Good Morning!
It´s a nice and sunny day and it won´t turn too hot! The little one will be with us today, waiting to be fed all the goodies his mom has prepared for him. Petra spent all day in the kitchen and there were nice smells coming from that place. Whenever I tried to sneak in and grab a goodie, I was shoo´ed out of the kitchen. Mothers!
Galaxy - I know you and YOH want to have this house really badly, but let patience be your guide in this. Even if you miss this opportunity, I am sure there will be plenty of other chances coming up. After all the real estate market should be still a buyer´s market.
Nevertheless, I am keeping my fingers crossed!
Have a good one, Folks!
GOod Early morning:
Well, naturally the first offer was rejected automatically, probably out of hand as there is that blasted Open HOUSe today. {sunday}
they are willing ot go down only $400!!! with seller concessions of $3k.
Our next offer will be one of two: ether our higher price and no seller concesions, {they'd be wise to take,} OR if they really want that silly "7" number in the front off the offer to start off....then we take seller concession and they really get $1k less than taking our higher price number offer without concessions.
We will see,.
We are going to the open house to snoop. naturally we won't represent ourselves.
we shall see what we shall see, when we shall see it?
later on i will greet yoou, i think!
-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.
It rained heavily today that knocked out the internet and dish. It surprises me on how people are so independent on tv and nothing else when it goes out for an hour.
I received my books in the mail today Track Planning for Realistic Operation by John Armstrong and Building a Model Railroad Step by Step by David Popp.
Two days ago I got a Micro-Trains B&O Chessie System covered hopper for a fair price, I forgot they made it 4 years ago. It fits perfectly for my modern era time frame.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Evenin' folks!
Janie a refil for my dercaf would be greatly appreciated...
I again spent most of the day over at my son's house for the second day of the garage sale out in the driveway. They did sell a good amount of stuff, but not nearly as much as they wanted to. About half of the stuff I brought over sold. I told my DIL just to keep the $$$ from that. I get it back in stolen electric for gthe car. She just laughted and shook her head. I figure my son being out of work at the moment they can use any extra money... My son may have sold one of the boat trailers he has. The small one he got from his uncle. The boat that is on the trailer is a small one and he figures it can be put on a pick-up truck bed if he sells the trailer by itself.
Most of the time I played games with the granddaughters. We played "I Spy" and the "Hot and Cold game where you hide something and the other person has to find it.... My son tried to take off the head of the engine on the lawn mower managed to get all the visible bolts out but found there is one that is under the valves.... Intyeresting design, but he is NOT HAPPY...... He has two acres to mow and only a small rotary push mower working at the moment. What he needs is a new mower. The ride on one he has is about a dozen years old and has seen better days (he got it used for a little of nothing). Amazing he has been able to hold it together this long I think. I may offer him a no interest loan to buy a new one. Heck the "Tesla Fund" is low anyway....
Prayers for all in need!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Evening Dinners
Flo, Please
Day With Gilligan Well, he seemed OK, I guess. He looked fressher than normal and was never lost for words. He did a lot of pacing, then a hour later he just stared a head with a blank look on his faces. He was easy to ingage when I spoke to him, unlike before. Only thing that makes me wonder is he kept going out to his van every time I went to the back of the store with a cup in his hand? I stopped counting after 13 times. Far less than he used to.
YGW Miss seeing you here at the site! Spoke with your wife (is she really from Cuba) and said she would have you call me. Just left a message just now. Call me at work Sunday and I will teach you the way of the Mattress. I am beat so off to bed I go.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
HMMMM, 8 Hours since Br. Elias posted!!!
Everyone that busy???
just mentioning, we are Saying prayers to St Joseph {patron saint of house hunters, among other things} {and my middle name!} So...
We have yet to hear anything. We doubt we will until tomorrow morning before Noon. with an open house in the offing tomorrow...dunno
We are going to go to the open house to nose around and decidely "monopolize" the open house if need be, if we can. WITHOUT claiming our offer is was IN! We are taking train nut friend with us, he wants to go. We can also get some measurements, recheck things, etc while we are there, if need be.
We dunno, but my gut is playing turmoil on me,and MOH is in emotional turmoil too. Dunno...
the waiting is the hardest part... {Tom Petty and the heartbreakers!
pins and needles, and needles and pins. {actually I think htat is in an old old song, too!}
here's hoping
cudaken Wife and my debit card, never let them out of my sight togather again! Shop and save had a Buy $50.00 worth of food get $10.00 off speical today. I had to work so I let her have my debit card and told her to to spend over $45.00, that would give us $55.00 worth of food. So what does she do? Spends $70.07 so now I can not pay the gas bill! And here I was thinking about getting her a card on my new charge card. Whistling
LION had good results wtih the OneVanilla card him bougth at Walmart. Him bought the one shot card, but $500 on it, paid the fee of $5.00 is good forever or until used up. They also have the kind you can refil. These have a monthly fee in the $5.00 range, but you can refill them. They only have what you put on them.
Your bank can undoubtetly give better deals on similar products. Or at your bank, just open a "Household Account" with a debit card. Put x$ on it each payday, and say that this is for food and small incidentals. Cannot spend outside of the budget, because it is not there. Actually, whife should have here own bank account and credit card, she will knead the credit rating should something happen two ewe.
Agree what goes into each of these two accounts, she uses the household account for food &c. and the other for personal incidentals, thus she is not spending "her" money for "Your" food.
Does she work? or does all of your subsistance come from your work? Clearly much of your establishment must be paid via your account, but in your budget you include $x00.00 for food, and $x00.00 for the wife's pocket account.
Anyway LION appreciated using these "Wallmart" OneVanilla (one shot) cards while on vacation. They worked for me.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
The Gowanus Canal... a project to be builded on the layout of LION. I took many pictures but will model this one.
GM, Men!
NO word yet. but I didn't expect one until tomorrow a the earliest, as the offer went in at 10pm last night by the time it got done.
SO..
keep those fingers crossed...
later
Flo, please and keep them coming.
Work Front Well I will have Gilligan back as my first mate Saturday. Good news is for now I will keep working 6 days a week, they do not turst him to work by him self? OK, if you don't trust him why let Drunk Dave come back in the first places?
Wife and my debit card, never let them out of my sight togather again! Shop and save had a Buy $50.00 worth of food get $10.00 off speical today. I had to work so I let her have my debit card and told her not to to spend over $45.00, that would give us $55.00 worth of food. So what does she do? Spends $70.07 so now I can not pay the gas bill! And here I was thinking about getting her a card on my new charge card.
YGW I called you today but I got your voice message.
Latter, Ken
Thanks, RAy!we are already broke and we haven't yet had a contract offer accepted, or written the closing checks!
We are actually borrowing from friends to cushion our purchase and the subsequent after closing-get a few things done {like a platform and shed, like replace at least two windows with ability to hold a/cs, etc}
Yes we will SOMEHOW pay them back! as quick as possible, We WON"T, I REFUSE, to be the borrower who actually "steals"!
So
whew!
Nervous and as jumpy as a pat of butter on a hot griddle!!!
Back!
Several weeks back, we had a power failure on a clear, blue-sky afternoon, and when the power came back on the computer did not. Instead, I got the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, and a message that said "Unmountable Boot Volume." There's a way to recover, but it needs the original Windows CD. I spent days searching my office for it, cleaning up, throwing away worthless paper and so on.
After all this, I discovered I could download and burn a CD with the appropriate utilities, so I tried that on my ancient Dell computer, only to find that the CD burner would not burn. Finally, I found a place on eBay that would sell me the same utility CD for $5 including postage. I eagerly awaited it, and when it arrived...it was the wrong disk. I contacted the seller and he sent another, which I booted up today. It took several hours to run chkdsk on the whole disk, but when it was done I started the computer and it was just fine. So, I'm back.
I have hardly touched the trains this summer, but we had some houseguests last night, and he was fascinated by them. He's got 027s at home, so I gave him some O-gauge stuff someone had given me that I couldn't use. He gave me an actually crossing gate bell, full size, that runs on 12 volts. Yes, we tested it. Awesome. Anyway, we ran trains for hours and had a great time.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Janie, a cup of decaf would be great right now.
I spent most of the day over at my son's house sitting around and pretending to be helpful for the driveway/lawn/garage sale they are having. Mostly I just hung out with two beautiful young ladies (the granddaughters) while they did most of the "work"! I took a bunch of stuff over to it to donate to the cause. Only things that sold were a couple class 3 reciever drawbars with the ball on them. They got snatched up by one of the first guys that stopped by. He was hauling a flatbed trailer behind a big pick'em'up truck saw the bargain and walked off with both of them. I looked and found a few more items I want to get rid of when I got home. They are already packed in the PiP to be taken over tomorrow morning for the sale.
Galaxy, good luck to you and yours with all this.
I am still trying to get rid of the YellowJackets in the shed out back. I can see where they are going in and out, but have no idea where the actual nest is up there (They are in the "attic" space). Guess I just have to keep at it for a few more days. Worst case scenerio I will remove the small vent on one of the ends and try to find the nest and nail it without getting attacked....
Currently 58°F outside here.
Have a great evening... Prayers for all in need of them!
Uncle Bob And others:
WE HAVE AN OFFER IN. There IS an Open House {OH} on Sunday, they are to respond by sunday 12Noon. They may decide to wait and see to seee what the open house brings, if we didn't have that as condition of offer. I doubt they will accept the offer, as it is the first one.
We have 3 offers, low, medium and medium high. We chose to skip the low and go for the medium offer to enter. We figured with an open house in the offing, they'd reject our lower offer out of course to wait and see what the OH offers. Many OHs may not have had much activity and this one doesn't mean it will either, but somone could beat us a the OH.
Keep your fingers, toes, and hairs on your heads crossed !!!!!!!!!!!
Uncle BOB: The house is high and dry, even in the '05,'06,'11 didn't affect the basement, by all looks, there wasn't even a hint of moisture or dampness, no musty smell, nada...
Uncle Bob: we LIVE 3 blocks over from the house! We know the neighborhood well, and this house is sitting higher than many on the street, the house {brand new deeded doublewide}next door, sits about 6 feet lower than "ours" for example. Many around here threw out basment contents and had standing water as high as 4' to hear them tell it, but not this one.They either had sumps already {our house didnt have/doesn't need a sump}which failed due to extended power outage {6 days}, or the like. WE LIKE the neighborhood, its location jsut off 434, just across the broome border from us we are jsut across the Tioga border. we like the locale, and have hoped to stay in this area, but would have preferred Tioga county.It is still not bad!
We are LUCKY, we feel, especially if they take the offer, They supposedly want to 'deal', but they often say that, but then assume they can squeeze a few more thousands out of the buyer.
Oh well, some sleepless nights ahead!!!
Route {or is that root?} for us!
Galaxy, don't get wedded to that house. You could end up like the Mrs and me --we had an offer on a house. They came back with a counter offer that wasn't much of a move, and it was the third go-around. We decided to not reply to it right away, and went to an open house. We liked the other house better, put in an offer on that house, told the sellers of the first house where to go, and need up in a better neighborhood. Just remember, we're due for another 500 year flood next year, so stay out of the flood plain.
(An explanation: Binghamton has had 2 so-called 500 year floods in the last decade, in 2006 and 2011. Last time, the floodwaters almost got Gov. Cuomo, who was near the junction of the Chenango and Susquie in Bingo when the water poured over the wall. Hopefully we won't have another one next year --and I'm sure Gov. Cuomo feels the same!)
Evening guys
a very nice night out here, temps are in the 20's, Celsius that is. Sunny out right now but with a cool breeze you can almost feel fall in the air. Not much new to report here, I renewed my model railroader subscription this week so will get it until November 2016. Not much else going on. I have to work tomorrow but that's ok. Talk to you guys later.
Well, we have been busy. I had Dr appt, MOH had Drs appt.
Then we stopped by the FILs he is all for the house idea. He says he sad that a few months ago, MOH doesn't remember that, but I vaguely do.
Our Buyers agent said the listing agent has suddenly scheduled an open huse on SUnday, and our offer goes on the table tonight, after, all , we may lose out anyway especially if someone comes in stronger offer than ours! We have our prequalified limit to deal with! {I just checked with the bank and we are good to go to increase our limit slightly, by aobut $15 pre month maximum.
Whew! then our nerves will really be on end! AWaiting an answer!
MOH says "my feet are wet and I ma getting cold feet if they wait too long or want too much $$!
Now that my father , who has said 'its your decision, but I'll support you either way ,and the FIL approves, {not that we need it but it sure helps!} We are not as wet footed, but are are still STRESSED. FIL may help out if we need something. that helps, but "dont expect much" he siad.
We ahve friends who will help us move to decrease the costs of moving IN IF we can "do it on a Saturday"...no problem there!
GRR pins and needles! Needles and pins! Here we go!
We will be SO tight the first year at least!
MOH is also applying for one of two jobs the HR dept suggest MOH apply for... so HERE's hoping on THAT front to,, keep your hopes, fingers and toes crossed and say LOTS of prayers!
We shall see what we shall see when we shall see it!
Over 5 hours and no one showing up here? Folks must be busy today!
Zoe, I´ll have a night cap before I hit the hay. I have spent most of the day fiddlin´ around with that new track planning tool. I think I am slowly getting the grips on it.
Well, out I am - have a good night and CU all tomorrow!
Heartland Division CB&QUlrich .... That layout looks very nice.
Well, it needs more tinkering - which I have no objections to do
My first attempt to give it more 3D "texture":
Good morning.
Lion .... Looks like you are seeing stars after a bump on the head.
Ulrich .... That layout looks very nice.
Here is one of the photos I put in WPF of my Plumbing Supply House. It is next to an Atlas Lumber Yard which I modified and detailed.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Afternoon!
It´s a pleasant day today - the sun´s out again and it is nice and warm, not sizzling hot. Just the way I like it! There is a scent of Fall in the air, though.
When my computer crashed the other day, I lost a number of files. The biggest loss was my track planning program, which seem to be gone for good, as I cannot find the CD ROM to load it again. There is no way I am going to spend any money on a track planning program, so I took a look at all those freebies in the web. I decided on SCARM and tried my hand at it this morning by designing a small, Swiss Rhaetian Railway themed mini layout.
Here are the results of this endeavor:
Working with this program is very much different from what I was used to with my old WinRail program, which had many shortcuts SCARM does not have. Still, the program is easy to handle and has a large track library covering most commercially made track and switches.
I still have to figure out how to draw "3D scenery".
Galaxy - don´t be too sad if you don´t get this house - I am sure there will be other opportunities which might prove to be even more suitable!
LION is back from vacation, with 1000 new subway pictures. This one is my favorite. I think I shall submitit to Scientific American, and claim that I have discovered new galaxies.
galaxy GM, MEN! Friday, August 21, 2015! Early I'm off to the urologist for the annual er um, ya know... then MOH has the eye Dr. after that. The day will be cool, a nice 75f. think of it, the rest of the country is burning up, but we have had a relatively cool summer, only one day near to but did not break the record this summer. so, see ya's
GM, MEN!
Friday, August 21, 2015!
Early I'm off to the urologist for the annual er um, ya know... then MOH has the eye Dr. after that.
The day will be cool, a nice 75f. think of it, the rest of the country is burning up, but we have had a relatively cool summer, only one day near to but did not break the record this summer.
so, see ya's
Good luck with the Dr appts, Galaxy. And sorry to hear about the house not working out.
Happy belated birthday, Ulrich!
"I'm a walkin' down the track.... I got tears in my eyes...Tryin' ta read a letter from my home.......If this train runs me right, I'll be home tomorrow night,For I'm five hundred miles from my home......An ah hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow......."
Janie I could use a cup of decafe when you get a chance.
Museum meeting was fun tonight. We dedicated and officially opened the new pit tonight. Had a large number of members and guests and a lot of folks hung around after the meeting and just chatted. Another milestone for the museum to have the pit for working on locos and cars. We still need to finish pouring the concrete in the restoration building, but that should get done within a year.
Tomorrow my son and DIL are having a garage, lawn, driveway sale. He stopped over early this afternoon to borrow my tables and trailer. I have a couple boxes of stuff I will be taking over tomorrow for the sale.
Ah, well... I'll catch you all sometime tomorrow then...
"I'll pawn you my watch, and I'll pawn you my chain.....I'll pawn you my go-old diamond ring.......If this train runns me right...., I'll be home tomorrow night.For I'm five-hundred miles from my home....an ah hate to hear that lonesom whistle blow.......
an ah hate to hear that lonesmoe whistle..... blow....."
73 my friends!
Good evening ...
Ken ... Sorry to hear about your eye problem. I hope it does not affect your sight.
Richard ... Yes, it is good to have old friends.
Tin Can .... I don't like dealing with insurance companies.
Rob .... The height of your layout should be compatible with your height. It is good to have everything within an arm's reach without bending over.
....
I completed my plumbing supply house, and I should be able to post a photo in WPF.
Galaxy: Hang in there.
Ulrich: Happy belated birthday; seems like you had a good one.
Ken: Great photo. Glad you had a big day at work. I'm not going to lecture anyone about health; as I am too big (but slowly working on it)...
My insurance agent left a big name company to go independent. I saw him at the store Sunday, and asked him what was going on. He wanted to make money for himself, not big name insurance company, but he couldn't contact his old customers for a year. However, I can contact him.
So, we are switching from big name to an independent company. Same coverages on auto, lower deductable, saving $60 a month for four cars; four drivers; including 19 yr. old female and 21 yr. old male.
Home insurance will save us $20 a month; not much; but on the whole, that will be $80 a month more in our pocket.
I figure we still have insurance, we are no longer paying for commercials...
Evening,
I don't know, things will be SO TIGHT, IF we can do it, The first year at least I definately WILL NOT HAVE any money for train stuff, though I will have a whole room in which to build a layout, {about 25'x 12'!!! with only 2 doors at opposite sides to impeed anything!}
Dunno.
Here's hoing but ONLY if they take our offer. Or any modifications we are willing to do, but we are so tight not much we can do different!
The GOOD thing is the mortage should go down after the first year, by about $75/m {I hope if taxes don't astronomically rise.} There is a state expemption on school taxes not included yet, and the homeowners insurance is rated way to high compared to our agent's quote,and so it wil be a PLEASURE {IF we get it} for the mortgage to go down or to get back a nice "rebate".
dunno, we have to get it first. then we ahve to get throught the first year eating potatoes ONLY!
Mint tea, please.
***Ulrich, a belated Happy Birthday.
***Ken, very cool photo.
I finally started building the new train table "today". Just have the first 4x6' top section glued and screwed. Also have parts all cut out for the second (same dimensions as above) section. The other connective sections will come much later. At least this is a start. No legs cut yet. Can't seem to recall what height to make the layout?
Speaking of dizziness, I've had a few bouts of vertigo recently. Inner ear, no doubt. And the distorted left eye doesn't help any. Still need to figure out the logistics of both travel and animal care before having surgery done on it.
Healing thoughts for those in need.
Cheers! Rob
Today I had lunch with an old friend, one I hadn't seen for a number of years. We had a great time reconnecting. There is great value in maintaining friendships.
Richard