crhostler61Okay...does the diner sell booze? Because I am ready for a double of Napoleon brandy in my coffee.
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
Mornin' everyone!
"I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas....." Ah yes, everything is white outside today and is supposed to stay that way for a couple days here in the Finger Lakes. Not a whole lot, but a couple inches of nice fluffy snow to make evertything look right for the day.
Zoe, I'll have a cup or two of Seneca Lake Roast Organic Coffee in my my R&GV RR Mug and a couple of those sour cream glazed donuts you have over there on the counter.
I have to get to w*rk. Have a big dish of my Famously Good Winter Squash to make for Christmas Dinner at my son's house tomorrow. I will be going over for breakfast also. Will then probably leave for a few hours and then head back over for dinner.
Just got an email that the missing gift will be delivered by UPS (says "out for delivery") today. So I now am a happy Santa with all my shopping done and only a couple gifts to wrap!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
TMarsh Galaxy- Boy I can’t even imagine living in a place that small….and still have Brenda . We have 1800 sq ft three bedroom, two bath, greatroom, dining room and kitchen. Plus 1800 downstairs and we STILL don’t have enough room for shhhhtuff. Now me, I could do it. I agree with the anti-loft. Wouldn’t want to have to negotiate the ladder. And the one with upstairs, cabins I think, well let’s just say I think with the stair design, you had best get your bed and furniture in before you set the roof…
Todd: 1} remember we live in a 920 Sqft trailer with no basement. SO half the size of your grandios cottage!
2} I'd add some 6-8 feet to the great room to make it 15 x oh about 17feet, so about the size LR we have now, actually a litttle bigger.
3} If we had a basement too, it'd be grand.
4} the 1/2 bath would go where the closet by the door is and into the BR closet in front { Seal off the clsoet ffrom hall and The toilet in the closet facing the BR the mini-sink in the part of the closet and a shorter BR closet will result}. with a full closet behind the front door by moving said door over, we'll have I think ample closets.
5} the closets in the rear BR {extended to 8 feet wide} would be "conjoined" all one closet along that wall.
6} the loft WOULD be over the frotn BR for Atttic style storage. The loft would also be over the kit area for sleeping for guests or maybe storage too. Just no loft over the Great ROom.
7} Those stairs you think you can't get your BR furniture up? YOU CAN, except maybe a KING size and we only have a queen. I've been in houses with those types and size. works OK. Not as tight as you might think.
I am thinking of maybe building one here if we ever get the chance, and obviously one for Hawaii, where every SQFT costs upwards of $250++ and so Has to COUNT there!
Oh well we'd probably be better off buyng an old small house already dilapidated and fixing up!
Dreams, wonderful dreams..
Have a great holiday evening!
-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.
Good Evening on this night of all nights!
We are back from the visit to our son´s place. It was good to see the little one, as we have not seen him for months. We spend about 5 hours with him and his GF - I will tell you more about it tomorrow, I still have to chew on a few things before I will be able to swallow them.
Petra and I will spend a quiet evening tonight, share some good old memories when times were good, will laugh a little, but also cry a little about the losses we had to bear this year.
Peace on Earth, and goodwill to all men.
Blessings to all my friends NOB, SOB and Downunder and prayers to those struck by illness or misshap.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a goodnight. (It's not quite night time yet, but you get the idea.)
Richard
No computer time thus far today. I was busy doing this and that until my father left for work. Had a chat with my niece this afternoon while she was wrapping gifts. She's one of the 'last minute' crowd when it comes to that. When she finished that she took off to visit her husband at work. That's about a three hour drive. Just over two hours the way she drives. I put the gifts I wrapped for my family on the trestle table in the great room so they can be packed up to my sisters place tomorrow. Christmas dinner will be served there also. No turkey. It's Tex-Mex. Her enchiritos are famous. One by itself is enough for a meal. Many people can't finish one. I can tackle two plus the dinner fixings. There will also be tacos, refried beans, sweet potatoes and whatever else she whips up. My father is taking a large ham so there will be something he considers to be Christmas dinner.
Hi Guys
Back from dinner and am stuffed. Read that new book today, came this morning at 8am but at the moment feels like days ago. Also got the new MR in the mail today so flip through that ( will maybe read it more a bit tonight ). Cant believe its christmas eve, just feels like it was the fall. It always comes up fast and goes fast, feels like that to me anyways.
Wife and I are going to watch some christmas shows later on. See you guys in the morning.
Hope ya'l have a MERRY CHRISTMAS .
Mike, best of luck with your operation. Prayers for you and your family.
Of course, prayers for all here in the Diner. May Faith bring you comfort.
Flip
Merry Christmas everyone. Prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Wellm, guys and Sue if you are here, hope Santa brings you lots of goodies to your liking. He's been under our tree and tomorrow we will open presents!
No train stuff again this year, was hoping for some Z scale stuff, but bills got in the way.
Tee Hee: I went to the Credit Union today and the usual gal who waits on me, we had a conversation like this: I said "Have you been good so Santa can bring you lots of presents?" She said: "Oh, I have been VERY good"... I said: "Oh, so it's a new car he's bringing you!"... SHe said: "oh, I haven't been THAT good...I've had my moments!" Sleep well, and may there be a Train Under the tree in the morning!!! Cause Santa Claus comes tonight...
I said "Have you been good so Santa can bring you lots of presents?"
She said: "Oh, I have been VERY good"...
I said: "Oh, so it's a new car he's bringing you!"...
SHe said: "oh, I haven't been THAT good...I've had my moments!"
Sleep well, and may there be a Train Under the tree in the morning!!!
Hawaiian Christmas Tree:
Merry Christmas everyone!
Even the railfans are getting into the spirit, look, a young lady has something in her sack for the engine crew!
Well, off soon to the candle light service & communion, then Santa comes! Nitol!!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Evenin' Folks! Merry Christmas!!!
All the presents are now wrapped and ready to put in the sleigh (PiP) to take to my son's house at breakfast time tomorrow morning. I will be there for a bit and then head back home to bake the squash and reload presents and head back over for the big bash tomorrow evening.
Have a great day tomorrow and be safe!
galaxyEDIT:Though this is not how I listed it to look, I gave up trying to put it in red and green tones periodically
Something like this?
galaxySanta Claus comes tonight.
Merry Christmas everybody, and all the best for 2014!
Got my Christmas gift a day early! Picked up a brand spankin' new 2014 Honda Odyssey with 54 km on it on the 24th.
Can't figure out how to get it under the tree though, and I couldn't find a stocking big enough. Dianne was dissapointed that the dealership didn't put a big red bow on it!
Take care all!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
jeffrey-wimberly galaxy EDIT:Though this is not how I listed it to look, I gave up trying to put it in red and green tones periodically Something like this? galaxy Santa Claus comes tonight.
galaxy EDIT:Though this is not how I listed it to look, I gave up trying to put it in red and green tones periodically
galaxy Santa Claus comes tonight.
Jeffrey, stop bein a show off!! LOL!
Merry Christmas from the Island, prayers to all in need.
Herrinchoker
Merry Christmas everyone.
Hope everybody has a great day today. I will be going over to my parents for christmas and then over to the wifes mom's around three for dinner and then over to my grandparents for a qucik visit before heading home. So its going to be a busy day for sure.
I will check back later tonight to see how everyone's day has gone. Have a good one guys.
Jeremy
Jeremy B:
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF!
I hope you are feeling well and up to all that activity.
Still no word from the Doctors on what happend last week?
You are so lucky to still have parents and grandparents around. THough half of my Gparents lived long lives, they are now longer with us for many years gone by.ANd my Mother rest in peace. Celeberate with them all you can!
Have a wonderful day, just please don't overdo it!
PS I still have the prayer candle up for you!
Well,
It looks like Christmas will be just the two of us for now.
We will open the Santa presents under the tree.
Then I will cook a glazed ham, sweet potato dish, mixed veggies and maybe some regular potatoes.
FIL is going the 2 hour trip to the cemetery {MOH hates FIL for picking the military cemetary so far away but his only close option}. I tried to get MOH to go with FIL, BUt the two do NOT get along. I could barely stand the 2 hours in the car with those two to get there at funeral time! It is always instant clash between them. SO MOH isn't going. FIL wants to visit and se the wreaths they have on the Military graves.
We WILL take MY widowed father a nice dish of CHristmas Dinner.
AND later when the FIL gets home, we will take a dish to FIL later.
That's our plan and we are sticking to it!
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Good morning. It's 30° with 100% humidity. The high will be 55° and fell like 60°. There will be a few clouds.Not really in a festive mood today. I've was up all night. GERD has been kicking my butt big time. It would flare up for a while, die down for a bit then flare up again. I've been taking some Tums antacid tablets and they're helping a bit but it's still kicking me around. Getting ready to take my morning meds and have a light meal to keep my stomach settled. I hope this goes away before the family festivities start. Of all days why does my body pick today to pick on me? I hope nobody decides to pull a practical joke or something on me because it would be easy to tick me off and having a hacked off short tempered Indian in the room wouldn't be fun for anybody. Well my friend Harry (an Apache) might enjoy it but I sure wouldn't. Think I'll see if I can get a bit of rest while I can.
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Merry Christmas to all!
Now, back to getting that turkey in the oven.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good Evening!
It´s been a quiet day today - the phone rang only once. Took my time to study all the pictures in my new book, which gave me some hints on where to improve my loco design to be more prototypicaal.
Tomorrow, I will start on the cardboard mock-up of it.
We already had our dinner - Petra spend hours in the kitchen and we both wolved it down in 15 minutes! But, boy, was that delicious! It looked like this:
We have enough leftovers for tomorrow!
Well the GERD finally decided to go away and leave me alone, for now. So I managed to get a bit of a nap in and I feel a lot better now. No unwrapping of gifts yet as the festivities haven't started at my sisters place yet. At least this time I'll be able to walk up the steps. I've been practicing a lot and can do fairly well as long as I'm not carrying anything. But if I'm carrying something all bets are off. And I can get into her house without having to do the first seven steps of the ballet on my butt. That's a BIG improvement. Now I already know what one of my gifts is. After all I ordered the little gem.That's called a 'FloppySD'. It's a SD card reader/writer that emulates an Apple II Disk II floppy drive. The other gifts that have my name on them I have no idea whatsoever what's in them. I'll find out later today. After dinner they might have to roll me back down here.Now I imagine there might be one or two questions about this morning computer related photo, like what the heck is that after the '//'s. It looks like EPB but believe it or not it's 'SRB'. Seriously! I entered 'SRB' in 'Source Code Pro' font then switched it to 'Symbol font' and it comes out as ''.
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
Hope you have a great day and remember, all food cosumed today has zero calories! It's the Christmas exemption at least that is my story and I'm sticking to it.
We are off to my MIL's place soon for dinner. It won't be a traditional Christmas one though as we doing Italian food, chicken parmigana.
CN Charlie
Ho, Ho, Ho.....
Merry Christmas!
I went over to my son's this morning to have a great breakfast and to exchange our gifts. I will be leaving here to go back over there for a Prime Rib Christmas Dinner and to photograph and document the gift "Feeding Frenzy" that is part of DILs family tradition. I have some very expensive chocolat bark from a downtown chocolate store here for each of the rest of the family and will likely get a few small gifts during the sharing session afetr the meal myself.
I got a couple of needed tools from Micro Mark (Wire rope andspring wire cutter and a wire stripper/cutter and a few other things.) Son just called and said dinner will be served soon and to get over there!