Good Morning
Back to dull and raining again....and tomorrow as well now...yay
Today is just sittin' 'roun' doin' nuthin' day...my lungs need it...cough cough cough gack hack hack....so I be jus' sittin'....
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Good morning! And it is a nice one here in Taxachusetts once again. clear skies, high in the 70s, but the rain will be here by evening. Well, we got a decent Saturday and a fine Sunday, so I can't complain.
I found a problem that's bothered me for a long time. I've got a turnout way over on the left edge of my layout that causes derailments. One engine in particular seems to hate it. (Yeah, it's a steamer.) Since I'll be putting scenery there soon, I wanted to get it fixed. It was a problem I've never seen before. It's a Walthers #4 or #5 turnout, and the divergent side is a sharper curve than the #6s. The point rails are still straight, and the gauge between the divergent stock rail and the straight point rail got a little too small. I just bent the point rail to give it a little bit of curvature, and that fixed the problem. I ran my fussiest steamers round and round in both directions with no derailments. Yay!
We had a fine lobster dinner with steamers, (the edibile shellfish, not the ones that derail at turnouts,) corn on the cob and garlic bread. Lobster is $5.99 a pound right now. It should come down a bit as the summer progresses. But, I did too much feasting this weekend (SWMBO birthday Thursday, tacos and beer Friday, lobster Saturday and then some Chinese takout Sunday - yikes! I'm not looking forward to my weigh-in today.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and a caramel roll please, thanks.
Isolated showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Galaxy- I’d heard the Cat out of the bag related to the pig in a poke version before. If I were a bettin man, I’d bet it’s no more than a cat was probably carried around or hidden in a bag and brought in to some form of deception like, I can magically rid your house of mice, and to “let the cat out of the bag” would reveal the truth. You paid this pied piper to rid your house of pests and all he did was bring in a cat.
You’ll see that all over the internet next week.
Welp, I got NOTHING done yesterday othern cough. Cough, cough, cough. Coughed so much my stomach hurt, back hurts, chest hurts, bronchial tubes hurt…. even my left shoulder hurt. Don’t worry, not contagious, just sinuses. Post Nasal Drip you know. Then it sneakily builds up for awhile (sneaky) then BAM!….nothing works except to wait until night when you can drop some of Mom’s (now Brenda’s ) tonic and a generic Actifed. To dry and open up enough so I can get to sleep. Only something with psudoephedrene (sp?) works for me to open sinuses so I can breathe, and whatever Actifed uses as a drying agent. Works as ateam effort for me cause that’s literally the only medicine, and I do mean the ONLY medicine cause over the years I've tried them all (had it since early teens) OTC or prescription that has ever worked on me. But I can’t take it much or it slows my already slow brain down. Creepy. So I only take it before bed. Usually. Unless it’s reeeeal bad and then I just avoid things where I have to think quickly or react real fast. It's either that or cough the insides of my lungs and air breathing parts away. Hoo boy it gets sore after awhile. Hurts. But it’s not like if I stick my hand on a hot stove I’ll just stand there and say “wow man” for a few seconds before I take my hand away, I’m talking where you actually have to think. Even normal conversation.
Anyway, enough of that. Went into the trainroom and started to do some shifting around of stuff that is in there that shouldn’t be, but HAS to be because there is nowhere else to put it. I did see where I forgot I made some plaster rock face castings for the peninsula that I can install after trying out the color combos in MR mag a couple months ago. That’s what I’m looking for, a color combo for rocks and concrete. I’m gonna try Pelle’s mixture for concrete as it closest resembles the concrete I’m used to. But alas, I didn’t get much done in there at all. Maybe later.
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
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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. It's 65° with 100% humidity and patchy fog. The high will be 92°.It's a bit early for me. I didn't get much sleep due to my nerve pain cutting up. I've been up since about 3am. Not much planned for today. Just reduce the amount of clutter on the layout. Maybe watch a movie or two. Boy my life is exciting.
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"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN
6/10/13
TIPTON IN
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD MONDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Monday, June 10th, 2013!!!
I will light the prayer candles at Noon for those in need....
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
{PER request; for funsies}:
Let the Cat Out of the BAG:
Meaning:
Disclose a secret.
There are two commonly heard suggested origins of this phrase. One relates to the fraud of substituting a cat for a piglet at markets. If you let the cat out of the bag you disclosed the trick - and avoided buying a pig in a poke (bag). This form of trickery is long alluded to in the language and 'pigs in a poke' are recorded as early as 1530.
The other theory is that the 'cat' referred to is the cat o' nine tails, which was used to flog ill-disciplined sailors. Again, this has sufficient historical record to be at least possible. The cat o' nine tails was widely used and was referred to in print many years prior to the first use of 'let the cat out of the bag'. The 'nine tails' part of the name derives from the three strands of cord that the rope lashes were made from. Each of the cords were in turn made from three strands of string. When unbraided a piece of rope separated into nine strings. The 'cat' part no doubt alluded to the scratches that the knotted ends of the lash made on the victim's back, like those from a cat's claws.
Of the two explanations, the 'pig in a poke' derivation is the more plausible, although I can find no direct documentary evidence to link 'letting the cat out of the bag' to the selling of livestock. Versions of the phrase exist in both Dutch - 'Een kat in de zak kopen' and in German - 'Die Katze im Sack kaufen'. These both translate loosely as 'to buy a cat in a bag', i.e. to buy false goods.
The cat o' nine tails story is dubious at best. It is reported that the lashes were sometimes stored in bags, but the suggested nautical punishment origin fails at the critical point, in that it doesn't match the 'disclose a secret' meaning of the phrase.
The first known use of the phrase in print that I have found is in a 1760 edition of The London Magazine:
"We could have wished that the author... had not let the cat out of the bag."
There are several other literary references to the phrase in the 1760s and 1770s, most of which place it in quotations marks - a sure sign of it being not commonly understood and consequently, newly coined.
Cats feature very often in English proverbs:
A cat may look at a king - 1546 All cats are grey in the dark - 1596 Curiosity killed the cat - 1921 There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream - 1855 When the cat is away, the mice will play - 1607
This routine appearance of cats in the language is no doubt a consequence of them being widely kept as mousers and pets in domestic houses. As to 'who let the cats out?', we can't be certain; but it probably wasn't a sailor.
Dictionary reference:
NOTE: some of these research items may actaully be based in fact, OR could be from fertile imagination as to how a particular phrase got started. After all, some of these phrases are hundreds of years old, some only fromthe last century. SNOPEs for example, expunges the 'cat o' nine tails' and the 'pig in a poke' references and therory of "let the cat out of the bag"...see:
http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/catbag.asp
-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 evening! ..
Did you see Paul Beverung is back in the forum!???? I greeted him in his thread.
Shhhhhhh ..... Lion is sleeping in the back booth. .... and Duke never awakens as he sleeps in the corner booth.
Gus and I were working on the front light problem with P2K E7's.... Burlington did not have Mars lights in its E units. Now one of my E7's is functioning more prototypically. Next time I take photos, I'll show you.
Have a goo night everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
We got lots of rain today accompanied by plenty of lightning and thunder. The weather reports say there's a fair chance of rain tonight but from what I can see it will miss us. Glad I cut the grass when I did. I wouldn't have been able to do it until the middle of the week, say Tuesday or Wednesday. As it is I'll probably have to do it again this weekend or early next week. I gathered up some things from the layout today and put them away. That's a little more clutter cleared.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evening Dinners
Flo Beer Pleases.
Yep, I am very pleased with the Drill Deal. Heck for $20.00 and I have to replaces it in a year, what can I compliant about! Plus right now, emplacement batteries are only $39.99 vs $80.00 for my De Walt drills.
Work Front Did have a good day Commission Wises, made a extra $108.00 today. Dave (area supivisor) was there and had a talk with me giving to big of discounts today. Told him my reasons.
1 Hardly any customers. Dave thinks the lack of business is from the last manager being a jerk. So I am making deals to get a customer base again.
2 Three of the customers where shopping around and said they where not buying today. So I made them deals they could not refuses to buy now!
Sore only did around $3500.00 today in sales. My 3 sales he questioned me about came too $2010.00 of the sales? What can I say?
Vince's Give me a prices on the B&O coal car with shipping.
See you all later, Ken
I hate Rust
Good evening.
Got somethings done today. Test ran the RS-11 and GP20. The RS-11 ran without flaw, but the GP20 was a stubborn little thing. It reminded me that I was using some somewhat old and beaten track. It jerked in some areas and stalled at low speeds, so the problem is definitely electrical. Will consider getting some Kato Unitrack for test running.
Night everyone.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Lion! There you are!
SWMBO and I went to a local carnival last night,,,,,sat down to play BINGO, she won on her first card! Then we walked around a bit,,pizza,,fries,,soda,,got tickets for the "big prize drawing" They called 11:30 last night. We Won! Well, really SWMBO won! But not the big prize $5,000 bucks,,but one of the lesser prizes,,,dinner for 2 at some swanky seafood restaurant.
But the part I thought you would find interesting,,,the carnival is put on by the local LIONS club!
Karl
NCE über alles!
blownout cylinderIt was a kind of dull day here for awhile but the sun did show itself more often...but..we are getting some dull and rain for tomorrow...sigh.
We had sun. We stole your sun. LION sleeped much of the afternoon, but him also worked in train room. SOMEBODY has to clean the floor. The LION didn't do it but was working on the signals system. I think that most of the relays are wired, gotta start building signals soon. It turns out that all of the ones built previously are reversed from what the new system will require. I am relocating the old ones to places where Interlocking controlled by the position of the switches is required, and will use new signals for the block control system.
NOW can I go and take a nap? Please!
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
blownout cylinder*a dust and cobweb infested figure comes strolling in, hacking and coughing like the fool he is*
Good Evening
Everything is all well in cobwebville..the dust bunnies and spiders have fled the scene and now the layout is clean again..I even managed to glean the tracks a bit and ran some trains around....YES!!!
It was a kind of dull day here for awhile but the sun did show itself more often...but..we are getting some dull and rain for tomorrow...sigh.
Anyway...off I go checking out the forums...
jeffrey-wimberly blownout cylinderAnyhow...I'm going into the train room today to see about cleaning up the poor thing before a layer of dust settles over it and cobwebs start to develop..the hacking and coughing you will hear is me trying to clear the aforesaid room of aid dust and stuff...If we don't hear from you by 9pm we'll send in the marines!
blownout cylinderAnyhow...I'm going into the train room today to see about cleaning up the poor thing before a layer of dust settles over it and cobwebs start to develop..the hacking and coughing you will hear is me trying to clear the aforesaid room of aid dust and stuff...
*a dust and cobweb infested figure comes strolling in, hacking and coughing like the fool he is*
Yes!!
The job is completed!!
*passes out*
Evening All,
The only thing I have done since the last posting is to figure out how to make my BLI K7 stock car I picked up at a train show for cheap make cow sounds. I have had it for 6 months and I decided to do some research to figure it out. Nothing on the BLI site..go figure. I finally found on the Atlas forum where a person said program your throttle to 03 then use F8 to turn sound on/off. A magnetic reed fob (just received from Ebay) controls sound level. I did all that and it works. I ran it around the layout several times with no issues.
Tomorrow I need to vacuum the house and get a haircut.
Hope everybody has a great night and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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chochowillieLife goes on and I did ah... persuade them to return the FULL amount that was paid up front in cash. He was arguing about th $100 delivery fee not being refundable and I offered him a deal. Give me back the $100 delivery fee and I won't go to Consumer Affairs. He decided to forgo the delivery fee. I wonder why?
Heartland Division CB&QCanadian Dennis .... Sorry to hear about your furniture problem. We have dealt with a furniture company in North Carolina with good prices, and they ship all over the US. I don't know if they do Canada.
Life goes on and I did ah... persuade them to return the FULL amount that was paid up front in cash. He was arguing about th $100 delivery fee not being refundable and I offered him a deal. Give me back the $100 delivery fee and I won't go to Consumer Affairs. He decided to forgo the delivery fee. I wonder why?
So.... Tomorrow my MOH tells me we are once again going Dining Room Table/Chair shopping. I'm sure we'll run all over till she finds the exact thing that she wants Oh well, Happy Wife.. Happy Life
Cheers
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Howdy everybody .... Glad to see people are having a good weekend.
The Kentucky 400 mile Yard Sale was this weekend starting with Friday. That's an event this time every year, and it follows US 68 on its 400 miles in KY. That is the main east-west road through here and it crosses through the Land Between the Lakes. ...... Sellers are out in full force.
Barry ... If you want more stuff to put in your full garage, visit KY next year. The big yard sale is all useless stuff, and it should fit in with yours.
Mr. B ..... I grew up watching the Blackhawks. So GO Blackhawks! .... It's good to see 2 of the original NFL teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs this time.
V8 Dennis .... Sounds like the shooting that was on national TV. I don't understand such insanity.
Canadian Dennis .... Sorry to hear about your furniture problem. We have dealt with a furniture company in North Carolina with good prices, and they ship all over the US. I don't know if they do Canada.
Galaxy ...... Interesting to learn about Jaywalking..... Have you researched "let the cat out of the bag."? It might be interesting, too.
Ken ... Nice drill
I made a little more sawdust for my layout expansion. Still have much more to do. The brad nailer I ordered on Monday has not yet arrived.
Afternoon All,
Very humid here today. By Wednesday the temp is supposed to be up to 95 and humid. Today I replaced MOH's burned out turn signal bulb. Luckily it was a back one so it was easy. The fronts are a real pain to change on a HHR. My truck is paid off this month.
I put tunnel liners in my three entrances today. I used Chooch flexible walls a thin styrene sheets. I think the brick looks pretty good and I will probably post pics in WPF next week.
I also put my PRR picture I got on vacation on the wall in the train room (after framing), MOH would not let me put it up in the living room.
MOH wants to put wood flooring in the upstairs so we have a estimator coming out to give us the bad news. The loft will be a pain since the layout will not move.
Dennis- We had a similar issue years ago. After the 3 attempts at delivery we cancelled and got our money back after a major hassle.
Hope everybody has a great day and prayers for those in need.
And a cheery good morning to all you diners. Kind of a mixed bag weather wise here in Alberta today. Cool, Sunny, Cloudy and once again windy. Doesn't seem to know which way it's going.
Not too much planned for today other that go out to Ashley Furniture and get a refund on a Dining room set we purchased in mid Feb and still do not have. You would think that they could manage to deliver one undamaged table and 4 undamaged chairs in that period of time. The local showroom ordered 4 times for the same items and each set came in damaged. It seems that they can't pack thinks properly for shipment for some reason or other. Dumb.
Anyway, they have offered me a refund which I am more than glad to take except the refund is $200 less that what we paid in the first place. So I'm going to ask them why and if I don't get the full amount then it's off to small claims court we go.
Ok, RANT OVER!!!
Have to plant some more bedding plants later according to MOH so I guess my no plans just got changed.
If it starts to rain, maybe I'll build some trees.... sounds like an idea to me.
CU later
Good afternoon all!
Sorry I've been absent for the last few weeks, but work has kept me quite busy until last Thursday when at 4:30pm I went on vacation again!!! So, I'm off until a week from tomorrow.
I played in a Captain and Crew, Best Ball golf outing on Friday. What a blast. Yesterday was recovery day... lol! Today is laundry and clean the house day. Although the cleaning has now ended due to me wanting to start inventorying my train items. I got the room the layout is going to be in mostly cleaned this morning. All I have left to do is the windows, some touch up painting and the floors (they're hardwood in all 3 bedrooms only). I figure I'll get the windows done here shortly, and then start hauling my train stuff up to there and sort out as I go.
As for the rest of this vacation, I'm off to Canton Ohio in the morning to help my ex clean out her storage unit and bring everything back here to her new apartment on Tuesday. Wed-Fri I'm doing Phase I of a 3 phase landscaping job so that will keep me busy for most of this vacation.
Well, I'm off for now.
Take care!
JP
//signed// John Powell President / CEO CNY Transportation Corp (fictional)
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Hunter - When we met in January of 2000, you were just a 6 week old pup who walked his way into this heart of mine as the only runt in the litter who would come over to me. And today, I sit here and tell you I am sorry we had to put you down. It was the best thing for you and also the right thing to do. May you now rest in peace and comfort. Love, Dad. 8 June 2010
I love you and miss you Mom. Say hi to everyone up there for me. Rest in peace and comfort. Love, John. 29 March 2017
Good morning from sunny New England, for the next few minutes, anyway. The weather is just like that here.
Ken, I scored a drill deal sometime last year. The Local Hardware Store had a pile of them on a stand-alone table layout. It was a drill, a flashlight that uses the same battery, a charger and a decent set of bits. My cordless drill had bit the dust, so I'd been looking for this sort of thing, and for $25 for the whole set, who was I to complain. It's not a professional model, by any means, but for the work I do it's more than enough. Yeah, so the bulb in the flashlight lasted about 30 seconds. A couple of months later, I wished I'd bought one for my daughter, who was moving out of the dorm and into a rented house. She was back home and we happened to be at the same store, and low and behold they still had a few of them, so I got her a set, too.
Dennis, I know what you mean about saturation news coverage. We got nothing but the Marathon bombing story for weeks here around Boston, and now we're going to get 4 months of All Whitey Bulger, All the time as the show trial for this old gangster plods its way through the courts.
Meanwhile, the Boston Bruins will be playing the Blackhawks for the Stanley Cup starting Wednesday. Go Bruins!
I promised myself I'd fix that bit of bad trackwork in the corner, and by golly, I'm going to do it today.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of pumpkin seed flax organic granola with lots of fresh blueberries and a cup of Seneca Lake Blend dark roast coffee this morning.
Just had to switch back from heat to air conditioner a few minutes ago. the air conditioner should be kicking in fairly soon. Not really hot in the house but at 90% or better humidity..... I keep the thermostat at 74° for the air conditioner side and 69° for the heat. So far it is a bright day out there with a big yellow thing up in tyhe sky! Air conditioner just started up.....
Jeffery, you win the cigar! Yep, nice clean electric from a very dirty source.... especially back in 1925. The one I am poking a bit of fun at was mothballed a couple years ago and likely will stay that way. NYS is now getting less than 10% of its electric from coal generating plants.
Ken, if that is the 18v B&D system, it is the same as I have for my little chain saw, rototiller, and string trimmer. They are very nice tools! My B&D lawn mower uses a much, much larger 36v battery system.... Nice deal!
Best get myself moving. Need to use the afore mentioned lawn mower today....
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
cudaken So I spent the rest of the day in the garage drinking and running trains.\
Morning All,
Currently 61 with an expected high of 101 under very sunny skies.
Opening shift today, but get out an hour before we close, so may have time for some railroading this evening.
Ken - nice score on the drill.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
I got top so the breakfast buffet and Sunday brunches are on me. Eat up.
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.
Kinda tired right now. Feeling pretty good otherwise. Will probably mow the lawn today, among some other things.
Morning Dinners
Flo, Diet Dew Pleases.
Saturday Well it started out good! Been needing a new cordless drill for sometime now but did not want to spend the money. I was going to need one Saturday and went on line to Loews to see what they had. Found this one for $75.00.
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Reason I like this one is because it came with 2 batteries and used the same batteries as my B&D Alligator chain saw. I all so have 2 batteries for it all ready. Still did not want to spend $75.00 but it had good reviews. Got to the store, and they where out? But, they would sale me the floor model for 10% off, that will work!
But, they could not find the box with the charger and batteries. But there tool guy made me a deal I could not refuse! Sold me the drill for $20.00 and I could return it if my batteries did not fit! Got the drill home and batteries fit! New drill for $20.00, that I could afford.
New drill made sort work of the job I had to do, installing the new window A/C unit in the bedroom. While the install went smooth, listening to the wife just beat me down!
This woman does nothing but find things to worry about, and won't keep it to her self! My daughter and a friend where here at the time and my wife was driving us nuts! By the time I was done with a simple job, I was wore out by my wife silly worries!
So I spent the rest of the day in the garage drinking and running trains.\
See you all after work, Ken
We are seeing a small taste of sun today...it is forecasting cloudy periods..so it usually means we'll see an hour or two of sun in the morning then it all shuts down and we will not see an iota of it until 5 minutes before the sun goes down...sigh.
Anyhow...I'm going into the train room today to see about cleaning up the poor thing before a layer of dust settles over it and cobwebs start to develop..the hacking and coughing you will hear is me trying to clear the aforesaid room of aid dust and stuff...
Have a great day!!!
Ulrich: My back, such as it is, twinged at your pain...