Packer John, does she like trains?
John, does she like trains?
She doesn't mind! She has a hobby also, that means she can't complain about me having one
Good Evening.Good BBQ, good friends, good beer....what else could one ask for...oh...great sunshiny day!! BBQ'ed up a few ribeyes with some dry rub mixed in and a whiskey infused BBQ sauce I made up...plus baked potato and grilled veggies as well....lots to be had too!!
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/
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf please...
A might chilly here in the Finger Lakes after a very pleasant day after the rain showers stopped late morning. Currently 61°F outside with a low tonight of 52°F. This will near the record low for this date in these parts. Probably good for the grass seed I sowed early last week.
Yesterday about this time of night I was worried I would be the only person being a guide at the museum today. By the time we officially opened there were 7 of us... 2 or 3 is great, but 7? One of them is doing a fresh coat of paint on the depot as he can, so after the first group of visitors left, he got out the paint and spent the rest of his time getting more done. The others of us had a very pleasant day. I was finishing up my lunch when A lady from my church walked around the corner of the building, we both did a double take. She married a divorced gentleman a few years after my wife died. Anyway she had two sons from the previous marriage and he had two daughters for his previous marriage. All 4 of the kids were in my Middle School Choral Program at the same time. All four being my highly select group as well. They were out there with one of the grandkids who loves trains! Turns out the husband is a train buff as well. Never knew that about him so we had a great time , and I became the personal guide for them to see the museum. She told me wait until her son finds out who was the guide!
Buddy Holly............ Wonderful music and yes even though I was just a 7th. grader then, I do remember "The Day the Music Died!"
Since we had plenty of people to close up the museum, I took off early and went out to my son's house to eat supper. Had a great pork loin roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, rolls, and mixed vegetables all followed by a freshly baked cake for dessert. Then my son, the granddaughters, and I all went outside to the front lawn. The granddaughter got out the toy Jeep I gave #1 for her birthday and took turns pretending they were driving each other to school.... Fun! Jack and Jill, the kittens are growing, and next week will be going to the vets to become "its".
Prayers for all in need.... "I now have, Bye, bye Miss American Pie......" running through my head.... Later!
73
Oh, and BTW, I heard Peggy Sue got Married.....
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Howdy, Diners! ..... I'll have any RBF, please. .... Good to see a busy diner!
Today, we were wirnesses at a wedding. The bride and groom were in their 70's who have known each other since high school. The bride is a church friend who lost two husbands to heart disease several years apart. The groom had lost his wife to cancer.
Todd .... Ribs and eggrolls? .... hmmmm ...
BBQ ... Sounds like a great BBQ! Next time try including egg rolls as Todd did.
Jeff.... Looks like you are having fun with the old computers.
Karl .... That's a nice scene. Is there a nearby motel with a shower?
Paul ,,, Hope your back did not bother you.
Rob .... That's a nice looking RC plane.
Galaxy ..... Dead pig? .... I won't squeel on you.... Also, my houses don't even have closets.
Gary .... I like the Amtrak ex-Santa Fe car very much.
Tom .... It looks like an interesting bridge in your photo.
James and Ulrich .... Thanks for posting more pictures.
CN Charlie ... Glad you had a good viosit with friends in MN.
Vincent. .... It's good you, your brother, and your Dad could work together on your brother's car. ... Let us know how things work out with the switchers and QSI decoders. .... Good luck with your Ebay sales.
Ray .... sounds like a great day at the museum, and a very good dinner at your son's.
Keep smiling, everybody!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Heartland Division CB&QJeff.... Looks like you are having fun with the old computers.
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Time for me 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
morning coffee in the diner..
GOOD MONDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Monday, August 5th, 2013!!!
Make it a GREAT day!!!
Stool Pigeon:
Meaning:
A decoy bird, or a police informer, or criminal's look-out or decoy
Origin:
The short version:
LOL, NO, this is not about pigeons in the park sitting on stools! The origin goes back to when pigeons were eaten as a good meat source{yes, they were, and tastey too}. In order to get one, many hunters took a tame pigeon, tied it to a stool in order to attract the wild pigeons at which to shoot. Because the pigeon that was tied to the stool was used to trap the other birds, the name "stool pigeon" soon was used to represent anyone to tells on or betrays his friends.
The onger in-depth version:
Most reference sources say that this expression derives from the hunting practice of fixing a dead or replica pigeon to a stool to act as a decoy to attract other birds.
What the stool in question was isn't entirely clear. It certainly wasn't the three-legged piece of furniture we now know, but one of the many other meanings of the word. In the 16th century a 'stoale' was the base of a tree - what we would now call a stump, just the place for a decoy bird to sit. It is also possible that 'stool' is derived from 'estale', which is an early French word applied to a pigeon used to entice a hawk into a net. It isn't far from 'estale pigeon' to 'stool pigeon'.
All of that seems quite straightforward, except for the fact that the term 'stool pigeon', or 'stoolie', doesn't appear in print until the 19th century and in a completely different context. It is first used in American publications and referred to criminals who lured others into crime rather than to decoy birds. The earliest example I can find of the expression is from May 1816 when it was used in the Gettysburg paper The Adams Centinel, in a story about fraudulent counterfeiters. Unfortunately, the print quality of the paper make it difficult to read the full context, but it does describe someone involved in encouraging the passing of counterfeit banknotes as a 'procuror or stool pigeon'.
There are examples of decoy ducks being described as 'stools' from 1825 onwards, but the term 'stool pigeon' isn't used with that meaning until 1871, when M. Schele De Vere listed it in Americanisms; the English of the New World:
Stool-Pigeon... it means the pigeon, with its eyes stitched up, fastened on a stool, which can be moved up and down by the hidden fowler.
It could be that decoy ducks have been called 'stool (or estale) pigeons' since the 1500s but no one wrote the terms down, although that seems rather unlikely. What we do know is that the current meaning of informer came into being in the USA around the middle of the 19th century. The Sheboygan Mercury printed a piece in August 1851 about the prevailing political situation in Italy:
"Everyone fears that his confederate may prove a traitor... and avoided as a Police stool-pigeon and spy."
The most likely explanation of the phrase's origin is that it was coined to describe those police informers who hung around bars (on stools no doubt) in order to pick up underworld gossip but that the name was influenced by the earlier, but as then unamed, hunting decoys.
-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.
It’s a cantilever-hump bridge. Funny Friday I was researching the L.E. & E. Bridge over the Mahoning River and tracing the old rail lines to verify the original owner I came across this same bridge.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning. It's 76° with 100% humidity. It already feels like 87°. The high will be 98° and will likely feel like 110°. The forecast says there will be plenty of sunshine.Only plan for today is to clean the place up a bit. Trash needs to go out and clutter needs to be thinned out. Other than that I won't be doing much.
Good MorningWe got down to 45 here...mmmmm....could Fall be around the corner so early? ??Since we are having a somewhat statutory/not quite stat holiday a lot of grocery stores etc are closed but not other stores....Doing some of the planning stuff today...need to measure out the space at the Lair of Doom...think that may be just the name for that studio as well, lol!!Anyhow...have a good one!!
Good Morning!!!
Coffee and some Egg Fu Yeung please. Thanks.
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82.
I guess I live my life too carefree for most. There sure are a lot of people who are sticklers about things on a specific day. Another subscription thread about specific delivery for the magazine. I really enjoy the mag. And I realize after waiting a month for an issue it’s usually read in about an hour tops, so it’s a long 3 to 4 weeks but …..
John- Good luck on the busy week and with the “Girl from Texas”….kinda has a nice ring to it dontcha think?
Welp, today is bookw*rk at the Church day then I have to close off a duct at the restaurant, then weather permitting, I must remove a large amount of scrub around the yard at my home.
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.
Well, it's been a quiet weekend in Lake Wobegon.....
SWMBO is still in Florida, so I'm cooking and eating what I want, which is probably not very good for me. Saturday night was a rib-eye steak, baked sweet potato and corn, whlle Sunday was broiled sea scallops over linguini ala carbonara, with a big salad and garlic bread. Of course, each meal was accompanied with an appropriate wine. For this week, anyway, lobsters are $3.99 a pound. I might have to make myself one.
The weather has been delightful. High 70s to low 80s, 50s and 60s at night, mostly sunny. It looks like the rest of this week will be the same. I got out for a bicycle ride yesterday, and ate both of those fine meals outside on the deck.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
The humidity here is so high it sounds like it's raining inside the a/c unit. Feels like it's 96 outside right now. I still have to pack out the trash too. Just checked postal service tracking and it looks like the two Mitac disk drives I bought are both arriving today. One came from Ohio, the other from California. I'll check the California shipment just to see if it has one of those 'This item contains something or another that's known to' blah, blah, blah. I seriously doubt it. It would be a laugh though if it did. I was just looking at my layout and wondering how long it'll take to construct a new park area that's big enough to hold the track that will cross it. Of course that'll have to wait until I'm back on my feet, quite literally. It doesn't hurt to formulate some kind of plan though.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes with NYS Maple Syrup and a side order of bacon please. Oh Yes, of course I want my dark roast coffee. Use my FGLK Mug please.
Jeffrey, good to hear you thinking about the layout!
Currently 67°F under mostly sunny skies here in the Finger Lakes. Predicted high will be 72°F later this afternoon. Hopefully another day I will be able to leave the air conditioner turned off. I will be printing out the name tags for the class reunion today. Also babysitting my granddaughters for about an hour this afternoon while my son goes to the dentist.
I have some cleaning and picking up to do before the family arrives!
Later!
This site has been up and down so many times the last couple of days my eyeballs are starting to bounce. Somebody give me a string. I feel like a flippin' yo-yo.
Jeff: What day is the surgery on your foot? its soon right?
Haven't been in for a few days, actually closer to a couple weeks now. The weather has been cool that's for sure as when I go for a my early morning bike rides I have to wear a thin long sleeved shirt. I have been doing alot of bike riding lately and haven't done much work on the layout, summer time is when the railroad doesn't see alot of work done on it or any model railroad project for that matter. But as we get closer to fall I start doing maintenance on things and start again planning things to do for over the winter.
Well I have to go clean my bike chain and give the bike a good wipe down. Also have a couple mountain bike magazines I want to look at.
Have a good day guys
JeremyBJeff: What day is the surgery on your foot? its soon right?
Got the two Mitac disk drives. One worked right out of the box with no problems. The other one would just sit there spinning the disk with no other signs of life. Well, that's about what I expected for $10. I chased the problem down and found that the controller board for the motors was bad. I had another board just like it on an Apple drive but there's some soldered wires that have to be taken off then resoldered and I really didn't feel like doing that. So I considered my options. Here I had a drive with a bad motor controller. I had an Apple drive chassis with a bad control board. The solution was obvious. I put the Mitac control board on the Apple chassis and viola, it worked. I had a good drive. It was a simple matter to remove the Mitac chassis from it's case and install the Apple chassis in it's place. It was a perfect fit. The drive has been tested and is working perfectly! On the outside it looks like any other Mitac drive. Same story inside until you look closely at the data sticker on the chassis and see Apple. So as I look at it I have two new disk drives. A Mitac and a Miple.The Mitac drives are on the left (obviously). On the right (top to bottom) are a Franklin Ace 10, an Apple Disk II and a Quentin AP-100 (I think. The label is gone).
Hey guys.
Tired right now. Sore in the legs now actually. However, I'm still feeling pretty good despite this. As far as the game goes, I'm noticing that the more "experience pilots" are sore losers. What seems to happen is that if someone collides with them, they accuse the other pilot of intentionally ramming them. Also, if you fire on a plane that they are chasing (to force a mistake or help your ally out) they just accuse you of trying to steal their kills. Unfortunately I have no way of choosing who I fight with, so I just try to ignore them and focus on the task at hand.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Lehigh Valley 2089 Hey guys. Tired right now. Sore in the legs now actually. However, I'm still feeling pretty good despite this. As far as the game goes, I'm noticing that the more "experience pilots" are sore losers. What seems to happen is that if someone collides with them, they accuse the other pilot of intentionally ramming them. Also, if you fire on a plane that they are chasing (to force a mistake or help your ally out) they just accuse you of trying to steal their kills. Unfortunately I have no way of choosing who I fight with, so I just try to ignore them and focus on the task at hand.
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
I'll have the House Special, please.
I really like all the Full Scale train pics being posted. And of course the model pics are always a welcome sight.
Hope y'all are having a great day.
Cheers! Rob
jeffrey-wimberlySo as I look at it I have two new disk drives. A Mitac and a Miple.
A little news I got today. I will be finished with school the end of Sept.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Burlington Northern #24 Lehigh Valley 2089 Hey guys. Tired right now. Sore in the legs now actually. However, I'm still feeling pretty good despite this. As far as the game goes, I'm noticing that the more "experience pilots" are sore losers. What seems to happen is that if someone collides with them, they accuse the other pilot of intentionally ramming them. Also, if you fire on a plane that they are chasing (to force a mistake or help your ally out) they just accuse you of trying to steal their kills. Unfortunately I have no way of choosing who I fight with, so I just try to ignore them and focus on the task at hand. I hate poor teammates, absolutely hate them. I had to put a fellow in his place one time because he was doing more whining than fighting.
I've dealt with people that will intentionally steal kills. As in I have a guy just about to go up in flames and I'm lining the final shot, then it gets swiped... I don't complain, I just take one back lol
Ebay has been going well. Since I've listed the stuff, I've made almost $120. I maybe should have put a higher price on that plow though...
I spent today trying to get more keys for my car. I broke 2 today. I got new keys from ace, and stuck some stuff to my locks so I'm not putting all the leverage on the key. I got home, mowed the lawn, then worked on my trains. I had marked the MDC thrall gons that were rubbing with a sharpie on the underside. Turns out they all had Walther's wheelsets. I changed them out for P2K ones and no more rub. I used the walthers in a bunch of athearn BB covered hoppers.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
I had the Mitac drives apart today for inspection, cleaning, repair and tightening of anything loose. I gave the shells a nice coat of silver metallic paint. The paint covers three decades of scuff marks. The drives work flawlessly and now they look as good as they work. I still have two more items coming in the mail. An 80 column/64k memory expansion card that's coming from Indiana and a 2.5 foot Disk II drive cable that's coming from Bulgaria. Well I got my exercise today. I packed three fifty-five gallon cans of trash out to the roadside, one can at a time. After the third can I was coming back up the driveway real slow. That was enough for today.Well it's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' Folks!
I've spent most of today finishing printing the name tags for the class reunion. Now I will have a couple class members stop by and help me laminate and assemble to clips to them. they can also help check to be sure i didn't make any dumb mistakes... Granddaughters were over for about an hour this afternoon. first thing the two of them decide to get out Thomas the Train. they actually played together for quite a while with it with no problems. Then they wanted to see Papa's trains. So to the basement we went. #1 was not happy I didn't have them able to be running yet! Little one was fascinated by some of the scenery I have been doing and was being very careful. Then we went out to the garden to find some vegetables to send home with them. they helped me pick some peppers, yellow squash, and a big zucchini that were all taken home with them. Of course then they discovered the pile of dirt and had to play "King of the Hill" for a while getting quite dirty in the process. We did have fun!
Tomorrow first thing in the morning Manét goes to the vet for a complete check up. I am having him get a blood test as a base line since his brother and litter mate is diabetic. He has not been coughing for a few days, ever since the air conditioner has been off.... I'm thinking he may be allergic to the mold and mildew in the house. I cleaned the bathroom and gave it good shot of 50% bleach water. I've been better myself, so I hope that is all the coughing was with the little guy. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Have a great evening! Prayers for everyone. No exceptions!
Train Master jeffrey-wimberlySo as I look at it I have two new disk drives. A Mitac and a Miple.That sounds like the Geico gecko saying maple! With you talent I am sure those drives work as good as they look. You are so very good at raising the dead! A little news I got today. I will be finished with school the end of Sept.
I first read that as 'nipple'...don't ask why...
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Good Evening...Basically was a good day here...I managed to get some of the plans put together..the fun part will be wiring management. We have something like 3 20 channel patchbays to muck with ...hopefully these will be the only ones needed...but we all know how that goes, roight? The floor is going to be fun too. I need to lift the floor up by a couple of inches to get some underpadding down for the drums...too much bass reflection in one area... Well, better be off and getting some reading done...have a good night!!
jeffrey-wimberly JeremyBJeff: What day is the surgery on your foot? its soon right?The 12th of this month. Just seven days away. I go in on the 8th for the pre-admission stuff.
Jeff .... Kepping you in our prayers. Please let us diners know if we can do anything for you.
Jeremy .... Good seeing you.
Lee .... I can imagine the blueprint drawings of the old bridge are very extensive. They had no CAD software when the bridges were designed.
Ken .... What's up with you lately? I hope your wife is feeling better and job front is okay.
Today, I operated the layout No construction progress.
Happy Model Railroading!
morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD TUESDAY MORNING!!!
Today is Tuesday, July 6th, 2013!!!
MAKE it a GREAT DAY!
Oh, that's a bunch of 'Horse Feathers'!!! SO:
Rubbish, nonsense
It should be noted that horses DON'T actually have feathers! This term, which was originally the single word horsefeathers, is now also widely written as two words, is of American origin and its use is largely restricted to the USA. Those from other parts of the world may know the term from the Marx Brothers' 1932 film 'Horse Feathers', in which Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) is unwisely appointed as the president of Huxley College.
Horsefeathers, which is said by J. E. Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang to be a euphemism for horse-puckey, is reported as being coined by the comic-strip artist and writer, William Morgan "Billy" de Beck. The authoritative journal 'American Speech' printed this in their December 1928 issue:
"Mr. William De Beck, the comic-strip comedian responsible for 'Barney Google,' assumes credit for the first actual use of the word horsefeathers".
Billy de Beck was the author of the popular cartoon Barney Google, which frequently featured dialogues with a horse - his sidekick Spark Plug. He also created a short cartoon film called Horsefeathers, which appeared in US cinemas in 1928.
The term began life in the late 1920s. At that time the American etymologist Leonard Zwilling published an annotated dictionary of the work of the cartoonist T. A. Dorgan (a.k.a. TAD) - A TAD Lexicon. In part 46 of that work, published in 1927, we have the first citation of horsefeathers in print:
"The cashier's department - Bah - Horsefeathers. He wouldn't give you a ticket to see Halley’s Comet."
Both Dorgan and de Beck used jocular language and are credited with new coinages; for example, gate-crasher (Dorgan) and heebie-jeebies (de Beck). Either could plausibly have coined horsefeathers. It seems likely to have been brought to the public via the popular media as it appears many times in print soon after 1927, which indicates a rapid and widespread take-up that isn't common for phrases that spread by word of mouth
HORSEFEATHERS, I SAY! It's a bunch of bonk!
Found an Athearn Blue Box Kit. Couldn't resist bidding and buying it off eBay.
I've always wanted an Amtrak Athearn FP45, no matter how unprototypical they are...haha. And now to add DCC...and maybe sound...
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
alexstanI've always wanted an Amtrak Athearn FP45, no matter how unprototypical they are...haha. And now to add DCC...and maybe sound...
Coffee and a waffle please. Maple syrup from NY thank you.
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 87.
Good MorningSomewhat dull today...a bunch more rain in our forecast..high of 75 feeling like 88 later on.Going to the diner a little later on, see the gang then go to LHS and pick up some garden railroad books...then do some long term planning for that as well...Studio work later on as well...