Aaaaaahhhhhhhh....... Oh, Hi!
Janie a cup of decaf to help me relax would be great... Thank you Ma'am!
Busy day here in the Finger Lakes for me. Had a long meeting at the Handicapped Troop tonight as we were holding Boards of Review with the Scouts. Then had a short meeting with the two Commissioners and the Scoutmaster about a problem that cropped up for Summer Camp. The council has cut one of the Adults coming with the Troop to Summer Camp and the Scoutmaster is furious. The person that was cut is the Mother of the Downs Syndrome Scout. She needs to be with her son to help him function in the Camp. Both of us as Commissioners have promised we will get it sorted out and it will be resolved in favor of the Troop (OR ELSE!). Our District Executive is helping us get it resolved. Troops are only allowed a certain Scout to Adult Ratio as in the past there are troops who would try to send more adults than Scouts so the Adults could spend their vacations lounging around camp (and making trouble...).
Then I came home and had to get some information together and finish filling out the Press Release for the MLK Scholarship Dinner. The press release should have been in to the paper by last Monday, and has been held up as we were waiting for the Bio on the Keynote Speaker... I grumbled to a couple other officers today and the President said just get it done for us with what you have! I will hand deliver it to the Chief Copy editor tomorrow Morning with apologies (lucky I am friends with both her and her husband...).
Janie, could use a refill over here... Thanks!
Ulrich, enjoyed the photo today, and want to wish you all the best on your run for office. If you are elected, I know you will remember all those who like yourself fell on rough times and make sure there are safety nets for those in need! (I do agree with you that the Euro doesn't appear to be working as a currency...)
Think I shall head out for some . Good night all!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Pleases.
Work Front Hum, I was there and a few customers where there. Main thing is I got out at 8:15 so I cannot complain.
Train Front Maybe I need a new hobby! Shakey the PK 2000 GP 20 is dead. I Shakey, it no workie. It took off backwards one time after I shock it then it just sat there mocking me with it headlight on.
This year I have gotten 9 engines
3 New. PK2 Rio Grand SD 9, PK2 B&O and the Bachmann PRR GP 30. Only the Bachmann is working.
4 Used PK2 GP 20 (Shakey) PK2 B&O SD 7and 2 PK1 F 3's. Only 1 F 3 and 1 B&O still running.
2 Given To Me. PK 2 B&O SD 9 and Parts for my SD 7 Rio Grand. Both still working.
So out of 9 engines only 5 are still working? All of but 1 will run with some work, tinkering and gears. Only 1 needs a new motor so it could be worst.
See you all later.
Ken
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I hate Rust
Howdy people, just thought I'd stop in for quick one in an icy mug please. Top off Cudaken's too. MMMMMMMM nice and cold! Keep the change dear!
Solid rain here this evening. Our neighbors in the NW part of WI have been getting snow, all day, started last night. Some places got over 16" and it's still coming. Yep ! spring in WI.
Milw. Brewers couldn't quite catch the Cardinals tonight, I had to stay up and see the finish. Rally ended up 1 run short.
Jeff, Great idea for the snow blower! I bet those good ol' boys could chuck a lot of tree limbs in that monster too, actually, just about anything! If it fits--it chips!
Cudaken, too bad your having fits with the P2K's I have a few, and the only problem so far was a GP 18 that needed the new gears on the axles.
Well, that went down good.....nope...no refill..gotta go !
Have a good one folks!
Mike.
My You Tube
Good Morning Gang!
It´ll be a nice day today, just the odd cloud to be seen in the sky, with temperatures reaching 17C. A tad too cold for May.
Zoe, coffee, buttered toast & jam, some fruit, please.
Garry - most of the leading people in our party have a background in economics and public finances. That´s why the politicians of our well established parties find it very difficult to argue with us - they are bound to lose. The only way they see to beat us is to call us names and dump trash over us. Each bad news story just adds to our membership list. Each day, we receive 200 applications for membership - most of them having been members of Frau Merkel´s party. Today´s Facebook and Twitter poll sees us at 7.1% - that´s way ahead of the Liberal Democrats, closing in on the Green party.
Vincent - MP stands for Member of Parliament, a rather British term for Congressman/-woman.
After a day of rest, I will have to get organized in my new office. There is a mountain of worl ahead of me and I have yet to find the route leading to the top of it.
Have a good one!
Morning cvoffee in the diner..
GOOD FRIDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Friday, May3rd, 2013!
I will say the prayers and light the prayer candles at 5:30 AM for those in need...
MAKE it A GREAT day!!!
ULRICH FOR BUNDESTAG MP!!!
-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.
well gents, I found out something today. just moments ago it makes me feel sick, my oma has been fighting lung cancer for a while now and winning but they discovered brain cancer... I'm a little messed up right now so if I say or do something out of character my apologies. I'd pray for her but I'm atheist so the best I can do is try and spend as much time as I can get with her.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Burlington Northern #24 well gents, I found out something today. just moments ago it makes me feel sick, my oma has been fighting lung cancer for a while now and winning but they discovered brain cancer... I'm a little messed up right now so if I say or do something out of character my apologies. I'd pray for her but I'm atheist so the best I can do is try and spend as much time as I can get with her.
That doesn't meant the est of cannot pray for her... the power of prayer is amazing..it may not prevent the inevitable, but it can sure help to see that she is comfortable for her final journey...
I have lit a prayer candle in her honor...
thank you guys, I know she'll tough it out. on her birth certificate it says made in Germany, she's tough like a DB 2-10-0.
Gary - I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother´s illness. Oma, btw, is a German word for grandmother - did you know?
My thoughts and prayers go out to her!
Sir Madog Gary - I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother´s illness. Oma, btw, is a German word for grandmother - did you know? My thoughts and prayers go out to her!
Burlington Northern #24 Sir Madog Gary - I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother´s illness. Oma, btw, is a German word for grandmother - did you know? My thoughts and prayers go out to her! yes sir, I'm 25% deutsch. my dad's half. my real name is Gett, but Gary is the American version of it. I'm german with a french last name who'da thunk.
It´ll be the name Gert - short form of Gerhard, I assume.
I am German with a Polish last name
Sir Madog Burlington Northern #24 Sir Madog Gary - I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother´s illness. Oma, btw, is a German word for grandmother - did you know? My thoughts and prayers go out to her! yes sir, I'm 25% deutsch. my dad's half. my real name is Gett, but Gary is the American version of it. I'm german with a french last name who'da thunk. It´ll be the name Gert - short form of Gerhard, I assume. I am German with a Polish last name
"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN
Friday, May 3, 2013
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Gary, thinking about you, bud!
I'm 1/2 Norwegian and a 1/4 /Swede, with a French Last name.
This thread is unbelievable! The start of the third day of the month and we're seven pages in, already. What's up with that?
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
NP2626 Gary, thinking about you, bud! I'm 1/2 Norwegian and a 1/4 /Swede, with a French Last name. This thread is unbelievable! The start of the third day of the month and we're seven pages in, already. What's up with that?
As there is a mile long list of MIA´s, the remaining bunch must have turned into talkative folks
Gary: Hope she pulls through.
Good morning.
No work for tonight. Spring Concert tonight. Look to just kinda relax this evening beyond the concert
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Gidday Gary, My thoughts and best wishes to you and your family.
Ulrich. You do realise I hope that when you're out on the election trail shaking hands and kissing babies you will have to have a ???
As Chris ( in Iowa) mentioned the "infinite improbability drive" perhaps you could all drop in and join me in the "Tea Room" at the Te Awamutu Station for a mince pie, a Ham with hot English mustard sandwich, and a slab of fruit cake washed down with a coffee in an NZR cup. Folklore has it that a teaspoon of hot English mustard was added into the coffee pot!!!
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
JaBear - right now, I find it difficult to smile. The ongoing family issues keep me from smiling. All I can try is to avoid a total warfare frown, I´ll never accomplish a disarming smile
People who know me look at my eyes - I smile with my eyes, not with my mouth.
Good morning from sunny New England. We are having a run of great weather. I'd actually like to get some rain, to wash the pollen out of the air and give me a chance to put down some grass seed. Maybe I'll fertilze this weekend, if I can deal with the pollen. I'd like to get out on my bicycle, too. My weight loss has plateued since ski season ended, and I need to get more exercise. Gyms and treadmills aren't the answer for me.
Gary, even a non-believer like me can think positive thoughts, so I'll do that. When my own Mom was in her last year, her doctor called her brief recovery and return home "a miracle." We had gone for a visit with our then-little girl, and the cheer she brought to Mom was enough to get her out of what the doctor thought would be her last visit to the hospital.
Ulrich, I wish we could get some serious political options in the US. The parties we have are only interested in their own power, not in the best course for the country. Your multi-party system allows for more ideas than ours.
Jeffrey, that big rotary plow reminds me of the end of the movie "Fargo....." I hope you're not planning anything like that.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Sir Madog NP2626 Gary, thinking about you, bud! I'm 1/2 Norwegian and a 1/4 /Swede, with a French Last name. This thread is unbelievable! The start of the third day of the month and we're seven pages in, already. What's up with that? As there is a mile long list of MIA´s, the remaining bunch must have turned into talkative folks
I think we are a talkative bunch....
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Good M'arnin'....
Well, I went to bed at silly o'clock this morning and got woke up at another silly o'clock by our little Spring..who was running around our house after ....a sparrow..... How did the bird get into our house, you ask? Stupid window at the back staircase ...slightly opened
Oh well, weather here be just a little cooler and sunny...still.....high near 70...as opposed to 78...feeling like 84F....
Today's agenda includes a bunch of paperwork for work and a bunch of RR planning stuff for my RR....sigh.
Edit... missing letters...sigh...
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!!!
Coffee and an order of biscuits and gravy please. Thanks.
Rain. High near 61. So far there’s an inch in the rain gage from last evening and overnight. .
Ray- at 25kw, you have exceeded my average daily usage of electricity for...feb/march. Not bad!
Ken- I’m beginning to think there is something…..particular to your layout or something you do that causes so many engine breakdowns. I know everyone has some from time to time but gee whiz. Either that or you just need to change from your usual brand. They don’t like you… Your not jabbing them with a stick as they go by are you?
Ulrich- Well…. Good thing you don’t live over hear.( I mean here) As you said “That´s why the politicians of our well established parties find it very difficult to argue with us - they are bound to lose.” Over here they wouldn’t find it difficult at all. They’d just quote some study they did that uses percentages (and you know how easy percentages are to manipulate to show pretty much whatever you want them to) and never really states any raw numbers until they can “prove” otherwise.
Gary- I’m sorry to hear about your Grandmother.
NP2626- Seems the first few days of the month the pages build up quick. Use to be the ones who posted occasionally would stop in to say hi. Now, it just seems we talk more.
ENGLISH HOT MUSTARD! Oh my gosh. Talk about something needing a warning sticker. Tie into that stuff not realizing what it is and whew! Even Jeff might blink over that stuff.
Well, not much for outside today seeins how it’s raining so, who knows. Just waiting for the cabinet top material to be cut and that should be today and cut the door latch hole just a bit higher for the bathroom door and the restaurant “remodel” is pretty much done. Brenda is setting up for the all town garage sale tonight so she’ll have my truck while I’m at w**k which is aboooooout the scariest thing I can think of right now. I hope they have a good turnout. She is insde the community center so at least she will be dry.
Best chuck in a load of laundry to start the day off right. Oughta just spray the clothes down with soap and hang ‘em over the fence. Nah. My luck, probably stop raining and the sun would come out and do something funky to our clothes.
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.
MisterBeasley The parties we have are only interested in their own power, not in the best course for the country.
Boy you ain't just a whistling Dixie there...
Oops, sorry Vinnie. I couldn't resist. I'll be quiet now.
Mr. Beasley and Todd - no difference here on the other side of the Big Pond. They also have an abundance of figures stating this and that, but no one believes them anymore. Just like the recent polls - the ones based on 3,000 people are correct, the one based on 200,000 folks participating must be incorrect, because they don´t pay for it...
Politics is a dirty business and I still don´t know what made me take it up!
Morning All,
Currently 43 with an expected high of 81 under mostly sunny skies.
Opening shift today, so may get to do some more painting on the engine house after w**k. Problem is, working on my feet all day, by the time I get home I am quite tired and just need to sit down for a bit. Then I lose all ambition.
Gary - Sorry to hear about your grandma. I believe in the power of prayer, as well as some others around here, so I hope you do not mind that I pray for her.
Ulrich - I have been known to have a not so welcome smile. But people learn to live with that.
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
Good Morning, DIners! .......... Coffee and Strudel please! ...... All this talk about Germans caused me to think of strudel. ..... My "Frau" is German.
BN 24 Gary ..... Very sad to hear about your grandmother's illness. Will pray for her health. Also, sad to hear you say atheist. I respect your views of course, but at the same time I suggest your keeping your mind open to the subject. I suspect you can find some inner peace if you even consider opening your heart to God. There are believers in the Diner, and I suspect any of them would welcome questions from you on that topic if you send them a private message.
Ulrich ..... Interesting to hear you talk about your political party. Sounds like some people in Germany are like some people here in the USA. They don't accept reality, and they prefer allowing themselves to be gullible instead of being skeptical. However, you are suggesting some Germans are finally awakening, and that is good. ....... I'm sad to hear about your family matters. Prayers for that. ..... Your photo of yourself shows you look a lot like my next door neighbor, another very tall man. Exception is my neighbor has a thick Southern accent from growing up on a farm in South Carolina. He's also active in politics but he will never run for office. He personally knows our state's senior US senator.
I have several projects to do on the layout, and so I had better hurry and complete some non-mrr work so I can get to the layout.
Cheers, everybody.
.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
TMarshThey’d just quote some study they did that uses percentages (and you know how easy percentages are to manipulate to show pretty much whatever you want them to) and never really states any raw numbers until they can “prove” otherwise.
MisterBeasleyJeffrey, that big rotary plow reminds me of the end of the movie "Fargo....." I hope you're not planning anything like that.
pascaff*I have been known to have a not so welcome smile. But people learn to live with that.
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jeffrey-wimberly TMarshThey’d just quote some study they did that uses percentages (and you know how easy percentages are to manipulate to show pretty much whatever you want them to) and never really states any raw numbers until they can “prove” otherwise.That reminds me of how a friend of mine compared statistics and a bikini. They both do the same job. They show a lot and at the same time hide a lot and while what shows is real what's hidden is vital.
.... and then there is this one:
Take all the economists in the world (including USA and Germany) and place them end-to-end. They still will not reach a conclusion.
Good morning. It's 42° with 99% humidity. Seems like the weather has forgotten that it's coming on to summer next month. There's a small chance of rain this morning. Otherwise it'll be cloudy with a high of 62°.I have nothing planned for today. In fact I'm giving serious consideration to going back to bed. I'm just extremely tired for some reason and can hardly keep my eyes open.
Extra strong coffee in an APACHE RAILWAY mug, please.
Blustery weather here, so will work on inside stuff today. Might even make it down into the Train Room later.
Have a good day all.
Cheers! Rob
ps: need to borrow this alien:
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, just another cup of dark roast coffee please. I had breakfast some time ago.
Had to get the news release down to the paper as early as i could this morning, but needed to wait until my son and granddaughter #2 stopped by to pick up a bag of fresh cut asparagus. he had to drive to Penn Yan to pick up his sharpened chains for his chain saw. Of course he managed to leave the asparagus sitting on the kitchen table..... Duh!
The HVAC guy is coming at 1PM today to give me some choices on central air. Then I have a couple more errands to do before going to Canandaigua to have dinner with my sister tonight.
Been grinning at some of the comments here this morning.
Another sunny day here in the Finger Lakes.
Later!