Trolleyboy Very long time no see.
Best to all on sick call and those recovering
Duke
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
morning coffee in the diner...
Quotable Quotes:
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
We were painting the church steeple gray.When the wind blew our brushes away.We said to the pastor."Oh what a disaster!"But he simply replied, "Let us... spray!"
A man, while drinking Light Bud,Crashed his car with a sickening thud,The car that he hit,Had a warlock in it,now he lives as a frog in the mud.
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
-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,
having computer troubles, think we have a virus. It need to go in for a "cleaning" anyway. SO, If you'all don't see me here for a while, it may be because i am computerless!
Dealt with all the remaining bills for the month of MAY yesterday! good to know they are all done! Only one straggler will come either the end of MAy or first of June {It is never consistant}, then all the regular bills all come in about the 8th-20th. SO FINI!
Now, have a great day!
Afternoon Folks!
It´s already past lunchtime, so I´ll just settle for a cup of coffee, served right here at the RC. Thanks, Janie!
Been busy glueing the parts I made yesterday into something resembling a jetty. I must have miscalculated the number of parts I need, so I am now short of a few pieces. I´ll have to make them, but I need to go to get some stripwood first - just a length f 3x5mm and a length of 5x5mm. I won´t go today, because that glue gave me a headache... The older I get, the more sensitive to fumes I appear to be
Y´all have a great one!
P.S. Where is Todd? Have not seen him around her for a while...
Good morning...... Coffee and a doughnut, please.
Duke and Trolleyboy ........ Good to see you. Feel free to tell us what you have been up to.
Flip .... Glad to hear about your dooglebug operations. Presently, I operate my doodlebug with a trailer, a short branchline baggage/RPO car.
Yesterday, my old friend I knew in high school was here. We remember good times being young railfans. After getting our drivers licenses we chased trains in Illionis. Burlington and Santa Fe were our favorites, but we chased trains of several other railorads. Now, of course, the old Santa Fe Chiefs and the old Burlington Zephyrs are memorise to be re-created on model railorads.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Jeff
Good morning. How did you install the rust on the side of teh hopper ? That is impressive work ! If I didnt know better I would think it real.
Good morning to all. Breakfast and coffe is on me this morning. Eat up !
Guten Morgen Fellow Dinners und Herr Ulrich
Flo, Rührei und eine Seite in der Bacon gefällt.
Got the front and rear yard cut yesterday so that over with. Went and made another payment to the Vet for Shaddys last visit, I now only owe $58.00. Went to the store and bought a few things and all so a few flowers, bucket and Mircale Grow.
I all so BBQ last night, with the grill being so messed up I had to sit outside and watch it. Did not want to burn up the meat. I had bought 2 steaks and I like my rare, all so cooked some pork steaks. Tonight, my wife wants me to cook some ribs.
Boy, my grill has to go! I have to turn the rear burnner on high, and the front one on low to get close to the same flame level.
Ulrich, ich kam gar nicht auf den Post gestern, und ich hasse es zu sagen, haben nicht das nötige Geld für die Schiene. Ich werde sie nächste Woche. Layout is looking great! I think I have a section of On 30 track that came in a lot I won off E Bay.
Got to run, lot of things to do before I go to the VA Hosptial.
Ken
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I hate Rust
yougottawantaJeff. How did you install the rust on the side of teh hopper ? That is impressive work ! If I didnt know better I would think it real.
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
Good morning. It's 73° with 85% humidity. The high will be 88° and it'll be somewhat cloudy.Didn't get much sleep last night as my right knee was hurting and prevented me from getting comfortable. As a result I'm not in the best of moods. I think I'll just lay back and relax today.
It´s past 5pm here, so I call it a day - I only w*rk 9 till 5 on my layout
Here is what happened today, aside from sticky fingers being covered with glue:
I am not yet happy with the weathering of the lumber - I think I´ll give it another wash...
Ken - I did not know you are fluent in German Take it easy on the spikes - no need to rush things. The pace of w*rk on my layout is set by the funds I have. Right now I have overspent my budget already, meaning very few, if none, purchases for it next month. I will have to get some stripwood tomorrow, so I can finish today´s job, but that´s to the tune of $ 2. I am glad I still have plenty of leftover material from past projects, so construction will not come to a halt.
I am trying to figure out how to do the railing on the upper part and the stairs. Maybe I use toothpicks as posts ...
Thanks Jeff. Several more questions if you dont mind. Are you mixing the alchol or buy 70 % strength ? What method do you use to apply the powder ? Sprinkle it on or stipple with a brush ?
I am sorry you are hurting with your knee. How is your layout coming ? Did you get the rest of the track laid ?
yougottawantaThanks Jeff. Several more questions if you don't mind. Are you mixing the alcohol or buy 70 % strength ? What method do you use to apply the powder ? Sprinkle it on or stipple with a brush ?
The layout is at a standstill. I have to keep off my feet as much as possible and much of the work that needs to be done requires that I be on my feet. The track is down so a train could make a complete trip around the layout if there wasn't stuff piled all over it. Right now I can't even see the track in many places.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, just a a cup of my dark roast coffee and a couple sour cream glazed doughnuts to dunk... Thank you Ma'am!
Currently 68°F here in the Finger Lakes with a predicted high of 72°F later this afternoon. Have a couple windows open at the moment to let some fresh air in.
I have a Doctor's Appt. early this afternoon... This is my 6 month recheck, hope there are no problems found and I can just keep on keeping on. My knee still hurts from when I twisted it last Sunday, but it is better today.
Been getting everything all set for the MLK Scholarship Dinner tomorrow. Have to pick up the "Educator's Award from the trophy shop this afternoon, and then early tomorrow afternoon meet with the guy from the AV dept. at the colleges to set up sound and AV equipment we will need for the evening. I always feel a major bit of relief after the dinner is done and everything went well! Oh, School Budget Vote is today, so I need to go do my civic duty also.
Best get myself moving! Later...
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Afternoon all. Spicy chicken and french fries. Thanks
I have today off, so I am just enjoying it today, and relaxing. I am listening to some Eric Church and my scanner(Interstate heritage unit is supposed to be leading a train north today through my town,and I have yet to see it leading a train yet). W@rk was interesting last night. 7 WIC checks, and one woman had 4 different checks. Then the other non-express lane cashier went on break and I got slammed with 15 people at once with at least 70 items each. It got so bad, they opened up the express lane for them as well as my lane. Strangely enough, only one offered to help bag their stuff-everyone else was ticked that I was not able to bag their 70 items each within a minute. So yeah, it was a stressful night last night.
No Model railroading stuff today,but maybe some railfanning. NS is doing track work on the rails through here, so the one that is not being worked on has a speed restriction on it, so that should make some photography options. Have a good day everyone else.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
9pm and nearly time to say Good Night, well not yet, but soon. Nothing interesting in the idiot box, so I gave the dock? jetty? pier? another wash of black water - looks much improved. Petra is listening to Rod Stewart singing some old song - I have to admit I have never neen much into Rock music - I am more for classic music, having w*rked for sony Classical more than 20 years ago...
For me, Rod Stewart is a gifted model railroader, with a voice sounding like he had to much booze, but decent songs I can listen to as background music.
Good Night Folks! See you all tomorrow!
I cannot finish the 2 remaining loads of laundry.
I cannot finish up the dishes left from today or re-wash the stove drawer pans before putting htem away.
I cannot take my afternoon-i-am-sweaty-shower.
I cannot empty/fill the pond.
WHY? You Ask? Because we have no water!
Shortly afte MOH arrived home, I went to turn on the water...NO WATER I said, MOh Replied hat it was probably a Water Main break that was the puddle in the middle of an otherwise dry as a bone road just down the street....so calling the water works dept. confirmed a 12" main had done sprung itself a leak! Or was it an 18" main? Anyway it was a bigg'un.
So here I sit.
Oh well,gives me a break as I have ben spend ing too much time on my feet lately and my back is lettting me know it!
Now watch, i won't stay off my feet and find something else to do on my feet...like run my new lightweight vacuum!
Oh got rid of {finally} the 29 gallon tall aquarium. Today was garbage day so out it went. we tried selling ti, giving it away nobody wanted it. So out to the garbage man it went.
Now there is a NICE "table" I had to have a 1/2 plywood slab cut to fit in the recess where the tank was on top the knotty-pine wood base cabinet.
BOY! That "table" where the fish tank was WOULD make A NICE PLATFORAM FOR A Z SCALE LAYOUT!!!!
I'm just saying!
Tempting..tempting..
MOH would KILL me as It was "my salt water tank",so it was "my" job to get rid of it....and MOh has wanted it gone for quite a while now!
Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE
I will have to wisper that in my OH's ear at night and see if that changes my OH's mind!
Sir MadogI have to admit I have never neen much into Rock music - I am more for classic music
I like classic rock myself. 50's, 60's, 70's and some 80's. I also like a number of the Big Band classics. I like listening to bagpipes sometimes too but only the songs I think are good. Some of those bagpipe numbers could scare the hair off a bear in full charge.
galaxyBOY! That "table" where the fish tank was WOULD make A NICE PLATFORAM FOR A Z SCALE LAYOUT!!!! I'm just saying! Tempting..tempting. Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE
Jimmy_Braum I have today off, so I am just enjoying it today, and relaxing. I am listening to some Eric Church and my scanner(Interstate heritage unit is supposed to be leading a train north today through my town,and I have yet to see it leading a train yet). W@rk was interesting last night. 7 WIC checks, and one woman had 4 different checks. Then the other non-express lane cashier went on break and I got slammed with 15 people at once with at least 70 items each. It got so bad, they opened up the express lane for them as well as my lane. Strangely enough, only one offered to help bag their stuff-everyone else was ticked that I was not able to bag their 70 items each within a minute. So yeah, it was a stressful night last night.
Jimmy: Welcome to the grocery store business! Or any cashiering job that is!
1} there are many who get more than one WIC check....get used to it, and the checks are often for several different items each and the customer will expect YOU to sort out which ites gfo with which check!
2} whenever there are cashiers takign breaks is when the customers must ALL come to get in line..and ALL must "be somewhere soon, can you hurry it up"? Iff'en you don't have the tiem to shop and pay, then WHY do you come when under pressure?
3} the "express line" means nothing to people...they will come with 50 or 60 item cart fulls and expect to get through as they "have just a few items more than {10} {15} {20} {whatever the number is}. The limit number means nothing to them, it "never applies to me"
4}There is an argument ongoing about bagging...due to handicap, I have to ask for carry-outs so I usually get my stuff bagged, and the store chain {remember MOH works for them} is TRYING to change to "customer bags their own" system. BUT as I said to MOH, until the they put in those whirly tables with multiple bag racks on it like they have a Wally World, customers WON't get it that they should be bagging thier own! Or at elast CARTING their own. This chain is NOt the first in the area to try to go to customer self-bagging or self-carting bagged stuff.
5} and YeS you should be able to "bag 70 items in jsut 1.2654 minutes!!!! OR LESS!!! DIdn't they tell you that in the manual or training video????? {}
Enjoy the fact that you have a job!
Just wait til the prices start skyrocketing again as they are supposed to {more than now} and THEN you'll see: listen to customer WHINING about the cost of food! OVer and OVER! Your heart willl just BLEED for them, meanwhile you will try to figure out how, on your minimum wages, you are supposed to fill up your gas tank at the HIGH summer gas prices so you can get to work for your next shift!!!!
Ta Da! Welome to "The Real WOrld"!!
Have a good night and be glad your shift is over...for now...
jeffrey-wimberly Sir Madog I have to admit I have never neen much into Rock music - I am more for classic music I like classic rock myself. 50's, 60's, 70's and some 80's. I also like a number of the Big Band classics. I like listening to bagpipes sometimes too but only the songs I think are good. Some of those bagpipe numbers could scare the hair off a bear in full charge.
Sir Madog I have to admit I have never neen much into Rock music - I am more for classic music
I personally love the oldies Rock and roll-most modern popular stuff is junk in my opinion of course. Then again, I have become a fan of Kings of Leon, a lot of the underground bands, Mumford and Sons, and some of the modern country singers.
jeffrey-wimberly galaxy BOY! That "table" where the fish tank was WOULD make A NICE PLATFORAM FOR A Z SCALE LAYOUT!!!! I'm just saying! Tempting..tempting. Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE How's your eyesight? I dabbled in Z Scale at one time and the operative word for everything about it is TINY. The only production scale I've seen that's smaller is T Scale.
galaxy BOY! That "table" where the fish tank was WOULD make A NICE PLATFORAM FOR A Z SCALE LAYOUT!!!! I'm just saying! Tempting..tempting. Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE Z SCALE
How's your eyesight? I dabbled in Z Scale at one time and the operative word for everything about it is TINY. The only production scale I've seen that's smaller is T Scale.
Jeffrey: my eyesight is very good !
I am quite nearsidesd and can real the tiniest of print without my glasses...its far away I have trouble with.
Both MOH adn I are nearsided and can read the tiniest of print on the prescription bottles, say for example...and some lines are about point 2!
Now hand co-ordination and "fine" motor skills to GET the tiny thing ON the tracks, well, THAT I may be lacking! Especially when painting or weathering something fo it!
Ps the table is only 1 foot, 2" wide, but I can get a top for it wide enough for a single or 2-track mainline around it!
PSS : I can count the "Who's" Horton hears - siting on the head of a pin!
Jimmy_Braum I personally love the oldies Rock and roll-most modern popular stuff is junk in my opinion of course. Then again, I have become a fan of Kings of Leon, a lot of the underground bands, Mumford and Sons, and some of the modern country singers.
Give me CCR anytime.
I,m with you Jeff, Credance Clearwater revival was the best....................
Johnboy out......................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Car Front. That is the bad part of the day. Sunday, the sun roof switch went bad it was the only opening window the old Town Car had. Year before last the heater core went bad, so I tried stop leak over and over, guess what? Did not work! By passed the heater core and got by till winter. Heater core is replaced and I was happy this last winter. Now that the temps are in the 80’s car runs warm, there is a shocker. On the way to the VA Hospital I was able to run the A/C till I got on the side streets. Then it ran warm. OK, I am thinking and hoping it only gets hot around town! Wrong! On the way home it ran warm with out the A/C I got 2 bars over normal. Had to turn the heat up to 85 degrees to keep the either 1 bar over normal or normal. It was back and forth most of the way home.
See you all later, Ken
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"Ooooooo, I heard it through the Grapevine...."
Hey! could yuh turn it down just a tad??? Oh, thanks! I thought I would have to shut off my hearing aids for a while....
What, Oh I love CCR and a whole lot of other groups from back then... My Favorite of course, was BS&T as I went to College with the lead trumpeter (Lou Soloff). Actually I really have much of the same taste as Ulrich. I tend more to the Rennaisance and Baroque periods. Especially all the great German Composers. You know, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Tellaman, Shott, Shien, Fop, Fux, J. S. Bach and his sons CPE, JC and PDQ. You know, all those guys....
Doctor's Appt. went well today... Everything is within OK Ranges. had the lowest Cholesterol I have ever had.... 126! HDL - 36 and the LDL, 61. the ratio puts me below average risk for heart problems... My AC1 was 5.9. Has stayed basically the same for 4 years now. Talked to him about the Taste/Smell problem and he agreed it maqy be due to the CPAP, the backaches, he agrees are from sitting to long at the computer with my belt too tight... No kidding! He did a complete exam and said he wishes all his patients my age were in as good shape!
One of the TV stations in Rochester reported on their web page that my sister's favorite restuarant in Canandaigua, Rio Tomatlan, caught fire last night. Three alarm fire, no one was injured. They are the busiest place in Canandaigua and have become packed all the time. I do hope they will be back in business soon. No word on the cause and how much damage they sustained. My sister must be devistated! She has several paintings hanging down there for sale!
Back to w*rk! I have most everythings finished and ready for the dinner tomorrow... Finally!
Good job on your numbers Ray. Wish I could say the same. Unfortunately, all mine have been going in the wrong directions. My problem is a lack of will power. But I know I have to start and buckle down on my diet & exercise.
Been busy today. Ran a couple of errands this morning, did a couple loads of wash, & got the grass cut & trimmed in both the front & back yards. Also dug out the bird bath from the garage, & after a good cleaning, placed it in the flower bed. So it's all set for those little winged creatures. Funny though, it always got a real workout, but last year, we hardly ever saw any birds around it. Here's hoping they return because it's kind of fun watching them splash around in it.
They were calling for thunder storms this evening, and we may well get them. The sky has gotten very dark in the last 30 minutes, so it looks like something is headed this way. Stay safe & have a good one.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
last mountain & eastern hogger Give me CCR anytime. I,m with you Jeff, Credance Clearwater revival was the best.................... Johnboy out......................
Who?
Have you ever seen the rain looking out my backdoor? As long as I can see the light someday never comes. Hey, tonight I put a spell on you proud mary who's down on the corner with suzie Q. The travelin' band had a bad moon rising over green river in lodi, again! I heard it through the grapevine there is a commotion about who'll stop the rain up around the bend for the forunate son if I put a spell on you making you run through the jungle with the sweet hitchhiker.
That about the covers the best I guess....
Of course, there's the Eagles flying overhead on a long Journey...
They just don't make music like they used to, do they, huh Bruce Springsteen?
Love all those bands/musicians. As Seger once said, Today's music ain't got the same soul. I like that old time Rock and Roll. Yeah, I play a ton of classic rock as my guitar style-with a little country thrown in for good measure-you can't play a bar in Pittsburgh without knowing a Willie Nelson/Johnny Cash/George Straight song.
Well, the Apple IIc is sick, again. The disk drive again. Before the azimuth alignments were off and had to be reset. It worked fine after that. Today I was testing it for the owner and the drive just quit working, period. I was wondering at this point if it was really the drive. It could be the motherboard. I unplugged the internal disk drive from the motherboard and plugged an external Apple A9M0107 5.25" floppy drive into the internal disk drive port. Whoa, I think I just heard a Apple II series user out there yelling 'You can't do that! It won't work! The cable end doesn't match the port!'. Well, actually you can make it work if you use an Apple Disk II ribbon cable. This requires removing the cover of the A9M0107 external floppy drive so the cables can be changed out, but it will work. And that's exactly what I did. The computer and drive got along great together. I thought about removing the A9M0107 drive from it's case and putting it into the IIc. Did that and test fit it and it's a bit too big. There's no way the IIc's case could be closed. So now I have to find an Apple IIc internal 5.25 floppy drive or an external model of same that I can rip the guts out of. That also requires that I wait until the end of the month when I'll have some $$ in the small budget I have for this hobby.Other than that I've been watching season one of Star Trek Voyager. Like meeting old friends again.That's it for today. Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a decaf please....
"Dang Me, Dang Me, They oughta take a rope an Hang Me......" Jimmy, at least you got some decent country in your repertire.
I called my sister tonight to ask her about the fire in Canandaigua... She had 3 paintings hanging down there. All got some damage, but she thinks at least 2 can be salvaged. She went down there today to get in the way of the cleanup I guess... I would say , "well the paper said..." or "how did they"... or, "what was".... and she would imediately interupt and tell me she knew more than I did about it after all she went down to see what was going on.... I never doubted that she did... I was trying to ask her a couple questions.... She never did answer any of the questions. I guess she is upset!
All the local School Budgets passed around here today. Our school system is losing about 8 teachers due to budget restictions.
Time for me to call it a day... Tomorrow will be a very long one!
Prayers for all in need...