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Morning guys
its a holiday here and rained actually poured last night. So the ground is wet and its Gray outside so I might just stay inside and play some video games and strat o matic baseball. I have some projects for strat that I want to get started.
Good Morning Diners,
Flo, I'll have an extra large cup of coffee with lots of cream, please.
Don't have anything exciting to report today. Yesterday was pretty non-eventful for us. But, the rest of the city didn't fair as well. Had severe thunderstorms both North and East of us. North, they had a tornado in the air, but to my knowledge it never touched down. The media makes it sound like the sky is falling, nuff said.
Reading a little on the web last night about the battle of Saipan. Ghastly casualty rate of which many were civilians from a suicide charge. Seems the defenders told the local populace that the invaders would maim and torture them and the Emperor is reputed to have told everyone to do the suicide charge, or at least hold out to the last person. In any event, Saipan was a very strategic victory. It assured the outcome of the Pacific Theatre.
It was a very different world then, steam still ruled the rails!
Can you believe it's August already?! Summer is so short here. Blink and it's gone. Not looking forward to winter, at all!
Gotta get ready for work.
I hope everyone is OK and safe.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Today's word:
Today's quotes:
I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate. -Max Frisch, architect, playwright, and novelist (15 May 1911-1991)
Where there is love there is life.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-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.
GM, MEN!
Today Is August 3rd, 2015!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Beer Please
Nice Peacfull Day At Work. While this is not good $ wise, I need a break. It was 96 degrees out here and a pretty day. So either it was to hot, or just to nice to go shopping.
Rear Gate While it is far from a work of art I have it 60% bulit. I picked out the best of my twisted Pressure Treated lumber and had at it. One end it is so twisted there is a quater inch gap. I braced end with a small section of 2X4 and will add a couple of metal braces at that end.
YGW I am still in the thinking stage about the fence it self. I see no way around moving the gravel so I can stay in my proptery line. While Dwight (guy next door) said he was fine with me placing fence post on his side on the proptery line. When I asked him how far (I was hoping for a foot) he said "We are friends, but what will the next owner say?". Well he is 89 this year so I sort of understand.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
ULRICH; sent you another PM, ask no questions and I will tell you no lies, just answer the questions please!
have a great night...
Ulrich:
Hope tomorrow goes smoothly.
Maybe it's time to Try and get yourself a cane with a seat to it...like this:
http://aol.nextag.com/cane-with-a-seat/zzaolcobrandzB1z0--search-html
Folds up for a cane,and expands like it shows....
We have two: one for me obviously, and one for MOH, due to the Paget's diseased hip, MOH sometimes needs a break too...
They certainly come in handy, even with a fat derrier like mine. I can only sit on it for a short time {about 20 minutes} then I need to stand up, but it sure "takes a load off" when I am tired of standing...
best of luck for a great sunny warm beautiful day for the funeral tomorrow. It makes the day seem better, when its a beautiful day for a funeral. My mother's was a pretty warm august day, Mutti's was a nicesunny fall October day.
yougottawantaUlrich - do you get "winded" quickly with your heart condition ?
If that´s what I understand, the answer is unfortunately yes... . Sometimes I wish I had that amount of gas in the tank of my car
It´s closing in on 9.30pm over here, so I am slowly heading for the hay. It´ll be a hard day tomorrow, standing up for more than 2 minutes is still an issue.
Ulrich - do you get "winded" quickly with your heart condition ?
Galaxy - Hope you feel better
TMarsh - Thanks for the words of encouregment.
TTYL
YGW
Garry, Ken, UP...Hello hope weekend has been great
Galaxy - PM answered!
My mother suffered a life with that dreaded disease! she was diagnosed at age 23, and passed at 59, a week short of her 60th b-day. The years had not been kind, but the last 5 years of her life were dreadfull to her. Several mini-strokes, loss of speach, loss of vision, SHe had, for many years before those last five years, been a quadruplegic from the disease. I was a mere 13 when her life in a wheelchair in 1976 began. She too , was fortuante enough to pass in her sleep.
Condolences to Petra, please! (you too)
Ulrich: See the PM I send.
later all
Good Evening!
I had a day of rest. As much I enjoyed yesterday´s trip to Bruchhausen, as exhausting it had been. A day of doing nothing but relax sometimes does wonders.
Tomorrow, we will attend the funeral of Petra´s aunt, who died end of May. It´ll be just her son, his GF and us, a quiet ceremony to say good bye to someone we dearly loved. Else was a wonderful person with a big heart. She was suffering from MS for nearly 40 years. Nature was kind to her to let her close her eyes in peace without too much suffering in the final stage.Her ashes will be buried under a tree in a burial forest.
I won´t be in tomorrow morning (missing PF again), but hope to be able to join you later in the day.
well, the miracles of technology never cease...
We have a:
Desk top computer,
a laptop computer/built in tablet
Our tablet
MOH's work tablet {which hardly ever works}
And two smart phones...
DO YOU THINK any two of them {except the identical cell phones} WORK ALIKE??
NO!
Even using Google chrome, they don't play well with each other...
GRRR, as a neighbor of ours says: "The ABILITY of {high} tech has far outweighed the NEED for tech..."
MOH was trying to plug in the auto-pay system work is now using...can access it onthe work tablet {that hardly ever works} and now thinks it is on MOH's cell phone...finally we tried to get it on our tablet {a freebie from Verizon} that should tell us something!}
MOH finally has problem MAYBE solved.
GOOD to see TODD in! Glad to hear of the non-recall status, but it begs the Q can they be "tapped", as it were, and controlled remotely too? I don't know why they picked on Chrysler/Jeep, as the first car I saw taken over on news was a chevy!
KEN: sounds good for your sales, have a on us.
YGW: don't knwo what I was gonna say now, must not be inportant...
well, MOH is working on clenaing off the fornt porch, so maybe I'd best go help, though my cramping gut says no activity.. I worked on the shed, MOH can work onthe porch...
Jerrmy, You need a sheet of marine plywood. A good contractor's lumber yard should carry it. This is the type plywood used for boat floors and should last several years outside. One source says Ontario Plywood in Hamilton stocks marine plywood.
Jim
Nice pics, Howmus. I've driven past that bridge enough times on my way to Gettysburg and DC, but I've always been afraid to stop along the road and take pics. (I have, however, stopped at a used car lot and shot pics of the west end of Enola Yard -- but not for several years).
I got to take a field trip to see NKP 765 yesterday. It was a beautiful day for chasing a train, so I did. I took my old film camera and the digital my wife bought me so I could get different shots (the 35mm has a more flexible lens than the digital). Between juggling cameras and setting up in the wrong spots, I probably blew some shots, but oh well. I shot a roll of B&W because it was fitting to shoot steam in B&W -- those Staufer books had a big influence on me.
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.
Well, We WERE going to go to the REn Faire, but lets just say everything is running right through both of us....don't know if we picked up something or if it is something we ate. We got a nice loaf of Extra fibros/seeded bread, that may not have been bad,but just not being used to so much fiber, may have done it. I am staying away from it now just in case, and close to the facilities.
I also was chilled all day yesterday and sinuses runnning ,which leads me to believe we have been exposed to something.... I am hte sensitive one, NOT MOH, so for MOH to have the same things with such a strong constitution, probalby means we were exposed.
we will miss the REn Faire, but oh well. Maybe we go later, but at about 2 hours ride with stops, it won't be likely.
http://www.sterlingfestival.com/
It is celtic weekend, and I'd be wearing the kilt, laddies, but I think not...not the way I feel.
Hope everyone ELSE is Healthy, Happy and prosperous!
later...
August 2nd, 2015!
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. -Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, preacher, journalist, and activist (1802-1861)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
August 2, 2015!
Well, Here in my neck of the woods, it is August 2nd, already! by 7 minutes!
Here is Steamtown's other favorite, CPR # 2317, the Pacific type.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoki5SVN_mY
Penn Rail Videos: The farewell shot, as she is now in dry-dock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g17MJaLP-3k
The engineer, Seth, {he may still be there its been a while since I have been there} to show off his locos there, and I asked him once which he like to operate, the MIKE #3254, or the Pacific #2317. He said the Pacific is a MUCH smoother loco to operate, and the MIKE is rougher. so for passenger ops, he prefers the Pacific. Seth also has a smaller ride on steam train he likes to run during special event like the Labor Day event.
can't get much better than a live steam belching steam loco!
Garry wrote - The pile driver at the nearby bridge contruction project began working at 6:00 AM. Garry you know every city has sound ordinances a call to the county can put a sop to that !
Ken - How is the fence coming ? Thanks for the comment in July post
Mr. B - I guess if you want it to rain then just go biking ? For us if we want it to rain we pour concrete ! It is amazing how the clouds roll in as soon as you are mid way poured !!
Don - way to go. I thought it looked like the bridges at Harpers Ferry WV
Galaxy - yea I dont get some of the bathroom habits by people in porta potties. I have found empty beer bottles in there ( geez can you imagine drinking a cold one in that place in the heat of August ! ) Some somehow sqaut and get mud every where !! Some miss the hole ( REALLY DISGUSTING ) and then to stupid Graffiti. Why would you stick around in the stink to draw some sub human stupid pictures !!
Ulrich/Lion - Nice picts
JaBear - NICE Friend I bet you were you blown
Mark - What is it you have ? Boy do I agree with you on the age comment !!!
Not much RR today. Spent ALL day Mowing !! Boy it is amazing how much better I feel with teh heart meds. Feel 100% better. This coming Friday go in for bunch of test at the cardo sawbones. If you pray would apprciate your prayers.
Flo, please
Work Was Busy Today For A Change. While not a great day, no where near as bad as the 15 days? By the 14th of last month I had $16,000.00 in sales and ended with a mear $20,000.00? So only $4000.00 in sales for the last 17 days? Today I had around $2950.00 in sales, so that is more like it but still far short of what the store use to do.
crhostler61I tell people that I'm 54 going on 80...physically, but in the mind I'm still 20 something. How cruel nature can be!
Boy I am living that Crhostler61 but I am pushing 60.
Well I am beat so later.
Ken
Thanks Don!
The photo wasn't taken today.... It was done back in 2010 or 2011, not sure which. Yes I really got lucky. Took a while to get a position where I could get the shots without getting run over by a car or truck.
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
howmus Spot on the money Don! I was on my way home from the York, PA G Scale show with a RR and Musician friend of mine and we decided to drive over on North Front Street to see what we could see just North of Harrisburg. Interesting history to that old bridge. When built it was the longest stone arch bridge in the world.
Spot on the money Don! I was on my way home from the York, PA G Scale show with a RR and Musician friend of mine and we decided to drive over on North Front Street to see what we could see just North of Harrisburg. Interesting history to that old bridge. When built it was the longest stone arch bridge in the world.
I thought it looked familiar. It really is a beautiful spot (nice pictures btw!). I've railfanned it a few times and generally take a drive by whenever I am over to the Capital. You had great weather as its a little cooler today then its been as of late.
Happy modeling!
Regards.
Don.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly."
I don't shoot pucks. I only stop them.
G'Day, diners. I went out for a bike ride after the weather people gave the all clear and, well, I got wet. I've got to start putting the cell phone in a plastic zip-lock bag no matter what the forecast. I shut it off and slipped it into my Lance Pants so it wouldn't get soaked back there in my jersey, and it survived, but I worried about it. Me? The bike? Who cares? I've been wet before.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Evening guys
a nice day out today and was planning on shooting some pucks around but when I got home from work I was just too tired.
actually I have a question for you guys
i shoot pucks off a piece of puckboard ( a hard slipper plastic ) but want to put the puckboard on a piece of plywood but don't know what kind to go with? It would have to withstand rain and snow as it would be left outside. Can anybody suggest what I would want to look for
thanks
jerrmy
EMD.DonI am terrible at these guessing games so this is a complete shot in the dark...Rockville Bridge view from North Front Street in Harrisburg PA?
Janie.... Put Don's bill on my tab and give him a cigar!
Spot on the money Don! I was on my way home from the York, PA G Scale show with a RR and Musician friend of mine and we decided to drive over on North Front Street to see what we could see just North of Harrisburg. Interesting history to that old bridge. When built it was the longest stone arch bridge in the world. Here is another view:
Conditions were perfect for getting some great shots that day. Hazy with the sun at just the right angle.
howmus
I am terrible at these guessing games so this is a complete shot in the dark...Rockville Bridge view from North Front Street in Harrisburg PA?
Thats what it reminds me of at least...