After a day in the sun doing yard work it was time for me to come in. I got a little pink but not burned. My neighbour has been out all day and has a horrible sunburn, almost looks like to the point of blisters. He doesnt seem to care though. I know it has been a long hard winter and we are all wanting warm temps but no way am I getting burnt like that. Might go out tomorrow but stay in the shade or do outdoor stuff in the morning. Plus its a bog day of racing on tv with the Monaco GP,Indy 500 and the coke 600
Gary- [with one 'R' and an N modeler], HAPPY BIRTHDAY. May your skills improve and health and happiness be with you always.
Flip
Good Evening Dinners and Gute Nacht Herr Ulrich.
Frau Flo, ich brauche ein Bier schlecht, heute war blöd! !!
Work Front, Dave and I have sat a new record, 3 Saturdays in a row with No Sales! Does not look good for the store with Marven closing 2 this year! Plus he owens this one as well in it is in a prime area, bet the ground and building is worth $500,000.00.
Lack Of Health Front. I have to do something about the shape I am in. I use to lift weights 6 days a week doing 3 day splits. Work upper body 3 of the days and lower body 3 days. When I was in my 30's girls would look at my butt and not Laught went I walked by! I use to bench 275 pounds 30 times, preacher curle 125 pounds 30 times and max curle 180 pounds! Had 19 inch biecepts and forearms looked like cord wood!
Todd will understand this. At one point in my life I could pick a bare 440 block and lift it onto a 4 foot tall work table by my self and did not strain to do it. That is 300 pounds of dead weight.
I have been using the hand excies thing I got from the VA for olny 4 days now and forearms all ready look better. I have been thinking about working out some to get some strenght back into the upper body, I am so weak now it is imbassing! Being 6'3" and the sizes I am, you would not think I was so weak.
Last night I dug out a 25 pound dumb bell and dam near busted my gut doing so. Use to feel like nothing, now it feels like the 440 block? Guess I will be digging out some lighter weights to get started lifting again. Well you have to start some where! When I first started to lift, I think my max bench press was 120 and I was not old or fat then. Less than 1% of the worlds population and bench press there body weight.
See you all later, Ken
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Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf please....
Another busy day around here... Went to my sister's house this afternoon, I hooked up the charging cable (EVSE) and stole some electrons from her in return for helping her move some plants outside and start her lawn mower for her. I did get a bunch of Hostas and some other perenials for along the fence. We drove over to the Garden Center. She bought a bunch more potted plants and I got 10 everbearing strawberry plants to put in the rock garden in the front lawn. Got back to her house and I pluged in the PiP again to get a few more miles of EV before we headed out to Dinner.
I won't get a chance to plant anything until Tuesday as tomorrow I will be a Museum Guide at the R&GV RR Museum, and Monday will be spent at my son's house.
Ken, do be careful with the weights. You ain't as young as you were back then.... Working with the wieghts should help bring your Blood Sugar back down and make you feel beter generally! I used to do a bit of lifting in High School, College. and when I first was teaching. Even by the time I ended up here in town, the Middle Schoolers knew I wasn't someone to "mess" with. A couple times a student made a fist and acted like he was going to hit me. My standard reply was to very nicely say, "OK, but make the first one count because you aren't likely to get two..."
I'm going to head out to bed and see if my gouty foot will let me sleep tonight! It is doing better than it was last night but still sore... Living on Advil, I am...
Have a great night. Prayers for all in need!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good evening. It's nice here with 68° and few clouds. Out here away from town you can see a lot of stars you can't see in town due to the light haze. Someday I may get a small telescope and take a better look.The Home Health nurse showed up just before noon. She did a fair job of replacing the wound vac dressing. However it's not a real good job. I'm having some minor problems with it. Had a couple of blockage warnings already and one low pressure warning. I'll keep it going as long as I can but when it fails it'll come apart like a $2 suitcase. It has to last til Monday morning.Watch some TV today and got a couple of locos off the display rack and repaired some minor damage that was done when the tree fell on my trailer. I fixed two handrails, replaced two horns and one coupler.I also made a photo record of my commemorative coin collection.Time for me 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
Howdy.
Ulrch .... I suppose the Memorial Day weekend in the USA is keepiong people busy and the Diner quiet.
CA Dennis .... Speaking of wolves, there is a very rare pair of red wolves (almost extinct) residing in the Nature Center of Land Between the Lakes near here. There are other pairs located in various facilities in the Southeast. The offspring are realased in an effort to repupulate the forest with red wolves. Unfortunately, they eventually mate with coyotes instead of red wolves, and the red wolves remain an endagered species.
BN24 Garry .... Happy Birthday!
Jeff ..... I like the Native American coin
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Howdy everybody, thank you for the birthday wishes!
In MR related news I will hopefully be sending off 4 locomotives to get DCC. While I wait to replace an RS1 frame and TCS CN decoder so that will get DCC.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
- Gary!
Good Morning Folks!
Sunday again! Frau Flo, I´d like to have my usual Sunday breakfast and add Aspirine to it, please. I woke up with a headache
I´ll be taking a break from MRRing today. I don´t have sufficient material to start on the third dock and there are a few thinks I have to think over before starting on it.
Speaking of wolves, did I tell you folks we heard a wolf shortly after Christmas 2012? For a few years now, they keep on coming back from Russia and Poland. The population is growing steadily, but slowly.
"Just when you thought it was safe again to go hiking in the woods - Timber Wolf 2 - the new movie"!
Have a good one!
Burlington Northern #24 Howdy everybody, thank you for the birthday wishes!
Hi Gary,
{I must have missed it even though I read everything, so if it is late, so forgive 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..
Paddy visited the doctor and received disturbing news.
“I’m sorry lad,” the doctor said. “I can’t be certain about the problem. It must be the wee bit'o the drink.”
“That’s ok Doc,” said Paddy. “I’ll come back when you’ve sobered up a wee bit.”
The phone rings and Father O’Reilly answers. An official voice on the other end of the line says:
“Is this Father O’Reilly?”
“It Is.”
“This is the Revenue Service. Will you please help us?”
“I'll try.”
“Do you know a Seamus O’Doul?”
“I do.”
“Does he attend your service?”
“He does.”
“Did he make a large donation to your Church?”
“He will.”
Make it a great day!
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Good morning. It's 69° with 99% humidity and patchy fog. The high will be 90° and cloudy.Morning: Afternoon: Didn't get much sleep last night. The wound vac dressing failed just as I predicted. There were a high number of blockage alerts, low pressure warnings and insufficient seal warnings. I stopped counting at forty-one. Finally at 6:38 I said the heck with it and peeled it off and replaced it with a standard dressing. The bad thing about this is the nurse that put it on has twenty years experience putting on wound vac dressings. I think she needs to take a refresher course.No plans for today. I'll probably play a game or two of Starfleet1 and watch some movies. I'll likely squeeze a nap in somewhere. Tired as I am I don't want to do anything that requires me to be alert.
Afternoon Folks!
Janie, coffee and cake, please! Chocolate cake with walnuts - fine with me, thank you!
Sort of a strange day today. It´s election day, and we are supposed to cast our vote for the European Parliament. Petra and I decided not to vote, as we don´t see any party or person actually representing our interests. We don´t believe in the EU, nor a single European currency, as it has brought economic downfall, impoverishment to millions and misery to Europe. Any past attempt to unify Europe has failed and ended in bloodshed, and we don´t want that to happen again. Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm II. and Hitler failed - Merkel will also fail. We want to be friends and good neighbors, not brothers.
I could go on, there are many more issues, but better to go back to model railroading. Just a lst word on it - I am so glad I am in a position to create my own little world. It keeps me from getting anxious over the way the world is heading.
I cleaned up the layout a little, but that´s all I will do today and, in fac, in the next days. My friend and I will attack the wiring next week, so I can run my locos on the layout!
The next big thing will be either the backdrop or ballasting. Does anyone have a clue how to calculate how much ballast I will need? I have always bought way too much in the past and I don´t want to waste money this time. The ballast I wnt to order is sold by weight. 2.2 lbs cost about $ 15. Would that be enough?
well, having the roof re-coated today.
The kid next door {well, now I am sounding like my grandmother as he is not really a kid..he is 35y/o!} is doing it. He does his frequently enough, and discovered while being up on ours that his is in bad need of repair...again, and ours, by comparison is doing rather well, but the coating is not supposed ot last more than 4-5 years they say-that was from the "professional" who did ours 5 years ago.
I told the kid next door {there I go again} that I'd rather throw the money his/their way than some stranger agian..he said it didn't hurt his feelings any!
Expensive stuff...though...at $66+ per tub! thy used 2 last time, the kid thinks he may need 3 because we are a bigger traielr by 1 BR than his? I can take it back, or maybe I'll give him whatever is left over so he can patch his bare spots! HE's got young children and they are having a harf time of it..and work is cutting hours on him, as is may places with Affrodable CAre Act.. no vinnie....no soapbox here.
well, We are waiting for the pressure washing to dry off now.
will check in later
Urich; I am not sure things are much better over here...
BUT, I have to tell you, MOH and I have a rule: "IFF'EN Yous DON'T VOTE, Yous can't complain about Nuttin' poly-tick-cal til yous next gets out and votes again!"
SO, you have no room to complain now or until the next time you vote!
just sayin'
My 4-4-0 now sports a cowcatcher!
Galaxy - wouldn´t I be accepting a system by voting for it? None of the parties running for European Parliament actually wants to introduce longtime necessary changes to this highly undemocratic and bureaucratic institution, because they earn good money for doing nothing there. I am not going to sanction this.
Ulrich: I won't debate Politics here as it is VERBOTEN!
But, I DID send you A PM!
Well, I can tell by the lack of noise on the roof he must be done...!
I will go seee!
galaxyUlrich: I won't debate Politics here as it is VERBOTEN!
I was just about to say the same!
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.
TMarshWell it’s official I suppose. Brenda has accepted that she is type 2 Diabetic. Or whichever one it is that the pancreas works, just not right. Anyway, she’l be taking some pill it sounds. Me? Well, she decided I needed my blood sugar tested. 99. She wasn’t all that happy about it.
Here's hoping everyone is enjoying their weekend. We didn't get go railfanning yesterday, as the wife had a bridal shower to attend at 11:00 am, and another at 6:00 pm. So that wiped out doing anything else for the most part. The shower in the evening was a lot of fun, as it was for the girl my nephew is to wed next month. They live in South Carolina, so it was great to see them & my 2 great nieces by a previous marriage.
But we did get out for a couple of hours today. Caught 10 trains altogether. 3 were unit tank car trains of denatured alcohol. I don't recall seeing that many in 1 day before. Some nice foriegn power showed. A Kansas City Southern, a BNSF Warbonnet, & 2 Union Pacifics.
Tomorrow I'll put the flag up before we go for breakfast. Then grocery shopping and some errands. The wife want's to go to the Mall to find some new outfits for the weddings. I'm debating with myself if I should stop at the Apple store in the Mall and finally break down & buy an IPhone. I'm having as much trouble making up my mind about the phone as I did with the new camera. Speaking of the new camera, I seem to be having a problem with hitting the shutter a little sooner than I want. Take the KCS above as an example. A fraction longer & I would have had the entire locomotive. I told the wife I need a lot more practice so we should go out a couple of more days this week. That kind of earned a sideways glance and a little shake of the head. So time will tell on that proposal.
While watching a program about Memorial Day this afternoon, I got to thinking about those who served in my family. World War II saw my Dad, & 3 Uncles. Another Uncle was career Army & served in WWII, Korea & Viet Nam. In fact he was wounded in all 3. A Cousin served in the 50s, & 2 other Cousins & myself served in Viet Nam. But our family is really fortunate in that we never lost anyone. Especially when you think of so many families who lost more than 1. My prayer is that those who never returned to the world are resting in peace. Have a nice weekend.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
well,
the roof is re-overcoated. The neighbor kid did a good job. Now he has to re-do his!
Next will come the heat tape, which will be later in the summer once they are available and closer to weather where we can actually "test" it out.
At $25 a 2' panel, the porch is going to need the new ones. The front facing the street {short side} alone needs a buck and a quarter in pannels alone. SO will the back side. SO that is $250 there, and the long side wall will need about 12-14 I think. so another $300 there and then there are supports and screws etc., so figure about $650 plus time to actually DO it. {groan}
That and a new water heater, too! another $800.
And skirting will just have to wait. It is really bad behind the porch which no one sees. It has been screwed to the side of the trailer to keep it somewhat "organized" and "up".
TODD {of TODDLAND OF WHICH YOU ARE KING}:The faucet has 2 basic stops: one is trickle, and the other is ON-FULL-blast. The trickle is needed for the cold when we have to "drip the pipes" as I call it, to keep them from freezing. A constant battle in winters like this last one. So,while common sense would say "adjust the darn thing", it really isn't possible. I know, replace the faucet. I will when I have a plumber handy to plumb, as plumbing, gas, are NOT exactly my "forte". I am not so handy anymore like you!
well, another day has gone by.
An exhausting one for me, even though I did not do the "hard work"! My back had "had it" by noon, by 2 pm I seriously thought about taking my night pill early!! BUt I resisted.
MOH had a looooong discussion wiht the FIL who is now in a panic about "end of life affairs". Hwe really wants to buy a downsized single level house nad wants {guess who??} to move in with him! Really! NOT happening MOH says, and I agree. I's rather go visit/feed him 3 times a day and toilet him then than to be stuck at beck and call 24/7. he is also concerned about transferrance of assets to MOH/us. We have for years BEGGED him to set up a trust initially for MIL should he go first, and then for MOH/us, like my father did for me/us, but FIL thinks a Will is "enough"...he forgets about probate!MOH spent several hours with him, untill I called at dinner time and asked when I should be expecting to have dinner ready? That gave MOH a "bow out excuse" then to leave after, what 5 hours with FIL?
We will set up a trust {when we can} for us two, and with an "incapacity clause" for us.
Have a good night, y'all!
Well if watching movies and playing computer games is keeping busy then I've been busy. I made copies of a few hard to find program disks for the //e. Other than that there was nothing going on today. Kept dinner simple. Beef Rice-A-Roni.I didn't get much sleep last night so I'm calling it a night a bit early. See y'all tomorrow.
morning...
Quotable Quotes:
Never cut what you can untie. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
Good Morning All,
Hope you all have a pleasent Memorial Day, I for one am at w..k. I can be in the shop and still remember those whose sacrifice made it possible for us to be here. Like TC we didn't directly lose any family members in war though one of my cousins died of blood disease he contracted in Laos. All in all we were lucky as campaigns included Nam, Korea, Guadalcanal, and Europe with Patton (uncles and cousins - all I had was a few cruises in the Gulf of Tonkin).
Still buried in catch up jobs with Lime Rock last Friday and Saturday and again this weekend then straight to Indy with 15 cars for the big Vintage meeting and so on for the next month. For now, I really must be going cause I'm late I'm late I'm late. J.R.
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Morning Folks
Flo, Diet Dew Pleases.
Boy yesterday day was a waste at work, 1 Customer all Day!
Ray, don't worry about me hurting my self with the weights. (Famous Last Words) I am not going to get as strong as I was when I was in my 30's. My only real goal is to be able to lift 60 pounds with out turn bet red. Far as curles, I am going to start with 25 pounds (using both arms) for 10 reps and 3 sets. Then I will start adding some reps every few weeks. Just want to get toned up some what.
Todd, sorry to hear Brenda is Type 2. Do you think she is going to change her habits? It is hard to do.
Well, got to get ready for work. This will be my 6th day in a row. Guess I am working by my self today, if it is like the last 3 days won't be a problem.
Ken
Todd .... You said: "Brenda is a type 2 diabetic." Sorry to hear about that. Prayers for her.
Tom ... I like the photo of the KCS engine.
J R ... Thanks for taking time to visit the DIner.
Inch .... Good to see you. Yes, Memorial Day really does have an improtant meeting. I have been to the VIet Nam Memorial in Washington DC, and I can tell you it is emotional to find a friend's name on the wall..... Also, Inch, tell Jerry I miss seeing his posts here. I hope he is okay.
Speaking of stuff like that, I just learned one of my high school class mates passed away. We're not getting younger.
Have a good Memorial Day
Good morning. It's 73° with 93% humidity. The high will be 88° with some clouds.Just waiting on the Home Health nurse to call. Other than that I have no plans for today. I got some good sleep last night so I'm feeling better today.