Good Morning!!!
Coffee and a waffle with strawberries and whipped cream.
A 30 percent chance of showers after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 57.
Ulrich- Great video from the Swiss guy! Your friends too, but that one is awesome. Makes me wanna drop all I’m doing and go down to the trainroom.
Galaxy- You’re symptoms sound just like those of my friend who owns/runs the restaurant. He’s had them for a week now. Hope you're feeling better.
Jeffrey- Nope. No hot diggity anything from me. Didn’t get to run a one of those two trains. Now maybe if say one didn’t work and you plugged it in and something happened to give you a clue or something needed for the quest…...like maybe a key to some lock on a particular MIL's door? . Then a hot diggity dog would be in order.
Gonna be kinda busy today and probably tomorrow with some odds and ends getting ready for winter. And of course laundry has become a mountain again.
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.
TMarshUlrich- Great video from the Swiss guy! Your friends too, but that one is awesome. Makes me wanna drop all I’m doing and go down to the trainroom.
Todd - just look at this detail:
(photo by Marcel Ackle)
Oh, btw, the layout is only a little over 2´by 4´!
Diificult to tell it´s a model!
Just to wet your appetite - here is a video of another gem, Dirk Becker´s "Gneetzäpplbahn":
watch?feature=playerdetailpage&v=djQsBzcPwg
"Gneetzäppl" is a local, southern German word for windfall apples, used to make cider or apple schnapps.
Ulrich, are you truly changing scales again after building that neat little critter ????
So glad to hear you missed the brunt of that storm.
Johnboy out...................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, an order of sausage, and lots of dark roast Seneca lake Blend coffee for my R&GV RR mug, please. That was quick, thank you Ma'am!
Ulrich, beautiful and amazing modeling there! Doesn't it just frost ya when you go to buy something and it isn't in stock.... I have been waiting over a year now for Details West to get code 70 railbars made. Lucky I still have other things to get done.
Speaking of Windfall... The leaves on the Maple tree next door have finally decided to give up and fall to the ground. Nice steady leaf drop going on this morning. Currently 39°F with a high of 48°F today here in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. Even the sun is out and about. Today is supposed to be "mostly" they say. Had a hard, killing frost last night with a low around 29°F. Time to bring in the carrots I think. Only thing left out in the garden at the moment.
Last night I filed the sides of the walls for the Blacksmith's Shop so they can be joined when the time comes. Of course I managed to hold side 3 wrong while I did it and broke the narrow top wall on it... Grrrrrr! I may be able to repair it as I have all the pieces. I may have to pour another...
Little by little I guess!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
last mountain & eastern hogger Ulrich, are you truly changing scales again after building that neat little critter ???? So glad to hear you missed the brunt of that storm. Johnboy out...................................
Yup - O scale is still too small for my bad eyes and shaky hands... The critter will be finished, though, and put up for sales. Should at least give me my investment back!
That's coming great Ray,
I can see that it is a real challenge, those walls have to be the exact same size with the exact angle on each end or nothing will come together. Then when you get that challenge finished, you get to start on the roof.
You do great work and I know it will turn out being a winner.
Johnboy out..........................
Morning All,
Currently it is 38 with an expected high of 52 with a mix of rain and s**w before 11:00 then cloudy. At 8:20 it is still very dark and dreary out.
W**k again today for me. May run a train or two before heading in to w**k, otherwise not much else on the agenda.
I am still waiting to hear from the cardiac lab that is supposed to set up a chemical stress test for me, but still have not heard from them. I feel really good, so I am not going to push the issue. I will wait until I hear from them. I have an appointment with my cardiologist in two weeks, and if he still wants me to have the test then I will see about getting it done.
Galaxy - Prayers that YOH gets the promotion.
Prayers to all in need.
Paul
Living in Fernley Nevada, about 30 miles east of Reno, also lived in Oregon and California, but born In Brooklyn NY and raised on Long Island NY
French Roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Some terrific pics and vids being posted. Cool stuff.
Ordered a Christmas present for myself, one of those Mantua logger locos with tender, DCC and sound. Have always wanted one and look forward to building the layout section this winter where it can go to work.
Hope y'all are doing well. Healing thoughts for those in need.
Cheers! Rob
Wish me luck Guys, I am off for the MRI.
Johnboy out................
JohnBoy .... I hope the MRI identified the problem, and I pray it is not serious.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
last mountain & eastern hoggerWish me luck Guys, I am off for the MRI.
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Did some more work on Paradise Cove today. Today was fun with garden gnomes for one thing. On one property block the character comes across a back yard that's littered with garden gnomes and almost immediately he's being bothered by them. One kicks his foot. If he leaves the back yard then comes back another one will climb his leg and bite his knee. There's about five things they can do then it resets to the first one. When he gets into the house he's safe from the gnomes. I still have four houses and properties to do on Nelson Street then I'll start on Aurora Drive. In the house I'm working on now the character can find a train pass taped under the dining table. He'll find out what it's for later.
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
Remember the house I said I was working on? The one with the train pass hidden in it? Well it also has a BIG (HUGE!) train room! Sorry O and N Scalers. It's HO, 1st and 2nd gen diesels, EMD's mostly. Time frame around 1970's, south-central US.When the character finds the room he won't know how to activate the layout until he searches the room. IF he has the train pass his search will be successful. On the control panel he'll find a metal box with a slit in the side. Below the slit it says 'Insert Control Card Here!' If he doesn't have the pass well forget it! He won't find squat! At this point the player (if he found the card, and believe me, the game knows whether it was found or not) can insert the card by typing in "INSERT CARD". I bet you were expecting something creative. The program will go to a separate set of routines that are just for the layout. A control panel will light up displaying buttons that can be pushed to initiate certain actions (or disasters) on the layout and the action will be described. But when it's over it's over and the character has to leave. The layout can't be run again during THAT game sequence. In other words the game must be started over or the character has to (GASP!) die.Owing to the fact that I feel like crap and I'm shaking like leaf (got the heater blasting at 81 here in the office and I'm shivering to beat the band). I'm going to call it a night and hand this over to my spellchecker. I know it's going to light up like a Christmas tree. See y'all tomorrow, I hope.This is what I need to get out of my chair right now!
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a hot cup of decaf please.
Jeffrey, hope you feel better in the morning!
I got all fitted for the CPAP Machine early this afternoon... It is all set up on the dresser by the bed to see if I can get it to work tonight. It will be a new experience I bet. Nice thing is that as long as I use it like I am supposed to Medicare and my private insurance will pay the whole cost for it. It was quite comfortable when I tried it on at the office, so hopefully I will have no problems with it.
I spent this afternoon cleaning up and putting away gardening stuff. Drained the watering hose and got it put away in the shed. Put away a couple shovels and rakes that I had out. i will need to mow lawn once more, but will wait until the tree next door has lost all its leaves. It lost about half today.
Johnboy, hope the M<RI went well and they can now get to work helping you feel better! Keeping you in my prayers...
Got a call from a old teacher colleague and friend. Her husband, also I teacher I worked with over the years, found out he has cancer of the stomach (not operable as it now is) and is undergoing chemo for it. He is 82 years old.
I did even find a bit of time to do a bit more down cellar...
I decided the broken wall piece is beyond hope so I will pour another one tomorrow. As you can see I painted the other 7 walls the basic color. After the walls are sealed and I put in the doors and windows, I will go over each one dry brushing on a bit darker color for the stones.
Hope all of you have a safe and good night!
JohnBoy. I'm worried about you. I was hoping you would let us know about the MRI results.
Jeff ... Worried about your health also. Hope you feel better in the morning.
Ray .... Thanks for sharing progress photos of the blacksmith shop. It will be a prize winner hwen done!
Ulrich .... I like the critter model you are showing.
Driving to Nashville TN tomorrow afternoon. Shelley is flying back from Michigan. Good night.
morning coffee in the diner...
GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!
Today is Wednesday, October 30th, 2013!!!
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
Here's today's limmerick:
A he-melon suffering droopSpied a she-melon round as a hoop;
And he beamed as he said,"Come away, let's be wed."
But she sighed and she said, "Canteloupe."
Here's today's Children's Medical Claim:
If it don't open in 10 days
Buy a box of
PETTITS EYE SALVE
Price is 25 Cents
Howard Bros., Proprietors, Fredonia New York
{After all, if the eye doesn't open let's rub something gooey in it!!}
Here's today's weird word:
Smellfungus:(smel-FUNG-uhs)(n.) A habitual faultfinder or complainer. Etymology: After Smelfungus, a hypercritical character in Laurence Sterne's 1768 novel, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Earliest documented use: 1807.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
well. off to work, see you guys this afternoon
Coffee and fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy with a side of green beans please. Thanks.
Areas of drizzle, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 1pm. Areas of dense fog before 1pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 70.
Smellfungus……now THERE is a word worth remembering. And how appropriate for it’s definition. I hope I remember it.
Jeff- NOW you get a hot diggity dog for the layout!!!! And I do hope you feel better today.
Johnboy- Hope the MRI went well.
Ray- Hope you slept well last night.
Lotta hope from me today I see.
Based on the weather forecast, Brenda is looking forward to hopefully getting off at 5:30pm. That would be nice.
More hope.
galaxy Here's today's Children's Medical Claim: If it don't open in 10 days Buy a box of PETTITS EYE SALVE Price is 25 Cents Howard Bros., Proprietors, Fredonia New York {After all, if the eye doesn't open let's rub something gooey in it!!}
Good morning. It's 67° with 97% humidity. The high will be 82°. with a Still not feeling much better than I did last night. I'll probably do some more work on Paradise Cove today. I want to get Nelson Street done before I start on the train room subroutines.
Italian Roast in a SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Jeffrey, hope you get to feeling better.
Have a good day all.
Zoe, I'll have the #2 Special, over easy on the eggs, bacon, home fries, and a double order of sour dough toast please. What? Why yes, I do feel pretty good this morning. Tossed and turned for a couple hours trying to get used to having a machine hooked up to my nose, but all told, not terribly uncomfortable and the machine said I got 10.5 hours of use last night. Actually slept part of the night on my back. Haven't done that in over 40 years....
Galaxy, love those snake oil ads! I used to love W. C. Fields 20 minute long routine for "Mother Myrtle's Snake Oil". "IT CURES HOARSENESS!!!"
Garry, thanks for the kind words! I hope it turns out well enough for what is planned for it...
Best get myself moving as I have lots of stuff to get done.
Later!
Hi All,
It is that time of day when it is still morning or afternoon depending on which time zone you are in. Currently it is 34 with an expected high of 55 under clearing skies. We had some rain and s**w yesterday. Not a lot on the valley floors, but quite a bit in the foothills and mountains.
Day off for me, so have one load of laundry going and mad a grocery shopping list. I will get to that once the clothes come out of the dryer. Then I plan on running trains and and w**king on a some scenery stuff or buildings.
Jeff - your creativity in Native Fury is amazing. Hope you get to feeling better.
Johnboy - Hope the MRI went well and they figure what is going on and can take care of it.
Good Evening Folks!
The Internet was down for a couple of hours during the day, but it seems as if I have not missed anything important. I tried to locate a source for that critter kit, but it is sold out at all the places I was able to find. I set a message to the Regner people, if ´n when they will have it available again, but no answer yet - a big
Wit nothing better to do, I played around with the plan. I know I should stop this, but it is all I can do for the moment.
Let´s hope the run another batch of those kits!
Have a good one!
Happy Lunch Hour Gang,
Thanks for all the kind wishes and prayers, I really appreciate them.
Well, I know some of you will have had an MRI, this was my first in 72 years. Let me tell you about it.
The machine looks the same as it does on TV or the movies, but tha'ts where it ends.
Now this is not hurtful in any way but certainly surprised me with the amount of noise even with some controls.
They placed very good quality ear plugs in my ears and then I laid down on the moveable table, placing my head in the cradle (like a hard pillow block) then they shoved additional padding down each side of my head covering my ears again. Then I was to close my eyes as they slid me in as there are extremely bright lights just as your head enters. After you can keep them open if you want, I didn't much.
There is no extra room in there, your shoulders, elbows and hands on your stomach are all touching the inner casing.
Then they fire it up and even with the ear plugs and the extra padding it sounds like you are in the heart of a video game or pin ball machine with the volume turned up. It must have made about forty different sounds at different times and sometimes one sound on top of another. Some sounded like a wood pecker (alright, no comments on that one ) sometimes like a hammer, buzzing, dinging, one that sounded like "That's that"and then there was one that was like chooos chooo and then it and another were together. I counted a couple of them and they sounded well over three hundred times each. IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE EAR PROTECTION YOU WOULD GO RIGHT OUT OF YOUR MIND. After getting dressed and when I was leaving I was walking past the room I had been in and they were doing another patient and from behind the closed door I could not believe the amount of sound that I was hearing. You never hear anything like that when it is being portrayed for the idiot box.
Anyway it takes all told about two hours. Once you are in the machine for twenty minutes they pull you out and put in a dye through an intravenous stint that they earlier had placed in the back of my left hand, then shoved me back in for another twenty minutes. They say the Surgeon will have the reading in about 4 days and I should be hearing from his office then. So the wait goes on.
Johnboy out........................for now, have to work this evening. Hal'o'ween event.
last mountain & eastern hoggerAnyway it takes all told about two hours. Once you are in the machine for twenty minutes they pull you out and put in a dye through an intravenous stint that they earlier had placed in the back of my left hand, then shoved me back in for another twenty minutes. They say the Surgeon will have the reading in about 4 days and I should be hearing from his office then. So the wait goes on.
I've had many MRI's over the years and you're right about the racket. Sometimes I'm still hearing some of those sounds hours later. But it's the putting in and pulling out multiple times that nearly always makes me feel like a pan of biscuits that's being checked.
jeffrey-wimberly last mountain & eastern hoggerAnyway it takes all told about two hours. Once you are in the machine for twenty minutes they pull you out and put in a dye through an intravenous stint that they earlier had placed in the back of my left hand, then shoved me back in for another twenty minutes. They say the Surgeon will have the reading in about 4 days and I should be hearing from his office then. So the wait goes on. I've had many MRI's over the years and you're right about the racket. Sometimes I'm still hearing some of those sounds hours later. But it's the putting in and pulling out multiple times that nearly always makes me feel like a pan of biscuits that's being checked.
Hope the MRI shows something they are looking for, but on the other hand, hope they find nothing?!
I've had my fair share and quota of MRIs. One of the sounds sounds like a machine gun, actually 2 or 3 of them, maybe 4, all going off at once in your ear, even with the plugs.
Now, I cannot tolerate closed in spaces very well, I get claustrophobic in the elevator! SO the CLOSENESS of the machine is not on my priorities list. They DO have a "open MRI" which still pens you in like butter between pancakes but the sides are open so you don't "feel so" hemmed in. It is like two round donutsor pancakes on flat on top of each other.The space inbetween them is the "open slot" you go into, which still put the top donu/pancake about 2 CM from your face! When I go in they want my arms ABOVE my head, so they get achy, stressed and fatigued very quickly. About the time it is over, they want to convulse from the stress.
I had one of my head for migraine look-see, and I about went crazy..it too, was a 15 mins in., out, dye injected, 15 mins in again, I thought I would die!
When they went looking at my hip and found the Labral tear {which they would not have found any other way}, they FORGOT to schedule me for the Open MRI machine! I had the closed machine which is TIGHTER than an CT scan machine's donut. I was glad it was my hip they were at I'd had to have refused to do my head in there. It ws close enough and far enough inside it just to do the hip.
It also doesn't help that I have a belly.
No I don't like MRIs at all, but they DO catch things they can't see other ways!
Well, I had a long talk with my father about final wishes and medical thoughts for final wishes. We talked about a lot of stuff hopefully it will be fruitfull when the time comes.Found out we do have a plot next to my mother when he goes, if not we were going to buy our own plot. MOH cannot be buried with parental units in the Military cemetary with them, so MOH now has a spot with me there next to my mother. If we move either south or west, we MAY want to be buried there, but for now we want to be buried in the county's cemetary.
Final wishes and dishes!
FIL is moving along with the things he has to do..keeps calling for certain important numbers for MOH that I can give out to FIL. Changing all policies etc to MOH as beneficiary. I am trying to talk my father into doing that as my only sibling is away, far away for a long time. SO I will have problems if he doesn't and my sib. cannot make decisions from Far far and away for my dad, but I can. My sib. will NOt have any ability to do so, at all. Of course they think there is "plenty of time" to change things.
Well, MOH is up for the promo thing interview next Wednesday, so KEEP THE PRAYERs! Got he call for THAT today. COuld take another 2 months to decide though.
well, off til the morrow!
galaxyNow, I cannot tolerate closed in spaces very well, I get claustrophobic in the elevator! SO the CLOSENESS of the machine is not on my priorities list. They DO have a "open MRI" which still pens you in like butter between pancakes but the sides are open so you don't "feel so" hemmed in.
You'd hate the two MRI machines they have here. They're both 'closed' types. One's a standard bore, the others a short bore. I make sure they know I'm claustrophobic before I go anywhere near the things! How bad am I? My little sister locked me in a walk-in closet when I was twelve. I broke the door down in a blind panic and commenced to giving her the beating of her life. She was ten at the time.
I'm up a bit late tonight but not by choice. I still feel like crap but not quite as bad as last night. Because of this I didn't do much work on Paradise Cove today. I finished one home block and started on another property block. I didn't feel up to doing more than that. Got a doc appointment to go to in DeRidder in the morning. I think they're going to make a mold so they can use it to make a casting of my stump to use for making a test socket. From there they can make changes so they make a proper socket for a prosthesis. I hope they can get it done quickly. I'd like to be able to walk again.Time for me to try to call it a night. See y'all sometime tomorrow.KCS 4690 ES44ACKCS 4583 AC4400CW
jeffrey-wimberly galaxyNow, I cannot tolerate closed in spaces very well, I get claustrophobic in the elevator! SO the CLOSENESS of the machine is not on my priorities list. They DO have a "open MRI" which still pens you in like butter between pancakes but the sides are open so you don't "feel so" hemmed in. You'd hate the two MRI machines they have here. They're both 'closed' types. One's a standard bore, the others a short bore. I make sure they know I'm claustrophobic before I go anywhere near the things! How bad am I? My little sister locked me in a walk-in closet when I was twelve. I broke the door down in a blind panic and commenced to giving her the beating of her life. She was ten at the time.
I once made my fingers bleed clawing at the doors of an elevator that stalled!
We were looking at campers once and while inside the one fifth wheel {we couldn't afford,but MOH wanted to look anyway} The wind blew the door closed and it JAMED! I was litterally about to break out a window when MOH got it open finally! Whew!!
I DON'T like elevators, but unfortunately I have to use them.
Oh,, and I don't like closets either...hence the reason I stay out of them...