Good morning. It's 74° with 98% humidity. The high will be 90° and cloudy with a fair chance of rain. with Looks like we have a 50/50 chance of getting wet today. I have no plans.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a cup of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast coffee and one of those sticky buns over there for breakfast this morning.
I slept in this morning.... Slept like a rock last night, didn't even roll over in bed until after 4AM and din't get out of bed until 9:30. I do feel more rested, so I guess I needed to sleep a bit. Finally getting caught up on the deep pile of things that had top get done. Now I can turn my attention to all the other past due items on my desk.... There is a nice bright yellow thing up in the sky here in the Finger Lakes this morning! Currently 67°F outside with a predicted high of 72° later this afternoon. I will be mowing lawn today, among other things. Haven't checked the garden in over a week so I probably will be throwing away some vegetables that are beyond the edible stage. LOL
Hope all of you have a great day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Looks like I'm gonna be staying home a few days. When I went to the Veterans Plaza this afternoon the strap on my wound vac got hung up when I slid off the seat of the truck to the ground. It only got hung up for a second. When it came loose the weight of the vac unit jerked the strap hard and I heard and felt something in my neck give. That hurt a lot. I have a doctor appointment in the morning so I'll get it checked then. It's still bugging me now. It's a dull ache though, not sharp.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer pleases.
Work Front Cary and I had two customers today, 1 good and 1 with no money! Want to guess which one I got?
Jeffery I must say you are right about using ATF for oiling motors! My B&O SD 7 and 9 where getting a little loud, it has been a year now since I lasted oiled them. Could not find my Woodland Oil so I bought some ATF on the way home. Good and quite now and seem a little faster! Going to try it on the Rio Grand SD 7 and 9, I think it was the 9 that never got quite?
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
cudaken Jeffery I must say you are right about using ATF for oiling motors! My B&O SD 7 and 9 where getting a little loud, it has been a year now since I lasted oiled them. Could not find my Woodland Oil so I bought some ATF on the way home. Good and quite now and seem a little faster! Yes Going to try it on the Rio Grand SD 7 and 9, I think it was the 9 that never got quite?
Ken: ATF is all I've used as bearing and gear lubricant for my locos. Specifically Dexron/Mercon. Any oil good for use with plastic will work.
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Neck is hurting tonight so I'm calling it a night. See y'all sometime tomorrow.Gotta go see doc Traina in the morning. See if I can get him to find out what's giving me this pain in the neck.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf for me please.
Been a productive day around here. Got the entire lawn mowed. It had grown about 4 inches on average since the last time I mowed it a little over a week ago! I have never mowed lawn this much in late August and September.... Usually it is brown and dry and only has the blossom spikes of weeds sticking up. Not this year. Nice and green and lush. Took just under 3 batteries worth of electric to get it done.. Again normally by now I can mow the whole lawn without changing out a battery at all. I have two batteries for the mower, so one is charging while I am using the other... I also cut some limbs of the trees in the yard that were hanging low making it difficult to mow under them. Some bushes that got cut way back last year when the air conditioner unit was put in had some branches that had died, so I also cut them back while I was at it. I had one large branch that I had trimmed from something last year that was well cured and leaning against the back proch, so I cut that up while I had the little B & D battery powered saw out. Put those in the wood pile. Brought in some zuchini from the garden. I need to bring in the onions and store them. The tops have now died down so they should be done growing. That will give me some more space for a few fall crops (radishes and lettuce likely. Maybe some fall snow peas...).
Probably should place an order for my winter's supply of firewood soon. Maybe later this week....
Even spent some time figuring out the changes I am going to make on the layout. This is a large return loop area. My thoughts have changed and I think I will do less with the mountainside, Stream beds, and such and have one less bridge in favor of a couple more industries off the return loop. Will add more operation events for the layout. Still debating a few items. Did decide to put a short tunnel over the lower track to bring the upper fill where the new bridge is. That will let me continue the curve to meet up with the other end of the track. It will also be one less complex bridge I will need to build....
Jeffrey, is your neck red where you hurt it??? Never mind! I was just starting a bad joke. Hope it feels better tomorrow and the doc says it is alright! You have enough things to deal with.........
Prayers for all in need!
Goo Morning!
Yoohoo! Anybody here? (Looks around and finds the place deserted. Janie and Flo are yawning, while Cousin Vinnie fiddles around with the coffee maker).
Took a day off yesterday to collect my thoughts on the future of my MRRing activities. There is no chance to get the option of continuous running in the premises we live in. We will move - that´s for sure, but the date is still written in the stars. So whatever I will do has to be portable, modular, expandable, should the day come with a little more space available for a layout.
This leaves me witch some kind of a scenicked switching puzzle, in the guise of a station. After sketching up a few ideas and dismissing them again, I looked at what the late Wolfgang Dudler took for a start and adapted it a little. Add a short length of track on both sides and it can be operated.
Nothing fancy, no spectacular scenery - that all has to to came later (after the move). Track will have to be handlaid. The money I get from selling the On30 layout will cover the lumber I need for the modules, and a set of tools from Fast Track to build the turnouts. It´ll be DC again, although I wish I had the financial means to go DCC. No Blackstone C-19, no rolling stock, other than that old combine I bought together with my T-12.
The idea is not yet cast in iron. I am sure the track plan needs to be worked on.
Jeff - how´s your neck? I hope you feel better today!
Flo, Maybe patronage will be up if you offer a free lunch for everybody coming in today - I´ll be picking up the tab!
Have a happy day!
I see not much activity over the weekend? everyone must be busy.
Cool day, lucky to get to low 70s, and with the 80s just the other day, and barely 60 by Saturday, our "Automatic September 20 Degree temerature drop" seems to be coming. Next will be the palor of the ever-present lurking "gray cloud" that settles in over the valley for the winter months, sporadically broken into by a few rays of sunshine now and then.
I already put away the Hawaiian shirts and got out the "regular short sleeve" and a few long long sleeve shirts on the "current use rotation" hook.
with the new manic med I have I have gained a few pounds, the psychiatrist warmed me about, so I will have to shop for a new larger size of casual pants-long legged ones that is. I have one pair of plain blue "stretchy pants" that are the larger size, but they are really "sleep pants' in solid color. I WILL wear them out if I have to, but hate that! They are a size larger to be "comfy" at home in and "roomy" for easy comfort at home, but hey, they fit!. I DO have a nice pair of lightweight linen blend pants I'd really like to wear this time of year as opposed to hte heavy weight casual khaki pants I wear for winter. Unfortunately they are now about 2 sizes to small.
I certainly hope I don't gain much more. I actually even eat less while taking the pill, as I am usually not hungry, just eat "cause it is time to". The weight I gained, though could have also been due to the fact that I was taking the good strong muscle relaxer and the mania med and both together put me into deep sleep so I slept about 23 hours a day! That meant virtually NO excersize, not even house work and chores.
Well, I don't know yet what kind of trouble I will get into today, I have to go to the CU to deposit a re-imbursement medical Check for MOH, to replace the money we already paid out. Maybe go up to the Big and tall store and shop for pants a size or two bigger, so I have "room to grow" IF I do. Then I will have my "fat pants", and my "skinny pants"! Until I started the new med, I was actually successfully losing weight, and went down a size or two, depending on cut this srping while looking for the lightweight spring pants. I also have to find a new Khaki casual light jacket...
well, that will be about the extent of my day today so far.
-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 everyone. I'll have coffee, black.
Had a busy weekend here -- got my re-certification as brakeman on the "club switching layout" (standard gauge RR, 12" to the foot scale). Man, you forget how much effort goes into moving a few covered hoppers around... granted, we didn't have a locomotive running for the task, just one of the trackmobiles. Hopefully we can finish work on our RS3 or one of the SW units, and then get people trained up through the ranks so we can start using them instead (4 fully loaded hoppers was a bit much for the trackmobile).
Today's gonna be another busy one -- have to get working on that half bath after work, so SWMBO stays happy ... still loads of work to do there :( -- finish getting all the old wallpaper glue off the walls, then skimcoat of plaster (plasterboard walls -- step up from plaster and lath, but definitely not drywall), then prime and paint, then new floor, and then finally re-install the fixtures. If all goes to plan, maybe I'll have it done before Halloween.
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Good morning, all! I've been out of touch this weekend. We were camping in Freeport, Maine, and watching our daughter Annie compete in the Lobsterman Triathlon. This is an "intermediate" distance race, longer than the "sprint" triathlons she's done. As she crossed the finish line, she said "That's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life." She didn't do well in the standings, but we talked with her the next day at breakfast and she said her goal was just to finish, so she was actually very happy about it.
The next day, I saw a crowd hanging along the fence by the beach. I went over and they were running another triathlon, for younger athletes. I got there just in time to catch the 5 and 6 year olds. (Nobody in the adult race the day before used training wheels on their bikes.)
Friday night was way too hot for camping, and we slept very poorly. Saturday the rain came along about dinner time and cooled things off, and we slept much better. We only "camp cooked" one dinner because of the weather, but we had a couple of very nice brunches at local places, including some really nice blueberry waffles and strawberry-topped crepes outdoors on Sunday.
Did a bit of bike riding along the Eastern Trail in Maine. I hadn't been on this part of the trail before. Mostly, it follows a natural gas pipeline, straight as an arrow. They are trying to connect it all the way from Kittery on the New Hampshire border to Portland. As you can imagine, it's a challenge to get all the land, but what they've done so far is very pleasant.
My daughter and I have swapped cars for the week. Officially, I own her car because she wasn't old enough when we bought it, so it has to be registered in Massachusetts even though she lives in Maine. That means the annual pilgrimage to get the car inspected, which I'll get done this afternoon. It's a 1999 Toyota Corolla, still a fine and tight little car after 15 years. When I retire, I may swap cars with her, since I won't need to drive very much and this will be enough for me.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
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.
TMarsh wisely said: I never respond to any request through a link in an e-mail. Never have. I go to the site as I normally would and attend to the request (if it is legit) through there.
MisterBeasley TMarsh wisely said: I never respond to any request through a link in an e-mail. Never have. I go to the site as I normally would and attend to the request (if it is legit) through there. These are always "phishing" e-mails, designed to go to spoof sites where people blindly enter their account names and passwords. If you HOVER your mouse pointer over the link (don't click it) you will see the address where it will take you. Very often, it will have ".ru" where you would expect to see ".com" That tells you the site is in Russia, more likely PutinPal than PayPal.
I don´t even open emails from sources I don´t know - I immediately delete them. My communication to the "outside world" is thankfully limited, so I know the people who I can trust.
I did a little more research on the narrow gauge lines in CO and NM, which resulted in a relocation of the planned layout to New Mexiko. The layout, with a few minor adjustments, is now loosely based on the town of Embudo on the "Chili Line" from Antonito to Santa Fe. The station sports a turntable, water and coal facilities, as well as the stock yard. Here ends the list of prototypical elements. The Chili Line was actually the home of my little T-12, where this class was pulling passenger trains until 1938. # 169 is on display in Alamosa since 1941.
I start to like this layout idea.
NeO6874 noted: Point of interest -- saying it is "always" bad is kinda like saying "all teenagers are vandals".
I seldom use the word "always," and I did consider it here. But, I've contacted companies like Bank of America and PayPal about this, and they claim that they never send this kind of e-mail, and never have a link to their site to "verify information."
Afternoon guys,
A beautful day out here today. I am off today so used the nice weather this morning to clean up the lawn and cut my parents grass. I have some laundry to do and thats about it.
Looking at the weather over the next week it looks like things may be on the cooler side, this time of year is my favorite with warm days and cool nights, plus football has started and soon hockey.
Jeff: Great pics of your local monuments.
MisterBeasley NeO6874 noted: Point of interest -- saying it is "always" bad is kinda like saying "all teenagers are vandals". I seldom use the word "always," and I did consider it here. But, I've contacted companies like Bank of America and PayPal about this, and they claim that they never send this kind of e-mail, and never have a link to their site to "verify information."
Mornin'...... Ah (looks at watch)..... Ahem! Afternoon folks!
Chloe just a Dr. Pepper please.
Just got back from picking up my old chain saw at the shop in Penn Yan, NY. Got there just as the guy was crossing the street to go get lunch. I rolled down the window and said, "Lunch time?" He nodded his head, laughed, and pointed to his shop and followed me over. Turns out there was nothing at all wrong with the saw that some fresh gas wouldn't solve..... He did sharpen the chain and charged me $4 to do all that. I would have gotten to the shop 10 minutes earlier except they were "Tar and Feathering" (stone chipping) the road in Bellona, a little dip in the road on Pre-emption Rd. Actually a big dip in the road. If you want some interesting historical readig, look up Pre-emption Road. Some info:
"Robert Morris at the time of this sale and upon the insistence of captain Williamson caused a new survey of the Preemption Line to be made in 1792, a suspicion having arisen that all was not right.
It was found upon completing this survey (1792) that the original 1786 line had deviated from its true course, starting from the 82nd mile stone on the Pennsylvania border and running northward to the shore of Lake Ontario by some 2 miles to the West of where it should have reached the Lake. Whether it was due to direct fraud, faulty instruments or just too much hard liquor, we will probably never be quite certain.
With the original 1786 line of "False Line" running West of Geneva and the "True" or 1792 line to the east of Geneva it left a long narrow strip of land called "The Gore" of some 85,896 acres in between the surveys. This created quite a problem, as much of the land contained therein had already been sold by New York to individuals, thereby causing some confusion in conflicting land titles. The State of New York, however settled with Williamson by giving him other lands at the ratio of 3 or 6 acres for each acre in dispute.
After completing this deal, Robert Morris next contracted to buy from Massachusetts the balance of her original 6,000,000 acres still in hand, amounting to some 3,400,000 acres—in five tracts. The first of these tracts Morris in turn sold out in small parcels and the remaining four to several Americans who held them in trust for certain Holland Capitalists. This sale became known as "The Holland Purchase." "
All kinds of stuff to get done around here today. Later!
Good afternoon. It's 87° with 64% humidity. The high will be 92° with an light chance of rain.Went to see the doc this morning. He says he needs to take a bit of bone out of my foot to get it to close up like they want it to. Surgery is scheduled for Thursday. So this morning I was going from one place to another getting that set up.The problem with my neck isn't a big one. Just somehow pulled a muscle.
Nothing much going on around here today except sit and watch the SN*W fall. Ya, really.
Cheers
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
chochowillie Nothing much going on around here today except sit and watch the SN*W fall. Ya, really. Cheers Dennis
Well, time to pull out the rotaries ...
Evening guys
A nice day here today but you can smell fall in the air. We are just having some chicken and wedges tonight for supper from the hot deli in the supermarket.
I have to be up early tomorrow as I have to go to a forklift training session ( mine is outdated ) a few towns over, it will take about 45 minutes to get there depneding on traffic. The course is only from 8-1 so that is ok.
Calling for a bit of rain in the morning but a nice end to the day tomorrow.
Dennis snorry to hear sn*w is forecast in your parts of Alberta
Jeff- good luck on the upcomig surgery
Mr B- Are you excited for a new hockey season soon?
Good evening all...
Its been sort of a busy day here. Started out this morning by going out for breakfast, which was followed by grocery shopping. The only errand we ran today was to stop at the car wash on the way home. The wife really surprised me when she said she didn't have to go anywhere else. Highly unusual to say the least. So I got started on the laundry. Had a problem with the dryer though. One load went thru its entire cycle, but apparently the igniter failed to light it up, so everythiong was wet. It has happened once or twice before, but like 6 months between episodes like that. If it happens again, I'll get our repair guy to take a look at it. I also had to call the cable company as a couple of channels are having their signals degraded. We did a little trouble shotting which entailed going down to the cellar and disconnecting everything from the splitter, then hooking it all back up. But that didn't do any good, so a technician will be here Wednesday afternoon. The guy on the phone mentioned that my modem needs replaced, so he is sending me one. I have to admit that I have received 2 letters telling me I needed to upgrade, but I just kept putting it off.
All that talk above above little white things in the air reminded me I also need to get some things done on the sn*w blower. It needs a new scraper bar, new augar blade & a tune up. I'm kind of mad at myself, because I wanted to take the darn thing out early this summer, & just forgot. Told the wife it's her fault as I'm sure I told her to remind me about that. But that didn't float, so its back to being my mistake.
We did get in more railfanning on Sunday. Started out by going across the river for CSX. Caught 1 coke train, 1 mixed freight & 1 auto rack. The mixed freight consist was 2 BNSF's.
Then we had lunch, & went to Norfolk Souther. Hit a little snag there. The main line is 3 tracks. Right after we got there, a westbound coal train on track 2 got a stop signal. We then caught an eastbound mixed freight on track 1, which is right in front of us. Unfortunately, 3 more westbounds went by on track 3, but the coal train blocked the view & shot down any photos. The real downer for me is that 1 of them had 9 locomotives. I love those big moves & hated missing getting any photos. Oh well, there's always next time.
Hoping everyone has a good week & stays safe.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Great pics Tom
Things got warm enough this afternoon to put the air on for a bit. Might just relax and watch the baseball game and football game tonight.
Talk to you guys tomorrow morning if I have time to stop in before I leave
Good evening. It's quite warm here. 81 with 62% humidity. At least there's no rain tonight. There's a 20% chance tomorrow.Tomorrow is another day in the world of doctor appointments. Primary doctor this time. Seems like it never ends. I have no idea what he has in mind now.Time to call to a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Eveing Dinners!
Flo, Pleases.
Work Front I was in St Charles today and it was dead. Got a little good news, seemed while I only worked there 2 weeks this month I made draw (Hourly VS Commission) and made a extra $335.00 and that is not counting the Spiff money I have coming. Next check is going to be pretty good even with the hours I missed due to feeling bad.
Workout I felt pretty good today compaired t how I have felt for the last two weeks. So I did lift tonight when I got home. I am going back to the old way I have done it before. I dropped Reps to 10 and added weight in all exercises and still did 4 sets each.
Train Front Still enjoying the heck out of them. Sounds like it is time to lube a few more.
See you all Tuesday, I am off and the wife will be gone!
Ken
Good morning. It's 73° with 100% humidity. Damp by any other name. The high will be 92° with a small chance of thunderstorms. with Have a doctors appointment this morning then the rest of the day is mine. No plans.
Bah. I took my daughter's car in for that inspection. It needs struts and tires. I looked at it myself. One strut is completely broken loose at the top. So, I'm taking the morning off while the car gets fixed. I wouldn't want her driving the car the way it was, anyway.
Beautiful day. Maybe I'll make myself a nice breakfast.
no fun having to fix it -- but at least it'll be safe for her again.
Hopefully today I can finish off getting the wallpaper glue out of the 1/2 bath, and make some headway there.