Flo, put some yogurt in Ken's bag. OK?
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
cudaken
Good evening folks!!!
Ken, great pic! We put together a jigsaw puzzle of the same pic a few years back. Now its framed and hanging in my youngest son"s bedroom!
Jeffrey I don't consider myself as old, but I do remember :The Saint". That was the benefit of growing up with a local UHF TV station that couldn't afford recent movies!!
I hope you're proud of yourself Todd! You had to ask, now Lee, Jeffrey, Ray and Vince all all trying to gross us out! I was gonna order some grub,,,,but my appetite has disappeared!
Paul special prayers for you and the Mrs. tonight.
Meanwhile, my search continues. I've killed my airbrush. (Binks Wren "B") I havn't been able to locate anyone with a Binks 59-102 repair kit in stock! Lotsa listings, but all say must be special ordered, and I need it ASAP! I'm even checked fleabay but all that is there are complete, used airbrushes with no guarantees. I'd hate to give up on my Wren, it's what I'm used to. Over 25 years of use, I'm kinda attached to it!.
CUL8ter!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Hiya Flo,
On a lighter note how`s about 5,000 whipped cream pies please.
Why 5,000?
FOOD FIGHT!!!!
By the way.....DUCK!!!
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
Dennis: Vinnie will be presenting you with a mop, bucket and scrub brush so you can clean this mess.
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Well, it's time to call it a night. 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
jeffrey-wimberlyDennis: Vinnie will be presenting you with a mop, bucket and scrub brush so you can clean this mess.
HE HE...Vinnie was a part of it too.
rdgk1se3019 [HE HE...Vinnie was a part of it too.
[HE HE...Vinnie was a part of it too.
Unless Vinnie was using you as a mop, he would have no part in creating a mess... LOL You just haven't seen him bend crowbars with his bare hands yet!
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf please.
Been a busy day... sure wish I had more time down cellar in the train room, but maybe tomorrow. I did a bit of painting done on the scenery... Just the dirt.
Had a rather sad meeting for the pack committee this evening. They are throwing in the towel and disbanding. The pack has only one active Scout (2nd. year Webelos) who will be going to a small pack near Geneva rather than the huge pack that has the monopoly on the boys at the moment (the parents were at the meeting and agree with the proposal). The School parent/teachers organization used to charter two packs. One for each of the K-5 elementary schools. The District realigned with one being k-2 and the 3-5 and in the process dropped one of the packs. The one they dropped rechartered under a Church here and has been struggling unsuccessfully for the past 3 years. The same group of people also have organized a Venture Crew which is small but we hope will be able to recharter. They need a few more members, but know where they can find some. Much of the meeting was on how to spend down the funds in the treasury to give back to the pack members, and help the community. Part will be a party for all those associated with the pack over the past few years. I am the commissioner for both the pack and the Crew.
Have half of the signatures and info now done for the MLK Committee and the 501c3 Fund we are partnering with. The Fall donation requests should have gone out over a week ago, and I can't do anything until all this is done and accepted by the fund....
Dennis... Put the pie down! Vinnie is watching you!
Prayers for all in need!
rdgk1se3019 Hiya Flo, On a lighter note how`s about 5,000 whipped cream pies please. Why 5,000? FOOD FIGHT!!!! By the way.....DUCK!!!
See?
I'm not the one who started this mess!!
BTW...I just saw Vinnie out back tying some pretty bowties with 160lb rail!!!!
Good Evening
Well, another busy day for moi here...had to go to a couple of meetings downtown then off to the mall to pick a bunch of stuff up...and sneak some things past Audrey here......her birthday is coming up on Saturday......and, no, Todd, it did not involve cards....
Anyhow...have a good evening here1!!
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/
Morning Coffee and Donuts
GOOD MORNING!!!
Some of us like to "knuckle down" to work on our pikes during the upcoming winter months, SO:Meaning: Get down to work and apply oneself earnestly to it.
Origin:
The BBC broadcast an antiques programme recently on the subject of marble collecting. The game was demonstrated and the presenters showed how a marble, which aficionados call a taw, was held by the crooked index finger and flicked by the thumb. They declared that "this is where the phrase 'knuckle down' came from". The same series had recently included the confidently expressed 'fact' that the origin of TOP DOG was mediaeval saw pits (which is at best an uncertain derivation), so I had my doubts. A little research though has shown the knuckle downderivation to be correct.
In 1740, Thomas Dyche and William Pardon published A dictionary of all the words commonly us'd in the English tongue. In that they define the verb knuckle or knuckle down as:
"A particular phrase used by lads at a play called taw, wherein they frequently say, Knuckle down to your taw, or fit your hand exactly in the place where your marble lies."
As befits a work with such an ambitious title, they didn't stop at one definition and also included:
"Knuckle or knuckle down: to stoop, bend, yield, comply with, or submit to."
Neither of these meanings is now generally used. The former is still used in the game of marbles, where players still knuckle down. The latter has migrated to the more commonplace knuckle under. By 1864, Webster's Dictionary defined the knuckle down with the meaning we now use, i.e.:
"To apply oneself earnestly or vigorously."
The game of marbles can also claim the origin of another widely used term- for keeps.
SEE ALso: KNUCKLE UNDER:
Meaning: Give way; give in; submit
In the 18th century knuckle down was used used to mean 'acknowledge oneself beaten; submit to another's authority'. The word 'knuckle' by itself had the same meaning. 'Knuckle under' was later coined in the USA, also with the same meaning.
Dyche and Pardon, in their A dictionary of all the words commonly us'd in the English tongue, 1740, defined 'knuckle' like this:
The allusion appeared to be with the subservient gesture of stooping with one's knuckles low down or on the ground. While Knuckle down is now commonly used with a different meaning, 'knuckle under' has persisted.
The first reference that I can find to the term in print is this jingoistic piece from The New-York Weekly Tribune, June 1852:
"Will anybody admit that an American citizen, with plenty of money in his pocket, is not as much of a man as anybody else? Is it for him to knuckle under to the bedizened aristocracy and soldiery of Europe? No, 'Sir!"
The prayer CANDLES ARE lit for those in need...
-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.
It's Wednesday, November 14, 2012
TIPTON
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good Morning!
Zoe, I think I need a hearty breakfast today! Could not eat much yesterday, so there seems to be a big hole where my stomach usually is. I´ll settle for bacon & eggs, buttered toast, OJ and coffee, please.
I just took the plunge and ordered all the material I need to start construction of the first set of buildings.
That´s Styrofoam board of 5mm thickness, cardboard of various thicknesses, roofing material, windows, doors and a whole lot of small detail parts. I will still have to get a few parts, but they are available at our local home improvement store. I guess I´ll be all set to start to work on my new layout. Starting on the structures may not be the normal way, but what is normal anyway? Benchwork and track have to wait until I have made room for the new layout.
Have a good one, all of you!
Bonjour y'yall !
Busy day today, I'll just have a fast coffee as I am taking my wife, who has had RA for years now, for her second knee replacement operation.I will be changing direction for the next few months ,spending less time in the shop as I help nurse her back to health.
Thank you Jeffrey-Wimberly for your kind words of support of my work,you sir are a real gentleman in the true sense of the word.
Gotta run now,hope you all have a great day.Cheers! John.
Once Upon a time.........
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I quit drinking beer because the download was taking longer than the upload !
Good Morning!!!
Paul- Prayers for your wife.
Coffee, two eggs over medium, ham and American fries please, Thanks. What’s that Flo? Fresh yogurt? Ummm…..no thanks. Never really had yogurt othern frozen yogurt. Yogurt covered pretzels maybe, I think. But never had just a cup of yogurt. Something about the name. If it was good, you’d think they could come up with a better name than yogurt. Sounds more like a subliminal warning than a name for something good. Like Botulism. Won't eat that either. How do you know when yogurt goes bad?
Say here’s a question. My Dad used to say and wonder if his Mom made yogurt when he was a boy on the farm. Odd question I know, but from time to time we would have that short conversation when the subject of yogurt came up. He said his Mom would keep a pan of milk on the back of the stove (they had a wood stove back then) and it would turn into some substance that he claimed resembled yogurt, but they called “clabbered milk”. They would eat this kinda like a desert I think he said, similar to the way we eat American pudding pudding puddinggg pu-DING! They called things different before they got commercialized so he doesn’t know if it may be what they call yogurt now. Several things over the years I’ve noted the same thing. “Oh! I know what that is, we called that….” Same thing.
Ray- You were a milk farmer guy, you ever heard of that? (points to paragraph above) Or is clabbered milk a different thing all together. Won't eat anything called clabbored either so I dont know.
Ken- CUP o CHEESE!! CUP uh CHEEEEESE!!!!
Think I’ll zip over and see if a new Ziva is on then off to clean more rooms. That didn’t go over well yesterday. Got sidetracked too many times by others. (imagine that)
Sounds like CDN Dennis and I have the same problem with our trainrooms. Seems to be a catch-all. THAT is about to change yessiree. It's aBOUT to change.
Notice how I directed the question to Ray as a farmer guy instead of because of his age? Smart feller I am.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
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.
John R ..... Prayers for your wife as she has her surgery and for a speedy recovery.
Todd ...... I was not familiar with "clabbered milk", and I just googled it. Sounds like it is sort of a home made yogurt. .... Holy cow ...
Cheers, everybdoy
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning. It's 39° with 85% humidity. It'll be partly cloudy with a high of 60°.It was quite cool this morning when I woke up. I had left the heater on low last night so it would at least keep the chill off. It was 62° in here. Turned it up to high to warm the place up to 70°.I don't have any plans for today other than cleaning up part of the layout. There are projects I want to get into but every time I start on one I get interrupted.
Good Morning All,
Rushing around prior to leaving for Oz this afternoon. Prayers for those in need especially Paul and John. Knee and hip replacements are not fun and really dependent on the therapy afterwards to make them effective at all. My friends therapy was so bad he quit after two trips and is now worse than before. The therapy and work for my foot was painful but not excruciating and though I have little or no feeling in the foot, it's usable almost as normal. Guess I got lucky.
I'll see if any of my 'puter stuff works down under. Catch Y'all later, J.R.
Good morning, Chloe. I have just enough time for a cinnamon roll before heading to work.
I am still thinking about my car shop. I will try to hit the hobby shop tomorrow.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Good Morning
We is seeing some sun!! But it is CCCOLD out there!! We are sitting at the mighty 24F right now going to a high of ...34F later on...
Today I will actually get to go to the trainroom and get some work done in there. First time in...oh....a couple of weeks? Between my doctors appointments/chemo things/meetings/who knows what all else..I had no time for even the simplest of things...even making Yogurt...
And what is all this about 'Clabbered Milk'? I prefer NON-Clabbered thankee very much...sounds like one is having curdled milk of some kind....and we are not even talking Butter Milk either...
Well, better be doing a few things here...have a good day!!!
JohnReid: for your wife's surgery and recovery....
Paul: as well....
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a couple glazed sour cream donuts and a few cups of dark roast coffee to start today.
Clabbered Milk? Haven't heard that term in many many years. My father used to tell about having to eat it when he was a child. It is basically soured raw milk (Pasteurized milk won't sour, it just rots...) IIRC he was not a fan of it, but would sit and drink a quart of sour buttermilk at a sitting. We had that from the bitter butter we made on the farm. I used to hate the Bitter Butter and figured Betty Botter could eat it all herself. That is why they called it Betty Botter's Bitter Butter! Anyway Clabber ranks right up there with a lot of other Haut Cuisine from the English/scotch/Welch heritage. My father used to grimace when he told us about the Spring Tonic my Grandmother used to make from certain (toxic) wild herbs around the farm... He forbade her from making us drink it. It was supposed to be "good for what ails you". The general result of drinking it was the same as the pre-procedure stuff you take before THAT exam with the Proctologist. But what can you expect from a culture that created Steak and Kidney Pie?
Cloudy outside here in the Finger Lakes (again) and currently 37°F with a high of 40 later. They are promising that the big yellow thing may appear for a while later today. I will believe it when I see it.
Have to go shopping at the "new and probably not improved" TOPS Market this afternoon, pick up an Rx, and pay a visit to the LHS to see if they have a couple things in stock I need. Should clean some house too and must do some laundry today.
Later!
Good Morning All!Not much to report from the land of Buckeyes other then its suppose to be 42 degrees today.I reassembled the Athearn BB GP7 that I'm working on this morning and when I gave it a test run I notice the rear truck was thumping..Upon investigation I found I failed to completely seat the bottom gear box cover on one end-I thought I heard it click in place but,I was wrong.. Happy to report she running smooth and rather quiet after a good cleaning and lube job.I glued a flasher base on the SSRY #15-a SW1500.Later this afternoon I will disassemble its drive and will clean and lubricate it.I need to clean and service the C&HV units for club use.Whew!I shall have a cup and look over the forum.Have a good'un!
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Well
Did the grocery shopping...spent over $100, but saved over $49.
FORGOT the pumpkin PIE!! {HOW COULD I????} I mean really, now! My FAVORITE and one treat I relish heartily, foregoing any diet at all to have some???? How COULD i???
Got my scripts refilled.
Now my back is killing me softly...with it's song......remember THAT song??
Sciatica down the left leg also..
Pain killers kick in PULEEEZEE...
Nothing to do the rest of the day though...
have to call the HR dept. for MOH's work to find out how much the health plans COSTS..they give you all the info on them..EXCEPT that little tidbit!!! MUST do by the 15TH!!! WHere has the tiem gone????
Well. today is also the free bread day giveaway...so I will go down there soon...
There are TWO prayer candles lit..ONE for anyone out there anywhere who needs thoughts and prayers...and ONE for ALL the FORUM DINER people who need them!!!
Later gators
Just a quick Hello.
Spent the last two hours messing with the BoS paper work. Lots of scanning, printing and looking for page 4's that really have nothing on them, but they have to have them!
Work from 1 to 9 today, but I LOVE CLOSING, not! Plus this is a 25 mile drive, not like a 10 mile drive I had before. Bright side is I am getting all the hours I want, well so far.
See you all later, Ken
I hate Rust
Just got done using the power washer from cleaning up the food fight.
Who says I don`t clean up my messes?
cudaken Just a quick Hello. Work from 1 to 9 today, but I LOVE CLOSING, not! Plus this is a 25 mile drive, not like a 10 mile drive I had before. Bright side is I am getting all the hours I want, well so far. See you all later, Ken
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Well, it's getting to be that other time of the year when it's time to put in some hours working on the layout (summer being the other; too dang hot to go out there!!). I picked up some Neverstall last week, and today, I think I'll finish giving the rest of my motive power the treatment. Well, ok, after my nap. Had a turkey and Swiss on pumpernickel and a slice of my wife's homemade cream cheese cake for lunch... and it was real.... z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z
Marlon
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JohnReidThank you Jeffrey-Wimberly for your kind words of support of my work,you sir are a real gentleman in the true sense of the word.
We just got home a little while ago after a busy and productive day. After breakfast at our local diner, we hit the car wash, the library, picked up a water pad for the furnace humidifier, stopped at the State Store to pick up a bottle of "prosecco" for my niece, and finally the mall. The good news is I was able to get almost all my Christmas shopping for the wife done while she sat on a bench and listened to her audio book. I got her a lot of stuff, but with sales and coupons, the savings were significant. If fact, I will probably pick up some other things later on because I didn't spend all that I set aside for Christmas shopping. She will have a nice stack of gifts to open. Hopefully, by this weekend everything will be wrapped. Actually, I'm late this year. In the past I usually have everything bough and wrapped by early October.
Did a little railfanning this past Sunday. And little it was. Only 3 trains in 2 hours. Probably the lowest level of activity we have seen in some time. Maybe it had something to do with the holiday, i don't know. It was nice enough though that we were able to sit on our folding chairs rather than in the car. Doubt that will happen again until spring.
Hope everyone has a good one.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Thank you everyone for your kind words for my wife.We have been together fifty four years now, since we were teenagers, leaving her in the hospital as you can imagine, was very difficult.
jeffrey-wimberly JohnReidThank you Jeffrey-Wimberly for your kind words of support of my work,you sir are a real gentleman in the true sense of the word.Not a problem John. I'm just trying to head off a fight. If they don't like me for it, oh well. I didn't take this job to be liked.
Jeff, we all still like you. As John himself often says, we just have to agree to disagree.
Rich
Alton Junction
Chloe, Ill have the hot Turkey Sandwich, fries, and a trip to the salad bar tonight. Oh, and yes, I would like a decaf.
Speak for yourself Rich! Just kidding! Just kidding...
Had to make some rounds this afternoon. First headed over to the drug store in the Medical Group (last individually owned and operated pharmacy in the area), walked in and by the time I got up the counter the girl at the check out had the bag with my Rx in it and had started to check me out. Stood around and yakked with the owner/pharmacist for a few minutes (he is a relative of my DIL). Then went down to the LHS and got 8 pieces of cork roadbed... made him happy. Another customer had his pit bull with him. The dog was just laying on the floor but I had to walk right by him as I left. I cheerfully said, "Are you a good boy?" The dog answered, "Grrrrrrrrrrr"! I decided not to reach down and pet him and proceeded out the door. Then I went to the Grand Opening of the new and (not) improved TOPS Market.... This store is about 3 times bigger than the old store and has everything in different places and aisles (Want milk? It is next to the beer in aisle 67...) I was unimpressed. Most of the employees appeared to be unimpressed as well... Check out is a real pain. Yep they improved that too! I may shop more at the "Big M" downtown from now on. They don't have everything I need, but at least you can get in and get out in a very few minutes. My usual 15 minute shopping spree at TOPS took well over an hour today! No I didn't spend any more money there because they made it bigger. I was grumpier than normal at the checkout...
My son called to tell me his NYSEG payment plan has been cut in half from what it was last year. He had some new efficient windows put in last spring, and has been heating with the wood from the trees that had to come down on his property... He his happy. He also found out his place of employment is shutting down all of next week. He was able to use up some vacation time, but it is rumored they will be closing for a week or two right before Christmas as well. They may be running short on inventory and don't want to get another order in until the first of the year to save on taxes...
howmus Speak for yourself Rich! Just kidding! Just kidding...
Speak for yourself, Howmus, I was just kidding.
Nah, we still like Jeff, only just not as much as before.