Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please and I will pick up the tab for Berry!
Work was nothing speical, had a few sales.
Was Pain Free Today Finaly So I got a much need workout in. Went lite on the weights, it had been a month. I hope I get back into the habit.
Diet Fell of the wagon last night. Had way to many and my wife left a bag of Patatio Chips in plain view, luckly the where very few in the bag. Blew my diet by 20 carbs! Goal is 35 carbs a day, so far my avg this week is 38.0 so I am still in range.
Sparkie The Rocket Dog Seems to be feeling a little better, he is not peeing as much as he was. Guess the antibotic are helping him.
New B&O GP 30 is still breaking in and it seems to be a good one. Monon F7 B unit cooked a decoder, need to test how many amps the motor is pulling before I try a new decoder.
See you all later, Ken
I hate Rust
Barry ..... I've been worried about what may have happened to you with your long absense. Praying for a full recovery from all of that bad stuff.
I have not heard from JimCG for quite a while, but just got an email sent from his I-phone. He is in the hospital with pancreatitis. He hopes to be released Monday.
Hope everybody else is okay.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
-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.
Lunchtime in Germany - and I am not hungry at all!
My eyes are watery, my brain is fogged up, my noise ist stuffed amd my throat is sore - what could that be? Today is a dy of zero activity, even watching the idiot box is out of question. All channels have commemorative reports on Nov. 9th, 1989 - the day the Berlin Wall came down. The world has changed a lot since that date, but I am afraid not to the better.
Barry - good to hear from you! We was worried, y´know, and as it seems, those worries were justified. for further improvement.
It´s back to the couch now - trying to nap for a while!
Make it a happy day!
Mornin, and large irish coffee Janie, at 28 it cold out. Sunny with a high round 50 n a light breeze. Tomorrow, sunny high 57, clouds moving in late.
Had to spend $70 yesterday on a new main breaker. It’d gotten weak and kept tripping off. We’d been having electrical problems for a few days. New one fixed it. Now if to get electric company down here to fix their connections, so the light quit flickering when the wind blows
BARRY,,, good to hear your still us, hope you continue to improve.
GARRY,,, if you talk to JIM tell’m we be praying for him.
Had an empty ribbon rail train come trough yesterday and a train of empty gondolas headed back east. They’d headed west last Wed loaded with pipe. I really need to got camera out n spend a day or rail fanning. And that pair of CSX engines still sittin at Little Johns rumbling.
Could I get an irish at-go Janie, I best at get on at chores. Thoughts n praers for those in need, hope ya’ll has a gooden
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Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Funny thing happened this morning. I was getting ready to leave the dining hall and I packing up my condiments [Tabasco Chipotle sauce and Heinz Tabasco ketchup] when a guy at another table said I couldn't take them, I had to leave them at the table. I turned to him and said they were my property and I can do with them as I see fit, besides he wasn't big enough to make me leave them and I told him so. Some day I should get a shirt that has a picture of of frog on it and the words 'landing zone'.
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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 Nothing spectacular to report here. Same old same old.
Hu-choo! Cough! Sneeze! Sniffle!
Do I feel awful! Got a slight fever, too! Whenever my heart is giving me issues - that´s no big deal, but whenever I have a cold, I am really ill. I guess I will sleep on the sofa tonight, so Petra can get a good sleep.
CU tomorrow!
Italian roast coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Have been missing my trains lately. The layout sits in the downstairs trainroom collecting dust. Haven't had time yet to start building the additional table sections to expand it. Oh well, eventually! I do have some in a cabinet upstairs by the dining room table so at least I see a few of them daily.
Hope everyone is doing well these days.
Cheers! Rob
Very good to see you Barry.
Come visit the three railers.
Glad they got you wired up for the rebound.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Football news; Ravens 21 Titans 7, Jets 20 Steelers 13, Alabama 20 LSU 13, 49r's 27 Saints 24.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I'll have the stuffed peppers and a garden salad with blue cheese dressing. What? Oh the crumbly with Italian dressing. Could use a cup of decaf to go along with that.
Batavia Train Show was good today. Talked to several people about the NMRA. A bunch took 6 month emebership applications with them. Also came hopme with a couple Refrigerated Milk cars of the right time period to use on my layout. They are used and will need some minor work but in good shape. Now I was 72 miles away from home at the show, and part way through the afternoon I hear someone yell "Hey Mr Howard!" What are uyou doing here. One of my stifents from way back when who went to school with my youngest son. He was also a Boy Scout and at one time lived right across the street from me. Says he is still living in Geneva. Had his young daughter with him to check out the trains for the day!
Barry, Good to see you sir! Sorry to hear of your health problems, but glad to see you are recovering! I had been wondering about what had become of you. Don't be a stranger in here...
I see my dinner is arriving, so I will catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Howdy .... The following is from an email just received from JimCG via his I-Phone ..
KRM Very good to see you Barry. Come visit the three railers. Glad they got you wired up for the rebound.
Kev .... Good to see you. Any of you 3 railers is welcome here anytime
I had a long post about ready to go and AOL blanked out on me. GRRR What a way to start a day, a Monday no less! So much for positive thinking!
Quotable Quotes:
Words are not created by academics in universities and suchlike, rather it is the man in the street who does so. Dictionary compilers almost always recognise them too late and embalm them in alphabetical order, in many cases when they have lost their original meaning. -Gabriel García Márquez, novelist and journalist, Nobel laureate (1927-2014)
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. -Henry van ***, poet (1852-1933)
Morning. Well I've got a doctors appointment this morning (check up only), and then nothing else really. Oh yeah, 23 years ago today, I made an appearance on this earth.
(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).
- Jimmy!
Still feeling miserable, no sleep at all last night. If you want to find me, just follow the trail of used paper hankies!
Heartland Division CB&Q Howdy .... The following is from an email just received from JimCG via his I-Phone .. Thank you Garry - and all the Diners - for that! I appreciate all of you. I forgot whether or not I'd told you, but the doctor told me I'd be discharged tomorrow afternoon. ………. Anyway, thank you for posting for me, & thank all the Diners for me. Blessings, Jim In Cape G.
I got the same email from him...hope he comes home today!!
Good Morniong
Oh beep...oh well...first missplilled werd of the day...typpoing tooo fast...
It is sunny out here and we are going up to 54F later on. Today I have to go to thw doctors for yet another appointment...le sigh
More tests are getting done...aaaarrrraaaagggh!!!!
Later on tonight i'll be closeted in mmy studio...beiing a studio hermit is rough work.
for all in need...
That post nasal drip is killing me! Our neighbors will think we have got a dog, but it´s only me, barking like a dog. I am not looking forward to the coming night.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes, real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple sausage links, and lots and lots of dark roast coffee this morning.
Been here at the computer for an hour already sending threatening emails to people... Well not really threatening, but more, "Get your butt in motion we are 6 months behind on advertising for the Convention and I can't do anything more until you get your job done!" kind of emails... Actually. that one will get sent this evening if I haven't gotten a message from the guy by then. I have been sending the, we need to finish this, need someone to do such and such, and times awasting emails out to several of the key people working the Convention next May.
I have a doctors appointment this afternoon. Just my regular 6 month checkup. Hoping and praying everything came back good on the blood tests a week ago. My blood presure has been good at all the other doctors appointments I have had, so I figure it will be up 20 points on both high and low for this one. Sun is trying to shine this morning for a change. Need a 150 kWh of electric more this year for the total to match the first year output. Could get a few kWh more than that. Would be nice.
Barry, hope your doctors appt. and the tests go well and your health is improving! Keeping you in my prayers, my friend. I would much rather hide in the train room than in the studio... Of course music was my profession, not my hobby.... I did love being a musician over the 48 years I was one of those. I read an article the other day about why music sounds like crap to people (particularly musicians) who have a serious hearing loss and have the "best" hearing aids. The hearing aids severely compress the sound enabling speech to be understood, but that same thing creates just plain noise when aplied to the already compressed recorded music... For me even live acoustic music doesn't sound good anymore. Makes me sad!
I'll catch you all later!
Physical therapy this morning. One of the therapists had me standing between the parallel bars. Two and a half minutes this time. She said I needed to work on my balance so I stood straight, held onto one of the bars with my left hand and slapped her right shoulder with my right hand then did the same with the left hand.
WHOA ! That thing is HUGE ! The front tire looks as big as the cab of the truck ! Yopu know the N&W on the side sure makes that a purdy machine ! Thanks.
Cuda - glad Sprky the rocket dog is feeling better. How did he come by that name ?
Rob - Does coffee taste any better in the UP mug ? My Washington Redskin mug is tatsing knda flat with the way they have been playing or not playing I should say !
Ulrich - There is a product here in the states that is called cold-eze. One of the ingriedants that helps folks overcome flues/colds is the zinc in the lozenges. Do you have a product like that there ?
Jimmy - and here is a and may it not on your special day !
Garry - Three railers ? LOL, that made me laugh. Never heard that before ! So if they are three railers I guess I am a two railer with a piece of track missing ?
Jeff - - thats right dont you let no one mess with your condiments ! Man what is going on there, did they let the looney bin folks in too ?
for Jim CG, Ulrich , Barry, Jeff, Galaxys computer service and all with aches and pains and special needs.
Rail road front - starting the intial phase of the redesign tonight for the future YGW - N&W.
Home front - Kids had a bad weekend on the stairs. One is going to sawbones today. Think she may have torn a ligament or fractured a bone. The youngest did something to her knee black and blue with a knot on the inside her saw bones appointment is tomorrow. Just about everyone in the house in limping or hobbled.
Gotta run. TTYL
YGW
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yougottawantaJeff - - thats right dont you let no one mess with your condiments ! Man what is going on there, did they let the looney bin folks in too ?
Well hey all. Today'S Been good. I got a clean bill of health, and actually lost 5lbs. i had a dinner of my favorite pizza place and a piece of icecream cake. I am going hobby shop shopping tomorrow, I got some money, and I have been wanting some models.
Ihope everyone is doing well today.
Jimmy, congrats on the clean bill of health. I went to the doc today for my 6 month recheck also. I got a clean bill of health as well! My weight is down 2 lbs. The doc calls it the continuing saga of the weight. Colesteral was up a few points but still only 140, A1C was again 5.8 and the balance was right where it should be. All other blood work, kidney function, etc was excellent. He did see the red band on my left wrist. Checked it out and asked me how it happened. Told him I must have an allergy to leather or something in the leather used on watch bands and that it had happened back about 15 years ago as well. He nodded his head and said he usually sees the same thing with a reaction from the metals sometimes used in the metal bands. A nurse at church told me the same thing. He wanted to know what I was treating it with and I told the cortizone stuff I use for psoriasis. Nodded his head and said yep! That is what you should use... Blood pressure was 160 over 90 when the nurse took it....! After the doc told me about the blood work, he grabbed the cuff and took it again. 140 over 80... he shrugged and wrote it down. Didn't seem at all concerned.
Been doing some odds and ends for the rest of the day. Went grocery shopping late this afternoon. I may even do a bit of stuff down in the train rooms tonight. Currently 50°F outside so too warm to light the wood stove. I am melting candle wax in a double boiler on the stove. Making some more fire starters for the stove. Should be able to have supper and work on that project at the same time. Supper tonight will be the last of the Stuffed Peppers I made a few days ago.
Catch you all later!
Not a problem Garry, I saw a post from V8 Vega on CTT that Barry was back and he has always been active on that one and another 3 rail forum I visit so I was excited to know he is doing better.
3 rails or 2 don't matter to me. I just run what I brung. I was raised on the old Lionel and they were on the shelf and boxed up for 30+ years. My bet is if Dad was into 2 rails I would be running them. The fun of the trains remains the same.
Take care.
Well:
Ray: in some countries they actually use pidgeon poop {for lack of better term printable here} to "tan" the hides! could be any number of things in/used/treatment/ of the leatehr if you had a leather band. I am personally one fo those your Dr. talked about...to start off with i am ALLERGIC TO GOLD. That';s right! allergic to GOLD. If I am in continuous or near continuous contact, It wILL BURN my skin! ALL GOLDSm the shiny gold colored, the silver colored "white gold" gold, the pinky "red gold"...all gold. Natrually, since it is relatively considered "neutral", I react to other cheap metals used for watches as well. I can USE a cheap watch, but it is the METALS in it I react to, turn green from, and my skin WILL EAT AWAY The metal!Even the "Stainless steel" one I wear now is reacting, though less than the "cheap pot metals" used on cheap watches{and some Stainless is of differing "stainless types }... AND worst of all is tha Iam a "fanatical watch wearer"...I wear my watch ALL THE time, except if I get wet...Only the shower gets it off me! I don't swim any more, or it woudl get it off me too. I even sleep in it! THE ONLY ONE I CAN WEAR {oops caps} is silver nad sterling silver, don't ask me why?
GOLD_ well, MOH would NOT believe me when I said I was Allergic to gold, and since i wore an earing anyway {a hoop, don't anymore}, MOH wanted us to wear matching gold/diamond studs for us to wear {our carved rings even match!}. I said I wouldn't be able too, it'd take about 2 weeks, but it'd burn my skin. We got White gold ones, and sure enough, two weeks to the day later I went to lay down for bed that night and the contact with the pillow set it off finally, and I screamed "get it out, get it OUT" as it was on FIRE! WHen MOH pulled it out the hole was all blistered and red! I said I TOLD YOU SO!
Jeffery:NO abusing the help!!! The nurses are for ogling, not slapping!
~well, I did some "extra" Xmas shopping, got/found some things MOH wanted, so they become Xmas Presents. I would have bought them any way, but now they become presents. One, an electric blanky, I MIGHT have to give early with the COLD weather on its way! two months is a long time to "keep MOH freezing" while waiting.
~ that and chores here was aobut the extent of my day.
~ Dinner was Chix parm. for me and parmasean encrusted/cheddar topped chix for MOH who doesn't like parm.
~ well, about time for bed, though I haven't been so ready for bed lately and have trouble sleeping...
l see yous tomorrow!