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Jeffreys Trackside Diner, AUGUST, 2015!

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Posted by cudaken on Saturday, August 15, 2015 8:34 PM

 Evening Dinners

 Flo, Beer please

 Today all most sucked, but only all most.

 Work was going badly Had a few customers that where looking for small cheap things, King bed frame, a queen sizes futon mattress (I had one), all ready bulit futon frame (had one I could sales) and then just plain stupid customers that would not lay down on mattress. They just wanted to look? Bang Head

 I was starting to close and 8 minutes till the door dinger went off! Sigh It was the Be Back I had been hoping for all day! While Cindy did not buy the bedroom set yet, she did buy the Memory Foam Kind sizes mattrees! YES! Made the whole day worth while and will help the old paycheck a lot!

 Later, Ken

 

 

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Posted by howmus on Saturday, August 15, 2015 8:00 PM

Evenin' folks!

Janie just a glass of Reisling, Ah... Dr. Konstantin Frank Dry would be nice.   All this talk of driving with Stuff in the car and not drinking any of it.......

Yesterday I took the Granddaughters and their dad (my son) to the "Museum of the Earth" just outside Ithaca, NY and then after lunch visited the Cayuga Nature Center.  The museum has changed a lot since I was there with the Sci-Tek Camp from Boy Scout Camp about a decade ago.  A few photos of them at the museum:

Just inside the main entrance there is a skeleton of a Right Whale:

They thought it was kinda cool to sit in a dinosaur nest with a couple life sized eggs.

How about the remains of a Woolly Mammoth?  (That is their dad with them...)

We also went here:

I'll be back in a bit.  Need to put the load of wash in the dryer so i will have clean socks to wear tomorrow...

73

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, August 15, 2015 5:08 PM

Uncle bob: it WAS clearly a case of harassement, that is why the judge threw out all the tickets.

I mean, Strip Searching him on the side of the road? {good thing country road at darkness!} I assume they were looking for drugs?

Dunno. The police DO only do their job, but sometimes it begs questions...

Now i hope i never get pulled over like that because I don't drink anymore and nor do I "hang out' with anyone who does...MOH on occasion have a drink,and usually drives us, but i too much or questionable, I will drive, even though I don't see so well at night.

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Posted by Uncle_Bob on Saturday, August 15, 2015 2:43 PM

galaxy

 

 
V8Vega

2 hours since the last post so I'll chime in.

Sat. 105 Sun.105 Mon. 99 and yes it feels like 105.

Last night going home from the church singles group I go to every Friday I got caught in a police drunk driving sting.

It only took a minute, the officer asked everyone if you have had anything to drink tonight. I guess he makes a snap judgement based on how you look and how you respond as to weather to check you out further.

 

There were police everywhere. My license, insurance and registration is all correct, still its a little intimadating.

 

 

 

yes it is intimidating, i once- along time ago- was with a guy who was sober, just out of work wiht a 6-pack in his trunk,  driving two us hwo HAD been drinking to another friend's house. He was stopped for a crooked bumper of all things at 2AM. They searched his trunk, and made him pour out the beer roadside BECAUSE HE HAD NO RECEIPT to prove he just bought it. They Strip Searched him on the side of the {country} road too! They let us all go with 'container' tickets. The Judge threw them all out....so I then started collecting receipts any time I bought alcohol.

One clerk I explained it too, thought I was joking. Then one day I came in and she told me her story: she was coought in a police sting, and ordered to pull over to the side of the road..why? because she just got out  of work and was going to a friend's party. SHe was to bring a box of vino, and she had it sitting in the back seat without a bag or receipt, they gave her a hassle, a real hassle, but eventually let her go and warned her to get a receipt and bag next time!

Talk about intimidating!

Geeked

 

I realize there have been problems with drunks driving and killing themselves and others, but if the driver passes a field sobriety test and the containers are obviously unopened, the incidents you describe could be seen as genuine cases of police harassment.  I don't know if either case would go anywhere because of the value of the dumped alcohol and the PR problems of using a cop who's "just doing his job," but detaining a sober driver for transporting a closed container of a legal substance and then forcing him or her to destroy his or her property irks me.  Then again....

Back in college, a friend and 4of her friends were driving back from a night out when they were pulled over.  The driver passed the field sobriety test, but the cop didn't like how she was driving.  My friend, who was obviously well over the legal BAC level, was ordered by the cop to drive them back to campus, or he'd arrest all of them.  They got back home okay, but it unnerved everyone in the car, from what I was told.  No word on what happened to the cop.  Just an example why Ithaca is called "ten square miles surrounded by reality."

 

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Posted by JeremyB on Saturday, August 15, 2015 2:21 PM

Afternoon guys

since it is way too warm out I have been organizing the workshop and layout room. giving it a good clean. Later on I will clean track but want to get the workshop back in order. I also renew my model railroader subscription for another year. Well back to cleaning up while listening tonthe ball game.

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, August 15, 2015 11:14 AM

V8Vega

2 hours since the last post so I'll chime in.

Sat. 105 Sun.105 Mon. 99 and yes it feels like 105.

Last night going home from the church singles group I go to every Friday I got caught in a police drunk driving sting.

It only took a minute, the officer asked everyone if you have had anything to drink tonight. I guess he makes a snap judgement based on how you look and how you respond as to weather to check you out further.

 

There were police everywhere. My license, insurance and registration is all correct, still its a little intimadating.

 

yes it is intimidating, i once- along time ago- was with a guy who was sober, just out of work wiht a 6-pack in his trunk,  driving two us hwo HAD been drinking to another friend's house. He was stopped for a crooked bumper of all things at 2AM. They searched his trunk, and made him pour out the beer roadside BECAUSE HE HAD NO RECEIPT to prove he just bought it. They Strip Searched him on the side of the {country} road too! They let us all go with 'container' tickets. The Judge threw them all out....so I then started collecting receipts any time I bought alcohol.

One clerk I explained it too, thought I was joking. Then one day I came in and she told me her story: she was coought in a police sting, and ordered to pull over to the side of the road..why? because she just got out  of work and was going to a friend's party. SHe was to bring a box of vino, and she had it sitting in the back seat without a bag or receipt, they gave her a hassle, a real hassle, but eventually let her go and warned her to get a receipt and bag next time!

Talk about intimidating!

Geeked

-G .

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 HO and N Scale.

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, August 15, 2015 8:19 AM

RideOnRoad

Ulrich: It pains me to hear what you are continually asked to endure. I wish there was more I could say than you are in our thoughts and prayers. Hang in there, Big Guy! ("Big Guy" -- a term of endearment.)

 

SO is the term "old man" when one is of the same rough age or older!

Mr. Ulrich: I have sent a reply to your reply in the PM!

see, yas,

later

Geeked

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Posted by RideOnRoad on Saturday, August 15, 2015 7:21 AM

Ulrich: It pains me to hear what you are continually asked to endure. I wish there was more I could say than you are in our thoughts and prayers. Hang in there, Big Guy! ("Big Guy" -- a term of endearment.)

Richard

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, August 15, 2015 3:13 AM

Sir Madog

I am dead tired, but I still have to stay up for a little while to take my night pills. I have to take those antibiotics every 8 hours - rather precisely, as my doc told me.

 

 
galaxy
Herr Ulrich

 

Galaxy - I know you don´t mean it that way, but in Germany using the term Herr with one´s first name is considered to be quite rude. In Austria, one may address the waiter in a coffee house like this, but only if this person knows your title and last name.

Difficult etiquette, isn´t it?

 

Mr. Ulrich:

Here, in the USA, adding "Mr" in front {of even just the first name} is a sign of respect, even though it is casual in nature...

sorry.

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, August 15, 2015 3:11 AM

Mr. Ulrich: I Sent you a PM!

Geeked

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, August 15, 2015 2:26 AM

GM, MEN!

HEALTH, WEALTH, HAPPINESS for ALL!

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!

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Posted by galaxy on Saturday, August 15, 2015 2:23 AM

cudaken

 Galaxy When did I say you where normal? Smile, Wink & Grin If the basment is has the same foot print as the house 1800 sq feet is bigger than my house.

Ken: It is ONLY 990sf finished above grade, and only 128 sf below {in the basement} so a total of 1118 sf FINISHED totally. MORE than half the basement is unfinished than not,and contains the oil burner boiler, the oil tank, the water heater, the laundry sink, etc is down there, all spread out over the unfinished part, so without moving it all to one side to a closet, or something, it would be unfinishable. only the side that is "finished" with drywall ceiling tiles and a rug  is useable.

DArn the luck though, we are really only in a position right now of getting land on which to build, not to get a whole house,

once again, we are "a day late and a dollar short!"

dunno.

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Posted by cudaken on Friday, August 14, 2015 9:57 PM

 Evening Dinners

 Flo, Beer please

 Work Front Whistling Well that covers that.

 Fence Front Been readin a little about pressured treated wood tonight. I now understand the rating system (well to a point). I need to find ground contact rated lumber in 2X10 inch and there is none to be had at the Big Box Stores. Need to check some lumber yards.

 Little worried about YGW not dropping by. I am sure he is just busy, but with the new ticker problem we don't know.

 Galaxy When did I say you where normal? Smile, Wink & Grin If the basment is has the same foot print as the house 1800 sq feet is bigger than my house.

 Not feeling great tonight so I am heading inside, Ken

   

 

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Posted by up831 on Friday, August 14, 2015 6:50 PM

Good Evening Diners,

Flo, I'll have an Earl Grey tea with cream and honey, please.

Galaxy:  That seems to be a decent house for a nominal fee.  Of course, you have to assess your situation, but that one looks livable.  Sounds like one of the main selling points is dry MRR space. 

Big SmileCool

Hello to Ulrich, Garry, Ken, YGW, Dennis, James, Ray, John Boy, and anyone I may have missed.

Salads tonight for dinner.  Leaf lettuce, celery, a little hard boiled egg, red bell pepper slices, cucumber slice, shredded cheddar, cashews, imitation bacon bits, and blue cheese dressing.  Maybe a little ice cream for dessert, and it'll be dream land for sure.

I'd like a little Pinot Noir with that but MOH doesn't like much wine and when she does it's usually a white.  Don't feel much like opening a bottle just for myself.

Prayers to all with current health issues.

I hope everyone is OK and safe.

Less is more,...more or less!

Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, August 14, 2015 5:36 PM

galaxy

 

 
Sir Madog

I am dead tired, but I still have to stay up for a little while to take my night pills. I have to take those antibiotics every 8 hours - rather precisely, as my doc told me.

 

 
galaxy
Herr Ulrich

 

Galaxy - I know you don´t mean it that way, but in Germany using the term Herr with one´s first name is considered to be quite rude. In Austria, one may address the waiter in a coffee house like this, but only if this person knows your title and last name.

Difficult etiquette, isn´t it?

 

 

 

LOL,,, Ulrich is FAR easier to type than your last name!!!

Mr. Ulrich!

Geeked

 

 

In the USA, we have several four letter words which are rude to say the least. 

LOL 

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Posted by galaxy on Friday, August 14, 2015 4:53 PM

Sir Madog

I am dead tired, but I still have to stay up for a little while to take my night pills. I have to take those antibiotics every 8 hours - rather precisely, as my doc told me.

 

 
galaxy
Herr Ulrich

 

Galaxy - I know you don´t mean it that way, but in Germany using the term Herr with one´s first name is considered to be quite rude. In Austria, one may address the waiter in a coffee house like this, but only if this person knows your title and last name.

Difficult etiquette, isn´t it?

 

LOL,,, Ulrich is FAR easier to type than your last name!!!

Mr. Ulrich!

Geeked

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 14, 2015 2:42 PM

I am dead tired, but I still have to stay up for a little while to take my night pills. I have to take those antibiotics every 8 hours - rather precisely, as my doc told me.

galaxy
Herr Ulrich

Galaxy - I know you don´t mean it that way, but in Germany using the term Herr with one´s first name is considered to be quite rude. In Austria, one may address the waiter in a coffee house like this, but only if this person knows your title and last name.

Difficult etiquette, isn´t it?

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Posted by galaxy on Friday, August 14, 2015 2:07 PM

Johnboy, now you see what we are up against....always "a day late and a dollar short"!!!

 

Herr Ulrich: glad to see you, when i late had pnuemonia, I had: a viral infection,and a bacterial infection and a fugal infection all at once, I had two oppotunistic infections set in while I had the pnuemonia. I was hospitalized for 3 weeks! good luck ot you.

Ulrich: i will send you a PM later, OK, you can read it on your tomorrow!

Geeked

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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Friday, August 14, 2015 12:49 PM

Whistling

 Galaxy,  I got the PM.

Don't know why it didn't come through last evening but it was here this morning.

Cheers and Good luck.

Johnboy out...............

from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North.. 

We have met the enemy,  and he is us............ (Pogo)

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 14, 2015 11:48 AM

Good Evening, Folks!

just a short stop here to say I am still around. I feel really miserable - adding to the pneumonia, I have now developed otitis of the middle ear, which is a rather painful affair. My dosis of antibiotics has been tripled to cope with that and the pneumonia.

I just wonder what will be coming up next?

Blessings to you!

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Posted by galaxy on Friday, August 14, 2015 9:25 AM

Johnboy: I added it as a reply to our previous PM entitled 

"Card ,kind thoughts and prayers for Running Bear"

Let me know if you still have that one, it's one reason I NEVER delete all PMs from/to someone, I ALWAYS save at least ONE!

I STILL have PM's from our dear departed Jeffrey....

Let me check someting you siad July..let me look and see when that one was last used..I may have to correct the PM I sent you, but YOU let me know if you got the one above!

Please!

-G

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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Friday, August 14, 2015 9:08 AM

Whistling

Morning Galaxy,

If PM. was sent, it didn't get here. The Last PM. we had on my list was in July.

Please try again.

Johnboy out.......................

from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North.. 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, August 14, 2015 9:04 AM

Good morning.

Uncle Bob ... That is funny.

We still have one grand daughter with us. The older of the two Cincinnati grand daughhters went home with our DIL. .... We took the younger one horse riding yesterday. 

I only had a few minutes to work on the building for my a layout. It will be a plumbing supply house whenever I complete it. 

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Posted by Uncle_Bob on Friday, August 14, 2015 5:55 AM

galaxy

GM, MEN!

Today's word:

meteoric

 

PRONUNCIATION:
(mee-tee-OR-ik) http://wordsmith.org/words/meteoric.mp3

 

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Relating to a meteor or a meteorite.
2. Resembling a meteor in speed, brilliance, suddenness, or transience.
3. Coming from the atmosphere (used to describe water); meteorological.

 

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French meteore, from Latin meteorum, from Greek meteoron (raised in the air), from meta- (among) + aeirein (to raise). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wer- (to raise), which also gave us air, aura, aorta, artery, and arterious. Earliest documented use: 1612.

 

USAGE:
Despite his meteoric climb up the corporate ladder, there was something missing for Anderson.”
Brad Davidson; Gamble of His Life; The Gold Coast Bulletin (Southport, Australia); Jul 11, 2015.

 

NOTES:

 

In the above mixed metaphor, visualize the image of a meteor climbing a ladder, one rung a time. At any rate, ever wondered why we talk about a ‘meteoric rise’ when meteors always come down?

 
Today's quotes:
 
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)

 
 

Huh -- I thought there'd be a definition that involved SAL's flagship for sure.

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Posted by Uncle_Bob on Friday, August 14, 2015 5:53 AM

howmus

 

 
Uncle_Bob
Ray, I've tried PM'ing you a couple times, but they keep getting eaten, so here goes. I'm originally from Elmira, went to college in "10 square miles surrounded by reality" (Ithaca), and currently live on the outskirts of Endicott.

 

Hi Bob!  Interesting, I got my Masters Degree from Elmira College back in 1975 while teaching music in Waverly, NY.  My father was the first oboist to ever get his Bachelors Degree from Ithaca College.  You go to college at Cornell or Ithaca?

73

 

I went to the school on the higher hill (IC).  My brother went to Cornell.  It was fun looking down on the Ivy Leaguers from South Hill!  Dad got an MEd from EC in '68 or '69.

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Posted by galaxy on Friday, August 14, 2015 4:56 AM

GM, MEN!

Today's word:

meteoric

 

PRONUNCIATION:
(mee-tee-OR-ik) http://wordsmith.org/words/meteoric.mp3

 

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Relating to a meteor or a meteorite.
2. Resembling a meteor in speed, brilliance, suddenness, or transience.
3. Coming from the atmosphere (used to describe water); meteorological.

 

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French meteore, from Latin meteorum, from Greek meteoron (raised in the air), from meta- (among) + aeirein (to raise). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wer- (to raise), which also gave us air, aura, aorta, artery, and arterious. Earliest documented use: 1612.

 

USAGE:
Despite his meteoric climb up the corporate ladder, there was something missing for Anderson.”
Brad Davidson; Gamble of His Life; The Gold Coast Bulletin (Southport, Australia); Jul 11, 2015.

 

NOTES:

 

In the above mixed metaphor, visualize the image of a meteor climbing a ladder, one rung a time. At any rate, ever wondered why we talk about a ‘meteoric rise’ when meteors always come down?

 
Today's quotes:
 
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)

 

-G .

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Posted by galaxy on Thursday, August 13, 2015 9:35 PM

Uncle Bob,

Many houses around here {we live 3 blocks away} have radon mitigations system. so we are sure we will need one.

What really surprised me is: the basemet, even with settling cracks was DRY as  BONE adn NO EVIdence of leakage! amny homes aroudn here have sumps in the basement, and after flood of 2011 had plled all crap out of basements, either cause sump failed, or due to flooding of seepage of water, this one showed NO SIGNS of ANY mosutre at all! adn there wasold dry wall in the "bonus room down stairs, but the carpet there had been torn up, so we couls see hte dry floor. NO MOISTURE on hte old drywall, was in great shape for being in  abasment!

well, we shall probably ahve to let this dream pass, we are ALWAYS a day late and a dollar short!

JOHNBOY: I sent you a PM!

later

Geeked

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, August 13, 2015 9:30 PM

Uncle_Bob
Ray, I've tried PM'ing you a couple times, but they keep getting eaten, so here goes. I'm originally from Elmira, went to college in "10 square miles surrounded by reality" (Ithaca), and currently live on the outskirts of Endicott.

Hi Bob!  Interesting, I got my Masters Degree from Elmira College back in 1975 while teaching music in Waverly, NY.  My father was the first oboist to ever get his Bachelors Degree from Ithaca College.  You go to college at Cornell or Ithaca?

73

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by Uncle_Bob on Thursday, August 13, 2015 9:07 PM

Ray, I've tried PM'ing you a couple times, but they keep getting eaten, so here goes. I'm originally from Elmira, went to college in "10 square miles surrounded by reality" (Ithaca), and currently live on the outskirts of Endicott.  My brother used to live outside DC, so several times a year I drove down to see him.  I also took day trips beyond number to wander around Gettysburg.  Despite going by the Rockville Bridge, I never tried to take pics there because I don't know a safe spot to park (though there must be one -- otherwise, we'd have no pics of it or Enola Yard).  Since my mom's dad worked for the PRR and PC, it's not surprising that I like the Pennsy.  However, my N scale layout is planned to be Lackawanna/EL and LV, loosely based on the area between Bingo and Elmira.

Sorry for my verbosity.  Oops

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, August 13, 2015 8:44 PM

Evenin' folks!

Janie, a cup of hot decaf would hit the spot right now...

Heh, heh, heh...... Big SmileCoolCool  Everybodies evening snacks are on me tonight!  I have as of this evening hit the "Holy Grail" of owning and driving a PiP.   I had to fill up the car with fossilized dinosaur dung as I will be driving to Ithaca tomorrow and then to the Museum (Rochester) on Saturday and Sunday and I had a bit less than a quarter tank left.  The odometer in the car said I had driven 710 miles on this tank of gas.  I filled the tank with 7.1 gal. of the fossel fuel.  The computer in the car was off by one mpg if the other items were on the money.  The car said I had done 101mpg on this tank.  The fill up was 100mpg.... Cool

My son helped me move the overgrown Jade Plant out on the deck and the Table I use for plants to the back porch before his Unemployment Ins. check in today.  The girls and I played Wii, first bowling, then Super Mario Bros.  I was a good grandpa and lost every time we played.....

 Galaxy, I like the house.  If you can, go for it!  It feels good here to be finally weeding out all the crap I have kept for about 30 years....  I had to put out the trash and recycling bins tonight and both are filled right to the brim once again.  I will have a full carload to take to the County household hazardous waste day as well.

Took the boys to the vet today for their annual exam and booster shots.  Manét was first as Blackie saw me bring out the car carrier and promptly ran through the dining room around through the kitchen down the hall, jumped on the bed then onto the floor on the other side of the bed, and then hid under the bed.....  Manét was in sleeping on the bed and awoke as Blackie jumped on the bed.  Looked at him as if to say, "what the heck is wrong with you?"  So....  I quickly petted Manét for a second and then gathered him into my arms and stuffed him into the carrier.  He protested the whole way (only a block away) and had to be dragged out of the carrier when he was in the exam room.  His weight is the same and appears to be in good health.  She did find a small spot on his chin that she said to watch, but thinks it is benign.  Blackie had reappeared when I brought Manét back home so he was gathered up for his trip there.  He was not pleased!  Vet got his blood sugar read and gave him a thorough exam.  His blood sugar was 178.  Right where she wants it!  His weight is 19lbs. 8oz. and is a healthy cat for having diabetes.  He has lost his other lower fang though.

The boys are now officially Senior citizens at the age of 14.  I hope they stay healthy for several more years.  They are sweet kitties.

Prayers for all in need!  Have a great night...

73

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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