Afternoon guys
A sunny but very cool day out today. I did a couple loads of laundry this morning and seperated some of my new strat sets. Not much planned this afternoon aside from watching the packers game. I am going to my parents later on for dinner, dont know what they are having though.
Well off to the sofa to watch some football
WARNING-WARNING !!!
NEVER GO TO A DOCTOR WHOS OFFICE PLANTS HAVE DIED .
Phil
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
Jeff said:
"For me adversity is simply another word for stop. I'm not stopping. I,ll get past this adversity. I'll go over it, under it, around it or through it."
For that spirit, you are my hero!
There were times recently, when I was really in the doldrums, for health and all other reasons you folks know quite well. In those times, my thoughts often wandered to you, Jeff, and what a load you have to carry - made my own woes look so small.
I know they won´t get you! Carry on!
HI Dennis;
Congrats on owning an island!
My father owns a whole pennisula!
I own neither!
Now will you dock you yahct htere. too?
Is it a "summer use only" island or in the tropics?
Is there an MR space underneather/beside it?
-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.
jeffrey-wimberlyHad an excellent lunch today. Barbeque pork chops' navy beans salad, bisquets. Dinner is still a mystery.
I had to check the time-tag on your post to tell if "Dinner is still a mystery" meant that they hadn't told you what was on the menu yet, or you couldn't figure out what was on your plate when it showed up. Hospital food can be like that.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
For me adversity is simply another word for stop. I'm not stopping. I,ll get past this adversity. I'll go over it, under it, around it or through it.
Jeffrey Wimberly, 10-18-2014
Here are some quotes to get you going:
Confucius say:
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Good Morning!
It really feels good to be back in business with a) my train set and b) the Internet. Being off-line for two days was some experience. It showed me how much we depend on the Internet in our every day life and how much we got used to it. While I enjoyed the extra "free" time, Petra felt quite uneasy not being able to communicate with her friends.
I had to clear the dining table yesterday, so my train is now resting in its box - but only until after lunch. My friend Lothar will drop by this afternoon for some train talk. This morning, I will do some more detailing of my layout plans.
Ken - what Nancy said was certainly not really motivating, if not rude, but she is right. Men tend to carry their weight up front, i.e. the beer belly, but when they start to reduce, the weight loss takes place on the behind ... Guess how I now that! I am also trying to get my weight down, just by reducing my daily fare a touch. It´s a slow process and sometimes there is no progress at all, but I have been told that a slow reduction is better than a quick one. Your body gets used to a lower food intake and the risk of raising it again is lower than with a more radical diet.
Jeff - I am glad to hear your spirit is up and that you seem to be on the mend! Continuing for your improvement!
Have a great Sunday!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please.
Worked In The St Charles Store Today. Nancy (Owers Wife) just does not think about what she is saying! I have stated here before I am losing weight, in the last 3 months I have lost 15 pounds. Now, with as large as I am, that is a drop in the bucket. It is like taking the car battery out of your car and saying it weights less!
Nancy asked me how I was doing today and I told her "I have lost 15 pounds so far". (She knows I am lossing weight) What did she say? "You don't look like you lost any weight!" Gee Thanks Nancy! OK, I don't look a lot slimer, but she sure could have say something driffernt. Puts her mouth in gear before her brain.
Funny With Tickets Nancy Writes! On three tickets today all she wrote was "Mattress, White Headboard and Cover ". Makes for a fun day when I have to correct her tickets!
Late, Ken
I hate Rust
Hi.....
Most of you know that I bought a house about 2 months ago.......I finished the moving three weeks ago........
..............hehe Now I own an Island.....
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
jeffrey-wimberly Mystery meal turned out to be mystery.meat on a bun with beans.
Mystery meal turned out to be mystery.meat on a bun with beans.
Ooooooooo.... Sloppy Seymores! (He's Joe's cousin...)
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Long day on train! Four sold out trips. Little place for those of us working on train to ever get a seat, so I basically stood on my feet from 9:30 AM to 6PM.... The old body isn't used to that anymore. Was a great day though. The questionaire that we gave out to passengers at the end of each trip was coming back with 9 or 10 out of 10 for each catagory, so I would say the passengers had a great time. This was well organized and well done all the way through.
The LA&L had 3 of their century Alcos on the train. I asked the Conductor from the LA&L if he thought they had enough motive power to pull the 4 old passengert cars (3 coaches and 1 baggage). He laughed as told me they decided to add the extra loco due to one grade that might be leaf covered. They were worried about slipping there. They did actually stop the train for a short time on the third trip half way up the track... We all looked at each other and said, "Oh, this is not good!" The car host from the LA&L radioed the conductor to find out what was going on.... there was a stray dog on the tracks! We were shortly back on speed to the Museum.
I will be working train crew again tomorrow at the museum. We are one person short of a full crew at this point. Hopefully someone will show up to be car host in the PC caboose. That is the only place where we can have a non-rules class certified perso0n working crew. That person doesn't need to have radio training and doesn't use one.
Galaxy, Your father is an intelegent man! I only answer about one in 25 calls here. The rest I don't generally want to talk to so I don't! That even includes some family.....
Jeremy, My wife had ALL also....
Supper is about ready. Leftovers.......
Catch you all later!
Mystery meat on a bun!
Well
~went to the cemetery without the FIL. We suggested he stay HOME, where, if he needed anything a LOCAL hospital would be available. He had just been up there anyway as he was confused on what day MIL was interred. She passed on Monday the 14th, the Obit was Wed the 16 and she was burried Fri the 18th of October last year. Simple, to be sure, I dug out the obit and looked. MY FIL had it all wrong. He placed two containers of Mums there, which MOH was not amused with, but it was the thought that counted.
~Stopped by my father's to tell him to call my aunt from my mother's side. SHe was all upset last night as she hadn't gotten a hold of my father in over a month and so called me to be sure he was still amongst the living. I wasn't surprised she called, though the last time she called me was over my mother's funeral over a decade ago. I wasn't surprised she called as she appeared in two different dreams I had the night before last night, punctuated in the middle by a trip to The Little Room at the end of the hall. SInce she appeared, she called. Premonition I call it. I also get visited by my mother, grandmother aunt and great aunt when they are "in form the other side", though they will not telephone, their visit IS their "calling"..
~Got the vows printed up for the wedding MOH will perform Monday. I printed on nice background paper the whole ceremony on 5 pages, added a title page and a signature/guest page for the 10 guests who will attend. It is in sheet protectors and in a loose leaf binder. SImple, but oh so complicated to get it to look the way I wanted on the background paper! I will have MOH review it soas to make sure I got all mistakes corrected and left none.
~Dinner will be leftovers for me as we stoped at Bob Evans in Painted Post. I had the country fried steak breakfast. Scrambled eggs, biscuits with apple butter {hard to find here anymore and younger folks don't know what "apple butter" is}, homefries and coffee. They were BUSY BUSY. TOok 30 mintues to get our breakfasts.
~ well off to eat the rest of the leftovers and wait for Suze Orman to come on CNBC to tell us what we are doing wrong with what little money we have, and what we COULD do IF we had any to do anything with! Maybe at 7Pm they will run their series of shows on how the rich people play....Must be nice to need a 1 car garage for the storing of the REGULAR use cars. Of course, half of them I can't get into and the other half I can't get out of! Trucks, vans, Thats my style.Though a nice well placed Rolls woudln't be bad, they are just not very big cars.
Well, have a Great restfull night
Jeffrey Hope you are rested and out of pain{?} Dinner is a mystery or is it "mystery meat"??
Jeff,
That sounds like, lunch/dinner rolled into one. LOL.
Hoping Your doing well.
Take Care!
Frank
Johnboy - I still have good use for it, as I will still built a HOn3 module. There is tons of inspiration for it in this mag!
Sir Madog Johnboy - a little package has arrived from Canada!
Johnboy - a little package has arrived from Canada!
Boy, to have taken that long it must have been re-routed via Austrailia, Cape Town and Siberia.
Glad it has arrived. Enjoy, even though your plans have changed.
Johnboy out.........for now. On my way to a model railroad show with my Wife and Grandson.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good Evening!
I spent the last two days trying to get my Internet connection up and running again, after it died on us Thursday afternoon. For whatever reason, I got it running a few moments ago - big of relief!
I used much of the computer free time to play with my new train set (I still call it a train set, because that´s what it is. It has to be developed into a layout yet). I enjoyed that very much!
Ken - N scale is standardized, so everything fits together nicely. The only difference there is is couplers- the US has those Kadee-type knuckle couplers, whereas Europe and Japan still use the Rapido-type coupler. I might change to Dapol knuckle couplers, just becaus of the looks. It´s just a plug-in conversion, so converting is no big deal.
The loco is now run in and runs like a jewel - the best performing locoi I ever had!
Continuing for Jeff!
Make it a great weekend!
Jeremy, I love those old sounds, too. Our cable system has a gazillion music stations, but not one of them really concentrates on that era. I get some of what I want on a couple of their jazz stations, but mostly I settle on the Golden Oldies channel which plays that old time rock and roll. I figure that's appropriate when I'm running my Transition Era equipment, and, since I'm usually alone in the train room, no one minds if I sing along.
Happy weekend to all. I did the first pour of Envirotex in the river channel of my liftoff section last night. It's set up pretty well now, but I'll wait until later in the day for the second pour. I'm about to head out to my LHS for more track and rail joiners to finish up the staging yard, LEDs for the control panel and some toggles to shut down the staging tracks and quiet the locomotives.
It's a bit chilly right now, but this could be one of the last really nice days for a bike ride this season, so I hope to get one in.
Morning everyone,
Its cool and somewhat cloudy out today.
Ray: My wife also battled Leukemia back in 2003, she underwent almost 4 years of chemo treatments. Her type was ALL.
One thing I have noticed I enjoy listening too lately is music from the 30's,40's and 50's. We have a digital cable station that is called swingin standrads and thats all it plays. I put it on when Im downstairs working on the railroad or playing my strat games. Its kind of neat when Im playing a baseball season from the 50's and there is music on from the 50s. I was born in 1981 so dont know what living in the 50's was like, but It gives a sense of travelling back in time.
~This month is sure speeding by quickly, already past halfway mark!
~Jeffrey sent you a PM {again}.
~FIL home after scare. We go up to the Nat'l cemetery to visit MIL. Today is the anniversary of when she was buried.We pick up flowers at 8:30 and on the road at 9 for the 1.5 trip up. We will probably stop at a diner along the way for brunch.
~! My aunt called all up in arms over not hearing from my father for over a month. I just was emailing him and he responded day before yesterday, so he is all right, he's just a stubborn old coot like my FIL who won't answer the phone before 10 am, or after 6pm, or if he is not sitting bythe phone. SO even I have trouble getting him. I will see him the 23rd, but he won't: get caller ID so he knows which calls to take; Won't use an answering machine to screen his calls; won't answert unless sitting next to the phone; if he doesn't hear a voice right away, he hangs up; doesn't like the ad naseum phone calls form my brother's creditors looking for him as next of kin; So in short, he can't always be reached by phone! Grr.
~ anyway, best get my day started
Today's quotes:
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
~Anyone who *wants* to help out Jeffrey, Please PM/start conversation with me! He's a tough old coot, but will need some help with things and stuff and stuff and things.
galaxyThere is a show called "A Taste OF History" On RLTV where a chef cooks as they did in the 1700-1800's in a large open fireplace with a side oven, by using "spider pans", dutch ovens, hanging pots wood colas and the like. The AMount of freshly churned butter he uses in cooking would give a heart surgeon today a heart attack himself just watching!
Now a days a "Dutch Oven" has a totaly different meaning.....
cudakenTrain Front I finally gave the new B&O GP 30 a DC test run last night. It sounded OK and moved fine for a few feet, then locked up. Turn the motor flywheel and moved again and locked up. While it was not clicking, my guess is cracked gears. I have a set handy and will install tonight.
I`m not to sure the issue is cracked gears.........one of my P2K GP30`s has a bad motor.......was causing a short above speed step 14 ( out of 128 ).........I took it apart and ran the motor from a 9 volt battery and it started to click and run very eratic .
Evenin' folks!
Janie, a cup of decaf would be great right at the moment...
Muscles are starting to feel a bit better.... Got several sore with all the crawling around under the layout... Today, I did get lights working where the Dairy will be. Had to try a couple different things to get the amount of light I wanted inside the Sales area of the dairy. There will be outside lighting on the front the building as well. I am waiting some supplies to arrive from Micro-Mark to be able install them.
Galaxy, Sorry.... I missinterpreted what you were trying to say. When you typed "... Tripe {the Tongue}...." I thought you were explaining what Tripe is... Of course you know that tripe is very tough and rubbery, and the tongue is very tender. Pickled tongue was one of my favorite snacks when we had it in refrigerator back when I was a kid!
Any of you know what a guitarist and a large pepperoni pizza have in common???
I went to a joining night for the Venture Crew I am Commissioner for tonight. There were several young folks looking at joining. I think they will get 3 new members from the event. They had a lot of activities for them to do. The district membership committee (of which I am a member) and the District Executive are a bit worried about the city I live in for Cub Scouts. They have had several joining activities and only 3 new Cubs have joined..... All 3 are joining packs I am associated with. The large and usually very strong pack has not gotten even one new Tiger Cub so far.
This will be a horrifically busy weekend for me. Saturday is the Rare Milage Fall Foliage trips on the LA&L. I have to be on the road to Lakeville by 7:30AM tomorrow morning. Safety meeting with the LA&L and our volunteers is set for 8:45 and it is over an hour drive from my house to get there. I will be a Car Host on all 4 trips. I am in the car where the snacks are being sold so there will be considerable traffic from the other cars throiugh my car... Will need to vigilant about safety. The trips are sold out, so if you didn't get your tickets, you are outta luck! Sunday is the usual Fall Foliage runs between the two museums. I will be doing my usual Car Host on C-254 all day then. Just two days left of operations at the museums for the season.
Have a great night! I most likely won't make it in until tomorrow night...
Oh! Answer to question above! Neither one can feed a family of four!
Flo, Beer Please
Ulrich While I Am not a fan of Engines from your side of the pound (well maybe the steam ) good looking train set. Is Trix sold in the U S ? Will other track and cars work with it?
Sams Club Went back today and bought some more meat. I then went to Shop and Save and Sams was between .50 to $1.00 cheaper per pound. I am guessing with out doing the math I saved around $3.00. Sams is only 5 miles and Shop And Save is 3 miles so gas is not a real factor. More than likely I will join.
Train Front I finally gave the new B&O GP 30 a DC test run last night. It sounded OK and moved fine for a few feet, then locked up. Turn the motor flywheel and moved again and locked up. While it was not clicking, my guess is cracked gears. I have a set handy and will install tonight.
Vince Send me your address, I will take the hopper. Have no idea why I need it? Just like I don't know why I needed the new GP 30?
Health Front, well the good news is I have lost 5 pounds this month. Bad news is I still feel tired and sleepy all the time. I have not worked out for a week. I am not ready to give up, just need a little more engery.
See you later, Ken