Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Heritage Flakes Organic cereal this morning and a large pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee for my R&GV RR Mug please.
Steve, always good to see you! Especially when you are just paying a social visit and don't have be the heavy.... You know, for the most part we are a pretty good bunch here in the diner and usually we all behave ourselves. I used to be a "dog" person back when... Still am I guess, but I inherited two of the sweetest kitties from my Father when he died. I wouldn't trade them for anything. I also inherited my Mother's old cat whe she died. Shiela was , we think, 19 years old when I got her. She had to be put down at the age of 21 from cancer. I came home and cried my heart out. Yep, she got herself into my heart as well. Here she is at 20 years of age with her good buddy Manét. Shiela weighed in at about 7 lbs. then and Manét was over 19....
Beautiful tiger kitties you have, BTW!
Currently 33°F outside under cloudy skies here in the Finger Lakes Region of NYS. High will be 36°F later today when the sun makes a brief appearance as well. Solar output is low this month as we have had cloudy day after cloudy day this winter. On the other hand I have only used the roof rake once so far.
Looking at the USPS Tracking online, I should be getting the package of wall strips, etc. today. Yeah!!! I also need to make the rounds to the school buildings with the rest of the certificates, prize money, and premission to use forms for the MLK Art and Poetry Contest. The lady in charge of it stopped by yesterday afternoon and signed the certificates that had to be reprinted. then mid afternoon I take my kitties to the vet to have their blood sugar checked again. Manét has been off the insulin for two weeks now and Blackie has ben down to a very small amoint. Hopefully she will find them both in remission!
Got to get myself moving! Have stuff to get done (and tonight is reserved for working on stone abutmanets needed for the Girder Bridge project!!!)
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I shoveled taking many breaks and rests and did well. I am very pleased at the progress I've made with Dr Jenny. Toby is the one that likes catsThe CSX scanner said they need to bring the snow blower out to clean the points. Wonder what snow blower they mean. The county did not plow exit and left turn lanes so getting around is still hazardous.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Steven Otteder5997, looking at your track plan, I find the switchback connection to the industrial tracks along the front of the long leg of the "L" puzzling. What's the purpose? It just complicates things. I can't imagine a prototype railroad ever building such a track arrangement, when they could simply connect directly to the runaround track.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Good Afternoon,
A balmy 22F here right now so we are in a tropical heat wave. We have very little snow this year with only about a foot on the ground.
We finally have the new TV all hooked up and working. I had to get Shaw to send a tech out as the signal wasn't strong enough to run the converter box. Turns out the line to the house was 'corrupted' so a new one was laid and it all worked. HD sure is amazing.
Nothing happening on the RR front. I seem to have hit a slump. I did order the new Woodland Scenics theatre for the HO layout. The Connie or Hog in CN slang, is sitting at the water tank and perhaps I will make up a train today, but who knows. I was doing a little shunting on the N scale a few days ago but only for a few minutes.
After lunch we will be heading out to do some laps at the Reh-Fit centre.
Have a great day,
CN Charlie
Good day to you all, diners! I have been absent for a while, now I'm back. Nice view out the window, ULRICH.
BOC, I too have a collection of coupler springs around and about me on the floor, in the rugs etc; I now avoid the danger of such things flying in the air to who-knows-where using a tip I saw, probably in MR : I runs a brightly-colored piece of thread through the coupler spring when its' being well-behaved, before I try to sneak in onto the couple pins; when it flys off, it really doesn't have the energy to travel very far with the thread strung though it, and it's easy to retrieve. When I evenutlally succeed in 'pinning' it, the thread slides out slick as a whistle.
It's a nice day in the neighborhood here in Western Maine. Later I will tackle assembling a GP-9 that a friend dropped over for me to try out.
I´ll be calling it a day in a few moments. I hope I´ll be able to catch up on that missing sleep tonight!
I did not get around to look for the modeling clay, although I managed to finish the basic structure of the left portal and also integrate it into the pink foam scenery, which still needs a lot of cutting, sanding and shaping.
Here is a sneak preview:
The Gaugemaster throttle replacing the old Roco controller was in today´s mail. It took me a while to solder all the wires to the plug, but I finally managed to get that done without any major burns. The new throttle is just fantastic! It´s got a momentum and a brake feature, just like BEMF in a DCC system! I now have to learn how to run my engines in a prototypical fashion, which is a lot of fun! Can´t remember when I had that much fun!
John - only true Scotsmen eat Haggis and like it! You can´t pay me enough to even give it a try. I think it must be as bad as our "Saumagen" (a pig´s stomach filled with you really don´t want to know about it).
Well, off to bed - CU tomorrow!
Der John .... The cartoon about the model train detector is funny. I was just reading a little about Robert Burns.
Steven ... Nice picturess of Clinchfield and Pixel. A lot of cute pictures are in your wife's blog.
Ray ... Shiel and Manet looked good in that photo. It is sad when pets pass away. ... I too was a dog person. I still like them, but cats are nice too.
Lion ... Callista has beautiful coloring.
Henry ... Toby looks like a great companion. That is a lot of snow.
Ulrich ... You are making a lot of progress already with the next layout.
Galaxy ... I hope you are feeling better each day.
CN Charlie ... WIth all of the winter weather there, I woyld think you would be doing a lot on the layout. .. Oh a new TV ... That is definately a destraction from model railroading.
Happy Model Railroading, everybody.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Heartland Division CB&Q Galaxy ... I hope you are feeling better each day.
Unfortunately, NO. I saw my GP today, nad the news is I am not better, He is trying to keep me out of hte hosptal again but it isnt working/
I also have had the day form H-E-double hockey sticks!
Nuff siad,
Bed is calling me.
-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. We survived the big snow this weekend ending up with 12 inches. The people in our neighborhood did a good job clearing their sidewalks. It was nice to get out for a walk this afternoon with temperature at about 42 F.
Between shoveling and football games I kerfed up an other three feet of roadbed. It is glued down tonight with the first coat of joint compound filling the kerfs. I got a little carried away adding water the small pail of joint compound and will probably head to Lowe's tomorrow for a new pail of joint compound. I can always use the extra when I start on scenary. I have probably spread over 100 5 gal pails of joint compound in the last ten years. So it is one material i am very familiar with using.
Der John, seems like Canadians will make potato chips into about any flavor imaginable.
CN Charlie, glad to hear you are having a relative mild winter.
Galaxy, hope you start to recover soon and can avoid another stay in the hospital.
Have a good night everyone.
Jim
DER JOhn:
CAN I wear my Kilt if I eat the haggis?
It shows up at some of the SCottish/celtic festivals we go to. there is ALWAYS a LOOOOOONG line to get it!
I havent had the pleasure yet, and with a long line, I doubt it, and MOH thinks NOT on trying it.
This is Tux, my daughter's cat.
I think that makes him my grandkitten, right?
He's a well-behaved and playful indoor cat.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Evenin' folks!
Janie a hot cup of Decaf would be great right now... Thank you Ma'am...
Today has been a long day, But..... I think I did get a lot of things done. I spent around an hour and a half in a chat room with 3 different people (by the time I got done) from TWC Roadrunner. I think we finally have the email problems sorted out and corrected! The entity that had gotten into my account there is most likely the same one that got into the ebay account and was using it. They had a group of instructions telling the email program to send certain emails to different places. Looks like the same people were also targeting a national bookstore as well. I found the problem but the page was locked and I wasn't able to change the instructions. The lady from RR was able to, by using my desktop remotely unlock it and I deleted the instructions. We also did a test of the server that has my email account. That seems to be alright, so she is sending the issue up the line to all the servers that could be problematic for TWC. By the time I deleted all my History, cookies, and changed my password one more time, I logged back in and the intructions were easy to delete!!! Oddly enough my computer is running much faster than it was.... Hmmmmm. They were very helpful, unlike ebay.
I got done with all the computer stuff just in time to take the boys over to the vet to have their blood sugar checked. Manét after 2 weeks of no insulin was still only 119. Still a bit on the low side but much better than he was. Blackie's was 180. Right where she wants it. So.... He stays on the little bit of insulin he gets, and Manet is in complete remission for the moment. Manet was adament he wasn't going to go over to THAT place! He was hiding inside the case where I have my old Mackie Sound Mixer and a few other rackmount items, way in the back where It was almost impossible to pull him out. He let me know he was not happy! Growllllllllll!!!! Hiss...... Yolwl!!! He continued that all the time the assistant was poking his ear to get a sample of blood... Poor guy wouldn't even show the veins.. The girl had to poke him about 8 times to finally get the sample - with him growling the whole time.... Thankfully they are both declawed. They don't have to be seen for a month.
I then managed to get the MLK Art and Poetry stuff dropped off two of the school buildings. Three more to do tomorrow morning. Then I did my grocery shopping, came home and got the mail.... The Box from the guy who makes plaster castings was there!!! I spent most of the evening staring to build the first of the two stone retainig walls that will be used for the center bridge supports on the Girdaer Bridge... I think that area of the layout is going to be spectacular when it is finished.
Garry, Shiela was a sweet old kittie. She was wonderful for my mom in her last years. Sheila loved to be held and cuddled and became best friends with Manét when I got her after my mom had broken her hip and was in the nursing home. Manét would spend about an hour a day grooming her and she would nuzzle him very often... Blackie just ignored her.
Galaxy...... Haggis and kilts..... ah.... Never mind! By the way, what clan are you? I be of the Dun Clan since I be an Howard (silent "H"). Actually when my earliest ancestors came here as indentured Servants the last name was Hayward. The English spelling. When the Revolutionary war was over, the next generation changed it (back) to Howard.
Prayers for all in need! See you in the morning...
Good evening.
I also have Scotish ancestors.
Galaxy. Prayers continue. Also, I recall you said you have a cat too. Tell us about him or her if you want. What does he or she look like?
Mr B. Tux looks like one we had when we lived in AnnArbor mi.
GM, MEN!
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Heartland Division CB&Q Good evening. I also have Scotish ancestors. Galaxy. Prayers continue. Also, I recall you said you have a cat too. Tell us about him or her if you want. What does he or she look like? Mr B. Tux looks like one we had when we lived in AnnArbor mi.
Him is a long haired orange shaggy furball thingy. He is part persian and part mutt. He is 18 years old and has thyroid problems that with a med to squirt down his throat helps. He is indoor only cat, though he thinks he would like to go out!
If he curls up in a ball with his tail overhis head you can't tell which end is which.
He loves both parents, but sometimes favor POP POP {me} over MOH, bt is loyal to MOH as MOH brought him home too.
When I am lying down he likes to "hop on Pop Pop" and sit on top my fat belly. Apparently he finds it cushy.
Him is currently curled up beside me on the couch as I type this.
Him's name is Cuddles, and as such, has a masculine studded spiked collar that I won't tell you what it was in it's former life.He got that name by cuddling wiht his humans. One day I was yelling for hmand he didnt come..Soewhere "Cud Cuds' came out of my mouht and he came running. so We call him cuds or cud cuds as he comes hwne called. Usually. Sometimes he takes a message and wil get back to you.
Him loves pop pop especially if/when it means food!
Good Morning
Weather here be dull and dribbly. Got to 40F and now going down to 30F this afternoon.
Spent all day yesterday reinstalling all my programs on the DAW and gettting everything reauthorized. I had loads of fun here....not
Got a bit more to do on it but it will be finished today....
I got Lucy coming up here to schmooze again...CYLTR!!!
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, Folks!
Janie, coffee, please and a handful of chocolate chippers to munch on, thank you!
I played with my trains all morning and forgo the time while I ran a train. That new throttle is a winner. I have so much fun running a train, as it really puts me in the engineer´s seat!
I deliberately chose the term "play" - I don´t operate my layout, as there is hardly anything to "operate". I play with my train set and I love it!
Today´s mail brought a surprise gift from my sun (a late Christmas present):
It´s a Swiss PTT bus of the 1960´s. There is a bag full of detail parts to be installed - I wish I knew how to open it and put some passengers into it!
A big "Meeow" to you all!
Zoe, I'll have a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee to keep my R&GV RR Mug full for a while,. and a couple of thos nice sour creame glazed donuts over there on the counter.
As always I have a long list of STUFF to get done today!
Current temperature is 45°F outside the door with a high around 48°F later in the afternoon when it starts to rain. In the meantime the sun is actually trying to shine out there...
Catch you all later!
Lucy in a picular moment....
Morning all.
No model railroading or any type of funm for me lately ! Nothing but w**k around teh house and snow plowing going on in my neck of the woods. We recieved somewhere between 30" and 40" of snow. Our subdivision roads are private so we all get our tractors out and plow the roads ourselves.
DER - Love the cartoon that is so funny - and true !
Garry - how did your kitties get their names ?
Ken - Hope Sues foot is getting better.
Galaxy - What a great word !" Herculean " We have had a herculan effort moving snow wityh our tractors. My tractor was BURIED in the snow in a drift !
Howmus - You have to pay ebay for the fees that someone hacked and used your account ? Time to hire a lawyer !
Jim - That is a LOT of drywall mud !
Ulrich - I like teh design you did a while back with the castle. Will yoiu be installing a catle anywhere ? It is so good to see you enjoy modeling again !
CN Charlie - I think someone sent your snow here !
Henry - That is a pile of snow ! How old is Tobi ?
Lion - Callista is a beautiful cat !
Steve - It si nice to see you in here with out Vinney ! Hope you can drop in more often with out the headaches
Gotta run and shovel more snow at w**k. Our snow removal contractor disapperared and I am having to get the job done with other resources. But it is now finally moving foraward - three days late !
TTYL
YGW
yougottawantaUlrich - I like teh design you did a while back with the castle. Will yoiu be installing a catle anywhere ?
I am afraid the castle will be lost to the curved backdrop! It wasn´t really prototypical of what a castle in that area would look like.
Good morning
Galaxy ... Cuddles sounds like a great companion. I bet he looks good too.
YGW ... Names for our trio. .... Well, I had a name for each one of them, but Shelley overode me. I can't tell you my name choices here because Vinnie would toss me out for sure if I did. My name choices would not be construed as politcally correct, and so Shelley thought of these names for them. She did not think certain other peopel would like my warped humor, and she is probably correct.
Barry (Blownout Cyl.) ... Lucy's eyes are penetrating.
V8 Dennis .... Your telling about your dog barking remnind me. We have had several dogs over the years. One of them belonged to Shelley's Dad when he was still living. A neighbor complained about the barking dog. The enighbor asked "Why is your dog barking?" Shelley's Dad answered "Because he can't talk."
Ulrich ... Nice work. Nice thing about foam is how quickly it can be shaped. Neat bus. ... JohnBoy loves buses.
Garry wrote "The enighbor asked "Why is your dog barking?" Shelley's Dad answered "Because he can't talk." -- LOL that is funny ! Sounds like something my dad would say !, how did she decide tehir names ? By personality ? color ? or some other method ? For instance our cat is named "Tessy" it is a my daughters twisted form of the cats orginial name. Which I cannot even remeber what teh orginial name was all these years later. Then before Tessy we had "Groucho" who recieved her name because of the mustache under her nose which looked like Grouch Marx mustache.
V8 - You have Possums in California ? Man those things are ugly !
Ulrich - What a shame. I LOVED your castle castle design ! Nice present from your son. That is a nice looking bus. Can you take it aprart from teh bottom and then put people in it and reassemble it ? Was YOH excited when you returned from your luxurious hospital stay ?
Heartland Division CB&Q Galaxy ... Cuddles sounds like a great companion. I bet he looks good too.
He is curled up beside me again.
He has orange stripes down his forehead and when angry he furls them somehting fierce...
Him has a snubby nose but not too snubby.
When cold, he "fluffs out" hims furs.
Him is SOFT to pet, unless until he gets snarls. You just have to watch out when you pet his neck for those spikes on the former...ah never mind what his collar was in its former life.. it is a leather spiked collar, to make him look more he-man masciline. I have to order a new cat collar tag for him with new address /phone on it. Have to stop by hte vets.
COme spring we have him shaved to look like a LION {LION would be so proud}
If I posted pics {what a hassle} I might post a pic or two of him.
Good Afternoon
Well, everything has been reinstalled and reauthorized in my new DAW so I am finito of that.
Everytime I come here to the laptop Lucy has to be cuddled...mmmm...she must be channeling Spring.
Garry: I managed to take that shot just as she pounced out of that box..she is funny in play mode.
Anyhow...off to the trainroom to relay some more handlaid tracks.
Have a good'un!!!
Toby is 6 y.o., part coonhound part beagle from a shelter east of Richmond. He has inflammatory bowel disease so he would fit right in our little sick bay here. He doesn't like guns or big guys with red beards. Gray beards are ok.
V8 I had a blue tick coonhound that would bark at the tree where a raccoon was 3 days ago. She would bark 50 x/ min x hours, which is not championship rate.
Bought a regulator and water trap for my airbrush on Amazon and went shopping, a second time, for fittings. Airbrush fitting are based on some archaic nomenclature back when pipes must have been made out of lead. So 1/4" NPT looks like 1/2' in diameter unless it's BPT. Amazon doesn't say what size the fitting any of them are the owners reviews are full of guesses, "I recall, I think". I expected the small end would fit in the regulator and it did not. There were no fittings for the small end so I bought 1/4 M/M connectors so I could connect to the compressor and airbrush hose. They seem to fit OK, but I have not tested them.
It was 50 degrees today and lots of melting. The main roads here are plowed down to asphalt except at 55 mph on a 4 lane divided highway, your lane is suddenly 3 feet wide. The county made a mistake and sent some guy with a tracked Bobcat at 5 am on Sunday. Instead of a cursory pass through the neighborhood, the guy plowed like he lived here....for 7-8 hours. We have no problem, but there are some old neighborhoods in Baltimore that have streets narrower than you would think could possible exist in 'merica. There was a fire on one of streets last night and the fire engines could't get down the street.
Went to 84 Lumbar, the only place that has 2"x4'x8' foam and they wanted $60 for a sheet. Home Depot had 2'x8' for $20. Went to Star Hobby and they still have 8 bottles of Floquil and maybe 4 dozen bottles of Polly S. I couldn't remember what shade orange the PNRR used so I didn't buy any.
I spent all of my multitasked modeling and football-watching time, all 6 hours plus of it, installing varieties of window glazing with curtains, pull-down shades and Venetian blinds.
PS Her house has a heated bed pad and water dish.
Him's name is Cuddles, and as such, has a masculine studded spiked collar that I won't tell you what it was in it's former life.He got that name by cuddling wiht his humans.
how did she decide tehir names ? By personality ? color ? or some other method ? For instance our cat is named "Tessy" it is a my daughters twisted form of the cats orginial name.
Good Evening
Spent the evening relaying some track here and seeing to it that Lucy got fed and cuddled...she is now cuddledd beside on my other chair.
Got to go to ...have a good night.
Evening Dinners
Flo, Please, boy this Dinner has turned in to a cat house! Even Steve has a cat in the fight!
BoS has funded the new home loan and the deal is done! But as they made me jumb throught a few hoops at the end that did not needed to be done as it turned out.
Work What started out to be a good month has turned to caboose! By the 15th of this month I had $15,000 in sales. As of today I have $16,500?
Der Boy my wife could use one of those Model Train Detectors! When I first got in the Hobby and buying off E-Bay I had the train stuffed shipped to the store I worked at! I have even gone as far as sneaking the train stuff in to the house in my garage / train room trash can!
V8VegaI diligently clean up after my dogs but this morning I found stuff on my slippers. I think I just discovered how to make spell check work on my Chromebook.
Dennis I guess that is one way to get spell check to work!
Train Front I was determed to get the next switch machine installed tonight! Had to trim some to get the turnout to move freely, cut my small finger on the right hand with a razor. Bleed badly but I kept going! I had solder two wires togeather and tried to tread the solder joint throght the hole, but was to tight. Made the hole bigger, still to tight and broke the solder joint when I tried to pull it through, but I kept going. Will fix the wire later! Installed the switch machine! But, I need to do more cutting so it would move freely! So I asked Flo for a !
Ulrich Layout is coming a long well!
Ken
I hate Rust
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