GM, MEN!
It is icy and slushy here....
today's word:
-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.
Good evening all. Just stopping in for a RBF before I hit the sack. I had to w**k today which I'm grateful for, but given the weather, it was a less than productive day. I did a grand total of 4 vehicles for the day (2 oil changes, 1 flat repair, and 1 alignment), a "normal" day would have me doing 2 to 3 times that easily. Oh well, still got paid.
YGW, I've a total of 4 kiddos, my oldest is 8 (will be 9 in two weeks), my second is 6, my son is 3, and the last is 1 (will be 2 on January 24th). 3 girls, 1 boy, I'm completely outnumbered.
I got home this evening and found that the wife and kiddos had taken down our Christmas stuff, which means my wednesday off will be clear of that duty.
That's enough for me, talk to yall layer taters.
Evening Diners,
Yes YGW- They are taken down. My mom told me the same thing that your wife said. If I took them a few weeks later after they came, the weather is going to be freezing and than trying to pick a day to those lights. Which I did last year, before the previous two years making it 4 years.
I went to the movie theater and watched Star Wars episode 7. It was alright, all that excitement was a little overstated. Then again am not a real nerd star wars fan.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Howdy .... Our internet connection was re-established late today.
We delayed our northern trip until tomorrow because of Winter Storm Goliath. Today would have been a bad day if we tried to drive through Ohio to Michigan. Goliath is done with our area now and is far east of us. I don't have much time to visit the Diner this evening, and I will have little or no computer time for the rest of the week.
So, I'll say Happy New Year now.
Ken ... Sorry to hear about you and Sue slipping and falling. I hope all will be okay.
When I get back, will each of you have a Model Railroad New Year's Resolution ?
Cheers !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Eveing Dinners
Flo, please
Rotten Day Off Started with having to take Sue to a Eye Examine, they where dilating her eye's so I had to take her. I was warming up the car while she was coming out. Them I heard her screaming "Ken, Help me, help me"!
Got out of the car and found her laying on the front porch on her back! My guess she step off barckwards to close the front door and lost her balance. With her knee's and back problems, she cannot get up off the ground. I got behinde her and lifted her from behinde under her arms. I had her 3/4's of the way up, then she stepped backwards trying to help.
She pushed me backwards and I fell on my well padded caboose and she on top of me! Told her not to help this time and I was able to get her standing up. She was hurting pretty bad, could hardly walk. But she wanted to go for the eye test anyway. Good news, her eyes have not suffred any from her being diabetic. Bad news, she is a mess now, she is having to use a cane to get around what little she can.
YGW Far as would I make more money part? I would not hold my breath. This company is domed. Only real question is how long I want to hold on, it is easy and making small mistakes is not a big deal and I make some.
Train Front I have tested some of my old Atlas Remote Turnout machines, and they work? Bought some wire and hope to have a few turnouts wired up Tuesday. I think I will enjoy it, I have around 50 turnouts on the layout and seldom throw any.
Later, Ken
I hate Rust
Ulrich - Snow already ? When does it start and what month does it end ?
Galaxy - Call 911 ! My tnogeu is lal iedt up after that word ! I understand completly what yu are taking about on your view of this life. After a very serious accident resulting in three years to recover and brain damage and then loosing my wife I completely understand. I do not hold n to the things of this world with a firm grip like I used to. Not wanting to check out just yet either though.
Howmus - Arent Carharts wonderful ! My wife bought me a pair for Christmas : )
Angel - Already takeing down Chiristmas ? My wife being from Spanish stock we have to wait I think it is called "three kings day"
V8 - Geez ! You know you sure look dangerous to me with that toothpaste !!! I can see it know - stickem up cowboy or we are going to squirt you with flouride !!!
Bama - Kids that age are the greatest ! I still have one 10 (she is a sweet heart ) and one 12 and another who just turned 13.
Uncle Bob - Man that sound like Christmas all over again !!
Der - God was looking out after you that day !!! That was a CLOSE call.
Ken - Will the sales be better at the other store ?
My son is taking me to see star wars tonight. I wanted my father to come along - he likes Westerns - so I told him it was a cowboy movie with light sabers vs six shooters. He still declined . Oh well maybe they wil start showing good Westerns again with real men like John Wayne or Roy Rogers....
TTYL
YGW
Good Evening!
Dropping by just to say hello and enjoy a nightcap, before hitting the hay.
It´s been a totally uneventful day, filled with a short walk, a drive to replenish our supplies for the rest of the year (with Petra behind the wheel) and some time spent running a train around my layout. I still have not succeeded to create that BoM file. Whenever try to convert it from the Lego format lxf file, it looses vital information. One fine day I´ll be able to get it right.
Temps are going down and we may even get some of the season´s regular white stuff - just like Ray.
Have a good one and CU tomorrow!
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple sausage links, and a large pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee to try an wake me up this morning.
Looked outside when I rolled out of bed and see that everything turned white overnight as expected.... Currently 26°F with a high of 32°F this afternoon. Time to get the heavy Carhart back out I guess and put on long sleeve shirts for a while. The sn*w is not staying on the grass but is still on the roofs around the neighborhood. Shoiuld be melting off the solar panels soon if it hasn't already. There is just enough sun out there to see light shadows from the tree trunks....
I will be spending most of today furiously cleaning house! Have company coming on Wednesday and tomorrow I will be out at Boy Scout Camp unhooking and staoring the Amps and Mixer, etc of the sound system out there. Big thing there is to make sure everything is labeled to make hooking back up easier. Also have to do some shopping today....
A few quotes to add...
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom." - Plato
"Philosophy is the highest Music" - Plato
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles." - Plato
Have a great day!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I am at teh computer now. A big part of the reason words don't always come out right is the brain damage I received after death. SOme typos or double letter taps aded to the mix nad sometimes my words may be scarbbled eggs! It may LOOK riht to me, and my brain tells my fingers in the wrong orde of which to type a word, so those brain cells must have died when I died. On the way to the hosptial, The EMT asked me several simple questions i either couldn;t answer or answered wrong, nad he said he was afraid of the fact that I secured brain damage while I was dead. I was dead to long and pushing serious brain damage.
enough of that..but that is why Ihave such a generally happy nad upbeat attitude now: I decided pessimism was for the birds, and TRY not to let amajor depressve episode get me down. but I have now no fear of dying, perhaps that accoutns for my 3 suicide attenpts, the most recent desire was this past June when I was hospitalized again ibnt he psych ward as I spoke up as a preventative measure.
Today's word:WARNING: it's a tongue twister!
Now, a pangram is a sentence that uses all letters of the alphabet. The most well-known is “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog” which makes use of 33 letters. People have come up with shorter pangrams too.
Let’s call it a noelgram -- a sentence that uses all letters of the alphabet, except the letter L. What noelgrams can you come up with?
Today's quotes:
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. -Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (25 Dec 1642-1727)
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
FOR RAY:
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
MAKE SOMEOME'S day brighter!
Really early morning diners,
I took down my Christmas lights and took the decorations off the tree within two days before it gets to cold.
Brief reply with my iPhone .. Our dsl internet is not working today. evidently there is a widespread outage resulting from storms. .. Read your posts. Won't reply until we get internet survice restored.
The good news: Yesterday, I won a supposedly new-in-box BLI PRR T1 on eBay, for a great price. (I honestly didn't expect to win, but got lucky.)
The bad news: I found the box containing my three PRR E units this evening, after being unable to find them for years. Bonus: My GP9's were in the same box.
Well, at least I won't want for Pennsy passenger power!
Evening Dinners
Flo, a please
Work Front Seems Jerry is inventing new ways to screw up paper work! He has done around 20 Cash Reports and has not gone one right yet? I swear they are simple, I got it right the first time!
Owner has a buyer for my buliding. We will know more about the closing date in January, Marvi thinks closing will be around April or May of 2016. Then I am sure we will have the Going Out Of Bussines Sale, that will last around 3 months then the store is gone.
Told Jerry the news. He said "Guess both of us will need to start looking for a new job"! Well I sure I won't be, they will want me at St Charles again, only 70 mile round trip. Jerry on the other hand? If I was him I start looking now!
Ken
Hi guys
back to work tomorrow for me. I thought about taking time off around Christmas but decided against it, too busy out and rather have time off during nicer weather. Speaking of weather they are calling for a winter storm tomorrow afternoon with snow and freezing rain.
well I caved and bought a ps4,lol. I got a few games for it and have been playing it the last two days. I'm a sucker for sports games both video game and table top. I have been playing a lot of table top lately so will switch it up for video game sports. I get way more then enough excerise at work so don't feel so bad sitting down and playing some games after house work is done.
Evening guys
YGW:
You do know that our thoughts and prayers for your SIL are with/ for you and your family too. I shouldn't even be here, as I was brought back from clinically dead due to full anaphylactic shock from allergic to medication! Had it NOT happened while I was at work,andhad the EMTs been further than 6 minutes away, I definitely would NOT be here. It took CPR and 4 shocks to restart my heart.
I decided that there must be a reason I am still here now, and decided I would do whatever good I could do for others while I am here. I may not do as much as I could, but I try. That is one reason I started the first fundraising event for our dear departed Jeffery wimberly
, whom this diner was renamed for for a new roof when a tree fell on it and damaged it. The second fundraiser was for Ulrich' s new badly needed glasses.
I do hope we here can do great job of raising some funds for SIL as my third drive here!
Com' Mon guys, find it in your heart to help out, no matter how small you think you r contributions may be! Every little bit helps, and out of few can many blessings be bestowed on someone so much in desperate need!
Had it not been for the assistant mgr at work who saw me go down, a coworkers gf who knew CPR, and the EMTs being only 6 minutes away, and the 4 shocks it took. You all would not be graced with my presence. ( I had walking pneumonia, and had been prescribed a sulfa antibiotic that we now know that I am deathly allergic to. I was lucky, had I been home sick instead of going to work, I would not be here)
So everyday, even the bad ones are a blessing. Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to be here. Some of my mistyping, and dyslexic responses are actually due to mild brain damage while I was clinically dead and it pushed the envelope time wise towards permanent irreversible brain damage due to mortal oxygen starvation and lack of blood flow to my brain.
Anyway, count your blessings and be greatful for another day.
I am off my soap box.
If you want to help SIL, please please PM me for instructions and my address.
N
Good afternoon all. Just got wrapped up teaching, now buying a few last minute gift supplies before going to my grandparent-in-laws for lunch and Christmas with them.
YGW, we teach ages 5 to 9. It's always a blast with them. My oldest is also in that class.
I've been keping up with scuttlebutt about the 1:1 railroads through my area. Apparently, the "leadership" of CSX has decided to route all through traffic off the line, postponed a major tie replacement program and droped the speed of the line down. Some are saying that it's a sign they're selling. Funny thing is, now with the rains, they're redirecting all the trains back.
Well, that's enough from my neck of the woods.
Later taters
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, thought you were on vacation this week? No rest for the weary, huh... Well, while your up I could use as cup of decaf please.
I was cleaning up my dining room table and found that it is made of wood... Haven't seen it in so long I had forgotten evidently. The last thing at the bottom of the stacks of "to be recycled if I leave them there long enough" stuff was a funny publication I get each month. Then I thought that Galaxy has been remiss in his putting great quotes for us here in the diner lately and found some that might be both inspiring, seasonal, and make you smile (I hope!)...
"Christmas is a time when you get Homesick, even if you are home." - Carol Nelson
"I have all these people to give Chrismas gifts to, and you know what I found? There are some very nice things at the 99¢ store." - Ellen Degeneres
"I bought my brother some gift wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping." - Steven Wright
"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day." - Phyllis Diller
"Christmas at my house is always six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven." - W. C. Fields
See you later!
Good afternoon Diners: YGW, thanks for the SIL updates - I learned on Christmas Eve that I have to scale back the graphic detail in passing along prayer requests to one person in particular as she has PTSD, unbeknownst to me. No worries, now I know, I can govern myself accordingly. However she and her team are totally behind your SIL
yougottawantaDer - hope your svc goes well today.
On a lighter and train-related note, we walked a short section of the old railbed near here which has been repurposed as a walking trail. It includes a wye, and we turned on that! (Did not walk backwards on the short leg however, sorry purists! ) Back at home I Googled for a map of that line, without immediate success. However, one site was a local mmr who is building an HO layout which includes some of the old local ines. I've emailed him and await developments. Here's a link to his pages http://www.intercolonialrailway.com/prototype.htm
Have to go but I'll maybe drop by later.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Zoe, I'll join the feast at Brother Elias' table.... And a Happy Day Three of the season to all!
YGW, LOL... My sister always gets very upset with me any time I agree with her..... She is the "Middle Child" and makes the most of it!
I am busy cleaning house today. Yes, it definiately needs it! I have months of stacks of stuff that have been collecting to deal with, a horrably filthy rug to vaccume, and dust on any furniture that wasn't piled up with other STUFF. So I best get at it...
We got an inch of rain here in the Finger Lakes overnight... The basement is still dry! Normally there would be at least some water ozzing in few places. I think maybe the investment in the driveway and old shed area is paying off. Time will tell. Currently 46°F outside the door with rain and a touch of sn*w forecast for the afternoon.
Catch you all later!
Lion wrote "LION has been here, even if he his hiding under the table. Now him sneaks out and makes himself at home, with a stack of pancakes and some Ostrich Eggs and Wildebbeast saussage patties.
Anybody want some Breakfast with the LION?"
Sure Lion I will have breakfast with you, please dont mind the sniffles. Have some allergies and I feel bit under the weather. Do they have any of these ? Gazelle tenderloin ? Crocadile bacon strips ? Hippo ham ? No then I have the Ostrich egg and a couple of those Wildebeast sausage thingies. By the way why are you hiding under the table ?
Galaxy - I suppose it has been a tough year. I am blessed with a large family. When my grandmother was alive we would pack about 70 people into her little shotgun house ! With that many people I guess the odds of something major hitting you have a higher percentage of something going off of the rails. As tough as it has been lately there have been much worse years. We have many blessings still to count. Grand children being born, employeed, have health insurance, family and friends, and more than anything a God that loves us and a country where we can worship freely, for the most part.
Bama - Merry Christmas to you also. What age kids do you teach in church ?
Howmus - Your sister yelled at you at her party ? Man I am sorry that happened.
Garry I will tell them that. Thanks
Uhlrich - I think you are so amazing. Have you heard from your RR friend lately ?
Der - hope your svc goes well today.
LION has been here, even if he his hiding under the table. Now him sneaks out and makes himself at home, with a stack of pcakes and some Ostrich Eggs and Wildebbeast saussage patties.
Anybody want some Breakfast with the LION?
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good Morning!
Well, it´s actually close to lunchtime inh my neck of the woods. It´ll be maccharoni and cheese today.
I started to fiddle arount with the Lege design tool I recently downloaded. There is a big learning cureve to it, just like with any other CAD tool. I succeeded in making some changes to an existing design - a two-truck, two cylinder Shay.
Looks cool, doesn´t it? I have to develop the bill of material for it, but I don´t know how. I need the BoM to source the parts required to build it, which I eventually may do.
YGW - continuing for Kelly.
Have a good one!
I do hope Santa was good to you.
This morning is raining and drizzly. I ma geting a headache I hope doesn't turn into a migraine...
WE are at 90% of our alloted gigs of data on the smart phones, so we havet o be extra careful until the 1st.
I will, at Ulrichs request, open the new years diner a bit early so we can all ring in the new year here,,, the train nut friend the NYC train nut friend, and us of course at the stroke of midnight I will be toasting, not posting! SO look for it aobut 6 pm on the 31st! I will ring in with Auld Lang Syne, my friends with auld lang syne,,,
so, what else? still stuff to move! dad blast it! It seems to never end and it takes for-ever....we were gong to try to scramble by the 31, but looks like not. We WILL move the computers over the next few days and the cat will join us at the new house.....
soi have a great day!
Garry the worst of the flooding happened either south of me by 20ish miles, or north of me by 100ish miles. Yes, the kids got a lot of what they wanted. This year, we made it easy by making them make up a list of what they wanted. From there we sent those lists out to all whom would be purchasing gifts. If it wasn't on the list, it couldn't get purchased.
Well, I guess I'll be heading to bed now, haven't been able to sleep yet, so maybe now I can.
Good evening.
Bama ... Good to see you. Have you had much flooding where you live? ... Was Santa good to the children in your home ?
Ray ... I like the story you told G. There is much to think about in that story.
YGW .... I'm glad Kelly has improved. Sad to hear the brain damage may be extensive. Good the boys could see her. Tell he a lot of people are praying for her.
Regarding the song .... "The Train They Call The City of New Orleans:" .... I like the song no matter who sings it.
We are very busy getting ready for our trip up north.
Happy Model Railroading !
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I just need another refill for my decaf please....
Well..... Dinner at my sister's house went quite well. She only yelled at me (Because I'm the little brother, I guess) a couple times, and the day was enjoyable all told.
After I got home from Canandaigua, I did managed to finish putting the rails on the Girder bridge. Only had one disaster.... I touched the hot soldering iron (used to strengthen the pliobond used to hold the rails to the ties and to solder where there are PC ties) to the top of the bridge. That destroyed a small section of the bridge! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! It wasn't too bad to fix. I cut off the small area where it happened and put new "steel plating" back in place. Rivets were properly added, and tomorrow I will repaint the area. When finished I don't think it will even show.
Next couple days I will be cleaning the house as will be having company coming over next Wednesday and I have to be out at Boy Scout Camp on Tuesday. This coming week will have several dealines for other things to be done as well.
Galaxy, back when Agnes hit the "Valley" area where I lived. My Pastor there used to tell a story with a real moral. I think it ties in with what you said above.... Hope it is not out of place for me to tell it here. "A while back there was a terrible flood and an old man decided to "ride it out" in his home rather than leave like he should have. The water rose up to cover the top steps of his house and about that time a small row boat passed by and the men in it pulled up and said, "Old Man, get in the boat and we will take you to safety". The old man said, Nope, I don't think the water is going to get any higher, and besides, I been praying, and know that I will be saved... Later the old man was found leaning out of the second story window of his house. A motor boat pulled up, and the firemen in it said, "Old man Come, we'll help you into the boat and take you to safety!" Old man says, nope.... I think the water is starting to go down anyway, and I've been praying and I know that I will be saved! Next we find the old man on the roof of his house hanging onto the chimney. A helicopter comes by and they yell down that they are here to save the man. He again refuses telling them He is staying put and he knows he will be saved cause he has been praying! When we see the old man again he is at the pearly gates, and he is mad!!! He yells at St. Peter asking why with all the prayers he said, he ended up drowning? St. Peter shruggs his shoulders and says, "We sent two boats and a helicopter!"
I think sometimes the best "prayer" is, as we roll up our sleeves, "Oh Lord, Where do I start?" We can make some things a bit better and ought to every chance we get! Enough said.... And, I hope that isn't over any line of propriety we have here.
Hope all of you have a wonderful night and stay safe out there!
Evening all. Just a RBF for me. Merry Christmas to all yall, hope everyone had a good one. I had to w**k today (not that it was busy), tomorrow the wife and I teach kids church, then it's off to her grandparents for Christmas with that side of the family.
Been looking at projects for myself to spend my hard-earned Christmas money on, so far I've seen many things to catch my eye, mostly in the form of a few locomotives that need a little help (running, bit need detail parts like hand rails, etc). Also been looking into getting some flex track and building a little shelf layout to just tinker aND switch cars on.
Welp, I just heard the timer go off in the oven so pork chops are done. Time to fix plates and feed kids amd adults.
Later taters!
YGW, sounds like this hasn't been your family year.
Will add prayers for your entire family.
We will have raised about $ 1 k for Kelly and the boys! Off to a good start!
AgainANYONE who wants to donate for YGW'S SIL, PM me, please Wed all like to raise a fair amount for them! We CAN do it!S
Prayers are good but $$ to help with the bills of every day life is needed too when you have to replace EVERYTHING you own! Not to mention documents replacement, a whole nuther night mare ask me how I know! They will have that too...
Well have a good night!
-G
Hey all
New record for me I think three post in one day. It is amazing what you can get done when you dont have to work !!
Garry - do you like the Glen Cambel version too ?
Ulrich - It is amazingly beautiful. There is one version ( unconfirmed ) that states that the word Shenandoah means " Beautiful Daughter of the stars" , During the summer one of my favorite things to do is mow at night on my tractor and admire Gods handy work in the sky and all of the zillions of stars up there.
MIL sent us a text. The visit with the boys went a little better than I expected. She writes in part :
"Day was as good as it could be. Moved her to a lower critical care....she is very confused...pulled her tract out during the night...restrained her to her bed...A nurse found compassion to loosen them for her to hug ( oldest son ) Younger son hung back...she had enough clarity to encourage them and tell them how much she loved them...Her brain injury is more serious than we were led to believe....."
This year is not ending well. MOH half recieved a call that her Aunt has had a heart attack and is not expected to make it. She will be heading into New York Monday with her brother to see her Aunt. I will stay and take care of the kids and animals.
One bit of good news. I had a visit with my heart doctor. He is taking me off of blood thinners and reduced it to baby aspirin.
Mornin'....... Well it wAs morning when i started to write this...
Zoe, just need another refill of the dark roast stuff...
Sun is trying to peek out here in the Finger Lakes from time to time. Yesterday while I was at my son's house the panels on my roof broke the record for December... Speaking of coffee... Most all the rerlatives on that side of the family gave me coffee for Christmas this year. Brought home 5 pounds of the stuff. (All in unground bean form, so they got the word I like to grind my own.) My son and DIL gave me a group pf very old antique toy trains that she found on ebay. These are the old,old cast iron ones. I'll have some photos in a couple days. Got a bunch of other stuff as well, I won't bore you with thye details. Had a wonder Prime Rib meal and lots of great desserts. Finished off with some "spiked" egg nog later in the evening. (I was quite legal by the time I headed home, BTW!)
The second dish of Winter Squash is in the oven baking at the moment. I shall be heading to Canandaigua for the "festivities" at my sister's house in about 45 minutes.
Garry, the John Denver version of City of New Orleans is OK, but I personally prefer the original by Arlo Guthrie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ That is on my collection of Train Songs I play down cellar on the System I have down there when company comes or I just feel like having something playing while working down there.