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Elliot's Trackside Diner..DECEMBER, 2013!!!

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, December 9, 2013 10:30 AM

Good morning. It's 38° with 100% humidity. The high will be 48° and cloudy with rain.


Blood sugar reading this morning was 116, very good for me. My doctor is happy with anything between 80 and 140 and sorta happy between 140 and 150. Got a doc appointment to go to this afternoon. He wants to see how I'm responding to the new med (Onglyza) he put me on a couple weeks ago. So far it seems to be agreeing with me. It can have some rather nasty side effects. For one thing it can cause pancreatitis. After the doc visit we'll go next door to Fox's Pizza Den. I probably won't have much computer time today so I don't think there'll be any progress on Oliver's adventure.





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Posted by JeremyB on Monday, December 9, 2013 10:04 AM

Thanks Ray,

I might head out soon and go to the hobby shop before the docs, and that way I can just come straight home. Talk to you guys later on today.

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Posted by howmus on Monday, December 9, 2013 9:50 AM

Mornin' everyone!

Zoe, I'll have a bowl of oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar along with a cup of dark roast coffee in my R&GV RR mug please.

Cloudy and windy outside the window here this morning.  Got a whooping .1" of white stuff that just blew away except for where it can stay out of the wind.... Currently 38°F so the white stuff is already gone.  Sure wish the sun would come out for a while though.

Karl, up here it is common practice to.... ah.... Widen the road when it sn*ws.  If we complain loud enough sometime in mid summer the city will send a couple guys in a pick up truck over to put the now dead sod back in place where it more or less came from.  I imagine the sn*wplow driver down your way has not handled one of those things much and so doesn't have a feel for how wide they are actually plowing the stuff!

Oh Happy Birthday Jeremy!  Hope it is a great day.

Later!

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Posted by JeremyB on Monday, December 9, 2013 9:26 AM

Thanks Karl, I appreciate it.

Couldnt get in to the docs ealry so will have to wait until 1pm for my apointoment. Im the first or second after lunch so thats good. Talk to you guys tonight Yes

Kind snowy and slushy out today, and a cold wind. But nothing compare to what the guys out west have

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Posted by kbkchooch on Monday, December 9, 2013 8:55 AM

GoooooD morning gang!!Cowboy

Flo, can I get some blueberry pancakes with some sausage on the side?? Gracias ! Dinner

Happy B-Day Jeremy! 

TMarsh
 
Hmmmm. HmmKinda freaky. Page 6 does not exist even when you’re on it……in limbooooo. Surprise I wonder if there's any more forum out there. 

Todd, maybe we've reached the end of the internet and need to turn around?ConfusedConfusedHuh?

 

Got SWMBO off to work, JR is still sleeping,,too much shoveling?,,schools closed today anyhow. Gotta find a recording of Reveille and put it on his alarm clock.....ya know....just to prepare him Mischief 

Me? Today I have to call the county roads dept,,,,,,they took 3 feet off my yard last night and redeposited it 6 feet from the road!!! Now I have a grass & dirt berm on top of the snow!!! Angry Then on to projects. Had a customer drop 3 more engines off Friday night for sound!Big Smile

Cya later!

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Posted by JeremyB on Monday, December 9, 2013 7:57 AM

Thanks for the wishes guys.

Funny thing, I thought I could hear a bird in my water heat vent this morning, dont know if it was that or the freezing rain tinging on it. I use to also have the furncae venting out through it but now its just the hot water heater. We also had a new galavanized lining put in and cap put on. They told me that no animal could make a nest in it like the old one we had which was a clay liner. But I think a small bird could have still sat in the top and maybe got gassed and fell down? all I know is that between the dishes I did this morning and the shower I and the wife had that either the little fella got out or probably got gassed from the water heater ( Its a gas )

Thanks again guys for the wishes, I have some things to do before my apointmment and hobby shop after. Might see if I can get in to docs early, I will call in a few.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, December 9, 2013 7:43 AM

Happy B-Day  Jeremy!   Cake   Gift

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Posted by TMarsh on Monday, December 9, 2013 7:35 AM
Good Morning!!!
 
Coffee and a breakfast burrito please. Thanks.
 
Partly sunny, with a high near 22. Kinda icy out there.
 
Well, well, well. I was just thinking about picture time. PC used to be a big fan of ever once in a while posting pictures of ourselves so’s we, and especially any new people we’d picked up, can put a face to the name. I’ll have to post one up myself soon as I get one put on the Photobucket. I’ve changed just a bit since the last one. Shaved and cut my hair so no Duck Dynasty similarities here anymore. Some choose not to put their face out there for the world to see, and though I don’t fully understand why, that’s their choice and I respect itYes.
 
Karl- My hat’s off to your son. I wish him the best in the challenges ahead. Especially Ranger School!!! BowI’d be proud too.
 
Hmmmm. HmmKinda freaky. Page 6 does not exist even when you’re on it……in limbooooo. Surprise I wonder if there's any more forum out there.
 
Richard- I think you’ve been in here before but if you haven’t, welcome! If you have, good to see you again.
 
Happy B-Day Jeremy!!!
 
Went out and scraped Brenda’s windows for her because she gets up at the last possible second. The thing I hate most. Scraping windows. Absolutely despise that. Anyway, got my dose of winter so I’m ready for spring now. Funny thing is, it’s still fall.
 
 
Bookw*rk at the Church, then may go to buddies house to w*rk on his basement after I get to town to buy her coat that I didn't make it into town Friday due to last minute circumstances.Confused.

 

 
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

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Posted by galaxy on Monday, December 9, 2013 4:46 AM

morning coffee in the diner...

GOOD MONDAY MORNING!

Today is Monday,

December 9th, 2013!!

The prayer candles are lit for those who have the need for special thoughts and prayers.

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!

 

Today's fun limerick:

There was a space telescope named Hubble
That produced images that appeared double
They sent up a rocket
& Adjusted a socket
Oh!! how the engineers got out of trouble! 

 

Today's weird words:***

vagile: able to move freely

fludgs: means quickly; old way of saying "hurry"

Anthropophagous: man eating; feeding on human flesh

As used in a sentence:

When told to engage in anthropophagous, SAm and Harry fludged vagilely!

 

 

***  Many of you probably think I am a vocabularian: A person who gives much or undo attention to words! {you'd possibly be right!}. Do I remember all these words? Not ALL of them...but it is fun to use brain power for more than a Tetris game on the gaming console! {which I don't do as I don't have a gaming console}

 

Geeked

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY! You Have THE POWER!

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 HO and N Scale.

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Posted by JeremyB on Monday, December 9, 2013 4:34 AM

Cheerrs Galaxy, not dont feel any wiser,lol

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Posted by galaxy on Monday, December 9, 2013 4:27 AM

JeremyB

Hi Fellas, woke up to a bit of snow here.

Its my Birthday today Dec 9th Stick out tongue

I have a docotors apointment at 1pm and then might go to the hobby shop afterwards. Talk to you guys later on how my day went

 

Well, Golly gee! My how you have aged well! Do you feel wiser?

Happy B-Day with lots of Cake and some Gift !

Geeked

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Posted by JeremyB on Monday, December 9, 2013 3:48 AM

Hi Fellas, woke up to a bit of snow here.

Its my Birthday today Dec 9th Stick out tongue

I have a docotors apointment at 1pm and then might go to the hobby shop afterwards. Talk to you guys later on how my day went

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Posted by RideOnRoad on Sunday, December 8, 2013 11:10 PM

The tree is up and we have a pair of ovals around the tree--American Orient Express on the outside, Thomas the Tank Engine on the inside.  Nothing special on with the layout, just EZTrack on unfinished plywood.  We are waiting for a couple more cars for Thomas, cargo cars to fill with presents.  When I get the cars, I will post a couple of photos.

I took the SIL 2B out mountain biking yesterday.  Not surprising that the 20 year old was a bit stronger than me and my old man asthma lungs, but I held my own.  We really like this kid.  He is gainfully employed with a decent career ahead of him, and he treats my daughter well.  He also treats me and MOH with respect, a rare thing in this day and age.

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:06 PM

Never did get that nap today. I should sleep good tonight. Tomorrow I have another doc appointment but that's not until the afternoon. He wants to see how I'm responding to the new med he put me on. So far it seems to be agreeing with me.

Played a game of Starfleet1 today. Did well enough that I got awarded the Starfleet Citation for Gallantry. Just another way of saying I got away with rushing in where angels fear to tread.

I got some debugging done on Oliver's adventure. Hopefully I'll be done with the command portion of the program soon.

I ran diagnostic checks on all six of my floppy drives. Five checked out perfect. One had a read/write error. Go figure! It's the one I modified to ignore write protection if a toggle switch is turned off. I set the switch to on and the drive passed the tests.

Blood sugar reading tonight before meds was 179. Not too bad considering I had chimichangas with chili, cheese and olives for dinner tonight.

Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.





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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, December 8, 2013 7:49 PM

Today I picked up this interesting piece of kit:



Yes, it's a SD card reader/writer. The interesting thing is it's designed to work on an Apple II series computer. According to the maker as far as the computer is concerned it's no different than a Disk II disk drive and I can read/write files on it just like I do with my disk drives. At £45 Pounds Sterling plus shipping it's a pricey little toy. But then I'm not the one paying for it. It has quite a ways to travel so I'll be receiving it around the end of the month.

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Posted by kbkchooch on Sunday, December 8, 2013 2:09 PM

jeffrey-wimberly

Next thing you know Karl's gonna be out making snow angels!

 

ONLY if I fall down in it. Momma might have raised some homely kids, but she didn't raise no dumb ones! Smile, Wink & Grin  Besides, a certain young son can shovel out the driveway and SWMBO's car. Wink

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Posted by galaxy on Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:57 PM

howmus

 

Galaxy....  So you folks down there are just starting to get it, huh?   Well, some people never get it do they!  OH!!!  You are talking about the winter storm named something or other by the Ad folks over at the weather (WARNING!!!!) channel.  I doubt we get anything at all up here.  They do have us under a WEATHER ADVISORY....  HORRLIBLE, STAY SAFE!!! thingie, but tyat just keeps the $$$ rolling in for them.  If power goes off here, I will just turn on the PiP and hook up the 1000 watt Pure sine wave inverter and see how it does.  Hey, I hope you folks survive even if the power does go off! Smile, Wink & Grin

 

Ray:

I t actually fizzled out down here. Right now it surrounds us, but we are getting nothing but a fine mist!

Doesn't hurt my feelings any!

ENjoyed Super SOul Sunday on Oprah's network with the CEO of Starbucks. Smart man. All I got to say.{I don't have any stock in Starbucks, I donot work for them or anything. Just a man who happens to be the CEO!}

Geeked

 

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:48 PM

Next thing you know Karl's gonna be out making snow angels!

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Posted by kbkchooch on Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:41 PM

Hi gang!! Cowboy

Hey gang, its SNOWING!!! Wink 

Here's the view out the front door! They said 1-2 inches, then turning to freezing rain, then rain. I think they goofed! Confused  Wow, I wanna be a weatherguesser! Just so I can be wrong so often and still have a job!! Laugh

Oh, and it's still coming down (as snow)

Back to watching the Ravens play,,,,yeah,, football in the snow!!

 

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:06 PM

Afternoon floks!

Chloe, just a cup of decaf for me at the moments....

Galaxy....  So you folks down there are just starting to get it, huh?   Well, some people never get it do they!  OH!!!  You are talking about the winter storm named something or other by the Ad folks over at the weather (WARNING!!!!) channel.  I doubt we get anything at all up here.  They do have us under a WEATHER ADVISORY....  HORRLIBLE, STAY SAFE!!! thingie, but tyat just keeps the $$$ rolling in for them.  If power goes off here, I will just turn on the PiP and hook up the 1000 watt Pure sine wave inverter and see how it does.  Hey, I hope you folks survive even if the power does go off! Smile, Wink & Grin

BTW, I just had the PiP get it's NYS inspection last week.  Was only $10 for it, but there is a bunch of things they check out on regular ICE vehicles that don't apply on the PiP. 

Went to church this morning.  The choir was perfoming their rendition of the Vivaldi Gloria in place of the sermon today.  Our interm Pastor was one of the soloists.  Other than being accompanied by the organ and being a bit out of the Baroque style in several ways, it was a reasonably good perfomance. Whistling

Will be going over to my son's house for dinner tonight and to check out the tree they are getting this afternoon.  He stopped by on the way home from church to borrow my saw.

Rob, thanks! I see you snuck in while I was posting...

Catch you all later!

73

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We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by Cederstrand on Sunday, December 8, 2013 12:10 PM

Mint tea, please.

***Ray, great work (as usual) on the building walls.

***Jeffrey, really like that C&O gondola a couple pages back. Nice!

Cold-ish, wet, raw day here. Ready for summer to return. Went to start the pickup to take it in to a rapair shop and it simply wouldn't start. Hope the gas didn't get too old. Need to get it fixed in order to buy plywood for the (HO) layout extensions.

Healing thoughts to those in need. Have a terrific day, all.

Cheers! Cowboy Rob

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:41 AM

Good morning. Temp 36°. Humidity 94%. High today 42°. Cloudy. Rain.


Cool this morning and it looks like it's gonna be wet. No plans for today. I may work on Oliver's adventure later. I was up til 2:45 this morning collecting data to make a cheat sheet for the entry codes for Starfleet1. I found a site online that had a bunch of them sorted by word #, line #, page #, word. Example = Word 2, Line 3, Page 7, Award. The list plainly didn't have all of them but after I included the ones I've written down or marked in the Officers Manual over the years the list looks more impressive. I printed it out, both sides of one sheet. I also saved it on a flash drive. Having a handy list vs looking through the manual in search of one word is well worth the trouble I went to. I may work a nap in later.





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Posted by galaxy on Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:34 AM

Heartland Division CB&Q

Galaxy.... Glad you keep the Diner open regardless of weather.

We are JUST starting to get it here in the NE.

We expect "wintery mix" here for awhile, followed I guess, by sn*w.

I hope those who are already in it, or have been passed by it are "SAFE, WARM and COMFY".

I DO hope we survive with power remainimg ON, too.

Candles are lit for the passage of the storm with little or no ill effects!

VEhicle registration? about $85 for2 years, unless they raised it. annual Inspection? $20. Insurance? Priceless.

MAKE A GREAT DAY!

Geeked

 

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Posted by TMarsh on Sunday, December 8, 2013 9:42 AM
Good Morning!!!
 
Coffee and egg fu yeung please. Thanks.
 
Dusting of…(gulp) sn*w on the ground. I say no more.
 
Our tree went up last night as I was at w*rk. I tell you what, we got one of those three piece self lit jobs and who boy is that the cats meow. I get out of just abot everything except the Angel at the top of the tree. Still has to be decorated, but that is her job because I don’t do it correctly. Go figure.
 
Pancake and sausage went great. Free food usually does. I was in charge of the sausage. They bake this brown and serve link stuff which, isn’t bad at all and people really seem to like it as they say “is that the same stuff you had last year? I’ll take a couple extra. Where’d you get it?” Oh well. Anyway, All I have to do is stand and watch the oven. You know, the cooking times on the box are written by the same yayhoos that came up with how long a frozen turkey should be in the refrigerator to thaw. They should just be punched in the face. Maybe their time times 4!!
 
Vehicle registration for me…1 truck (same as car), 1 year…. $106. Oh and 50cents. Includes $3.50 “convenience fee”.
 
Ray- Whoa. Has it been two years already? Man it sure don’t seem that long ago when you showed up with the photos.
 
Today, I know not what I do except I have to go to the restaurant to help my friends daughter make a plant or animal cell with a pizza. Yup, you read it right. She has a school project and thought us making a pizza look like a cell would be perfect. She’s 9 so I have to do the things she can’t do like roll out the dough, put it and out of the oven and reach things. Well why me when her Grandfather owns the restaurant and Mommy can help her? “No one can do this but Todd”. Mommy’s bringing her at 11 and a cell will be made. And….probably a pepperoni pizza for lunch.
 
Ooop! Alarm just went off gotta get to the restaurant to turn on the oven so’s to preheat. I’ll have to finish Saturdays post reading later and no time for funny little emotion face things. Don’t wanna be late. She’s just about my favorite kid.
 
After my dabbling with cells and such, probably into town for dinner and groceries.

 

 
Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, December 8, 2013 9:12 AM

Howdy .... Oatmeal and OJ please. 

Freezing rain continues. So far we still have power and phone service. It's no where near as bad as the KY Ice Storm a few years ago. Church is closed this morning. 

Karl .... Looks like you're having adventures as Todd does. Don't follow his example too much unless you like CHinese food. 

Galaxy.... Glad you keep the Diner open regardless of weather.

Jeff .... Your computer projects are nver ending. I'm glad you enjoy them. 

Have a good day everybody. 

I'd better post quickly. Who lnows if we will lose power and internet with all of the ice. 

 

 

 

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Posted by galaxy on Sunday, December 8, 2013 3:01 AM

morning coffee in the diner...

GOOD SUNDAY MORNING!

Today is Sunday,

December 8th, 2013!

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!

The prayer candles are lit for those in need...Angel

Today's fun limerick:

I think the limericks are fun
and when I have read the last one
I'll wipe away tears
from my eyes and my beard
and go back to where I'd begun. 

 

Today's weird words:

Rassasy: to satisfy a hungry person

tracasserie: a state of anoyance or disturbance; a petty quarrel 

*Sitzfleisch: the ability to endure or persist in an activity

As used in a sentence:

During the tracasserie, the chef was able to sitzfleisch in order to rassasy the public!

 

* with no indifference to our resident German, it MAY NOT be "german correct", but would instead be UK or USA twisted version

Geeked

Don't forget: MAKE it a GREAT DAY! {you have the power!}

 

 

Geeked

 

-G .

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, December 7, 2013 9:15 PM

Today has been taken up mostly by making backups of software for the //e. Some disks like Copy 2+, ProDOS Users disk and DOS 3.3 System Master I like to keep at three backups at all times. Also made multiple backups of the diagnostic software. I spent more time than I wanted to fine tuning the //e's flat screen monitor. The controls are all multi-function and naturally are tucked away so you can't see them when you're watching the screen to see what does what. It was a major pain in the butt to get the brightness and sharpness set how I wanted. Had time afterward to play a game of Starfleet1 but little else. Internet finally came back up and it took a while to get caught up on who's doing what and what's happening where. It may seem like I don't pay attention to your posts but I do.

Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.





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Posted by kbkchooch on Saturday, December 7, 2013 8:58 PM

Hiya gang! Cowboy

Flo, SWMBO made her chicken pot pie tonight, so dessert is all I can handle......Hmmmm, 3 scoops of ice cream, mint chocolate chip with Hersheys® syrup over it please! Dinner

Lion, Terry, Ray & Jeffrey. You are braver men than me. I try to keep my mug conceled when possible, for other diners pleasure. Surprise Today was "revenge of the laundry room" It started off with a shower that was unusually warm for SWMBO & me. Of course, she gets out before me, then the water turns cold.Surprise Then Jr experiences temp issues too. So I go down to the laundry room and check it. A quick diagnosis points to a failed element,,,most likely the bottom one. We have a service contract on it (Along with the heat, a/c & well system) so we called it in. 2 hours later the reapit guy comes in, confirms my suspicions, and replaces both elements. All is well til about 3 when SWMBO goes to check on her laundry and discovers 1/2 inch of water on the laundry room floor!!Surprise Soapy water! Hmm Out came the shop vac which got dumped several times after that, I'm guessing about 21 gallons of water was sucked up. Now heres the wierd part. Weve dried the floor, ran more loads of laundry, and no more leaks. The stationary tub pump system is working fine, the washer is only a year old, the hot water heater only 2 (dryer also). Is my laundry room posessed??Confused

Should I have our Minister come bless the appliances? Confused

Needless to say, RRing plans are disrupted.

On another front, (pardon the soon to be evident pun) my youngest has enlisted in the Army. He leaves August 18 for basic training, then 17 weeks later he goes to Ranger training.  Of course, as a parent, I'm concerned for his future, especially considering the state of current events in the world. Probably made worse by the fact that he's the youngest bird to leave the nest. But another part of me couldn't be prouder of the young man he is becoming. Big Smile From a kid who had to literally be tossed out of a bed only to play video games all day to someone who gets up a 4:30 a.m. to jog and refuses to ley the "old man" carry in firewood when he's here. Its quite a change already. Big Smile   

I'll be chillin over at the RC for a bit with this ice cream!!Smile, Wink & Grin

Karl

NCE über alles! Thumbs Up

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, December 7, 2013 6:13 PM

Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?...

There's that echo again!

I see Jeffrey in the corner booth.. Hey Jeffrey!

Not much here now. Awaiting that nasty storm to come this way. Will have to drip the pipes tonight!

Chicken Cacciatory over noodles tonight..was good but it was a MCCormic pre-blend of spices and too heavy on the ore-eh-gon-no, and the marjoram!

Well, Suze is on in  2 hours, so I think I'll nap til then since no one here to talk to...I see Jeffrey snuck outta here.

Later dudes,

STAY SAFE AND WARM TONIGHT!!

I don't have a pic of me to post, suffice it to say I look exactly like this:

Geeked

-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.

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Posted by saronaterry on Saturday, December 7, 2013 6:10 PM

Watched " The Great Escape" while making pine trees today. Still a great movie!!

 Got a bunch more trees made and ran some trains ,too. Pretty good day so far!

 I see we started posting I.D. photos. LOL!! Here's me:

Terry in NW Wisconsin

 

 

 

Terry in NW Wisconsin

Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel

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