Mornin.... Ah... OK, Afternoon folks!
Zoe, since your still on duty, I could use a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee for my FGLK Mug and a handful of those gingerbread cookies Ulrich brought in to tide me over until lunch.
Have the same weather here in the Finger Lakes Region as Barry has to the North today. Yesterday the solar panels churned out a whole 1/2kWh for me.... That is about 2.2 miles worth of driving in the PiP... Today won't be much better. But December and January are the worst months due to several factors so it is normal. A few days with some sun and they will have the best December yet totally.
Was supposed to make a run to Canandaigua this afternoon to drop of a pile of checks for the MLK Scholarship and get a couple signatures on the petition... One of the two guys won't be home this afternoon so I will postpone until Monday or Tuesday to make the run. I will make a trip down Seneca Lake to buy some Mead and Hard Cider for my son and his wife for Christmas instead. Should also finish the repairs on the girder bridge today. May even get more paint on it, who knows.
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!
BroadwayLion zstripe Lion....Watch Your Mail...next couple day's... LION watch mail. Package arrived. Has an ARMY inside. Hundreds of LPPs, some a little pail looking, but some paints will fix that right up. Layout of LION needs many LPPs, so now we are off to a good start! Many thanks form the LION and the Council of Felids! Now who has that box of glazed donuts! ROAR
zstripe Lion....Watch Your Mail...next couple day's...
LION watch mail. Package arrived. Has an ARMY inside. Hundreds of LPPs, some a little pail looking, but some paints will fix that right up. Layout of LION needs many LPPs, so now we are off to a good start!
Many thanks form the LION and the Council of Felids!
Now who has that box of glazed donuts!
ROAR
Glad You got them LION......''Merry Christmas''.
Who said Monks can't have gifts?
Oh!! I was going to send You the Lion's I used in the Lions and Ladders thread.....but decided to keep them for awhile for a few more pic's. LOL.
Take Care, All.
Frank
pausing while loading packed up items....to go over.
Spent $233 atr wally world getting new curtains and rods and ect for the kitchen adn 3 season room. MOH left it up to me, but boy, if I DON'T make good choices, I HEAR ABOUT it\!!!
Speaking of cats..Cud Cuds is sitting here begging for attention...he deons't understand why pop-pop goes aweay and stuff is going out the door, hes been uking lately A LOT, so he is probably stresswed like his parnets are. He will be one fo the last things to go over!
Well, I'd best get at it again before i loose steam {train-ly speaking!}
later
-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.
Howdy
Galaxy ... SOunds like you are prgressing with moving to the new place. Hopefully, you can find a little model railroading time in the near future.
Frank ... I actually had a little time to work on the White tractor. Not much yet, but the part are filed and cleaned now. ... The front bumper is cast into the plastic, and about a 1/4 of it was already broken off when I opened the package. I think it can easily be super-glued back together.
I forgot to say earlier that today is our oldest daughter's birthday. It is hard to beleive she is now 45. Where did all of those years go ?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Evening Dinners
Flo, a Beer Please
BoS Front Well, I did it and applied for the new loan. Few things are not what I was sort of told. Woman said I could not be turned down, well seems now I could be but still a good chance I will get it. Was told it would be quick! Well, I guess 2 months is quick, I think the first one took 3 months or so. I was told my credit use was not a problem, hum now it is? That means I cannot get the pre-approved Visa card I have on the desk. No big loss, was not in a hurry for it anyway.
Mr B I had checked a few months back about using a driffrent bank. There would have been a higher out of pocket cost, plus while I hate BoS it seemed simpler. But, what was I thinking, it is Bank Of Stupid after all!
Galaxy Cud Cuds is still in the trailer? Is your other half still there as well?
Jerry Front Spent 2 hours trying to straighten out 15 minutes of paper work. Guy still cannot add or follow the cheat sheets I have made for him. All so cannot find the store yellow copys of paper work. Guess the file cabinet is to complex for him to understand?
Why do I get all of the Speical Need Employees?
Ken
I hate Rust
Ken: It took nearly 3 months to close on the house after offer was accepted! so no, 2 months wait to close on new loan not so good...I'd do as someone above sugested, shop around for trhe VA loan ELSEWHERE! See what you get told there, nad get AWAQY FORM BOS! Cud CUds and MOH stay at the trailer and I at teh new hosue so both are occupied while the move is in transition. We thought about moving cud cuds already, but he is stressed as stuff keeps going out and Pop-pop {me} omnly comes to visit now! His world is getting rocked! He usually sleeps ont he bed from breakfast to a bout 1 pm, but now his bed is GONE! He sleeps on the couch now where MOH sleeps until the move is complete,.
The park will take over the trailer as they won't allow us to sell it,and they wnat to pull it out at their expense. They only wnat pitched shingled roofed vinyl sided trailers in here now nad ours is round roof aluminum siding. We won't get any money, and they won't charge us for hauling it away. It may be our tgrailer, but it is in the lease all sales must be approved by the park Mgmt company,s o we are stuck. Our contractor frined will come sunday wiht his frined to look at it to determine if they can do somehting with it in exchange for some labor onthe house and put it on thier own land . it will be a trade deal, the trailer will get pulled to satisfy the park and we get some free labor at the new hosue instead of total loss.
We will see what sunday brings, the contractor can obvioulsy fix it up to sell or rent or to let fanily live in it onhis property.
That will determine the disposition of the trailer.
well, thats it.
GM, Men!
Today's word:
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.- Author Unknown
"I put it in a VIP -Very Important Place- and now I cannot find it!"
-Galaxy {me!}
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!
Good Morning
It is another dull day here..with little tiny snowfluffies flying abouts. High going to 29 today...yay.
Going to get the Xmas foodstuffs today as well as a few last minute giftie things..last minute guests showing up...
Ray: Same output here...but don't worry...apparently we are supposed to see a bit more sun in the next few days.
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/
Good Afternoon!
May I join Barry in his dull day? No snow flurries here, though - it is way too warm for the season, with the midday high at 55F! The weather guessers already commit themselves to a zero percent chance for a White Christmas
Well, only 5 days left until Christmas. I still have to develop that Christmas feeling, but I doubt I will succeed this year. Maybe if we had snow ...
I spent some time letting my miniature Glacier Express circle my layout - a very therapeutical experience, which leads me to the question how much layout one actually needs. I might ask that question in a separate thread - just to counteract that "Minimum radius in a modest layout" thread. If a layout filling a spare room is considered to be modest, I´d like to know what my layout is, then! Probably not more than a humble attempt
Galaxy - will you have finished the move by Christmas? Isn´t it an awkaward time to move house? Continue pulling for you!
Another one for Ray:
Cat-in-the-box!
Howdy everybody .
Why is it dull? ... Trains are never dull to me. ..... It has been quiet here so far today. So I went in the train room and ran trains. Three train at once. CB&Q freight train with SD24's. Cb&Q freight train with F7's. .. And a GN passenger train with F3's. All were running at the same time. ... I also worked a bit on the Sylvan Model White truck tractor. Glued tiny little pieces together. Will begin painting next.
It is a busy time of the year, and the rest of the day will be non-train stuff.
Ulrich .... Glad you are running your train. Hope you recovery soon. I like the cats you post.
Happy Model Railroading !
Mornin' everyone! Well.. It is still morning for 4 more minutes here in the Finger lakes....
Zoe, I need another pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee to keep me awake and moving I think.
Barry, we have had a few slivers of sunshine today, but stil;l very overcast and chilly out. Currently 31°F under cloudy skies and a 17mph wind from the West.
Ulrich, how do you find those GIFs? Adorable little kittens!
I went down to the SERRV Shop at my church to pretty much finish my Christmas Shopping. Only need to go to the Fine Chocolate Store in Canandaigua to get some Chocolates to give out to the more distant relatives of my DIL... Now I have to see if I have enough wrapping paper and bnows and all that STUFF to finsh the job.
Actually have the decals all put on the girder bridge as of last night. Did find a few things I had left off that I added after this photo was taken. I will be painting the bridge this afternoon and starting the scenery that will be the "other end" of the bridge.
Have a good one!
Mr B, I used to be heavily into exercise, but it decreased over time, and pretty much stopped once I got married. If layout construction ever starts, that will get me away from the tv and my snack bowl. Still, I need to do something.
So, I wolfed a sandwich between work and the doctor's office. I got out of the car, and found out they'd moved. Back into the car, off to the new office, get weighed,and into the exam room. You've gained weight. Okay. Let's take your vitals. Okay so far. Let's check your blood sugar. How often do you check it? Never. What? No one told me to, and no two people have the same diagnosis. *** my finger, read the number, and it was either 112 or 122 -- either way, I don't know what it means, butt it's thrown off by the fact I just ate. LPN leaves, nurse practitioner enters. She says it's good to see me, but she didn't need to see me for several more months -- someone scheduled me when they shouldn't have. BP is good (but worse than when I saw her before, when she said it was high). You need a BP cuff. (Not as much as I need a bunch of lumber, but....) Your sugar's good, but you're still borderline because your something else related to sugar is 6.2. (My pulmonologist told me there are multiple scales for diabetes diagnosis, so it's hard to nail this down. Still, I don't know what the numbers mean, which makes me kind of wonder if it's not partly a way to scare people into becoming repeat customers and drug addicts, while having their internal chemistry changed, but who knows.) Also, you need a flu shot, and we're changing some of your meds. See you in six months.
So anyway,ive been thinking of adding some of these BLI steamers because my grandfather worked for the Pennsy, but the latest batch seems underwhelming if the reviews here are accurate. I'd have to hear one to make a final decision, but the nearest BLI dealers either don't have them in stock, are a haul, or are in cities I try to avoid in winter, so it'd basically be buying a pig (or a lollipop or hippo, anyway) in a poke.
Sir MadogAnother one for Ray: Cat-in-the-box!
Looks like my Callista. She used to be a small kitten like that, but she grew up to be a cat.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Afternoon folks...
Chloe, a cup of hot chocolate would be wonderful right now. Need to keep my blood sugar up you know.
Uncle_BobYour sugar's good, but you're still borderline because your something else related to sugar is 6.2.
Bob, the 6.2 would be your A1C. That is a long term average of some blood thingie that tells what your sugar has been doing over a three month period. 6.2 is in the "it;s OK but we would like it a bit lower" range. For someone who is diabettic, they want it below 7.0. Mine has been hanging in there at 5.7 - 5.8 for the last 5 years and my doctor is very happy about it. Of course I take JanuMet twice a day and test my blood twice a day. 112 or 122 after eating is not bad at all... They want it under 150 two hours after you eat a meal. I try to have mine under 140. I wouldn't worry too much about your blood sugar with those readings. The A1C is a better check of how you are doing than individual blood tests according to my Doc.
Got a Christmas card from an old friend and Collegue from Waverly yesterday. He let me know there was a nice memorial Service for the man who the pastor of our church way back when I first was teaching. I just did an online search and found his Obituary... I'm a bit down about it. He was the most off the wall minister I ever met. One day I was coming out of the local Post Office in town, when a Honda 950 motorcycle roared up next to me driven by a guy with a patch over one eye, black leather jacket, smoking a huge cigar! He yells over at me, "Hey Ray! Just wanted to let you know that our Director of Music just turned her resignation earlier today. Don't know if that means a ..... thing to you but if your interested, give me a holler!" ROOOOAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!! That was how I became Director of Music at the church. I taught 3 of his children and was a good friend of his and his wife during that time. Among other things he only had one eye (lost one in an accident in college) and we used to go flying around at night in his Cessna. He is the man who brought me back to the church and solidified my belief system. Wonderfully devout but totally off the wall in so many ways. RIP Rev. Richard E. Ploth!
OK, back to w*rk! Got a lot still to get done today.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Dennis if you get bored, you could always fill an idle hour making Christmas Decoration "paper chains" out of Cherrios! LOL
Good Evening Diners,
Brunhilda, I'll have a cup of Earl Grey tea with cream and honey, please.
Feeling a bit under the weather today. Spent most of morning in bed and taking it easy. Right now watching Chicago Wolves hockey on TV, waiting for MOH to come home.
V8 Dennis: That sounds like a real deal on Cheerios. Sure hope you like them.
MOH obtained Blackhawks tickets as a prize from vendor party. I've only seen 2 live hockey games so it should be a lot of fun. The thing that surprised me most when I actually saw hockey live was how much the puck is actually in the air. It isn't apparent on TV.
Ray: you r bridge is a really good model.
Has anyone heard from YGW? He had mentioned some health problems. Hope he's ok.
Hi to everyone.
I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Hey guys
Accessing from my smart phone. I figured out finally I don't have to be at the outer to at least post. I am probably a better typist here due to autocorrect!!!
Cud cuds is so confused we were packing more stuff and out the door it goes. I spent some time snuggling with him as he really misses his pop-pop and doesn't understand why pop-pop only visits now and is always packing stuff and hauling it out the door!
Tired and past my bedtime so I will close now.
Make it a great restful night and see you early tomorrow morning.
-G
Flo Beer Please.
Just sitting here sipping watching the trains run trying to forget yet another day with Jerry.
Train Front Question Have you ever wonder why a engine can make it around the layout say 10 times then start picking turnout? Let it sit a few days, and it is fine again? Do they get tired and don't want to play anymore?
Later, Ken
Morning diners,
I bought a PS4 Star Wars live pass for the year. I decided to get it because they were offering double the points unit Monday. Me and dad were playing almost all day sharing the controller.
Not many of those moments, the last time it was around 10 years ago with the Star Wars Battlefront 2 back in 2005-2006. I let his mind off the casino for the time being.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
cudaken Train Front Question Have you ever wonder why a engine can make it around the layout say 10 times then start picking turnout? Let it sit a few days, and it is fine again? Do they get tired and don't want to play anymore? Later, Ken
Ken: i am old and tired, and Sometimes,I don't want to play this game anymore either!
lol
GM, Men, back at the puter.
Today's word: {read the notes}
Today's quotes:
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -Muriel Rukeyser, poet and activist (15 Dec 1913-1980)
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
If you *** us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
FOR RAY:
If music be the food of love, play on.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
on that note, I will part from you for the day!
We have sun!! Glorious sun!!...and all day yet!!! YAY!!!
Ahem...going up to 38 here today....
Seeing as how we are sunny today I'll be doing a walk in the outside air...to our diner down the road...
Ken: I get that happening here sometimes with my lokes...I have no clue as to the why. BTW...Did Jerry have some kind of concussion at some point?
Welb...Chloe, I'll have the super big breakfast platter and the 50 cup urn of rawcaffeine please. Thank you!
How can you tell if a LEOPARD has been in the diner?
There are spots on the floor!
ROARING
Good morning. ...... Coffee and a pecan roll please.
Galaxy ... The phrase, cherry picking, is often appllicable for certain people who try to talk others into doing things.
Ken ... Regarding a locomotive that may pick a switch maybe 1 out of 20 time .... One possibility is wheels are slightly out of guage on one axle, and sometimes it bumps into the switch point with just enough force to lift it off the rail, Most times, it may lift, but drop back where it belongs. Other times, it drops on the wrong side of the rails.
We're going to late morning church, and I'm going to be a reader at 4th Sunday of Advent service. See you later.
Edit .... Lion.... That's funny
G'mornin', all. It will be a chilly one here, probably not touching 40, but Wednesday the predicted high is 64 with some rain. I don't think we'll be skiing this week. Our usual place, Sunday River, has only 25 trails open out of about 140, so it's limited and probably not worth 3 hours in the car each way. This is going to be a terrible year for the ski areas in New England.
Ken, one thing I've noticed is that I got more reliable performance over turnouts, specifically Atlas, if I throw the troublemakers a few times at the start of a session. That insures that they are solidly in place and haven't vibrated and shifted. It seems to work for me.
Dennis, how long does it take you to get through a box of Cheerios? I'm not that big a cereal guy, maybe 3 times a week, and I like to rotate between varieties, so it would take me months to go through that many boxes. Are they still fresh when you get to them?
Ray, I'm looking forward to seeing that bridge in place.
UP831, if you haven't been to a hockey game in a while, one thing you will notice is the "entertainment" between periods while they're making the ice. A group of young ladies skate around, doing maintenance with snow shovels and tossing T-shirts to the crowd. In Chicago, they wear attractive shirts with "Ice Crew" on the back. Say that a few times in a row to get the double meaning.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Heartland Division CB&Q Galaxy ... The phrase, cherry picking, is often appllicable for certain people who try to talk others into doing things.
Garry, how did you know that I was trying to get someone to comment on this post?
Lol
Well I was going to convert my old 13" analog TV to a digital antenna, but by the time I buy a converter box and the d. Antenna, I might as well buy a new digital TV.
We don't NEED another TV, but I have been w/o TV for a month now, and it was driving me nuts with radio only. We will move the TV and cable closer to final move.
So I bought a $17 digital antenna, and a 24" digital TV @ Wally world. I only wanted the 19" TV but they fly out so fast they were out if stock. The TV will go in the 3 season room eventually or stay in the finished basement when done, so no night.
I found 9 channels with the antenna, but 2 are not coming in. So 7 local channels and about all we watch.
I think when we move the cable we buy a modem or if possible use the WiFi and hard wire the desktop to it. Then drop the few extra channels of TV we get and drop our bill from $85/m to just $49/ m for just the ' net. I will see what moh says when home from work.
That's extra $$$to go towards the basement finishing after we pay off a few things.
Good evening Folks!
It´s been a rather uneventful 4th Sunday of Advent here, but I actually don´t mind. I don´t feel well today.
Ray - here is a link to the cat pictures!
Galaxy - we use the free terrestrial digital thing, but it is limited to about 30 channels, none of them having a program worth watching. They will upgrade it to HD by next year, requiring us to buy either a new TV set or at least a new external receiver. It´ll have more channels, but what´s the use of having more channel we won´t watch?
Does anyone have an info on the whereabouts of YGW? I read he had some health issues to cope with - I hope he is OK! What´s up with Mark (Crhostler)?
Zoe, make that a mug of hot chocolate and a handful of brownies, please!
Good afternoon Diners - final rehersal after church for this evening's "Am Drams" (I'm a travel agent demonstrating a choice of vacations via interactive holographic technology - an old fax machine courtesy the props department!) It went well, and this evening should be fun!
cudakenTrain Front Question Have you ever wonder why a engine can make it around the layout say 10 times then start picking turnout? Let it sit a few days, and it is fine again? Whistling Do they get tired and don't want to play anymore? Smile, Wink & Grin
I've noticed the same thing Ken, and I'm wondering if it's the tension holding the (point?) rail against the (stock?) rail getting just a bit weak over repeated use. Metal recovers in the "off" period only to fatigue again the next long session. I've no idea if that has any kind of validity....anyone else??? - ah, I see Garry has a much beter explanation. Out of gauge whellsets can be a pain, especially when they meet jusy=out-of-gauge rails in turnouts! Difficult to diagnose sometimes; thanks Garry!
Later maybe - in the mean time this is for whoever whould like it..
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, I just need a cup of decaf for the moment. I will be heading out to my son's house in about a half hour... I have a new Sunday Job giving my #1 Granddaughter Guitar Lessons.... I was suopopoised tio bve doing trhga last year, but it just didn't work out. That and the dog peed on the book she had.... She is now at a better age to start seriously taking lessons and is very excited to have "Papa" be her teacher. I even got my axe out and got it tuned!
I was an usher at church this morning which I always enjoy. This was the "Pageant" Sunday and both girls were in it. #2 Granddaughter was the "Star" of the show.... litterally! She was one of the Angels and about the time the Wise People were supposed to show up she left the stage and ran to the back. She reappeared holding the star nice and high with the Wize People following her. I call them Wize People as there weren't enough boys in the Sunday School to have "Kings" this year so they were 3 young ladies. We don't make issues of those kinds of things anyway so the three Wize People came down holding what I guess was a box of gold, A bottle of local Reisling, and something else that I couldn't make out.... The Pageant was short and so was the sermon so It was a great service.
After the service ended I retrieved the expensive Microphone I lend for use each year, had some Plum Pudding and Punch, and headed home. Then had to get the grocery shopping done as I needed a birthday card for my DIL's Brother who's birthday is today and will be celebrated at Son's house during supper (after the guitar lesson...).
Sun has been shining most all day through a hazy sky, but it should be a good one for making kWh's. Still hoping to have the best December yet with the panels.
No model railroading will be taking place today here at my house. Catch you all later!