Evenin'
Too darn tired to much else but sit in corner and....zzzzzzzzzzzz.....
g'nite....
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/
Temp is 70 heading for 65 and mostly cloudy. Time for me to call it a night. Been a quiet day. 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
Evening Folks
Flo, beer pleases. (there a shocker for you)
Pretty tired right now so I will post about today Thursday.
Have you ever had a odd dream that became true? I did last night and today it happened. No, I did not get the possible new job and I did not win the Lottery.
Nor was Jungle Pam Involved, I wish.
See you all Thursday.
Ken
I hate Rust
chochowillie Ok Jeffrey, sounds plausible to me. CDN Dennis
Ok Jeffrey, sounds plausible to me.
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Terry- Special Prayers for your son.
Garry- Thanks for asking about me . I just don't take the extra time to post after peeking in the window. Vinnie still has it in for me I seem to stay five to 9 pages behind. Hard to catch up. With my wife's medical problems, some that I have, family and friends meds, to come to the Diner and read about more, well, it gets too much for me. Don't forget, I drive a wheelchair bus and take folks to their doctor appointments . Some of them I've know for all 8 years I've been doing it. As much as I enjoy the friendship accorded me, seeing the pictures of what you folks build and the joshing we all share, it just gets to me, mentally ,all the medical problems you all right about. I'm physically and mentally tired. I'm up by 4:30, out of the house by 5:30 and lucky to get home before 6. It is now 7:57, I need toshower and to sleep. My alarm is going tobe set for 4:15 as I have an early start tomorrow.
Blessings and Prayers for all I love you all. [Brotherly, that is.]
Goodnight. Flip
Good Evening, Chloe - I'll just have a Dr. Pepper in a go cup, please. Thankyou!
Sniff, sniff! What IS that smell in here? Eeyeeewww...
Ulrich - please stay awayfrom the ER, and do finish up your doses of antibiotic. We'd like to see you back soon!
Speaking of back again soon, has anyone seen Galaxy post in any other forums/boards?
Lee, who makes those LED's? Think I may want to try ordering some of those...
Todd, I can tell you that if you'll be able to see the top of the corrugated metal fence you're wanting, avoid the plastic versions (which I found too thick unless you are using them and can only see them head-on, so to speak - i.e., not from above..). Campbell's, I think is the company that I found is closer to realistic-looking thickness (the company who made earlier wood structure kits, pre-laser-cut days). I may see about taking some pics of the fence material by them that I have, and post in a couple/three days for you. By the way, have you got the grass cut yet?
Ken, I may have had one of your 'those' days. No lunch, and between the two of us covering walk-ins, we saw 13 people (one of whom I ended up taking about two hours with (wondering if I'd have to hospitalize both the person and their s.o....). Almost (*almost*) got yesterday's paperw**k caught up, but not quite...).
Didn't get to the P.O. today to pick up a stylus for the tablet, and a 1TB drive that I hope to partition into 2 drives (one of newest oper. system, other for my current one). Guess THAT package will be there tomorrow (if I get out over lunch tomorrow...). Also need to go pay rent tomorrow - latest that I have ever been on paying it to current landlord).
Ray, sounds like your day at the museum was not terrific, eh? And best wishes on finding somethng suitable for your water tank bands.
Jeff, I hadn't realized how big your folks' house was, until you were describing it. You do, at least, have excellent insulation for your place. Like your photo of that old (Sabine?) bridge.
Had pretty good luck last night - I had emailed a MRR order to my LHS owner/MRR club member for some things I wanted to order, including the Walthers modern roundhouse that is in the sale flyer. But about dinner time, I get a call from him, telling me that one club member has the 'older' (non-modern) Walthers roundhouse and wanted to sell it for only $35 if I wanted (so I told him, heck yeah!). I like saving on my MRR purchases wherever possible... Now, so long as the rest of the order doesn't (in usual Walthers style...) get back-ordered on me...
Paul, if your wife is getting tired of the hospital food, that is a VERY good sign!
JaBear - how long were you in the doghouse for mudding up 'her' toy? It does look good, though (well, when it's clean - don't know about how mud and red go together.
Hope all of our Canadian Diners have rested up from their Thanksgiving Day gorging feasts...
Dennis (1:1 RR type) - hope you don't have to start job-hunting soon. Was the exchange of words with the boss over something important, or other stuff?
SaronaTerry - another great MRR photo of your layout. Good to see you in again! (Like your dry grass in that photo, by the way!) May your son return home safe and sound, to empty the sand out of his boots!
Karl, it's okay - Barry's family is used to eating lots of stuffing, cranberries, mashed potatoes, yams, and the the other parts of the dinner than the turkey...
TSF - yep, I'd agree with you; that is NOT any reason to start talking foolishness like that... No offense, Chloe, but no relationship ending with a gal is worth wanting to die. Oh, you agree, but feel that no relationship with a guy ending is worth it, eh?
What? I had not heard about Stein's death. Sudden or not, that is a loss to the community here. for his family.
Well, I have to get going for now. Hope to get back in tomorrow (maybe after Charter connects my broadband...?)
Prayers for Stein's family, and for all others in need of healing, comfort or a good night's rest.
Blessings,
Jim in Cape G.
Hi, All! 41f and still yucky out.
Thanks for the kind words on the pics, everyone. Means more coming from fellow modelers!
Yay!!! Rob is back!!
Lee, count me as a photobucket user, works great and no complaints.
Wonder if we'll get more diners since the mod announcements? People will know that the diner's a no-nonsense establishment,except for the occasional pie.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Thanks Dennis. I'm a retired volunteer firefighter myself, dept Safety Officer, 1994-2011. In that particular scene somebody had failed to properly secure an a/c unit and it ended up trying to cool Sundown.
Hey Johnboy ya ole Stubble Jumper.... Where bouts in Saskabush do you live?
CDN Dennis from over in Alberty.
Jeffrey Love your fire house! Must be my 30 years plus of being a Fire Fighter. Anyway, Being a retired fire fighter, I spotted the, cabinet ?????? laying in front of the pumper and thought, that would never be allowed in real life, the ramp has to kept clear at all times. Trust an old worn out fire fighter to notice something like that!!!
Hope there aren't any fires on your layout the crews will have a delayed response because of the obstruction.
Cheers to all
Hello Everyone, Some of you may remember me? I am what you guys call a lurker but I really enjoy following some of your posts and I keep up with them each day. Thanks! Anyway Todd, Builders In Scale offers two styles of metal roofing and siding material,I just used some of the Heavy Duty Corrugation part #535-H For a tin roof on a model I am building. I weathered it with ferric chloride that I bought at my local electronic supplier. I followed their instructions and it turned out really good. Looks old and rusty. but you can paint or leave it shiny silver, how ever you want it to look is up to you. They have several really good suggestions on painting or weathering. Check out their web site. I hope that helps.
Thayne
ROB<
So glad you checked in, we have been quite worried about you, we thought you might have fallen in one of your stump holes and couldn't get out.
All kidding aside we were worried and glad you are on the mend.
Stay well, healthy and here.
Now if we could just locate Galaxy, Fergie and Bama
Johnboy out...................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Sir MadogWill be calling it a day soon. Still have to catch up on some sleep.
The loco in that video puts any Alco diesel I've seen to shame! What a smoker!
Will be calling it a day soon. Still have to catch up on some sleep.
Just found this video on the tube:
watch?feature=playerdetailpage&v=trKF55sy6EI
Smoking can damage your health!
CN Charley I live in Red Deer AB. Ma clouds Stores were primary source of supply in my long gone youth as was the Builders Hardware Store. I loved that store! Every Christmas the had the most wonderful Lionel layout in the window.... used to watch it for hours. Builders Hardware was also a Mechano dealer which was a hot item on my list. I still have the Mechano sets and the Lionel train set from those days gone by.
Good that the eye drops are bringing down the pressure in your eyes. Hate stuff to do with the eyes. I had to have cataracts removed a couple of years ago and ended up with a thing called "Tear Veiling" . It feels like there are veils over your eyes all the time and there is nothing that the can do about it.
+2 and raining/snowing this am so it's a inside day for me.
Cheers
Dennis
Howdy Y'all, hope everyone is doing well these days.
I'll have a please.
Have not had any MRRing time in what now seems like ages. Still working on clearing the endless stumps for pasture, although there is finally an end in sight. Sometime I push a bit too hard and end up on mandatory rest for a week or two. Coming out of one such rough patch right now. Had the big 50th on the 7th. No change that I can detect.
Have a terrific day folks and I will try not to be such a stranger. I think of many of you and your cool railroads often and one day look forward to resuming work on my own. Surely by this winter.
Cheers! Rob
Good morning. It's 73° with 82% humidity, mostly cloudy with fog. The high will be 82°. Partly cloudy this afternoon with a chance of rain.Nothing on the agenda for today except to rest. I might work on the layout later.
Good Afternoon!
Not much of an improvement here in the sick bay. Sleeping is still an issue, although I did get two hours of it last night. I seem to have passed whatever it is on to Petra, so there is the yellow flag above our house. Our neighbors probably wonder who that strange dog is which keeps on barking in the middle of the night.
Ray - I am on antibiotics, so a generous sip or two out of a Scotsman´s water of life is out of question, even if we had any of that stuff. All we have is whatever Petra needs for cooking and/or baking, plus an occasional bottle of my favorite red vino.
I am starting to miss Galaxy´s words of wisdom in the morning - where is he.
Blessings to those in need!
We got up a little early this morning and decided to go get breakfast at our favorite diner. Unfortunately, it appears we will only be able to do this until the end of the year. The lady who owns the place is going to close it down. So far, she hasn't been able to find anyone interested in buying the building. And even if she does, there isn't any guarantee that they would reopen the restaurant. They have a really great breakfast compared to the chains like IHop or Bob Evans. It seems that all the little guys are being forced out of business, and that's who I prefer to patronize. When I told the wife that she will have to start cooking breakfast for me, all she said was "Good luck with that plan."
I spent the last 2 days putting up the wife's Halloween display. She collects Department 56 Halloween Village pieces and I collect their Dicken's Village series. We enjoy them, but I must admit the Halloween Village is very noisy. So we mainly power it up to show it off for visitors. Although the wife will turn it on to look at it from time to time. It's getting kind of hard to do as it requires getting everything stored in the attic and bringing it down to the second floor, then later bringing it down to the first floor. Following that, all the empty boxes have to go back up to the attic. I'm telling you, those stairs are going to do me in one of these days.
After lunch, I need to get the first floor cleaned and run some errands. So take care and enjoy the day. Tom
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Mornin' everyone...
Zoe, I'll have several cups of very hot, dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug, and a bowl of very hot oatmeal with brown sugar. Huh? Why the "very hot"? It was 63°F inside the house when I got up this morning! No, I don't want to turn the heat on yet...
Todd, will you stop talking all that technical stuff! I didn't understand a word you said! Huh? Oh, maybe I should put my hearing aids in. That might help.
Lee, I'm another Photobucket user. I got the account back when I was putting daily photos of the Scouts at Sci-Tech Camp up online every day. I got a Pro Account so the parents wouldn't be greeted by "For a good time call......." type of ad when they visited. I still pay the small fee to keep garbage off the pages.
Ulrich, take the old German cure.... At college we called it the Kaskas Cure as she was an Artist Teacher of Voice and her cure seemed to work well. Two shots of 100 proof whiskey, a cup of hot black coffee and go to bed and cover up! There were times I used the cure even when there wasn't anything wrong with me. probably your doctors won't let you use that one anymore either...
Paul, hope your wife is getting better care now!
OK, I turned on the gas heater in the living room a while ago. Guess it is time. House is now up to 67°F. Last night when I went to bed at 11PM the house was still 71° so I didn't want to light the wood stove. This afternoon we are supposed to get temps in the low 50s and liquid sunshine. I will be lighting the stove I bet.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and a couple blackberry jelly donuts please. OH! Scratch the donuts, I’ll have an Apple Dumpling with cinnamon sauce instead. Oh yum! Thanks
Thanks Garry- That could be it, though I’m pretty sure it wasn’t from Campbell and I think it wasn’t in strips but more like a sheet such as Evergreens sheet styrene. Don’t know, but I’m glad you posted the link because after I wrote that I began to doubt myself that I really saw the stuff or just something else that may have looked like it, or maybe never saw it at all just think I did. I do that kinda stuff all the time. Odd. My Mother used to say that’s the sign of an active intelligent mind…., Brenda says I just make stuff up.
Paul- I’m very sorry about your wife’s medical attention. Trust me it’s everywhere. Been through it several times. My wife will accept any floor or wing in Memorial Hospital in Springfield except for one wing on a certain floor. Both my Mother and hers ended up there once and talk about……bad. That’s the nicest word I can think of that I can put here. I hope she gets better and out of there.
Lee- I use Photobucket myself. Mainly because that was the first I used back when. The other is from time to time while looking at pictures in WPF, I get a McAfee warning block with pictures posted on Flicker. Not sure, I doubt really, if there is anything real to it, but apparently there is something at least in the way they are posted, or some kinda trait thing that has similar something to something McAfee looks for when looking for viruses and….things. Sorry for all the technical jargon but it’s difficult for us super brains to communicate. Oh and by the way, when you get to level 4 that's when you learn to leave a burning building.
Ulrich- Actifed is the only thing that works for me when the old snoz starts a goin. It’s actually the acetometaphin, or whatever they use to make dope and causes you to have to get it from the pharmacist, no prescription, they just control it which is not really a problem for me. Nothing but that seems to work well, if at all. Problem is I can’t stay on it long enough to realize it’s usefulness. It makes me….slow I guess you’d say. Kinda like I hear you but it takes a second to register what you said and I have trouble forming thoughts. Must be the pre meth. You know, that is an accurate accounting, but yet it seems when I read it back, it sounds way worse than it is. But it is bad enough that it is at least noticeable to others as well. Mainly when I talk. Takes about 2 days of use. Anyway, It’s the post Nasal thing for me too. Runs down the back of my throat all day and though I take an Actifed at night before bed, due to the aforementioned reason, the stuff that’s been building up in my chest, throat where ever the stuff collects stars re-adjusting for gravity and well, you know what that’s like. I swear if snot were worth something, ANYthing, I’d be rich. I have not figured out how I can generate that much stuff that fast. It’s inhuman.
Hey, speaking of inhuman. Last night at work we were discussing if you could be any super hero ever who would you be. I said Wonder Woman. I mean isn’t it obvious? Bullet proof bracelets AND an invisible plane? Yah, that’s it. The invisible plane.
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.
Morning All
Coffee Pleases
Got to wake up, got to go to work,I want to go back to but got to wake up.
Good morning, Diners. I will have a quick coffee, please, Chloe.
Nice photo, Terry. Thanks for keeping us motivated.
I had a short work day. I only worked until 1:00. It seems like the flu is hitting our area. The afternoon cancelled, so I went home. It was in the high 60's so I sat on the deck and enjoyed the sun. The rain is predicted to start on Friday. Here we go.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning all,
51F, Hi today 51F, Low 36F, and rain we had a mild frost yesterday morning but not a killing frost.
I’ve had to take care of Dorothy and myself this past week so I’m behind on posts so here is my attempt to catch up:
NeO6874, did you make it to Berea? I have a friend that has a few unassembled Bowser locomotive kits; he might be interested in selling or trading if you’re interested.
Webshots; my image web site and screen saver went out of business so I guess I’ll be in the market for a new screen saver and web site to host my MRR pictures this week. Not sure if I’ll go with photo bucket or flicker. Any suggestions??? I also need to find a new screen saver or see what is native to Windows7.
Jeff, congrats on the moderator position.
I went to the hospital for my 3 month lab last Sunday to see how the vitamin D and calcium therapy has progressed in my system. Doc said all the tests look really good and I need to keep doing what I’m doing. I have another set of tests in 3 months. If that looks good then I’ll go 12 months before my next test. My energy and motivation is coming back up near 100%.
CN Charlie has snow on his TV? Adjust the antenna, LOL.
Brakie good luck on getting that house, I’m really ready to move out of this place and into something different, maybe in Lake County.
Barry I hope your tests come back with good news.
Horrible news this morning, the new casino in town experienced a drop in profits again! They only cleared 21.2 million dollars last month. I don’t know if they are going to make it, ok I’m being a little sarcastic but when you hear it on the news you would think they are going belly up any day now. I had to walk to Tower city, where the casino is, to get a new bus pass a couple weeks ago. I swear the malls are filled with people asking for handouts, I bet I was asked 24 times in 2 blocks if I had any spare change and most of them had nicer clothes than I did.
Curt, what brand of 44T critter did you give up on?
Barry is a mod? Oh so I guess pie tossing will still be allowed……
Dorothy is doing much better, but she is fairly immobile until her follow-up on Friday. I took the day off to driver her to the appointment. I asked if she could change it from 0715 to something later so I could sleep in and miss driving through rush hour traffic. I have to drive from the NE corner of town to the SW corner and don’t want to drive like I’m a salmon swimming upstream. So she changed it to 0840, great, there would have been less traffic at 0700!
I have to go through training this morning; emergency preparedness level II. Level I included important information like: during a lightning storm you should go inside and if a tornado approaches you should take cover in a basement or room without windows. I imagine level II will tell me not to eat lead paint or yellow snow. I’m very excited about this upcoming training!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning! from Tipton IN.
It's Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Depot, Hillisburg IN
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Evening Dinners
Thank You Flo for the
alfadawg01Sunny and 59 here in the Gateway to the West.
Welcome back Bill! Do you live in St Louis? I live in Maryville IL, 14 miles from the Arch. Drop by sometime and have a , run some trains and then we can go visit the Worlds Best LHS, K-10 Model Trains. It is a whole 2 miles from my house.
Possible New Job. Still no word but I am still not worried, well yet. Like I said before there plate is full with the new Fleet Account. I have to work Wednesday, but I will give them a call Thursday for the heck of it. Might drop by as well.
Jeremy Far as the Labor Board I don't think they can help you on this one unless things are different in Canada.You are in Canada, right? If the job is worth fighting for, go in with paperwork showing you where at the ER with your wife. Did you leave a message on a machine or a live person?
Well I go in Wednesday at 9:00 AM, so I better get going.
Ken.
Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Good Evening,
Terry, nice looking layout you have there!
Dennis ( Chochowillie) Where in Alberta do you reside? I've been in many towns there espcially when I was working for a predecessor company. Maybe you remember Macleods' stores. That shot of the Symington yard hump you posted is not too far from my MIL's home.
Well we had a rainy weekend here and cool temps. It was only 3C this afternoon but it is supposed to warm up to 12C by the weekend. I hope so as I have a lot of leaves to rake up.
Seems like it was eye doctor day here as I too had a visit with mine. Turns out that I don't have glaucoma but have high ocular pressure which can lead to that disease. The eye drops have reduced the pressure substantially so I was pleased with that outcome.
Hope we hear from Galaxy soon and Rob too.
Well not much happening on the layouts. When I was home last week with that cold/flu I didn't even feel like running a train around never mind working on the N scale. There is a trainshow here this weekend and I hope to go. If there are some good deals on N scale rolling stock I might pick up something but I'm getting very picky. I have about 40 pieces of rolling stock now and haven't really run any of it. I did make a list of it but perhaps I should just rip it up that way when I look into the box I might be surprised and then it would be just like going to the store or like my wife who finds new clothes in her closets she forgot about. She is up to 4 closets full now and complains there isn't any storage room in our house.
Well soon time for 'World Without End' so I'll say goodnight to all.
CN Charlie
Evenin' folks,
Flo, I'll have the BBQ Spare Ribs, a couple ears of fresh sweet corn, and a cup of decaf for dinner, followed by a couple of Apple Dumplings with Maple Walnut Ice Cream.... I'll be in the back booth where I can enjoy all that.
I rototilled the old garden area this afternoon. Twas a bit muddy from the rain the last couple days, but doable. Tomoorw or Thursday I will get some new 4 x 4s to create a raised bed garden. I would like to get one at least built this fall to see how it goes. Did a bit of painting on the roof of the water tower at the power plant for the layout. Decided I need a darker color gray, so I will pick up a can tomorrow. Did a couple loads of wash as well. Watch the meter down cellar spin while I was waiting. It made 14.92 Kws of power today.