(comes in and sets a couple bags of freshly picked Blackberries on the counter for all to share)
Good Morning!!!
Disappointed. Blackberries aren’t as sweet this year. Probably because of the lack of rain I suppose. We really haven’t had much rain at all since Spring despite the lack of talk about it.
Sunday breakfast buffet please. Oh yes, coffee too thank you.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Looks like Spring break is over. Temps in the mid to mostly upper 80’s this week.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ULRICH!!!!!!
Liba- Hang in there. Boy you are British….be patient, I’ll catch on to your manner of speech soon. Did I understand you to say you used to be a fighter? Oh and you order up whatever you want. The cooks here are very International. They make whatever, however.
Trimmed the neighbors tree off the garage and my truck yesterday, then broke out the old chainsaw that I haven’t used for at least two years I think. Same gas in the tank of the machine and in the can I put in two years ago. Started up as normal and ran just fine. Waaaaaaahhhhwaaaaaahhhwaaaaahhhhh! (make chainsaw noises) As I have said, gas only lasting 30 days to 2 months is well, just ploy to sell more gas. Stabil? Another waste of money. Anyway, got the front yard done and of course we had to go in town to eat. Nope, no Chinese buffet. We ate at the restaurant catty whompus across the street that serves various Asian dishes, run by Vietnamese who speak Cantonese, who wear Proud to be American t-shirts, called Thai Basil. Great food. I like this dish served in a bowl and it’s got beef and salad and cucumbers and noodles and even an eggroll cut up in there. Can’t pernounce it so I point and say “this” and then see if the waitress can. Pronounce it that is.The one we had yesterday, she could not. The waitress we had the first time I had it, she could. Not this one. And the guy who brought it out, not sure if he made it through the whole name. Didn’t sound like it. I’m determined to eat my way through their entire menu. It’s all that good. Not sure about the curry dishes, Todd’s aren’t that keen on curry, but hey, if anybody can do good by it, it'd be them.
AAAAAAny who. Today I have to “trim” (heh heh heh) the rose of Sharon bush out back that has just ex-PLODE-ed over the last several ye...ah HEM... couple years. And a big who-knows-what-it-is-swallowed-up-a-rosebush bush at the front corner of our dwelling. Plus I must start the beginning of what will probably be a never ending task of cutting down the black raspberries.
Oh well talked enough.
Oh and a belated Happy Birthday to Toms’ wife.
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 everyone!! I will have a med coffee with cream and X sugar please. It looks like it's going to be another beautiful day here, The feeling of fall is in the air! It's been a long week at work, but had the day off yesterday so I went on a another date with that girl I met on Zoosk! Getting old sucks!!! I can't stay up late anymore on my nights off. I can be full of energy and then it will just hit me like a ton of bricks and next thing you know, I'm ready for bed. The both of us were tired so we called it a early night. I found some hard to find rare pieces of rolling stock on Ebay, hopefully I put in a high enough bid and they will be mine.
Jeff- Glad to hear that you are doing ok
Happy Sunday everybody!
Been a beautiful week, with low temps and dry, but today it changes. Like they say, into every life a little rain must fall! So today we get rain.
Been busy doin stuff all week, yet I find myself further behind on my list of stuff to do, so today it will be different. I'm not going to plan on getting anything done, that way I cant be disappointed at the outcome! Ahhhh, the simple madness of it all!!
Warning, shameless plug coming
I was pleased to see that MR has decided to move the video related to my most recent article to the 5 window rotation on the top center of the home page. If you haven't seen it yet, take a peek ! The cinematography isn't the best, and my guest engineer still needs a little help remembering his grade crossing signals, but how the little engine performs is impressive.
Shameless plug over
Jeffrey, great to hear of your progress so far. Gonna keep you on the prayer list until its time to put your Dad's lawn tractors on the list!!
Ulrich to you Sir. & are on the menu!
Oh, while I think about it, does anyone know how to get rid of Moles in the backyard? In the last 2 weeks they have turned my back yard into a subway that only Lion could appreciate!
Tootles for now, SWMBO is calling!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Looks like a good day the flounder was great last night and the Pennsylvania ES44AC ran ok and thinking about some can sausage for breakfast and that trailer on Jeff's layout looks like one that I lived in for a few weeks.
Russell
kbkchoochOh, while I think about it, does anyone know how to get rid of Moles in the backyard? In the last 2 weeks they have turned my back yard into a subway that only Lion could appreciate!
Try tea tree oil - we used it quite successfully - the moles "emigrated" to our neighbor´s yard
csxnsthat trailer on Jeff's layout looks like one that I lived in for a few weeks.
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
Sir MadogTry tea tree oil
jeffrey-wimberly to mine.
kbkchooch Oh, while I think about it, does anyone know how to get rid of Moles in the backyard? In the last 2 weeks they have turned my back yard into a subway that only Lion could appreciate!
The only truly effective way to eliminate moles is to trap them and, for that purpose, you need a trap designed to "eliminate" the mole. All other so-called remedies do not really work.
Rich
Alton Junction
csxns jeffrey-wimberly to mine.Is this for real.
jeffrey-wimberly csxns jeffrey-wimberly to mine.Is this for real. Yeah, it's for real. It's sixty-four years old this year.
csxnsIs it at the same location at where you live now.
Where did everyone go?? I think I missed the Parade and the Black Berry's..
Cheers,To All,,,
Frank
Sir Madog Try tea tree oil - we used it quite successfully - the moles "emigrated" to our neighbor´s yard
The only problem with "emigres" is the eventually come back I was looking for a more, final solution. So we seeded the tunnels with We will see how this works over the next few days. IF there is no joy, then we go for a spring loaded Mole trap. Kind of a cross between a mousetrap and a guillotine.
Wanted to airbrush some stuff today, but after the mole seeding, the humidity got the best of me, so I went down the basement to relax. Silly me. See our washer empties into a stationary tub. SWMBO, in her own omnipotent way, decided too much lint was going down the drain, into the pump, and getting pumped upwards a few feet for the run to the septic system. So she put a piece of screen over the sink drain. Worked ok for the 1st load of laundry, but the 2nd load plugged the drain, overflowed the tub and soaked the basement floor! After removing the clog, shop vacuuming about 8 gallons of water up, then setting the dehumidifier up, I was too steamed to do anything but veg in front of the tube!
I filled her in on all the details as soon as she got home from getting a pedicure.
Hopefully she wont poison me with dinner!
Cya!
to you
dear Ulrich,
to you!
{I think I owe someone $0.05 for that- I hear someone claimed the rights to that song}
{this one is FREE}
-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.
Karl,
I'm sure, that you Thanked Her,for your foot bath,,,,LOL...
Cheers,
zstripe Karl, I'm sure, that you Thanked Her,for your foot bath,,,,LOL... Cheers, Frank
Yeah, something like that!
Been playing some more of Starfleet1. I got promoted to vice-admiral and got my butt kicked on the very next mission. The Galactica is out of commission for a while so I'm now commanding the UGAS Yamato. I went out and exacted revenge on the enemy for what they did to the Galactica and came back with a stunning victory. Not much else happening today. Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf please.
Was a busy day for Diesel Day out at the Museum. After a slow start we had good crowds for the rest of the day. I spent almost all day on the Eire Caboose (C-245) as car host. Had one almost really bad incident. An elderly gentleman lost his footing getting off the car on our first trip back to the trolley after starting the day. Luckily I was positioned so that he fell into my outstretched arm and I was able to cushion and break his fall. I did take two of us to get his legs back under him. He wasn't hurt and he thanked us and went on his way back to the trolley. That could have been a very bad injury and a trip to the hospital so easily!!! Reinforced why I stand where I do as folks get off the train and watch things carefully. I think I shall have some sore muscles tomorrow though. (Already do!)
Rest of the day went very smoothly and we had a lot of great questions from visitors. Basically a lot of work, but a lot of fun as well.
I'm heading out to bed, so I hope you all have a pleasant night!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Happy Birthday Ulrich!
Hello from Dauphin Hall at the Penn College Campus everyone!
Obviously I'm feeling pretty good right now. Did some shopping around today for my dorm, and only now is it starting to look a little full. Got a poster that says "Keep calm and eat chocolate". There was a booth a booth at the athletic field during a get-together that made custom signs. I decided to have mine say "A-10 Pilots Only!". Also picked up a Penn College hat to add to my small collection of Penn College shirts and hoods. Classes start tomorrow, and I think that I'll do pretty well.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Good evening ..... I'll have an RBF please.
Karl ...... I enjoyed your video very much. I'm impressed with the old 0-4-0. I used have one, but it never came close to running that well. Glad you make your shameless plug....... Another video is of a good friends layout, Dan Lewis's N-scale MILW. I'm really frustrated because the video would not play when I clicked on it. ... I'm glad you post in the Diner.
Jake .... By the way, what are you majoring in, and what year are you in school?
Jeff .... I'm impressed with the large number of good friends you have in the forums. It's remarkable.
Chris ..... Any THAT editor reports for us this evening?
Ulrich ...... Happy b'day. I did not realize it was your day. I like the fire trucks, and it is amazing how few miles or kilometers they have for their age.
Ray ... Sounds like a great day at the museum.
With all the concern for Jeff, I did not want to say a few days ago I celebrated my 5th year of my "second life". It was five years ago on the 13th of August when I had my helicopter ride from here in KY to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, TN.. My heart stopped beating six times. I'm very thankful for the past five years of mostly normal life.
Happy Model Railroading!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Goooooooooood Evening,
ULRICH: Happy Birthday to ya! Of the fire rigs you showed, I like THAT old Mercedes best . The low miles on your Engine makes sense, especially if it was with a dept. THAT didn't get many runs. Around here, Clarence Fire only goes out the door maybe a dozen times in a year. On the other had, my first dept., Central City Fire, we rolled about every other day, sometimes twice or even three times in a day. Truly a case of "your results may vary!" if ever!
Well (down considerably, toads are crabbing about the dry spell), as threatened, here's some progress pics from the RR Room.
Ain't it amazing how a "layout" can become a magnet for tools, materials, misc. projects??? Elevator "G" is taking shape, shown here with CRANDIC 97 sitting in front. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City (CRANDIC) 97, an ex-Texas & Pacific SW-1200. She needs some little paint touch-ups (THAT I didn't notice until AFTER the photo...), some general weathering and a shot of dullcote or other suitable flat spray. Have a good, SAFE week everybody, continued best wishes to JEFF, good luck to the kids starting college, and of course thoughts and prayers continue for everybody in need regardless of the need. Chris (in Iowa)
Ain't it amazing how a "layout" can become a magnet for tools, materials, misc. projects???
Elevator "G" is taking shape, shown here with CRANDIC 97 sitting in front. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City (CRANDIC) 97, an ex-Texas & Pacific SW-1200. She needs some little paint touch-ups (THAT I didn't notice until AFTER the photo...), some general weathering and a shot of dullcote or other suitable flat spray. Have a good, SAFE week everybody, continued best wishes to JEFF, good luck to the kids starting college, and of course thoughts and prayers continue for everybody in need regardless of the need. Chris (in Iowa)
Elevator "G" is taking shape, shown here with CRANDIC 97 sitting in front.
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City (CRANDIC) 97, an ex-Texas & Pacific SW-1200. She needs some little paint touch-ups (THAT I didn't notice until AFTER the photo...), some general weathering and a shot of dullcote or other suitable flat spray. Have a good, SAFE week everybody, continued best wishes to JEFF, good luck to the kids starting college, and of course thoughts and prayers continue for everybody in need regardless of the need. Chris (in Iowa)
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City (CRANDIC) 97, an ex-Texas & Pacific SW-1200. She needs some little paint touch-ups (THAT I didn't notice until AFTER the photo...), some general weathering and a shot of dullcote or other suitable flat spray.
Have a good, SAFE week everybody, continued best wishes to JEFF, good luck to the kids starting college, and of course thoughts and prayers continue for everybody in need regardless of the need.
Chris (in Iowa)
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Good Morning Gang!
Another year older, but not a tad wiser... .
This will be my day off - until about lunchtime. I need to help some folks putting up posters in my neighborhood. As it is a rainy day today, that won´t be much of a fun event .
When I am back, thee will be a slice of my favorite birthday cake waiting for me - Petra´s award winning cherry crumble cake. I hope to be able to save some for you chow hounds ...
Have a good one!
morning coffee in the diner..
HAPPY MONDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Monday August 19th, 2013!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!
Today's Limerick:
A silly young man from Clyde
In a funeral procession was spied;
When asked, "Who is dead?"
He giggled and said,
"Don't know; I just came along for the ride"
Anyone still use the phrase 'by and large'???If so:
Meaning:
On the whole; generally speaking; all things considered
Origin:
Many phrases are wrongly ascribed a nautical origin just because they sound like mariners' lingo. This one really is and, like many such nautical phrases, it originated in the days of sailing vessels..
To get a sense of the original meaning of the phrase we need to understand the nautical terms 'by' and 'large'. 'Large' is easier, so we'll start there. When the wind is blowing from some compass point behind a ship's direction of travel then it is said to be 'large'. Sailors have used this term for centuries; for example, this piece from Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, 1591:
"When the wind came larger we waied anchor and set saile."
When the wind is in that favourable 'large' direction the largest square sails may be set and the ship is able to travel in whatever downwind direction the captain sees fit.
'By' is a rather more difficult concept for landlubbers to understand. In simplified terms it means 'in the general direction of'. Sailors would say that to be 'by the wind' is to face into the wind or within six compass points of it.
The earliest known reference to 'by and large' in print is from Samuel Sturmy, in The Mariners Magazine, 1669:
"Thus you see the ship handled in fair weather and foul, by and learge."
To sail 'by and large' required the ability to sail not only as earlier square-rigged ships could do, that is, downwind, but also against the wind. At first sight, and for many non-sailors I'm sure second and third sight too, it seems impossible that a sailing ship could progress against the wind. They can though. The physics behind this is better left to those who know it well. Suffice it to say that it involves the use of triangular sails, which act like airplane wings and provide a force that drags the ship sideways against the wind; by this technique and by careful angling of the rudder the ship can make progress towards the wind.
The 19th century windjammers like Cutty Sark were able to maintain progress 'by and large' even in bad wind conditions by the use of many such aerodynamic triangular sails and large crews of able seamen.
Heartland Division CB&QJeff .... I'm impressed with the large number of good friends you have in the forums. It's remarkable.
jeffrey-wimberlyI've done what I can to help others, take the time to give advice or tell what worked for me, I freely show photos of my layouts past and present and I don't let anything hold me back if I can help it.
And long may it continue,.........besides who else can keep Vinnie in line
Thoughts and Best Wishes to All that need them.
Cheers, the Bear.
PS. Chloe could you please get liba a couple of Vegemite sandwiches and put it on my tab, thanks.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Hi and happy Monday morning to you all!
Well, I had a great weekend with our daughter Annie. She ran her first triathlon on Sunday, so I drove up to Maine to watch and take pictures. This took place at a state park, with the swim in the ocean. They closed the park at 7 AM, so I had to leave the house at 4:30 AM to make sure I'd get there in time. It turned out to be a spectacular day - no wind, sunshine and not too hot.
This was Annie's first triathlon, so she started in the first group with the novices. The first leg was a 500 yard swim. She's a good swimmer, but she hasn't competed in years. Still, I wasn't too surprised to see her come out of the water only a stroke or two behind the leader. Unfortunately, she's a real novice at biking, and the course had a lot of hills, so she fell well behind there and then plugged through the run. As she said, she was just proud to have run that whole part, and not had to stop and walk. She and her training partner finished together, although the transponders they all wore gave her a tenth of a second margin. To her surprise when she looked at the online results later on, she was only 31 seconds behind the third-place finisher in her age group. Next time....
That evening, we had dinner in Portland, a fine, walkable small city with a lot of nice restaurants. We ended up eating outdoors by a small park where a pair of street musicians were playing classic jazz. The guitarist was mostly just chording, but the saxaphone player was playing clean and strong. He had a great command of the repertoire. I had to ask. He was 12 years old.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Coffee and the breakfast pile please. Thanks
Sunny, with a high near 85.
Nice video Karl! And on the front page too. I thought the autorack was a nice touch. I don’t care what the RC’s may say. As for the moles, I’ve found mole traps to be the most effective. Yup, guillotine with spikes.
Welp, didn’t tackle the Rose of Sharon yesterday. Maybe today depending. I still have to paint in the stairway of the apartment. The walls today and have arrangements for the tenant to paint the steps tomorrow. As for the rest of the day, more yardwo8k I suppose unless the phone rings.
EDIT: Ooo!! Been awhile. Eat up!
Morning!!
Sunny and warmer today...high of 80 feeling like 93.....back to deep summer days here...
So...I also discovered that whatever budget I thought I had for my recording studio is now in pieces because SWMBO has to get her workspace done first...yay...not...sigh
So...off to work on that space...growl
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. It's 78° with 78% humidity. How many times does that happen? The high will be 92° and feel like 99°.Nothing special going on today. Guess I'll play some computer games later.