Italian roast coffee in a Santa Fe mug, please.
The new neighbors horse broke out and then came through my gate in Stump Town (pasture I am still working on) and was just above my driveway. Neighbor doesn't live there (hasn't built a house yet), so I grabbed a lead-line and escorted the stud back up there. All things considered, he was pretty well behaved. None of his animals had any water and none of the gates were secured with proper chains. His fence is also poorly constructed, so I expect this to happen again. There was a horse trailer with divider: ducks in one half, nanny goat with baby in other half, also with no water. Some folks have no business owning animals. I took care of what I saw this time and left a note in his mailbox. I'm going to add an electric charged wire to my own fence, in addition to the barbed-wire I already have up on the outside of the field fence. Cannot have this happening when my own horses eventually are up there in that pasture. OK, rant is over.
Still waiting to see if trainworld has a St. Patrick's Day sale. If they do, I will have some things to order from them.
Have a great day all.
Cheers! Rob
well, i think the cold is on it way out,,, my coughing has pretty much abated, though it can be nasty when it does come on. MOH is coughing less too.
For those who read the poem with interest, here it is set to music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72JMVvF-EYQ
no, i am not drunk as drunk could be.
but I've seen those geranium pots with laces under the bed where my old boots should be....
I WISH we had a sun room to help the heat. We DO have a W facing window in the kit, but not enough heat comes in that low sun in the inter, does a steamy job in the summer. WE do have a porch loosely enclosed with plasric panels. We colse off with heavy mil plastic the "open parts" in the eves in winter. I don't knwo if it save us on heat, but it's better than a wide opening to the outdoors. During summer, it heats up and attracts the wasps when they look for nesting places. We NEED to redo the plastic as a storm came through and made swiss cheese of the panels. I'd like to add a second storm door at the far end of the porch, so we can access the back of it. it gets clogged with stuff we don't know what to do with.Every year we throw out a ton of stuff. It "accumulates".
IF we were on our own land, since we own the trailer, and we on a pad that would nto casue so much heaving/thawing, we'd likely enclose and make it part of the house. It'd be great for added solar heat then, if that W wall would suffice as all glass, but alas, the park'd not give us permission to do so. They don't "like" "attachments" any more, unless it is simple aluminium roof and NO ENcLOSED structures, so we are grandfathered in.Of course, then the A/c can be heavy if the solar gain is too much, hafta put up a solar drape.
I see no reason to put more than we can minimally put into this place as we are working on getting a house, and this place isn't worth it. It goes down in value like a car. We'd be lucky to get 5K or maybe at most 10K if we were lucky. 10 woud be nice, but I don't think we'd get it.
welp, gotta run the dryer is calling my name...
-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.
Aaaargh. Was that a quote from Peanuts, and Snoopy the dog who is now the spokesman (spokesdog?) for an insurance company? Well, I had to deal with that insurance company. When I was working, I had my auto and home policies through them, and like the good boy that I am, I made sure to call and let them know of my change of status. I asked if I could continue the policies and have the premiums taken from my pension checks. They said "Fine. You're all set." So, I was kind of surprised when I opened a letter from them that said my policy would be cancelled for non-payment. It took about 10 minutes to get through to a person, but they confirmed that the premiums should have been taken out from the pension, but the paperwork was still "in process." They said it should be fine, but they extended the expiration date anyway. I must thank the pleasant young lady who handled the problem, but I would nominate whoever set up their "on hold" entertainment for some cruel and unusual punishment.
Rain. I don't think I've seen more than a light sprinkle for the last 3 months. A few degrees colder and it would be, well, you know, that stuff.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Rob, I salute you for taking better care of your neighbors' animals than they do themselves.
MisterBeasley Rob, I salute you for taking better care of your neighbors' animals than they do themselves.
I concur.
Evenin' Folks!
Janie, got any Pi left? 3.14 pieces? Well I'll have a slice of the apple pie and some sharp cheedar cheese to go with it. Oh a cup of hot decaf would go well too.
Rob, my kitties Blackie and Manét and I all concur as well! I have no patience with people who do not properly tend their animals... Comes from being raised on a dairy farm I guess. You didn't get fed until the animals got fed....... Period!
Spent the day at RIT doing the Rules Classes for working train crew at the Museum this summer. Excellent class, good review, and lots of new information as well. We switched to the NORAC rule book. That gives us the same rules and safety information as the big boys.... Of course we don't have to learn nearly as much of it as we would on a "working" railroad. Much of it doesn't apply to what we do at the museum. Our Personal Timetable is also much shorter. The book is very consise and understandable. I also stuck around for the Air Brake and Train Handling class which was later in the afternoon. Wimped out and took the shortened test that is needed by Conductors rather than the full monty for the engineers... I should be about qualified for Brakeman this year. Will probably have to do a number of hours under the watchfull eye of the Conductor to really be qualified. My hearing is all that keeps me from becoming a conductor or engineer. I am qualified in radio use, and do use it as car host/trainman on the caboose, But don't have to be able to hear every word for when I use it there. Conductor and Engineer have to be able to understand it perfectly.
This year they are asking all Volunteers who work out there in any manner to take the mandatory safety training. (Rules part 1) Those of us who are working train crew, trolley, or track cars got Rules Part 2, right after a pizza lunch. Ait Brake and Train handling was right after that.
Water has now begun flowing into my basement.... The sump pump is still working! Hope it stays that way.
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!
Rob, keep an eye on those animals at the new neighbors. If you detect further animal abuse, I suggest you call the Humane Society. It is good of you to look out for them today.
I hope John Boy is okay.
Good night
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Chamomile tea, please.
I appreciate the kind words guys. Have thought tomorrow, if nobody shows up there, I could take a camera with me and photo document what I find.
Have a good night all. Be back for morning coffee.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Heartland Division CB&Q I hope John Boy is okay.
I doubly concur, I think He had a new appt togo about his throat? wonder how it went..I asked a few days ago hefre, but he has yet to answer me/us?
Today's word:[color] limerick PRONUNCIATION: (LIM-uhr-ik) MEANING: noun: A humorous, often risque, verse of three long (A) and two short (B) lines with the rhyme scheme AABBA. ETYMOLOGY: After Limerick, a county in Ireland. The origin of the name of the verse is said to be from the refrain “Will you come up to Limerick?” sung after each set of extemporized verses popular at gatherings. Earliest documented use: 1896. NOTES: Here’s how someone has described a limerick: The limerick packs laughs anatomicalInto space that is quite economical.But the good ones I’ve seenSo seldom are cleanAnd the clean ones are so seldom comical. There once was a boy with some brains, Who always played with his steam trains, He'd play with them all day, While the diesels pined away, As he sang the "choo choo" refrains. {bad I know }{-galaxy} [color=orange]Today's Quote:
The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:
The remaining, unnamed days of the month were identified by counting backwards from the Kalends, Nones, or the Ides. For example, March 3 would be V Nones—5 days before the Nones (the Roman method of counting days was inclusive; in other words, the Nones would be counted as one of the 5 days).
Used in the first Roman calendar as well as in the Julian calendar (established by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C.E.) the confusing system of Kalends, Nones, and Ides continued to be used to varying degrees throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance.
So, the Ides of March is just one of a dozen Ides that occur every month of the year. Kalends, the word from which calendar is derived, is another exotic-sounding term with a mundane meaning. Kalendrium means account book in Latin: Kalend, the first of the month, was in Roman times as it is now, the date on which bills are due.
The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martii or Idus Martiae) is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to 15 March. It was marked by several religious observances and became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. The death of Caesar made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history, as one of the events that marked the transition from thehistorical period known as the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire.[1]
Although March (Martius) was the third month of the Julian calendar, in the oldest Roman calendar it was the first month of the year. The holidays observed by the Romans from the first through the Ides often reflect their origin as new year celebrations.
galaxy Heartland Division CB&Q I hope John Boy is okay. I doubly concur, I think He had a new appt togo about his throat? wonder how it went..I asked a few days ago hefre, but he has yet to answer me/us?
JohnBoy was having surgery to repair his esophagus on March 11 if I remember correctly. It sounded like a procedure which would have him in the hopsital for a while. I just now sent an email to him telling him I hope he is doing okay.
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Still working on taxes times 4. ... Ours, one son, one daughter, and my 95 year old mother.
I think people in their 90's should not have to pay income taxes and do all of the paper work. (End of conversation to avoid digressing into politics. )
Happy Model Railroading, everybody.
galaxy MisterBeasley Rob, I salute you for taking better care of your neighbors' animals than they do themselves. I concur.
Audrey, Spring, Sweetpea, Lady, Mr. Fong, and I totally agree.
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...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
mmmm...how did Garry's geeked thing show up here...mmmmm
Good Morning from a kinda windy London...dull is the keyword here.
Having some friends show up today to do run some trains around and see whether I have beat Nonturning Turnout Syndrome....if not then I will continue with the fix and repair daily routine...le sigh.
Flo, I'll have the 5 Strawberry Rhubarb Piess and I will munch on them and drink my 55 galllon drum of Tim Horton's Dark Roast ...please...
blownout cylinder Flo, I'll have the 5 Strawberry Rhubarb Piess and I will munch on them and drink my 55 galllon drum of Tim Horton's Dark Roast ...please...
Why am I not surprised?
Heartland Division CB&Q blownout cylinder Flo, I'll have the 5 Strawberry Rhubarb Piess and I will munch on them and drink my 55 galllon drum of Tim Horton's Dark Roast ...please... Why am I not surprised?
Coffee so strong you can stand a spoon up in it, with two pinches of coal dust, in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
Question(s): What thickness of plywood do YOU guys use for your benchwork? Is 5/8" heavy enough or overkill? And is a framework made with 1x4" really sufficient to keep it from warping? I'm leaning towards 1x6". Ready to go pick up the first few boards tomorrow, so I can at least get the loop of test track off the floor.
Taking today off, somewhat. Need to screw down a couple tin panels on one of the barns that the wind has been trying to remove. Otherwise, going to run a train or two around the loop downstairs to get my fix.
Will be in the corner booth awhile.
Appears to be lunch time again....
Zoe, I'll have a Tuna Sandwich (I'm a bit low on mercury), french fries, and a pot of dark roast coffee to keep my R&GV RR Mug filled for a while...
Currently 33°F outside with a supposed high of 38°F sometime, maybe, possibly later, I guess... Little %*&^ White STUFF is falling out of the sky every now and then! Not sticking. Just the principle of that STUFF! The basement floor was dry this morning when I checked it before heading over to church. I started the siphon hose to empty the pond behind the cellar stairs leading outside.... Will check it before I leave to go take care of Claude at my sister's house. He was not a happy cat when I took his Human to the airport last Friday...
Rob, yes 5/8" plywood is more than adequate for what you are doing. 1 x 4 pine every 2 foot will be overkill as well, but that is what I use. I have used 1/2" (7/16") plywood with no warping also. You will be able to walk around on top of the layout with no problem at all!
I was hoping my son and his family would be in church today... That they weren't there usually means his wife took the girls to Sunday School (she is a teacher there as well) and then just headed home before the second service. I was thinking that it was a waste of time for me to have come to church (I can't understand anything spoken with the horrible acoustics!) but found that one of my Boy Scouts way back then was having his daughter baptised today. His dad who was an instrumental music teacher in the Middle School and a dear friend also played Soprano Saxophone for the Anthem... So it was a good way to spend the morning after all. I tell folks there, "I really miss church!". They ask me why I don't attend more often then? I answer, "that is when I miss church the most!" Mostly all I hear is the standing waves from the poor acoustics bouncing around in the room. I am on a committee supposedly working to improve it. Most of them just want to move the speakers around. All that will do is create a whole lot of different and just as bad (or worse) problems and will not cure the accoustical problem. They all seem to more than I do (having given it a great deal of thought without having any facts interfere with their personally held opinions). Guess who is the only person on the committee that has ever actually studied accoustics at the college level?
I see my lunch has arrived so I will dig in and do some crossword puzzles for a while. Don't bother me!
Good afternoon diners, spent most of Saturday with the shop vac sucking up water in the basement after ten hours of steady rain in SE Ohio. The o
Ohio River is very near flooding. We need dry weather for a week or two.
Rob, I used 1x4 and 1x3 L girders for legs and 1x4 for lateral support with 1/2 inch CDX plywood (the cheap stuff). The bench work is in the wet basement and has shown no signs of warping. I primed and painted all the support structure. My legs all have galvanized jack bolts for leveling and keep the legs up out of the seepage. The bench work is diagonally braced and will support me sitting on to of it which I did while doing some overhead wiring.
Ready to go hear three Irish tenors with the WV Symphony to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
Have a good day!
Jim
Good Afternoon Diners,
Flo, I'll have my usual gargantuan cup of coffee with copious amounts of cream, please.
Not much happening here today. Just taking a small break while MOH is on phone with someone from Our church.
Ray: Not having any knowledge of the space, but from what you describe, it sounds like you have a lot of hard surface walls with nothing to absorb the sound. That would mean hat the sound would just bounce around off of those walls and start overlapping. Sometimes that can be minimized by using a sound absorbing material opposite the source. That can be curtains, sound baffles, or others things like that. Just a thought.
Will try to return a little later. If not, I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Coffee refill, please.
***Ray, good luck with your task ahead.
Thanks guys for chiming in. Guess I'll go with 1/2" ply & the 1x4 frame work.
Ran a new loco which acted very glitchy, at least initially. Motor hummed a bit loud (compared to most) and didn't want to stay on the rails. It's a BLI 2-10-2 I found for a good price. Seems like it ran a little better after a couple minutes, but does not like backing up through a Unitrack #6 switch (in one direction only, other direction no problem). Tender derailed, then when I set it back on track, it took off and would not respond to any controls. It was like both the loco and the Digitrax controller went nuts. Even hit track power and it kept going and controller was flashing all sorts of stuff. Had to unplug the controller. Once re-started, all was fine. Would sure like to know what the issue is with this loco and the switch. Sometimes DCC leaves me totally unimpressed. Then again, when it does work, it's pretty cool.
Before hitting the train room, I sprayed half the fruit and nut trees with dormant spray. Will finish the rest this evening.
Good Afternoon...
Having some friends here and guess what...three nonturning turnouts displayed themselves...then I get the intermittant running/no running RS3 issue on two trains...then a derail at the back quarter....AAAARRRGGGGHH!!!!!!
Soo, with all this nonsense going on we then had a brownout here...which made for even more fun....
So, in light of all this I will have my comfort food...namely 8 greaseburger deluxes plus 7 Strawberry Rhubarb PIES AND 4 giant Banana Splits...along with 4 tankcar fulls of coffee....thank you... [(]
blownout cylinder So, in light of all this I will have my comfort food...namely 8 greaseburger deluxes plus 7 Strawberry Rhubarb PIES AND 4 giant Banana Splits...along with 4 tankcar fulls of coffee....thank you... [(]
I knew it. .... I just knew it. ....
Cederstrand Coffee refill, please. Thanks guys for chiming in. Guess I'll go with 1/2" ply & the 1x4 frame work.
That is what I did. I made the 1X4's by ripping down particle board with table saw. ( really, it is 3/4" thick particle board. ) I also made other widths as needed from the particle board. .... Legs are 2X2's with levelers at bottom ends.
Deluxe hamburger patty and steamed veggies, please.
Finished spraying the trees. Get to do it all over again with the liquid copper spray tomorrow, then won't have to touch the orchards for awhile.
The noises you here coming from the corner booth will be me chowing down. I'm hungry!
OK, mission accomplished. Annie is now driving the VW Jetta and I'm driving the Corolla. After we swapped all the personal items and the garage door openers, we headed out to our local sushi place. Mmmmm, that was good. She's headed back to Maine now, as the inch of snow that fell this afternoon is stopping.
Rob, I recall hearing of that runaway-in-reverse problem. The trick, if memory serves, is to find the bit in the CVs that disables DC operation. I think it normally comes with DC allowed, so you have to change the bit. Obviously, there is more to the problem than the setting of the bit, but it seems to make it not happen.
Heartland Division CB&Q blownout cylinder So, in light of all this I will have my comfort food...namely 8 greaseburger deluxes plus 7 Strawberry Rhubarb PIES AND 4 giant Banana Splits...along with 4 tankcar fulls of coffee....thank you... [(] I knew it. .... I just knew it. ....
V8Vega Sun. 92 Mon.88 I enjoy the TV coverage of the start of the LA Marathon. All those people who have trained and have a long endurance before them. Heartland Does particle board dull the blade on your table saw more than regular wood?
Sun. 92 Mon.88
I enjoy the TV coverage of the start of the LA Marathon. All those people who have trained and have a long endurance before them.
Heartland Does particle board dull the blade on your table saw more than regular wood?
Whenever I use particle board I found my blades don't really get dull. Depends though on which blades you use I guess.
Welb...got some more nonturning turnouts fixed and attempted to find the intermittant issue....no luck on that one, yet. Got a recording session to do this week so I might see if it is something in my house wiring...
ANNNNND....I'll have my 4 superquadra greaseburgers with all the fixings and a tub of RBF as well please...
blownout cylinder V8Vega Sun. 92 Mon.88 I enjoy the TV coverage of the start of the LA Marathon. All those people who have trained and have a long endurance before them. Heartland Does particle board dull the blade on your table saw more than regular wood? Whenever I use particle board I found my blades don't really get dull. Depends though on which blades you use I guess.
Dennis V8 ... I have not had a problem with blades getting dull more than regular wood.
Barry ... Now the Diner is completely out of food.
Evenin' folks!
Went over to my son's house for dinner tonight... His Mum-in-Law prepared porkchops, Winter Squash, Lima Beans, Macaroni and Cheese, and fresh apple sauce. Good! Got to play Wii bowling and golf with the granddaughters and my son.
up831Ray: Not having any knowledge of the space, but from what you describe, it sounds like you have a lot of hard surface walls with nothing to absorb the sound. That would mean hat the sound would just bounce around off of those walls and start overlapping. Sometimes that can be minimized by using a sound absorbing material opposite the source. That can be curtains, sound baffles, or others things like that. Just a thought.
Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.....? Well... Yes.....? Your preaching to the choir here! LOL! I was a professional Musician for 48 years, taught general and Vocal music k-College for 32 years and owned my own Live Sound and Recording company for the last 18 years of my career. As I stated earlier I studied a bit about acoustics as a Senior at the Eastman School of music back in the Dark Ages... You are right about the space. All hard reflective walls and a hardwood floor. They did add some cloth banners that some say helped... (I can tell you all it helped was their imagination.) The new Pastor of the church is also a professional musician (Soprano... I'm a Bass/Baritone) She, the sound guy at church, who learned to do sound working with me for many years, and myself are all on the committee and are pushing for a complete accoustic evaluation and then having the appropriate soundproofing put up on the back walls (has a balcony) to remedy the situation. The problem is not just random reflection of sound, but the room acts as an organ pipe at 125 Hz and all nodes above that... Bass traps put in the proper places will remove much of that problem and resolve the standing wave issue. The committee is made up of about 8 "interested" parties, some of which seem to be experts because they spent last night at a certain hotel..... Enough said about that! We will ultimately get the job done as the $$$ to do it is available from a building improvement fund raiser last year.
Last Thursday I went to the Boy Scout Camp Properties Committee meeting. We got a preview of the lastest camp promo video. The guy in the video is the Aquatics Director at camp (for 25 years or so) and is a complete nut! Watch the video here and you will see what I mean. He took my place as the camp video "expert" when I stopped being on staff a decade ago... He is perenially one of the most popular people on staff with the Scouts!
Have a great night! Prayers for all in need.... (Janie, can I get a refill for my decaf?)