometimes, there are tough work assignments like firing people. I can recall preparing company budgets when the economy was struggling. If revenues decrease, costs must do likewise. That can mean job cuts.
Bill T .... I really like the old photo of the bridge!
Jeff ... When you talk about your foot, I cringe. Prayers for you.
On the model railroad, I have been working on my (blankety blank) Bachmann GE 44T loco again. This project is an example of why we should only install DCC in DCC-ready locos.
Cheers, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Evening...
A nice wet day was had by us up here..it is all sunny and a lot warmer now than it was earlier..
Been a quiet day as well...picked up a few things from Lee Valley tools and had a rather nice lunch at a diner near here...then started work on another elevator..this one may end up being a center piece to the blob at the end of the peninsula....
Ray: We are looking at it rather closely here....
Evening All,
Today was pretty frustrating. Wasted it driving my son around to complete the requirements to get a DL. Of course he was in line for several hours, it was 5 PM at the DMV, he was being taken care of and he had forgot his SS card. Needless to say I was not happy. So I get to take him back on Monday-lucky me.
On the MRR front I plan on working on the container area Sun or Mon.
Ray- Hope the solar power works out for you. MOH insisted several years ago on a small solar install to warm our pool. She says she can feel the difference but I can't.
Jeff- Hope your foot is doing better.
Paul- Continue to say prayers for your wife. I used Jeff's suggestion on latex paint for the rails and I am very happy with it.
Todd- I have a Spectrum 44T and I have given up on it. It is now a piece of scenery.
Chris- Looks like nice progress on your layout.
Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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