Heartland Division CB&Q Good evening. I just heard from JohnBoy ... Sorry to say he had very serious complications during the operation on March 11, and he was in the hospital 12 days instead of just 1 day. He is home now, but he has lost much weight and is very weak. Keep him in your prayers.
Good evening.
I just heard from JohnBoy ... Sorry to say he had very serious complications during the operation on March 11, and he was in the hospital 12 days instead of just 1 day. He is home now, but he has lost much weight and is very weak. Keep him in your prayers.
GARRY: that PM we have going to be the only seemingly way we can PM each other? I sent a NEW PART to it...awaiting your reply...
Well, not much but the usual household chores today, not being able to go anywhere is driving me nuts! {pun intended} MY check comes the 4th wednesday of the month, and its today, usually i am out banking...but not today...can't drive yet. SO have to wait til tomorrow to get the banking done that I need to, and deposit it to all the right accounts. The auto-deduct ones will work but, I don't know, oh well,...
Have PT and Pulmonologist tomorrow.SO MOH will be off work to take me. adn do the banking/CUing.
So<what else? not much...awaiting the mail,.should be toys and gifts and presents, oh my!
-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.
Ulrich: You SNEAKY devil!
WHat did you do, call her over and tell her to look at the pretty birdy out the window, then snap a pic?
Good thing she can't read English, but i'll bet she can "read pics"!!
So give the pretty lady a kiss for us!
Galaxy - Petra may not be fluent in English, be she can certainly read and understand quite well. I have to make sure my `puter is off when I leave the room ...
Garry ; I re-PM'd you again, I know, pestering you! LOL.
It is raining, and they claim we have to watch for flooding here now as it will rain for hours, I will take rain over snow, but hope it only raises the river and creeks some, as we cannot afford to have no power with the cold temps returning soon!
later
Ceder: I'm sorry to hear about your horse. Animals have a way of getting really important to a person. My best cow pony was killed by some dogs that people let run lose. Those folks decided to move a couple of months later. Just hang in there.
Ceder: I just saw that Melody has passed on. I'm sorry. She looked beautiful. It's hard to not let a horse become a part of you. It was that way with mine.
Chamomile tea, please.
Thanks, Paul, and everyone else who commented on Melody. She was a sweet little mare and is missed.
***Ulrich, nice pic of your...."glasses", you sly one you.
Long day. Tuckered out.
Healing thoughts for those in need.
Cheers! Rob
Evenin' folks!
Janie, just a cup of decaf for me please...
Been a busy day around here... Only time to sit and relax a bit was when my son came over to get the tr5sailer to haul Girl Scout Cookies.... We sat and chated for a bit and enjoyed a cup of coffee, tyhen headed out to see if we could unbury the trailer. He tried tio chop through the mess and quickkly decided I was right... We would have spent an hour or two just trying to get the trailer out of the snow pile! He decided to clean out his wifes car, remove the kids safety seats, and put the back seat down to transport the cookies. DIL is transporting all the troops cookies for distribution to the girls... He figured they might have to make two trips!
I had a quick meeting withy the district commissioner about a new thing for commissioners called Commissioners Tools.... Supposed to be much simpler than the old ones... Yeah! Right! He was able to get me up to speed on them and how it is supposed to work. We were joined by another commissioer who was also not able to get things to work. Then the three of us headed over to the District Committee meeting. That turned into one of those meeting that just wouldn't end. I did get to move for adjurnment at the end of the meeting.....
I also spent some time moving items out of my living room in anticipation of the contractor getting an estimate for me sop we can get going on the rebuild. The hardest thing will be moving the 20 gallon aquarium... I may see about a temporatry set up for the two scavengers I still have, empty the tank, clean it, and then set it back up in my kitchen for the time being... I dunno?
Galaxy, hope your substation doesn't get flooded and go off line. I would think that with sn*w still on the ground and melting, that would make matters worse with the flooding potential. If your not in the diner tomorrow morning we'll know you are trying to stay warm!
See you all tomorrow!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening Diners,
We had a troubling day with three trash bags of old rioting food flooding in juices in our freezer. It smelled very bad. I'm not going into complete details.
Train News: I found out that Walthers was 20' and 40' containers from Rolland Industrial Limited. I wish I had money to buy containers for stack trains.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Howdy ..
Just got back to the computer after a busy day.
Galaxy ... You were not "pestering" in my opinion.
Ulrich .... I'd like some of the German yummy goodies.
Happy model railroading
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Today's word:
Today's Quote:
Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. -Flannery O'Connor, writer (25 Mar 1925-1964)
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Morning again:
GARRY: I sent you another {final?} PM.
I will be busy today>
Have the Pulmonologist and Pulmonary Function test, and PT of course, for medical Appt.s.
Then have a bunch of things to do today too.
BAnking/CU-ing to do, the post office, etc.
So I shall probably be cranky tonight as I will miss my afternoon nap!
Later
Make it a great day!
Good Morning Diners,
Flo, I'll have my usual extra large cup of coffee with large amounts of cream, please.
It's getting busier lately. going in to work an hour early so I can go downtown to help out at an event in which one of the professional organizations I belong to is invited to participate. At the event I went to the other evening, I did have a debate with one of their chapter officers. It all ended friendly.
Unfortunately, I won't have anything train wise until at least the middle of April, with everything else going on. On my way to work, I cross the old EJ&E tracks. I must confess, even if I'm late for work I hope I get to see a train every time I cross it.
Ulrich: Good to literally see you here in the diner again. My, what a handsome looking couple. I was thinking of teasing you by saying in mock Mafia voice, "how MUCH do you want her to not find out? Fugetaboudit!" But then, it might lose in the translation, and id create an international incident, and governments would get involved, and so on. So, I won't.
gotta get going.
i hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Good Afternoon!
It´s a gray and wet day here in northern Germany. I am just glad Petra and I went for a walk yesterday, while it was still nice.
I spent the morning assembling an office chair for Petra, which finally arrived 3 months after we had ordered it. It´s a long trip from China ...
The chair is actually quite OK, given the price was failry low. It seems to be sturdy, not enough for me, though. I am in a slightly different weight class than Petra. While I was fighting with the non-existent assembly instructions, Petra made a nice chocolate walnut cake, which we will enjoy in a few moments. I´ll bring the leftovers along to this place - promised!
up831 - yup, I am proud of my old gal! The picture is not doing her right - she looks (and acts) much younger than the 58 years she is!
Have a great one!
Ulrich ... Thanks for bringing in some of the chocolate walnut cake. Hopefully, we can keep Barry away until everybody has some of it.
I am getting a lot of honey-do's recently. Company is coming for Easter which means all of the clean house must be cleaned again.
Happy Model Railaroading.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of organic granola with some stevia and a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee for my R&GV RR Mug please.
As Barry would say, it is dull outside. Dark and gloomy with rain and some fleeting sn*w later this afternoon. Current temperature is 41°F with a high around 47°F. I will soon need to venture down cellar to start the siphon for the sump pump. Won't be making much electricity today I guess. Yesterday was pretty good considering there was a lot of cloudiness and rain during the afternoon. Made 13.76kWh. I lack less than 10kWh to have produced 10 Megawatts of electric here at home.
Ulrich, so good to have you back here in the forum! I look forward to a slice of that cake Petra is baking for you...
I have a bunch of errands needing to get done before the weather gets bad this afternoon, so I will sign off for the moment!
Seattle's Intense Dark Roast coffee with a pinch of coal dust in a Apache Railway mug, please.
***UP831, I have started bringing a little vid camera with me when I run into town, in hopes of catching one of the CSX trains. If I see one, I'll chase it down and share the results in here.
***Ulrich, chocolate walnut cake sound terrific.
Chance of thunderstorms today and tonight. Need to run to the PO sometime today and pick up the first Hiawatha passenger car (from the-bay). It's either a coach or express car. Perhaps both will be waiting there. Although the loco is what intrigues me the most, I have considered a mix of passenger cars from different lines, pulled by the Daylight I already have. Would save some money that way to put towards more track and make for a unique passenger train.
Have a great day all.
Rob can I have a cup of that brew ? Double measure of coal dust please.
Havent had much time for anything this week but I have been scanning through the post the last few days. Very Excited to Ulrich back in here - hurray ! -
Major life changing events coming in my life. MOH and I just bought a nice home that needs a little TLC in the foot hills of the upper piedmont of Virginia. We will have a few acres, Mtn views but the best part is that there are two unfinished areas in the basement and MOH is giving me a choice of which I want for a train room !! Guys I gotta a good one this time around - life is so good right now. Well gotta start packing and disassembling the N&W YGW !
Prayers for everyone in need of healing, in difficult life circumstances or just generally having a bad day.
TTYL
YGW
Coffee refill, please.
***YGW, help yourself. There's always plenty here. CONGRATS on the new house, and especially one with a dedicated train room. Way to go!
Picked up the (used) Hiawatha coach car. Looks sharp!
Back to chipping away at farm projects, at a snails pace I might add.
Where did everyone go? I'll have the Dinner Special, please.
The second (used) Hiawatha car (Express) was in the mailbox this evening. Looks very sharp with nice detail.
Well, I'll be in the corner booth for a bit.
Rob. Glad you like the Hiawatha cars. You may be interested that I had rides on the Twin Cities Hiawatha in the late 1950's and early 1960's. By then it was in UP yellow colors with EMD diesel locomotives
Evening Rob and fellow dinners
Flo, I would like a please.
Manager Front. Well it is keeping me hopping even when the store is slow. Big thing right now is doing what Dave, the X manager did not do! He had order over another bedroom suite that was sitting in the conrner for the last two weeks. Bulit it and got it sat up today, took way longer than I had planned but it is done.
At this point I only have 3 sort of big projects at work.
1 Build a missing Bunk Bed, well Dave took it out of the box 2 months ago
2 Build 2 sets of coffee tables and end tables. THey have been there for only a 9 months
3 Finish up clearing out the junk in the Futon Storage Room. That in it self will take a good 3 days.
Train Front It has been a pain in the caboose for the last week! Main line has been pretty much shut down for the last 7 days. Up till today I think I had only made it around twices before something went wrong!
I have found odd track problems, engine problems and rolling stock problems. I did make it around 3 times, then I heard plastic hitting the floor! OK, that might have been a hidden problem car. Picked up the pices and started the train back up. Train ran about 10 mintues, then as I was reading the post here I happened to look up and saw the Erie Bulit A unit take off and left the B unit with the train!
If thing don't start going better CKRR maybe become a Fallen Flag RR.
Want to buy a Rail Road Cheap?
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Janie, just a cup of decaf and a slice of that lovely cake Ulrich got Petra to bake.
Long day of getting odds and ends done. Most for a Region Board Meeting for the NMRA. Things actually are starting to fall into place for the Convention coming up (I hope). Cleaned out more STUFF from the living room. Some I found a place for down cellar. Went grocery shopping and a couple other errands.
Found something is living under the big rock I put in the front yard.... It has been buried under a huge snow drift for most of the winter and now it is uncovered.... Hmmmmm. Just hope it isn't a skunk! Could be a rabbit hole. I'll be watching see what is around.
I now have a flood comming in the basement... Ground is thawing and the usual Spring problem is in full bore. I have been starting the siphon a couple time a day. Probably for the next couple weeks it will be 4 or 5 times a day. Problem is I will be gone all day on Sunday to man the Division Booth at the Batavia Train Show. Oh well... It will just have to run across the floor into the drain in the layout room. As long as the draijn doen't clog and the sump runs it will be fine.
Prayers for all in need!
***Garry, that's cool. The rest of my family lived in Milwaukee, but that was before I was born. I'll have to ask my oldest siblings which trains they road.
***Ken, sorry your trains/track/whatever it is, is not behaving for you. That could frustrate and discourage anyone. Hope you can sort it out.
***Ray, good luck with the spring melt. And the train show!
Good Night. Rob
Today's Quotes:
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. -Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 26 Mar 1941)
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to GO... The great affair is to move." -Robert Louis Stevenson
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” –Dalai Lama
"Travel by yourself, and independence is yours."
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute for experience." -Paulo Coelho
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
oh, goodie! I smell the first SKUNK of the season now!
Good Morning Folks!
Another dull day. I am going to stay inside, as I have no outside business to do.
Petra is really happy with her new chair. It was meant to be a surprise birthday gift, but, alas, it came with a 9 week´s delay. It´s a really good office chair, much better for her than the old dining room chair she used before. She is spending more time at the `puter than me these days , chatting with her friends.
One thing I have on my agenda today is to figure out, how I can stay in business with model railroading. Number one priority is to feed the piggy bank resting on my desk, but I do want to do at least something more active than just drawing plans for layouts which never get built. Maybe I´ll try my hand at scratchbuilding structures again. There are a lot of freebie materials in a household which can be used for that.
Wish I´d hear some good news from Johnboy!
Have a good day!
Rob - Thanks that was one heck of a cup of Joe ! Here have one on me.
Garry - Good morning to you ? Can you slide the box of coccoa puffs over here ? Thanks
Ulrich - I LOVE it that you are back and looking to get back into the hobby !!!!
Gotta run we have a soft opening of teh model tomorrow - lot to do today ! Plus I have to leave early for dental appointment !
[Edited by admin to remove political opinion]
Well, as Ulrich said: boring dreary day with rain/snow for the next week here in the NE as well!
I relly do wish we'd get some nice arm sunny days like those seemingly south of the M-D line are getting, but alas, it seems the NE and NE {North East and New England, same same really} are socked into the cold side fof the jet stream.....
Haven't heard form the FIL, who promises things, then fails to follow through, GRRRRRR....we cannot do what we are to do, until he does what he is to do, then he complains whne we don't do what he wants when he wants.....Of course all MOH adn FIl do is fight with each other,and I have been telling MOH "you are the same as your father" in attitude! So whne you don;'t liek what yuor father does, it is the same as you doing the same. MIL used to say the same thing when she was alive! MOH gets very defensive when I say "you are being like yur father", and MOH protests, but shuts up when I point out MIL said the same thing! MIL held "no contest" over those two while alive, but now without her, all i have to do is say "Mother{IL} said/says/used to say..."
But the FIL DOES expeect us to JUMP and ask how high on the way up when he wants, and it isn't always convenient for MOH with work! Now, I managed soem eyars ago to endear myself to MIL, but both fathers, do not appreciate the Kid-in-laws, My father doesn't care for MOH, and FIl doesn't really care for me. We are all "disappointments" to them. BUT, I pointed out most often EVERY parent is a disappointment to a kid and EVERY kid is a disappointment to parents {in some way}.
Duuno....
so my chores for today are the indoor household variety,, as I cannot go anywhere as cant; drive yet and MOH has work all day, a long monthly meeting{3-4 hours} and a 4 hour client today. SO mOH will be exhausted and tomrroow MOH has to : work the second job, get teh ELantra inspected and a client in the evening. BIG day, somewhere in there we ahve to do some grocery shoppign for a few things. MAYBE I can talk MOH into getting a few things after work at the grocery store tomrroow, after all is for MOH.
well, best get at it...
Cederstrand ***Garry, that's cool. The rest of my family lived in Milwaukee, but that was before I was born. I'll have to ask my oldest siblings which trains they road.
Rob ..... I also had several trips to Milwaukee from Chicago on the North Shore electric line and on the C&NW. ... Trips to the Dells were always on Milwaukee Road.
YGW .... Out of Cocoa Puffs. Sorry. We just made some German style pancakes, and they are good. Would you like some of them?
Ulrich ... I think these German style panacakes are authentic, but you can correct me. The pancake batter is placed in a large round pan with curved-up sides. Then it is baked. ... It makes a huge pancake which is served with powdered surgar and lemons. ..... Yummy!
Also, Ulrich .... It would be a great idea to scratch build a structure. Have fun.
Garry - there are many ways to prepare "German" pancakes. I bet each family has their own recipe. I love the ones Petra makes, nice and thin, more like the French Crepe Suzette. I enjoy the with different kind of fillings, from spicy to sweet. Or I just pour maple syrup over them - yummy!
My eyes still need some training to adjust to the new glasses, but it´s getting better day by day.
YGW - it feels good to be back here, meeting my friends. Those past weeks have benn kind of lonesome, I tell you!
Well, back to coffee and some of that cake Petra made yesterday. What`none left? Barry had it all? How could he?
CUL!