kbkchooch Then the call , my Aunt/Godmother succumed to complications from the stroke this evening. We'll miss her. Even at 80, keeping up to her around the farm was a chore, her walk was a light trot to most folks, and she always had a smile on her face.
Then the call , my Aunt/Godmother succumed to complications from the stroke this evening. We'll miss her. Even at 80, keeping up to her around the farm was a chore, her walk was a light trot to most folks, and she always had a smile on her face.
Karl: Condolences to you and your family on the loss of your aunt. Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise? I have an extra prayer candle lit for her "safe passage" from this world... you may not believe, but the power of prayer can often help provide some solace in times of need.
Again, my condolences from MOH and me.
-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.
morning coffee in the diner...
colluctation: a struggle; strife; a contention
jectigation: a movement that is like wagging or trembling
ignotism: a mistake due to ignorance
USED in a Sentence:
Sally began to jectigate at Sam's recount of the ignotism colluctation he endured.
Sorry to hear the news Karl
I have a few running around things to do today and with any luck I will be back home sometime early this afternoon to work on the layout. Talk to you guys later today or tonight
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe I'll have the #2 Special this morning. 2 eggs over easy, bacon, home fries, and a double order of sourdough toast and a lot ofr my Seneca Lake Roast coffee to start the day.
Karl.... Very sorry to hear of your Aunt/Godmother passing. Know that you and your family are in my prayers at this time!
I am waiting for my son to give me a call. I will be going out to breakfast with them this morning before they drive back to Chicago. Been good to have them around over Thanksgiving!
Yesterday I finally got brave and cut the window opening and the opening for the door (Upper level) into side 3 of the Blacksmith's Shop. Think it came out right this time. Just have to make sure I don't mess it up again.... I also spent about an hour clearing off the ice and snow from the Solar Array. It has fired back up and was starting to make some power right about the time the sun disappeared behind the huge pine tree that blocks the roof this time of year. Sun is back out this morning, so I might be able to get a few more kWh today.
Hope to get some real progress made today on the project as the scale 1" x 6" lumber I needed arrived from Kapler yesterday.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
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 Afternoon!
Flo - may I have a slice of that apple pie and a mug load of coffee, please?
Today´s not a day to be spent outside, wet, cold & windy. I wish we had a fireplace with a nice and warm fire in it!
I don´t feel like being up to doing anything meaningful today - I guess I am in the grips of my normal winter blues. I did a search for some construction plans for that new critter, but did not find something useful. All I got was this:
There is one stored not so far away from my place, I probably will have to go there to get some exact measurements and tons of pictures.
Other than that I have been playing withn that layout plan of mine (what else is new?):
It´s about time I start w*rk on this one!
Karl - Petra and I are very sad to hear about your aunt´s passing. Please accept our sincere condolences!
Make it a good day!
Karl - I am saddened by the loss of your Aunt. My condolences for you and your family.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Good morning. ..... Oatmeal and OJ, please..... Look at Ray chowing down on a huge breakfast only 2 days after T-Day dinner!
Just sent Jeff a PM to test the messaging, and it looks like it ws sent.
JohnBoy..... Do you have all of your messaging settings clicked on? I have tried sending you test messages.
Todd .... No Chinese food? Remarkable. ... If you want to have a Bait Shop lunch here, you had better hurry. The place will close permanently in 3 weeks. It will be bulldozed to make room for new highway construction.
Ray .... I continue to be interested in your project. Perhaps, when you are done, you can put together a "how to" thread. I'm sure others will be interested.
My layout exension project is on hold as I am studying alterntives for some of the track locations. MEanwhile, there are plenty of other things going on.
I am about to begin work on another passenger car. This will be a CB&Q modernized heavyweight sleeper/parlor car.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning! It's sunny but only in the low 20s here right now. It might get up to freezing today.
Karl, I'm sorry to hear of your loss.
One of the old college friends that we always share Thanksgiving with was absent on Thursday. He'd had his prostate removed a short while back, and wasn't really ready to get out and socialize yet. The prognosis was good, though, as the cancer had not spread, so he should get a clean bill of health and be back next year.
I'm having my morning coffee while I peruse the Tour de Chooch list and decide where I'm going. It's a self-guided layout tour, which is always fun. OK, time to get mapping...
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Well,
MOH ran a couple of scans..and now I can't acess the AOL accts. SO I am here courtesy of Google chrome.
I will have to wiat for MOH to call AOL and get it straightened out! MOH has the MAIN screen acct. so I have to wait.
Not much except a COLD day here to start off at only 6F! FOrgot to put antifreeze {the non toxic for RVs stuff} down the tub drain! Caused a little problem it did! My fault, not MOHs.
Sometimes wish we had a FIRE PLACE too ULRICH! We thought about a small wood stove, but don't trust a trailer which will burn up in a matter of minutes instead of hours really.
SO we have delayed THAT noise.
Put the tree yesterday. Decorated it and MOH seems to be a little spirited with it! Which is good. Hoping for a day off to drive the 2 hours to the grave for MIL and place a winter wreath there. MAybe the two things, the tree and the grave placing will cheer up MOH.
well, best get on to see what other trouble I can get into here on chromographia.
galaxyPut the tree yesterday. Decorated it and MOH seems to be a little spirited with it!
At $ 60 for a 4´ tree, there won´t be any in my household this year - just like the years before. We have other Christmas stuff to decorate the place with, but it just ain´t the same...
Sir Madog galaxy Put the tree yesterday. Decorated it and MOH seems to be a little spirited with it! At $ 60 for a 4´ tree, there won´t be any in my household this year - just like the years before. We have other Christmas stuff to decorate the place with, but it just ain´t the same...
galaxy Put the tree yesterday. Decorated it and MOH seems to be a little spirited with it!
This little 2 footer I got, along with some ornatments sized for its smaller stature, and 2 extra strings of 20 each lites was about $25. It will serve us for years, being Artificial. I already have a box it will fit in and it will be easy to get to next year. The 4 footer and all its trappings are buried in the closet and I MEAN BURIED.
SOrry you can't do the same?
I'd send you one if I could. But your electric and ours is different. you'd have to get new lites from your side of the pond. Or get a converter! Maybe if you are a GOOD BOY, Santa, SinterKlass, Sankt Nikolaus- you know one of them guys..MAY bring you a package for this or next year!
Good afternoon. It's 59° with 32% humidity. The high will be 62° with some clouds.Woke up this morning to a house full of ants! They were mostly concentrated in the great room. We can't find anything they were after and we haven't found any trails going outside. The ants were seen as being an offensive attack force and were executed via a counterattack using chemical agents.In other news I may get a chance to work on Oliver's adventure today, I hope. I found a box of ten blank pre-formatted 3M double-sided,double-density 5.25" floppy disks on Ebay for a real good price and free shipping so I snapped it up. I believe they're formatted for IBM but I can easily reformat them for Apple. So there's he 3M disks, two disk drives and a Monopoly game disk coming. That should keep me happy for a bit.Nothing special going on here that I know of. I'm giving serious thought to stopping the posting of the computer related photos. I don't think anybody really cares for them anyway.
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
We spent the afternoon at the San Deigo Model Railroad Museum yesterday. It must have been youth operation day. There were a number of teens running the trains on the big Tehachapi Pass exhibit. Even the toy train exhibit had a bunch of kids, young kids, running the trains. We just sat on a bench by the Tehachapi Pass and watched. It was almost relaxing.
My wife said it is re-invigorating to visit the museum. It makes her want to get re-focused in making our new layout. She is in charge of making the farm and the town. Now we just need to make the time to clean the garage so that we can build the benchwork.
Richard
Hi Gang!!
Thank all of you for the condolences expressed. It means a lot. My Aunt will be creamated, and they will have a memorial service next week.
Spent a good part of the day rounding up leaves and mulching them into oblivion, straightened out the garage a bit, then the cold got me. Tomorrow I have to get the remaining leaves out of the gutters. Couldnt get them today, as the gutters hace 1/4 inch of ice mixed in with the leaves. Tomorrow is going to be 10 -15 degrees warmer. Now that I'm inside and warmer, time to start on a G gauge caboose project!
L8ter!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Howdy ...
My January MR arrived today. On page 32, I have a photo credit in Workshop Tips. I took a phto of scene on my friend's layout. Gus is the friend who is a retired IC RR locomotive engineer. It is a nice write-up about Gus.
Richard.... Good to see you in the Diner. It's been a long time for me, but I liked the San Diego Model RR Museum when I saw it. I bet there is much more to see now.
I still can't get the MR Forum messaging to contact JohnBoy. However, I emailed JimCG and got an email adress. I'll see if that works. Meanwhile, it gave me a cchance to bug JimCG about getting back to the Diner. We may have to send Vinnie out to get Jim.
Karl... Sorry for the loss of your Aunt.
Although it was very overcast today and not exactly ideal for photography, we had a pretty good day for railfanning. We saw 11 trains in a little over 2 hours. 4 intermodals, 1 auto rack, 1 crude oil, 2 coal drags, 2 mixed freights and 1 group of 10 or 12 engines running light. I couldn't get a good count or any photos as they were on the far track the same time an intermodal was on closest track. Included in all that was the Southern Heritage unit leading the crude oil train. The Virginian Heritage unit also made an appearance in a coal drag. Another fellow who railfans in the same area told me the Nickle Plate Heritage unit was expected sometime today, but it hadn't shown up by the time we left. The other coal drag was interesting as it was powered by 2 SD80MAC's. They are impressive. I've only seen them up around Cresson, PA being used as helpers, so I was somewhat surprised to see them roaring by. As of today, I've seen 7 of the Heritage units and I've also caught the Norfolk Southern Veteran's unit a couple of times.
The radio scanner works well with it's new antenna. I'm sure there is an improvement in reception with it. I still need to identify who is using a lot of the channels, but I think that will come in time. In the evenings I've been using it to listen to various police & fire frequencies. So it's been worth the cost.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Heartland Division CB&Q My January MR arrived today. On page 32, I have a photo credit in Workshop Tips. I took a phto of scene on my friend's layout. Gus is the friend who is a retired IC RR locomotive engineer. It is a nice write-up about Gus.
WEll, golly gee!
We have a *celebrity* amongst us!
A real live published one!
Toot your horn, will ya!
Congrats Garry!
Whatever will you do now? buy 5 copies for your mother??
{song: Cover of the Rolling Stone for thems what not knows the tune}
well, finally figured out what is wrong with AOL. jsut s-l-o-w as molassas in August. I guess.
Today is still online shopping day. Monday will be worse.
I may buy a few more things online but first we have to pay for what we got!
That will come January, FEb, March.
I may have to operate under google chrome as it seems to be FASTER than AOL regualr at this time.
Dunno.
Well so far I've gotten only three affirmatives on continuing the posting of the computer related photos. Think I'll wait out the weekend and see if there are more but so far it's looking like I'll be going back to two photos a day, both of layout related content, no more computers and components. Don't DCC systems and decoders fit in there somewhere?
Evenin' foplks!
Janie, just a decaf for me right now.
Had breakfast with the folks from Chicago this morning. Then they headed out for the long drive home. Told my son to give me a call when he arrives home. Fun to have them here for the holiday. I have spent much of the day since then in the train room. I have the front door of the Blacksmith's shop almost built. Just awaiting some detail after it gets a paint job. Painting will have to wait intil the gliue dries, meaning tomorrow. I may or may not get the door and the upper window done for the front tomorrow, My son and his family will be celebrating this old man's birthday a few days late..... I will be going over to their house for supper. Since tomorrow is also the first Sunday in Advent I will make a point of showing up to church tomorrow (I'll be sitting with the family as they should be there as well). So I only have a couple hours tomorrow to do stuff on the project.
Jeffrey, I like seeing the shots of the old Apple II compouters. brings back memories of the first computers I had. keep on posting. After all this is the diner and we like to see what is going on in our friends lives even when it isn't about railroads.
Thanks, Garry! I will be doing a short write up about the project with a few photos included after I get it completed..... I will be showing photos of my progress in here and in the WPF threads as I get more done as well.
Tomorrow I should be putting up the electric candles I use during Advent and Christmas in my windows.... May wait until Monday for that.
Catch you all tomorrow!
Well I didn't get much of a chance to work on the game today other than do a little debugging. In this particular part of the game Oliver has entered seating compartment seven in the old coach where he of course starts searching. You'll see here he gets one of his pockets picked!And who says you have to go to a city to see something tall?Here's an update photo showing my little homemade redneck style card spacers. I painted them black (only color I have) so they look better. They look good in contrast with the platinum color of the case.*There's been a bit of activity here today. My niece is already starting to string icicle lights along the front of the house. Somehow or another she managed to pop two circuit breakers. Of course one of them is the one my //e is on. I had corrected some bugs in the game program and was about to save it to make the corrections permanent. Oh well. I can make the corrections again tomorrow and save the corrected version then. In the office where my internet computer is located we have a window unit for ac/heat. It's only 5,000 Btu and I have to say the little heater in it doesn't do much on cold mornings. Yes, 32 here is cold. So lately I've been setting the window unit on fan. I moved a small DeLonghi electric radiator heater about a foot in front of it and turned it on high. The window unit blows the heat across the room and that works much better.Well time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evening, Janie - just a go cup of hot chocolate, please. Thank you, Ma'am!
Hmm - seems we have lost color for text/background with the new changes - ?? Bummer...
To dispel those who were sure that the bloodhounds needed to be sent out, I'm still out and about. Work continues to be slightly busy, with fewer 'slow' times in the days. And I think I may need to schedule 'computer/tech/electronics-free' time, just to kick back and figure where my time seems to be disappearing to (hmm, could be a plot for Jeffrey's game!).
Sorry to learn about some health problems which appear to have cropped up for you, Johnboy (and maybe some other Diners, but I still haven't got caught up on posts - not by a long shot). Moving you and your doctors to the top of my list, and it sounds like your doctor is persistent (aka stubborn, since that has at times been said of me as well...). So I expect that he (she?) will check out any and all possible treatments. Listen closely to the doctor, ask questions about anything that isn't clear at first, and do what all the Dr. says as far as treatments, so we can have you around here for a while (and I'm sure your wife and son and rest of family want you to stick around, also).
I am following my doctor's directions, to try to rid my feet/toes of a fungus infection (sorry for any Diners who were eating at the time) - have a pill to take with a meal for... I'm not sure if it's three months or six months, but I'll be doing whatever he suggests; VERY tired of dealing with it.
I have decided (speaking of MRR stuff) that the interior for the Merchants' Row building will need to wait, until I start out with some smaller buildings and putting interiors (and possibly lighting) in them. Figured that the four or five interior store walls, plus ceilings, interiors and maybe lighting, might be a bit more to bite off and chew than I want/need right now. I will start with perhaps the Mercer's Dry Goods building (board & batten walls, and a little lean-to on the back) or "Billy's Place" (kind of a corner store, shaped like a rectangle with one corner cut off) are smaller and only have one or two sections inside of them, so they should (I think) be more manageable to take care of.
I will try to get some more catching up done tomorrow after church. Oh, and today is my birthday, for those keeping track... (no, that's not a MRR pun, but it could be....)
Prayers for those in need of rest, healing, and/or comfort, and if you would, please add me to your list, for better focus and concentration so I waste less time in my days/evenings. I will add specific Diners to my list as I work my way through back posts.
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape G.
Chamomile tea, please.
***Ray, a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you. Hope it was a terrific one.
***Ulrich, very nice litttle critter there.
***Jeffrey, nice night lighting with the Shell Station.
Suppose I'll catch up with everyone in a new location for Dec.. Half expected this thread to already be locked.
Cheers! Rob
New diner is here:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/225302.aspx