Hi Gang,
Sure hope you all have had an enjoyable Sabbath day. I didn't get to Church today as I had to work this week end. However, I have two days off now the work a day and a half and then four days off. looking forward to it.
Ulrich, You were asking about a couple of our regulars here. I haven't heard anything about YGW. lately but, Mark was in a short time ago and said he is having issues with a hip. Sounds like possibly a tumor or such. Hope all is well with both of them.
Lots of Christmas pageants and parties, sounds like all are having a very good time. We had ours a couple of weeks ago. They had issued decrees to all members, that apparently came from Ceasar Agustus, to come to Bethlehem to pay our taxes and when we got there the whole hall was done up like a business section in the old city, with market stalls selling fruit and pitas etc. that we got to pay for it by chocolate covered gold coins that we got when we entered. The Inn was there but they had no room for anyone, but the stable was available for awhile until a couple from the City of Nazareth arrived and they took that accomadation. It was followed by the pageant with the youth taking part. Very well done and all were enjoying thenselves with the new set-up that was done this year rather than sitting down, everyone got to roam around, buy (pretend to ) food drink and socialize until the entertainment started and then that was done in various locations in the city so that everyone got a close up of some of it.
Galaxy, Hope you get settled before Christmas, sounds like it is going pretty well for you even if it is slower than you would like.
Terry, What is happening up your way in Wisconsin this Christmas ? Haven't heard from you in awhile.
Ray, The Bridge looks like an award winner. great work...
I was having alittle difficulty with two of the three blue point turnout controllers I put in. One worked great right off and the others were put in with the same amount of care but just didn't want to throw the rails. I ended up pulling out the springs from the Pecos and now they work slick. I have to paint the concrete under the elevated station now and then clean the rail head, then I will be able to start the finishing work and details on the Station and get it back in place. I won't be finished it by Christmas, but I will put it in place for the holidays anyway.
Well my Grandson and his Dad just stopped by so I will go and spend some time with them.
Later Gators.. Til then,
Johnboy out.........
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Good Evening
Sun has been out all day today. It is now 41 out there...and our diner had its BBQ going for RIBZZZZ!!!!!!!. So I indulged in some.
We just got home from there to a bunch of phone messages...all from relatives coming up for Xmas... We are doing pot-luck this year.
Have a good evening!!
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I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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Evening Dinners
Flo, Please
Work Front We where a little busy, I think around 8 customers for the day and most where buyers. Nothing really worth smiling about, most nickle and dime stuff.
blownout cylinderDid Jerry have some kind of concussion at some point?
Yes Jerry did have one. Today was the first day he brought it up. (My self I would have spoke about it with the person I was working with as soon as we meet.) He told me the concussion effect his short term memory, that I will swear to! When I am not quzzing him about things I have showen him, he has a quick witt. I am starting to like him.
Hum, could it be a scam, I am not a real trusting soul anymore. He was rear ended and has a law suit going against State Farm. He told me It is only his short term memory that was effected! But yet he cannot do simple math? He all so may want me to come to court to testify he is ATE UP?
Far has why my Engines get tired? I am sure it is some stupid and simple! Personally, I think the Engines Hate Me!
YGW Great, now that we have Ulrich back, we have to worry about you!
Sure like to hear from Rob as well. I wonder how his new layout is coming?
Later, Ken
Friends 68 Charger I painted when I ran the Body Shop, I do miss it.
I hate Rust
Good Evening Diners,
Nothing tonight Brunhilda.
Just stopped in to let everyone know, I e-mailed YGW. He is OK. He has been extremely busy at work and plans to drop in next week. He said to say "Hi" to everyone.
However, his SIL is in the ICU and is in need of prayers. I'll defer to him to fill in details, but as I understand it she really needs prayers.
Hi to everyone, and I hope everyone is OK, safe, and warm.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
Good evening ....
UP831 ... Thanks for checking on YGW.
YGW ... Looking forward to when you have time to visit the Diner. Prayers for your SIL.
JohnBoy ... I hope you had a good time with your grandson.
Galaxy .... I suppose sometmes we cherry pick our words here in the Diner to stay out of trouble. Lately, Vinnie has been at ease, and that is fine with me.
Dennis in CA ... I hope your anuual trip to Oregon is enjoyable.
Ken ... The '68 charger looks great. Do you find yourself wishing you still had your old job ?
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Good Morning!
December 21st - the last day of Fall and the shortest day of the year! We will have only 7 hrs and 28 min of daylight today, with the sunrise having taken place at 8.34 am and the sunset at 4.02pm. It´s way too warm for the season! While we expect the daytime high at about 50F, southern Germany will enjoy a tropical heat wave with 63F. People will be better of celebrating Hanami - the Japanese cherry blossom festival - instead of waiting for Santa Claus to come!
Flo, I´ll have a Barry-sized breakfast, with lots of coffee, a breakfast bagel, a tall glass of OJ and a plate full of things I am not supposed to eat! Thank you!
Ken - loss of short-term memory? Well, that could have been caused by a concussion, but it could also be something a lot worse - like Alzheimer at an early stage! Whatever it is, Jerry seems to be in a state in which he should not be left all by himself.
Garry - thanks for updating us on the whereabouts of YGW!
Galaxy - how´s the move coming along? Will you be "reunited" for the holidays?
Petra and I will be doing the last grocery run before Christmas. Just a few things only, basically we are all set for the holidays. Petra will spend a lot of time in the kitchen during the next days, preparing all the goodies for Christian. I am glad I am allowed to have a few of them as well
Have a good one!
GM, Men!
Notgoing to the old house so won't do word of day. On smart phone chewing through gigs if data doing this!
I was going to email ygw to thanks for the update, I too was getting worried.
The thing about the smart phone is it anticipate s your words so you don't have to type everything and it autocorrect s but one has to be careful as it will spit out dirty word s that definitely are not allowed here!
Been chatting with city friend all weekend he's a goidea guy. Some words the smart phone messes up to o! Goidea=good!
Well I have alot to do before the plumber gets here this afternoon so no nap today! Grrrr...
Have MH therapy at9 am and lots to do . going to maithortgage payment with extra towards principle! That's the way to go. Putting about $1250 extr towards it.that is about 4 extra principle payments.
The park will haul off the trailer at their expense so that is what we do... Sign it over isn't worth much anyway. We will sell the new(er) appliances though..hope to get about $500-700 out ofthem on CL. I got to go take pictures of them and figure out how to post on CL. Anyone have tip??????
Well I'd best get going now.
Make it a great day.
-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.
Garry wrote
Thanks all. W**k has been extremely tough. We normally pump out one to two high end homes a month. Our investors required that we do FIVE in December ! Non stop action, lots of STRESS, Frustration etc...Especially this time of year many of the national builders are doing the same thing. Result is you just cannot buy a pianter, tile guy, finish plumber electrician etc... That makes it even harder with dead lines looming.
SIL - Three men beat the tar out of her. She has broken ribs, broken wrist, head trauma with a brain bleed and then they set her town house on fire (it is a total loss ) with her in it. She has third degree burns on her back. She is ICU her parents are taking care of her two boys who are 6 and 8 ( they lost everything to that they owned including their Christmas tree and presents ) . I tell you if they convict these guys and sentence them to death I am so angrythat they would do this to her and her little children I would volunteer to pull the lever to send them on their way to eternity.
Lion - LOL good joke
Ulrich man those are cute mini videos
Hello everyone and thanks to all who were concerned. Have to get back to W**K
TTYL
YGW
Good morning ..... It's a rain day here. I hope to find time to work on my Sylvan Models truck tractor. Of course, there are many other things to do having nothing to do with model railroading.
YGW ...... Your report about your SIL is absolutely shocking ! It gets my hackles up, and I don't even know your SIL. ..... Have suspects been arrested? Why would they do that? .... We'll be praying for her. Keep us informed. .... YGW: I just looked for your eamil address, but don't have it anymore. We are missing many email contacts in our email account because of screw-ups with the email provider. If you still have our email account, send a message if you get a chance.
Ulrich ... Still praying you have a speedy recovery.
Happy model railroading !
Good Morning
YGW: That is terrible what those ... I can't call them "people"...I'm at a loss for words.
We are getting rained on right now....high going to 46 out later.
We got most of the Xmas shopping done, now it is just the last minute stuff that we got to get.
Off to get some stuff done today...have a good'un!!
YGW - I am also at a loss of words on what happened to your SIL. There is a candle lit up in our church for her and her children!
Garry
Thanks I just sent a PM to you I tried twice I think it went through. Let me know if it didnt. My email address is in there.
Ulrich wrote "YGW - I am also at a loss of words on what happened to your SIL. There is a candle lit up in our church for her and her children!"
Blown out cylinder - Thanks
If you pray my SIL and her children really need your prayers now. She is not out of the woods and if she does pull through she will have a VERY LONG road to recovery if she ever fully recovers.
Yes they have arrested three men and the police are doing a homocide investigation. We dot know why they did this.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a couple sour cream glazed donuts to go along with a large pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee please.
YGW, please know your SIL and your whole family are in my prayers!
Going to be a busy day around these parts... Have to drive to Canandaigua to deposit some checks to the MLK Scholarship Fund, then stop at a couple NMRA Members to get their signatures on the petition. Tonight I promised the Grandmother of one of the Scouts in the Handicapped Troop that I would go to her Grandson's Piano Recital tonight in a nearby town. He is doing the Music Merit Badge with me so this will be used for one of his requirements for it. His grandmother is one of the leaders in the troop and will be having surgery today, so I told her I would be there at the recital in her place...
After a very good day yesterday for the electric, today is back to dark and dull, dull, dull as Barry would say...
Gotta get moving! 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!
Just about lunch time here - Soup and sandwhich special please Zoe.
last mountain & eastern hoggerLots of Christmas pageants and parties, sounds like all are having a very good time. We had ours a couple of weeks ago. They had issued decrees to all members, that apparently came from Ceasar Agustus, to come to Bethlehem to pay our taxes and when we got there the whole hall was done up like a business section in the old city, with market stalls selling fruit and pitas etc. that we got to pay for it by chocolate covered gold coins that we got when we entered. The Inn was there but they had no room for anyone, but the stable was available for awhile until a couple from the City of Nazareth arrived and they took that accomadation. It was followed by the pageant with the youth taking part. Very well done and all were enjoying thenselves with the new set-up that was done this year rather than sitting down, everyone got to roam around, buy (pretend to ) food drink and socialize until the entertainment started and then that was done in various locations in the city so that everyone got a close up of some of it.
Unusual idea Johnboy - I've sent it off to our "Drama and Events" person for filing... We've had "Live Nativities" with sheep courtesy of our friendly nieghbourhood sheep farmer - but this whole city moveable feast thing sounds intriguing. Thanks.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Der John .... Only $1.99 for lunch? At today's prices you would only get a Coke.
YGW.... No new PM's arrived, but I found an old thread and tried to reply to it.
I have a lot of trouble with this forum's PM messenging system. I can't start a conversation and I don't receive any from other forum members.
Here is the diner´s latest menue:
The staff will be pleased to serve any other meal or drink not included in the above menue!
Sir MadogYGW - I am also at a loss of words on what happened to your SIL. There is a candle lit up in our church for her and her children!
YGW, I hadn't read your post when I posted earlier. A few folks I know and I have been praying "in general" for your SIL as a result of your earlier posts. I've now extended that to a youth prayer chain at our church. They may be "just kids" but they are awesome pray-ers! PM me with names and general location if you're so inclined.
Hi Dennis, (V8- Vega)
Where did the year go. It seems like it was just a month ago that we were hearing about your sojourn to Oregon last year.
Well, anyway, time does move more quickly for us oldsters, But I want to wish you happy trails with your plane trip, rail trip, and reunion. Hope it all goes smooth for you and good weather to boot.
Merry Christmas, hear from you when you get back.
Johnboy out.................
OK guys, listen up:
A few weeks after I sent off the funds to Ulrich for his glasses someone sent an additional $100.00, and said if it was too late for Ulrich, keep it until someone else needs something.
What do you we do something, anything for YGW' s SIL?
FlowerS, clothing, presents for the kids for late Xmas, or New Years, or household goods, or medical bills? I can once again start a fund with the $100 dollars and we can build on top of that.
WHAT SAY YOU ALL?
Let me know immediately what you think here or in PM's if it is working.
Thanks guys, our be bright, but theirs is dim.
Awaiting replies
-G
OK guys, I have started the fund with the $100 and added to it.
This is for yougottawants' SIL's family.
PM me if you want to contribute, those of you who have saved my address it HAS changed!!!!!!
I have survived a house fire( electrical) and separately a Home invasion ( they break in while you are home, and in my case nailed me the floor after knocking me over the head and held a large hunting knife to my throat).
So I know what devastating effects Can be for such events, but no where near what his SIL survived!
PM for my new address to send contributions to, lets see if we can really make a difference!!!!
Thanks, let us remember the less fortunate as we celebrate ourholidays!
Thanks for any help no matter how small you think it is!
Before we start sending money to Galaxy, it would be worth checking with YGW to see if there is already a ”Go-Fund-Me" or similar account ready set up.
Richard
RideOnRoad Before we start sending money to pGalaxy, it would be worth checking with YGW to see if there is already a ”Go-Fund-Me" or similar account ready set up.
Before we start sending money to pGalaxy, it would be worth checking with YGW to see if there is already a ”Go-Fund-Me" or similar account ready set up.
I tried sengig him a PM from my phone here, but won't go through. I also have his email. I will find out. If there is outrage from the community in which she lives, probably is.,I will have to wait until tomorrow at the computer.
Even if there iS a GFM account, we can still do our own just from his Train MRR buddies, so he/ she will know how much we appreciate him here.
Just an idea,if it dies out here, I tried at least instead of sitting idly by.
Nobody HAS to contribute here.
If we can do it for our beloved Jeffrey wimberly for a new roof afo for Ulrich's glasses, I think we can and should for YGW's family!
Flo, please
YGW I am so sorry to hear about your SIL, I am glad they caught the Son Of Female Dogs. To bad we still don't have stoning in the states.
BoS Update Just recived about 30 pages of junk from them. Seems they want to do a home inspection before they do the new loan? Now that is what my wife said, she opned it up before I got home. If she is right I am screwed, house needs $15,000 to $40,000 worth of work. I did ask about a home equality loan when I applied but my credit score was to low at 668.
Will read the paper work at work Tuesday. Good chances my wife was wrong or knowing BoS they sent the wrong paper work. Right now I feel like bailing on the house and get a cheap apartment.
Gary Yes at times I really miss the old job!
Ken
Today's word:
Hey, Guys:
Good morning:
I have both emailed YGW at his regular email, and PM'd him here to find out about any other existing funding projects going on.
BUT: I think we can do ourselves a good deed and take up a collection for his SIL's family here, exclusively from us, to show him what a caring bunch of guys we are. You guys trusted me to raise for Ulrich and our beloved Jeffrey, for whom this diner was renamed, I think I can handle it if we get something going. I helped raise over $2500 for Jeffrey's roof repairs, and over $1k for Ulrich's needed glasses.
Our estemeed Steve Otte never objected to my raising money for Jeffrey's roof, nor for Ulrich's glasses, so I see no problem there.
NO ONE HAS to contribute, if you can't or don't want to, that is fine.
I have survived both a house fire in the middle of the night, and a separate Home invasion breakin, where they break in while you are home, threaten and/or harm you with a weapon, and clean you out. I have an appreciation for what she must have gone trough, though I survived relatively unscathed.
AS I posted before, I received a late donation for Ulrich's glasses after I had already wired the funds to him, and was instructed to " If it's too late for Ulrich, keep it for the next needed effort". I see that effort now!!! I will have to look up who was the generous sole and let him know what the $100 is now being used foor, as I still have ALL the records and envelopes and letters from the fundraising efforts previously.
I will match the $100,and that makes it now $200. I will keep you posted as the funds collect, if they materialize, keeping your private information intact.
I know that the economy is not the best, the holidays are upon us, and belt tightening has happened everywhere. WE ourselves, after buying the house, and having the contractor in, the electrician in and the plumber in, plus purchases for the house, are about broke, but I have found the matching funds for YGW's SIL.I wouldn't want anyone to jeopardize their own budget for a contribution, but any donations will, I am sure, be greatly appreciated by the family. YGW may be very surprised at how much of a caring bunch we are!
FOr those who have my old address, it HAS CHANGED, BUT: IF you use the old address, it WILL still be delivered there at the old address until Jan 31, 2016, or forwarded to me at the new address, but if everyone PM's me, or emails me if you know my regular email, I will give you the NEW PERM. ADDRESS. I only ask that everyone keeps the anonymity and privacy, if exposed, of those who wish to keep it here on the site!
A single collection delivered all at once will be more beneficial than little bits and pieces here and there. YGW is a very busy man right now, and might not have the time to process the bits and pieces. Also, I thought about collecting things like clothing, and toothbrushes/toothpaste, soap, etc, BUT: They will be able to buy WHAT they want and need with cash funds. I know I received donations of clothing and such after the house fire, but the cash fund, as raised by my co-workers {this was pre-internet days}, helped me out much greater than the donations of clothing did.
Lets band together for our brother in trains, YGW.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
AS BUdda said: Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Let us BE a "thousand candles" {us individually} steming from "one candle" {this site} To spread SOME kind of happiness to the family in this hour of need. It will not "decrease us"!!
MAke it A Great Day! Do a GOOD DEED today, It will be more enjoyable!
Kind of wet and dull in our forecast for today..going up to 50 though.
Got some runnin' 'roun' doin' stuff to do today as a nice long "honey do" list showed up last night.
Chloe, I'll have a regular coffee and a couple of slices of toast with butter please...thank you!!
G. Your idea of helping is good - my immediate thought was much as RoR's - what about GoFundMe as it can have a much wider reach, I get that you would like YGW to know we Diner denizens appreciate him - but it's the total effectiveness I'm thinking about. In all likelyhood medical expanses will be a mountain - but as someone said, let's find out from YGW. I'd be comfortable sending funds via PayPal BTW, once the target for them is established.
Later gang - busy day.
LION comes in. Sits at counter near the door. Orders a batch of Sticky Buns. Orders a stack of pancakes, a dozen egggs and some bacon in leiu of wildebeests.
Anybody want to join the LION is a small breakfast?
ROAR
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