Well we strart the year off with some prayers for the needy:
FOr ULRICH"S BIL,
For YGW's SIL,
FOr others who need them,
for world peace
for health, happiness nad prosperity in 2016!
FOr those who wnat to contribute to YGW's SIL {Kelly} and her boy's fund, PLEASE PM ME!
IF you don't know the story: 3 thugs broke in, brutally beat her near to death, set fire to her condo resulting in a total loss of the unit and all belongings, leaving her with many broken bones and brain damage, and the two boys she has now homeless.Perhaps YGW can repeat the/his/her story here again for all to see.
THEY WILL need all the finacial help for every day bills, we don't hope to bring in enough to fund her medical bills, but a nice tidy collection of funds to HELP WITH THE EVERY DAY bills for the boys, and to start her off with a fund to help get restarted in her new life with BRAIN DAMAGE will be a boon!
SHe will undoubtedly need help getting resettled,and I know from personal experience how difficult it is to regain your life, possessions, documentations, and things for everyday living! A LONG, arduous process, costing lots of money. If you have not experienced such a loss, THINK of replacing JUST WHAT IS IN YOUR BEDROOM CLOSET, or your LIVING ROOM only, and multiply by the contents of the whole housing you live in! THINK of having to replace your birth certificate, your SS card, your driver's license, check/savings booklets ALL WIHTOUT ID to PROVE WHO YOU ARE!!
{{Speaking of which, now is the time to REVIEW your household owner's or renter's insurance policies and BE SURE you are adequately COVERED for your contents to the fullest ability of your policy! GET RIDERS for any particularly VALUABLE ITEMS/ARt work! IF YOU RENT, and DON'T have renter's insurance, GET SOME, it's relatively CHEAP..about $100/year. It helped to save my butt when the house I rented burned down in the middle of the night with me in it. The $10k renter's policy didn't cover my total loss, and while you CAN write off such losses on your taxes, it is only a part of a portion of a percentage of the unreimbursed loss! NOT the total remaining actual loss!!! I bought the policy only at the strong urging of my agent, and NEVER thought I'd ever need it, and in fact thought it a waste of my money! boy was I WRONG!}}
WE CAN raise a NICE FUND WITH YOUR HELP!
...I have $550 so far:
1}A past member's donation: $100
2}MY donation of $100
3}generous MRRer here's donation of $200
4} three donations of $50 each
ALready in hand. I have about $200 more in pledges to come sometime after today!
SO, get out your checkbook, be generous and help KELLY and the BOYS OUT!
PM me for details, PLEASE! If you don't knwo how, click on the icon next to my name on the TOP LEFT of this post, then click the "start conversation" button on the TOP RIGHT of the window that pops up then, adn title it somehting like "DONATIONS FOR KELLY.."
She may NOT be "one of us" BUT no one who is related to one of us needs to have been so abused and mistreated!!!
WE raised $2500 for Jeffrey's roof a couple of years ago, I think WE CAN BEAT THAT for YGW's SIL KELLY AND the BOYS IF WE TRY HARD!
A BIG THANKS YOU FOR those who HAVE donated! YOU have BIG HEARTS!
off my now!
looking for YOUR PM today!
-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.
GM, MEN!
AULD LANG SYNE: for your enjoyment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edSVRUFm-Z0 fireworks/lyrics/auld scottish version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCZduGdax8 {Susan Boyle auld lang syne}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId95N2teUc {BBC symphony and Chorus}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuczsqBkZBI {FELLOW MMRing Rod Stewart !!!! does Auld Lang SYne}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to1xT93IlUI {royal Scots dragoon guards Pipers}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4pN0zn16jk {REal Scotish dialect by Robert Burns}
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
So, down at the Zoo, the Hippopotomus had an infected ear that was so bad the zoo keeper had to have it amputated. It also happened that the next day the gnu died. So the zookeeper to an ear form the dead gnu and attached it to the hippopotomus.
Hippo Gnu Ear!
ROAR
Goooooooood Morning Diners! And a Happy New Year to all!
Zoe, about all I need this morning is a large pot of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast Coffee to keep my FGLK Mug full for a while.
Ulrich, will keep your BIL and your whole family in my prayers during this time....
I arrived back here at my house around 2AM this year.... Woke up right at 9:30AM so the boys got their insulin a few minutes late. There are a bunch of little white thingies falling out of the sky right at the moment. the Weather peoples don't say how many inches of these little white thingies we are due to get today, but I think I shall stay right here at home and try to relax afetr a very, very busy day yesterday! I have a couple projects that didn't quite get finished in 2015 that I need to get done by yesterday, so I will not be bored.... The Flyer for the MLK Celebration has to be printed, and I am only a year late getting to digitize a tape of the Churchy Bell Choir from many years ago (so old I was only producing tapes in my Music Recording Bursiness). I do hope the tape is still good!
Guess I should get myself moving before I completely stiffen up! later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Wake up, get up, it's the first of the month!
Happy New Year, everybody.
Your brother will be prayed to Ulrich.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Good Morning.
AND A HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!
We actually got some sun this morning. But supposed to get more snowshowers later on.
Another busy day for us here...BIL and family coming down for New Years feasting...maybe trainroom time later
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/
Ulrich. Will do!!
We just received the word that my BIL (Petra´s brother) had a heart attack last night. He is now in the ICU and it does not look good. He is only a few months older than I am.
Please include him in your prayers.
HAPPY NEW YEAR PHIL AKA - FLIP
Happy New Years guys
Happy New Year, everyone!
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
... to all patrons, just-lurkers and by-standers!
Jeffrey Scott Wimberly
July 07, 1960-December 15, 2014
AKA Running Bear, Dr. Frankendiesel, The Spray Can Rembrandt
Volunteer firefighter, exceptional model railroader
and dear friend to many of us.
Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner was formerly Elliot´s Trackside Diner, but was renamed to honor our dear friend Jeffrey "Running Bear" Wimberly.
Jeffrey´s Trackside Diner is a meeting place for all who wish to join. We may talk on-topic, but also off-topic here (as a matter of fact - the only place tolerated by our hosts), but always within the framework of the forum policy.Talk about your ongoing or future model railroading projects, show us your latest acquisitions or simply share your day.
If you need to let off some steam, you can do it here, but beware - Cousin Vinnie, the proprietor, is keeping a close watch on the language and is unforgiving when it comes to violations of the house rules, same as the general forum rules!
The staff is exceptional, and anything you desire to eat is available 24/7/365. This would include: Janie, the twins Chloe and Zoe, Flo, Daisy and the latest addition, Brunhilda ! The food is always excellent and tasty, just the way you like it!
So, pull yourself in, bank you fire, and sit a spell and enjoy!