Todd:That is what happens when you get older, you tend to forget things, like one's own b-day! Guess one could say you "MARCHed into the world"!!!
It's late but to Todd and Richard and anyone else whose b-day is recent or coming up!
Well anyways: did my morning run of errands used my 70cent discount on gas and saved a bundle on a nearly full fillup. Gas is regualrly about $3.75 here now for the 87octane gas. It'll be well over $4 a gallon and over near to $5 l bet this summer. We have been spoiled of late with lower prices, time to pay the piper!
The I did the pharmacy for scripts.
Then did the breaqd store outlet for bread..there wasn't much at free bread day yesterday and I needed hamburger buns for my lunch, and English crooks and nannies muffins, which all never show up on free bread day.
SO I did one other errrand and came home. Errands not done, though, have to drop the KIA off for the fix of the recalls.that will be late toninght after MOH gets home form work.
Well, now to regular chores around the house.
QUESTION: have any of you seen/heard tell of solid very dark brown or black mice? or do we have other critters in the house? They are also "braver" an scatter around daytime in broad daylight and seem immune to the traps we set. Just wondering.
MAYBE I work in the train room/junque room later...
later
-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.
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.
Mornin' everyhone!
Zoe, just a dark roast coffee to go please....
Time is running short to everything done for the NMRA Meet this weekend. Have to ru to tghe dollar store this morning, recharge the PiP, then head out to Canandaigua to feed the cats and recharge the PiP. Then come back home spend some time cleaning the house, while recharging the PiP, and then go to my son's house to follow them over to the school for my #1 granddaughter's first concert. the first graders are putting ojn a concert for their families... Can't miss THAT! Then home to do more house cleaning and hopefully a bit more modeling!
Happy Late Birthday to Todd and Richard!
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Another year has come and gone, and I still haven't grown up.
Happy Birthday!
I still remember running my first DCC train. It made me feel 8 years old again, free of all the cares of adulthood.
We will not be going skiing this weekend, which is fine because there's a train show. I don't need anything in particular, but I am still happy to just browse and maybe pick up some detail parts or whatever.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Todd .... late Happy birthday! ... Did you have birthday fortune cookies?
Richard .... Happy birthday.
Ulrich. .... I'm very glad to hear you are starting the layout.
JohnBoy and Flip .... Continued thoughts and prayers for your health.
Weather was good yesterday, and we worked outside.
Happy Model Railroading!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Morning, Folks!
galaxyFirst Day of Spring! Hooray!
Todd, Richard - a belated to you gentlemen! Where is m,y slice of the ?
Indeed, the first day of spring! Not a cloud in the sky, daytime high will reach 75°F. I think I will change my tires soon - no need to have those fur-lined snow tires on the car any longer!
Spring feeling:
I will order the MDF sheets today, already ripped to size, as there is no surcharge for that. There will still be enough sawing and drilling to be done to create a perfect mess. My friend has a few days off, so there is a good chance we may start on putting the benchwork together in the next days.
My order of track should arrive today. $ 320 for 8 switches, 10 lengths of flex track and 3 packs of rail joiners is quite a chunk of my budget - a little over half of what I can spend to get started on the layout. Wire, terminal strips, solder, DPDT switches and other bric-a-brac will add another $ 30 to the bill, leaving me with about $200 for scenic material, rolling stock, another loco, a DCC command station, and ... and ... Somehow I am going to make it.
Have a good one and special thoughts for Johnboy and Flip!
Edit: A huge package was in today´s mail, contaiming my track order. I already went to the bank to pay it. While on my way, I dropped by at our DIY place and ordered the lumber I need. I will be picking it up tomorrow, and, if my friend will be up to it, start on the benchwork!
morning coffee in the diner..
Quotable quotes:
Don't miss one second of your child's existance. someecards.
Here's hoping the new interns remind you that someone out there really wants your job. someecards.
It's best to give while your hand is still warm.{instead of after you have passed} -Philip Roth, novelist (b. 1933)
Well as I said earlier, it's been a busy day for me. For someone else it would likely have been a bit painful. I have a solder burn on the inner side of my left calf. A somewhat respectable glob of solder took a dive this morning. I thought it had hit the floor and didn't give it a second thought. I went right on with my work. This afternoon I just happened to look down and spotted the solder glob still stuck to my calf. It had been several hours since the morning solder job and the evening solder job wasn't even an idea at that point. I pulled the glob off and went about my business. Never felt a thing. Since then I washed it with some 91% alcohol and taped a small gauze pad over it.Other than that and the activities I cited earlier I've watched some TV and played a couple of computer games. Toyed with an Apple program called 'Apple Organ'. It's a fun little program that allows you to play some rudimentary music on the keyboard. Only sixteen or seventeen keys so it's pretty limited.That's it for today. Time 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
It's been a pretty good day. Even though I haven't been feeling all that great I managed to get the dust cleaned out of the //e and I got one of my two newest re-powered Varney F3's ready for a 9-pin decoder. I provided evidence of both of the above in the form of photos. This evening I installed a DCC 9-pin harness in the other re-powered Varney F3. As is customary with me I took a photo of the victim. It tried fighting me every step of the way or that could have been my shaky hands.Installing the decoders will be next month, assuming I can get them. I'm not sure what the bills will be looking like yet.
well
Busy day and exhausting one.
Switching mental health depts. from one county to another means recounting this and that a few times over and over. I guess they want to make sure your story is true? That was an exhausting process, and not over yet. another APPT. in 2 weeks assures that.tha was a 2 1/2 hour ordeal.
Then off to my father's, then off to get a new garbage can with wheels, I don't like the way it is made, and it seems to be the "new trend in cans" so I bought just one, whereas MOH wnated me to get 2. MOH can look and see if it is "good enogh" and if so, I can go get antoehr one.
Missed the town clerks office as was tired and my back was killing me. That was to try to get the flood plain maps {we are NOT in it} to give to insurance company who says "we can't find you", but the town clerk CAN especially for tax purposes! SO somewhere there HAS to be records!
And missed the recycling call to replace our broken bins, "why do you need new ones? what happened to yours" was the message on caller ID. "It will take 5weeks" she said on answering machine, not caller ID. 5 weeks ? for a silly plastic bin? THey DO wear out, you know...
well gotta go see the neighbors for free bread day.
RideOnRoadAnother year has come and gone, and I still haven't grown up.
Edit: And it looks like the cake is on me.
Richard
Dennis- why don't you do what the Cubans in Miami have done? Just pave over the grassy area and paint it green. Some have used green cement blocks. Also saves on water bill and not needing to mow, more time for trains.
Prayers for all of us.
Flip
Well I made the dusty interior of the //e as dust free as I could using a small brush I normally use to clean my beard trimmer and a small Shop-Vac with a mini dust brush.I then turned my attention to one of my re-powered Varney F3's. It has a blue box Athearn F7 chassis and is therefore a fairly easy install. Remove the motor, remove the contact tabs from the bottom of it then solder on the gray wire from the DCC harness. File the solder join flat, cover with a piece of electrical tape. Apply a strip of tape to the contact patch in the bottom of the motor well. Reinstall the motor. Solder orange wire to the top tab of the motor, red wire to contact arm of front truck, black wire to headlight clip, jumper wire to front and rear trucks. Organize the wires so they're not an unholy mess, just an organized mess.The 9-pin plug is over the rear flywheel awaiting a decoder. The decoder and a light or LED will have to wait until I can get such things, probably the end of the month.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup and a cup of Seneca Lake Dark Roast Coffee for the R&GV RR mug. Please and thank you Ma'am...
Today will be "partly" outside... if you don't like the weather just wait a minute and it will get worse. Currently already above freezing for a change. 41°F out there with a high of 45°F they say. Will stay above freezing tonight (35°F) for a cahnge. Currently there are patches of sunshine on and off but it will deteriorate to clouds and rain by this afternoon.
Galaxy, be patient! Have you ever known me not to have photos sooner or later? Right now there isn't much to show and i have so much I need to finish that I haven't worried about taking any. I will have some soon.
Need to make some rounds very soon. Have to stop at the LHS, the CU, Staples, and the Value Center... Then get about 3 days of w*rk done!!!
I'll catch up to everyone later.
Good morning ....... I'll have coffee and a doughnut please. ....
Regarding JohnBoy, I received an email from him yesterday. It may have been as much as 2 weeks since the last one. He is recovering from very aggressive treatments (chemo and radiation) for throat cancer. On the plus side, it is good to know he continues to have a positive attitude. However, it makes me very sad to read how sick he feels
I will quote part of his message here:
"I'm still hanging in here and feeling a little better daily. Very little stamina and can't swallow, so I am going to have to relearn that skill. I never thought for a moment that it would be forgettable, but the pain is enough to make you. Voice still very weak and I still sleep alot. No interest in reading or modeling and only come to the Puter every couple of days. Haven't even peeked through the windows at the Diner for over a week, but I do miss it. Say Hi to all for me and I hope to be back soon. Just need some motivation. "
I know you Diners care about JohnBoy and have kept him in your prayers based on your posts here. Galaxy has been very good about mentioning JohnBoy regularly alll along.
Flip, too is recovering from his ordeal, and he is in our prayers. Other Diners also are dealing with health issues and other issues.
Crews have coupled the Chapel Car to the Diner for those who wish to pray there.
I am glad for model railroading because it is a great way to keep us going in the rough times. Sometimes, I take "sanity breaks" with the model railroad during unhappy periods of life.
I encourage each of you to keep your friendships with other model railroaders including the Diners. Today, is "lunch day" here for local model railroaders which we do each Wednesday if we can.
Did I say I was feeling better today? How wrong I was! I am caught by a bad case of migraine, each move hurts like h.ll. Add to that a queasy feeling in the stomach. Another day for the sofa, keeping my eyes closed.
Good morning. It's 57° with 100% humidity and patchy fog. The high will be 72°.This morning I put away the locos I was working on and I'm now making preparations for the next project. That will be to convert two re-powered Varney F3A's to DCC. The first part of that will be to hard wire the harnesses. At the beginning of the month I'll get a couple of suitable decoders.Sometime today I'll open the //e and using the vac with a dust brush I'll get the dust out of it. That'll take a while but it needs to be done.
Wow, what decoders are you guys using in your washing machines? Are they steam or diesel? I'd probably volunteer to do the laundry more often if the washer sounded like a freight train. Do the higher-priced models come with chuff-cams?
Still cold here in New England, but the weather is about to become spring-like for tomorrow, the first day of spring. Still, there will be a couple of nights in the teens next week.
Good Morning All,
Mid thirties this morning with overcast - in other words typical New England near Spring weather. I'll have a short stack of blueberry pancakes and a regular coffee please, Zoe. Finally got the first two pieces of fascia fitted to the layout Sunday. These were the most fiddly as I had to locate and punch the holes for the yard switch cables. I also realized I hadn't allowed for any switching for the turntable and rectified that as well. I now have three tracks to the general area much like the museum. I did need to get fancy with one as there is a culvert one turnout lined up perfectly with so I moved the turnout. Haqven't been down since as I've gotten home the last two days and my hip has hurt too much to do anything where I have to crouch or contort. Probably time to see the chiropracter again.
Good to see Lee in and happy in his new marraige. Prayers for Johm Boy, Flip and the others in need. Hope you feel better today Ulrich. You've had a tough time of late.
We won't talkabout taxes. We have used an accountant since we got clobbered over stock options at a former job (most expensive job I ever quit - cost me a bundle). Last years accountant we'd used for over a decade but he just never did get things done properly last year so we changed. Now the new one is questioning everything he did recently so I think maybe here we go again. The one thing you cannot do in a business is get the IRS after you. So we talked about taxes anyway but...........
Time to go pick up tools and get on with it. Cheers, J.R.
I've been doing my own taxes for years but now with his and her stuff I felt better having someone do them for me. She owns a house, I own a house, she has student loans.....
My new washer died after sounding like a freight train. Turns out it had a bad main bearing. good thing it was under warrenty since it involved replacing the drum. I got my washer and dryer at HomeDepot, 12 months same as cash, and they were on sale 50% off.
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good Morning!
I wasn´t feeling well yesterday, so I did not "go out" and come to the Diner. Spent most of the day in bed. It´s better today.
No real plans for the day. A little bit of reading, a little bit of day dreaming...
Have a good one!
morning coffee in the diner...
Therblig - Pertaining to the study of time and motion, this is any task that can be analyzed.
There once was a girl from Spainwho loved to play out in the rain.One day with a jolt,a very mean lightning boltfried her from her toes to her brain.
RAY:Are you ever gonna post some pics of the King Post Bridge???
We'd liek to see what you are describing in the detail you describe!
I think you may just be a rivet counter seeings as how you put O scale rivet "bolts" on it!
Share with us...
Please
73 back atcha
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf please....
Currently 37°F and I just lit the wood stove for the night. Probably should have got it going an hour or two ago, but I was actually doing some stuff down in the train rooms at that time. High did get all the way up to 45°F this afternoon. Most of the white stuff that fell last week has now disapeared except where it got piled high. I still have a spot of it on the roof. Last one on the block with the white stuff up there on the roof.... Hope that means the insulation is good, but I think it was just in a spot where the wind made a particularly good drift.
Down cellar with the trains, I covered all the plaster cloth with a good coat of plaster. One more coat tomorrow and over the weekend (Sunday) the area will get the dirt colored paint added. Then trees will magically appear along with grass and a road shall run through it. I basically finished the sign for the Blacksmith's shop. My old bottle of flat black paint got left witht the top ajar so what little there was left in the bottle has now dried solid. A trip to the LHS will solve that problem. I also need to get some $$$ out of the Credit Union for the weekend, and to pay my Granddaughter for the GS Cookies I bought. Then off to the Value center to get more dry wall mud for scenery base.... That old tub is just about empty and I have lots of scenery to do.
I got another side done on the Timber Trestles on the King Post Bridge. I had hoped to get the first two sides coated with Dull Coat tonight, but found I had missed a spot that needs a "bolt" so I will wait until morning to do the Trestles and the sign.
Finally located "Clim" at my sisters house. He decided to move to under the bed in the guest room from down cellar as I had discovered his hiding spot (nest). I went looking for him today, and he was in the first room I looked... I lifted the covers up from where they touch the floor and there he was. I said hi to him and he responded by tearing out from under the bed and disapearing somewhere.... I think he went and hid down cellar again. Both he and Claude had disappeared when I came back down stairs. I'm sure he remembers me from when he was a ferral cat outside. We were friends back then and he'd come over and sit next to me and let me pet him. I think he is afraid I will catch him and put him back outside.... He and Claude have become best buddies and sleep arm in arm just like my two cats do.
Today was a record day for this time of year with the solar panels. Made over 25kWh today. Good bright sun all day long. Next couple of days will be cloudy and gray they say...
Time to head to bed I think. Hope you all have a good and restful night. Prayers for all in need!
Well I almost had a joystick for my //e today. I had a bid on one on Ebay for under $15 and it looked like I had it but somebody sniped me in last few seconds and I lost it. Oh well, another one will come along eventually.Did some work on a loco today. A Rock Island FP7 had a loose connection in the DCC harness. Getting the shell off was ten times the work of the actual repair. I'd loosen the snap clip on one side then when I lifted the clip on the other side the one I'd just freed snapped back in place. It required me to put a screw under the one side then lift the other side so the chassis would slide out. The repair was simply soldering a wire back onto the 8-pin plug.Sometime in the near future I have to open up my //e and vacuum out the dust that's starting to accumulate in it. Maybe tomorrow.Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
JeremyB Went to do a load of laundry and the washing machine died. It has been on its way out for alomst a year now but today was the day. It will fill,agitate,and empty fine but just wont spin. The belt on the motor is fine so dont know what it could be, It has sounded like a freight train for a few months though. So no we have the fun of trying to find a new one, there are a million different ones out there.In the meantime we will have to either go to family members or laundry mat or ring everything out by hand,lol. The last one does not seem all that fun,lol
Went to do a load of laundry and the washing machine died. It has been on its way out for alomst a year now but today was the day. It will fill,agitate,and empty fine but just wont spin. The belt on the motor is fine so dont know what it could be, It has sounded like a freight train for a few months though.
So no we have the fun of trying to find a new one, there are a million different ones out there.In the meantime we will have to either go to family members or laundry mat or ring everything out by hand,lol. The last one does not seem all that fun,lol
Jeremy: Unless you or your spouse is "married" to the idea that the washer MUST have 14o selling features, 128 cycles and 15o different water combos,a delicate and "wring", "Steam", "rinse" and "wet dry" features, we found the next up from basic of the heavy duty, 4 cycle washer works fine. I SUPPOSE if you have: fine washables that absolutely cannot be agitated at all and only needs a steaming {like a sequined shirt/dress}, then THAT feature is a "necessity". But, I still don't buy that a "steamed" {only} shirt is actually CLEAN.
So if you go by that idea, that cuts your choices and prices. We don't really own anything much that cannot be washed on "regular" or "casual" cycles. There are a few things that are "fine washables" {about a dozen including my warm winter wool socks, or our winter wool scarves} that can be done on the "delicate" or "hand wash" cycles. Those 4 cycles work well for almost anything and the heavy duty capacity about covers it all.
Anything else can be dry cleaned and if it needs that, chances are we won't buy it to start off.
Hee hee, I also have access to an old wringer washer for wringing clothes out SHOULD it come to that......of course it can agitate adn "clann them too".
Just food for thought.
JeremyBWent to do a load of laundry and the washing machine died. It has been on its way out for alomst a year now but today was the day. It will fill,agitate,and empty fine but just wont spin. The belt on the motor is fine so dont know what it could be, It has sounded like a freight train for a few months though.