Elliot's Trackside Diner....JUNE 2013!!!!

[howmus]

"It's a rainy, rainy day... Just a rainy, rainy day..."

Cup of hot chocolate, Chloe, please.

So far today it has rained......  Yep that is all it has done, of course it is now all the way up to 57°F...  Also under a flood watch here in the Finger Lakes until 6AM tomorrow.  Guess I better check the basement and see if water is coming in down there.  Might be a good reason to get something done on the layout....  Hmmmmmm.  Turned on the heat in the house earlier this morning.

Just got a call a while ago from my son reminding me I needed to be over at his house by 2:30 to watch Granddaughter #2, followed by a phone call from DIL telling me that her mom doesn't need to watch her other daughters kids after all and I don't need to go over to babysit the granddaughters, followed by another call from my son to tell me the same thing....  Good communications on this side of the family!

I drove down to the local office of NYSEG here in Geneva to complain about customer service.  They have the Service dept tucked away on the second floor of one of there buildings down there with only a small sign to give the impression that they actually exist...  One found they have several human beings (Carbon Based Units) WORKING there!!!  I told the lady who waited on me all the gripes I had about the email service, and she went to work changing my reads and correcting the mistake.  She also suggested that since I live here and can easily drop by to just take the reading and put it in a locked Drop Box outside the gate and they will enter it for me therefore avoiding having to deal with the absent people at the main office in the Southern Tier...   She also gave me a local number to call to get information about how Net Metering actually shows up on my bill as she had no idea.  I told her I take all the nasty things I have said about NYSEG.  That is why I prefer to speak with a real human being rather than talk to a computer that tells me to hang up and call the emergency Number or gives me a list of 8 or 9 different options to dial, none of which have anything to do with what my question is.  Man!  I hate the way companies do business today!  This is the reason why I do business locally with real people who live and work in this community rather than by computer whenever possible.

Mr. Beasley, if they recorded Barry's coughing and hacking, it would sound about the same as all the other sound bits they put out actually.... 

Later!

73

[MisterBeasley]

blownout cylinder

..*coff cooff coff...gack hack....aaaccchhhhiiiinskiiiiiiiii!!!!...honk honk...*

You should record that and send it to Soundtraxx for the next generation of Tsunamis.

[fec153]

We are under Tornado Watch till 10 P.M., from Miami to Jacksonville. Curt is out on the job in this heavy rain and wind gusts.

She doesn't have to throw the iron, just wait for you to go to sleep. Deb has an 8 inch cast iron fry pan that I'm afraid of.

Have old remedy for getting rid of a fever. Warm glass of milk with a shot of whiskey and pat of butter. Stir and drink-DO NOT SMELL. Wear p.j.s ,put heavy towel on bed, get in and cover up. You;ll sweat it out.

Prayers and Blessings to all.

Flip

 

 

[Cederstrand]

French Roast coffee in a UNDECORATED mug, please.

Hope everyone is doing well these days. Have been preoccupied with farm work and house projects. Still nothing to report on on the MRR front. Still have not even tested the locos sitting on the kitchen table yet. Need a clone or two.

Cheers!  Rob

[howmus]

Mornin'.........

Barry, is today your fault?   Zoe, I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes with a side order of bacon, and lots of dark roast coffee in my FGLK mug please.  Yes, leave the NYS Maple Syrup at the table!

Guess we need the rain, but does the temperature this morning have to be 56°F on the 6th. of June?  Might get all the way up to 61°F sometime this afternoon they say.  Steady rain coming down here in the Finger lakes since last night and will be continuing all day.  Glad I have the garden planted (well almost planted, need to rototill a patch right behind the shed and put in some pole beans back there).

Today I will watching Granddaughter #2 for a couple hours, and I get to go and see if they still have old fashioned Carbon Units w@rking at the local NYSEG office here.  I don't think any human type people still work at the main office in the very far.  At least they ignore my emails....

I'll catch you all later!

73

[pascaff*]

  Morning All,

     Currently it is 61 with an expected high of 98, under sunny skies.

   Opening shift today, then Skype tonight with my son. So not much rr'ing will get done today.

   Went to the lawyer's yesterday, I made $300 a month over what I am allowed to make in the past six months to be able to qualify for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Lawyer said fill out paperwork and go to court, it will be the least expensive thing to do. We shall see how that works out. Just does not seem fair, lost my wife and her income, and still have to pay her dr. bills and all else. Up until her passing we paid all our bills on time and had a great credit rating.

   Prayers to all in need for health, weather related, and all other needs.

   Paul 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

blownout cylinder

Oh...so you be talkin' 'bout one of them thar cast iron jobbies....oi...

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Got some ugly weather coming through. So far the heavy stuff is north of us. Looks like there's still more to come.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Mordig..*coff cooff coff...gack hack....aaaccchhhhiiiinskiiiiiiiii!!!!...honk honk...*

yeb'm...I still have the cold ...now it settled into the lungs and I will be coughing up bits of lung for a few days here...cooff coff.....

Anyhooo...called in sick and they gave me a couple of weeks off...nice ...get a bit of a break to let me get over this lousy thing...

Today I will be indulging in some hot lemon toddies and wrapping myself up in quilts...sweat this thing out...hopefully    

Have a good day!!

[blownout cylinder]

jeffrey-wimberly

TMarsh

Mr. Dispatcher

TMarsh

tcwright973

.....I am smart enough not to talk about. .......Nearly 50 years of marriage teaches you about these thing, right Todd.

Oh yah. Problem is I seem to be a slooooow learner.

Just as long as you're a fast ducker

 

 

Some day you're going to find out the hard way just how far she can throw that iron. Iron throwing. New Olympic event maybe? None of those light weight Sunbeam models either.

Oh...so you be talkin' 'bout one of them thar cast iron jobbies....oi...

[jeffrey-wimberly]

TMarsh

Mr. Dispatcher

TMarsh

tcwright973

.....I am smart enough not to talk about. .......Nearly 50 years of marriage teaches you about these thing, right Todd.

Oh yah. Problem is I seem to be a slooooow learner.

Just as long as you're a fast ducker

 

 

Some day you're going to find out the hard way just how far she can throw that iron. Iron throwing. New Olympic event maybe? None of those light weight Sunbeam models either.

[MisterBeasley]

Good morning!  It's a pleasant spring day here in New England, the Bruins won again last night, and I'm once again living proof that you can't be unhappy in a Hawaiian shirt.

Ray, thanks for the weather report.  Your weather today is generally mine tomorrow.

Karl, I love the scene with the gon and the overhead crane behind it.

Our daughter is coming home for the weekend.  The plan is a lobster dinner on Saturday.  I just love cooking that.  We've got a big lobster pot and a burner platform for a propane tank outside.  It cooks them perfectly without smelling up the kitchen.  Add some steamers, corn on the cob, a salad and garlic bread and you've got a feast.

[TMarsh]

Mr. Dispatcher

TMarsh

tcwright973

.....I am smart enough not to talk about. .......Nearly 50 years of marriage teaches you about these thing, right Todd.

Oh yah. Problem is I seem to be a slooooow learner.

Just as long as you're a fast ducker

 

 

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!!!

Coffee and a couple of those sour cream donuts please, thanks.

Scattered showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 74.

Thanks G! You’re Plumb the best.

Flip- I hope things go well Friday and they figure it out and get it fixed.

The whole 9 yards….. Actually not long ago, true story, I was thinking of that very phrase. I was trying to associate it with football in my head. Wasn’t working very well either. The association with football that is, not my head.

Welp, today I have to do some realigning in my life. Yup. I’m always busy but seem to get nothing done except pass time, which at my age, is going fast enough and I don’t need to help it any. Now I don’t know how I’ll do this, but I’m gonna try.  Gotta figure out how to get some leisure time. Or rather more leisure time. I do ( I thought it was I before e except aft…nevermind) I do have leisure time, it just doesn't amounts to much it seems and no train time. When I wo*ked I had time for other stuff. Now I’m retired I have no time for anything other than w*rk. Now, granted I take longer to do something than I used to, and yes our stuff has slide waaaay back due to being put on the back burner because of our parents, but still. Ah well, that’s my plan anyway.

Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

[Mr. Dispatcher]

TMarsh

tcwright973

.....I am smart enough not to talk about. .......Nearly 50 years of marriage teaches you about these thing, right Todd.

Oh yah. Problem is I seem to be a slooooow learner.

Just as long as you're a fast ducker

[TMarsh]

tcwright973

.....I am smart enough not to talk about. .......Nearly 50 years of marriage teaches you about these thing, right Todd.

Oh yah. Problem is I seem to be a slooooow learner.

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good morning. Working today. Hope I still have some energy by the end of the day. Sote right now.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 76° with 98% humidity. High 88° Looks like it may be wet.


I thought I heard thunderstorms in the distance early this morning but as I was only half awake I couldn't be sure. Now that I've seen the radar I see there was some bad stuff north of here. Looking over into east Texas I see some more ugly stuff coming this way. I can only hope it passes to the north.

My eyes feel much better today. Yesterday they were feeling like they'd been flipped inside out. I hate eye exams. I have a prescription for new glasses but until I can scrape together the money for them the old ones will have to do.

It looks like cleaning up some of the mess on the layout will be the activity of the day.

[wetidlerjr]

"Good Morning!" from Tipton IN

6/6/13

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
~ Part of President Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer given June 6, 1944

    

TIPTON IN

[galaxy]

Morning coffee in then diner...

GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!!!

Today is Thrusday, June 6th, 2013!!!

I will light the prayer candles at 9 am for those in need with a special candle for weather related victims..be it flood, hurricane {we have our first Tropical Storm} or tornados......

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!

True Blue:

In days of old, dyes for cloth came mostly from berries, flowers and bark. The color blue was particularly rare, and when it could be done it often faded.  In Coventry, England, they discovered a formula that made a blue dye color that didn't fade soon after several washings.  This color  was quickly called "true blue."  For years, this "true blue" was the best color dye there was of all the clothes dyes. Later on, the phrase came to represent honesty, reliability, faithfulness, whether from a person or a pet

The Whole 9 Yards:

This term comes from WWII era where a fighter pilot's chain of ammo was 27 feet long or 9 yards. So, when the pilot unloaded all of his ammo at the target, he said " I gave it the whole 9 yards" meaning..." I gave it all I had".

It also take about 9 yards to make a good quality Kilt, so the scottish say "it takes the whole 9 yards of plaid fabric"  to make the kilt. {betcha didn't know that!}

 

BLOCK BUSTER:

The origin of this phrase is from WWII. It refers to a bomb that could level an entire block.  When the soldier boys came home, the phrase caught on to represent anything that made a "real impact".

[Anonymous]

Good Morning!

We are enjoying a beautiful morning here in northern Germany, while the folks in the south are still battling the flood. All major rivers are affected, but once the flood wave on the Elbe river will reach Hamburg, it´ll be reduced to close to nothing - the port area is big enough to cope with a little extra water.

Please include the folks down there in your prayers.

I actually did some MRRing yesterday - I needed a break from all this party work. I started assembling the kits for those background buildings on my layout. These are resin kits - a material which I don´t like very much. All of the facades were warped, so I had to put them into boiling water to straighten them carefully. The material is awkward to work with - just too bristle. The kits did not come with sides wall, so I used some leftover styrene sheet to fabricate the side walls. Nothing to show yet, but I promise to post pictures.

Lion - didn´t know the had a "Flying Lions" corps in the US Navy...

Have a good one!

[howmus]

Evenin' folks!

Janie, just a cup of hot decaf to warm me up, please.

Twas a chilly day for June around here.  The high got all the way up to 68°F around 4PM.  I got the summer squash planted along with more onion sets in the second raised bed garden today.  Did a bit of banking downtown, and then had to go to a Scout District Meeting this evening.  Was a good meeting billed as an Ice Cream Social...  I imbibed myself with a nice large bowl of ice cream on top of a hunk of brownie brought by one of the leaders, then smothered it all in Carmel syrup, whipped cream, little chocolate bits and then put a maraschino cherry on the top!  Then I had a small cup of a Tart Cherry Ice that one of our members who is a scientist at the Cornell Experiment Station here in Geneva brought.  I was just fine with all of that because I knew to eat it all standing up and anything that you eat standing up doesn't count!

Just took my blood sugar a few minutes ago and it was a bit high.  Have no idea why???

Barry, hobe you ged ober duh cowd kwickwee.

Flip, hope the tests go well for you.

Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy around here.  I get to watch Granddaughter #2 tomorrow afternoon for a couple hours.  I also plan on stopping in at the local NYSEG Customer Service office here in the area to see if they still have any "Carbon Based Units", AKA humanoids, still w@rking that might be able to get my bill updated!  I'm betting they don't!  They evidently no longer have humans answering emails....

Prayers for all in need!

73

[fec153]

Karl- Thankyou.

Darn I forgot to thank DUKE for posting the 'E' about the origins of the DINER..  [gettig old.]

I have 'E's of British steam One of the sidebars has the "MALLARD"  Also R T  just sent me an E of a Drone following a train around Tehach- Loop. Anyone interested, I'll need your E.  Curt already was sent the British E's 

Flip

Just water, toothpick and a napkin, please.

 

[kbkchooch]

Howdy Gang 

Flo,,,Iced tea tonight please,,,,got up to 80 today, which in itself wasn't too bad,,but the evening bicycle ride was lengthened by half again,,without warning.....You know how it is,,,wherever SWMBO goes,,I gotta go. Got 9 more Midland cars weathered tonight,,,that about does it for the cement hoppers. Did manage to get another car done,,a B&O gon with an authentic scrap load! See a few weeks ago I went to a run session at a layout near Pittsburgh, and one of the fellas there was handing out containers of authentic scrap. Swept out of a Union Railroad gon, then layed out of a picnic table for a week or so to get real rust on it. Makes a great load!

Barry,, another cold?? Get well!! 

Ulrich,, Good for you! Bully on your brother for acting like an a$$

Flip. Good luck with the "dye job" 

Jake  Congrats on graduating 

Lion, a cook? I bet your specialty was red meats! 

for them that need, time to turn in. Tomorrow comes early and I have to meet with clients whose office backs up to the CSX main...hope a train comes!

EDIT:

Top of the page!!  Eat up fellas, I got this. Galaxy, you're safe for now!! 

[fec153]

LION- In case no one has told you, THANKS FOR SERVING and Welcome home.

No joke about the N.Y. subway system on wallpaper.

Flip

Friday have dye job in veins to see what is /are problems with heart . Temporarily out of work

ttfn

 

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

BroadwayLion

Lehigh Valley 2089

Say Lion, what kind of Phantom is that in the photo? And also, what carrier is that? Midway? 

Why, an F-4 version of the Phantom, of course. F-4B and F-4G seem to stick in my mind. On this particular cruise I was with VAH8 flying KA3B off of the USS Constellation CVA-64.. After that I was transferred to VF-161 FLYING f-4S from the USS Coral Sea CVA-43.

Were there any F-8s on the Constellation?

[chochowillie]

BroadwayLion

LION was a COOK in the NAVY

Given that you were a Cook in the Navy Lion, it makes me wonder how come you aren't a Cook at the Monastery.

Just got back from an appointment with my Audiologist. She needed to do some "fine tuning" on my new $8,000 set on digital aids. All I can say is WOW what a difference my previous analog aids. No comparison at all.

I am hearing things that I haven't heard in the 20 years I've been wearing aids which is sort of a good thing bad thing in a way. The good news is that I can hear  the birds singing again which brings so much joy back into my life. The bad part is that wearing them makes me tired. Susan tells me it is because my brain is having to identify sounds that it hasn't had to deal with for many years and it really is tiring. So, it's not all in my head. Uh well, it is all in my head but not the way I meant.... Hmm well you know what I mean.

Cut the lawn today and bought and planted some more flowers for the yard. I was waiting till the fence was painted and they finished it yesterday so today was "Yard Work Day". Not that I mind, I enjoy working in the yard!

Nothing much happening on the Model Rail Road these days. Been too busy with outside stuff like waxing my pride and joy. Got a show and shine tomorrow evening if it isn't raining which it probably will be. Around this neck of the woods, we often get Thunder Boomers in the late afternoon/early evening this time of the year.

Later all

[BroadwayLion]

thebarnet

Oh an F-4  phantom known as the largest distributor of MiG parts in the world.  is that Your F-4 lion?

*my* F-4? Heavens no, that one belongs to the US NAVY. (says so right on the side.)

LION was a COOK in the NAVY, him knowed where the food was, you know. But nobody objected to our going up to the signal bridge to take pictures of the Aeroplanes. LION was always assigned to a Squadron and was never ship's company. Him went where the squadron went.

ROAR

[BroadwayLion]

Lehigh Valley 2089

Say Lion, what kind of Phantom is that in the photo? And also, what carrier is that? Midway? 

Why, an F-4 version of the Phantom, of course. F-4B and F-4G seem to stick in my mind. On this particular cruise I was with VAH8 flying KA3B off of the USS Constellation CVA-64.. After that I was transferred to VF-161 FLYING f-4S from the USS Coral Sea CVA-43.

[Burlington Northern #24]

hey guys, it's been a while since I came in here. my new SD40-2's came today. I haven't run them but they look amazing.

[thebarnet]

Nice i do like Tamyia's stuff i currently have a 1:35 scale M3 lee from them i am working on at the moment i am just waiting for one of the Local hobby stores to get some Suitable colours in stock as there seams to have been a run on Colours in suitable shades Ffor US tanks