Good Afternoon!
It´s hot & humid again, making me feel dizzy. I won´t be able to get anything accomplished today.
Keg Harbor is history now. I just sold it to someone in southern Germany. He will be picking it up in October. The price I got is OK, the loss is not too big, so there will be some funds available for a small start. If I knew only what to do - sigh!
Have a happy weekend!
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf, please.
Spent almost all day cleaning.... So far I have almost finished the kitchen and have done the bathroom floor. Hope to get most of the office/dinning room area done before the company gets here. I may actually have a chance to run the vacume in the living room. The layout will be an awful mess, but they will not be running trains anyway.... The folks that are coming is my counterpart from a Division of the NMRA in Canada and his wife. He is dropping off some materials for the Convention and the dedicated convention laptop with all the info on it that will be needed for registration and such.
I'm heading to bed... My back is talking back to me real bad right now. Hope I can move tomorrow to finish up some of the (Badly) needed cleaning around here. I should have company come more often. The house wouldn't get quite as bad before I clean it.
Have a great night!
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 80° with 92% humidity and 20% chance of rain. 40% for tomorrow.I take it the photos were well received today.The heat gave me some problems so I had to rush it.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
Here's some photos for the hungry photo appetites out there. The wall with my fathers name.The wall with my name. obviously someone out there is going pipe up that I don't deserve to be on THAT wall. These walls are for the dead AND the living. Prove to me they're not.Here's the POW/MIA wall of which I have no connection whatsoever.Now that that is out of the way here's some more photos.Before I got to these bricks the weather had become too uncomfortable to stay there much longer. Here are some of the bricks. By this time I was unable to read them anymore.There's one in particular that I was looking for. It reads something like 'Elbert and Leigh Wimbery, Vietnam veterans.More photos tomorrow. I must go back when it's cooler to find my parents brick. It's important to me.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer and some salt pills.
My Lights are on, but I am not home. Felt so so when I got up. Played on the computer some then took a nap around 9:30. Ate some scrambled eggs around 11:00 then came out to the garage and played on the computer a little more. Then took another nap. Did my running and by 4:30 PM I was gone, in other words went brain dead! I am not sure if it was because of the heat, low sodium and messed up blood sugar!
All most left the stuff I bought at the store, luicky the cleark got me before I left. Forgot to turn in all my books due back at the libary. Got home and started to run the trains, ran a mixed freight into the back of a slow big coal train at wide open!
Ken
I hate Rust
Ulrich:
I swent you a email under seperate cover!
Enjoy!
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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.
howmus Jeffrey, here is a link to an article and downloadable pdf on the rights of photographers. It also tells the best course of action if you are stopped and told you cannot photograph something: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm Basically, if you are on public property you have the right to photograph anything you want. Period! If a company or the government does not want you to photograph something they would have to somehow block the image of it from public property. I carry a copy of this document in the glove compartment of my car.
Jeffrey, here is a link to an article and downloadable pdf on the rights of photographers. It also tells the best course of action if you are stopped and told you cannot photograph something: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm Basically, if you are on public property you have the right to photograph anything you want. Period! If a company or the government does not want you to photograph something they would have to somehow block the image of it from public property. I carry a copy of this document in the glove compartment of my car.
Went on my photo shoot this afternoon. It was almost too hot out there for me. But I got photos of everything including the POW/MIA monument of which I have no connection to. The photos are uploading at this time. There weren't any problems unless I count the two hayseeds telling what I could and couldn't photograph. I simply told them that if they didn't leave me alone there was going to be ... trouble. The choice was theirs and they made the wise one. Now I'll get some rest and as usual the gun will be just under the pillow.
Morning gang,
I slept in today and I am not feeling well. On top of everything else, I think the harvest time allergies have cut in. I have an eye socket that is really sore, stuffed up head and nose, and extra bad in the throat area.. AH, the golden years................
Chloe bring me a Double Denver and a double Root Beer float. If only I could.
My wife and I are going to an awards banquet tonight (which I won't be able to eat) as I receive my 12 year service award on my second career.
Sure hope all get feeling better, and have as good a day as you can make it. We never stop trying.
No Railroading in the last few days to report on, except I miss it .. I know how Ulrich feels, but he will solve his problem as he always has. Just takes some thought and planning and he is great at both.
Johnboy out.................................now to get ready for work .
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Morn....... Hmmmmm... Ahem! Afternoob folks!
Chloe just a refill for my dark roast coffee. Lunch? Not yet, had a big breakfast this morning.
Ulrich, hang onto those thoughts. Somehow you will find a way to make it happen. I know you will!
Sun is out today so far here in the Finger Lakes. Going to be a hot one they say. Currently 85°F with a high of 92°F later this afternoon. May have some "Isolated" thunderstorms overnight.
Will be spending today cleaning the house! Have a couple quick errands I need to do, but mostly clean house. Guests coming tomorrow for a bit and I don't want to completely gross them out....
Later!
Jeremy - you should go and see a doctor asap!
The hot & humid weather has come back and I feel miserable. Must be the polar bear blood in me. I think I should move to Iceland.
I´ll better stop thinking of an HOn3 layout for the time being. My thoughts don´t lead to anything useful, other than frustration. I don´t have the space to incorporate continuous running and I don´t have the funds to do something proper. Yes, I know, I have been there before, but any attempt to get out of that rut ended in some kind of disaster. Seems as if I am trying to square a circle.
As I am typing this, I keep on looking at that T-12. It´s really a charming little loco, which I would dearly like to see run. Oh, rats!
Hi Guys
Havent been in for a few. Still not feeling great. Jeff, look forward to seeing those pics.
Talk to you guys tonight
Good morning. It's 77° with 92% humidity. The high will be 92°, cloudy with a fair chance of rain. with This morning I'm waiting on my Home Health nurse to call. After she's done her thing I'll head to the Veteran's Plaza in Leesville and set up for my photo shoot. Sure hope the cops don't say anything about shooting in a public park. I'll make sure to take along a copy of 'The Photographers Rights'. It's public property so there shouldn't be a problem. Hope I don't get rained out. If everything goes right I'll have a bunch of photos to add to my albums.
.... and I love your little stories, Todd! They are a day´s highlight!
Just woke up from a midday nap! I am tired today, the nap brought some relief.
Have you folks seen the thread about the "Cliffhanger" layout? What a fantastice modeling job. Unfortunately, the builder seems to have a somewhat strange sense of humor, which does not strike everyone´s (or anybody´s?) liking.
I am up to nothing today - maybe give my HOn3 layout some more thoughts. I am wondering if that concept I used to build those N scale mini-modules could be applied to an HOn3 layout. I don´t like building complex benchwork, but I thoroughly enjoyed building those small and simple modules. In HOn3, they won´t be mini-modules anymore ...
Galaxy - good you found your way back to this place!
Have a happy day!
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.
Happy Friday, and welcome back Galaxy!
We will be going camping this weekend, up in Maine. We haven't done this for a couple of years, so I hope all goes well. It's going to be too hot, and I'm probably going to have to put up a tent I'm unfamiliar with in the dark. But, if all else fails, we will be within a few miles of L.L. Bean, the big Mother Ship store that is open 24 hours a day.
We got an email yesterday from the president of our part of this big company, telling us of the importance of "investing in the business." It sounded like the prelude to bad news. Later, we got the nickel-dime email from some bean counter about eliminating free lunches at noon meetings. I'm hoping this means we will have another voluntary layoff. I'm ready this time, and it will be a going-away present, a severance package when I would otherwise be retiring anyway.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
jeffrey-wimberly cudaken Galaxy Sure glad you found your way back to the dinner! Hope all goes well with your current problems. He can always do what I do. Think positive and look at the bright side. It could be worse. I've been so far down the scale I was in my car at one point. To put it in the local vernacular, it don't get much worse den dat!
cudaken Galaxy Sure glad you found your way back to the dinner! Hope all goes well with your current problems.
He can always do what I do. Think positive and look at the bright side. It could be worse. I've been so far down the scale I was in my car at one point. To put it in the local vernacular, it don't get much worse den dat!
Being Bipolar, with bouts of serious clinical depression, between my willpower, and my mental health therapist and psychiatrist, and medications, I HAVE, indeed, drastically changed my "outlook" and changed to more positive thinking, or at least pretend to, and it can at least "rub off" if i pretend.
I have had problems since childhood, only my mother ignored it and never let me get help for it. My teen years were mostly spent in depression with occasional manic outbursts. My mother didn't want any one to "think there was something wrong with me" and I was simply labled as "hyperactive" when manic. and often told me to "snap out of it" when I was depressed. SHe also denied the fact that I kept telling her I couldn't see the blackboard, sat as close as I could and came out of school with school with headaches every day. She didn't want the "sigma" of me wearing glasses! finally on my own by age 22 when I got so I really couldnt see much clearly beyond my arms length, I went and got glasses on my own! I was suprised at how MUCH I could finally actually see! SHe was shocked when I came home with them one christmas following getting them. I TOLD her "I kept telling you i couldn't see" all my child hood long! She thought since I 'passed the stupid eyetest they give at school" once in like first grade, I wasn't in need of glasses! nad since I could pass the drivers test "good enough" I MUST be able to see.
Why do you think my morning greetings were so bright, colorfull and tried to include positve or inspirational quotes for the day, or the limericks to make one laugh {hopefully}. {I have run out of finding clean limericks, though, and I am sure you all know about the man from Nantucket}.
Being in the hospital psych ward on lockdown suicide watch for attempting and sliting your wrists, or overdosing on meds combined with alcohol is no fun. Last attempt was only 5 years ago. I don't like to talk about it. Obviously. At least I am lucky to have a hospital with a serious psych ward here "in town" and don't have to seek help far away in, say, Syracuse.
I try to keep at least outward appearances on the positive side, as I said, it tends to "rub off" on me,at least bettering my condition. And untill they got a good working med in me, I was on a constant roller coaster of emotions. The problem is after about 4 years I develop a tolerance to a med and it starts to react with my sytem, so they have to go searching for a new one. One thta works, that is. My bipolar anti-depressant script is nearly $1k/month!
The bigger problem now is not so much the depression, but the opposite side of bipolar, I have been on manic tears of late for two and a half years, and not CONstructive ones {such as cleaning}, but DEstructive ones. Though with the car accident, it has dumped me into a depression. We are now searching for a new anti-mania med to help with that part, as I think the depression from the car accident is getting over. Now I have to double watch on the manic tears. I wonder what it costs? I have ben forwarned it can add weight, serious weight, so I have to be real carefull. If I gain too much {i am heavy enough already} i will have to change off it, even if it means going back to plain old less than effective lithium. I took it for one month but combined woith the heavy duty muscle relaxer for the car accident, i slept 20 hours out of the day, and was drowsy for the other 4. So The psychiatrist said to stop taking it while I am on the heavy duty muscle relaxer,and during that one month I gained 14 lbs, and I hardly ate as I had zero appetite, just ate at breakfast lunch and dinner as it was "time to eat', not because I was hungry and I didn't eat much when I did eat!
So hear I sit, all broken hearted, but trying to "put a face on" as I have to see the psychiatrist today!
So today's plan is the Psychiarist, then the insurance agent to get forms, then to my father's for a visit, then home for company in the afternoon, and then dinner alone as MOH's client is a night client tonight,and bed time.
Well, gotta start getting ready to face the day!
[color=red]MAKE it a great day![color]
Hello Everyone,
This is a 4 day weekend, so that makes it a good one. The more days off...under the right circumstances...the better.
So it's been more than a year since I started on these forums and I've given input over 250 times. Until now I haven't shown anything of what I am doing...despite opening a photobucket account many months ago.
My layout is 14 x 19 x 10 in a 'C' shape and takes up my living room, dining room, and kitchen. I model both the Reading and Conrail (I grew up with the Reading and later worked for Conrail). On my railroad the Reading and Conrail are separate but co-exist. An 'alternate reality' of sorts. Time frame covers 1975 to 1984. The layout is eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland in it's visual geography. Generally I don't model specifics...but there are a few features that are strong renditions of places in SE Pennsylvania especially my hometown of Reading. I've chosen to run with DC, both for economics and to show a world of ever changing technology what model railroading was 40 years ago.
http://s1320.photobucket.com/user/Mar
This is just a few images to get started. This is a location on my layout based on the place in Reading Pennsylvania known as 'Spring'.
Well...enough for now. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
howmusThe doc is only about 40 BTW. I mentioned an online friend of mine named Jeffrey and how he lost a lower leg to Charcot (sp), is diabetic, and can't feel anything in his other foot.... The doc threw his head back and said, Oh, I hate to see people come in with charcot! That is absolutely the worst thing for me to have to treat because it is never a good outcome for the patient. He marvelled at how much Jeffrey can do with all his difficulties. He wishes you well, Jeffrey!
Evenin folks!
Janie, I could sure use a nice hot cup of decaf to help me relax tonight..... Thank you Ma'am!
Been a very long and ionteresting day today... Actually a good day I think. Had an appointment with the Podiatrist this morning. Took a plaster cast of my feet to make another pair of lifts for me. I will now have two pair so I don't have to spend so much time moving the ones I have from one set of shoes to another. He also pealed a bit more skin off the callus on my left foot. He told me the callus is from a bone spur I have in that foot and it will continue to return. As we talked he mentioned that yesterday he had to amputate a man's foot and was amazed that an hour later the guy was released from the hospital and on his way home. He said when he first started working the guy would have been in the hospital for at least 3 days... The doc is only about 40 BTW. I mentioned an online friend of mine named Jeffrey and how he lost a lower leg to Charcot (sp), is diabetic, and can't feel anything in his other foot.... The doc threw his head back and said, Oh, I hate to see people come in with charcot! That is absolutely the worst thing for me to have to treat because it is never a good outcome for the patient. He marvelled at how much Jeffrey can do with all his difficulties. He wishes you well, Jeffrey!
After lunch I had my yearly check with the allergist. I forgot to bring the flash drive in the CPAP, so I will take that down next week. I will also be stopping the allergy treatment for the fungus as I have been on it for 3 years and she thinks I should now not the allergy. We will check in 6 months to see if I start getting ear infections again.
Right after that, I went over to the community center for a School Retirees meeting about our health insurance through the school. Thanks to the teachers association and the State Union Rep, they have worked with the district negotiators to get a "Memorandom of understanding" on the insurance offered to us. I might just say there were no disagreements on the issue with any of the parties and it just needed to get wording set down to make it binding among all the parties. When we retired there was a verbal agreement on how much we would pay for insurance (% of cost) with the district. For many, many years one of the perks of working here was that, although we had the lowest salary of any large district around, we would be taken care of in retirement for our insurance. Only problem is that it was never put in any contract... (for instance my sister made over $5,000 a year more just down the road... Her insurance is also with her school policy, but she pays dearly to have it there. Still cheaper than some other options.) Since verbal agreements aren't legally binding, we could have been nailed with many thousands of dollars in back costs since we retired (talking tens of thousands for some people like me) and then have to pay 100% of our insurance if we wanted to keep it with the School. The memorandom basically says they will not make anything retroactive for payments and will keep our percentages as they have been. We will have some choices on some riders on the insurance as options that we would pay for ourselves completely. They are also dropping a Medicare Part F coverage that many (most) of us are on. That will be replaced with the new policy and may change/add a few things we have to pay out of pocket.... We all breathed a sigh of relief and are thankful our district will honor the intentions of many years ago when we worked there.
Came home from that, recharged the car, ate a small supper, and headed to Canandaigua for a Troop/Pack committee meeting. That was a productive meeting and hopefully the year will be off to a good start. That was for the handicapped units.
The best part of the day was late afternoon before the Committee Meeting, I got an email saying that the RIT Train Club had finally beeen able to get us rooms at RIT for the Convention. It will be a month later than we had originally hoped and will be right in the middle of finals for the kids ion the club. But the club will be able to man the layout without too much difficulty during the weekend and so Mortimer Junction Convention is finally on the books!
Hey! Is that Galaxy sitting in the back? Good to you you guy! Do pop in every now and then and let us know how you are doing at the very least. You sound better than the last time you were in. I was worrying about you.... Big Time!
Time to hit the hay! Prayers for all in need,. and some who arn't, or something like that....
Good evening. It's rather nice here. A 20% chance of rain tonight and 40% tomorrow with the high in the low 90's to make it really steamy. It doesn't dampen my enthusiasm for tomorrows photo shoot though.Tried a new peanut butter today. It's a honey roast blend. Good but real sweet and it has quite an aftertaste. Looking at my calendar I see my next doc appointment is on the 8th.Today I watched a few Knight Rider episodes then I watched Godzilla reduce Tokyo to rubble and toothpicks.Tonight my right knee is giving me problems so it looks like I'll have to take my leg off and give my knee a good massage.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Good evening. It's rather nice here. A 20% chance of rain tonight and 40% tomorrow with the high in the low 90's to make it really steamy. It doesn't dampen my enthusiasm for tomorrows photo shoot though.Tried a new peanut butter today. It's a honey roast blend. Good but real sweet and it has quite an aftertaste. Looking at my calendar I see my next doc appointment is on the 8th.Tonight my right knee is giving me problems so it looks like I'll have to take my leg off and give my knee a good massage.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Flo, Pleases. Yes Flo, I am here earlier than I should be.
Work Front. I don't know if it was because the store was so hot, bladder infection or low sodium but at 4:00 PM I was told I looked like I was ready to faint and to go home. I was glad to get out of the store, I felt like caboose!
Galaxy Sure glad you found your way back to the dinner! Hope all goes well with your current problems.
New Layout Idea I did some messuring tonight and the garage is 19 feet wide and 25 feet deep. My 68 Road Runner is 7 foot wide and 17 foot long. My idea is using sort of a folded dog bone with a 12 foot long pop up roll out section by the garage door. I will post some rough drawings in a few days.
See you all later
Evening all. Currently watching that show abouit the Alaska Railroad on Animal planet?
Tomorrow is 8-3 tomorrow working, and hopefully there was an error in the counting of the money at the store, or else I gotta pay 15 dollars that disappeared from my draw between being counted and etc. Well anyway, after work, enjoyable work on the model railroad club I belong to. Well, enjoy the night all..oh, does anyone in here run steam programs on their modern layouts?
(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).
Evening, Diners.76f and clouds. Got smucked pretty good the last 2 days with t-stroms, power outages,etc.
Garry: Happy b-day and other assorted milestones.
Keith: welcome back!
YGW: Congrats!
Ray: Love the bridge!
Ulrich: I hope you can figure out some sort of compromise for a layout.It'll all work out. I hope!
Thanks to those who commented on the video.
Packers play tonight. Yay!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Tomorrow I have plans to pack up my camera and tripod and go The Veterans Plaza in town and photograph every wall and monument on the site. The names listed there are of US veterans, living or dead from or living in Vernon Parish. My name is among them. My parents names are listed there as well. My family and I, along with many others contributed funds to have the park built. It's located in downtown Leesville. It's free and is open to the public.
galaxyJeffrey:I see Jeffrey had his gall bladder out, good riddance I say! It took them 5 years to decide mine had to come out, and I paid a dear price in sickness and agony for those 5 years. I was told to "stay away from fats"" after ward as the bile isn't any longer there to digest it and break it down, but trial and error will help you adjust your diet like you are doing. I am lactose intolerant and since everything seems to have dairy products of one kind or another, It can be hard to tell if it is a no-no to eat what for which reason. I am surprised he put staples in, i had regular stitches for the 3 1" incisions I had to take it out. I still see your medical history is still no bed of roses. I understand about all but loosing external body parts. Of corse, right after I was released fromt he surgery, when i was out driving out soon after, I went blind going HypOglycemic and had to pull over beg an unknown neighbor to call 911 for me, he thought I was a lunatic! They told me as they raised my sugar adn my sight came back "it will go away". HAH! that was some 20 years ago! I am STILL HYPOglycemic, and they say that puts me into a spot to turn diabetic any time.
thought I'd pop my head in and say hi.
I have had lots of things to attend to. Matters of the car accident {got rear ended}, and Things are still not completed over the car accident.
Then there are the other medical things between MOH and I. MOH has the pagets disease, apparently it only is atgtacking the right hip, and chances of it spreading are less. Most likely its either always been there and waited till aging to "come out" and make its dreaded appearance known, or developed slowly over time.
I have calcific tendonitis in boht shoulders, in short I have calcium deposits,rather large ones, in the tendons of the shoulders. It hurts like hocky sticks, limits range and motion, and to "fix" can be as simple as "needling and lavage" to full on open rotator cuff surgery! {which I may have to go away to get done}. I see the ortopedic surgeon the 23rd and he will determine if MRI is needed, I think it should as it will give better Ideas of what exactly is there{and I HATE MRIs as I get claustrophobic in an elevator, and the "open one is STIlL to close fro my comfort-only the sides are open, its like two pancakes on top eacah other. According to all I have read the "painful period" should only last 1-2 months, HAH! the rt shoulder has hurt for over a year, and the left for over 6 months! Just every time I was at my Doctor, we either never talked about it as I was there for other reasons, or he suggested switching hands with the cane, which obviously did not help! I'll bet he was surprised to find out what was really wrong!
Jeffrey:I see Jeffrey had his gall bladder out, good riddance I say! It took them 5 years to decide mine had to come out, and I paid a dear price in sickness and agony for those 5 years. I was told to "stay away from fats"" after ward as the bile isn't any longer there to digest it and break it down, but trial and error will help you adjust your diet like you are doing. I am lactose intolerant and since everything seems to have dairy products of one kind or another, It can be hard to tell if it is a no-no to eat what for which reason. I am surprised he put staples in, i had regular stitches for the 3 1" incisions I had to take it out. I still see your medical history is still no bed of roses. I understand about all but loosing external body parts. Of corse, right after I was released fromt he surgery, when i was out driving out soon after, I went blind going HypOglycemic and had to pull over beg an unknown neighbor to call 911 for me, he thought I was a lunatic! They told me as they raised my sugar adn my sight came back "it will go away". HAH! that was some 20 years ago! I am STILL HYPOglycemic, and they say that puts me into a spot to turn diabetic any time.
Ulrich:Don't feel disheartened. I had/have my 3.5' x 5.1' HO layout I wanted to expand to 4.2x6.5',but there really is NO ROOM in that room for it. If the furnace did not intrude into that room, MAYBE I could have. And It gets used to store everthing we don't know what to do with. I had it nice and cleaned up, one wall all for storage, all else in the closet,and it was neat and tidy when I built the layout, then it got filled with cast-offs, the old dehumidifier, the extra toilet tissues large packages, paper towel large packages, cat little large containers, tool storage cabinet and other stuff so much it is hard to even walk in the door now! One of these days I have to get to the closet and clean it out, as most in it is my old stuff and since I haven't seen it since, oh, about 2005, I don't even have a clue what I have saved in there! I am pretty sure, then, that most can go out as garbage. age is a cruel master and it is too bad You can't go "z". I would love to do "z" and have it in an "underbed plastic storage container"! but I am still able to function with "z" so I think I could handle the project! I just might have trouble getting the cars on ther tiny track still. I haven't touched or bought any tain stuff in, golly 3 years now, and i am amazed at all the stuff I have accumulated! MORE than I could use on a 5x20' layout! i am seriously tying to decide to bone up and get "packages' togetheer, get a new digital camera and set up ebay account to sell off some/lots/all of my stuff.
HOBBY: You know after getting into the trains {a hobby which MOH DID share in N scale, but wants only european locos that cost $500 imported}, afteer a while, I said "NO MORE HOBBIES", then there came the kilt obsession, and celtic heritage {MOH is welsh} hunt-downs. I now own a purple/blue/black kilt tartan called "Pride of Scotland" and a red/green tartan kilt called "celtic heritage"{red is my favortie color, but man that purple is great too}. I have the dress shirt and vest and sporan to go "formal" with either, or the "swashbuckler" shirt and sporan {which I HATE wearing} for the "casual look". ONLY it doesn't stop there!!! I had to have kilt pins, too, I forgot to mention those, and I have my family tartan in green and red/blue for scarfs for winter, and OF COURSE I HAVE TO get the Red/blue clan tartan kilt NeXT year! Fortuantely we found the heritage crests for MOH's historical Welsh family and my family crest and had a blended double herald banner made with our first marriage date and the renew of vows date enblazoned between the two. Then there came two charts of the heralds explanations too, all 8 1/2x11. MOH wants to find more welsh heritage too, {but FIL stopped searching when he got to the welsh individual who left for america, and did not search into the welsh history which MOH would like to know more about} and apparently has some Irish too, {as Do I as well}. This has all turned out to be a "hobby" too! Whatever will be next?
Since I am fairly "out of practice" with the trains, I feel as if I no longer belong here. I know the dienr is not all about trains only, but I do feel I shouldn't belong,a dn I as sure there are quite a few who would be just as glad I left.
well, this has been different. I may periodically stop in, but don't on regular morning openings and "intersting tidbits" so much any more.
later, dinner is late, don't know what yet, probably heat N Eat as yesterday I got my quarterly spinal nerve injections! I made the mistake of going ot the grocery store this morning and filling a basket, "carry out" is nice, but MOH had already left for work by the time I got home, so only me to "carry in"! Heat N Eat means I am not so long on my feet cooking. Frozen bag of dinner. Spent a whole $170 I could not believe it! I stopped counting at $100 as that gave me a coupon for extra $0.40 off gas i coudl use, but did not realize I had gone $70 over! Now have $0.72 off a gallon gas, up to 20 gallons at the sunoco. last filllup on coupon was a lot off so I paid just about $2.00/gallon for 17 gallons, not bad!